Worlds Day 2 PM Live thread 2-5 pm eastern on Peacock (3000 finals)

It’s indoors. Discrete fouling is part of the game. You’ve got to push and cut a bit to contend. Kerr was well within the parameters of indoor racing.

I would normally agree with this , but the guy ran 9:17 I think.

Not a PB but great race from him

🤣🤣🤣🤣 not a chance he uis getting near the big boys.

Jakob should tweet a pic of himself wearing a blindfold.

Last 100's of Josh Kerr:
14.2/13.4/12.6/12.6 (last K: 2:24.6)

I love Kerr but he was a bit of a bully out there. Anyone see the last time Barega passed him he literally just threw any elbow out to impede him? lol wtf, Jakob better wear football pads when they race.

At the same time this is how I wished Solinsky would have raced. Barega would have knocked Solinsky off the track.

Not at all the case. They made the pace weird and he had to get extremely physical many times. Both Hacker and Barega forced him wide. He got boxed/shuffled legally a bunch. If not for some well-placed shoves and his pristine fitness, he’s where Yared was.

Hacker had as much right to take a shot as anyone. He made a ballsy move and just got 5th in a world final. If he got in Nuguses way, too bad. Nuguse could have made his move earlier.

I love Yared but I don’t see him ever winning a gold medal at this rate…he just does not have the killer instinct. He’ll get a few more medals before his career ends but I just don’t see how he can get gold unless he has a bit of a mindset adjustment.

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You're correct on all three statements, ^ared definitely needs some killer instinct and conqueror spirit to go with his immense talent.

He is way, Way, WAY too mellow and don't GO AFTER the positioning, to setup for the W, with authority.

Those glasses look ridiculous

If he wins tomorrow then he's probably at least as fit as Yared. But yeah obviously no one is near Kerr and Jakob

No reason Nuguse should’ve been in 4th with 50 m to go. Hacker looked like he wanted to win more than Nuguse out there. Nuguse is a 3:43 miler. You gotta take over.

Nuguse and Fisher are still legitimate challengers (Nuguse has beat Kerr multiple times, both of them have now been handed Ls by Kerr during indoors). Hopefully Hocker (maybe Kessler) can reach this status soon, but they haven't earned that yet. A global indoor silver medal is still a good race for Nuguse. He gets to learn from a Kerr masterclass that he hopefully can counter by outdoors.

I understand some pushing at the start but Kerr’s fouling was egregious. Admittedly I don’t really like the guy so maybe that is coloring my opinion, but I think it was too much. At one point he even put his arm out trying to prevent Barega from making a perfectly legal pass on the outside.

poor assessment. Nuguse needs to improve his tactics

The guy was slower than all 14 of the women and wouldnt even make state championships at the high school lever here in the states.

If you think that is an elite time then you are slow as f%ck

1. she has not run that fast ye, but you know who has the other women.

2. the 5k finals are always slow (exceptions being 2016 14.26 and 2020 14.36). The same cant be said for the 1500m finals which are always fast even when they ran 4.08 in 2016 Kipyegon closed in 1.57.xx

aint no way a 1.59, 3.58 woman will be in that mix but never say never