looked super strong winning with a 3:45 at the Bowerman mile and beating Jakob for the second race in a row. On the other hand Jakob can claim a win here after running 3:45 as a season opener after coming off an achilles injury over the winter. Team Jakob will claim he still has another gear or two while Kerr is almost at his peak. Nevertheless Kerr has proved twice now he can outkick Jakob both from behind and 600m out from the finish at the front of the race. Jakob may need to push for a world record time to run the kick out of Kerr, and not to mention other speedsters like Wightman and Nuguse.
I'm hoping this will be a race for the ages, perhaps the 1500m equivalent of Rudisha's famous 800m gold in London 2012 where he ran a world record and dragged the rest of the field to massive PBs. What do you think?
Who have you got in the Olympic 1500m?
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Im saying Jakob, like you said he was right on Kerr's heels for a season opener and Kerr has been racing for a while. Jakob can win if he takes control of the race and drags it out of Kerr. Prime Jakob is still 2 seconds faster than Kerr and he looked very happy about how the Bowerman mile went.
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That’s exactly true. As of Prefontaine, Kerr, Ingebrigtsen and Nuguse are almost dead even. Wightman could be in the mix as well. Jakob has a bad personalty, and Nuguse is a wimp, so I guess that leaves the Britts.
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huckk wrote:
looked super strong winning with a 3:45 at the Bowerman mile and beating Jakob for the second race in a row. On the other hand Jakob can claim a win here after running 3:45 as a season opener after coming off an achilles injury over the winter. Team Jakob will claim he still has another gear or two while Kerr is almost at his peak. Nevertheless Kerr has proved twice now he can outkick Jakob both from behind and 600m out from the finish at the front of the race. Jakob may need to push for a world record time to run the kick out of Kerr, and not to mention other speedsters like Wightman and Nuguse.
I'm hoping this will be a race for the ages, perhaps the 1500m equivalent of Rudisha's famous 800m gold in London 2012 where he ran a world record and dragged the rest of the field to massive PBs. What do you think?Looks like you listed about 10 different variables, there. I’ll weight them and get back to you.
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Garcia (gold), Whightman (silver), Nordas (bronze)
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TheSpecialAthlete wrote:
Im saying Jakob, like you said he was right on Kerr's heels for a season opener and Kerr has been racing for a while. Jakob can win if he takes control of the race and drags it out of Kerr. Prime Jakob is still 2 seconds faster than Kerr and he looked very happy about how the Bowerman mile went.
You say that Jakob needs to take control of the race and take the kick out of Kerr? That is brilliant and I’ve never thought of that.
You are special.
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Jakob 65% chance to win Gold
Kerr 30%
Field 5%
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You somehow managed to top it.
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1) Kerr
2) Wightman
3) Jakob
4) Nuguse
I still want Nuguse to win it all but I just don't think he can.
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1. Kerr
2. Jakob
3. Hard to call. One of Nuguse or Wightman.
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1. Kerr
2. Jakob
3. Hard to call. One of Nuguse or Wightman.
Wightman looked like a JV runner at Bowerman compared to Jakob and Kerr. Jakob first race in a year after wedding, honeymoon, being injured, mega family drama, etc. and sat directly on Kerr's caboose to the very end analyzing his kick. I'll bet my life savings on Jakob after that race.
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Centro FTW
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1. Jakob
2. Nuguse
3. Wightman
4. Kerr
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huckk wrote:
looked super strong winning with a 3:45 at the Bowerman mile and beating Jakob for the second race in a row. On the other hand Jakob can claim a win here after running 3:45 as a season opener after coming off an achilles injury over the winter. Team Jakob will claim he still has another gear or two while Kerr is almost at his peak. Nevertheless Kerr has proved twice now he can outkick Jakob both from behind and 600m out from the finish at the front of the race. Jakob may need to push for a world record time to run the kick out of Kerr, and not to mention other speedsters like Wightman and Nuguse.
I'm hoping this will be a race for the ages, perhaps the 1500m equivalent of Rudisha's famous 800m gold in London 2012 where he ran a world record and dragged the rest of the field to massive PBs. What do you think?i got this...00 -
Rando Algerian?
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