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17-05-2025
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Eagle sightings are a norm for this unique Detroit troop with a rich tradition of service
During the 1950s, one Detroit church provided a space for Paul Robeson to sing and heard lectures from W.E.B. DuBois during a time when the two, multitalented activists were labeled 'un-American' by some for the uncompromising stances they took against inequalities in America. The same Detroit church, through its ministries, led civil and equal rights efforts to organize Ford Motor Co.'s United Automobile Workers. This place of worship, which has addressed community needs and humanitarian concerns on a local, national and global level for more than 100 years, is Hartford Memorial Baptist Church. Throughout much of its history, Hartford, too, has had a relationship with an organization that also has a long track record for service and good deeds — the Boy Scouts of America. The partnership comes to life through Boy Scout Troop 647, based at Hartford since 1939. But true to Hartford's history, this troop has been about more than just camping and merit badges. In its quest to develop scouts that exemplify "exceptional leadership, character and service," historically, members of Troop 647 have been heavily involved in community service projects that directly benefit Detroit neighborhoods. And, like the church it calls home, Troop 647 has been involved in fellowship that has been global in nature, such as the cultural knowledge and life skills that have been acquired with the help of the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church African Ministry Rites of Passage Program, which has provided troop members with transformative experiences in Senegal and Penyem Village in The Gambia. Troop 647 also knows a thing or two about the highest rank attainable in scouting — Eagle Scout. In fact, the troop has produced 65 Eagle Scouts during its rich history and the eight most recent Eagle Scouts from Troop 647 were scheduled to be honored during a Court of Honor Ceremony on Saturday, May 17, at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church. In doing so, the honorees will join a distinguished group that only a very small percentage of Boy Scouts will ever reach. Despite the enormity of their accomplishments, on the evening of May 13, as the eight most recent Eagle Scouts from Troop 647 had an opportunity to reflect on their journeys, they offered up stories that often showed that their pride in their troop and city was one and the same. 'I just wanted to flat out quit," Jackson Chukwuemeka Azu confessed as he described some of the more difficult points of his journey to becoming an Eagle Scout, which included navigating the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Azu did not quit. And one of the beneficiaries of Azu's perseverance was the Southfield Kappa Foundation, which received a much needed supply shelf constructed by Azu as a service project while the foundation was in the midst of renovating its house. 'The whole (scouting) process showed me I could do something I didn't think I could do. I can get through everything," added Azu, who is now a student at Morehouse College studying sports journalism. Like Azu, Cameron Wade Cornelious constructed a service project that had a lasting impact when he led an effort to build and spray paint planter boxes made out of old shipping pallets for the science department at his former Detroit high school — The School at Marygrove. And in the process, Cornelious took a giant step forward in becoming the leader he desires to be. "My goal is to be that leader for the next generation," stated Cameron, who now attends the University of Michigan. "So, I think the most important part of my scouting journey is that I went from the mentee to mentor." As a scout, Jordan Allen Dunn has enjoyed many adventures, including summer camps at D-Bar-A and Cole Canoe Base. The Eagle Scout admits that the first time he went door-to-door collecting canned goods to help feed people in need the experience did not produce the same excitement as camp. But then something changed. "As I matured, I realized how helpful and how important it was to collect food and give it back to the community," said the Western Michigan University student, who was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, scouting's national honor society. Jalen Allen Dunn, Jordan's twin and also a student at Western Michigan, says he, too, got the service bug through scouting. 'It's a long journey and I'm happy I stuck with it,' Jalen Allen Dunn said. 'Volunteering is something I embrace now. I'm not afraid of the call of service.' Joseph Williams is currently pursuing a degree in biomedical sciences at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, but he never forgets important people that helped him in Detroit. 'Scouting has taught me how important a community is in helping a young man develop,' said Williams, who led the design and construction of bat houses for D-Town Farm during his Eagle Scout project. 'The adults that work with our troop, and our entire community, hold us accountable. And that accountability helped me to stick with scouting.' Kaiden Troy Ellis returned to scouting in the sixth grade when he joined Troop 647 because he said he felt right at home. Ellis has shown his gratitude by giving back to the Detroit community. This includes his Eagle Scout project, when he collaborated with volunteers at the Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Association in Detroit to provide horsemanship education to youths, while preserving the legacy of African Americans in the military. More: For 2 sisters, bringing their story to historic site has been winning Detroit B&B recipe 'Scouting helped me with volunteer work — it changed my mindset,' Ellis stated. 'It has made me more motivated to give back to my community.' 'Being a part of such an historic church opened a lot of doors,' explained Maissa Slaughter, a proud former member of the Detroit Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School swimming team and current University of Michigan student, who used his church connections to get more involved in community service. Slaughter's service included an Eagle Scout project where he led the creation and donation of 100 handmade face masks for the Phoenix Center in Detroit. Torrence Griffin also selected an arduous but rewarding Eagle Scout Project when he rebuilt a dilapidated stage at D-Town Farm in Detroit — with help from other Troop 647 members — which allowed for continued seasonal activity and a greater connection with the surrounding community. 'Nothing comes easy,' said Griffin, who recently completed Drone Pilot Certification Training with CODE 313 in Detroit. 'The Eagle Scout journey requires a lot of energy and a lot of hard work. But when you get it all done, it's a great feeling." A commitment to develop scouts that exemplify 'exceptional leadership, character and service' Who: Boy Scout Troop 647 established in 1939 Troop Home: Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, 18700 James Couzens Fwy, Detroit 48235 Troop Leader: Omari Sankofa Recent Event: Court of Honor Ceremony (Saturday, May 16, 2 p.m. at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church) honoring Troop 647's most recent Eagle Scouts — Jackson Chukwuemeka Azu, Cameron Wade Cornelious, Jalen Allen Dunn, Jordan Allen Dunn, Kaiden Troy Ellis, Torrence Griffin, Maissa Slaughter, Joseph Williams. The ceremony will also honor nine dedicated volunteers that have supported Boy Scout Troop 647 and Cub Scout Troop 647 — Corlis Brown-Lloyd, Eileene Gordon-King, LaMont Hampton, Harold Holmes, Kent Jackson, Isaiah Joe Lapsley, Omari Sankofa, Richard Stringer, Vickie Walls Slaughter. More: After a 'magical' journey, mother and son walked across a graduation stage with MBAs Scott Talley is a native Detroiter, a proud product of Detroit Public Schools and a lifelong lover of Detroit culture in its diverse forms. In his second tour with the Free Press, which he grew up reading as a child, he is excited and humbled to cover the city's neighborhoods and the many interesting people who define its various communities. Contact him at stalley@ or follow him on Twitter @STalleyfreep. Read more of Scott's stories at Please help us grow great community-focused journalism by becoming a subscriber. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: This unique Boy Scout troop reflects the city of Detroit and much more
BBC News
01-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Four golds and a baby boy - but what's next for Jeremiah Azu?
Jeremiah Azu said he wanted 2025 to be the best year of his has certainly got off to a good the indoor 60m track, he became Welsh champion, British champion, European champion and world also welcomed his son into the world to become a father for the first his statement win at the World Indoor Championships in China, he had some much-needed time off with his a week later he is back training in the Cardiff sunshine - and dreaming of more success as the outdoor season begins."Even sometimes now it doesn't feel real," he tells BBC Sport Wales. "It's the moment when you say it out loud, that's when you really realise what you've done." Azu is revelling in the moment."I've loved every moment since being home. My family were there cheering me on when I walked into the house, just picking me up, throwing me around. It was just a big celebration."I want to go to the top. I want to win global titles. It just adds to that motivation."Before it was for my family. But now it's really for my own son and my wife and I think you can't really beat those motivations." 'I'm just Jeremiah' The 23-year-old has never lacked confidence. He puts it down to his family's support and unshakeable belief in there is a humility to him that perhaps does not show in his customary startline dances for the days after becoming European indoor champion over 60m last month, he was part of an event in Wales to mark Commonwealth Day. Long after the guests had gone, he remained behind to help tidy away the the track, the results are starting to justify that confidence in won Olympic bronze in the men's 4x100m relay in Paris last summer and his world indoor title last month has further elevated his rising status in the sport."It's easy to be confident," he continues. "You can fake it."I've never been a fake confident person. I'm just Jeremiah. Some people think I am confident, over-confident, under-confident, whatever it is. But for me it's knowing that I'm able to do what I've always believed I can do. "I've learnt how to win and I think that's important in athletics. Because in the final everyone's fast, everyone's talented, but it's who actually believes it."Who's got that ability to not panic? Who's got that ability to time their dip right? It's all these little things that just allow you to have that confidence to walk in with the trust in the training you've done and in the team around you and your coach."His new coach is now his old coach. He first worked with Helen James as a 17-year-old and, after a two-year spell under Marco Airale in Italy, Azu is back with James in Cardiff."The world's his oyster," she tells us. "He's going to go a long way further than this." So what next for Azu? His focus shifts to the upcoming outdoor season and a return to China for the start of the Diamond League and World Athletics Relays event in he returns to the UK again, he will add more 200m events to his 100m programme in the hope of broadening his future medal prospects and helping increase his top-end he has more than one eye already on September's World Championships in Tokyo."Coming in as world indoor champion, now there's a bit more expectation," Azu admits."But for me I'm not really doing this for anyone. I don't want to prove myself to anyone. I do this because I know I can do this. Because my ability shows me that I was born to do this."There is not a thing that I'm not going to do, there's not an exercise that I'm going to leave."I go into everything wanting to be the best. So I just continue with that mindset towards everything."
New York Times
30-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Jeremiah Azu: My Golds In My Words
Even as a European champion, Jeremiah Azu is relatively unknown. In the pre-event press conference for the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, earlier this month, one reporter asked Azu if he was indeed the 'fastest accountant in the world'. They had confused him with fellow British sprinter Eugene Amo-Dadzie. 'Wrong guy,' Azu responded. Advertisement The 23-year-old arrived in Nanjing in fine form. He retained his British 60m title at the end of February, equalling a personal best of 6.56s and winning with daylight between him and the rest despite the short distance of the race. Azu hit the crashmat at the end of the straight so hard, he bounced off it and fell over. Two weeks later, he cracked the 6.5s barrier for the first time, adding the European 60m title with a 6.49s in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. His performance there was a masterclass in navigating through the rounds, going quicker in the semi-finals than in the heats and then delivering a personal best in the final. He then ran an identical time in the World Championships final, winning by one-tenth of a second, ahead of talented Australian youngster Lachlan Kennedy (who, with an outdoor 60m PB and national record 6.43s from January, had the world-leading time coming into the competition). It made Azu the first male Briton to be 60m world champion since Richard Kilty in 2014, and he is the fifth athlete this millennium to hold the European and world 60m titles simultaneously — three of the other four are also Brits: Kilty, Dwain Chambers and Jason Gardener, plus Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy. A week after he took the world title, Azu sat down with The Athletic at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, as part of a media event for the 2026 European Championships being staged at that venue, which were then 500 days out. It was full-circle for Azu to be back there with European and world titles to his name. In 2022, at the Commonwealth Games, the Welshman raced his first senior international final at that stadium, coming fifth in the 100m. That a 20-minute conversation stems from two minutes of video — showing every angle of the European and world finals — shows Azu is as passionate and attentive to performance details as he is fast. This is the story of Jeremiah Azu's gold medals, in his own words. He has not, as I suggest, had videos of these finals on a loop to revel in glory. Azu has rewatched them, but 'more just to see where I could have gone better'. He describes that European final as 'probably one of my cleanest races ever, a lot cleaner than World Champs — that one was a bit messy, a lot of head movement'. Advertisement The Worlds were his third Championships in the space of a month, so the mental and physical fatigue of going through the rounds were compounding. 'It's hard to say if I could have gone faster if it was cleaner, but I think we had between 6.45 and 6.47 as times I could have run. It's not a million miles off,' he says. 'My training is very much set up to run faster at the championships. I'm always going to have that bit more in the final. Everyone's got crazy-fast training PBs, but when it actually matters, there's pressure. I kind of enjoy it. Sometimes I think to myself, 'Can you actually handle this?'. I know I can.' The 'bit more' that Azu references is not just about conditioning, but also the mechanics of finishing. Athletes are measured from the point their torso crosses the finish line, so if form degrades and their dip comes too soon, they can end up with a different colour medal — or none at all. 'That's the difference,' he says, rewatching the World Championship final, pointing out that Kennedy 'might be in front of me' with 10m to go. 'It's hard to tell.' The man himself 🤩 Jeremiah Azu everybody 👏👏@ — Team GB (@TeamGB) March 21, 2025 'You can only dip on your last step, any more than that and you slow down,' he explains. 'I'm still upright and then I've gone, one step, and it's taken me through the line. I've always been good at timing my dips, I've never really trained it.' Composure mattered, as did tactics, which might sound surprising for a race that lasts less than seven seconds. Azu says he comes off 'autopilot' halfway through. 'Once I get out of the drive (phase, which is when the athlete is accelerating to top speed), that's when I become aware. Even if I try and think back, it's just blank, and then I wake up at 30 metres.' Advertisement By then, 'it's just staying tall, making sure my feet are landing underneath me and not panicking'. He knew that Eloy Benitez, the Puerto Rican inside him in lane five, was likely to DNF. He had been stretching his calf beforehand in the call room and asked Azu to share some Tiger Balm pain reliever, which he did. 'I knew that gap was going to appear, and I knew these two (in the outside lanes to his right) had run super-fast in the first two rounds, so they had nothing left. I was expecting to be by myself. At this point (45m in), I couldn't really see anyone (to my left), because they were all in a line.' The other two medallists came from lanes two and three, to Azu's left, with 21-year-old Kennedy taking silver and South Africa's Akani Simbine, 31, finally getting an individual global medal, the bronze. 'I just knew not to panic because the line's going to come to me. I don't need to try to get to the line.' Azu says. 'That's what took the win, we're talking about the width of paper.' Did he have an idea crossing the line how fast he had gone? 'I had a glance at the clock just before I hit the pads, and I saw 6.50 and was like, 'Nah, it's quicker than that'. Obviously, 6.49 and 6.50 are the same thing, but you just want to go under it. 'It's funny, because I was more sure that I'd won this than the Europeans, and the Europeans was a bigger gap (to second place).' Azu thought he had been run out of the gold medal in that European final by the fast-finishing Henrik Larsson, who was to his right. Larsson finished second, in a Swedish record 6.52s, but was three-tenths back on Azu. As a smaller sprinter — think Christian Coleman, Nesta Carter or Su Bingtian — Azu's blockwork is naturally superior to his top-end mechanics. He can turn his feet over quicker because shorter limbs move faster. 'My biggest area to improve is my transition phase,' he says, after rewatching both finals. Advertisement 'It's getting better, so it's working out how to go from staying on the ground (when accelerating) to coming off the ground,' he explains. This is the middle section of the race — from 30m onwards — when athletes hit top speed before starting to decelerate. 'There's a certain position you need to be in, because you can't just come straight up — you will lose all that momentum,' Azu says. 'It's kind of like an aeroplane take-off. Once I'm in my max speed, it's clockwork. After 40, 50 metres, you can't just go quicker, you've got to maintain.' The real magic of Azu's races is not the finish but the start. He is talkative to the TV cameras, though not quite to the extent of 2024 Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles of the United States, because it helps settle nerves. 'If people watched me at training, they'd see the same thing,' Azu explains. 'So why would I come here and do anything different? 'On the line, it just comes to me. I don't like to pre-rehearse stuff. I'm not thinking about what I'm about to do, because you can get caught up in thinking, 'This is a European final/a World final, I've dreamed about this moment'. I'm just not there (mentally) for that moment, until they say 'Set'. Especially with the crowd. You can get overwhelmed if you think about them.' A post shared by AZOOM (@jeremiahazu) He cites the 100m at the London Diamond League last July as an example of the occasion getting to him: 'I was like, 'I need to do this for the fans'. I ran OK, but (with) way too much pressure, and I didn't need that — there's no point adding that. It's stuff you learn from.' He came seventh out of eight in a stacked field that day, running 10.08 seconds in a race where five athletes went sub-10s and three broke the 9.9 barrier. Azu's reaction times are phenomenal. At those World Championships, he was the fastest to react of 58 athletes in the heats (0.111 seconds), the second-fastest of 24 in the semis (0.129), and only Kennedy got out the blocks quicker in the final. Advertisement 'Before every session, we do three thirties (30m sprints) with reaction,' Azu says. 'So we do train it, unintentionally, because every time I race I'm going to have to react (to the gun). It's a massive part of it.' He is often the last to rise into the set position before the race begins but one of the best over the first three steps. 'I almost feel like I'm hovering over the floor. It's such a specific movement,' he elaborates. Azu scrubs through a reverse, slow-motion angle of the European indoors' final as he explains the next part. 'I try to keep my feet as low as possible for the first three steps. After that, it's really just hitting the floor as hard as possible.' Here he works on being 'aggressive. In the acceleration (phase), you need to be on the ground. If you're not, you are not going fast.' Power can only be generated when the athlete's feet are on the floor, so faster steps are better. Part of the challenge in Nanjing was the track, which Azu said felt 'very new. So I couldn't start the way I normally do. Normally, my feet are almost touching the floor, but I had to lift, because, in the heats, I started and I got caught up on the track because it's so grippy. So it was slowing me down.' There is a lazy narrative to weave about a redemption arc after Azu false-started in the 100m heats at the Olympics in Paris last August. It meant he lost the chance to shine individually on that stage, but he quickly put that behind him to lead off the 4x100m relay heats and final. Great Britain finished third, their first men's medal in that event for 24 years. Azu was one of only 13 British athletes sent to Nanjing (with no relay squads) — a much smaller track-and-field team than the 63 who went to Paris. This is natural for an indoor World Championship, which coaches see more as a launchpad for the outdoor season than an event to peak for, on the other side of the globe. Consequently, the typical American and Jamaican big hitters were also absent, and Azu seized the opportunity. Neil Gourley, who won 1,500m silver at the World Indoors, was Team GB captain, and used Azu as a source of inspiration. 'He swore a lot,' Azu jokes. 'He mentioned me in the speech and said, 'I'm sure you woke up on that day (European 60m final) and thought, 'let's do something extraordinary'.' 'To have your teammates believing in you, saying that I'm going to win to the press, it allows you to win and fills you with confidence.' I tell Azu that I always dislike media folk asking athletes 'What's next?' after they win a medal — let alone two titles — and he laughs, more than prepared to speak about his ambitions to get close to Zharnel Hughes' 100m British record of 9.83 seconds. Azu left Marco Airale's Italy-based training group last December and went back to Helen James, who coached him in Cardiff during his teenage years. Advertisement 'We've still got loads of time to work on stuff,' he says. 'It's even more exciting, because I've run fast in 100m the last couple of years (he became the first Welshman to run a wind-legal sub-10 seconds 100m last May), but my 60m and 200m just didn't improve. 'So to come back (this year) and instantly run a 60m PB, it just shows that we're making the right decisions.' Azu says the sub 9.9s barrier for 100m is 'where we want to be. There, you're really competitive. I know I'm capable, I want to be in that mix. If you can run 6.5s (for 60m) you can run 9.9s (for 100m),' he adds, explaining sprinting exchange rates. 'If you can run 6.4s, you can run 9.8s. In the summer, my 60m will be better because I'm not trying to get to 60m.' The target is to be splitting under 6.45s for 60m en route to a fast 100m — that quality of start would put him in medal contention. 'All I want to do is be consistent,' Azu says, believing that, if he consistently breaks 10s this outdoor season, 'I know my one-off is going to be 9.8 and who knows what the one-off of that could be. 'It'll be exciting this summer.'
Saba Yemen
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Saba Yemen
Welshman Jeremiah Azu Wins Gold in 60m at World Indoor Athletics Championships
Beijing - Saba: Welsh sprinter Jeremiah Azu clinched the gold medal in the men's 60-meter race on the first day of the World Indoor Athletics Championships currently being held in Nanjing, China. Azu recorded a time of 6.49 seconds, while Australia's Lachlan Kennedy secured the silver medal. The 23-year-old Welsh sprinter achieved a personal best, maintaining an undefeated record this year. He edged out Kennedy by a mere hundredth of a second in an exhilarating final that saw their American rival, Ronnie Baker, suffer a hamstring injury just before the finish line. South African sprinter Akani Simbine took the bronze medal with a time of 6.54 seconds after another top contender, Puerto Rico's Eloy Bennett, stumbled early in the race and was unable to continue. This title marks Azu's second major international victory, following his first win in the same event at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, earlier this month. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (Press)
Observer
21-03-2025
- Sport
- Observer
Britain's Azu storms to world indoor 60m gold
NANJING, China: Britain's Jeremiah Azu added the world indoor 60m crown to his European title as he outsprinted Australian Lachlan Kennedy in Nanjing on Friday. Azu exploded out of the blocks to clock a personal best of 6.49 seconds, edging Kennedy — who had set the world lead of 6.43sec in Canberra in January — by one hundredth of a second at Nanjing's Cube stadium. The 23-year-old Welshman roared as his name came up as the winner after Kennedy's was first shown. "It was a burst of emotion," said Azu, who moved back to Wales to work once more with his first coach Helen James in December. "I feel like I've faced a lot during the last couple of months, had a lot of life changes, so to know that everything's still going the right way is important for me." There was a first global individual medal, bronze, for South African Akani Simbine, who has finished fifth, fourth and fifth in the last three Olympic 100m races. Azu's performance topped the first day of competition in the Chinese city where the 12 medals on offer were won by athletes representing 12 different nations. South Korea's exuberant Woo Sangh-yeok won the men's high jump final with 2.31m for a second world indoor gold after Belgrade in 2022. Britain's Jeremiah Azu celebrates winning the Men's 60m Final with second placed Australia's Lachlan Kennedy and third placed South Africa's Akani Simbine Defending champion and Olympic gold medallist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand claimed silver with 2.28m ahead of Jamaica's Raymond Richards on countback. Woo's winning mark was the lowest ever in the world indoors and far from the championship record of 2.43m set by Cuban Javier Sotomayor in Budapest back in 1989. "It's because of my experience at the Paris Olympics last year that I'm able to win this gold medal today," said the South Korean, in reference to his disappointing seventh-placed finish in the French capital. Canadian Sarah Mitton defended her shot put title with a best of 20.48 metres on her sixth and final attempt, having led from her second. Finland's Saga Vanninen celebrates on the podium after winning the Women's Pentathlon with silver medallist Ireland's Kate O'Connor and bronze medallist Taliyah Brooks of the U.S. Newly-crowned European indoor champion Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands took silver with 20.07m, a centimetre ahead of Team USA's two-time defending world outdoor champion Chase Jackson. 2021 Olympic champion Gong Lijiao, perhaps the host nation's best chance of a medal, came fifth after failing to get past 19m. There was history in the women's pentathlon as European indoor champion Saga Vanninen improved on her silver from Glasgow last year to become the first Finnish woman to win a senior global combined-events title. Vanninen ran 8.30sec over the opening 60m hurdles, before managing bests of 1.81m in the high jump, 15.81m in the shot put and 6.37m in the long jump. 'STAY OUT OF TROUBLE' She wrapped up the gruelling one-day event with 2:15.28 in the 800m to finish on 4,821 points, with Ireland's Kate O'Connor taking silver (4,742), in a first for her country, and American Taliyah Brooks bronze (4,669). The first gold of the championships went to Italy when Cuban-born Andy Diaz Hernandez bounded out to a dominant 17.80m in the men's triple jump in the morning session. Canada's Sarah Mitton celebrates winning the Women's Shot Put Final. China's Zhu Yaming delighted the home crowd by claiming silver with a best of 17.33m, with defending champion Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso upgraded to bronze after Brazil's Almir dos Santos was ruled to have worn non-regulation spikes. Norwegian prodigy Jakob Ingebrigtsen kept his tilt at a world indoor double on track by qualifying for Sunday's 1500m final after winning his heat in 3:39.80. Before that, he has a date in the final of the 3,000m on Saturday in his bid to repeat his double European gold in China. "I am glad to get to the final," said Ingebrigtsen. "I'm trying to stay out of trouble and reduce the risk of falling, so I'm very happy with the result and looking forward to tomorrow too to fight for the medals. "I think it's going to be fun. Until this evening, I was all the way preparing for as much as possible despite the jetlag before going on to the track, but for the world championships, it's definitely worth it." — AFP
