I hope to have a life threatening accident or disease some day so I can have a good victim story for the broadcast.

I’m sure this has been discussed before. I did a search and couldn’t find it

Ok lottery and corporate but come on there are a lot more who no way qualified even with roll downs

Looking at the times of many racers how do so many get in who never could have qualified even with roll down slots?

Yes there are a few corporate and some lottery but take a look there are many who don’t make the cut off times.

Ok yes there are some who qualify and then get injured or don’t train But take a look we are talking people who weigh 250 and more whose time are so slow they had to have gotten in some other way.

Not jealous as I would not want to do a full IM.

BUT am very curious

Messick said that 95% are qualified and 5% are other routes. So if the race is 2500 (let's keep the numbers easy) 125 are not qualified.

I hope to have a life threatening accident or disease some day so I can have a good victim story for the broadcast.

This is the 11 official ways that you can get to Kona.
http://asia.ironman.com/...a.aspx#axzz5TlCgLl9H

There are also sponsor slots.

This is the 11 official ways that you can get to Kona.
http://asia.ironman.com/...a.aspx#axzz5TlCgLl9H

There are also sponsor slots.

I hope to have a life threatening accident or disease some day so I can have a good victim story for the broadcast.

I would guess it is more like 10% and Messick is being very loose with his definition of qualifying. E.g., he is most likely counting Legacy as "qualifying". Unless he shows the numbers then I say it is higher than 5%.