ROME (Dagbladet): Karsten Warholm (28) meets the press on Saturday night relating to the European Athletics Championships.
Dagbladet shall be current at a press convention in Rome from 16.30.
The 28-year-old is the favourite within the 400 meters hurdles. When the Norwegian ran at Bislett on the finish of Might, he needed to see himself crushed on the run by the Brazilian Alisson Dos Santos.
– I am not going to make this activity simpler than the rest, however I in all probability will not go previous being a favourite, says Karsten Warholm earlier than the 400 meters fence within the European Athletics Championships.
The extent of the 400 meter hurdles has step by step gotten higher and higher and the 28-year-old from Ulsteinvik now not dominates all of the races he takes half in. It is a growth that Warholm appreciates.
– They in all probability understand that they can not relaxation both. The others are beginning to attempt to attain these prime positions. When folks begin sniffing gold, there are a number of issues that come to thoughts. I believe we now have mastered dealing with it, says Warholm of the excessive stage of the 400 meter hurdles in recent times.
– Screamed in ache
The athletic star might additionally state that the whole lot has gone easily after being crushed by Dos Santos through the Bislett Video games.
– It has gone as I anticipated (after the Bislett Video games). Now we have cleaned up small issues. Bislett’s type was actually impeccable. The shape was excellent, and I believe it nonetheless is. We’re nonetheless browsing that wave.
Lately, Jakob Ingebrigtsen has managed his personal coaching routine collectively along with his brothers after the break with Gjert Ingebrigtsen as coach.
Warholm, for his half, believes that he wouldn’t have had good outcomes if he needed to prepare himself.
– No, I’ve discovered a coach (Leif Olav Alnes) who works for me. We’re a dream staff and we’re a symbiosis. I could not prepare myself. I believe that’s tough. Maybe it’s much more tough in our apply, the place the technical elements are extraordinarily necessary. I had made too many errors too usually.
On Monday 10 June, Warholm hosts the EU semi-final within the 400 meters hurdles.