Josh Kerr to battle Ingebrigtsen again in spicy repeat of Olympic 1500m

Cole Hocker produced one of the shocks in the athletics at the Olympics when he beat Britain’s Josh Kerr and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s 1500m final. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

A month since the greatest Olympic 1500m in history, the four men involved at the death in Paris will face off again at the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday and, once again, it promises to be spicy – on and off the track.

That much was clear at the pre-race press conference when Britain’s Josh Kerr was asked about the best quality of his Norwegian rival, Jakob Ingebrigtsen. “I would say his dress sense,” Kerr said. “That would be No 1.”