![]() ![]() In the men’s 1500m, the talk of a possible world record attempt was off the table long before Ingebrigtsen toed the line. “When you're on the track, you're in the bubble, but I really felt the crowd lift me in the home straight,” he said. The experience of running like he did in front of his home fans is one he won’t forget. I've worked really hard to get back to this level.” “It really sucked to be out injured last year and I wanted to make sure I came back with a big boom. ![]() “Today shows in the right circumstances, I can really attack the world record, maybe even this year,” said Warholm. ![]() USA’s CJ Allen followed him home in a PB of 47.58, while France’s Wilfried Happio took third with 48.13. It means he now holds three of the five fastest times in history. He was foot-perfect thereafter, reaching slightly into the final barriers before turning on the jets to hit the line in 46.52, the fourth-quickest time in history, and his fourth time under 47 seconds. Warholm may as well have been racing the 110m hurdles, given the way he rocketed around the first bend, raising a laugh from the stadium commentator at how quickly he’d gobbled up the stagger on the athlete outside him. Warholm ripped around the historic old stadium in his typically reckless fashion, smashing his own Diamond League record with a world-leading 46.52 for the 400m hurdles, while Ingebrigtsen utilised his usual, almost imperceptible, wind-it-up approach to slowly suffocate his rivals, coming home in a European 1500m record of 3:27.95.īoth might have surrendered their global titles in their specialist events last year, but on this evidence, it will take something seismic to stop either reclaiming them in August, with each producing their best ever performance outside a major championship. At the Bislett Games, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Oslo on Thursday night (15), the Norwegian pair stamped their class, showed their supremacy, blasting to times that make the very idea of defeat this season seem highly improbable. A nation expected, and just as it had been at the Tokyo Olympics, Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen delivered. ![]()
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