Everyone has been saying Jakob Ingebrigtsen this and Josh Kerr that. Rivalry and trash talking and multiple earrings and large sunglasses. But I’ve been following Cole Hocker on Instagram for a couple years now and he’s been slowly showing how fast he’s become. I like how he said in the post-race interview that Jakob and Josh were so focused on battling each other in the last 200 that they didn’t even notice that not 1, but 2 Americans were ready to pounce.
Yared Nuguse also ran a brilliant race and then Hobbs Kessler got 5th for the US, 1 – 3 – 5!? Who are we? Kenya in 2000? I turned the race on immediately after finishing a meeting to catch the last lap and luckily my office door was still closed because I was yelling some things during his failed attempt at passing on the inside and then at the very end when I realized he was getting gold and Yared was getting a medal.
There is probably some sort of moral lesson in all of this about how hatred can only fuel you so far and the real winners are those who believe in themselves? Where’s Aesop when you need him.
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