Jakob Asserson Ingebrigtsen in battle against his three superiors in the Olympics: Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse are on the menu when the 1500 meters are held in the Diamond League meet in Zurich on Thursday evening. But after setting a world record at 3,000 meters in Poland, the Norwegian has struggled with illness for a week. – It’s been a few days. But I was so unlucky that I got sick in the evening after I had a pretty good session at Sandnes stadium. I woke up quite badly the next day, and have struggled a bit with it since then, says Ingebrigtsen to news. He says that he has been training a bit with spiked shoes and a bit of strength, and that he has been excited to go to Switzerland almost anyway. – But I felt this morning that I wasn’t quite where I wanted to be. But good enough for me to travel. STARS: Jakob Ingebrigtsen (fh), Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse and Josh Kerr at a press conference before the meeting in the 1500 meters in the Diamond League meeting in Zurich. Photo: Anders Skjerdingstad / news – It’s a very strong field you meet, what does that do to the expectations of the race? – Of course it has a lot to do with the desire to be present. So I’ve been scolded a lot by those around me, replies the 23-year-old. – Of course, I wish I was better prepared for what meets me tomorrow, but that’s the way it is. I can’t control that. It’s a good field and hopefully a good race with full stands and good weather. We have to try to enjoy ourselves and make the best of it, he adds. – Who is yelling at you? GOOD MOOD: Jakob Ingebrigtsen is a little unsure of what to expect from him in the penultimate Diamond League event of the year. Photo: Fredrik Tombra / news – It’s mostly Elisabeth, Henrik and Filip. It’s a bit like that… They realized quite quickly that a lot was needed for me not to be here. Ingebrigtsen was superior in the match against Olympic winner Hocker in the 1500 meters in Lausanne two weeks ago. Now he also meets American Nuguse and British Kerr. The latter has had a slightly different charge than the Norwegian. – I know what I am capable of. I’m a bit more selective in what I do and took a month off after the Olympics just to know I’m optimally prepared for this race. It’s tough to be traveling for so long, and living in a suitcase for months is hard. I went home and back to Scotland and ran with my club, says Josh Kerr. Hare with world record High speed is expected in the 1500 metres. Briton Elliot Giles is running like a hare, and just three days ago he set a world record with 3.51.3 in one English mile, 1609 metres, on the street in Düsseldorf. There he beat the aforementioned Nuguse. SURPRISED: Elliot Giles ran 800 meters in the Olympics. Photo: Sarah Meyssonnier / Reuters – There is not just one man who can run fast, but I think there are four, says event director Andreas Hediger to news. Hediger says that Giles was caught before he set the world record, but now thinks it says everything about the kind of story they want to unfold on Thursday. – We wouldn’t have needed such fast hares if we didn’t have to run fast, says the event director, who does not want to reveal the planned speed yet. – We are still trying to find out the pace, no one knows what exactly it will be planned for. I’m sure it’s going to be fast, believes Nuguse, who took part in the same street race but was beaten by Giles. Jakob Asserson Ingebrigtsen greatly appreciates the hare job. – There aren’t that many others who are willing to jump from the front, but that’s the advantage of good hares, you don’t have to make any particularly big decisions. You can have high speed and hopefully the hares can deliver it to order so that we get every good opportunity to run fast, he says. SHOWED SUPER FORM: Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran to 7.17.55 in the 3000 meters and smashed the world record. Photo: Reuters At the same time, he feels the contrasts from the record race on 25 August. He then felt quite confident that he could challenge the world record. Now it’s a little different. – There is not much bad to feel about not delivering super times. I think it’s a bit silly, but hopefully I’ll sleep long and well tonight. It will be interesting to see tomorrow. The 1,500 meters in Zurich will be shown on news as part of the Diamond League event, which starts at 20:00 on Thursday evening. On Wednesday, the super duel between Armand Duplantis and Karsten Warholm will be shown from 9.15pm. PS! The English street mile is a relatively new exercise, so records set before last year do not count towards the statistics. Jakob Ingebrigtsen would hardly have had great challenges in stealing the world record from Giles in the form he has shown recently. Published 04/09/2024, at 15.49 Updated 04.09.2024, at 16.34
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