Jake Whiteman will no longer be coached by his father

Well he is too old and does not have the endurance to compete with the new gen anyway.

Don't tell that to Jakob. His dad lost both roles.

That's not his name.

Let’s be honest he fluked the world title. Yes it will always be in the history books but now he is an injury prone second tier pro who may struggle to even make a GB team.

who is this white man you are speaking of?

It was only a fluke in he reached a level that season he never hit before or after. And he ran the perfect tactical race peaking exactly in the race. But it wasn’t fluky, it was a great performance. And he was a tier A British athlete from 2019-2022, it just so happens the injuries came on so badly after. Yes, I think he has probably overdone it in travel and cashing appearance fees since which hasn’t helped.

Wow.

Jake should go into Politics.

Good move.

His dad seems to have too much of an old-school training mentality (high intensity with little volume) which is likely why Jake's so injury prone.

3:29 in a championship final is hardly a fluke.

List his other championship results that compare?

His 3rd place in the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500 and 5th place in the 2019 World Champs 1500 were both good results. And his win in the 2022 Brussels DL 800 against most of the best 800 men of this generation (Korir, Sedjati, and others), while not a championship, shows his quality. No way around it, he had a great 2022.

When you're getting older and stagnating or get repeated injuries over a period of years, it's time to move on to a different coach and system, to give yourself a chance with the new training stimuli. He still has the potential to be a threat to win global championships when healthy with his 800/1500 abilities.

So to quote Sinead O’Connor nothing compares

Is he currently injured? I can’t remember why he pulled out of the US races. He was down to run the Keely classic, hasn’t done indoors. I thought he was back and training was going well.

Nothing on his insta as to why he’s pulled out of all these races.

Would be funny if he announces that his new coach is...Gjert.

He said before NB boston, something like he was feeling a bit niggly/rundown off the plane and that it was a sign of a mature athlete that he was being Conservative and sitting that one out.

Then he went dark for Millrose, Keely Klassic and GB Champs.

So he's almost certainly injured

He moved to Manchester this year to be closer to his physio so in hindsight that may have been a stepping stone to leave Geoff go gently.

I don’t understand why all you guys don’t seem to know about Jake’s DL win in 2017, where he took down a lot of WC medalists and even the gold champ that year… Check out this link:

No that was a fluke as well.

wightmans finished now, to many consistent injuries (and yet another one atm), will still pull out the odd performance but will struggle to make the GB team anymore unless the selectors keep giving him discretionary spots.

2022 is light years ago now, his qualifying times have long expired and hes struggling to make the cut now