COLE MF HOCKER!!!!!!!

I'll admit I was a Hocker doubter. I thought Nuguse could maybe do it, but Hocker would need a slower race. I definitely did not think he could run 3:27.65.

Did anyone here put money on him at +3100?

I'm not shocked he won, I am surprised he won a 3:27 race. What a run! I loved that as the pace strung everyone out the 3 Americans went right with it. They all ran with great confidence and courage, so cool to watch.

I've watched track a very long time, I struggled in the 80's watching Steve Scott win a silver at worlds but like all Americans get crushed in the Olympics and the 90's and 2000's just a debacle and yes I was happy about 2016, but in 3:50????. This is the greatest showing by Americans in history and Hobbs Kessler is scary good and all three are so young. Forget the British and Norwegians, The Americans are here to stay! Kerr will never win another championship race but Jakob will take is 3:43 mile and 3:26 1500m speed and revolutionize the 5 and 10. He's young too only 23.

Him is prolly was wore super shoes. In fair race he not can even win.

Congratulations to new Olympic Champion and medalists! Extraordinary race by the way! Wrong tactic from Jakob. You have to runaway from everybody, if you can't you should wait in the middle of the pack for a while. He wanted to show that is way better then anybody else, but guys are close to him.

I'm not sure who is coaching Jakob, but he needs a new coach and quick.

No. 1, 2 and 4 fastest performances in U.S. for Hocker, Nuguse and Kessler … in the same race. Wow!

Centro wasn’t wrong when he wrote that, was he? Nor did he instigate the exchange (in fairness, Hocker didn’t either). And at this year’s trials, Centro had nice things to say about Hocker.

Other than Ingebrigtsen trying out his Bayi impression the first lap, the final was very much like the semi. I figure Hocker was thinking at the end of the semi "I don't know about these two, but I definitely have another gear". So he gained considerable confidence that if he was in it, he could win.

And at the end, Kerr and Ingebrigtsen went harder. Hocker went faster.

Jakob will set a new world record after Olympic 3.28 solo is below 3.26 with pacers, he paced the whole field tonight.

No 1, 2 and 4 fastest performances in U.S. history for Hocker, Nuguse and Kessler … in the same race. Wow!!

Just commenting to pay my respects to Cole Hocker. He is the 2024 Olympic Gold Medalist.

Still can't believe how well the U.S. did in this race.

What about Manzano in London dude? Love to run in the mud and rain!

For those of you slagging Jakob for his tactics... what would you have had him do differently? He's not outkicking Hocker or Kerr off a slower pace.

There was a brief moment maybe 900m into the race, where it looked like he was starting to get separation. Maybe if he drops the hammer and goes for it there? Outside of that, he just wasn't winning this race.

My favorite part of these posts is that when it comes to runners doping, especially mid-d runners, the physical signs are pretty obvious.

No offense to the MF GOLD MEDALIST Cole Hocker, but if that man is doping, he is the doughiest looking mid distance doper of all time.

Hocker was the Next Gen guy who said you can't have an opinion on the state of T&F unless you're super fast? Well, I guess he can set the agenda now. Amazing run. Jakob should've never checked over his shoulder & shouldn't have given up the inside lane. Would've been interesting if Hocker would've won going wide. Nuguse might've been closing better than them both but needs to be a little closer. Could've gotten Kerr at the line. Did not have Jakob out of the 1500 medals. No more front running. He just rabbited everyone else to perfect races.