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By Mike Henson
BBC Sport
Some moments from the Ingebrigtsen household video collection are well known.
There was time midway through last summer m final in Berlins Olympic Stadium if 17-year-old Jakob high-fived older brother Henrik before storming to gold.
At 2017, their sibling Filip – younger than Henrik and older than Jakob – collapsed over the line at Londons Olympic Stadium as he became the first European to reach a planet medal in 14 decades.
Henrik dived full length with Jakob taking victory more, at a valiant, dramatic, if unsuccessful, try to steal the silver medal in the European Indoor Championships at Glasgow from Britains Chris OHare.
Others are less well known.
Filmed a camera shot opens with three Ingebrigtsen brothers in framework.
To the left, Henrik. On the best, Filip. In the centre, the earliest of their familys seven children, Kristoffer.
Huddled around a table, the teens, wearing tracksuits, review a recent childhood event where Kristoffer finished eighth.
Lets hear how it went in Oslo. Lets start with Kristoffer, states a voice off screen.
No, replies Kristoffer, glowering down the lens.
This was a great trip. You didnt have some objectives, did you? Can you? Says the voice.
No, no! States Kristoffer, growing increasingly irritated.
The voice asks the boys to outline their goals for your next occasion.
And Kristoffer? It enquires after his siblings have had his or her state.
We will make an effort not to come last, interjects Henrik.
I wont come in last! Yells Kristoffer, aiming a elbow knee.
Its a picture of the building of sports family dynasty.
The 1500m name that Jakob acquired in Berlin at 2018 was passed from Filip, that had been victorious in Amsterdam two years before . He subsequently triumphed Henrik, who topped the podium.
All 3 thoughts for this weeks World Championships in Doha, together with Filip and Jakob contenders for awards and Henrik joining them at the 5,000m, in.
Is clear, where this unexpected geyser of sporting achievement sprung from.
Surely, in a tiny town of about 75,000, Sandnes facing out on to the North Sea rising up and also the Ingebrigtsens spirit was almost claustrophobic.
Kristoffer, Henrik, Filip, together with the younger Jakob and Martin, could race each other getting in and outside of their automobile, if they were not fighting for supremacy on bikes at the swimming pool or on the trail.
13, their Ingrid, is training as an athlete. William, for running shoes on his ultrasound scan jokingly piled up, is to start a severe sports profession, but remains just five.
The family tradition of game that is professional is but 1 generation deep.
Their father – himself elevated in a bad household – is a logistics director. Tone, their mom, possesses a set of hairdressing salons.
I am not particularly interested in sport, Gjert tells BBC Sport.
We are a normal family with a great deal of kids. We spent a great deal of time outside, skiing, walking round, visiting the mountains, cross-country ski, exercising outside… but it is by coincidence. We never planned for anything.
That shifted.
Because his sons game has become more serious has Gjert. He is now manager, also agent and trainer, dictating their event program, commercial deals and coaching sessions.
It could be that I am quite strict in the way I view things, he reflects.
The boys come to me and say:I need to be a European champion. I say:I wish to assist you, I can assist you, however you have to do everything that I tell you
If you do not, I cant have part of it. My objective is to see the children succeed, to achieve their targets. I reach mine, Should they reach their objectives.
I stand out of other parents. I am very demanding and it is a kind of contract between the boys to help them function as very best they can be – but they must endure me following them every day each year.
By entering into that deal, Filip Henrik and Jakob have sold themselves entirely into athletics.
Filip recalls waking to do an hour of roller ski – a version of cross-country skiing – before he headed to school.
Henrik recalls asking his father to prepare sessions in the afternoons as well as the mornings. His father agreed, however, told them not to tell teachers unless they climbed worried that he pushed them too difficult.
Theres nothing covert about their commitment. Every September, Gjert produces a training plan for the subsequent 12 months, laminating it to protect against any revisions. He is going to be trackside, barking orders and collating specifics of his sons improvement and recovery at a spreadsheet.
As part of a bid to lure patrons to fund the brothers professions, Gjert overcame his sons hesitation and enabled Norwegian tv to shoot a reality show.
Team Ingebrigtsen catches the anxieties which continue with Gjerts single-minded grip on his family.
In a awkward spectacle, Filip accuses him of conducting adictatorship as a trip to southern Europe along with his girlfriend, whos sitting in the area, is quashed in favour of coaching.
In a second, eldest son Kristoffer – whod reject athletics for a career in economics and a family life of his very own – calls his own parentsdumb for having their eldest child, William, 25 years following his birth.
I believe theyre doing so instead of going back and working on relationships with the children they already have, he adds caustically.
Gjert offers as good as he gets.
He looks down the barrel at the same stage and states:I do not need to be an angry man, I need to be a dad.
But when an angry guy will bring them their dreams, I will bear that forfeit.
He is far from the sporting father to intertwine his own success with that of his kids.
The Williams sisters, Mary Pierce and andre Agassi are some of the the tennis celebrities who were driven to stardom by dad figures, but there are rewards in addition to dangers.
As big fans of motorsport generally, and Lewis Hamilton in particular, Filip, Henrik and Jakob will know the story of his father and this Formula 1 world champion.
After he had masterminded his rise his father was sacked by Hamilton as his representative in 2010. The pair barely spoke for the next two years, but have slowly reconciled, with the motorist quoted in July as saying that their connection is thebest weve ever had.
Would the ends of sporting professions justify Gjerts mean daddy act?
Much of their impetus for his childrens sports comes from is conforming to the all-consuming culture of their family and within themselves?
There is not any simple answer. Theres not any single answer either.
He could always be my dad. You can not take off that hat and say today I am your mentor, says Filip. Its difficult, but I believe, all in allit is much more positives than negatives. He provides more as a coach because he is also a daddy – that he constantly wants me to perform my best and has my best interests in mind.
Jakobs take is somewhat different.
There are a number of ups and downs and drawbacks and positive about using a father as a coach., he states. For other athletes I would not suggest it because it is too much hard work and you also want a dad outside of running.
For today, and our whole lives, hes been a mentor because we have asked ourselves whats the most important – do we really want a family or do we want to run fast?
Sons that operate fast, relationships that hold. Gjert, who has recently written a book will hope both dreams are realised in Doha. And outside.
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