What a race. Phenomenal tactics and patience. Didn't try to move outside, ran a perfect race.
What a race. Phenomenal tactics and patience. Didn't try to move outside, ran a perfect race.
He got a little lucky Jakob moved to cover Kerr, otherwise he was toast.
Props to him though, that finish was epic.
This will also get lost in the noise of Hocker winner, but I give major credit to Jakob for not clinging to the rail and boxing-in Hocker.
Was it intentional from Jakob? No idea. Probably not. But there are a lot of runners who would've started swinging their arms wide and blocked off lane one entirely as a desperate attempt to hang onto any medal.
Part of me thinks Jakob knew he was toast, knew Cole had the best shot of chasing down Kerr, and decided to bite the bullet and give Hocker a chance to win, even if that meant he himself losing a medal.
ForFusion wrote:
Part of me thinks Jakob knew he was toast, knew Cole had the best shot of chasing down Kerr, and decided to bite the bullet and give Hocker a chance to win, even if that meant he himself losing a medal.
I don't know if he'd have enough blood left in his brain with 50m to go to think that through. But I like the thought. :D
This was it. Jakob had to choose who he wanted to cut off, he couldn't nudge both Kerr and Hocker. He shut the door once on Hocker but one man can't shut the door on two competitors.
Jakob looked broken at the end, like everything he thought he knew about the 1500 was wrong
Kerr went in lane 2. Jakob moved to the outside and front ran to flex. They kind of killed each other tbh.
xenosys wrote:
He got a little lucky Jakob moved to cover Kerr, otherwise he was toast.
Props to him though, that finish was epic.
Jakob: "if I'm going down, I'm taking Kerr with me"
How about the acceleration by Cole after he had to slow his momentum with 100 to go? That was crazy.
Does he have a shot at the world record??
In real time, I couldn't figure out why Ingebrigtsen let Hocker through. Still don't really get it.
Hondo Fonda wrote:
In real time, I couldn't figure out why Ingebrigtsen let Hocker through. Still don't really get it.
I agree with High Hopes. He tried to push Kerr. Nothing illegal, but he wanted to move Kerr further outside, which gave Hocker just enough room to squeak by.
Hondo Fonda wrote:
In real time, I couldn't figure out why Ingebrigtsen let Hocker through. Still don't really get it.
He chose to focus on what he thought was the greater threat - Kerr - and push him out. Whoops!
I bet you know one expected Jacob to go home with no medals in the 1500.
Kerr was right he could beat Jacob.
I've said it last year and I'll say it now. "Pride goes before the fall"
ForFusion wrote:
This will also get lost in the noise of Hocker winner, but I give major credit to Jakob for not clinging to the rail and boxing-in Hocker.
Was it intentional from Jakob? No idea. Probably not. But there are a lot of runners who would've started swinging their arms wide and blocked off lane one entirely as a desperate attempt to hang onto any medal.
Part of me thinks Jakob knew he was toast, knew Cole had the best shot of chasing down Kerr, and decided to bite the bullet and give Hocker a chance to win, even if that meant he himself losing a medal.
Hocker lightly tapped Jakob in the back and in that moment Jakob didn't close the gap on Hocker...I'm not sure he knew he was that close. He also was more concerned about keeping Kerr wide. Hocker was using classic Centro style rail running at the end.
Jakob made a huge tactical error over the last 80m. He should never have drifted to the outside of lane 1 thereby giving another competitor (I don't think he knew who it was) a straight path to the finish.
On another note, gotta give credit to Jakob for taking it out fast and making an honest race of it.
Jakob probably could have salvaged a medal by cutting off Hocker and staying inside but he payed a little bit too much attention to Kerr flying down his outside and fell off of the podium as a result.
Seems like Kerr was more interested in beating Jakob than winning gold as he looks absolutely thrilled on the podium.
High hopes wrote:
This was it. Jakob had to choose who he wanted to cut off, he couldn't nudge both Kerr and Hocker. He shut the door once on Hocker but one man can't shut the door on two competitors.
Jakob looked broken at the end, like everything he thought he knew about the 1500 was wrong
YEAH MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy KERR was proven a better 1500m of all time than Jakob and I should have been prancing up and down with joy as I celebrate my prediction on LRC proven true with eerie prescience and cement my status as the RF GOAT. But then that filthy cheat Hocker spoiled my party damn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
blahblahblah3 wrote:
Jakob probably could have salvaged a medal by cutting off Hocker and staying inside but he payed a little bit too much attention to Kerr flying down his outside and fell off of the podium as a result.
Seems like Kerr was more interested in beating Jakob than winning gold as he looks absolutely thrilled on the podium.
YES LOL I saw that too. I'm watching the medal ceremony now LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KERR seems like he doesn't give a sh*t about the gold. He just wants to beat Jakob LOL!!!
may have cost Hocker a World record......he slowed quite a bit, but had enough to restart his engine
blahblahblah3 wrote:
Jakob probably could have salvaged a medal by cutting off Hocker and staying inside but he payed a little bit too much attention to Kerr flying down his outside and fell off of the podium as a result.
Seems like Kerr was more interested in beating Jakob than winning gold as he looks absolutely thrilled on the podium.
ngl, I thought he would take the silver much worse than he just did. He looked really happy after such a good fight, good for him.
Colby wrote:
I bet you know one expected Jacob to go home with no medals in the 1500.
Kerr was right he could beat Jacob.
I've said it last year and I'll say it now. "Pride goes before the fall"
Exactly, even I said it all along that Kerr's biomechanical movement patterns ALONE is enough reason he would smashed Jakob. He showed that at Prefontaine classic, and he showed that at the Olympics today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See, I was right wasn't I???????????????? Always trust Khamis the RF King, he doesn't make no mistake with RF energy, frequency and vibration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He sees it, he knows it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Except that filthy cheat Hocker robbed me of my celebration and KERR of his gold!!!!!!!