Wurf already has. He’s listed on the Santo Domingo start list for the ITU World Cup November 12th.

Being a countrymen of JF I gotta say what he said in German sounded dead serious.

That was not taking the piss out of AB but sounded like being super annoyed by his behaviour Like someone else already pointed out further above.

Thanks, you articulated it much better than me.

This is more or less true. AB and JB came into ITU in 2009/10 and kinda put the old guard at the time out of business. This included JF who was gone within 3/4 years. But I think the way they did it, through what could be politely discribed as typical alpha male behavior has always rubbed people up the wrong way.

What looked to have happened post race doesnt really surprise me as its not the first time AB has done or said stuff like this.

It'll be interesting moving forward as we might not get much time to fully see this rivalry flourish like in the ITU days. JF's performances at his age never cease to amaze me but there can't be too many more years at this level. AB I think has a steep learning curve which is gonna take time and full commitment to Iron distance if he wants to conquer Kona and JF.

Well brownlee was inside the draft zone ALOT.

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and with AB behaviour I didn‘t mean him being or not being in the draftzone but what can be seen in the short youtube clip posted above.

Definitely didn't sound like Frodo was seeing it as a piss take. He calls him a jerk and says they never got along well and probably never will.

I recently moved to Germany and my German is still pretty pathetic (I'll catch 20-30% of conversations) but... just to reinforce what the above posters have already said... the commentator didn't view it as a piss-take either.

You dont need the volume on to see that jan went from wtf? to finding it funny in a split second

Guessing he didnt think the same of the "some walk when they cant win but i kept running to 9th and honor the sport"... No handshakes there

Ali Brownlee is without doubt the best male short course/ITU triathlete ever, and as has been said was head and shoulders above Frodeno. He won’t however dominate IM, I just don’t see it. If he ditches the idea of Tokyo he will come back fitter and faster (injuries permitting) and 2020 could be epic.

How about The Sergio?!?! Top OA age grouper. Looked solid out there

Sounds like Ali was pissed off that Frodo and TO didn't wait for him when he changed wheels and was bitching at Frodo when he caught up again. Frodo said he thought "great news - you only behave like that when you're at the limit" when Ali was moaning at him.

it didn't look like anything more than a "good job" type of contact...

he wasn't going to stop the interview to say that...

nothing to see here, imo...

great job by jf....

Nah - I disagree. If it had been like that he would have given him a high 5 and a smile or some appreciation after bumping into him. Unfortunately can't see Ali after he bumped into Frodo.

I can see some Macca vs Stadler style rivalry here, if they both continue with Ironman.

I’m guessing from this that you’ve not got much experience with the North of England... Yorkshiremen don’t do high 5s and smiling is generally frowned upon.

Actually I do have a bunch of guys from the North that I work closely with. I find them quite funny and affable. Now if you tell me they're tight as can be, that I believe.

Yorkshire man here. That was a friendly ‘good job wanker’ shoulder bump.

Yeah, I wondered if anyone else noticed! Great race for The Sergio!

Haha fair enough - a head butt would be the highest form of praise in Yorkshire then I suppose?

it's called a "Liverpool kiss"

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:-D - you guys are reallygiving me the hard sell for IM Bolton.

Huh. She admitted he was pacing and coaching her at that point. Isn't that a penalty?

Perhaps mentioned elsewhere but on phone and too lazy to search...

does IM deflate front to keep people from just cycling off with bikes one taken off the course?

My front tire was flat on pick up, friend noticed 4-5 other bikes with front flats coming out of pick up while waiting for me.

Tire was fine night before and then morning of the race as well as during race.

I inflated the tube in the wheel and then underwater and it held pressure / no leaks so seems someone deflated via the valve...

Seems odd.

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