Jakob Ingebrigtsen returns from world record; Oslo Diamond League broadcast schedule

After Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran the fastest two-mile race in history last Friday, the focus turned to his next meet. What is possible as the Norwegian returns to his Olympic gold-medal event, the 1500m, at his home meet, a Diamond League stop in Oslo?

Peacock streams it live Thursday from 2-4 p.m. ET. CNBC airs coverage Saturday at 3 p.m. ET that also streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app.

Ingebrigtsen, who in Tokyo became the second-youngest Olympic 1500m champion (at age 20), was part of an extraordinary world record night in Paris last week.

Kenyan Faith Kipyegon ran the fastest women’s 5000m in history. Ethiopian Lamecha Girma lowered the men’s 3000m steeplechase world record, leaving the 1500m as the only world record in an Olympic men’s track race that is older than Usain Bolt‘s 100m and 200m records.

Ingebrigtsen is the eighth-fastest man in history in the 1500m. His best time — the Olympic record of 3:28.32 from Tokyo — is significantly behind the world record of 3:26.00 set by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.

Ingebrigtsen has downplayed chasing that record in interviews this season. He has said his best distance is probably the 3000m (like the two mile, not an Olympic event) even though he focuses on the 1500m.

“I still need to improve my own [1500m] personal best before thinking about the world record,” he told Citius after the two-mile world record. “I see it as one of the, the biggest challenge I’m going to face during my running career.”

Ingebrigtsen has run fast in Oslo. Like last year, when he ran the world’s fastest mile in 21 years. The men’s mile is one of the trademark events of the meet. That it has been changed to a 1500m this year may be an indicator that Ingebrigtsen is chasing a