Jakob Ingebrigtsen blocked Timothy Cheruiyot with 400m to go

Coevett wrote:

I don't have any axe to ground with Native Son, btw. I have no problems with him being politically incorrect, although it's fair of me to point out he's gone well beyond anything I've said, particularly when he's insinuating that I'm racist. It's good to have a real Kenyan here.

No. You just lie, accusing him of saying that he has a "desire to see Kenya free of all foreigners, particularly Ethiopians (good for nothings), Nigerians (low IQ, drug dealers, cause all the trouble) and Somalis (all Islamic terrorists)."

You are a compulsive liar.

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Well done. You managed to lie with every single sentence and half-sentence in your post.

Now please don't threaten me and accuse me of bestiality again.

Peace. :)

AvidEditFan wrote:

Jakob picked it up to go for a fast time,

In his post run interview Jacob said he was holding his pace as the others didn't, and that was the reason for going in front. I have not got the splits, but 7 years of very accurate pacing may have brought on an ability to run at equal pace for the whole competition.

If this is a good thing or not, well I guess it is, but I wonder what it will lead to in championships.

SprintTriathlon wrote:

In his post run interview Jacob said he was holding his pace as the others didn't, and that was the reason for going in front. I have not got the splits, but 7 years of very accurate pacing may have brought on an ability to run at equal pace for the whole competition.

If this is a good thing or not, well I guess it is, but I wonder what it will lead to in championships.

It’ll be interesting to see what he can crank out for 5K next week. That’ll probably end up being his best Olympic distance. His consistent pace and 1500m speed are perfect for winding it up at the end of a 5K. He could be much more deadly at 5K versus 1500, especially in slow races like we have at the WCs/OGs.

no no no nooooooo wrote:

Phantasy Star II wrote:

Soy post.

Jakob did nothing wrong. Potato has a poor stride, always flailing around, inconsistent pace. Jakob attempted what would be a fair pass, but Potato's scythe arms got in the way.

Shut up and look at the video, soy brain.

Coevett wrote:

It was likely accidental, but Jakob might have been annoyed that Tim was slowing and taking away the chance of a sub 3:30 and even a new European record.

Anyway, it adds a bit of spice to what might be a long rivalry between the pair.

Likely accidental?

Look at 5:45 on the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=347&v=-ZxjysRvMl0

This was a shit move by Jakob. It's perfectly obvious he did it on purpose. His left arm pushes Tim back.

I am very disappointed. I don't like this unsportsmanlike attitude.

You are blind. There was no intentional contact from Jakob. If anything Cheruiyot drifted out as Jakob was trying to pass. The arm movements of both athletes were only because of the contact knocking them slightly off balance. Neither guy was pushing the other or purposely making contact.

Lactic POWER wrote:

SprintTriathlon wrote:

In his post run interview Jacob said he was holding his pace as the others didn't, and that was the reason for going in front. I have not got the splits, but 7 years of very accurate pacing may have brought on an ability to run at equal pace for the whole competition.

If this is a good thing or not, well I guess it is, but I wonder what it will lead to in championships.

It’ll be interesting to see what he can crank out for 5K next week. That’ll probably end up being his best Olympic distance. His consistent pace and 1500m speed are perfect for winding it up at the end of a 5K. He could be much more deadly at 5K versus 1500, especially in slow races like we have at the WCs/OGs.

Actually, now I'm wondering if Jakob's best event would be the 3000. Could he threaten 7:20?

Gonna go out on a limb and say he can definitely get the Euro record of 7:26, which itself is the top 5-6th time ever.

I'm really not sure why you or anyone thinks that Cheryuiot is supposed to act as Jakob's personal pacemaker.

It was a race. Chopping the pace is a great tactic which hurts a lot of competitors. Cheryuiot knows he can out-kick most.

Jakob was more than welcome to take the race out hard from the beginning and run a sub 3:30 time. This is not a local open meeting it's an elite diamond league competition.

Michael Kiske wrote:

You are blind. There was no intentional contact from Jakob. If anything Cheruiyot drifted out as Jakob was trying to pass. The arm movements of both athletes were only because of the contact knocking them slightly off balance. Neither guy was pushing the other or purposely making contact.

Shut up, Phantasy Turd.

And by new glasses.

So many nasty posts about young Jakob. What will happen when he runs 3:27 and gets the gold?

Holy carp wrote:

So many nasty posts about young Jakob. What will happen when he runs 3:27 and gets the gold?

If he wants the gold he's best advised to avoid the nonsense he pulled in Monaco as he would have provided the risk of a DQ if a protest was filed.

Jakob made a move to the front when the pace was slowing. Happens all the time. A little incidental contact, but nothing that even required a push on the back by Tim. That's how competitive runners race and win.

Holy carp wrote:

So many nasty posts about young Jakob. What will happen when he runs 3:27 and gets the gold?

He can't run 3:27 by following Cheryuiot around and complaining Cheryuiot wasn't running fast enough.

If he wants to win AND run a fast time then he needs to be prepared to take the lead and run away from the field.

All in good time, hopefully he learned from this experience.

Amateur move by Jakob, who is inexperienced at the front of elite level races, relative to Timothy.

Jakob cut in way too soon, seemingly having a panic attack because he was desperate to be on the rail before the bend. He didn't complete passing before he moved sideways, straight into Timothy, who without altering his arm movement at all found himself touching Jakob's left side/back.

Timothy stayed cool as a cucumber and embarrassed Jakob into oblivion.

mak daddy for gold!!!!

I agree.

What I have not read in this thread is that Timothy Cheruiyot was not interested in 3'28. He wanted to run faster than that, and after Lausanne, he had legitimate reasons for this.

Jakob still sees sub-3'30 as fast, so there is still a little gap, also mental, between the two.

I am curious to see which of the super strong juniors will be able to improve most in the future.

They have already trained hard for years in top groups, so I really don't know if they will have the progression that is more or less normal between 18 and 22.

You've obviously never run a race at any competitive level before. Things like this happen, it isn't necessarily intentional, there are a lot of people there and people throw elbows all the time. Kenyans, Norwegians, Americans - we all do it when we race.

Not nice, Mr. Ingebrigtsen wrote:

That was a very low move, Mr. Jakob. There was no need for that.

1:36 into this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chEpy9SHqw

I went to 1:36 and didn't notice anything? Looks like a clean pass to me?