Jake Wightman’s mum flew home revealing exactly how much her son’s world title meant to husband Geoff.
Father, coach and stadium commentator Geoff kept his emotions in check to call home Britain’s first 1500m gold medallist as impartiality is part of his job spec. But wife Susan, herself a former athlete, said Jake’s sensational win had meant the absolute world to his old man.
“Geoff keeps his thoughts close to his heart,” she said. “Sometimes the combination of father and son and coach and athlete is quite a strange one. “In a way it is quite a different relationship to just father and son. Geoff can be slightly black and white at times. He doesn’t discuss emotions that easily with Jake as an athlete.
