I'm not sure how you can call the 3000m a weak event. He destroyed what was generally recognized as one of the greatest track records ever.
He's not the GOAT yet and I'm not sure he'll get that title, but the fact that we take the possibility seriously rather than laughing is a sign of how good he is.
You left off half a second over the mile world record. He might be overrated if he was racing EL G, but since he is not, no he is not overrated. He is the man to beat.
I'm not sure how you can call the 3000m a weak event. He destroyed what was generally recognized as one of the greatest track records ever.
He's not the GOAT yet and I'm not sure he'll get that title, but the fact that we take the possibility seriously rather than laughing is a sign of how good he is.
We all thought 7:20 was the most out-there record, but we were wrong. Any record that gets beat by more than 2 seconds was soft.
That means it was soft before 7:20. Last thing you should assume when a soft record is broken, is that the new record isn't also soft. It most likely is.
What really happened is nobody seriously went after it, and 3000 shifted to indoors when noone was in shape to do it. Banked tracks made indoor 3000s so easy, noone wanted to do it outdoors anymore.
Add to that the fact that the market for distance track hit the skids, and all the fastest distance runners moved up to big money road racing.
He is the No.1 track athlete by World Athletics rankings, and No.1 on those end of year event ranking lists, so I would say his rating by the masses correlates with his officials results and rankings.
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You left off half a second over the mile world record. He might be overrated if he was racing EL G, but since he is not, no he is not overrated. He is the man to beat.
Quite a few have. No golds in his main event since 2021.
You left off half a second over the mile world record. He might be overrated if he was racing EL G, but since he is not, no he is not overrated. He is the man to beat.
Quite a few have. No golds in his main event since 2021.
Of course he is overrated - he hasn't even got thin calves, let alone ebony thin calves.
He will be exposed soon enough. Wanyonyi will destroy him over 1500, and then just for laughs, triple in the 5000 at LA and send him home to Norway totally devastated!
Of course he is overrated - he hasn't even got thin calves, let alone ebony thin calves.
He will be exposed soon enough. Wanyonyi will destroy him over 1500, and then just for laughs, triple in the 5000 at LA and send him home to Norway totally devastated!
We all thought 7:20 was the most out-there record, but we were wrong. Any record that gets beat by more than 2 seconds was soft.
That means it was soft before 7:20. Last thing you should assume when a soft record is broken, is that the new record isn't also soft. It most likely is.
What really happened is nobody seriously went after it, and 3000 shifted to indoors when noone was in shape to do it. Banked tracks made indoor 3000s so easy, noone wanted to do it outdoors anymore.
Add to that the fact that the market for distance track hit the skids, and all the fastest distance runners moved up to big money road racing.
El G, Geb, Lagat and many others went after the 3K record and failed. I think EL G went after it at least twice.
Jakob is properly rated. He’s an incredibly fit athlete whose best event in the 3,000. He’s amazing in fast paced 1500s because they measure fitness. He’s less amazing in unpaced 1500s because he doesn’t trust his kick. He’s amazing in unpaced 5,000s because he trusts his kick.
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Jakob is properly rated. He’s an incredibly fit athlete whose best event in the 3,000. He’s amazing in fast paced 1500s because they measure fitness. He’s less amazing in unpaced 1500s because he doesn’t trust his kick. He’s amazing in unpaced 5,000s because he trusts his kick.
I don't know why everyone says the 3k is his best event. He is utterly dominant at the 5k (and I think he would be at the 10k too.) I guess he needs to put up a wr attempt at the 5 to prove it, but he absolutely toys with the best 5000 meter runners in the world time and time again. That's his best event