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From Mike Henson
BBC Sport
Some minutes from the Ingebrigtsen family video series are famous.
Before storming to gold if 17-year-old Jakob brother Henrik there was the time midway through last summers European 5,000 m final in Berlins Olympic Stadium.
At 2017, their sibling Filip – younger compared to Henrik and older compared to Jakob – fell over the lineup at Londons Olympic Stadium since he became the first European to reach a world 1500m medal in 14 decades.
Henrik dived full length at a valiant, dramatic, if failed, attempt to steal the silver trophy from Britains Chris OHare in the European Indoor Championships at Glasgow.
Others are less well known.
Filmed a shaky camera shot opens with three Ingebrigtsen brothers in framework.
On the left, Henrik. To the best, Filip. At the centre, the oldest of their familys seven kids, Kristoffer.
A dining table rounds, the teenagers, wearing tracksuits, review a recent national youth event in which Kristoffer finished eighth.
Lets hear how it went in Oslo. Let us start with Kristoffer, says a voice off screen.
No, replies Kristoffer, glowering back down the lens.
It was a fantastic trip. You didnt have any major objectives, did you really? Can you? Says the voice.
No, no more! States Kristoffer, growing increasingly irritated.
The voice asks the boys to outline their goals.
And Kristoffer? Following his siblings have had his or her state it enquires.
We will try not to come last, interjects Henrik.
I wont come last! Yells Kristoffer, aiming a elbow into his brothers biceps.
Its a picture of sports remarkable family dynastys building.
The European title that Jakob acquired in Berlin at 2018 had been passed to him from Filip, that had been victorious in Amsterdam two decades before. He in turn succeeded Henrik, who topped the podium.
All three head to this weeks World Championships together with Filip and Jakob Henrik linking them at the 5,000 m, in which the trio are shots and contenders such as 1500m awards.
Where this geyser of sporting success appeared from is clear.
Surely, in a tiny town of around 75,000, Sandnes facing to the North Sea growing up , the Ingebrigtsens spirit was claustrophobic.
Kristoffer, Henrik, Filip, together with the younger Jakob and Martin, could race each other getting in and out of their car, when they werent fighting for supremacy on bikes at the pool or around the trail.
Their Ingrid, 13, is training as a athlete. William, for jogging shoes on his ultrasound scan jokingly piled up, is to begin a sports career, but remains just five.
The family tradition of game is profound, though.
Their father – himself increased in a bad home – is a logistics director. Tone, their mom, owns a set of hairdressing salons.
Im not especially interested in sport, Gjert tells BBC Sport.
Were a normal family with a lot of children. We spent a great deal of time outside, skiing, walking round, going to the mountains, cross-country ski, exercising outdoors… but its by coincidence. We never planned for anything
That shifted.
Because his sons sport has grown more serious has Gjert. Hes now representative, manager and trainer, dictating their event schedule, commercial prices and coaching sessions.
It could be that I am fairly strict in the way I see things, he reflects.
The boys return to me and say:I want to be a European winner. I say:I wish to help you, I can help you, however you need to do everything I tell you.
In case you do not, I cannot own a part of it. My final aim is to find out the children succeed, to reach their goals. I reach mine if they accomplish their objectives.
I stand out from different parents. Im very demanding and it is a type of contract between the boys to help them be the very best they can be but they have to endure me following them every day each year.
Henrik, Filip and Jakob have sold themselves entirely to sports.
Filip remembers waking to perform an hour lactic-heavy roller skiing – a warm-weather version of skiing – before he headed to school.
Henrik recalls asking his dad to establish the mornings in addition to sessions in the afternoons. His father agreed, however, told them to not inform teachers unless they grew worried that he was pushing them too hard.
Theres nothing secret about their commitment now. Every September, Gjert generates a training program for the next 12 months, laminating it to stop any alterations. At every session he is going to be trackside, barking orders and collating specifics of his sons improvement and recovery in a spreadsheet.
As part of a bid to lure patrons to finance the brothers careers, Gjert overcame his sons reluctance and allowed tv to take a reality show about them.
Team Ingebrigtsen captures the tensions that continue together with the single-minded grip on his family of Gjert.
In one awkward scene, Filip accuses him of conducting adictatorship as a visit to southern Europe along with his girlfriend, who is sitting in the area, is quashed in favour of coaching.
In the following, eldest boy Kristoffer – who would reject athletics for a career in economics and a relative life of his own – calls his own parentsdumb for getting his eldest child, William, 25 years following his birth.
I believe they are doing so instead of going back and working on connections with the children they have, he adds caustically.
Gjert offers as good as he gets.
He looks down the barrel at the same stage and states:I really dont need to be an angry guy, I want to be a dad.
However, when an angry man will bring them their dreams, I will bear that forfeit.
Hes not anywhere near the first athletic dad to intertwine his success with that of his kids.
Mary Pierce, andre Agassi and the Williams sisters are some of the the tennis stars who were compelled to stardom by dad figures, but there are risks in addition to rewards.
As big fans of Lewis Hamilton particularly, and motorsport in general, Henrik, Filip and Jakob will understand the five-time Formula 1 world champion and his father, Anthonys story.
His dad was sacked by Hamilton as his agent in 2010 after he had masterminded his climb to the top. The pair hardly talked for the subsequent two years, but have slowly reconciled, with the motorist quoted in July as saying their relationship is that thebest weve ever had.
Is the mean daddy behave of Gjert justified by the ends of leading sporting careers?
Much of their impetus for his childrens athletics comes from inside themselves and how far is conforming to their households civilization?
There is not any easy answer. Theres no answer.
He will always be my father. You cant take that hat off and say today I am your trainer, says Filip. It is hard, but I think, all in allit is more positives than negatives. He gives more as a coach because he is also a father – that he constantly wants me to perform my best and now has my best interests in mind.
Jakobs take is somewhat different.
There are tons of ups and downs and drawbacks and positive about having a dad as a coach., he states. For other athletes I wouldnt recommend it because it is too much hard work and you also want a father outside of running.
For now, and basically our entire lives, he has been a coach because weve asked ourselves what is the most important – do we wish to have a family or do we would like to run fast?
Sons that operate quickly, relationships which hold. Gjert, whos written a book will hope both visions are realised in Doha. And outside.
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