Cheptegai, J and Barega are big guns who are not likely to hand the young tyro Jakob any blighs!! To have Wightman beat him..like that...that's blood in the water!! Beware Ugandan & deep diving, deep water...deep talented Ethiopian sharks circling in those 5k Eugene waters!!!
Since you're too dense to see it, the point is that Jakob has been faster and more accomplished than El G at every age to this point. El G won Olympic gold only in the last meet of his career. Jakob did it at 20.
If he could be out for blood, he would have thrown the hammer down and won that 1500. He hasn't go it.
He'll kick himself, tell himself he's motivated, purify his hate, but then the same thing will happen, someone will challenge him and he'll fold. Doesn't really care.