Jakob Ingebritsen: "If I knew I was going to be complete shit tonight, I would of course do a lot of things different."

If winning a WC Silver medal, beaten only by Tefara in the last few meters is being "complete sh*t", this is crazy haha...

Hopefully, this is going to be an other big lesson, and this will make him progress even more.

Why are you allowed to swear while no one else is? I'm literally not allowed to quote your post because I get your "please do not use profanity" message in response to your own language.

If swearing is bad for the board, why are you doing it. And if it isn't bad, why can't we do it?

How many ways can posters misspell 'Ingebrigtsen'?

Btw, not being a simp, but thank you rojo for having made the effort to go to Belgrade. You've done a great work

Because its his website. you agreed to his rules. He didn't agree to yours.

Geez, the quote about his dad is sadder than anything else in that interview. Gjert is sick (supposedly) and he just doesn't give a crap?

This is a question he is asked a lot, the quick response of no is to not blame his “bad” race on his father’s health.

+1, seemed obvious he didn’t want to use his dad’s health as an excuse and was keen to move off the subject as soon as possible.

Ha - don’t think he liked your tattoos question, Jon

Such creepy questions.

Yo man, what's with the profanity?

for real, sounds like me after my parents where I was last night

Why can you rojo use the word S H I T an we don't?

At least get his name right!

I love that he just owns his (relatively) bad race. So many athletes make excuse after excuse - it was a "rust buster", it's early in the season, only indoors, haven't done any speedwork yet, etc, etc - but here's a true champion giving it straight: he just raced badly. Doesn't implicitly take anything away from Tefera by suggesting that he (Jakob) wasn't taking the race seriously or that it was just part of his training, total respect for his opponent. He'll learn from this race and be ready for Eugene. I can't wait for the battle between him, Cheruiyot, and Kerr. the big dogs of the 1500.

I wondered what was going on in the race. He kept looking back like he was toying with them waiting to take off. Then he didn't take off!

Jakob has tested positive for Covid.

I'm more inclined to believe (and this is supported by what he said in his interview) that he was simply feeling tired/flat and was gauging how much work he'd have to do to put himself in a position to win.

Came here to post this. Just saw it on his Instagram.