Jakob Inge. runs 5000m heat with fever

He isn't the best if he needs pacemakers to win.

My one wish is to wake up tomorrow and be Henrik.

He's getting fried on this thread LOL.

Wasn’t his whole thing that only insecure runners are seeking validation in their workouts? So who really cares about that. Kerr is a decent time-trialer, Jakob is a spectacular one but again that is also immaterial in a championship race. Jakobs problem last year was partially tactics and a less developed kick. It seemed like he cleaned up the kick part to some degree this year but we’ll have to see if he trusts this in the future like El Guerrouj started to after Sydney. It is one thing to win because you are 1-2 seconds faster than others with lights/pacers when they are unpeaked. Both Kerr and Wightman peaked beautifully and were able to run 3:29s with pace changes/kicks. Jakob can run as many 3:26/27s as he wants but can he a) make it a 3:28 or faster race where nobody can hang b) believe in his kick and conserve energy like Morceli/El Guerrouj did and win with either a fast last 400 or 6-700? Right now he’s done a poorly-executed version of a) and it’s gonna continually get beat.

You just might be the lunatic gold medalist in this forum. It is unusual for you to say something nice about others.

You idiot. Pretty sure you don’t know what it means to choke. Peak fitness is not so easy to sustain for months. This is different from choking.

Am I the only one who finds it odd how much hatred Jakob and his team have for his own father Gjert. Apparently domestic abuse from Gjert? Then he coaches a new athlete to beat his former golden boy. Fascinating story behind Jakob/Gjert split and I hope we can get more details one day.

So you think Kerr would have solo won it without Jakob as a pacemaker?

How about this - how often do you all think Jakob wins in the following scenarios:

A) running 3:27 pace from the gun (not waiting to go hard like he did in the final)

B) sit and kick with 400-200 to go

C) sit and kick with 600-400 to go

Jakob haters were literally starving since he kept winning. Once this happens they all come out and start jerking each other off. Nothing more to see here.

That Norwegian doctor needs to be asked by legitimation handling authorities if he was informed about Jakob's fever before OR after the race!

Running with a fever can cause endocarditis and is one of the most stupid things an athlete can do. No responsible medical professional would ever allow that.

It would not have happened on their Nording Skiing national team, they're so strict that they keep regular track of (for one) their skier's BMI and takes them off the whole team for months if they start flirting with anorexia or other health issues.

Absolutely my view as well. Every runner/skier in the Nordic countries knows about the dangers of training with a sore throat and fever. There is an episode in Team Ingebrigtsen when Gjert is very anxious about Jakob starting XC Euros with a slight cold. Gjert calls a doctor when Jakob is lining up for the start....

I thought he said after the 1500 he was feeling better but was a bit weak from a couple of days is illness? Hopefully he will be 100% by the final this week-end

So what has that to do with Jakob, as this thread is? Perhaps you, too, want to veer into anti-abortion?

How cute of you, one of the main thread derailers of letsrun.

Jakob as pacemaker? Like the way Herb Elliott was the "pacemaker" over the last 600m at Rome '60, when he won by nearly 3 secs and set a wr? Oh, wait ...

Jakob didn't act as "pacemaker" for Kerr. He was trying to lose him, but failed - unlike Elliott, who used the same tactics but successfully.

"Derailing" in your books is anything you don't agree with. So you want to debate abortion here as well?

It's also cute to watch your daily late night, pre-sleep tirades on letsrun. It's so amusing.