YARED NUGUSE: you got the talent, now COMPETE LIKE YOU'RE THE BEST

Don't say that as if it makes a cavity in his CV!

Yared ran a good race, Kerr and Jakob just had a bit more on the day.
Just because he doesn't have the same bravado as Jakob and Kerr doesn't mean he is not confident.
He will be racing for Gold in Paris

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Honestly what chance would you give him of winning Olympic Gold? Me I would give him on his best day 7% max

Get outta here with your "Nuguse Abuse".

PS - who's dentist is brushing their teeth?

I don't know what the right number would be, but I agree that he is unlikely to win gold at this stage of his development and the current quality of Jakob and Josh.

I think at some point he gets a world title. He’s just too talented not to but I don’t think it will be for a few years. As you mentioned Jakob and Kerr are too good right now.

I think Nuguse is a tremendous talent and, from everything I've seen, just a really nice guy, but I don't think he's got that killer instinct that separates the best from the very good. Still, nothing to be ashamed about if he wins a bunch of silvers and bronzes.

So you are saying that professional distance running is the best one can hope for as a career? I love watching the sport and have been a runner all my life but there are a lot easier and better careers out there than professional running.

Yeah that 1sec gap between Nuguse and Kerr/Jakob isn't because he can't run with them physically. his 3.43.9 is still miles better than Kerr's 3:45.2 yesterday for instance. But, I do believe that there is an effect of the two egomaniacs on performance. They are so self-confident/arrogant, and so dedicated to the task of besting each other, that they carry clear

Decades ago, Daley Thompson was asked by an interviewer about his 400 time goal in a major decathlon. He said "45.9" in a deadpan way. Interviewer said, wait, what... Daley patiently explained to the interviewer he could say 47.2 and likely achieve it, and stay within the bounds of belief, but that by setting his mental frame at 45.9 he was stimulating himself to visualize every step of that race at that pace, to push at it from the inside. He stated that it was better to claim 45.9 and run 46.7 than claim 47.2 and run....47.2....

OK personality is different... Daley declared these goals openly for self-motivation whereas Jakob for instance never declares a time goal, it's all title-driven. But the idea is the same and there's a common thread here. Goals are set, Jakob openly claims to want to be the best of all time, he states two Oly golds at 15 and 5 as an interim goal - which is a very difficult double only achieved by Nurmi and ElG let me remind all you LRBF - but this is only a stepping stone to his monumental vision.

Meantime Josh focuses like a laser on beating Jakob knowing that by doing so, his own time/title goals will be achieved in the process of defeating Jakob and this is his way of laserfocusing.

When Yared is interviewed on this topic, he mouths platitudes "Room for improvement, work for next year, we'll see, I'll work to get closer" etc. etc.

Yared seems a pleasant, likeable dude. A great neighbor/buddy/co-worker. But not a World or Olympic champ.

lighten up, this is just the season opener. He isn't afraid of Jakob or Kerr. he was the number 2 ranked miler/1500m person in the world last year, ahead of Kerr and after Kerr won the World Champ he went into a Diamond League to brake the British record, but he was beaten by Nuguse. Nuguse is still earning and will be just fine.

Yeah, that mental stuff is kind of dumb. If Nuguse had even a tiny bit more left in the tank, he would have passed Josh and Jakob, and all their bravado, coming down the home stretch.

A runner also that benefit from all local international races and steeling experience from other runners?

I'm thinking to all hyper-talents living in an unfavorable conditions in Africa. An Ermias Girma for example.

He needs to get rid of the African arm carriage.

I think you're right. I get the sense that Nuguse is not 100% in. Maybe 98%. He's also still a little star-struck. For him, it's good enough to trail two amazing talents; he is quite pleased to be third.

I don't even think he is 98,% in more like 85%. He enjoys running and if his 85% effort can get him a win, GREAT if not he still has his degree and future career. Nuguse is no way fighting to UNSEAT Josh and Jakob, he is complacent in competing amongst them.

I just hate that we have a guy fully capitalizing on the Nike cheater trampoline shoes who drafted for 1608 meters (personal pace setter) who drops a 3:43 mile. Like yeah that's an insane time but you really think this floppy kid is better than WEBB AND RUPP? shoes ruined the sport.

Yared Nuguse is extremely likable and he just as run 3:43.9 and 3:46.22 now, and this was his outdoor opener. The only guys to beat him have Olympic gold and bronze, World gold, and two World silvers in the 1500m. He's doing pretty great and last year was his first full year on the professional circuit. But you're right that he will not take the win until he has that complete confidence and takes the leap to go to the front with 400 or 200 to go and not wait until the last fifty, where he isn't better or enough better to make that much of a gap up.

and he has now run ...

Correct. Vipam is allowing his own racism to cloud his judgment. Nuguse was in great position and couldn't reel in Kerr - or Jakob who was running his first race in 8 months.