Josh Kerr is winning Olympic Gold in 1500m

I actually thought Kerr might have a shot here, but then out of nowhere there's a fresh Nick Kipleri post to kill all hope.

LOL. If Nick KIpleiri is saying Josh Kerr is winning, we know Kerr won't even medal so worry not everyone

Doubt it

He clearly ran with more effort than JI.

A broken clock is correct twice a day, it may be one of those two times.

You'll see guys, Jakob is going back home with no gold after this Olympics.

Ayyye Nick. Jakob front ran that for everyone and he barely broke a sweat. To say Kerr looked great and didn't look like he used much effort is fine, but completely disregarding the person who front-ran the easiest 3:32 ever is pretty moronic.

He looked comfortable. I could be making something out of nothing but I thought Jakob might have been a bit perturbed to look over in the last 50 and see Kerr right there looking relaxed, after having turned a 61 opening lap into a 3:32 race.

Nick Kipleri isn't a broken clock, he's a clock that got nuked with a giant space laser.

You are so wrong. HOLE COCKER will take it.

Jakob was not perturbed lol. He loves seeing them behind him as he is their PACEMAKER.

Jakob to NRK: "Was her there, I didn't see him"

I think he was just looking around. JI just ran the 4th fastest time ever 3 weeks ago. Kerr is not that fast with a 3:29 PR (I think). JI screws arpund too much in slower races. There is no one in the world faster than him right now.

I agree. Kerr was equally comfortable there.

Btw, Kerr really looked thinner than he had ever been. He's keyed in.

Kerr can definitely run much faster than his PB indicates though. Same goes to Hocker.

Sth like low-mid-3:27 for Kerr and 3:28 for Hocker.

I mean theoretically he or anyone can but why hasn't he done it when everyone else has? I am not sure he can run 3:27.

maybe he doesn't want to show his cards? Some go well with racing sparingly.

I’m not sure either. But he just ran the last 1100 meters of that race at 3:26.6 avg. pace with a 40.0 last 300 and made it look easy. That’s why Jakob might be unsettled.

Because he hasn’t run any time trial 1500m in over a year. Just trains for championship races

Actually come to think of it I feel bad for all the people that demean Khamis now after seeing that his prediction about Kerr winning is becoming more and more reality with each passing second.

And now Nick is saying the same thing about Kerr’s superior biomechanical sprint technique (is that what was referred to by Nick) which Khamis previously brought up as a crucial indicator of ‘killer touch’ and victory probability.

First it was the heats and now it was the semi finals Kerr just looked far easier moving around the track than hocker and Jakob. Khamis was yet again right that 2 steps of Jakob or hocker is 1 step of Kerr which impacts great change of pace as Kerr can literally go past anybody in only 1 stride and be harder to respond to but Jakob can’t go as fast which allows Kerr lots of time to respond.

I followed Khamis points of information and am stumped to see how right he was about everything and even beginning to think he actually hits all the right notes all the time. He doesn’t get it wrong at all. Such eerie fitness!

Kerr has exceptionally high and highest knee lift and a straight torso which allows him to stretch out his legs while Jakob leans way too much and can’t stretch out as much with those baby steps.