a) If this progression makes you think he's doping, I don't think anyone is safe from that assumption.
b) 2022 is the only year of his life (since starting running) where he did not set a 1500m best.
a) His progression can’t be compared to others because he’s been training like a pro since he was a young boy.
b) Your chart illustrates my point. He was stuck at 3:28 for three years. That appears to have been the limit of his natural ability. Then after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Jake Wightman in 2022, he suspiciously dropped down to 3:27 the following year and ran that crazy two mile time. He was like a completely different runner. Very sus.
Similar to Jessica Hull who stagnated at around 3:28 then in the span of little under a year shaved off 5-7 seconds, at 27 years old, then went on to break the 2000m world record. Nothing sus about such 'improvement'.
Most judgements involving conclusions of fact are based on the balance of probabilities. According to that test Jakob is doping, as are most other top athletes.
The soup here (Jakob doping or not) is far too thin to base any judgment of probabilities on. You can claim some indications of doping, but they are un substantially and fluffy, and I can claim indications of being clean: likely fluffy and unprovable… And this we can say about almost every athlete -probabilities don’t apply here. We need something more substantial, and that we can only get through testing and investigation when it comes to the individual athlete. In countries based on justice and civil rights everyone has a right to be considered innocent unless proven something else. And judging a balance of probabilities is just impossible without substantial facts, IMO…
I think one day I'll go through and compile all the "Jakob will never run faster than [insert PB/world age record/NR/WR that he just ran 10 minutes ago]" threads. The only reason I don't do it now is it'll be out of date in a few years because of all these threads that'll be made once he moves to the 5k/10k/half/maybe even marathon.
Don't forget all the JAKOB IS DONE posts. I honestly think all this is done as clickbait. It makes no sense.
A ton of the doping allegations on these boards rely solely on time progressions, which is incredibly simplistic (to say the least).
Exactly. The young doping dunces base it solely on time progression. With older dunces it's time progression as the simpleton reference point, but based on refusal to believe that new guys are significantly faster and better than their favorites of many decades ago.