Holy Moly, and I heard his last mile was 3:51 in this race. Really! This man is in such good shape right now and he's frustrated about that 1500.
I've watched track a long time and I've never seen someone so thoroughly destroy and Olympic 5,000 field. Not Bekele or Farah or Kipchoge or Cheptegei or Aouita or Viren.
Most 5ks have been won in a late sprint. He literally looked like he toyed with a field that had a 12:36 5k runner and there is a reason Cheptegei and Kiplimo wanted none of this.
Last year when he lost the 1500 he of course won the 5k and then crushed in the later meets and had that 3:43/7:23 in less than 24 hours and destroyed the 2,000m world record.
I believe in the next few weeks he is going to destroy the record books, 1500 and mile!
The only times he's been "outkicked" is when he leads the whole way. He needs to re-think he 1500m tactics.
It’s true JI trying to win the 1500 by going wire to wire is a poor tactic, but everybody was targeting him. they all were just going to sit on his shoulder and wait for him to go so he didn’t have a lot of choices. At least he tried 😀
Holy Moly, and I heard his last mile was 3:51 in this race. Really! This man is in such good shape right now and he's frustrated about that 1500.
I've watched track a long time and I've never seen someone so thoroughly destroy and Olympic 5,000 field. Not Bekele or Farah or Kipchoge or Cheptegei or Aouita or Viren.
Most 5ks have been won in a late sprint. He literally looked like he toyed with a field that had a 12:36 5k runner and there is a reason Cheptegei and Kiplimo wanted none of this.
Last year when he lost the 1500 he of course won the 5k and then crushed in the later meets and had that 3:43/7:23 in less than 24 hours and destroyed the 2,000m world record.
I believe in the next few weeks he is going to destroy the record books, 1500 and mile!
Something that really stood out to me was how relaxed and composed he looked on the start line, compared to the 1500m where it was obvious how on edge and nervous he was.
Agreed. I'm not even sure he held up his finger before the 1500. Maybe he did but NBC didn't show it. All I remember is how fidgety he looked, including nervously tinkering with his hair.
Today was awesome. At one point early in the race everything was congested and I'm thinking...are you going to run the entirety in lane 2?
Jakob fixed that in a hurry. Move over and let me have the rail
Jacob killed two birds with one stone here….kept Kerr from Gold in the 1500, knowing he wasn’t at his best given the tricky last year, also confident he had gold locked down in the 5k.
Genius! And another slap in the face of Kerr.
Yeah, cementing yourself as a loser in championship 1500s sure showed everyone who is boss!
Just a brick in the wall you dolt. Who walked away from the Olympics a WINNER and who was 1st place loser?
I see descriptions of Jakob here. Masterclass, so relaxed, a class of his own, just won easy and didn't even look tired, and many other positive and praising descriptions. If this was a Kenyan or Ethiopian, I bet descriptions would be nothing but "he is suspicious," "he is doped to the gills" and many more accusations about how the athlete(s) is not clean. Letsrun is definitely a 🎪 of nothing but hate speech!
A guy with the most consistent buildup ever. You can literally find his 60 meter results from when he was 8 cause his career is so recorded.
When Jakob learns how to race the 1500 without pacers, he will be unbeatable there too. He is still young and can beat the World record in 1500-3000-5000
Something that really stood out to me was how relaxed and composed he looked on the start line, compared to the 1500m where it was obvious how on edge and nervous he was.
Agreed. I'm not even sure he held up his finger before the 1500. Maybe he did but NBC didn't show it. All I remember is how fidgety he looked, including nervously tinkering with his hair.
Today was awesome. At one point early in the race everything was congested and I'm thinking...are you going to run the entirety in lane 2?
Jakob fixed that in a hurry. Move over and let me have the rail
Okay
it's almost as if he's bored with the 5k. He's literally toying with the field, like cat playing with its prey.
With Ethiopia's only Gold coming in the Marathon I think it's a 90% sure guess that their next generation's biggest talents will see that and decide to do as the Kenyans have already done and the Ugandians are about to and skip track in favour of moving directly to the Half and Full Marathon for economic reasons.
If Jacob stays he will have no competitor for the olympic title in 2028, 2032 and maybe even 2036 and 2040.
Jacob killed two birds with one stone here….kept Kerr from Gold in the 1500, knowing he wasn’t at his best given the tricky last year, also confident he had gold locked down in the 5k.
Genius! And another slap in the face of Kerr.
Yeah, cementing yourself as a loser in championship 1500s sure showed everyone who is boss!
HAHAHAHAHAH JAKOB 2 OLYMPIC GOLDS, KERR 0 HAHAHAHAHAH TROLLMINATOR GOES HOME DEVASTATED
JI just beat his legs at the 1500 just 4 days before leading a balls to the wall pace from the gun.
Tell me a faaaast 12:45ish time would be a walk in the park FTW.
Winning a 13:13 is almost a certainty for a 3:26:6x dude.
I'd like to see how an honest pace with Kiplimo and Chep would play out against a JI on heavy legs. Hagos peaked too early and blew his load in Oslo, obviously.
Withdrawing from a race as pedestrian as it was... I will never understand.
This race was a joke. It's the biggest stage, ffs, the field could have run to obliterate the OR that is a total anachronysm at this point.
The only times he's been "outkicked" is when he leads the whole way. He needs to re-think he 1500m tactics.
It’s true JI trying to win the 1500 by going wire to wire is a poor tactic, but everybody was targeting him. they all were just going to sit on his shoulder and wait for him to go so he didn’t have a lot of choices. At least he tried 😀
Yeah, cementing yourself as a loser in championship 1500s sure showed everyone who is boss!
It’s hard to win an Olympic gold in the 1500m -Kerr hasn’t managed it (at least not for now), and neither Cram nor Ovett. But Jakob has. -Of course it’s three years ago, so you are right in your claim that he isn’t the current championship boss in the 1500m…
Jakob will probably get a lot of new opportunities in the 1500m. -He himself is comfortable with his strategy, and claims he just has to execute it better and more precisely (meaning a little slower first lap). So WC 2025/2027 and OG 2028 will show if your cementing theory is right -for now I trust Jakob’s judgement a little more than your’s, but time will tell…. (A better 1500m runner may turn up, or one of the three medalist becomes supreme, or Jakob progresses to the same reign as in the 5000m -who knows..? -Exciting!).
No clue why the field let it turn into a 1 lap race, knowing who has the fastest 1500m PB. They handed him the win. Jakob revenge tour officially underway.