(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 20 – “I have to explain to you why the cameras frame me. That is my son and he is the world champion”.
Perhaps the audience at Hayward Field, the stadium that hosts the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, thought it was a joke, when the British Jake Wightman surprisingly won the 1,500. On the big screens the image of a middle-aged man, while the loudspeakers of the stadium spread his words, full of paternal emotion and pride.
Instead it was really the voice of father Geoff, 61, a former good marathoner, official commentator of the world circuit and speaker of the Oregon plant since the beginning of the world championship. As well as coach of the new world champion.
Wightman’s gold reached the end of an exciting race, which has relegated the Olympic champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen to the shadows, ahead of the bell on the last lap and passed in the final 200 meters with an irresistible rush, which surprised the Norwegian . Bronze to the Spanish Mohamed Katir.
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Source: Ansa
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