How the wind moves, how soft the running track feels, how the sun slips over the stands at a certain time.
None of the details at the Tokyo Olympics athletics arena are known to 400-meter hurdles star Karsten Warholm.
Because he decided not to go there today when everyone who will compete there got the chance to visit it.
- There is a very good explanation for that.
When I stood there and saw the queue for the bus ... I have never before seen many athletes in one place. I got this feeling when you are in a mall and just waiting.
I got that feeling in my legs and it started to bubble in my blood.
So I thought: now I'm shitting on this.
Leif (Olav Alnes, coach) took one for the team and went there and took some pictures, says Karsten Warholm.
The 25-year-old recently set a new world record in the 400 meter hurdles, at home in Oslo at Bislettstadion he ran a time of 46.70.
This makes him one of the biggest pre-favorites for the gold in his Olympic athletics. His biggest challenger is the American Rai Benjamin, who ran 46.83 this year.
- You sharpen up a little extra. In many ways, it is positive to have a rival, says Warholm. The trials in the 400 meter hurdles will be decided the night before Friday Swedish time, the semifinals on Sunday at two Swedish time and the final the night before Sunday the third of August.