{"id":78325,"date":"2026-09-05T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/ingebrigtsen-sorry-for-calling-1500m-rivals-losers-but-maintains-hocker-acted-cowardly\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:55:12","slug":"ingebrigtsen-sorry-for-calling-1500m-rivals-losers-but-maintains-hocker-acted-cowardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/ingebrigtsen-sorry-for-calling-1500m-rivals-losers-but-maintains-hocker-acted-cowardly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingebrigtsen sorry for calling 1500m rivals \u2018losers\u2019 but maintains Hocker \u2018acted cowardly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fiery Diamond League comments partially walked back<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On Hocker: \u2018Cole and I talked it through after the race\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has issued a part-apology for calling his rivals \u201closers\u201d and a \u201cbunch of cowards\u201d after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/04\/diamond-league-final-amy-hunt-left-trailing-by-jullien-alfred-in-womens-200m\">spicy men\u2019s 1500m Diamond League final<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ingebrigtsen has continued to maintain that he was still right to accuse the Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker of cowardice \u2013 because he asked for a strong pace and swapped in his own pacemaker only to then hide behind others in the race.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/05\/jakob-ingebrigtsen-sorry-for-calling-1500m-rivals-maintains-cole-hocker-acted-cowardly-athletics-diamond-league\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiery Diamond League comments partially walked back On Hocker: \u2018Cole and I talked it through after the race\u2019 The double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has issued a part-apology for calling his rivals \u201closers\u201d and a \u201cbunch of cowards\u201d after a spicy men\u2019s 1500m Diamond League final on Friday. However, Ingebrigtsen has continued to maintain that &#8230; <a title=\"Ingebrigtsen sorry for calling 1500m rivals \u2018losers\u2019 but maintains Hocker \u2018acted cowardly\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/ingebrigtsen-sorry-for-calling-1500m-rivals-losers-but-maintains-hocker-acted-cowardly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ingebrigtsen sorry for calling 1500m rivals \u2018losers\u2019 but maintains Hocker \u2018acted cowardly\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}