Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, another Barcelonan running in the city

In many cities that is quite a champion like Jakob Ingebrigtsen (22 years old) can choose to say goodbye in the running year of his and his family’s choice Barcelona. A city he knows well because he has been with his brothers the four times they had to compete in the Catalan capital. But in the fifth, Jakob wants to be the main character, to notice in his own skin what he feels like running through the streets of a city dedicated to sports as he is. Barcelona. A city that has undergone real change because of Barcelona 1992 Olympic Gameswhich to this day still remains and remains a model of how a city can grow and change thanks to sport.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen did not live the Barcelona gamebut one of the sand He had them in mind and his father certainly kept him up to date. This Wednesday, in the presentation of Nassos race at Museu Olímpic i de L’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranchdonated to the museum an official Norwegian jersey as Olympic champion, a bib number and sports shoes that became his reference in world athletics.

Traveled to Barcelona with his brothers Filip and Henrikalso elite athletes, their partners, children and parents, on a journey to dispute the Course of NassosYes, too, but to disconnect a little from your routine, say goodbye to the year in a city you love and recharge your batteries for a very demanding 2023.

This Friday Jakob, with his brothers, the friend Sergio Heredia from La VanguardiaThe athlete from Lloret de Mar José Luis Blanco and the Sports Councilor for the Barcelona City Council David Escudé You have done a circuit survey. On a gray day, and without doing almost any previous stretching, three, two, one, twist of esprocenda street to the right and run. They were just over 28 minutes at a dizzying pace, dizzying for those not called Ingebrigtsen, who, as they say, led them with the hook. They traveled a total distance of 6.60 kilometers in the neighborhoods of Front Marítim-Diagonal Mar, Vil.la Olímpica, Poblenou and the district of Sant Martiat a rate of no more than four minutes.

Because he is curious, Jakob wants to know the cities and places where he runs and competes. Like a person who does not like the thing, as he advances step by step and does not lose sight of the sea, he asks his colleagues about mundane questions such as the change that the city experienced during the Barcelona Games, when passing through a school for how the school system works, because of the price of flats in the city, because of the number of people living in Barcelona,​​​​where they can go with their children and even because of the parties politically represented in the Barcelona City Council.

Both he and his brothers did not stop talking, while their companions found themselves not only to keep up, but to maintain a conversation in English at the same time. David Escudé became the great ambassador of the city. He explained to the brothers what Poble Nou was like when it was known as the little manchester, how a new neighborhood was created for the city with Olympic Village or what and how the new district works 22@.

Having Barcelona as his hometown, sandJakob seems to have felt a special connection to the city which is why he is interested in the number of its inhabitants or its extension.

Return to the point of origin of the march, the Hotel Hesperia, not a single drop of sweat on his face, sliding off his skin, keeping his face hermetic. He graciously granted the interview to MD, before she put on warm clothes and excused herself because she had to wash her hands. Then he looked at Friday’s edition of MD, apologized for not speaking Spanish, and chatted with a server and Sergio Heredia. We were there for 20 minutes, but it could have been more. Proximity.