I didn't see this post.

To answer your questions.

No I don't think USAT will kill off the ND Sprint, but I do think ITU is killing it at their WC's. The reason why I don't think USAT will kill it off, is because they can still get enough people to do the race to justify the cost all the while still having an "national championship" race. I think USAT is going to hold 3 championships, or let me say, I think there will be 3 races that go down. DL Sprint, ND Sprint, ND Olympic. Just this year at Nationals there is going to be a "mixed team relay" race. So they can add any type of race they want at nationals.


Why do you think there will be no need for AG'ers if they do elite rules? They very well could do elite rules and have it for AG'ers, I'm not sure why you have implied 2 times in your post that if they did small fields it would imply no AG's. Again, there IS GOING TO BE AN AG DL RACE for World's. Whether the multi-loop course or a 1 loop bike course (my guess is being at worlds it'll be on the same course as the other races, just shorter laps) the Sprint will be DL for AG'ers. I def think it's going to be multi-looped, which at this point I cant wrap my head around how it works. It just has too many variables with wave starts. They have clarified it's no TT bikes. They wont come off that, but I think the actual development of the race is still very much in doubt. How the actual races will be divided up, I think still is an issue, along with 200 vs 75 person waves. 75 is the standard DL format, but that would mean roughly 25 waves if there really was ~2k people racing it. Of course I think at most you'll see is 600-800 doing the DL event, which means where does roughly 1k people's money go when they cut them out because they change formats.