I would not be surprised if they suspected the possibility of some shenanigans - What's the likelihood that he was just staring at his wife's bike over the transition fence at just the right time and his first reaction when seeing this would be to whip out the camera in time to catch it, rather than yell at her or something. It'd be over pretty fast.

That was my reaction too. It seems odd to be standing in the transition area, when your wife isn't around, and have a camera there and the time to take a photo while someone is deflating the tires. With so many bikes in transition, and him being probably a fair distance away, it would take a while to register that someone was actually touching his wife's bike.

It also sounded to me like they were anticipating something.

Is the competitor whose air was let out from the same area (St. Catherines) as Kristen? If not, why would they suspect the hanky panky? Or was the victim previously a victim, but if so how did she know Kristen was the previous culprit?

I am going to set up a website aimed at empowering male cheats in triathlon.

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Are you saying we need equal opportunity quotas of male and women cheaters in the KQ 40-44 groups?

I am secretly dumping syringes of 'rodeo bull drugs' into my wife while she sleeps. She's as hairy as F, snorts a lot and has a monumental temper but it's the only way to level the playing field.

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i think we're getting waaaaay out over our skis here. i know it's frustrating to feel a dearth of information, but there is nevertheless a dearth of information.

i know patience is not the currency of the internet, but we (meaning you all) have yet to hear from anyone. not the alleged perp, not the intended victim, not eyewitnesses, not the RD, nor the officials nor ironman.

we are trying to interview these folks. we have interviewed some of them. but not enough of them to draw conclusions. when we do, we'll write what we know. i would hope that's tomorrow. it depends on whether people talk to us or not, and how quickly, and with how many qualifications, asterisks and addendums.

when we know, you'll know.

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On the "hard information front" what we do know is a Kristen Johnson from St. Catherines Ontario, Canada (same country as Ben Johnson), who raced in F40-44 at 70.3 Syracuse was officially DQ'd this weekend.

https://www.sportstats.ca/...d=45829&bib=1405


and the same person did finish 4th in Kona last year in 10:24 in F40-44 after qualifying second at LP 2016 in a stellar time of 10:26.


It is not known how many athletes in F40-44 in Kona had tire issues. Nor how many athletes in F40-44 at LP. All that is conjecture so we'll steer clear.


Dev

Honestly. Not all Canadian AGers are scumbags. Jesus. This is bullshit behavior. Please at least ban for the WTC circuit.

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Say no to conspiracy theories. Hopefully tomorrow in detail.

But no, no one was anticipating shenanigans


H

Well thank god, now you can focus your efforts on jail time.

Just wow. That is some seriously f'd up sh*t. A tire underinflated that much is also at greater risk of coming off the rim. What the hell is wrong with someone to ruin someone else's day like that? At first I thought the call for lifetime ban was a bit premature but now I'm on that bandwagon.

I have been light hearted and joking around on this thread, but seriously this could easily be sabotaging a fellow athlete's equipment in a potentially life threatening manner. Yes flats happen, just like brakes fail on cars, but if you go in and alter the mechanical soundness of a vehicle, that's some seriously messed up stuff. I'm a bit more active on this type of thread because I really hold the sporting comportment of Kona qualifiers to a much higher standard, because they are holding something that the majority of other athletes covet in some way.

Tom Brady.

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I agree with you there, not that any cheating is cool, but potentially altering somebody's physical being through altered equipment takes it up a notch.. I'm just going to hold onto my pitchfork until we hear more in the coming days.

Cheers

really? can you show me, screenshot or something, a link, anything that says she was DQd?

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http://www.ironman.com/...tail=1#axzz4kVSyCEqi

http://m.ironman.com/...yracuse/results.aspx

Put in the word 'Johnson' in the search.

thank you. i *thought* i saw previously she was a DNS, not a DQ.

i believe we are investigating what this was for (whether it was a DNS or a DQ and if the latter what it specifically was for).

i just got done writing a month or so ago how ironman was the production standard by which all large races are judged. this is why i'm confident the folks responsible for the race will answer our reach-outs.

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When you click on this link that I pasted in this thread:

https://www.sportstats.ca/...d=45829&bib=1405


You get her DQ this weekend. It does not say for "what" and there is no mention of a deflategate in this sporstats link. It just says this woman has been DQ'd. If you then over on the magnifying glass symbol below here name on the box to the right all the sportstats results associated with the name Kristen Johnson comes up. There you will find the 2016 LP and Kona results for a Kristen Johnson from St. Catherines Ontario. All of this is public record.

I'm thinking of the IM LP course, on that downhill in the early part of the bike where there is a lake on the left with crappy sweeping road (unless they paved in in the past few years), how fast that is...should a tire be low it could be messy and possibly cause critical personal damage.
Has anyone heard or know of this gal has made her statement or an official statement as to what she was doing in the transition? What is HER side of the story?

Forget about waiting till the Keene downhill. On an underinflated tire right out of T1 on that super steep downhill at IMLP with the first hard right turn (off the path onto the road) and then the next downhill with the hard left turn onto the main road, on either one of those high speed turns you could do some bad damage if you did not realize that your tire was underinflated and about to "roll". Ask Beloki from the first image about tire rolls.

You did...they changed it from DNS to DQ at some point today.

Goddamn Canadians!!

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Lol yep they're fully inflated. Busted!!!

I looked at the results yesterday morning and it showed a DQ (on IM site). Then at some point later on yesterday it changed to a DNS but I also saw alot of weird stuff with previous results (for everyone) at the same time. It didn't show any of my results from the races I have done this year. I assume IM was doing something with their database (update, upgrade, backup, etc... whatever) at this time which screwed with everyone's results regardless of DQ, DNS, DNF, finish time. Then it looks like IM finished with their work to the database and the results were back to what they were showing earlier..... DQ.

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