Jakob Ingebrigtsen has had Achilles surgery in California

I didn't have achilles issues, but hip/groin issues that another famous pro athlete surgeon in the Bay Area Dr. William Brown (did surgeries on many nfl players with "athletic pubalgia", including Marshawn Lynch) tried to "fix" after I wrecked myself chasing an OTQ at age 30.

Poster above nailed it. The surgeon fixes the symptoms, but not the upstream cause, which likely lies in an upstream muscle weakness/imbalance or poor movement pattern that is the real root cause that needs to be identified & corrected. It took me 8 years after my surgery to self-diagnose wtf was going on (poor hip internal rotation on the affected side) and self-prescribe a exercises that nipped the problem at the bud, and has actually gotten me to being pain free (which I doubted could ever happen at some point).

Somebody smart needs to be analyzing Jacob's stride & figure out what needs to be corrected to stop this from happening again.

How do you know his injuries have anything to do with shoes?

It's the high drop high stack shoes. I will have a hard time being convinced otherwise. The only time my achilles ever feel any pain is when I run fast with shoes with anything beyond minimal drop.

Brb crying in my “I am the Pacemaker shirt.” Love him or hate him, races are more fun with him than without

I respect the hell out of Jakob for being so honest and transparent about his injury battles. A lot of athletes could take a leaf out of his book. Particularly Australians who we don't hear from for 6 months and they just suddenly rock-up at a race again.
Jakob's definitely up to the standard of bigger sports in regards to injury/racing updates.

May I interest you in one Andreas Almgren? Scandinavian, training buddy of Jakob, fastest European of all time in the 5000/10k road/half marathon

If he had to have surgery, this is the year to do it. I hope the surgery is successful, that he can safely get back to training and fully recovers. He's fun to watch, and if someone is going to break 1500m/mile records, I'd like it to be him.

That being said, I fear he's never going to be the same. I think of Ovett after his knee injury or Walker after his shin injuries -- both continued to compete at high levels, but just were never the same.

Middle distance records will stay in Africa.

They were always clean and always done by the most deserving and natural athletes.

Now kill yourself of grudge.

(there will be no boycotts 1976-1984 to allow some jerk runners to have dominance)

It definitely was Amol.

If you are so "mythic", handsome and more deserving why are shutting your mouths about the sprint.

Afro runners have so intimidated your kind over the decades that you dont have the slight tinkering about some legendary Herb Elliott of 100m/200m.

You see my little Coevett, Tracks & Field is Math and determinism.

The logic that controle the sprint is the same logic that controle middle and long distances.

I hope one day the sport matures enough so that when one of its stars get popped they don’t have to put on this charade of “his career was cut short by injury” crap. If the sport of track and field is ever to become legit it needs to not have stats become bigger than the federation. Track is not there and cycling is not there.

Sponsored by Nike he didn't pay a cent and still had private healthcare because they likely have an insurance policy on him

Nike likely have an insurance policy on him and foot (haha) the entire cost.

Have they though? Who else do you have tipped to run 3:26 this year?

Almost as tragic as Mr Nikkis charade

Why would a European, with their superior medical treatment, fly to the United States and pay extra money for medical care?

Yup, the 'doctors' in Norway probably told Jakob to wrap his Achilles with a leaf and shut up.

Very bizarre breakdown. Laros ceased to exist I guess? Nuguse? McPhillips is staying in the 800, come on. Kessler, Reynold Cheruiyot, Strand other options.

and the Norwegian lawyers, who dont signal boost medical costs, are cool with that despite almost equivalent outcomes. In the United States, malpractice attorneys dramatically alter the cost of medicine. They play a role in equity, but the costs outweight the benefits of useful outcomes. Most European countries adjudicate medical malpractice via physician boards, but that would not be tolerated by the American mentality, much to their detriment