Nordaas: «Im better than Beamish», blames organizer for chaotic race

Honestly thought that this was a play on Jakob always having an excuse. Cannot believe this is real.

Didn’t Gjert teach him to run the whole thing from the front? Beamish came through the same field as Nordas from further behind who is he kidding with this?

Nordas didn’t do himself any justice in this interview. If he runs the race with even below-average tactics, he likely medals or has a good chance of winning. Instead, he completely disregards his coach’s race plan and let it come down to a crazy last 400 with far-superior kickers than him in a slow race.

Jakob probably has the biggest grin in the world right now with how hilarious this was. Gjert probably also thinks he has the dumbest runner training under him.

Gjert spoke on it:

“Gjert Ingebrigtsen was unimpressed by the tactics of his pupil in an interview with NRK after the fifth place in the indoor WC in Glasgow.
- He is not decisive enough at the start. He ends up far behind in the queue, then he starts to move forward slowly. Spends a lot of energy on it, and then he ends up lying where he is. He spends energy on nothing, sighs the coach to NRK.”

And he tried to get Nordas to rewatch the race and was rebuffed:

“NRK writes that Ingebrigtsen asked Nordås to watch the race. There, Nordås revealed that he was broken and down, and felt it was all wasted after not winning. - I have time, but do I have the health for it, is the question, the state channel quotes him as saying.”

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If an American said something like this they’d get crucified, but instead Jakob and Nordas get to pretend their best in the world even after they get beat

Bollocks. No one - no one - wins a global championship title with a fever. The rubbish spouted in this sport.

You may be a faster 1500 runner than George, but you tactically suck and are a sore loser. Stick it up your brown hole, Nordaas

Embarrassing statements from Nordås.

Maybe that's Gjert's style - tell his athletes they were all wronged, robbed etc., and have them use that as fuel for the fire?

Is this the guy who all the fanboys were predicting to upset Kerr and Jakob in Paris? Complete and utter loser mentality, he raced like a total nonfactor until the last 2 laps.

I think/hope some of this was taken out of context. As a Norwegian I would like to emphasize that the best runner won. The best runner always wins! And I think I speak for my fellow compatriots.

Maybe it was too much. However, it was the same for everyone in that field, each of them had thirteen runners to compete against. It didn’t bother Beamish, Hocker, Kessler or others, so Nordas has to take a look at himself and the way that he ran, and come to terms with the fact that he ran a poor race.

Really, would love for Jakob to admit (without any excuses) that the best runner won worlds at 1500m this past summer.

This is why we have finisher medals in mass races.

Nearly every distance race this championships was hectic, crowded, and filled with shoving. That's indoor for you, and it was very quickly clear that those who had more experience with that style of racing were better equipped to win it. Nordås has raced twice this indoor season while Beamish, Hocker, and Kessler all have raced at least three times, plus more consistently run the indoor season every year. Nordås meanwhile has only four indoor performances over the past three years on his World Athletics page.

I do think Nordås will do better during outdoor but he's going to have to work on his tactical edge. It's easier when Ingebritsen stretches out the field to make the necessary moves, especially as a 3:29 guy, but this Olympics may very well be different given that the contenders are looking hungry and are working on their weaknesses. If Nordås wants the medal he can't be making rookie tactical errors like half-heartedly attempting to pass the field in lane three, he's got to develop actual 1500m racing acumen.

In the end, this championships just demonstrates how awesome the 1500 is for us spectators. You've got these guys and gals who in a time trial are SOOO much faster than the majority of the field, but their weakness is they don't have that extra gear. Then you've got these 3:34 guys who can kick like crazy. Mix them all up, and you get races like this. IMO, Hocker has the great prospects as he's a mix of both, tho not yet as good at it as Kerr. They can mix it up with the fastest, but are ready to kick like crazy as well if it isn't a WR attempt.

Nordaas constantly looses his head and says to much in these post run interviews. Beamish had a great race and a deserved win. Nordaas is just not nearly good enough tactically to be a factor.

I’m a fan boy, and I’m very pleased with what Narve showed in this championships! (Well, obviously except him not winning, having a poor tactics, and being a sore loser -things he can work on, and fix as time goes by!)

What’s matter to me is that Nordås showed that he is “up there”, competitive and probably a lot better than last year. And I think that must be scary for all his competitors! And some of the weaknesses he showed in this indoor race will probably go away by itself in an outdoor championships (maybe even with a front runner like Jakob to make it easier for Narve)..

Narve is building capacity. And I think he is doing it stronger and faster than f.ex a guy like Kerr. So I’m not so focused on Narve using bad tactics in an indoor race, and losing an indoor WC -“my plans” for Narve G. Nordås are far far bigger than a single win (or just beating the British or the Americans). Yes, far far bigger than winning an Olympic event -my plans for him are almost jakob’esque: building something huge that can connect him to WR’s in multiple events. (Because he unlike most top athletes, and like Jakob, may have that as an option)…

A gap didn't open up for Beamish, he ran wide to make the space for himself. It's not like he sneaked through with an inside pass, he finished in lane 3. In that respect, his finish is even more impressive as he covered more ground than Hocker and Kessler over the last 50m

He might be better than Beamish, but to get the GOLD he also had to have been better than Hocker and Kessler - and in the race yesterday he wasn't. But as to his other point about the number of finalists (especially for racing on a 200m"short track") I would agree, 14 was too many.