UK's #1 paper asks: Is Josh Kerr Britain’s next Olympic hero? And Kerr declares: "I don’t think I have a huge amount of talent."

Didn't you read the piece Robert shared???? Something about 'sky high demands' from Jakob's 2 brothers Filip and Henrik????

It can be gleaned that Jakob is running and training under a tad too militaristic instruction from his 2 brothers from the term 'sky high'!!!!!!

There might not have been enough liberty to self-determine one's own internal preferences, limits and boundaries and instead completely under pressure to confirm to 'sky high' standards and demands from external of one's own body, you feeling me sir??????

Jakob then goes on to say the 'sky high demands' were so sky high to the point of being dangerous, which meant to say he could get himself in trouble like sickness and injury or exhaustion for pushing too hard and trying to fulfill in earnest as much of the demands of his 2 demanding brothers!!!!!!

Just the fact he raced in Oslo 5 days after a long flight across the Atlantic from the Prefontaine mile is very strong evidence of 'sky high demands' from Filip and Henrik. They don't know they might be trying to kill their little brother in the long run. Josh Kerr and Danny Mackey would never do such nonsense. Josh Kerr would run in Prefontaine mile then take a 1 month break before running the UK 800m trials.

So yes, there might be partial cause and effect between his 3:26:73 and failure to win Olympic gold in the 1500m. Why not????

Robert already emphasized that there is to some extent an INVERSE RELATIONSHIP between faster and faster 1500m PBs and poorer and poorer gold medal winning chance at major championships!!!

And if Jakob wins in Paris? Will you ever post here again? You would for sure go home devastated.

Look my dear snowflake, we have had rich and fruitful debates in the past and you know my style by now. My style is based on subjectivity and committing to an argument subjectively, right????

So of course I leave myself open to some risk, albeit from what I assess to be low, that I might fail, is that any surprise to you???

I would be real sad that's for sure because Josh Kerr is a man I love and appreciate a lot so obviously when he doesn't achieve his dreams I would empathize with that you feeling me sir????? I would give props to Jakob on behalf of Josh for beating Josh if he really did so!!!!

But I'm very confident Josh will not be passed in the home straight a 100% and is in just as good a shape as Jakob, probably 3:27 mid but all these PBs wouldn't matter at all due to the multiple rounds and unavoidable exhaustion and lack of pacemakers and nerves as well.

I also love Josh for his beautiful legs and stride, he has that ability to open them up by that much more in the home straight compared to Jakob.

Lol ok. We will see in a week...

Garbage. I could barely get beyond the first paragraph, where the author listed Kerr's PRs by writing out the "minutes", "seconds", and "milliseconds" (three times!!!) in an apparent attempt to add length to an otherwise boring article with little content besides Kerr's strange habit of wearing sunglasses indoors and unwarranted comparisons to Premiere League footballers based on his "moody model shots" on Instagram. Snore.

Oh, and just so you know, Ben Machell, it's not milliseconds (1 millisecond = 0.001 seconds) - what you meant is centiseconds. Or, you could just be normal and write that Kerr's PR in the 1500 is a mediocre 3:29.05. If he runs that slow on August 6, he certainly won't be on the podium.

You are definitely not attracted to Josh Kerr as a person, athlete or man the way you diss him.

Josh Kerr has a premier league footballer or rugby body type, big and huge in the upper body lower trunk and sinewy in the beautiful legs of his, you feeling me sir??? His face is also pretty, a pretty boy good looker!!! He is also very tall for a distance athlete compared to the shorty Morceli and Hicham El King Guerrouj. While Jakob is also on the tall side, Josh Kerr is much taller. This is why Josh Kerr will outkick Jakob in the home straight a 100% because he has rugby and football type power and strength.

You see in the 3:26:73 of Jakob's Monaco performance, he couldn't open up his darn legs in the finishing straight, he was relying only on cadence which is nowhere near as good as relying both on cadence AND length. Josh Kerr can reach further with his legs than Jakob in the last 100m, all he needs to do is stay close to Jakob in the final 400m and he will definitely beat him.

Jakob's best bet to win is to have a 5-10m lead on Josh at the bell, otherwise it's game over for him. Josh cannot be outsprinted with his sprint mechanics really!!!!

Be serious sir, really!!!

Length is more important than cadence frequency by a factor of at least 2 or 3 because the former WR holders at 1500m and mile were shorties but were known for behemoth stride lengths including Morceli. Just see for yourselves really, how El G's stride length covered TWICE AS MUCH GROUND AS Jakob's and even Josh Kerr's. And those were the days when there were no supershoes to boot, so it makes you wonder how darn strong and resilient as steel El G's legs were compared to Jakob's pillow legs.

For middle distance athletes from 800m-5000m, only those who can OPEN THEIR LEGS UP have any future in these events.

The scouts will filter the athletes at youth level and assess who can open up their legs and who cannot. Those who can gets streamed into 800-5000m events while those who can't get bounced to the 10000m, half marathon or marathon immediately.

Have you seen Naoko Takahashi the marathoner run before? Those nauseating baby steps with super high cadence frequency? No wonder she can only succeed in the marathon and only briefly before injury took a toll on her because her legs hit the ground way more times than all the other marathoners who had bigger stride length and lower cadence frequency, thus causing her more wear and tear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Naoko was gone as fast as she burned brightly.

Can you see the logic now sir???? The larger your stride length at the same cadence frequency in any given race of any distance, you are airborne far longer than another athlete with smaller stride length and higher or same cadence frequency, thus you are not only faster or move faster since you spend more time flying in the air, you are more durable in terms of wear and tear as you are literally 'flying in the air' most of the time rather than stuck on the ground with longer ground contact times due to small stride length and higher cadence frequency.

An athlete with small stride length and same/higher cadence frequency (assuming both athletes are same height and same age group of course!!!) doesn't have as much powerful elasticity or coefficient of springy-ness in his muscle fibers, or, doesn't utilize and recruit enough muscle fiber numbers from every square inch of his body to propel him or her forwards which means that for 2 athletes of the same height and same age-group at least, the one with the smaller stride length and higher/same cadence frequency isn't as epigenetically talented or environmentally well-trained and sharpened than the other with a bigger one.

But height shouldn't also matter actually as guys like Morceli and El G were slightly shorter than Jakob and Josh Kerr and wore shoes that literally glued to the track surface and had no spring but had nearly twice as large stride length at same cadence frequency???????

This is why there is more prestige in the 800-5000m events. Those athletes who can get streamed into these events 'have made it' as these are the creme de la creme of athletic talents, while those that get streamed straight into the 10000m and above are considered 'unwanted' or 'second rate' at best. Athletically, they are inferior to the very best at the 800-5000m who later will obviously make the move up to the 10000m and above events and beat the sh*t out of those 'second rate' athletes, you feeling me sir????

It's all about stride length, the cadence follows or is a given for the given stride length.

Those athletes on PEDs tend to be unable to open up their legs as well as clean and naturally environmentally epigenetically gifted guys like Morceli and El G. You will know who are the PED junkies just based off of one of the salient correlating attributes which is their stunted and underdeveloped stride length and very high cadence frequency yet running just as fast!!!! That's impossible and against the laws of Physics. That would be the law of Chemistry (PEDs)!!!!!

Length is how you move and cover ground first and foremost, not cadence. Cadence is just an afterthought!!!!

You are right about Jakob's poor sprint mechanics. For a runner of his level they are quite limited. He doesn't have the ability to assume a sprint "form", which is why he lacks a kick. Kerr does, and he shows it with an ability to lengthen his stride while maintaining the same cadence, and he possesses the powerful upper body mechanics that a sprinter shows. If he is anywhere near Jakob with 200 to go he will win.

Hugs you tightly Armstrong!!!!

Such a perceptive and intelligent person, a true gem for LRC and for me!!!!!

Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about. Jakob can't spread his legs as wide as Josh while sprinting. Remember how Usain Bolt sprints???? He just spreads his legs wider despite having a much lower cadence than Richard Thompson from Trinidad and Walter Dix from USA and with that he opened up daylight on both of them in 0.1 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What has Usain Bolt shown in sprinting that is applicable to distance running????

STRIDE LENGTH is way more susceptible than stride cadence frequency in any running event whether for the purposes of world records or winning major championships!!!!

But how can your stride length increase if you don't put enough contact force into the ground???????????????

This then means that both Usain Bolt and Josh Kerr are able to inject more force into the ground as compared to the rest of their competitors since they can spread their legs wider and bound from one foot to the other further!!!!

This then means Josh Kerr's and Usain Bolt's legs are just stronger and also means Hicham El King Guerrouj's legs are also much stronger than Josh Kerr's since the former's legs spread even wider than Josh Kerr's!!!!!!

Hope that clarifies everything now and let's prepare to usher in our new Olympic champion Josh KERR in the 1500m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait folks!!!!!

Being the astute tactician that Josh Kerr is, I can't foresee him giving Jakob a 5m gap in the last 200m at sub 3:30 pace and that is why we both know Josh KERR is a lock for the gold!!!!!!!!!!

Josh KERR needs to be incredibly flippant with himself and with the race to let Jakob gap him this big in the last 200m.

Wow. This is the response I get? You clearly don't pass the intelligence test to be able to post on this message board. Fcuk off.

Look you need to watch your vulgarities okay????? Kids are reading this messageboard and you are behaving like a jerk!!!