The irony in this discussion that Ingebrigtsen is likely doped as any runner has been in the history of the sport. And yet he still consistently loses to the other dopers he faces.
Which runners from “previous generations” are you alluding to in particular? “They” lacks specificity.
Runners such as Elliott, Snell (who I already gave as examples), Ryun, Walker, Coe, Cram and El G. World record holders over their speciality distance and clearly dominant at their peaks.
Walker? Ryun? Coe? They lost regularly over 1500m/Mile.
I'm not inflating anything. Jakob is the best currently active 1500 runner in his worst event, has had the best career at age 23 compared to every other 1500 runner in history and can still become the best 1500 runner ever because he has time on his side, but he most likely won't because he's going to focus on the events where he's better.
When Jakobs career is over, they're going to see a person who at the very least won the Olympic gold, two worlds silvers and ran 3:26 in his worst event and somehow managed to outperform that in the events where he's better.
Do you think the first thing people notice about Mo Farahs career is that he never won a medal in the 1500?
Farah was never a 1500 runner; Ingebrigtsen is. You have become ridiculous. But that is Ingebrigtsen fandom.
What makes someone a 1500 runner when Farah raced it regularly and ran 3:28 at his best?
He was good at it in the way Ingebrigtsen isn't over the 800. Farah's specialty was the 5k-10k, his championship distances.
Farah took the 1500 a lot more seriously than Jakob does the 800 and raced it continuously throughout his entire career.
Because he was better at it than Ingebrigtsen is over the 800. But it wasn't Farah's specialty. He never raced it at championship level. But he was still a better runner overall than the Norwegian windbag.