Jakob on whether he wants revenge on Kerr: "Ha, no. He was just the next guy. That's how I view the race".

He’s coming off as arrogant and I can see why some people would hate him for that, but he’s just saying the truth. Jakob without illness is the best. It’s actually amazing how well he ran with an illness. Gold and silver!

Jakob is really good, but we still don’t know if he is good enough to pull away in a global final. He remains very adamant about it, but there will invariably be a “next guy” unless he can execute 3:27-28 from the front. Note how El Guerrouj didn’t try to front run DL type races in global finals from 2001-2004. He trusted his kick from 600 or 700 out. Jakob seems stubborn so we’ll see.

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Jakob was the "next guy" - the one who comes after the actual winner.

Lol, we do know. Remember a little thing called the Olympics?

Kerr did a psychology freshman level psychoanalysis of Jakob's mental state and called him insecure for a little bit of fun during the semis, so this is fair game from Jakob as far as I'm concerned.

Well he is the best 1500 - 5000m man in the world, so he's just telling it like it is.

Wasn’t this the exact same result as last year? Both 1500 and 5000 he ran nearly identical times and nearly identical races for identical places. Idk if I can really buy the illness story if he ran at an identical level to the previous year. If something happens once, maybe it’s a fluke. If something happens twice, maybe it’s the truth.

Jakob will not win another global final until he stops being arrogant and analyses why he loses and what he can do better next time

better PBs during the year but same championship results means he performed worse relatively.

I think he is just a nice guy, saying it as it is, this is the way Norwegians always talk, telling the truth.
As an American don't ask a Norwegian How are you? if you are not interested, because they will tell you, in many words.

Him losing the 1500 was the best moment of WCs.

Boys will be boys. Jakob and Kerr can barely speak each others name. It’s funny actually. Contrast this with Kipyegon and Hassan. “You are the best….no, you are amazing….no, you are the greatest of all time, no, it’s an honor to race you….”

I liked Jakob, but he seems to be getting more and more arrogant. Even when he won the 5000m he had an awful attitude. And yes this is based on a very short clip of him and probably quite superficial.

You, me and everyone else has something in common with Kerr and the rest of Jakob's competitors. He doesn't give a s#$ or spend any time thinking about us. That's the mentality of someone who lives their life truly believing they are #1.

I can see why one could feel that way.

I actually love his attitude. I think some of the “cockiness” is the language/cultural barrier. But what is great is that his goal is to get the best out of himself. Rather than focus purely on things he can’t control (like how fast the others race), he just wants to be the best he can be.

If he wins 15/5k gold next year (which of course he may not), this attitude will keep him going beyond that, doing great things.

Funny how no fanboys here are even willing to consider that he wasn't sick and simply said that to save face.

He didn’t pull away he followed Tim and outkicked him in the home stretch.

He can’t do the same now because no one is good enough to lead a 3:28 race from the front except him, he has no one to follow for 1400m and outkick, so that race is totally irrelevant.

I do not agree. No cultural barrier here. He just comes off extremely arrogant. Fine to focus on yourself but at least show some appreciation of other people after a race. Katir went over to him to say thanks for the race and Jakob barely acknowledged him. For me that is arrogance.