Already at dawn the day after he became world champion in superior fashion at 5,000 meters in Eugene, Jakob Ingebrigtsen got on the plane to Switzerland. For the past two and a half weeks, he has been preparing for another championship at altitude in St. Moritz. He is still there when he meets the Norwegian press over a Teams conversation on Saturday morning. – I don’t feel I don’t need to do anything other than what I’ve done for it to sink in, but I also feel that I didn’t achieve what I tried to achieve. So I’m left with a feeling that I didn’t achieve what I was supposed to, says Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who competes in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meters in the EC. IN SWITZERLAND: Jakob Ingebrigtsen met the press from his hotel room in Switzerland, where he has been recharging before the EC. Photo: Skjermdump Teams Do not get revenge settlement The 21-year-old slaughtered himself after the silver in the 1500 meters in the WC. And he will have no chance to take revenge on Jake Wightman now in the EC, because the Briton is only competing in the 800 metres. – I think that you have to respect people’s competition plans. They are basically set before the season. If you had followed the lesson a little, this was planned a long time ago, he answers at the press conference. Wightman, who has also run the Commonwealth Games in the meantime, confirms to news that he had never planned to run 1,500 meters in Munich. In any case, it is not about avoiding Ingebrigtsen. – No, quite honestly, this was the plan all along. It would have been nice to meet him again, because it would have been cool to test what his form is like, and I’m sure he wants revenge, too. But there are some Brits who are running well at the moment, so hopefully they can give Jakob good opposition. But he is obviously the favourite, he believes. NOT HAPPY: Jake Wightman took the gold in the 1,500 meters at the WC, while the Norwegian came second. Photo: ANDY LYONS / AFP – Hasn’t done the job Neither Josh Kerr nor bronze winner from the WC, Mohamed Katir, is on the starting line at Ingebrigtsen’s favorite distance. – I don’t know what other people’s reasons are, but they may feel that they don’t have enough of a chance to win a gold, and that for that reason they don’t choose to put so much into it to get silver and bronze, Jakob Ingebrigtsen believes . He understands that someone is lying. – If you ask everyone else, it’s completely idiotic. The medals must be handed out, but you have to respect that athletes have a slightly different view of things than people who don’t play sports. Everyone works for gold. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t join, but it is always gold that everyone wants and that everyone has as a dream and goal to achieve, he believes. At the same time, the recent world champion comes with a small sting. – I choose to believe that it is because they are not well enough prepared, and have not done the work required to be part of the EC to show the best version of themselves. Not that I need a reason, but if you don’t participate, you don’t get gold either, points out the big favourite. Jakob Ingebrigtsen also does not come up with any names when asked who are the strongest competitors, apart from “those who stand on the starting line”. – You can never really point out any time. That’s why I don’t get hung up on lists and what people have done. People perform at different levels. In the previous EC, in Berlin in 2018, the then 17-year-old Sandnes boy took gold in both distances. DOUBLE: Jakob Ingebrigtsen took gold in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at the EC in 2018. Henrik Ingebrigtsen took silver in the 5,000 meters. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB – Your goal is always to do better, what will it take for you to be satisfied now? – Heh-heh. It is always possible to win with more. My goal is to do as well as I can. Watch the EC week on news every day. The EC in athletics starts on Monday at 10.00 on news 1. That same evening, Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs the 1,500 meters.
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