Though he has not competed in 9 months and misplaced his final two main championship races, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen is assured that defending his Olympic 1,500m title in Paris gained’t be an issue, so long as he isn’t injured or sick.
In an interview with the European Athletics Ignite podcast, Ingebrigtsen didn’t maintain again. “If I don’t get injured or sick, I believe it’s going to be a stroll within the park,” he mentioned, relating to the prospect of defending his title.
“If I do not get injured or sick, I believe it is going to be a stroll within the park.”
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Final 12 months, Ingebrigtsen gained seven of his eight 1,500m/mile races, dropping solely to Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr within the closing on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. This was the second consecutive 12 months he took silver, not gold, in a world championship 1,500m closing, after additionally dropping to Nice Britain’s Jake Wightman in 2022.
Ingebrigtsen instructed media after his loss in Budapest that he had a sore throat within the days main as much as the lads’s 1,500m closing, and whereas he thought he had recovered sufficient to win, he wasn’t at 100 per cent. Ingebrigtsen didn’t give Kerr any credit score, calling him “simply the subsequent man,” as if his win was a fluke.
The 23-year-old Norwegian, who has but to start out his 2024 season, as a consequence of an Achilles damage he suffered final fall, is at the moment coaching to make his debut on the Prefontaine Basic scheduled for Could 25, the place he could have the chance for a rematch in opposition to Kerr.
