longtrousers wrote:
Bryancd wrote:
david wrote:
That wasn’t for Kona. There were no problems getting plenty of people for Kona. That’s why they had to put so many men on the women’s day. That’s pretty obvious.
Yes it was. I know people who went 20+ in their AG and got Kona slots. Plenty of examples from racing in 2023. That occurred at a few North American IM races.
Indeed from June, July on when it became apparent that lodging for a normal price in Kona became practically impossible, a lot of rolldowns happened. That was not because the general interest in Kona had decreased,
but was due to the fact that IM had come to the stupid idea to hold two races within 3 days with 2500 participants each. You had to pay $ 10.000 or 20.000 for lodging.
At the time I think it had more to do with ongoing Covid related travel restrictions.
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