Ingebrigtsen Has Achilles Surgery After 'flare Up'

Two-time Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has had room connected an Achilles wounded successful nan United States but has said "it's not arsenic bad arsenic it seems".

In worst-case scenarios, betterment clip from an Achilles cognition tin return up to 10 months, but nan 25-year-old Norwegian said connected his YouTube channel, external that he was looking astatine a rehabilitation scheme for nan "next mates of months".

Ingebrigtsen said he first injured his near Achilles past April, but was wished to compete astatine nan World Championships successful September, wherever he grounded to triumph a medal.

The wounded flared up again successful January and he said it became "100% necessary" to person room to region scar insubstantial surrounding nan paratenon - a protective sheath that surrounds nan Achilles tendon.

"This is of people not thing to beryllium taken lightly but perfectly nan correct point for nan longevity of my career, " Ingebrigtsen posted connected Instagram, on pinch a image of him sitting successful a wheelchair, wearing a protective boot.

"The room went very smoothly and I'm relieved to person a clear way of betterment backmost to nan commencement statement aft galore months of uncertainty."