Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father and former trainer of Norwegian star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, has been cleared of abusing the two-time Olympic champion. In the climax of a trial that has gripped Norway, the court announced that there was insufficient evidence of Jakob’s claims that his father had overseen a childhood of fear and intimidation marked by...
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With Mannsverk’s work on mentality and Knutsen’s coaching methods, Bodo/Glimt became a team transformed. After narrowly avoiding relegation in 2018 they would go on to win their domestic league title in 2020 for the first time, before triumphing again in three of the next four seasons. Those championship successes also earned them a place in...
A Norwegian teenager has been arrested in a West Yorkshire hotel room and charged with firearms offences in a case connected to national security, the BBC can reveal. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 18, was arrested by firearms officers in Huddersfield on 19 March. He had flown into Manchester Airport two days earlier from Stavanjer, Norway. The...
Norwegian athletics coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen told a court on Monday he “loves” his children and was just an “overly protective” father as he denied abuse allegations. Ingebrigtsen, 59, is on trial in Norway accused of physically and mentally abusing his 24-year-old son Jakob and another of his children. Double Olympic champion Jakob said when giving...
It was once customary for Premier League players to be gifted a bottle of champagne as reward for winning man of the match. Times have moved on since then, with players now receiving a small trophy in recognition for their display. But Norwegian club Bryne FK – where Manchester City forward Erling Haaland started his...
A forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece by Indian painter MF Husain, rediscovered decades later, has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide mural, sold for an unprecedented $13.8m (£10.6m) at a Christie’s auction in New York last week. It shattered the previous high for Indian art of $7.4m (£5.7m), fetched...
Jakob, 24, and his brothers Filip, 31, and Henrik, 34, who are also Olympic athletes, made public claims in October 2023 that their father – who was their coach until 2022 – had been violent. The trio, who are among seven Ingebrigtsen children, wrote at the time that they “still feel discomfort and fear” about...
