Komen is still better than Jakob

You know it’s true.

Nurmi is better than komen also, it’s just cheater shoes, modern track and good pacers that made him faster. Jk

3s is a lot though and let's not pretend Komen didn't have superb pacing through 2k at 4:53.

Jakob runs 7:22 without the shoes and light.

^… this. I don’t remember all the hype, pace lights, physical pacers and 2024 spring loaded shoes when DK produced 7:20.67 nearly 28 years ago [9/1/1996]

Half a second per lap is Jakob’s technology advantage.

go back to bed Josh

Don't forget that Jakob doesn't use EPO.

maybe if he ran that in vaporfly, but "superspikes"aren't nearly as thick as those at 25mm. Half a second is a lot.

Jesse Owen is still better than Bolt. I mean which fascist dictator did Usain stick two fingers up to?

Yeah, the best runner is that neanderthal that was running for his life with a sabre tooth tiger behind him.

How would you know? Very possible he does.

Ingebrigtsen’s 3000m today is the greatest distance race of all-time on the track. Wasn’t Komen doped to the gills anyway?

Ingebrigtsen is better than Komen was at both 1500m and 5000m, and there’s no way Komei could have beaten him at any distance.

Komen would beat Jakob at 3000 and 5000.

nah, clearly not.

I don't know if we can say he's better - because I have a feeling that Jakob is pretty close to being a 12.40.0 guy himself and he's significantly faster over the mile - that would immediately point to a much higher ceiling over 3000m than Danny K.

That being said, you aren't wrong with the basic narrative that with wavelight Daniel Komen was running faster than 7.20.67. I mean quite simply he was. I don't know if it was 7.17.x but I am sure it would be in the 1.5-2.0 second range he would really have been in that 7.18.5-7.19.0 bracket.

Jakob still a level ahead though.

Thank you for acknowledging the light. What about the shoes?

The shoes and lights compensate for the amounts of epo one can't take anymore, like they used to in Komen's day.

What is Jakob taking then?