Same prize purse as ITU worlds. Plus the bonus pool goes 35 deep in ITU.

I'd wager we'll see a mixed bag of athletes at hy-vee.

Not having the ITU athletes present opens up the possibility for a triple crown winner

Did I miss something. Can pro's like Jorgensen, Brownlee, or Mola just enter Hy-Vee? Don't they have to qualify first? Also what happened to Brownlee last time he raced Hy-Vee?

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Also what happened to Brownlee last time he raced Hy-Vee?

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He was probably still wasted from celebrating his Olympic Gold. Hell he probably raced Hy-Vee with his hanging around his neck as he was DNF'ing (I think he DNF'd didn't he)?

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So I'm gonna say no they can't just enter. And Brownlee was coming off the Olympics and pretty sure he didn't do much training. But point taken.

Good point Thomas.

I had mistakingly assumed Gomez, Vasilyev, Davison, etc. had gained entry with their sanctioned race results but learned it was actually from 5150 and/or half iron events.


Alistair finished nearly 7 minutes behind Gomez (I had to look it up) in 2012. The Hy-Vee race was five weeks after Alistair won the gold in London.

I explained the scheduling to my friend at dinner tonight and he immediately chuckled and said WTC booked that date to downplay the ITU Grand Final.


Interesting. Who you got for the Triple Crown? Frodeno?

FYI: the 70.3 WC (and IM Wisconsin incidentally) is exactly one week after the HY-Vee/ITU Grand Final date .

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Who knows on Alistair. He raced 5 weeks after, I don't think it was the fact that he was that out of the shape, I just don't think Allstair does that well in heat. After all, he always seems to talk about training in the worst of England's weather. As for the WTC, I think that is overthinking it a bit, but who knows. It only leaves 7 days before Ironman World Champs 70.3 so it doesn't give athletes a lot of turnaround. How many triple crown athletes even exist for this? Maybe Gambles, Docherty, Matthews, Frodeno, Potts, and Hoffman. Didn't look and reconcile the list, but it would be hard to look past Frodeno.

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The Hy-Vee date has been the same the past 3-4 years.

This is a good point. Just as likely the WTS date was moved up to accommodate our wacky Alberta weather. Even a week later, odds of snow probably double.

If he's doing the race then I think he'll be liking his chances.

Alistair Brownlee can be good in heat - he won Madrid a number of times in scorching weather. What he is less good at is flying to a hot humid clime and competing eighteen hours later. I was astonished that the Brownlees only arrived in Yokohama on theThursday (a 12 hour plus flight) before a race at 3 in the morning Saturday their time, and both looked like they were running in treacle. Totally understandable. On the other hand, Gomez jetted into HyVee in 2012 and seemed at home immediately. No idea how he does it but I think that is the real difference. Not sure if AB will be racing Stockholm which idiotically, is only a week before Edmonton which raises the problems of adapting to local conditions for him.

Cool. I will take off my tin foil hat now and rescind my conspiracy theory.


As Thomas mentioned, he would have had to have raced (WTC) 5150 or 70.3 events to qualify. I don't know whether he did? I would imagine at this point, if he didn't, he wishes he would have.



I didn't realize that was one week prior. That is idiotic. I heard Gwen take a jab at the schedule in an interview but only now realize what she was talking about. I believe she could still win the series with a win at Stockholm without even having to race Edmonton (I'm not positive though). However, I don't think she would skip the Grand Final.

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Back in 2012, they made an exemption to invite the Olympic medalists to Hy-Vee and there was a bit of a stink about it. In the end, I think most people realized it was for the best. After all, what good is a championship Olympic distance race without the athletes who are theoretically in their 4-year peak form?
Similar to how XTERRA worlds now has a requirement that pros at least do one XTERRA in the year prior, except in an Olympic year. Of course that wouldn't have kept Gomez out because he won it in 2012, but it's a peace offering to the series-loyal pros, but also an acknowledgement that the best of the best should always be allowed.

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A week later is the Tour of Alberta, which is why the ITU champs are probably not on that weekend.

There's snow in risk in Southern Alberta in September, but that would be extremely rare in Edmonton. September weather might not be the warm conditions though...