Okay I know you made a good point of Jakob losing 3 straight world finals in a row since his Olympic victory in Tokyo, I don't deny that.
67% of those times he was reportedly ill and admitted so. 33% of the time he admitted he ran a bad race.
For the folks who claim that Jakob's losses can be wholly attributed to illness but he wasn't ill 33% of the time or at Worlds in Eugene 2022 right?
For the folks who claim that Jakob's losses can be wholly attributed to being an inferior championships racer but he was ill 67% of the time or at 2021 indoor and 2023 outdoor right?
Now you folks need to know that both 67% and 33% aren't small numbers even if one is greater or smaller than the other. 67% is not unequivocally overwhelming stats enough, it's not like it's 95% and above. While 33% isn't unequivocally small and negligible enough as to be an anomaly, it's not like it's 1-5%.
We could use more data sets/points but Jakob is so young that not enough space and time has accumulated for us to be sure that 67% and 33% are very reliable stats. He probably has 10-15 more championship finals to go and at the end of that we might have a much better data set to work with. But for now, these numbers are all we have on top of a good deal of complementary psychoanalyzing skills from me, your RF King!
In this very moment, the numbers 67% and 33% in the manner in which it has been defined and deduced aforementioned speaks to 2 things unequivocally:
1. Jakob losing 33% of his last 3 1500m world finals due to self-confessed 'bad racing' indicates (and he knows so!) that he is at least somewhat vulnerable to race tactics and strategy in championships finals. Jakob knows he is not a sure-win guarantee, he knows he has weaknesses. Josh saying he has weaknesses is just believing what Jakob already believes about himself!
2. Jakob losing 67% of his last 3 1500m world finals due to self-confessed 'illness' indicates (and he knows so!) that he at least might have had a much better chance to win (though not sure-win guarantee!) 2021 indoors and 2023 outdoors if he wasn't ill! This 'much better' chance to win though must be counter-balanced against his 33% chance aforementioned to losing a championships final.
I might be the GOAT in psychoanalyzing which seems subjective (but isn't!), but I have shown that when it comes to showing plain objectivity or relying purely on objective stats, I'm not inferior! I can do both but I always favor the former.