But if he named any of those guys he'd be forced to admit that they compete against him about as much as Kerr. Take Cheruiyot: raced Jakob 3 times last year (same as Kerr) and once in 2022. Or Nuguse: raced Jakob 3 times last year (same as Kerr). Or Hoare: leaving aside 2023 when he was injured, he raced Jakob three times in 2022.
So who are these top guys that are racing Jakob week-in week-out? McSweyn? Nader? Habz?
*Not including the rounds at Worlds in any of these numbers
Eh, but Jakob is getting at this year and the end of last year especially, as well as Kerr overall tracing very infrequently. I doubt he’s mad Tim races Kip Keino or Doha which are home meets for Kenyans especially. He got hurt last year at Worlds and assuredly would have done the DL final and a couple others if healthy. Josh Kerr skipped DL Final, Euros and Monaco. You can bet the 3 guys I mentioned don’t skip meets of that caliber.
Kerr never does the Euros. You can agree with his strategy or not but he focuses on peaking at the World Championships. This involves not taking any risks with over racing (see those injured - in the past year - Jakob, Hoare, Wightman).
Maybe he wanted to go out on a high last year? And protect himself for winter training. Jakob didn’t - he got injured. I wouldn’t underestimate the injury risk at this level of training and racing. Then you’re out of the Olympics and waiting 4 years?! At their age?
Kerr’s coach didn’t even want him to do the indoors this year. But he did. And did very well.
Kerr never does the Euros. You can agree with his strategy or not but he focuses on peaking at the World Championships. This involves not taking any risks with over racing (see those injured - in the past year - Jakob, Hoare, Wightman).
Maybe he wanted to go out on a high last year? And protect himself for winter training. Jakob didn’t - he got injured. I wouldn’t underestimate the injury risk at this level of training and racing. Then you’re out of the Olympics and waiting 4 years?! At their age?
Kerr’s coach didn’t even want him to do the indoors this year. But he did. And did very well.
Just fact-checking you. Kerr ran 5th Ave Mile instead of Pre. Not about injury. Euros again is fine but skipping it, Monaco, London and every race in US is strange. It’s to the extreme, which even he’d admit. Wightman got injured doing too much in strength training not racing.
Hoare’s injury was from between indoors and outdoors of 2023? Jakob yes maybe did too much with the DL final double. Mackey was unsure about doing World Indoors - he was always doing Millrose.
He’s a bad role model. I would hate for kids to want to emulate his arrogance and disrespect of his fellow runners.
I think you and I define arrogance and disrespect very differently..! F.ex, when Cole pretty much is saying that he can beat Jakob (despite having a 4 sec slower pb, no medals and so on) I think that is totally OK. Hocker may be wrong in his assessment here; so what! Why shouldn’t he be allowed to say what he feels -he is the one that must eat crow if he’s wrong. And if he is right, or puts up a fight: Likely good; he has made everything more interesting and exciting whatever the outcome, IMO… And the same with Jakob’s dreams and outspokenness…
About what the covid vaccine and anthropogenic RF??? You should keep silent, Djokovic was right not to be vaccinated sir!!!!!! While you are waiting for your death right now if you were, sorry for the truth!!!!!
Oh btw, I just wanted to leave you a token. My guy Josh Kerr smashed the hell out of your guy Jakob in the heats of the 1500m. The former jogged a 52.5 last 400m as if floating on clouds with acceleration and biomechanics so beautiful and smooth, and stride so spread opened and large that he gapped the field with 5m in a matter of steps just like how he gapped that cheater Fisher at the millrose 2miles in a matter of steps as well. He just opened up his legs and he was GONE, LIKE LITERALLY GONE but yet while he was gone he appeared still to be jogging and strutting his way to the finish line in 52.5s and wasn't even getting started at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The way he opened those legs, oh MY WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My eyes were glued to those huge steps it's just surreal, while Hocker, Nuguse and Jakob couldn't take flight and appeared relatively de-vitalized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I know why my guy Josh KERR looked so supreme in biomechanical movement: it's because he told us he literally switched off the power button on his mobile phone and laptop for the 1-2 months leading up to Paris!!!!!!!!!!!!
The commentator from GB slammed Jakob for fist pumping at the end of his heat 3, and said Jakob 'had issues' (emotional and mental and anger management) he was dealing with and needed to show 'some respect' to his competitors and not do such fist-pumping gestures in the future!!!!!!!!!!
I was so happy to hear the commentator putting Jakob in his place!!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh KERR said the same thing about Jakob last year in Budapest when he fist pumped and show boated and said on Citius Mag "he has mental and emotional issues he is dealing with that made him do that in an innocuous semi-final"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO HOME JAKOB, YOU RAN LIKE SH*T in the heats with biomechanics so inferior and unsightly not befitting of someone who thinks he is the best 1500m in the world!!!!! You couldn't even take flight dear Jakob, you are not lifting off the damn surface!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIFT OFF JAKOB, LIFT LIFT LIFT, if you wanna win the gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Based on what he did after WC 2022, WC 2019, WC xc U20, WC U20 2018, and so on and on..? -Are you basing this insult on the only two champs he was sick in a long career? A little cherry picking here perhaps..?
Don't switch subjects, I'm so pumped right now because my guy Josh KERR totally dominated his heat and wasn't even trying at all. All he did was simply OPENED UP HIS DAMN LEGS and he was gone in a jiffy, such power, such 'upthrust', such magnetic levitation over the surface of the earth, while as for Jakob??????????
Shame on Jakob, he runs like an amateur 5th grader and can't seem to open up his legs nor take flight into the air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t say that he didn’t run the 5th Ave mile? He has a clear schedule. You can all disagree with it as much as you like and say he should race more. But if he races more and then peaks at the wrong time/ gets injured then that’s pointless just to win a few random Diamond League races, especially when he is based in the U.S
My guess is also - after his strong performances earlier in the year, he and his coach were worried about him peaking too early.
Kerr never does the Euros. You can agree with his strategy or not but he focuses on peaking at the World Championships. This involves not taking any risks with over racing (see those injured - in the past year - Jakob, Hoare, Wightman).
Maybe he wanted to go out on a high last year? And protect himself for winter training. Jakob didn’t - he got injured. I wouldn’t underestimate the injury risk at this level of training and racing. Then you’re out of the Olympics and waiting 4 years?! At their age?
Kerr’s coach didn’t even want him to do the indoors this year. But he did. And did very well.
Just fact-checking you. Kerr ran 5th Ave Mile instead of Pre. Not about injury. Euros again is fine but skipping it, Monaco, London and every race in US is strange. It’s to the extreme, which even he’d admit. Wightman got injured doing too much in strength training not racing.
Hoare’s injury was from between indoors and outdoors of 2023? Jakob yes maybe did too much with the DL final double. Mackey was unsure about doing World Indoors - he was always doing Millrose.
Oh and ‘fact checking’ you back. Jake felt pain in his hamstring recently on a 4 x 400m session. He felt pain on the last rep, had it scanned and it was a partial tear. One of his injuries was due to an accident in the gym. But over racing/training to get in to shape (following an injury) caused this.
Kerr to my knowledge has not been injured. So has never had to sit out a season. Therefore he does and can afford to be careful with his race schedule
Jake is now missing the Olympics. That’s what’s at stake here.
Don't switch subjects, I'm so pumped right now because my guy Josh KERR totally dominated his heat and wasn't even trying at all. All he did was simply OPENED UP HIS DAMN LEGS and he was gone in a jiffy, such power, such 'upthrust', such magnetic levitation over the surface of the earth, while as for Jakob??????????
Shame on Jakob, he runs like an amateur 5th grader and can't seem to open up his legs nor take flight into the air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, you’re not so pumped right now because your guy Josh Kerr totally dominated (Which he indeed did)… -You are so pumped because you have a hypomanic personality (just like me by the way).
Hypomania can make us energised, optimistic, creative and filled with meaning and wellbeing. And one can be a source for others. But if you don’t know what’s streaming through you, and you don’t know how to control it, (through self awareness, art, sound creativity) this personality can be really bad and detrimental. And one might also end up as manic depressive (bipolar disorder)…
Eh, but Jakob is getting at this year and the end of last year especially, as well as Kerr overall tracing very infrequently. I doubt he’s mad Tim races Kip Keino or Doha which are home meets for Kenyans especially. He got hurt last year at Worlds and assuredly would have done the DL final and a couple others if healthy. Josh Kerr skipped DL Final, Euros and Monaco. You can bet the 3 guys I mentioned don’t skip meets of that caliber.
Kerr never does the Euros. You can agree with his strategy or not but he focuses on peaking at the World Championships. This involves not taking any risks with over racing (see those injured - in the past year - Jakob, Hoare, Wightman).
Maybe he wanted to go out on a high last year? And protect himself for winter training. Jakob didn’t - he got injured. I wouldn’t underestimate the injury risk at this level of training and racing. Then you’re out of the Olympics and waiting 4 years?! At their age?
Kerr’s coach didn’t even want him to do the indoors this year. But he did. And did very well.
After Kerr loses the 1500 final and goes home to sip tea, Jakob will be lacing up to get another gold in the 5k.
3:26 > 3:28
7:54 > 8:00.
12:48 > 14?
Numerous XC, EU, WC, Olympic medals while being younger
it actually doesn't matter if Kerr wins the 1500, Jakob will still be the one lacing up for the next event. Jakob will always be the better runner and will always have the better legacy. He single handedly transformed how everyone from hobby joggers to elites train for distance running.
Kerr never does the Euros. You can agree with his strategy or not but he focuses on peaking at the World Championships. This involves not taking any risks with over racing (see those injured - in the past year - Jakob, Hoare, Wightman).
Maybe he wanted to go out on a high last year? And protect himself for winter training. Jakob didn’t - he got injured. I wouldn’t underestimate the injury risk at this level of training and racing. Then you’re out of the Olympics and waiting 4 years?! At their age?
Kerr’s coach didn’t even want him to do the indoors this year. But he did. And did very well.
What did Jakob's injury have to do with racing??
Oh ok. An achilles injury has nothing to do with running. My mistake.
Oh and ‘fact checking’ you back. Jake felt pain in his hamstring recently on a 4 x 400m session. He felt pain on the last rep, had it scanned and it was a partial tear. One of his injuries was due to an accident in the gym. But over racing/training to get in to shape (following an injury) caused this.
Kerr to my knowledge has not been injured. So has never had to sit out a season. Therefore he does and can afford to be careful with his race schedule
Jake is now missing the Olympics. That’s what’s at stake here.
I mean, comparing Jake cramming in races all season and travel indoors/Australia etc. to Kerr is not exactly the objective here. Jakob is not calling for that, nor is anyone. I was distinctly critical of Jake's frankly bizarre Australia trip, and the strange fixation on hitting the 1500m qualifying time that we all knew he could get if he put his head down for 3 weeks. I also could not understand him doing Pre, Stockholm and then New York in a 2-week span. Stockholm in particular was egregious. Jake was managed this year like it was his last opportunity to make money in the sport. That's all I can think of. It's probably as much or more too much travel as it is overracing.
On 5th Ave Mile, it was a choice to run a fun exhibition or a real test. As far as the rivalry goes, what Kerr did validated Jakob's point in that he's less interested in a true rivalry. The Pre Classic race was a good step, but no other 1500/mile races on the year dampens any storylines.
Kerr can do what he wants! He's done a good job at running pretty well in Championships with 3rd/5th/gold. But if you race this infrequently, the other guy who puts himself out there all the time and chases records is allowed to note that you seem to be afraid to toe the line or perform more than once a season.
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Like you have no control over the 31,500+ posts that come out of your fingers? Thanks for clarifying that.
My posts are the only thing that matters to you. You comment on nothing else.
It seems you have improved your posting rate recently? Close to 100 per day, definitely well over 50. But that's still not enough to reach the 33,000 before the end of the Olympics.
Is there still room to improve for you? Maybe even shorter posts?