I also think indirectly Jakob broke his brothers. Once he went passed them it always seems like they were trying too hard to keep up which led to injuries over and over again.
So that makes the gap also look bigger than it probably would have been otherwise
He was the beneficiary of doping mistakes made by and on his elder brothers by his doper father.
Younger siblings are 2,5 times more likely to better than their oldest siblings
no such thing as talented wrote:
there is no such thing as talented in running. You either run fast or you don't. Every component of it happens for a reason.
You may not know the reason - then you call it "talent." But in fact, it was the food you ate, what you did growing up, how your nervous system developed to move you around. How well your liver and other internal organs work.
It's not your genotype - that's like a "winning hand" at pinochle. No such thing. You play the cards the right way if you want to win. Genes are played epigenetically, switched on and off at the right times according to nurture.
Nobody knows entirely what environment leads to the best runner, but it's not inborn talent. There are elite runners of all sorts. Tall ones, short ones, stocky ones, skinny ones. Ones from every part of the world, from the lowlands, from the highlands, some rich, some poor. Some eat nothing but ugali and others eat nothing but fish.
This type of view has been around for ever and is always wrong. Talent shows out.
My dad in the ‘70s knew a guy who was 5’9”, lacked obvious athleticism, and was belligerently convinced he could have been an NBA star if he’d wanted to and had the right opportunities.
Likely Gert doped all his children when they were younger and not in anti-doping testing. Got it just right with Jakob and the pre pubescent testosterone helped him grow taller than the others (and Gert too).
Rockzz wrote:
I also think indirectly Jakob broke his brothers. Once he went passed them it always seems like they were trying too hard to keep up which led to injuries over and over again.
So that makes the gap also look bigger than it probably would have been otherwise
Yep. It's very easy to run your sessions too hard and with their system it is of utmost importance that your intensity is low enough.
Henrick was 5th in OG, has ten euro medals in track and cross, and four gold.
331 "back in the day" 1500 which might be a 329 in Monaco.
training had to be good.
Creative user name. Nice job.
Their oldest brother Kristoffer, who is a normal person with a normal job, runs 1:19 for the HM and 33:19 for the 10k at 37 years old. You wonder how good he would've been if he had been interested in becoming a runner and trained from an early age as the younger brothers.