We've merged three threads on Jakob's post-race comments into 1. One other thread was entitled, "Jakob: "Competing with a cold: probably not the best medicine. 🤔 Not showing up: not an option, unless half dead." The third thread was titled, "Jakob criticizes Hocker’s cross training- “that’s very strange”.
I dont belie e Kerr can beat Ingerbritsen e en when Jakob is slightly ill. It doesn't matter how much training Kerr has done at altitude the end result will be that Kerr will still lose. The only guys thst I see as a threat to Jakob are Hocker and Neguse. I really think it's good that Jakob run the 1500m because he could easily just run the 3000m where he completely dominates
I dont belie e Kerr can beat Ingerbritsen e en when Jakob is slightly ill. It doesn't matter how much training Kerr has done at altitude the end result will be that Kerr will still lose. The only guys thst I see as a threat to Jakob are Hocker and Neguse. I really think it's good that Jakob run the 1500m because he could easily just run the 3000m where he completely dominates
You don’t believe Kerr can beat Ingerbritson? Only he has quite a few times this year. And Jakob wasn’t even ill!
The rewriting of history continues.
I will continue to remind you fanboys. Josh got a silver Olympic medal in the 1500m and Jakob did not medal and he came 4th. And no we are not talking about the 5000m this is a 1500m discussion.
Yes Kerr can be annoying and arrogant and you can be annoyed that he doesn’t race enough. But can we stick to facts. Right now Jakob is peaking after a Winter off. He raced himself in to shape which everyone loves him for. Kerr put in a huge amount of training over winter, did the 3k indoors (broke the WR), then peaked for the Olympics. It’s a different schedule. Right now Kerr is probably on the downswing for sure. That is how he’s planned it.
Nuguse sure seems to be happy that Jakob showed up according to his comments on Instagram, why are you being offended on his behalf?
Showing up even when you're not 100% is what separates the mindset from the people like Jakob who wants to go down in history as the best runner ever, compared to someone like Kerr who views racing as a nuisance and doesn't show up without weeks of prep and if he's 100% confident he's going to win.
Seeing the best runners race often is what makes the sport enjoyable for us fans, and it's what Hocker, Jakob and Nuguse does while Kerr is busy building his personal brand on social media.
What do you think of Jakob's album then. He is trying to be a male taylor swift.
And why would athletes care about making sport enjoyable for the fans? I would do whatever (but not drugs) to be as good as I can, and if that meant running all the races I would do that, and if it meant training through smaller meets to focus on the bigger championships, thats what I would do.
If you think runners should show up as much as possible, do you agree with Nic Bideau having people run lots of diamond league races with 1 in 2 being a good race, like McSweyn running 12:56 and 7:29 some weeks but other weeks running 7:40 or 3:38, at least he shows up (if you think with your logic), even though I'm sure some weeks they knew he wouldn't be "100% confident he's going to win" which is what you claimed Kerr would only race when he is 100% sure he can win, while Jakob isn't 100% sure he can win maybe in weeks like this.
I dont belie e Kerr can beat Ingerbritsen e en when Jakob is slightly ill. It doesn't matter how much training Kerr has done at altitude the end result will be that Kerr will still lose. The only guys thst I see as a threat to Jakob are Hocker and Neguse. I really think it's good that Jakob run the 1500m because he could easily just run the 3000m where he completely dominates
You don’t believe Kerr can beat Ingerbritson? Only he has quite a few times this year. And Jakob wasn’t even ill!
The rewriting of history continues.
I will continue to remind you fanboys. Josh got a silver Olympic medal in the 1500m and Jakob did not medal and he came 4th. And no we are not talking about the 5000m this is a 1500m discussion.
Yes Kerr can be annoying and arrogant and you can be annoyed that he doesn’t race enough. But can we stick to facts. Right now Jakob is peaking after a Winter off. He raced himself in to shape which everyone loves him for. Kerr put in a huge amount of training over winter, did the 3k indoors (broke the WR), then peaked for the Olympics. It’s a different schedule. Right now Kerr is probably on the downswing for sure. That is how he’s planned it.
Jakob is much more annoying and arrogant than Kerr, though I agree with you 100%, Jakob's fanboys are delusional and will lie for the love of their life.
Nuguse sure seems to be happy that Jakob showed up according to his comments on Instagram, why are you being offended on his behalf?
Showing up even when you're not 100% is what separates the mindset from the people like Jakob who wants to go down in history as the best runner ever, compared to someone like Kerr who views racing as a nuisance and doesn't show up without weeks of prep and if he's 100% confident he's going to win.
Seeing the best runners race often is what makes the sport enjoyable for us fans, and it's what Hocker, Jakob and Nuguse does while Kerr is busy building his personal brand on social media.
What do you think of Jakob's album then. He is trying to be a male taylor swift.
And why would athletes care about making sport enjoyable for the fans? I would do whatever (but not drugs) to be as good as I can, and if that meant running all the races I would do that, and if it meant training through smaller meets to focus on the bigger championships, thats what I would do.
If you think runners should show up as much as possible, do you agree with Nic Bideau having people run lots of diamond league races with 1 in 2 being a good race, like McSweyn running 12:56 and 7:29 some weeks but other weeks running 7:40 or 3:38, at least he shows up (if you think with your logic), even though I'm sure some weeks they knew he wouldn't be "100% confident he's going to win" which is what you claimed Kerr would only race when he is 100% sure he can win, while Jakob isn't 100% sure he can win maybe in weeks like this.
It's about priorities, Jakob doesn't prioritize building his brand over competing and racing, Kerr does. Kerr talks in interviews about how much he loves to race and wants to race the best, and at the same time says that he doesn't compete in the European championships because it wouldn't mean anything for him to win it, how he thinks time trial races are boring and how he felt that he's raced too much this season when he's raced the least out of any of the top 1500 runners.
Runners should care about making the sport enjoyable for the fans because it's the fans that makes sure they get paid. The only people who likes Kerr are people like you who hates Jakob and wants to see him lose, which is hardly sustainable for the future.
Yes, athletes should race as much as possible. Some of them simply aren't good enough to race a lot and be able to sustain their performances, like Kerr who drops a horrible 3:31 after preparing for this race for weeks.
excuses excuses excuses, he always seems to be sick when he loses
and Kerr was right, Jakob is surrounded by yes men who will post on letsrun to try and protect him when he loses, and downvote any post that criticizes Jakob
Jakob has two Olympic gold medals and multiple world records. He doesn’t need any excuses, he’s already one of the all time greats even if he loses occasionally
It's odd in that Ovett, Morceli, El G hardly ever lost at the mile/1500 in their primes.
For example, from 1977 to 1980, Ovett won 45 straight races in the mile/1500.
What do you think of Jakob's album then. He is trying to be a male taylor swift.
And why would athletes care about making sport enjoyable for the fans? I would do whatever (but not drugs) to be as good as I can, and if that meant running all the races I would do that, and if it meant training through smaller meets to focus on the bigger championships, thats what I would do.
If you think runners should show up as much as possible, do you agree with Nic Bideau having people run lots of diamond league races with 1 in 2 being a good race, like McSweyn running 12:56 and 7:29 some weeks but other weeks running 7:40 or 3:38, at least he shows up (if you think with your logic), even though I'm sure some weeks they knew he wouldn't be "100% confident he's going to win" which is what you claimed Kerr would only race when he is 100% sure he can win, while Jakob isn't 100% sure he can win maybe in weeks like this.
It's about priorities, Jakob doesn't prioritize building his brand over competing and racing, Kerr does. Kerr talks in interviews about how much he loves to race and wants to race the best, and at the same time says that he doesn't compete in the European championships because it wouldn't mean anything for him to win it, how he thinks time trial races are boring and how he felt that he's raced too much this season when he's raced the least out of any of the top 1500 runners.
Runners should care about making the sport enjoyable for the fans because it's the fans that makes sure they get paid. The only people who likes Kerr are people like you who hates Jakob and wants to see him lose, which is hardly sustainable for the future.
Yes, athletes should race as much as possible. Some of them simply aren't good enough to race a lot and be able to sustain their performances, like Kerr who drops a horrible 3:31 after preparing for this race for weeks.
Jakob has two Olympic gold medals and multiple world records. He doesn’t need any excuses, he’s already one of the all time greats even if he loses occasionally
It's odd in that Ovett, Morceli, El G hardly ever lost at the mile/1500 in their primes.
For example, from 1977 to 1980, Ovett won 45 straight races in the mile/1500.
Now tell me how many of those 45 wins were against good international competition.
It's odd in that Ovett, Morceli, El G hardly ever lost at the mile/1500 in their primes.
For example, from 1977 to 1980, Ovett won 45 straight races in the mile/1500.
Yes, but how many of them were vs Coe? I watched a lot of Ovett’s races from the tribune, and can’t remember Coe in any of them. And of course vice versa…
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