Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “Doping is worse today than ten years ago”

The Norwegian Jakob IngebrigtsenOlympic 1,500m champion in Tokyo and double 5,000m world champion, said that Doping is “worse now than ten years ago” and justified that idea in which they already see themselves “fewer positive reviewswhich means people are getting smarter and finding better ways to avoid detection.”

Ingebrigtsen, who gave up the indoor season due to an Achilles tendon injury, is in the middle of a recovery process to face the big challenges of the year, the European Championships in Rome and the Olympic Games in Paris, with the highest ambitions.

“I’m at an amazing level in my series. I’m not where I want to be but I’m probably better than the rest of the world. My competitors are irrelevant because I see them all the same way. “One of the main problems is that they are very inconsistent and the meaning is always different,” said Ingebrigtsen in an interview with ‘The Times’.

“Since 2017 I’ve had ten or twelve different rivals. It’s easy for them to have a rival with me, but it’s not that easy for me to have a rival with them. People can’t beat me because they don’t have half of them. the mentality that I have” he noted.

One of the athletes with whom he has maintained a fierce rivalry in recent years is the Spaniard Mohamed Katirwho was banned for two years for being untraceable in three anti-doping controls.

“It’s definitely broken. It is even more shameful for them that they have the courage to cheat and not be right. I think doping is worse now than it was ten years ago. It’s hard to prove but that’s what I feel. The problem now is that we are seeing fewer positive tests and that really worries me. “It’s a sign that people are getting smarter and finding better ways to avoid detection, or maybe the tests aren’t detecting enough,” he concluded.