TriRugby wrote:
For 70.3 worlds outside of the local continent what type of roll down do you see? I would expect a much farther roll down from a 70.3 race in the US when the location is in SA.
That's what I'm curious about, too. I'm not seeing anything in particular - I'm thinking out loud, as it were, about why there might be a need (or desire) for additional womens' slots, or whether those slots are really "additional" or unfilled from the other races. I am not in any danger of qualifying for a slot by any mechanism except lottery, so this is mostly a thought experiment for me. I am a woman who is interested in womens participation, and a Brit living in the US so my perspective is maybe different.
I agree - I would expect a deeper roll down in countries from which it is harder and/or more expensive to travel to SA. That's not exclusive to the USA, though. I also understand that female participation at the longer distances is much less, proportionately, in other parts of the world than it is here in the US. (IM France in 2017 awarded 10 women and 30 men slots for Kona, just as one reference point, with only one slot rolling beyond the second place AG finisher.)
I wondered if perhaps a number of slots had gone unclaimed (I didn't know whether or not they moved them across genders) and whether that had prompted the push to offer them via the AWA program.