Some of yall will keep swearing by ingebrigtsen even as he keeps on losing damn, have some respect for yourselves lol
They can't handle it... their boy got bossed straight up.
It’s hilarious! If Jakob won, the fanboys would be saying, “What a great run, I told you Jakob is the best!” But now that Jakob lost, the fanboys say, “This race didn’t matter! It was just a rust buster. It’s a good race for him because he ran so fast coming back from injury. Jakob will win the Olympics!”
The coping and excuse-making is unreal. Jakob’s fanboys have been reduced to seeking moral victories because Jakob can no longer achieve actual victories against Kerr!
i almost puked watching Kerr's post-race interview.the dude is too much for me to handle. "who better than to push the pace than the CURRENT WORLD CHAMP?" bro, chill out.
It's unusual for a distance runner to talk like that, though sprinters do it all the time. But, Kerr is backing up the talk on the track. He's dominant right now and seemingly enjoying being the guy with a target on his back.
Odds of Kerr winning the Olympic final just went down. Late start to the year for Jakob and he’s that close, and beating nuguse? Most impressive performance imo
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I don't see a need to pick sides or be a fanboy. That race was incredible. Kerr won, decisively, but Jakob going 3:45 in his season opener is decisive, too. This will set up for an INSANE olympic final. This is the best Track rivalry i have ever witnessed in my 34 years of life.
Jakob won't be able to run away from Kerr in the Olympics but he can't let it go slow or he will end up with nothing. He may possibly be able to run away from him in a paced diamond league later in the season but no chance without a pacer. I don't see how he beats Kerr unless Kerr messes up tactically.
Also three Brits in before Hocker. Didn't Rojo reckon the US team is harder to make than GB, LOL.
Everyone says Jakob has to make it fast. But doesn't Josh also want it kind of fast. You think he wants it to go slow and open the door for Wightman? I think today's race might be good for Jakob as it might give Kerr the confidence to lead more of the Olympcis. But post-race Kerr said Mackey told him not to lead. If it's slow at 500 in the Olympics, who takes it is the question.
As for the Brits, no I didn't say that. I said it comes down to who has the best 4th placer adn that's the Brits if they are healthy.
Much as I don't like being fair to Rojo, he did caveat his point about the 1500 US and GB teams by noting the injuries to Wightman and Gourley. This race but that debate to bed. The fourth placer at the GB trials is likely to be a 3:47 miler (Wightman, Gourley, or Mills).
Kerr ran it like Faith Kipyegon and Mo Farah. That was my immediate thought.
If you have the best kick, do it from the front.
Americans love late rallies. It is an extremely low percentage tactic at highest level, regardless of sport. You cannot cede ground against other elites. Kerr understands that and it is the reason he can't rely on another Wightman 2022 or Kerr 2023 scenario. Everybody focuses on the bottom line in those races instead of the burden of reversing fortune late against someone who rarely loses.
Jakob ran extremely well. I knew he would be very satisfied despite the defeat. His mission is markedly more clear cut than prior to the race. Tactics don't mean much of anything. He needs to be capable of running a time that Kerr cannot match.
Under that reality I'm not sure it wasn't a mistake for Kerr to run this race and use that tactic. He could have waited for Paris to stun Jakob by going to the front. Instead it reminds me of Hassan and Kipyegon in 2021. Hassan had defeated Kipyegon in their prior meeting, the 2019 world championship final when Kipyegon was coming off maternity. Then Hassan did it again during an early Diamond League race in 2021. Kipyegon ran very well but lost.
Fast forward several weeks. Kipyegon was suddenly the conventional wisdom underdog to Hassan. But Kipyegon had used the prior outcome more toward situational awareness than motivation. She needed to get faster. When they met again in Monaco, Kipyegon ran a time that Hassan simply wasn't capable of. And it held up through Tokyo and beyond.
Jakob is not as good of an athlete as Kipyegon. That's the primary difference. She could build base while also maintaining the very quick late turnover rate.
Was it just me, or did it look Jakob held back that last 100?
His lactate tolerance is low. He was probably aerobically fine but didn't have the legs to reel Josh in. You could tell by the way he ran, kind of like he was tying up a little even from the start. We'll see a lot of improvement later on this season when he sharpens up. Only time will tell whether it's enough though.
Jakob can make up his own BS excuses without your help. He already had this one covered a while ago
Kerr is just plain stronger than Jakob. That's all there is to it.
Watch the replay and you'll realized Jakob just didn't have what it took to eat into Kerr's lead. The pure hate wasn't there. He wasn't just physically beaten, he was okay with losing.
Once that happens, it's over. He is no longer the best. Otherwise he would have been gritting his teeth, trying to dig deeper somehow, whatever it took.
They can't handle it... their boy got bossed straight up.
It’s hilarious! If Jakob won, the fanboys would be saying, “What a great run, I told you Jakob is the best!” But now that Jakob lost, the fanboys say, “This race didn’t matter! It was just a rust buster. It’s a good race for him because he ran so fast coming back from injury. Jakob will win the Olympics!”
The coping and excuse-making is unreal. Jakob’s fanboys have been reduced to seeking moral victories because Jakob can no longer achieve actual victories against Kerr!
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My thougts excactly… now its just “the first race of the season”, like he did better than Kerr since he has been injured. He should stop talking so much trash then! We all knew the excuses would be lining up from the norwegian. In Paris he will probably be sick, his girl will be pregnant or something like that.
Yeah, I had the sense that he had another gear that he didnt use.
If you watch the utube of the race - as they round into the last straight - Jakob starts a little surge on Kerr - then he looks down to make sure he isnt going to clip Kerrs heels (3:28 to 3:30 race time) and then just backs off a hair and sticks to Kerr all the way to the finish - never making a move into an outer lane.
That little look down with about 90m to go said yeah he had more in the tank - but he also in the interview in Flag said by far the most important thing at this point was to not get hurt.
All that said Kerr ran a great race slammin down the stretch leaning at the tape and never looking back - I wonder if his glasses let him see behind him like a rearview mirror LOL
Everybody whines about Jakobs 'arrogance' but there is no 1500 medal for being nice in Paris - at this level you absolutely have to be an arrogant f*kc to win and both Kerr and Jakob show that in spades. And nice guys like Nuguse who has more talent than he knows what to do with end up third - just like when dating girls LOL - nice guys finish last.
You have to have utmost faith & self-confidence in yourself to be the best u can be - and that level of faith is almost always mistaken by the weak and ignorant as arrogance.
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But kerr has raced since indoors more or less. This was handsome Jakobs first race in a long time. If handsome Jakob become race fit n ready he will smoke them all. Out of the mf chimneys
Dont kid itself hun. Im also rooting for handsome Jakob in this Ugly battle but believe me, if Jakob had had more in His tank he would have tried to overtake kerr. There are no prizes for runner ups in these guys heads.
I think Kerr wanted to be considered equal or better than Jakob based off the WC win, which is fair, but I think the skepticism about him was justified too. Now, with the indoor stuff and this win, Kerr has backed it up and I respect him for it. His front running in this race is what won me over. Pushing the wind is much harder, and Jakob couldn't challenge in the home stretch. Well done Josh. I believe that he is the better 1500 runner now.
Jakob had a sacrum injury this past fall that was kept under wraps pretty well (did anyone ask about it at the press conferences?). A break would've sidelined him for a good amount of time (8-12 weeks). Probably had a slower build back up & is just getting up around normal training volume. Makes sense that he wasn't sharp enough to win. Still pretty impressed & think in another 2+ months that he can improve enough to win.
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They can't handle it... their boy got bossed straight up.
It’s hilarious! If Jakob won, the fanboys would be saying, “What a great run, I told you Jakob is the best!” But now that Jakob lost, the fanboys say, “This race didn’t matter! It was just a rust buster. It’s a good race for him because he ran so fast coming back from injury. Jakob will win the Olympics!”
The coping and excuse-making is unreal. Jakob’s fanboys have been reduced to seeking moral victories because Jakob can no longer achieve actual victories against Kerr!
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I for my part haven´t excused and I don´t that Jakob himself has excused. He was clearly beaten by a better runner on the day.
But things can change within the next months if Jakob´s training goes well.
I think he might improve his converted 1500m time at high 3:28 with 2-3 sec judging from earlier years and his disrupted training in the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
I have stated for months that I think Kerr´s PBs on the 1500m (mile) AND 800m were due to a significant improvement DUE TO HIS IMPROVED ENDURANCE so I am not surprised at all that he PBed yesterday.
The question is who of the two can improve the most the next months?
By the way regarding Jakob´s superior speed: Did we see that yesterday?