Martin Ingebrigtsen exposes the brothers … "I have never feared Dad."

WITHDREW

Martin wasn’t a fan of dads burritos.

If the whole thing with Ingrid did take place, I'm surprised Martin would come out in defense of Gjert.

You are the toxic ones. You keep going back to this rumor which was made up by random people on this board. This is your problem. You hear the word "abuse" and take it as gospel even when it was made up by a random poster on this board with no substantiation. Why do you insist on damaging people when there is no need? Do you enjoy spreading damaging unsubstantiated rumors?

Tell me why are you so intent to believe random posters on letsrun?

What more do you want? Jakob, Filip and Henrik said their father resorted to physical violence during their upbringing. If they don’t want to go into the details of exactly what he did that is their choice. Note that Martin never actually refuted that Gjert hit someone. It is plenty common for victims of abuse to defend their abuser so I don’t think Martin’s statement should carry much weight. The idea that J, F and H would lie about this for attention is ludicrous.

A harm reduction approach would anticipate that prosecution means calling the minor to the stand and asking them to relive the experience and then suffer the mental anguish of publicly condemning their own parent. Worse, if their memory is contested or their trauma trivialized, it would mean having to live with that backlash from in a conservative world.

I can see how a prosecutor would be under pressure not to prosecute.

100% true. I was a victim of this behavior growing up.

Grabbing your arm aggressively could be "physical violence". A light spanking could be "physical violence". If the brothers are doing this to raise awareness of their father's abuse, don't you think they should clarify at least a little what Gjert did exactly? If they're going through all this because they couldn't handle getting spanked, then this seems like a massive overreaction.

You are literally assuming Martin was abused based on zero evidence exvept for your own fantasy then using some vague tangential fact, possibly insubstantial, to completely disregard and invalidate his voice.

Listen to yourself.

Tyrant.

Or maybe if you didn't want to train and be great you didn't have to, the bloody whingers kicking the person that made them who they are

As an athletics fan (hopefully?), why would you say that?

What's the bet that when it really comes down to it, all of this is about money. Because that's mine.

why do you think it's about money. Gjert publicly stated that after Jakob got his big post tokyo pay raise from nike, that there would not be any money going from child to parent. only the other way around.

My younger sister didn't see dad hit mom in the face, leave, break the door down to get back in, disarm me of the baseball bat I attacked with (I was 12) or all the rest. She was staying with relatives and he moved out for good soon after. We never spoke of all that and she might not know just like she doesn't remember lots of other violence because she was too young. She saw the aftermath, my mother the crazy impossible drunk, but not the cause, and sometimes took the wrong side because she didn't know better.

This doesn’t “expose” the brothers.

All this does is one of two things:

Shows that an abuser doesn't always abuse all of their children.
Demonstrates that the father got better at manipulation with Martin.

I'm the oldest of six. I was never afraid of my dad and never feared him. He did eventually kill two of my siblings though. He executed them in their sleep. SO YOUR WHOLE "OLDER BROTHER EXPOSES SOMETHING" is complete HORSESH!T!!!!!

Ridiculous, I never heard the father say on national Tv to F*ck Martin, like we all heard him say F*ck Philip after he dropped out of a race due to injury. Martin had no pressure on him because he wasn't an athlete and coached by the father. In the Jackson 5. Michael bore all the stress and pressure and abuse from the father and the oldest Jackie had no problem. It destroyed Michael, but fortunately Jakob has his two other brothers Henrick and Philip who love him and they have his back and a wife he had stood by him for 7 years. I 100% believe Jakob and with all the pressure he just had one of the best seasons ever!