Loads of stuff to follow on the tracker!

Seems like Ironman France got problems with the tracker already out of T1, load of athletes disappeared including RVB and Skipper

Talking to myself…

Field for the European championships at Elsinore seems weak on the mens side, not a comment on the athletes, just in terms of big names

With 3 viable races in Europe for long course athletes it's not entirely surprising we've got slightly watered down fields in each. And I say that as someone who waters down fields myself!

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I see Frankfurt is broadcasted on FB live. Any other race that will also be streamed?

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Joe said on the podcast that he has his stag the day before or after, so he might be racing drunk or hangover 🤣🤣🤣

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Challenge Walchsee is streaming live: https://live.challenge-family.com/#11_6F2A9A Funk leading Long and Angert aiui

Thank you

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Tom is on Joe’s gravel bike (with a load of bark o taped to the bar) so looks like Joe has dropped back to pace him. They did talk about it on the podcast.

Nice: Think the mockery dogs have sensibly decided to concentrate on tomorrow's stag do.
Frankfurt: Bartlett is catching Bleymehl slowly: about 10 secs a km. At 7.7km she's 324 seconds down with 34km to go.
Walchsee: https://my.raceresult.com/...59/results#11_6F2A9A (MPRO)

Hopefully they are legally drafting and don’t get any penalties hahaha

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Motos in play? Sam got outbiked by 3’ by a guy who rode 1:54?

By American bias is showing but is that performance legit? 1:54 is insane

Anyone know what happened to Lionel in the first 7km of bike? Dropped 3 minutes to Beals and Laundry.

Flat tire

Ouch

He just said yesterday when asked if he was nervous

He said No why would I be nervous. If I get a flat tire I have my flat kit. And If I weren’t racing I would be out training anyways. Or something close to that

Crazy to watch that video after seeing his flat. He did just make up about 3 minutes in 25k….watch out!

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Amazing how quickly pros and I guess some AGers can change a flat. I’m 7-9 min easy lol.
And yes it looks like he is on a mission. Just clawing back the minutes.

On the woman’s side it looks like Tamara is gonna take it. If she can hold steady on the bike, there’s no one in the field that can put run her.

He's now +1:23 up through 66km. Guy is smashing this bike.

Unreal bike. Wonder what legs he’ll have for the run. I’m sure he’ll be fine. He’s training as been too notch lately. He’s very in tune with his body.

3 minutes into a flat I’ve just about got the tire off my wheel.

Lionel is using a new bike per video - he mentioned UCI compliant so this is the regular TT bike for Canyon like MVDP rides?

Great debut for Nicky Bartlett at the full distance. Like to see her do well, seems like a top person and has loads of time for fans and the sports in general

Yeah he is killing it! Would be 5 min up with no flat or just sitting in super fresh legs.

Sam outbiked, but had a solid run

For sure (seeing splits at 66km). She is riding well (compared to the weakish competition) and heading for a sub-4:12 total time and likely increasing her chance of the third/fourth AQ slot for the Collins Cup (unsure if Jeanni Metz is injured).

3 minutes into a flat I finally admit I have a flat and need to stop and change it

😂

Trackers showing Beals and laundry caught up to Lionel?

not sure where you are looking but tracker says they lost time to him at 10 km mark.
Some Mexican dude running very fast

Baekkegaard and Pallant win the European 70.3 at Elsinore. Gentle and Lee, and Taagholt and Dapena on the podium with them. Both races won on the run, iykwim.

Lionel Sanders is missing a tooth according to Talbot. LOL!!!

Any background on Hernandez? He Having a great race

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He is def a good runner. He was 15th @ Oceanside. I'm am extremely impressed with his bike here, since he rode a 2:17 in Oceanside and here he rode only 1 minute slower than Beals.

Edit: This is his first year as a pro, I believe he did 3:58 last year in Acapulco in the 18-24 category, but I'm not sure because it says he raced as an MPRO but there is not pro field in the race.

That is an impressive improvement in this race, let’s see how he finishes or if he over- biked

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Tracker must have been lagging for me.
Very impressive run by Hernandez. I hope he can hang on. Solid effort all day

No, it's just that the bike course is 5 miles (or 8 km) short: https://www.strava.com/activities/7371898936

I guess that the NP of 340 watts speaks for itself, the guy can ride and that's the end of it.

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For those of you marveling at how quickly he fixed his flat, while it is possible for a 3 min flat fix, he got a new wheel instead as per the on-course pictures

When ‘a guy’ happens to be Frederik Funk, defending champion and insanely strong cyclist, yeah sounds legit to me.

But perhaps that’s my European bias showing ;)

He didn't change it. He got a new front wheel from race support.

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Oh. Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying that.

Does IM or anyone else keep some kind of record of winners, e.g. how many 70.3 wins etc. Like you would find in tennis?
Lionel must be up there in the 70.3 distance

What kind of wheel did they give him? Curious

Hard to tell exactly what wheel from the photos/videos on instagram but it was a very shallow front wheel. Definitely wasn't an HED or a big mfg. And it probably had a shitty tire on it too (crr wise).

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Hah. Didn't seem to matter

Not that I know of, in terms of ranking by how many wins an athlete got.

The PTO shows you an athlete's results, but the oldest ones are from 2014: https://stats.protriathletes.org/athlete/lionel-sanders

Obstri has Lionel's results as early as 2010. I stopped counting 70.3 wins at 20 in 2018 (starting from 2010) because I got bored. The last 12 months are behind a paywall.

https://www.obstri.com/...rch=lionel%20sanders

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Unfortunate Flora didn't get to race today. Bike is stuck in Denver according to her instagram. That really sucks for her! Should tell the airline they owe her a few $1000 and a Worlds slot.

She'd have won on a borrowed road bike, if she'd wanted to.

Ya this. Could have borrowed or rented one, got a quick fit to get it close and won. Or assuming she would have won. Not to take anything away from Tamara. Would have got slot though regardless

So, she was there, but her bike didn't make it? That sounds crazy that she wasn't able to find a bike to race on. She could have probably won on a darn road bike.

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Looks like it was a great battle for 2nd to 4th, just 40 seconds between them (Hernandez, Laundry, Beals), all 3 great runners, would have been exciting to watch

There'd be a fair few road bikes 90 minutes down the road in Montreal, not needed after the Women's eliminator on Saturday afternoon. She might know some of the athletes involved.

That's what it sounds like. Does seem a little crazy that she couldn't find a bike to ride. I know it would have to be specialized but come on. Plus she's used to riding a roadie normally it's not like it would be different for her.

He got some shimano wheel with a slow Rubino tire on it. It took 3:15 to change out. They did not have a disc to fit so all that had to do was swap disc off his flat and put on the spare wheel. They did not have the tools at start that’s why it took so long. Lionel was calm and collected just laughing about it.

I will say Probably biggest draft train I have ever seen at an event today outside of Texas. No officials on course giving out penalties. Jackson and chase were the only people I saw pulling all day.

Everyone in the pack sat at about 10m behind them all day. Lionel caught them looked at them and just shook his head had a few words for the camera then dropped them.

Hats off to Jackson and chase doing 90% of the work.

How'd Lionel lose his tooth? Bad dismount?

Well long story but he smarted off to me on the bike. I was on the moto and yeah…

Thanks. He was locked in on the video. Never seen him so confident.

Her explanation of not borrowing at bike (IG video):
https://www.instagram.com/...?igshid=NWRhNmQxMjQ=

Could we have a motion to add some exemptions for 70.3 WC and 140.6 WC Qualifying? I would like to see:

-Olympic Gold gets 4 yr exemption to both
-ITU World Champion gets 1 yr exemption to both
-Roth Champion gets 1yr exemption to both

Spill the tea Talbot!

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I wonder if it was the Mexican kid; he didn’t ride like this @ Oceanside, and today he rode only 1 min slower than Beals???

yes please, some version of this. I've been arguing the same for a while now - it would be great for the sport.

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x3. funk is an absolute hammer, he didn't just come out of nowhere. plus he was a ways back out of the swim, so he wouldn't have had lead moto help at least at first.

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According to his wife he flicked it off opening an on course gatorade bottle lol. Can’t wait to hear the story.

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Both Olympic champions were given a wild card for Kona or St George I believe! But yes i wish they were given exemptions for both at least for 2 years...

There would need to be some kind of validation mechanism included with such wild cards. It is not sensible to encourage them to just turn up and race the championships. Sensibly Duffy chose not to take up the wild card offer.
The current Olympic Champions have both had epic fails on their first* efforts to race longer than standard distance, since their fantastic wins in Tokyo.
Blummenfelt couldn't manage a bike that would support him for 90km at St George last September and Duffy gets to her first race late in the week, the airline system fails her and she/her team fails to solve the 'no bike' challenge (best of luck to her in the races she chooses to compete in for the rest of the year - I would like to see her race for the 'Internationals' team at the Collins Cup, and to be matched against Ryf or Philipp).
*after Tokyo

This is getting a bit crazy....the cake is not that big
We had Challengue 70.3, IM 70.3s, two IMs, WTS this weekend. IMO, after the lockdown there are too many races for pros...add the PTO opens soon, Collins Cup, etc. For the spectator, this is difficult to follow. I am a fan, but for appealing new people into the sport things should be easier to understand:
WTSs championship. Continental championships
IM 70.3 world and continental championships
Challenge overall championship
Challenge The Championship
IM world and continental championships
Arena Games series
Superleague...

Now, the PTO opens....

If there are so many, it will be difficult to find the best athletes facing each other...I dont know how but IM, Challengue, PTO and ITU should find a common path. ITU and IM agreed already about the long distance worlds and continentals (so ITU is not organizing on their own as before, as far as I know)...

I´d love to see just five 70.3 races in a season with the all top guys in. Some athletes are just competing in Challengue and they barely race IM 70.3.
I´d like to see 3-4 140.6 races, including the world championship, just for the best

It is sad that you just find 6 pro women in a race...I know the purpose is getting profits from the Age groupers but the promotion should start for making this easier....

P.D. I am sorry but I hated the eliminator in Montreal. Give me a standard olympic distance and go with the relay for the supersprint....the transitions are getting more important that the watts :(

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