SAINT-DENIS, France — Maybe it was the time Jakob Ingebrigtsen started playing to the crowd before he crossed the finish line, and beat Josh Kerr anyway. “They should be expecting one of the most vicious and hardest 1,500s the sport’s seen in a very long time,” Kerr said Sunday, after Ingebrigtsen edged him out in a semifinal that shouldn’t have …
Josh Kerr of Britain and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway have traded barbs since Kerr swept past the Norwegian to snatch gold at the world championships in Budapest last year, sparking a feud that’s expected to come to a head on the track in Paris. "But, it's good that people run better than they have done before," said Ingebrigtsen, who wrapped …
