Gjert Ingebrigtsen CLEARED of charges of abusing Jakob

The trial wouldn't have happened if Gjert hadn't hit his own daugther with a towel in such a manner that made her a) move out of the house and b) cause the brothers to end their coaching relationship with their dad. Think Your dad coaches you to Olympic gold - you think you give that up for no reason at all?

They then tried to let him get off easy by making up an excuse as to why he wasn't coaching them. That wasn't good enough for him so it became a public thing and the trial was the result. I think the verdict was correct. He didn't deserve to go to prison but stop acting like he didn't cause this.

It was the OP largely over and over posting different things. And did you see the upvotes/downvotes? The OP was over the top and got a ton of downvotes.

"Flying high" on success is hard, when you have been abused into it. For those who don't understand, read about what Joe Jackson did to Michael Jackson and his siblings.

Sadly, in court it's not about the truth, but what you can prove. And it's always very hard to prove domestic abuse without having a way to document it. It happens behind closed doors and psychopaths are usually very smart and careful people. On the other hand, you have this success, which makes you hesitant to disrupt the process.

This is real life. Sad, tough and crazy.

Totally normal to have a forum where one poster can impersonate multiple posters to push his f*cked up agenda and forum owner is ok with it.

Yes. And it is also a sign of working justice system that you don't send people to jail without a conclusive proof.

Otherwise you would get many innocent people sent to jail because of vindictive false accusations.

What was their description of the towel incident so that we can know better what exactly happened?

Okay, this is what the Guardian article said about the towel incident. It sounds like he took a wet towel--maybe one she had dropped on the floor after a shower--which would be typical teen girl behavior--twirled it up into a rat tail and hit her in the face with the end. That kind of boys locker room behavior would have left the mark on her face mentioned.

"However the six-week trial in the town of Sandnes painted a much darker picture of the family dynamic – particularly the incident in January 2022 when Ingrid, then 15, was hit with a towel after her father refused to let her play outside with friends.
Afterwards Ingrid went to her brother Henrik’s house, where a photograph was taken of a red mark. That photo was later shown in court.
“Ingrid’s explanation is significantly strengthened by other evidence,” the court said in its ruling. “She left the house and moved out. The defendant, in turn, sent her a message the next day in which he strongly regretted the incident, emphasising that he needed help and that he wanted to see a doctor and psychologist.
“The court also considers Ingrid’s explanation to be credible. It is difficult to see that she would have been motivated to make false accusations against her father. The court therefore assumes as proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant hit Ingrid in the face with a blow with a small and damp towel.”
Ingrid, who left the family home at 15 years old after being struck with the towel by her father, was awarded compensation of 10,000 kroner (£744)."

If by “free” you mean family-less and a shown abuser in the public eye - then sure, he’s “free.”

Anyone who has kids knows if you want your kids off their phones, doing exercise outdoors, and eating healthy food, you have to be firm. It’s a shame they didn’t keep this in the family and recognize that Gjert was strict because he wanted his kids to succeed in a difficult sport. If Gjert wasn’t strict with his kids they’d be fat and lazy. Gjert is guilty of giving his kids tough love and Jakob is guilty of being an unappreciative cry baby.

For Gjert, being cleared is still a loss. He had his kids turn against him and call him abusive, publicly. So despite being legally "cleared," he takes a huge L overall. That's one of the worst things a supposedly loving parent could have to endure. I do think he is well meaning and loving, but does have anger issues which reflected upon his kids receiving the brunt of his problematic behavior. That he should fix, but obviously, the damage is already done and his kids will remember what he did to them.

“Keeping your kids off their phones” doesn’t require physically assaulting them.

'Of course not. Jakob and his brothers wouldn’t have had half their achievements without Gjert. He sacrificed for them. He supported them. He guided them.'

Your children are not horses to be whipped or smacked in the face with towels

Why would Jacob want all this negative publicity. There is nothing to be gained by lying. Its not like he needs the money. He was found guilty with the daughter because there was photographic evidence. With Jacob there was no evidence but it would be unusual if there was after all this time.

Your first paragraph is a fabrication. It was Gjert’s small towel.

This is what Ingrid testified:

Ingrid told the court she had planned to meet friends and “found it scary to even ask for permission”. After she went downstairs to tell Gjert she was leaving, “I was simply told that it wasn’t an option. I asked why, but there was no reason.

“By then, I had felt trapped in my own home for so long, and so much time had passed, so I didn’t accept the rejection. I pushed a little, and said, ‘Why am I not allowed?’

“Then he shoved his finger in my face, yelling. This had happened before, but since I had spent so many months being pushed down and ignored, I felt completely bullied. I pushed his finger away. I still don’t understand how I dared to do that.

“He had a small, wet towel in his hand. He whipped the towel toward me. The first time he missed, then he did it again, aiming for my face, and he hit right on my cheek.”

Ingrid said she froze, before Gjert “quickly realized that he had done something wrong. He looked very stressed,” starting to pace up and down the hallway. It was then that she ran to the house of older brother Henrik and his wife Liva, who lived close by.

This is what Gjert testified:

However Gjert insisted that while he regretted the incident, his towel had only made contact with her finger.

“I’m drying my neck with a towel,” Gjert told the court in Sandnes, Norway. “She’s really angry and says: ‘I f-ing don’t want to be in this prison of yours any more,’ while holding her index finger at me.

“I pull the towel against her finger twice in quick succession. She then says: ‘What the hell are you doing, are you hitting me?’ To which I reply: ‘I didn’t hit you.’

Pressed by the judge about whether it really was only the finger that was struck, Gjert replied. “Yes, given the distance we were standing at, and the size of the towel, nothing else would be possible.”

Remember when you pretended the towel incident was an “accident”?

It WAS an accident. Both Ingrid’s and Gjert’s testimonies suggest as much. It wasn’t some premeditated thing where he approached her with the intention of whipping her. From BOTH testimonies, she approached him upset about not being allowed to go out with her friends. He flicked his small towel at her twice reacting to her provocation. He didn’t mean to hit her in the face with it.

The Kids really come out as ungrateful and whiny

Jakob will have to pay his father's legal expenses.

You don’t go back and whip the towel a second time after missing by “accident”.

Suing his father for raising him.