cyclenutnz wrote:
Salmon Steve wrote:
- The Olympics is the Olympics :) Far too far out to talk favourites, it does something special to campaigns. Lots of time for a new 'favourite' yet, and lots of time for the current favourite to meet a roadblock or two.
What is the longest (number of seasons) a woman has dominated ITU for? At which stage in the typical cycle will Gwen be for Rio?
I personally think we haven't seen this sort of dominance before in the women's.
If we're looking at the WTS/WCS years then certainly not.
Even if we look at the World Cup era, certainly Snowsill and Fernandes were dominant when they raced, but with more races per season they could avoid each other in all but the big events like Worlds / Olympic / Hamburg / Ishigaki etc, there were a lot more opportunities to be dominant against the field assembled.
But you'd have to agree most fields are now A class in the era of the WTS.
Not particularly relevant (as prior to Olympics anyway) but you'd be hard pressed to argue that Gwen is more 'dominant' just yet than Emma Carney, 94 - 98 beaten 3 times?! If you're looking for your 'complete athlete' (And that isn't a term I particularly like in the new WTS context :
But I think the demands on the athletes in the current context are far more, the pressure is higher, the competition is higher, and with that comes the risk of things going wrong so I don't think we can look at Emma's domination and draw any valuable conclusions?
What are your thoughts Mr B?
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Salmon Steve: Mar 30, 15 21:26