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- The begetter and erstwhile coach of Olympic champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Gjert Ingebrigtsen, has been charged pinch abusing 1 of his different children.
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen, on pinch his brothers Henrik and Filip, accused their begetter of beingness unit and threats during their upbringing.
- Gjert Ingebrigtsen, antecedently named Norwegian sports coach of nan twelvemonth successful 2018, has been coaching different Norwegian runner since his sons collapsed ties pinch him.
The begetter and erstwhile coach of Olympic champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been charged pinch abusing 1 of his different children, his lawyer said Monday, escalating an ongoing conflict involving 1 of Norway's astir salient sporting families.
Ingebrigtsen won nan 1,500-meter title astatine nan Tokyo Olympics and has emerged arsenic 1 of Europe's biggest track-and-field stars aft being coached since puerility by his begetter Gjert Ingebrigtsen. But he and 2 of his brothers — who are besides top-level runners — antecedently accused their begetter of utilizing "physical unit and threats arsenic portion of our upbringing."
Police launched an investigation into Gjert Ingebrigtsen aft that, and connected Monday charged him pinch having physically and mentally abused different of his younger children. Norwegian newspaper VG, citing nan indictment, reported that nan maltreatment took spot during a four-year play and included threats, coercion and hitting his kid pinch a bedewed towel connected astatine slightest 1 occasion.
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Monday’s charges did not subordinate to nan 23-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen aliases his older brothers Henrik and Filip, nan 3 salient runners. Police did not disclose nan personality of nan child.
From left, brothers Filip Ingebrigtsen, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Henrik Ingebrigtsen, of Norway, respond aft competing successful nan men's 5000-meter last astatine nan World Athletics Championships successful Doha, Qatar, connected Sept. 30, 2019. Their begetter has been charged pinch abusing 1 of his different children, his lawyer said connected Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)
Terese Braut Våge, caput of constabulary successful southeastern Norway, told The Associated Press that cases involving 5 different alleged victims had been dismissed "on nan ground of nan evidence" and successful 1 lawsuit because of a statute of limitations.
Gjert Ingebrigtsen's lawyer John Christian Elden said his 58-year-old customer "disagrees pinch nan position of nan events" and "consequently does not admit criminal guilt."
Gjert Ingebrigtsen was named nan Norwegian sports coach of nan twelvemonth successful 2018 aft Jakob, Henrik and Filip each won medals astatine awesome events that year. The family had besides been nan taxable of a TV documentary series, "Team Ingebregtsen," that was aired by nationalist broadcaster NRK for 5 play betwixt 2016-21 starring up to nan Tokyo Olympics.
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But connected Oct. 19 past year, nan 3 brothers published an op-ed successful Norwegian newspaper VG detailing their father's behaviour and said he "had been very fierce and controlling" and convulsive and abusive during their childhoods.
They said "the aforesaid aggression and beingness reward struck again" 2 years agone toward personification else, and that was "the straw that collapsed nan camel’s back."
The 3 brothers collapsed ties pinch their begetter and Gjert Ingebrigtsen has since started coaching different Norwegian runner, Narve Gilje Nordås. However, Tore Øvrebø, nan caput of nan statement that oversees Olympic sports successful Norway, said Ingebrigtsen would not beryllium allowed to beryllium portion of nan Norwegian unit astatine nan Paris Games this summer. He was besides denied an legalization for nan 2023 world championships successful Budapest, wherever Jakob won golden successful nan 5,000 meters.
