First, Josh Kerr is the sole proprietor of the Next Guy™ moniker until further notice.
Second, what an awesome race for Jake. You never know if someone is going to be the same after injury and so much time off, so it’s great to see him make a full recovery. Ditto Olli Hoare.
Bad take, these events show who is the best at RACING, (which is the point of the sport) not who can time trial the best time. Seeing people run fast is awesome but seeing who can win in a random style of race and be the best on that day is more exciting.
Jakob ain't running 3:27 without a pacer or three.
He ran his 3.27.14 pb in a race with less advantage from pacers than one would have from normal competitors like Kipsang, McSweyn and Timothy. So your narrative seems false…
1:44 means nothing for the 1500m when Jakob is running 3:27
Too logical for Let’sRun (that one can respect Wightman’s very good 800m ability, but still be allowed to stress the obvious differences between 8 and 1500…).
The olympics and world championships are clown events. The best runner is the one who wins the most consistently and runs the fastest.
I really agree here!!! And I’m quite sure Jakob feels the same… But we are stuck with these clown races, (and we of course have to include the Bowerman DL’s in this -super clownly that a windy, hot, humid, spectator void, infrastructure week “arena” gets DL’s in a banana republic with little distance merit), and have to make the best out of them (and they carry of course as all clown things some potential for “innocent” fun…). -I love Jakob’s second vision, in addition to his first and foremost (running fast -times): multiple champ wins enough from a anti champ athlete to stop the LRC mouths..!
Bad take, these events show who is the best at RACING, (which is the point of the sport) not who can time trial the best time. Seeing people run fast is awesome but seeing who can win in a random style of race and be the best on that day is more exciting.
Racing is a part of (mid) distance events, and can be really fun and interesting. But there’s a balance, and WA has ruined this balance by allowing unfair racing conditions as the norm (and I say this as a Jakob fan: WA giving the edge to hot weather freaks like Jakob. And also speedy guys like him in the 5000m.).
And the champs have another problem: schedule. -Jakob wasn’t allowed to run the 5000m in Tokyo Olympics. -An unforgiving sin for all times! Champ races are worth almost nothing when some of the best guys and girls are denied a fair entrance… Ranking is all -if fairly done.
And there’s a third problem: Champs would be totally OK if run in WR tempo (the guys helping each other f.ex in a 5000m with the pace in an attempt to go for glory, and not content with an lousy Oly or WC win in a lousy time).
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1:44 means nothing for the 1500m when Jakob is running 3:27
Too logical for Let’sRun (that one can respect Wightman’s very good 800m ability, but still be allowed to stress the obvious differences between 8 and 1500…).
I highly doubt JI will run 3:27 in the olympic final without pacers after battling his worst injury so far.
Too logical for Let’sRun (that one can respect Wightman’s very good 800m ability, but still be allowed to stress the obvious differences between 8 and 1500…).
I highly doubt JI will run 3:27 in the olympic final without pacers after battling his worst injury so far.
Pre will show.
What is your wish? That he comes back in his best shape OR........