Although I realize there is limited interest in draft-legal racing in this forum, the Australia Accenture series is probably the most competitive set of short races in the world. There are some noteworthy results this year. Barb Lindquist has been awesome in all formats (sprint to enduro to olympic distance). I saw her race at the Sydney Opera House in enduro format and even though she was directed off course by the marshalls she still won easily over a great field (and she was the oldest competitor). Last weekend she won by a minute over Loretta Harop in an olympic distance race. Chris Mccormack was fifth and 37 seconds behind the winner Chris Hill in the men's race. Not bad for a guy training for Ironman Australia (he has said he thinks he can beat the Australia Ironman course record of 8:06).

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Andrew Inkpen