INGVALDSEN with the fastest Q of the day by far ---44.39 What??

Exactly this, gtfo Norway. All their guys are extremely suspect. Even this kid couldn't believe he ran that fast.

Uh yes? Is that a trick question?

No sense of history? 44.86 NR is the relevant bit of history here, and that happened earlier this year. Was it even sub 45 before that?

With 209 Olympic Gold Medals in total you should never be surprised to see a Norweigian succeed in a new event - there's an athletic culture there that goes back hundreds of years.

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Norway at the Olympics

Norway first participated at the Summer Olympics in 1900, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow when they participated in the American-led boycott and, as pr...

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Ha ha, your own link explains the vast majority of Norge medals are in winter olympics. Noone doubts they can ski as well as other snow countries.

And it also explains they have only 23 athletics medals out of 27 summer olympicses they attended. Less than 1 medal per olympics. Was even one of them for the 400m?

So there you are, it's out of nowhere. Trying to deny it only makes you look more suspicious! Protesting a bit too much I think.

Weird. Just checked and they put him in lane 8 in the semi. How does the fastest qualifier get lane friggin 8? Someone doesn't want a Norge to win?

There's the culture thing right there! The most successful winter sports nation ever is obviously the most likely to also start moving up in the summer athletics ranks now that they have indoor arenas everywhere to tie their T&A athletes over through their snowy months. :-)

Only threats to Gardiner are Rai Benjamin, and Noah Lyles.

Exactly.

For Norway's running achievements, it started with Marius Bakken "discovering" double threshold and then you had a crazy-enough father (Gjert) to develop and train his boys as top athletes based on Bakken's methodology from they were 8 yrs old (at least for Jakob). In 2012 Henrik won the Euro 1500m and he became 5th in the Olympics. After that everyone (incl Gjert and Jakob) understood it was possible to become #1 in the world if you just trained smarter than the others over time.

Now we see a new generation of new talent arriving at the stage (incl Ingvaldsen). It will be more the next 5 years.

Ha,ha -“..out of nowhere.. Was even one of them for the 400m?” -Well, not quite out of nowhere -you may have heard of the former National record holder in the 400m (the record Ingvaldsen broke earlier this year): K. Warholm..?

Doping busts are selectively implemented by Brian Clothier and his creepy Integrity Unit. Certain countries are randomly placed on a so-called high doping list while others including the entire European continent are encouraged 'to carry on.'

Check the list of violators on the AIU's doping list and you find that they are mostly athletes from third world countries whose federations lack the resources to independently test athletes out of competition and also do not have the clout to challenge the AIU's discriminatory practices.

Like true predators, the AIU shines its torch on the vulnerable and swoops in for an easy road kill.

Meanwhile most rich countries are able to test their athletes who may or may not have been availed of the latest and most sophisticated doping regimen , behind closed doors , and the results are predictably ' nothing to see here, nothing to see here, keep moving.'

There is this saying in track and field that the governing body and AIU are always two or three steps behind the chemists in discovering increasingly undetectable illegal PEDs. And I can wager a bet that it is not poor countries that have a first shot at theseundetectables. .

He looked very solid at Euro U23 in a semi or prelim and had improved immensely in a year at just 20, so I thought he had a promising future but he looked fantastic here, just looking very easy and with more in the tank, according to both Ato and Sanya, as well as the eye test. My view is that Norway is a country that has been among the best in the world per capita in sports, because it is a wealthy, healthy country (and those countries dominate relative to population) and only required some success in athletics to give confidence to track runners. They got that in Ingebrigtsen and Warholm and so a lot more Scandinavian athletes are popping up.

Lane 8 is a preferred lane on a 9 lane track.

Karsten loves the far outside lanes in particular.

Reindeer milk in Norway?

When a national group shows a significant collective improvement in performance that is regarded by antidoping as a red flag.

Still showing your lack of knowledge. Your edit is quite hillarious as well. There is a clear lineage of track and field greats going back several deckades. A rich nation, with a healthy population that also is a superpower in other endurance sports should not surprise you being able to medal in track and field.

Their skiiers,biathletes,cyclists,triathletes and speed skaters are dopers too.Meanwhile when harvard runs sub 44 seconds,norwegian fans will still insist he's "clean".

No reason to think otherwise