newaccountsinceyourwebsitesucks wrote:
I mean seriously how do you beat this guy in the 5k
He's just..... better
You can't go slow (try and run away from a 3:26 guy in the last 1200)
You can't go fast (2 mile WR holder, likely has been in WR shape in the 5k for the last year or two)
What do you do?
Use a time machine to bring Prime Geb, Bekele, Komen and 2021 Cheptegei to work together and hope one of them beats Jakob
Sooooo glad McSweyn got advanced despite being hugely off the pace in the heat regardless of being nearly tripped.
Holy Moly, and I heard his last mile was 3:51 in this race. Really! This man is in such good shape right now and he's frustrated about that 1500.
I've watched track a long time and I've never seen someone so thoroughly destroy and Olympic 5,000 field. Not Bekele or Farah or Kipchoge or Cheptegei or Aouita or Viren.
Most 5ks have been won in a late sprint. He literally looked like he toyed with a field that had a 12:36 5k runner and there is a reason Cheptegei and Kiplimo wanted none of this.
Last year when he lost the 1500 he of course won the 5k and then crushed in the later meets and had that 3:43/7:23 in less than 24 hours and destroyed the 2,000m world record.
I believe in the next few weeks he is going to destroy the record books, 1500 and mile!
This guy is only 23, WOW!
The only times he's been "outkicked" is when he leads the whole way. He needs to re-think he 1500m tactics.
kempertoo wrote:
The only times he's been "outkicked" is when he leads the whole way. He needs to re-think he 1500m tactics.
It’s true JI trying to win the 1500 by going wire to wire is a poor tactic, but everybody was targeting him. they all were just going to sit on his shoulder and wait for him to go so he didn’t have a lot of choices. At least he tried 😀
trackfangirl wrote:
Holy Moly, and I heard his last mile was 3:51 in this race. Really! This man is in such good shape right now and he's frustrated about that 1500.
I've watched track a long time and I've never seen someone so thoroughly destroy and Olympic 5,000 field. Not Bekele or Farah or Kipchoge or Cheptegei or Aouita or Viren.
Most 5ks have been won in a late sprint. He literally looked like he toyed with a field that had a 12:36 5k runner and there is a reason Cheptegei and Kiplimo wanted none of this.
Last year when he lost the 1500 he of course won the 5k and then crushed in the later meets and had that 3:43/7:23 in less than 24 hours and destroyed the 2,000m world record.
I believe in the next few weeks he is going to destroy the record books, 1500 and mile!
This guy is only 23, WOW!
Not Bekele? You need a history lesson.
MidHobbyJogger wrote:
Something that really stood out to me was how relaxed and composed he looked on the start line, compared to the 1500m where it was obvious how on edge and nervous he was.
Agreed. I'm not even sure he held up his finger before the 1500. Maybe he did but NBC didn't show it. All I remember is how fidgety he looked, including nervously tinkering with his hair.
Today was awesome. At one point early in the race everything was congested and I'm thinking...are you going to run the entirety in lane 2?
Jakob fixed that in a hurry. Move over and let me have the rail
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