The men’s 1500 meters at the Paris Olympics was billed as a highly anticipated head-to-head between reigning Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and world champion Josh Kerr of Great Britain. Their rivalry has developed into something more bitter than your typical track rivalry, and they were the two favorites for gold in one of the deepest fields ever assembled.
Not only did neither one of them win the gold, Ingebrigtsen didn’t even make the podium.
In one of the biggest upsets of the competition, Team USA’s Cole Hocker ran an Olympic record 3:27.65 to edge past Kerr to win the 1500m title. The 23-year-old Hocker was outside of
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