Nuguse goes home devastated

It’s very early in the season still. Jakob looked pretty amazing in the latter stages of the race but I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions. And second place in his Diamond League debut will hardly have shared running home devastated

Ingebritsen wins in 3:32.59, Nuguse 2nd in 3:33.02 PB. I'd say that's a decent outing against arguably the best 1500 runner & ahead of other good athletes. I'll also say that you should GFY.

*Yared, not shared

I’d say Nuguse is pretty promising as well.

Nuguse is probably pretty happy he’s gone from struggling with NCAA competition to being a favorite to medal at worlds in a year.

He’s acquired himself nicely. He’s shown he can beat Katir, Hoare, and Garcia Romo. We need to see how he compares to Cheryuit head to head and, of course, Wightman/Kerr when they’re on their game, but last time this year he didn’t even compete at NCAA’s because he was chronically injured. Now he’s the 2nd-4th best 1500m guy in the world. Not bad at all

This is a great result for Nuguse, pr & showed he can compete at top tier of DL. Jakob knows who he is now.

Jakob wins in a slow time and Nuguse who's supposed to be a great kicker while Jakob is not couldn't do anything about it. If Jakob goes out at 3:30 Pace what is Nuguse going to do?

Exactly

Nuguse will soon be mocing to the US's densely populated state of Oblivionia.

WFF is the matter with you? Why do you jackasses bother to start threads like this? Does it make you feel better? Pathetic.

You better watch what you're saying malmo. We tell you nugoose is a loser, you just need to accept it.

Americans here went really over the top with the Nguse hype.

Great run from Inge, he definitely had a lot more in the tank.

Solid run from Hoare.

Kipsang struggling under the new conditions in Kenya, as with Korir.

How can the 2nd lap be barely faster than 60 seconds with two rabbits still pacing?

Nuguse beat Hoare.

They needed Eric Sowinski today. Pacing is really hard and those two didn’t do their job today.

I think all this raced showed was that Jakob is an EXCELLENT tactician, along with his great fitness. Jakob waited until the exact moment hoare started to fade to put in a surge, which drew yared back further, making it an insurmountable distance for yared to make up in the last 100 no matter what kind of kick.

i want to see yared on his back with 100 to go and see what happens.

This seems wildly optimistic...the extreme midrace slowdown means Nuguse doesn't really have a good excuse to be so far behind on the last lap. The pacers did a stinking job so I can't foresee a better opportunity for a kicker to outkick Jakob than the way tonight's race panned out, and yet he still put on an absolute clinic.

If you think kickers can beat Jakob in a 3:27/28 WC race when they were helpless in a 3:32 mid, then I don't know what to tell you.

An encouraging performance from Nuguse nonetheless, he was just unfairly overhyped on here. Especially when Wightman, Kerr and Cheruiyot are going to be in the thick of it this year.

Here's the race.

We still have over 90% of the season left...