1. Because there aren’t enough credentials to all of the coaches -the field events are prioritised for obvious reasons (technically feed back coaches - athletes).
2. Because of the conflict. -None of the Ingebrigtsen’s sons are present, but the Norwegian Athletic Association obviously stick to their principles of holding Gjert “away” from the track, call room and so on… (But maybe they would have made an exception if they had had credentials enough…).
Did Gjert not watch the 1500 at Worlds the last two years?
I think he has the same mindset here as Jakob has: 2022 WC -it wasn’t a blunder to front run. The blunder was too slow pace on lap three to “kill” Wightman…
In WC 2023: Jakob ran a perfectly executed front race, and would have beaten Kerr with approximately 2 sec if not being sick…
No kidding. This shouldn't even be a headline. The only reason it's a headline here is the overpowering ignorance of American middle distance running for the past 50+ years.
Notice the obsession with outliers in this thread. Only fools cite outliers. Ethiopia understands that if you send out one dedicated frontrunner after another you'll dominate.
Has Gjert forgotten that his son Jakob won the Olympics by following and outkicking Cheruiyot? And that since Jakob has led the last two world championship races he's lost both times? And that Nordas is likely just going to follow Jakob in the Olympics? Don't understand where he's coming from other than he likes to make attention-grabbing statements to the press.
1. Jakob would’ve won Oly Tokyo easily even without Cheruiyot front running. But I think the winning time would’ve been slightly slower… And when it comes to front running Jakob clearly went for that in that Olympic finale as well -he front ran the first lap in 56 flat, and couldn’t have expected anybody to pass him…
2. Losing 2 (3) WC’s: Sickness, except outdoor WC 2022 where Wightman might or might not have been the one with the best capacity that actual day. Or where Jakob made a tactical error that had nothing to do with front running…
3. I’m rooting for Nordås, but his level in 2023 was far far inferior to Jakob’s (the sickness confuse posters like you).
4. “Attention-grabbing statements” -you don’t understand the training / racing philosophy of team Ingebrigtsen (including Nordås, if only Gjert succeeds in shaping him even a little better): It’s not about tactics, or being a parasite on other runners. It’s about being as good as you can be (correctly trained over the years), and winning races because of your fitness. -Very much the the way Cheruiyot was before his injuries (f.ex his front running WC 2019 win)…
i don't believe feloney gert's statement on front running to be true.
Of course both Gjert and Jakob know that every “tactics” has it flaws -you need some normal luck (preferably no competitor glued to your back the whole way, or without having to fight / run some wide bends before coming into that position of draft)…
The front running vs kicking argument is fundamentally pointless.
Of course you can target front running. But to do that, you have to know you are quicker than everyone. So, really, he’s saying if you know you’re faster, have the confidence to demonstrate it.
When did Farah win leading from the front - apart from the last 400m?
There are advantages and disadvantages by front running -Centro had luck with it, and Rudisha, and Cheruiyot in 2019. But in the Tokyo games it clearly was a disadvantage for the latter. -So much depends on what’s happening behind the leader; if there is a strung out line, or if the field must fight, accelerate and slow down, run wide bends ++…