I look at Jakob and I see a fairly young runner who has essentially maxed out. He may end up running 3:28, 7:30, 12:55 and 26:55. However, I think he is fairly close to that now and I just do not see his arc of improvement yielding much, if anything, beyond the above times. It is still a great career for the young man but there just doesn’t seem to be much room for improvement.
I Look at Jakob and I see a fairly young runner who has run 3:26, 7:17, 12:48, and getting faster and faster. Go home devastated 😂
Another nitpick of a 4 years old threads by Jakob fanboys.
World U-23 bests in the sport of athletics are the all-time best marks set in competition by aged 22 or younger throughout the entire calendar year of the performance. Technically, in all under-23 age divisions, the age is ca...
No they are not. Just like all the sprinters from Bolt who ran 9.58 to Hayes at 10.06 are not all 10sec runners - or, as you would effectively have it, 9sec runners. To say Ingebrigtsen is a 3:26 runner is misleading because it is the wr and he hasn't matched it, nor anyone else.
It is in fact totally normal to truncate times to the second for distances 800 and up for the purposes of grouping runners. The sprints being shorter races require additional precision and are obviously not relevant here. This is neither new nor controversial. In the case of the 1500, it is a coincidence that the WR ends in .00, but no one is confused by referring to the only four runners in history who have broken 3:27.00 as 3:26 men. When the WR is broken, it will continue to be appropriate to refer to El G, Lagat, and Kiprop (and Jakob if he is not the record breaker) as 3:26 men.
No they are not. Just like all the sprinters from Bolt who ran 9.58 to Hayes at 10.06 are not all 10sec runners - or, as you would effectively have it, 9sec runners. To say Ingebrigtsen is a 3:26 runner is misleading because it is the wr and he hasn't matched it, nor anyone else.
It is in fact totally normal to truncate times to the second for distances 800 and up for the purposes of grouping runners. The sprints being shorter races require additional precision and are obviously not relevant here. This is neither new nor controversial. In the case of the 1500, it is a coincidence that the WR ends in .00, but no one is confused by referring to the only four runners in history who have broken 3:27.00 as 3:26 men. When the WR is broken, it will continue to be appropriate to refer to El G, Lagat, and Kiprop (and Jakob if he is not the record breaker) as 3:26 men.
Armdumb has trouble with numbers. He has shown it far too many times.
Armstrong probably has El G's 3:26.00 as the only sub 3:30 performance ever run.
His level recently has reached some dramatic low level. Clearly to see that he's having a terrible hard time watching all those incredible achievements of Ingebrigtsen like 7:17.55.
So how do you distinguish between the 1500 wr and what Ingebrigtsen has so far run?
How to distinguish? The WR was set by El G and not by your best friend.