Britain’s Jake Wightman surged past the Norwegian favorite in the men’s 1,500 meters while his father and coach, Geoff, narrated it for the crowd
EUGENE, Ore—Track announcer Geoff Wightman kept his composure on Tuesday night as he called an unheralded British runner’s upset win in the men’s 1,500 meters here. But when the winner crossed the line, Wightman sat at a table and dropped his head onto his hands.
“I didn’t hear him at all when I was crossing the line or finishing,” Jake Wightman said. “It’s just the surreal moment of, like, ‘Has this actually happened?’”“I get sick of it ‘cause he rambles on a lot,” Jake Wightman said with a smile. “But I think, if I could choose anyone, like, you’d choose your dad to be calling this race, right?”
Wightman said his son was “absolutely at a peak, race-wise. Fitness-wise, he’s just had two weeks at altitude. He had a little hamstring thing that’s gone. So, it’s not often you get that kind of form coinciding with a world final.”
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