Jakob's Complete Non-Reaction (Disrespect?) to Hearing El G Tweeted Congratulations to Him

Even if he doesn’t care, he should have pretended to care. The sport is already weak and fragmented enough where the prize money is less than bowling tournaments. Growing the sport and acknowledging the former record holder is important

Can't you come up with anything better than this?

Heh, I think it's noteworthy, you're welcome to have your own opinion. If Erriyon Knighton was congratulated by Bolt and was asked about it and responded similarly it would be noteworthy as well.

I would guess it is not that Jakob doesn’t like him as much as it he wouldn’t have been alive or when alive old enough to appreciate Hicham’s performances so maybe it would be a bit like Sebastian Coe being congratulated by John Landy, just in terms of eras. The generations separate them. So Jakob could have been more gracious for sure but…

To me that actually indicates towards the side of Jakob NOT using PEDs. If he is uncomfortable commenting on something like that. Or maybe he thought he was being baited (he wasn't) to make some kind of comment.

Oh please…he could just as easily be uncomfortable because he knows he himself is doping. I don’t think doping had anything to do with his reaction though.

That's why I said or!

Why do you think his reaction was like that - because he does not like to talk about other competitors/athletes?

Its his second language give the guy a break !!!!

Jakob doesn't strike me as someone that reveres other runners. Probably just doesn't care that much tbh

Let's just once see Jakov chase the "El G" light going 3:26.00

Just because ElG is one of the greats does not mean that Jakob has to idolize him - he might have other favorite runners. So what is he supposed to say, when maybe it really just doesn't mean that much to him?

I think this point is often lost too. And as well as language, there are other differences between countries and that can sometimes cause a lot of accidental problems.

Who cares?

El Guerrouj simping is not Jakob's problem.

Respect the real norweigan GOAT.

Downvote.

If it was one of your favorites ... we would read pages and pages of comments and threads.

Fair point, Jakob was 3-4 when El Guerrouj ran at a high level. Granted, we have so much video of El G races and I’d be pretty surprised if he didn’t know a fair bit about him. My best guess is Jakob is competitive and figure he can become arguably the greatest ever if he can win back to back Olympics and run at least close to as fast. So he doesn’t care much for hearing about what Hicham thinks about him.

But there is a video of him where he clearly claim to have the intention to simulate El Guerrouj !

Karsten Warholm was very appreciative of Kevin Young.

I believed they appeared together on tv.

Why should he? Maybe he didn't want to elaborate, maybe its personal for him. Who knows. Maybe he was tired from running, maybe he hadn't seen the tweet and didn't want to assume anything. Maybe he is motivating himself by thinking he is going to kick El G's ass and thus doesn't have anything nice to say about it. Who knows, who cares.