I get what you're saying but if you look closely at him he was clearly struggling to hold on to them. Fitness definitely playing a part. I'm not convinced he would be able to pull off a big move yet.

Nuguse has a major disadvantage versus Josh, Jakob, Jake and Nordas....and it's the same problem that Stewie MacSweyn has......great endurance but no real change of gear at the end....as a general rule, without a fast finish, you don't win medals.

@@david2804me the only way to combat that is to get to the front early and try and hold on.

@liberty5069: Yeah, I also thought "spare a thought for Nuguse". To think that he ran a 3:46.2 mile, and came 3RD! That is crazy. But I agree with some of the other commenters here, he may have the endurance, but if he can't match, or beat the speed of Ingebrigtsen and Kerr, he will always be 2nd or 3rd. Josh said it in his post race interview, this few years from 2022 to now, and hopefully for another few years, are golden years for the middle distance races (1500, mile, 3,000, 2 mile, 5,000). One literally needs to be on world record level to be able to win races.

whiteman is a nice guy for sure

Hasha! Exactly what I feel. Aren't they awful! I really hope someone else sneaks it. Whiteman is also my favourite.

Josh will have his number.

Josh is very humble also.

All that talk was going on while there was a quest for domination, and things were kind of even, but now that Kerr has proved himself dominant right now, he just wants to dial it back a little, in my opinion.

Jakob called him out and now he wants to dial it down

@@liberty5069 I agree, but he's playing Jacob at his own game - you're nothing, don't even mention him - roll on Paris

Because the media takes one piece of a longer interview and highlights it, doesn't give it the full context in which it was said....however you can clearly tell they don't like each other or don't want to interact with each other as big rivals

It's good to promote themselves and athletics - like fighters do to hype up a fight. People like drama!

Yeah well Hicham EL GUERROUJ has the world record and last time I checked Europe is part of the world, so he still has some work to do... It's called a national record for a reason.

​@@JeremiahSmiithwell said.

Very true! I consider Hicham El Guerrouj to be the GOAT in both of those events, and absolutely agree that Jakob has a lot of work to do before he is considered in that conversation. However, Hicham is no longer racing, so Jakob is the fastest man currently running in these events and his times prove it.

Josh will take the records off him. Jacob is the caretaker.

Somewhat of a generalisation.

In some distances. But in 1500 and 1 mile. Haven’t equaled Ingbrestein s. Times yet.

Men: As of May 28th Jake Wightman is the best British in the 800. He is the 13th fastest athlete so far this year. In the 1000 there are no good British times so far. In the 1500 and mile there is Kerr and several good performance from other British athletes. But they are hardly dominating middle distance.

Well said.

«Cliche cliche cliche»

This the 21st century, not all European athletes are white. Anyway I suspect he was also having a sly dig at American athletes, betting them on their home soil.

Don't be ridiculous, sport has always been about competing for your country. There's nothing racist about it

He is just referring to the faster times occurring at evry diamond league. Look at the European championships the last 4 years. Look at the last 3 1500m champions. We used to have to wait for Kiprop in Monaco for these times. Als

You do realize Jakob is coming back from injury and wasn’t racing at all… now imagine him at his peak. Don’t count him out at all.

Remember Jakob has done a 3:43

@@JorgeSanchez-bs4pe Didn't Kerr also beat Jakob at WC's in Budapest last year? What excuse do you have for that?

@@michaelmbatha8474 I mean, it was pretty broadly talked about at the time that Jakob reported being ill. Take of that what you will; just saying, that was in the conversation at the time. Anyway, clearly it looks like injuries are all healed, training is ongoing, and Ingebrigtsen is mostly back. I tend to think it’s fair he gets a pass _this time_ for first race back in a while. But from now on I also think it’s fair expectations shift back to normal. There’s another good two months of training left. So it will sort out as it will at the Olympics and whoever wins is simply the best on the day.

@@cyrilandersonLet’s say Kerr never beats Jakobs best Mile time, but continues to beat him in almost all competitions, who do we consider as the better runner? I’m honestly curious, it’s just a question that came to my mind. Seems to be technically we would need to consider Jakob the better runner as he ran faster, but we would just need to consider him inconsistent? Surely Kerr should get credit for beating him ? We need to be careful of making excuses because at the end of the day it’s who shows up best on the day and everyone is seldom feeling perfect.