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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. Or maybe it when Kerr beat him two nights later with a gold medal on the line, then Ingebrigtsen blamed the loss on being sick. Like any long-simmering feud, it's hard to determine the exact point when the world's best two 1,500-meter runners started disliking each other. At times, they've insisted they don't know each other well enough to dislike the other. You don't need to be a track junkie to enjoy the fireworks Tuesday in the the showdown between the Norwegian defending Olympic champion and the Scottish reigning world champion at the Paris Games.
