The manager explains:
Ingebrigtsen manager Daniel Wessfeldt explains the image to NRK as follows:
- The shoe that Jakob is wearing is a prototype that he is testing. They are not out there yet and still don't have a name. A bit like when Mercedes tests a new camouflaged car...
He emphasizes that the Norwegian is at the forefront of the initiative by the shoe giant Nike.
(Karsten Warholm's Olympic shoes have also been kept out of public view for the time being, but he too posted a post with scuffed shoes on the photo-sharing service towards the end of last year.)
Jakob Ingebrigtsen is right now in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Norwegian is scheduled to spend the next two months in the USA to prepare for the new season.
He starts the season with a thrilling duel against Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse in Eugene, May 25. Then Bislett Games awaits on 30 May.
The summer offers at least four fixed highlights for Ingebrigtsen: The birth of his wife in June. EC in Rome from 7 to 12 June and NM on home ground in Sandnes from 26 to 28 June. The big goal of the season is the Olympics in Paris.
For the first part of his stay in the USA, he has his pregnant wife, Elisabeth Asserson Ingebrigtsen, with him. She shares glimpses of her running day on social media.
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Ingebrigtsen struggled with an inflammation of the Achilles tendon for large parts of the autumn and therefore had to stay at altitude twice. He had to train alternatively on an elliptical machine for a long time, but now seems to be in full swing with normal running training.
