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Okay so while you do explain well how you found it contrived, overplayed and nauseating I don't think Josh is going out of his way to smear Jakob in any way. Instead, as a world champion he is frequently required to give monthly or even fortnightly media interviews with The Guardian, BBC, NYT or whatever. It's the journalists and reporters who come haranguing and accosting him for comments and opinions about everything under the sky, he didn't go knocking on their doors asking to give his opinions, right???
It's different if you are requested by the King or Queen of England to do them a favor then if you force your way through their front gate and knock aggressively on their doors offering them your services, right???
It's also different if 100 people you don't know come knocking on your door and giving you lots of praise for your skills than if you paid 100 people to write fake reviews on social media about how good you are, right?
So if Josh Kerr is asked to meet the media due to media obligations to give his comments and updates on his training or whatever and he proceeds to dish 'hate' on Jakob then it's not really 'original hate' in its purest most pre-meditated form, right? It's an opportunistic kinda hate because he was first presented with an advantageous situation to dish out 'hate' in a non pre-meditated format by his media obligations and even by a specific provocation by the journalist Sean Ingle!!!
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Pretty simple - the Championship belt holder gets to talk $hit until he no longer holds it
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Josh Kerr was provoked by journalist Sean Engle for an opinion on Jakob and the Paris Olympic final, he didn't volunteer it. Sean REMINDED Josh about Jakob rather than having Jakob rented space in Josh's head in that space-time moment. It's a kind of provocation to remind somebody that their competitor is possibly their greatest enemy. Sean being a journalist would not be disadvantaged if he could provoke the most disparaging comments from Josh about Jakob.
Electric and magnetic fields behave exactly the same way that Sean and Josh would have done. They induce and provoke each other in phase so that their energy flux can travel through space and time and conserve (circle-jerk!!!!!) each other like an echo chamber!!!
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Americans are a bit of an odd bunch. Brashest people on the planet one minute, arbitrarily moaning about others smack talking the next.
This guy became world champion, and immediately had the butch lesbian cosplayer discredit his accomplishments, call him a ‘JAG’, and then drone on about being ill.
Kerr isn’t having any of it. And, frankly, holding the World Championship title, he has every right to talk smack to Jakob.
Americans are a bit of an odd bunch. Brashest people on the planet one minute, arbitrarily moaning about others smack talking the next.
This guy became world champion, and immediately had the butch lesbian cosplayer discredit his accomplishments, call him a ‘JAG’, and then drone on about being ill.
Kerr isn’t having any of it. And, frankly, holding the World Championship title, he has every right to talk smack to Jakob.
Of course he has every right to talk smack to Jakob (after what Jakob said). The problem is that he can’t find anything better to say than he does…
“Josh Kerr should do this Josh Kerr should do that Josh Kerr is yapping a whole lot”- says the dozens of running nobodies yapping about some world champion. Good grief, go back to Minecraft.
Americans are a bit of an odd bunch. Brashest people on the planet one minute, arbitrarily moaning about others smack talking the next.
This guy became world champion, and immediately had the butch lesbian cosplayer discredit his accomplishments, call him a ‘JAG’, and then drone on about being ill.
Kerr isn’t having any of it. And, frankly, holding the World Championship title, he has every right to talk smack to Jakob.
Of course he has every right to talk smack to Jakob (after what Jakob said). The problem is that he can’t find anything better to say than he does…
Which makes it all the more baffling that people are getting wound up by it.
It’s basic bait. It’s probably even strategic - he wants to get into Jakob’s head regarding race strategy. Worst case, it makes things interesting.
Americans are a bit of an odd bunch. Brashest people on the planet one minute, arbitrarily moaning about others smack talking the next.
This guy became world champion, and immediately had the butch lesbian cosplayer discredit his accomplishments, call him a ‘JAG’, and then drone on about being ill.
Kerr isn’t having any of it. And, frankly, holding the World Championship title, he has every right to talk smack to Jakob.
As someone who dislikes Jakob I find all of this very entertaining, but I'll admit that Kerr isn't doing himself any favors by talking like this. Saying that Jakob "has some flaws in the manners realm" is a wild quote lol
I was thinking about the two of them the other day and had an epiphany. Don't they kind of have the same personality? They both are extremely confident and tell the truth in interviews - they don't do what most atheltes do which is say something nice or polite that is watered down by a PR team so it doesn't offend anyone.
The only difference is Jakob likes to race all the time and Kerr doesn't and Kerr is 8k to 3k and Jakob if 1500 to marathon.
I do find it amazing that Kerr - whose podcast co-host was asking for memes to mock Jakob's loss - is complaining about Jakob's manners. Personally, I find both of them refreshing as compared to the average person who doesn't say what they truly believe in interviews.
Are you serious? The same personality? Have Jakob made several interviews where he have talked about specific competitors like this? Do he sit around and mock the people he beat in championships, months after the fact?
Kerr is still butt hurt by Jakob’s epic “just the next guy” put down at world’s. Jakob’s nonchalant and matter of fact quip has led Kerr to be in a 6 month long temper tantrum. It’s a bad look for Kerr, he’s just trying too hard to sound hard. Jakob tosses out these barbs like flicking ashes off a cigarette.
Roll the tape:
Interviewer: Would you be open to racing Kerr again? Up for some revenge or..? Jakob: "No. H-h-he was just the next guy. So if I hadn't run in the final he would probably have won. That's how I see the race. Obviously if you're - if you stumble and fall...someone...someone is going to win the race. He was just the next guy."
This is a great summary. An honest answer to an interviewer in the heat of the moment vs 6 months of whining and temper tantrums. Seems like he didn’t even enjoy his victory because his feelings got so hurt. Would have thought he would take the first opportunity to beat him again, but talk is cheap. Imagine what would happen if people talked about Kerr this way every time he lost a race.
Kerr is still butt hurt by Jakob’s epic “just the next guy” put down at world’s. Jakob’s nonchalant and matter of fact quip has led Kerr to be in a 6 month long temper tantrum. It’s a bad look for Kerr, he’s just trying too hard to sound hard. Jakob tosses out these barbs like flicking ashes off a cigarette.
Roll the tape:
Interviewer: Would you be open to racing Kerr again? Up for some revenge or..? Jakob: "No. H-h-he was just the next guy. So if I hadn't run in the final he would probably have won. That's how I see the race. Obviously if you're - if you stumble and fall...someone...someone is going to win the race. He was just the next guy."
This is a great summary. An honest answer to an interviewer in the heat of the moment vs 6 months of whining and temper tantrums. Seems like he didn’t even enjoy his victory because his feelings got so hurt. Would have thought he would take the first opportunity to beat him again, but talk is cheap. Imagine what would happen if people talked about Kerr this way every time he lost a race.
Nope, Jakob needs to beat him when it counts. That's the only thing that's going to remedy his WC loss.
Nope, Jakob needs to beat him when it counts. That's the only thing that's going to remedy his WC loss.
I pretty much agree in this. But it’s a far more complex situation than you seem to think:
1. Being formal (by not acknowledging that Jakob clearly was sick both in last WC indoors and outdoors) creates a situation where Jakob not specifically needs to redeem his loss to Kerr, but also to Tefera and Wightman, meaning: Jakob has to redeem a general weakness in his championship running. But as I have said repeatedly: I think this is an artificially constructed situation / problem that has little to do with reality (but that could have been a situation, if Jakob’s challengers had been better runners..).
2. It’s tempting to compare Jakob’s situation in championships with El Guerrouj’s. But I think the latter had a real problem in finding a winning formula against the kickers (he had to use teammates as informal pacers in the champs, etc) that Jakob doesn’t have, because the former had a much fiercer competition from stellar athletes like Lagat and Ngeny and Morcelli that Jakob doesn’t have (because of the significantly weaker Kerr, Wightman, Nordås, Nuguse, Katir, and so on). Saying that things might change -Nuguse f.ex has shown that he has capacity, and even Kerr may have the 3.27 in him that he is talking about, although we haven’t seen any signs of it yet)…
3. Jakob may expose himself and lose strategically by front running. But not necessarily - it depends on how it is done (f.ex done like in the Bowerman mile, where the field was strung out, and he had the second best runner at his back all the way -of course dangerous…). -If Jakob on the other hand runs like he did in WC 2023 (very pleased with his own tactics there) I think the advantage by being further back (like Kerr was) is ruined by running wider bends and fights in the field.
Conclusion: Jakob has a well suited championships racing strategy as long as he is much better than his competitors, and isn’t sick, and doesn’t tow “the next guy” undisturbed more than 8-900 meters.
Pretty simple - the Championship belt holder gets to talk $hit until he no longer holds it
Well by this logic he doesn't get to talk "$hit". This is Olympic year, the next major championship is the Olympics and the championship belt holder is, uh, not Josh Kerr. It's the other guy.