The often-routine qualifying rounds at Olympic track and field took some strange turns Wednesday.
Runners fall in their heat of the men’s 5000-meters at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. SAINT-DENIS, France — Pushing and shoving in one race on the track. A cameraman walking into the action in another. Leg cramps and untimely misses in the field. took some strange turns Wednesday with a four-man pileup in one men’s 5,000-meter heat, a cameraman who walked into the other and drama in the high jump that left the defending co-champions in dire straits.
“He took me out,” said Mills, the British silver medalist at the European Championship in June. “He could have stepped out.” About the only thing that went as expected was two-time world champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway qualifying first in 13 minutes, 51.59 seconds. Ingebrigtsen was competing less than 15 hours after he stunningly
while taking care of flag bearer duties for Italy during the opening ceremony. He then returned home and was hospitalized for what he described on Instagram as a “probable” kidney stone issue, and a fever of 38.8 Celsius .
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