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Olympic gold medal favourites and proverbial athletics sparring partners Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen have both been upstaged in an “absolutely unforgettable” men’s 1500m final in Paris. The final had been billed as a heavyweight clash between defending Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen and reigning world champ Kerr, who make little effort to hide their mutual antipathy.
“You could plot out what they were going to do with the pace, and maybe the Americans thought that through in the quiet corners.” Australian athletics great Tamsyn Lewis-Manou said the Norwegian’s tactics may have cost him a medal. “Ingebrigtsen, he’s run himself off the podium by setting up such a fast, fast race. You’ve got to feel for him in that case,” she said on Nine. “On the circuit, Ingebrigtsen’s untouchable. At a championship race, he has chinks in the armour.
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