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”.
The "showing up" argument is for someone who can't win the races that count. There are no prizes for simply participating.
How many of Jakobs 28 gold medals compared to Kerrs 3 don't count?
His hatred would only increase with the following races and the following years, especially with the rapid increase in gold medals and world records from 1500m to 10000m. We'll talk about street racing in a few years, but he probably won't be able to handle it all and will retire from posting nonsense.
Neither won the Paris Olympics, so neither gets credit there. Kerr beat Jakob narrowly at Pre, the season opener, but then Jakob crushed Kerr at Zurich, so that's a washout.
The argument that Kerr is now end-of-season tired is pretty comparable to the argument that Jakob was coming off an injury at Pre. Another washout.
Jakob has an Olympic gold and Josh has a WC gold. I give an edge to Olympic hardware, but that's just me.
Beyond all if this, let's be honest. Jakob’s body of work is much superior
Josh has won a grand total of 3 gold medals in his career, one being European junior champs and one being indoors, while Jakob has won 28 gold medals, yet somehow Kerr is the better championship racer.
For the last three years there have been several runners who are the better championship racer. The fact you fans can't accept is that the field have caught up with him and are beating him - again and again - over his main distance.
The "showing up" argument is for someone who can't win the races that count. There are no prizes for simply participating.
How many of Jakobs 28 gold medals compared to Kerrs 3 don't count?
So you have to go back to the juniors to try to get around that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final.
Kerr has one WC win. Zero Olympic golds. Kerr has zero Oly golds because he lacks the courage to do anything but sit behind Jakob in a championship event. He did this in Paris and Cole forever destroyed his dreams of Olympic gold and event dominance.
How many of Jakobs 28 gold medals compared to Kerrs 3 don't count?
So you have to go back to the juniors to try to get around that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final.
One of Kerrs gold medals is the European juniors. So I'll ask again, how many of Jakobs 28 gold medals compared to Kerrs 3 gold medal should not count?
No championship wins over the 1500 since Tokyo 3 years ago.
You've cleverly omitted European Championship wins (2022 and 2024), two of which he has since Tokyo 3 years ago -- both of which Kerr could also have competed in to level the playing field.
So you have to go back to the juniors to try to get around that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final.
This is untrue: "that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final." You don't get to pick and choose what constitutes a championship. You lose this one.
This is untrue: "that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final." You don't get to pick and choose what constitutes a championship. You lose this one.
That's the funniest part about this discussion, how Kerr straight up says that he doesn't compete in the Euros because "it wouldn't mean anything for him to win it". Meanwhile Jakob has won the 1500 and 5000 double golds 3 times in a row, and most likely will never lose out on them until he declines from age.
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This is untrue: "that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final." You don't get to pick and choose what constitutes a championship. You lose this one.
Why argue with him? He’s in agony over Cole winning so he picks at Jakob to take attention off Cole who flattened Kerr in Paris and Brussels.
No championship wins over the 1500 since Tokyo 3 years ago.
You've cleverly omitted European Championship wins (2022 and 2024), two of which he has since Tokyo 3 years ago -- both of which Kerr could also have competed in to level the playing field.
And half to three quarters of the field at the global championships in last few years is from Europe! And if I remember good Great Britain is still in Europe and thay can compete at European Athletics Championships.
lmao bro beat Nuguse by three seconds earlier this season. Three. Three. One more time? Three. Bro was sick, cope. Great race nuguse got the best of him.
Jakob wasn’t 100% in Zürich, clearly. If the season ended today, I would go: 1. Ingebrigtsen 2. Hocker 3. Nuguse 4. Kerr in Track and Field News-style year-end rankings. But Jakob’s margin over Nuguse in Monaco was actually closer to 2 seconds, no matter how many times you write three. And I think Nuguse made up a lot of that deficit with his 3:27.80 in Paris.
Oh please, he blew the doors off Nuguse. With 300 to go nuguse was out of contention, almost 10 meters back. 3:27.8 is not making up a ton of deficit when he only beat Jakob by less than half a second? You are smarter than this.
So you have to go back to the juniors to try to get around that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final.
One of Kerrs gold medals is the European juniors. So I'll ask again, how many of Jakobs 28 gold medals compared to Kerrs 3 gold medal should not count?
The comparison is not over careers since these athletes were juniors but what has been demonstrated since the Tokyo Games over 3 years ago, that Ingebrigtsen can't now win a championship 1500 final.
No championship wins over the 1500 since Tokyo 3 years ago.
You've cleverly omitted European Championship wins (2022 and 2024), two of which he has since Tokyo 3 years ago -- both of which Kerr could also have competed in to level the playing field.
No global championship wins in over 3 years for supposedly the "best" in his event. Does that look better?
This is untrue: "that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final." You don't get to pick and choose what constitutes a championship. You lose this one.
Why argue with him? He’s in agony over Cole winning so he picks at Jakob to take attention off Cole who flattened Kerr in Paris and Brussels.
I like Cole. He showed how inferior Ingebrigtsen was in Paris. I don't mind who came second - Kerr said he was happy with his silver. But 4th ...
This is untrue: "that fact that for the last 3 years Ingebrigtsen has been beaten in every 1500 championship final." You don't get to pick and choose what constitutes a championship. You lose this one.
That's the funniest part about this discussion, how Kerr straight up says that he doesn't compete in the Euros because "it wouldn't mean anything for him to win it". Meanwhile Jakob has won the 1500 and 5000 double golds 3 times in a row, and most likely will never lose out on them until he declines from age.
It's a shame though that he can't win the global finals in the 1500.
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