I watched it and liked it despite the awful bike and run course. The athletes made it interesting! As Joel Filliol says, the course may impact race dynamics, but it's also about whether the athletes choose to be aggressive. Zaferes pulling her group like crazy, Bergere wondering if he'd be able to stay with Wilde on the run and really having no illusions but unable to get away, Schoeman's lonely dash to T1 to get the short chute but also stay in front at least for a few minutes... say what you want about the parking lot, but there's a whole lot more going on during that 7-minute bike leg than there was over the hour-long commute from the swim to the run in Paris. Not to mention long course.

Kudos to SLT for solving the Sandy Corner problem of yesteryear by putting strips of some sort of black tape across it. Too bad the wet carpet took over that role and Rappaport crashed badly and broke her jaw... and even after that happened, SLT did nothing, almost contributing to another crash (close call for Schoeman). Don't they test ride the bike course? A cone put on the shaded wet part of the carpet would've removed the danger.

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"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden