ex-runner wrote:
I think Coevett may have posted under 'exrunner' or variations of that, but that's fair enough as I have left my own satire comments under the name 'Coevet', i.e. pretending to be him, not supporting my own points.
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You use at least twenty different troll names on here.
Lest we forget!!!
Lest we forget that Jakob lost by a hair to someone because he was saving something got the 5000 the next day while training through because he was peaking for the Euros?
jgalkjvoiawner wrote:
macdaddy wrote:
1500/5k final is on the same day
Amazing that you know this considering the schedule hasn't been released and they've never been on the same day in the past.
You are correct. I could have sworn I saw the 1500/5k on the same date. As I look now, must have mistaken the mens/womens events for each other - womens 1500/5k was on the same day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics#Competition_scheduleNevertheless, I have nothing but confidence in saying that Jakob will NOT win 2 gold medals. One gold... maybe.
macdaddy wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Jakob is on the way to having Usain Bolt style fame (he certainly will if he wins double gold at Tokyo as a 19 year old) and that would utterly transform the profile and popularity of middle and long distance running.
LOL!
1) Double gold in what? Doesn't have enough speed for the 800/1500, 1500/5k final is on the same day and he doesn't have 10k ability.
2) He could win every race for the rest of his life, run 3:20 in the 1500 and break 2 hours in the marathon and he still wouldn't be a quarter as popular as Bolt. 75% of my friends are runners and maybe 5% have spoken to me (known as the running nerd in my group) about Jakob. Distance runners aren't even THAT excited by distance runners - let alone everyone else.
This guy gets it. The only guy with a hope of being as popular as Bolt is Noah Lyles - you know, another SPRINTER. Literally NO ONE outside of this website (in Europe and the Americas at least) cares about distance running, and that will NEVER change. Sorry to burst your bubble.
El Keniano wrote:
Barakus Obama wrote:
Last sentence is correct. And guys like El Keniano should be very happy. Who doesn't want running to become a bigger sport in the rest of the world?
Herein is part of the reason why you lot will never be able to compete with us. WE DO NOT CARE about the size of your social media following and don’t judge sporting success by it. Many Kenyan athletes have them solely for interaction with friends and family and others have only opened accounts due to pressure from managers and sponsors. Culturally, we do not have the same innate desperation to be liked by strangers that seems to have consumed the western world and would rather leave social media to its rightful owners: the Kardashians.
Kenyans are extremely impressed and proud that someone like Tim continues crash the competition (or to use a Kenyan phrase) ‘show them dust’. He seems to me like someone who would all together avoid the media, if he could. He doesn’t automatically gravitate towards journalists mics like western athletes seem trained to do. George and Elijah are keen to realise ‘prophecies’ that they will be Olympic champions. No one cares how many likes they get on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. You saying I should be happy Jakob Ingebrigtsen has 100k followers on Insta; well, the best I can tell you is that I’m not unhappy. He’s not well known or talked about in Kenya like, say, Ethiopian Selemon Barega or Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei. No one yet is putting him on any pedestals or trumpeting him as some super sensation for winning the very tepid euros especially after losing to our own juniors at the U20s. It’ll take a little more to earn Kenyan respect. Haile and Bekele had it. Mo Farah earned it. And even Evan Jager at some point.
really doesn't matter if Kenyans respect Jakob Ingebrigsten when he can crush all but a handful of them
Coevett wrote:
Jakob is on the way to having Usain Bolt style fame (he certainly will if he wins double gold at Tokyo as a 19 year old) and that would utterly transform the profile and popularity of middle and long distance running.
False.
Did Michael Phelps transform swimming into a big sport in America? No he did not. Did Usain Bolt make track and field super super popular? No.
Coevett wrote:
Jakob Ingebrigsten now has over 100,000 followers on Instagram. He appears to be adding about 10,000 a day now. Meanwhile, David Ouma's boys aren't faring so well. Tim still only has 2,000, the same number as George Manangoi, while Jakob's 'peer' Elijah Manangoi has 50. Galen Rupp has 20,000 or something after all these years.
Only pointing this out because it seems not many people here are aware of the impact on the sport that Jakob is going to have from this point on.
This kid is the new PRE, young and ready to race anybody!
GBnothingWithoutFarah wrote:
http://athletics.co.ke/king-born-george-manangoi-1500m/Lest we forget!!!
I really love that picture. George is a tremendous talent. Don't know which of he or Justus Soget will take the third Kenyan slot for Tokyo, but I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
El Keniano wrote:
I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
In a middle-distance event? That’s hilarious.
Sanjay Gupta wrote:
, and just isn’t anywhere near as entertaining or likeable.
why? and what was Bolt at 17?
El Keniano wrote:
GBnothingWithoutFarah wrote:
http://athletics.co.ke/king-born-george-manangoi-1500m/Lest we forget!!!
I really love that picture. George is a tremendous talent. Don't know which of he or Justus Soget will take the third Kenyan slot for Tokyo, but I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
Jakob will be among the medals in any event he does in 2020
Sanjay Gupta wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
In a middle-distance event? That’s hilarious.
Kenyans will be running as ANA in Tokyo
El Keniano wrote:
GBnothingWithoutFarah wrote:
http://athletics.co.ke/king-born-george-manangoi-1500m/Lest we forget!!!
I really love that picture. George is a tremendous talent. Don't know which of he or Justus Soget will take the third Kenyan slot for Tokyo, but I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
Soget is a Rosa athlete, that alone makes him dodgy.
^ So the smears begin: Kenya should be banned to clear the way for a fairy tale ending for the great white hype. 18-year-old Soget is represented by Rosa, therefore doped to the gills. George is actually 26 - 31 years old posing as a 17-year-old. Sounds like you lot are running scared.
Is Konstanze Klosterhalfen update, by the way? She was primed to be tearing Dibaba to pieces by now.
rojo wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Jakob is on the way to having Usain Bolt style fame (he certainly will if he wins double gold at Tokyo as a 19 year old) and that would utterly transform the profile and popularity of middle and long distance running.
False.
Did Michael Phelps transform swimming into a big sport in America? No he did not. Did Usain Bolt make track and field super super popular? No.
So we’re just gonna ignore our proud website leader checking Coevett?
For reference, in 2017 CR7 had 117 million followers, Messi & Neymar 85 million each. Bale had 38 million.
Any of those Ingebrigsten's have the opportunity
to step up to the plate and do a blood/urinalysis
under the supervision of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
I'm not making any accusations but none of them
have stepped up to the plate and have been tested.
Therefore, we could consider flights into the
Netherlands or border crossings into a neighboring
country where doping can be done, suspect.
Like I said, "something is rotten in Denmark and it ain't fish."
Samuel DeChamplain wrote:
Sanjay Gupta wrote:
, and just isn’t anywhere near as entertaining or likeable.
why? and what was Bolt at 17?
At 15, he won the World Junior Championships, something Jakob failed to do at 17.
Samuel DeChamplain wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
I really love that picture. George is a tremendous talent. Don't know which of he or Justus Soget will take the third Kenyan slot for Tokyo, but I'll be putting my money on a Kenyan sweep. It's due.
Jakob will be among the medals in any event he does in 2020
Not the hammer throw. Maybe the 20km or 50km race walk.
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
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