COLE MF HOCKER!!!!!!!

I believe before today only 3 Americans had ever broken 3:30 so this is certainly the first for 3 in one race.

hey mods, can you ban this idiot please

They were prepped and ready - love them! MAD PROPS

Yep.

There was a window when Jakob could win from the front and kill everyone else's kick while dragging them to fast times. But now, I don't actually see any blueprint for him to win a championship 1500 against Kerr and Hocker. In a DL, where they can hire someone to run 1k at WR pace, sure, but not if he has to do the leading from the gun.

I won thousands of dollars!

Jingy tries the old wire to wire again. lol

Fast because of a guy who didn’t even medal, 0 medalists ran honest, lower stakes than 2004 and a bigger winning margin

Can't say more about how perfect all 3 Americans ran that race. It was perfection from Hocker and Nuguse working together the entire time and Kessler hanging on. This is our best 1500 team ever

I've watched that final 150m twenty times already ... never gets old. Wow.

I believe Elle will be the top US finisher (3:51)

Man, I did not see that coming! I thought Cole had a chance to medal, but probably not gold, but in no way did I think Jacob would fade to 4th. That was the most shocking part.

Kudos to Cole, and to Yared and Hobbs. Great performances all round.

what a win for LetsRun btw.

So in the tank for Jakob, his defeat could've killed the site.

Instead everyone can pretend they never liked him anyway and Cole is probably as popular of a winner as there could possibly be.

She may be, which is fab - but I just can't count Hiltz out with their kick! Hopefully both feel strong, confident, and RESTED - looks like it!

It was by far the greatest 1500m race ever run.

Ingebrigtsen is the new Aouita, can run the 1500m WR but won't win a championship. He should move to the 5000m, steeple, and 10000m and work on racking up WRs in rabbitted races. But good on him, he has a 1500m Olympic gold and nobody will ever be able to take that away from him. His gold medal count will be higher if he drops the 1500m

It’s how the race developed, it’s not luck. Hocker was easily the best runner in the race, he had to completely break his stride, loose momentum and still out kicked them all. Hocker took it to another level today, a level that Jacob and Kerr are not at.

What struck me to this build-up was how focused (i.e., distracted) Ingebrigtsen and Kerr were on destroying each other. Rather than focus on the wider picture, they wasted energy on their rivalry. The media ate it up, of course, but wasn't the best for their running. I had a suspicion it opened the door for someone else to get through at the end. I didn't know who might do it but was hoping it would be an American.

And if you watched the brief profile piece that NBC did on him, Ingebrigtsen has also gotten married, had a baby and built a house in the last year or two. All of which is great "life stuff" but ultimately just more stuff to have to juggle leading up to the Olympics. Congrats to all 3 Americans!

Best 1500m team and it's not even close. All three of them ran the cleanest rounds I have ever seen. The fact that all three Americans even made a 1500m olympic final is a major accomplishment, but finishing 1-3-5 is truly mind-blowing.