He rubs some people the wrong way because he comes off as arrogant.

@@delargealex Absolutely!

Having Josh Kerr beat Jakob is good for the sport

Agreed Jakob is an all time great! And coming back from injury he is always an impressive competitor

@@candiceverpaelst-ud3kk still not good enough for Kerr though 😃

@sandman1347 ehh not really. More so it’s whatever Noah is running if he’s at the meet running the 100 it will be more exciting than the 200m at the same meet

What makes you think the 1500 is the 2nd most important event right now? That seems a strange claim to make when there is no threat of the world record falling.

@@sandman1347 there’s even less of a chance of the 100m record falling. Jakob ran the 3rd fastest mile time ever last year, yet Noah has not touched 9.7. So by your logic the 1500m is way more exciting

@@ovah8784 The 100 has ALWAYS been the marquee track race. Other distances only enter the conversation when there is a historic performer (like when Mo Salah competed in the 5k/10k or when Michael Johnson did the 200/400. Honestly Jakob has been disproportionately hyped up IMO. Especially for a guy who is currently second best at his main race distance. And for the record, the 200 is far more interesting than the 1500 right now.

@@sandman1347 Except, like you said, the only thing that makes the events exciting is if there is a threat of the world record falling. The 1500m has a threat from falling from Yared and Jakob, MAYBE even Kerr if he continues to improve. The only person who is even threatening in the 200 is Lyles, so I can agree that it’s more exciting then the 100 but I’d say it’s on par with the excitement of the 1500

Kerr has adopted this same mental attitude and approach. Jakob himself doesn’t seem to like it.

Dont remember if he said it during a ordinary interwiew or during the Ingebrigtsen show. (Team ingebrigtsen) Earlier in his career he told himselves that he was the best (even when he knew he wasnt) - He had to have that mindset if he wanna become the best.. If you have to much respect for other athletes you will strugle to be the best belive it was something like that he said

It's literally the same attitude Jordan and Tiger had. Dominance almost always does.

Attitude at this level is Huge...check Kerr and Ingebrigtsen...but this guy is /ARROGANT. how else can you describe his dismissal of the questions...asking questions back in such a confrontational attitude

his lack of respect to his rivals post race is giving a bad look but he is an awesome racer for sure

I think Jakob will win gold

He’s absolutely incredibly arrogant. All of his statements are in service to his perceived superiority. It’s part of what makes him great. And it’s also what makes him a prick who is incredibly unlikable as a person. He never gives actual real credit to anyone else. He always finds a way to make himself look good. Watch his body language. He’s even disrespectful to those questioning him, but does it in a fake polite way. As a person he’s a gigantic a hole. As a competitor he’s great and I enjoy watching him, but I will never like him. The more I watch the more I feel this way. I’ve seen him at Hayward for as long as he’s been competing there. And the more I watch his interviews and the excuses he makes when he loses the less I respect him as a person. Hard not to respect him as a competitor though. There are lots of successful jerks in this world and he’s in the hall of fame for that.

Ah yes the way the pussied out of the hard questions because a cocky Elen Degenerous gave them attitude and talked to them like he was their daddy, bang on job lads.

Oh and you think Kerr doesn't?

@@Darrenski jakob's been doing alternative training for many months. That's the difference

Yep.

@@Darrenski He doesn't.

@@Darrenski he wasn't coming off an injury like Jakob and based off his recent declarations of how hard he was training and not listening to the advice from his coach, yes he may not be in his top shape for Paris. Remember he also got a WR in the indoors last winter so I doubt he can cycle so fast in his periodization

There's like a month and a half.

@@JeremiahSmiith 2 and a half months, lol. He did say at 7:26 that he was very strong today.

He's not.

He's not full of himself, he just knows how good he is lol

Not as full as Kerr. Kerr's so full of himself, he doesn't need a mirror to see his own reflection.

Kerr's been giving it to Ingebrigtsen. Whatever.

It's well known that these Brits figured out how to beat him. They're not just fit enough to pull it off. They know he doesn't have the kick. In order to beat them he needs two things. 1. He needs to be the fittest. And 2., the race needs to be fast so they can't out kick him at the end. So considering this, yeah totally. He needs to probably think about this in terms of recent events rather than a statistical whole.

Not to mention he struggles to run fast races without a pacer. He seems to have some blind spots with this strategy.

He needs to run 5k

@@JeremiahSmiith but he aint wrong tho - first time Kerr beat him Jakob was unlucky and fell ill during the WC - leading to this race Jakob has been injuried and havent been able to put down the training nedeed to be 100%. But sure Kerr looks strong so who knows what happends in the OL

@@jkdure yeah he likes his excuses. Getting injured and getting sick is part of the game. If you can't take care of yourself you're not going to stay on the top. That's just how it is. Anyone who was ever the best of all time was able to do it by staying injury free and sick free when it mattered. So we will see.

And so will Kerr, you think he’s gonna stop training or smth 😂

@@gbm8432 not necessarialy training will make he run 2 seconds faster man, that would be a gigantic upgrade

He’s always making excuses

he admitted it is difficult not much he can do to pass kerr??

Was his first race

That's not even him sighing

Thats the camera man sighing

he's 23 bro. you bozos are born and bred haters lmao

But but I'm the best

@@JeremiahSmiith someone's got a god complex...

@@doloreschansey9556 you know I'm imitating Jakob right

his English is perfect

He didnt say his name the whole time

@@alexjackson1614 He did say at 7:26 that he was very strong.

True, while comentatimg the race but not when asked questioms about racing or the season in general. I domt think theres any reason to think that he was just thinking about kerr the entire time

Jacob lives rent free in your head 😎

@@alexjackson1614 he mentioned Josh on the last question. Last 30 seconds. He also talked about the “composition” and Josh is his only comp. When referring to comp, he was speaking about Josh.

He can’t really lose in an Olympic or WC 5k unless the others make it seriously fast. He might not have a kick relative to the 1500 runners but it’s still light years ahead of 5000/10000 runners

@@driver9337 I guess I'm not decent.

He’s kicked Kerrs ass 11 times before budepest

How's the head-to-head record dumby

Yeah but not when it counts. That’s like acing all your tests and failing the exam…two years in a row lol.

he admitted the two lost out of the 20 he ran, winning 18/20 with his tactic and you want him to do otherwise?

You say that when Jakob has beaten them both equally over 10 times😂

He won the Olympics...its bigger than the WC 🙃

@@viggostenvard9906 very true however since then , maybe people have closed in on him , and beaten him , not saying they are better but sometimes you need to change things . Just because something worked for awhile doesn’t mean it will always work for.

@@stephensimmons8657 I agree to a point but lets wait untill he has been beaten at least 5-6 times out of 20.

@@viggostenvard9906he’s lost the last 3/3 races in the last 3 biggest 1500 races. I would say that’s not working

@@gbm8432 3 big races? Do you count this one where he come back from an injury? The Whiteman one was unexpected, Kerr in the last WC was because he wasnty 100% healthy...so Im not worried...yet.

Facts

but then again what is the need for it when you lead by a good distance

Nobody loves Jakob as much as Jakob. But he counts on having superior fitness to run 3 laps so fast the rest of the field is gassed, giving him a 20+ meter lead with 150m to go. But now Kerr is just as fit, and Kerr, Cole Hocker, Hobbs Kessler, and Yared Nguse all have better kicks than Jakob. Paris is going to be exciting.

5k gold and 15 silver is still a great day tho

@@repsaknivek I mean-- he did have a pretty good kick today honestly because of running more in pack. and that's with less speedwork than normal. i think him front running so much does zap his kick so theres prolly more to it if he saves kick instead of front running

Don't even watch then, Nostradamus, since you already know.

You are American pipe down

You can pretty much say that about each end every fanbase. No matter the athlete, club etc. Ronaldo’s fans can be really obnoxious, just like Messi’s fans. The same is for Jakob and Kerr. I don’t think you can generalize like that, or better said, it doesn’t make sense to put all the people into one box, because it usually is, that all the dickheads who talk crap about an athlete are always the loudest. Even when they are in smaller amounts than the positively thinking people.

you dont see all the haters in these comments? lmao that's what breeds it.

@@yayz9442 There are circa 170 comments, so I do not think it makes sense to generalize, which is what I get from your comment, generalization based on couple comments.

@@petrmach241 and most of them are being haters because he’s confident in himself.

Extremely poor tactician. Olympic champion, 2nd in the two losses. What do you know about great, good, or poor tactics. Cry harder.

@@anodyne57 I mean he's obviously better than his nearest competition but to front run when he claims to be ill? That makes no sense so either he's not ill or he's judged the strategy poorly in those circumstances. There are very few people who can just run away from a field because they are that much better. Maybe he can but he very nearly lost the Diamond league in Oslo running the same tactics and if the margins are fine, you are undoubtedly making it hard to win as the last 2 WCs have shown.

"Zero chance" is just a stupid thing to say isn't it.

He ran 3:45 low after 8 months of non racing and also coming off an injury. He is very well positioned for the gold. Those are facts

want to bet he doesn't win a gold?

"Omg?" How old are you?