Shots Fired: Josh Kerr Says Jakob Surrounded by "Yes-Men", Has Major Weakness, and "pretty high" ego

So to summarize, he isn't doing anything close to this. Its wild that people thinks that the world best middle distance runner having confidence in himself is the same as naming one of your competitors and talk sh!t about them.

Two 3:27s, his third World Silver in the 1500m, 3:43.7 mile, 4:43 2k WR, 7:23 3k double, 7:54 2M WR, closing in 7:21, his second 5000m World Gold. That is a season for the ages. But he does need to work more on his speed for the Olympic 1500m final because he needs to be able to close with 1:43-44 800m runners in unpaced 1500s and 1:45-46 ability is just not enough in championship races with Timothy Cheruiyot and Stewy not taking the pace for him.

It’s even funnier when you think Josh’s mental weakness was his spikes so he HAD to run in Dragonfly’s for Olympic bronze. This is made even more funny when he went on his indoor campaign taking his shoe off and reminding everyone about his shoes.

oh Josh.

i was once a fan, now he is just a petty second ranked runner who was lucky to win a single race

or 5000m races

Agreed. Let's see if Josh can cement himself on that level by winning OG. And if another guy who isn't Jakob wins it then Kerr is indeed just the next guy like the others. I still think it's fine for him to trash talk until then because he earned mic time at the WC. I wouldn't bring that kind of attention to myself but I don't mind him just like I don't mind Jakob's arrogance.

You are wrong if Josh walks the walk. I haven't heard of him trash talking Jakob before the WC so it's on him now to beat him again in Paris or he's gotta shut up. But I gotta hand it to Josh, he ran the best that day and capitalized on Jakob's weakness - so he's right after all. Just like Jakob is just being honest when he opens his mouth. If you've got the mic, say what you want but then deal with the consequences. Jakob only looked foolish with a 2nd place finish at the WC because he was an arrogant a$$ who then made an excuse for losing. Had he kept his mouth closed no one would have criticized. Can't tell Josh then to STFU. I want them both to talk all the trash they want and then face each other for another big one. Much more exciting.

I hope Jacob asks the diamond league meets to not have pacemakers in 2024 and practices "being a pacemaker" all season and destroy everyone at the Olympics.

But to be honest I would be more excited to see a fit Cheyuiot racing Jacob at the Olympics.

Incorrecto Lars, Kerr is not doing "this" as in something wildly critical. This is headline bs on the level of your belowed newspaper Dagbladet. Kinda amazing that you falls for this. Kerr is just making an observation, which from the outside seems to be somewhat true. Or not. One could never know unless one know and meet Jakob regurarly, but if thats the criteria for voicing an opinion we would get pretty boring interviews. Kerr is mild, track and field is just hungry for something and makes it something. Kerr and Jakob seems fairly similar in many ways, neither is talking sh!t but both is talking down their competitors a tad. Completely fair. Why shouldnt they?

Mods, please. Its ok that we disagree, its a forum to discuss running after all, but could you just please do the minimum and remove these terrible attempts at trolling? Its just spamming the thread.

Sorry can I get your name please? I need to know who I'm distressing with 'spam' and perhaps understand what is bothering them?

I only give the very best comments on LRC with unstinting care and diligence. They may be disagreeable with other forum participants and don't seem like it comes from the pen or mind of a member of a like-minded (like you or?) morally evil and unrepentant society but it shouldn't be any less inferior or discriminated against.

It's quite obvious you are not out to merely seek punitive measures for forum participants that disagree with you or another but have ulterior (discriminatory) motives and intentions. FYI, I'm just a member of the male gender with an extremely passionate nature in space-time for RF and EMF and its insights for all aspects of our human existence including high-performance distance running and so my comments have to reflect that quite a bit.

There is otherwise nothing (morally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally) wrong with me and my comments. My contribution have to be a mirror reflection of my skills and knowledge not yours? And my skills are wholly enlivened by RF and EMF domain?

There have been two equally important races, the two last 1500m finals. Jakob beat Kerr in both. However, that doesn't really matter as Kerrs point is about Jakob vs the rest of the field, not just vs himself. And he does have a point. Jakob is amazing, but its obviously hard (and historically unlikely) to win while leading, as you have to be not just more than a tad better, but also on that particularly day. Jakobs advantage however is that he and his team is extremely good at being in top shape, its likely he will be in podium shape in most finals unless injury or other reasons. Not the same for Kerr, Wightman and others. Look at the 5000m, he got it "easy", played into his hand. An ill 1500m runner getting a slow race? That divide in level could easily happen at the olympics to, where Jakob is in 2.28 shape and the next in 3.30, if so his tactic will work.

What are you talking about?

Other than that, I have never seen an interview where Jakob is talking anything like this about a competitor. I am in the opinion that he often talks about himself, and how that he is levels above the rest. I think there is a distinction there.

Its a pretty simple comment, I can explain further any part you're not sure about but you'd have to tell me which that is.

Regarding comments, I think they both have comments that can be judged as equally "offensive" if one goes around looking for that, but in my opinion both just answers honestly and its so mild compared to other sports and we should be happy there even is something that resembles a rivalry, even if only from one part. The alternative would be cookie cutter replies we get all day long from most other runners.

So they can just agree who will take gold and silver again... lame

To be fair to Jakob, he was ill for the 1500m final and a bit better for the 5000m final, so that might warrant his inner confidence that he doesn't need to change his training at all. But that does not account for the 2022 World 1500m final and he will have both Jake and Josh to contend with next year, as well as a stronger, more physically mature Niels Laros, another 1:44 guy.

It isn't American-centric to say that his biggest concern is in a paced/fast race his gap heavily shrunk by the end of the season to Nuguse. He knows in a 3:27-8 race, he can beat Jake unless Jake got much better despite age and injury (I'm not counting him out but a medal for Wightman feels like a long shot). Josh a bit more murky, but I'd suspect he's still confident that he maxes out in the 3:28 range. Yared? Not so much.
Trust me, he's not worried about Laros/Reynold yet. Nor should he be, regardless of their potential or 800 speed. They're good runners, but both got rolled this week in overdistance races. They have a good bit to go to run at the front of these races and have the finish to contend for medal.

I didn't buy the sick card. He was way too fast to have been significantly impacted by any illness, which we only heard about after he lost.

Jakob's opportunity to be seriously considered GOAT in the 1500 will dwindle from now on. A bunch of paced DL wins won't cut it... he'll need the WR or OG next year to move up distance in peace. My prediction is that assuming he's healthy, he'll win if the race goes out in <3:30 pace and he sits on the leader with 600-400 to go. But what are the chances of this happening? Who is going to take it out that fast to hand him gold? He's going to have to tactically earn gold and prove himself like ElG did.