There may be a language thing at work. What you said is not the typical meaning of "prick", at least in the US.

His statements may seem "matter of fact", but I don't believe they actually are. He is always playing games! Michael Jordan and other champs did that as well.

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Aaron Bales
Lansing Triathlon Team

Sorry Fleck but track and field is an amazing spectator friendly sport. Alas, watching Alistair all day for 3.5hrs isn't great tv. It's just sad that no one came close enough to make it a real race right until the very end. I really don't think AB was running close to hard.

The money isn't there, it's not worth televising and costs too much to produce.

Perhaps his goal is to have "Sir" before his name.

Not only does he not get it he must have never seen Brownlee race. If you want to know if he's going hard, just see if he's running in a straight line before the finish. I don't think there's ever been someone racing tris like he does, he looks like he'd rather passout dead before the finish before he lets someone beat him.

 


The Brits on here seem sensitive to any notion that Brownlee would do anything other than totally dominate this race, and how dare anyone suggest otherwise. Well, you can breathe a sign of relief now that he has his big 33 second victory in impressive fashion. All is right in the world.

I disagree. Olympics are king.

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Got to love Lionel's post race tweet:)

"Congrats @AliBrownleetri. We have officially entered the New Era. On my way to the pool as we speak.."

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Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

If I were Brownlee I'd tweet back, "Pool, huh? Like it will matter."

:-)

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Completely agree. I really think Brownlee will leave Frodo in the dust and with Gomez focusing on ITU, does 70.3 and IM racing really provide enough of a challenge?

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I am not writing off Frodo in the Brownlee vs Frodo battle. They will both swim and bike together and then go head to head during the run. The assumption is that AB will outrun Frodo. I don't know if that is a totally good assumption for sure at 70.3 distance. I believe they are going head to head pretty soon, so let's see!

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. I believe they are going head to head pretty soon, so let's see![/quote]
What race?

I hope so!..... but AB just showed he's in a different league than Frodo on the bike. Am I wrong on that point?

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Hyperbole is fun, but let's be serious. We can have that conversation after he wins 70.3 Worlds and Kona. Right now he had a helluva race and has tons of potential. I'm in the "he'll get hurt less going long" camp, and I'd expect him to win both and go for GOAT status.

All that being said, I doubt he would say it is going to be easy. I'd love to see an Ironwar with him and Frodo!

If ITU goes to the sprint distance for 2020 I'd expect Gomez to fully commit to going long as well - that doesn't seem to be his distance. Love to see those three duke it out!

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Aaron Bales
Lansing Triathlon Team

Ive been consistent in saying, soon as AB moves over to Kona change the zip Code on 2nd place. It wont be close. I think the only one who can get close is Gomez. And it will need to be a very hot day for that.

This is not to suggest my heart doesnt cheer for LS. Im canadian. Saw him swim when he started and told Barrie to call Cycling Canada because we have a track cycling medalist here but not a triathlete!!!! Even from start it was clear watching his bike power. World class. Now he's chipping away at swim and definitely proving me wrong which is awesome. Its getting better.

Going to get harder though with Frodo & Gomez & AB flooring the swim and gap everyone. 2018 show down it looks like. Looking forward to it

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33s... GTFO

If I were Brownlee I'd tweet back, "Pool, huh? Like it will matter."


What a dick reply!!!

Mike Alexander wrote:

. I believe they are going head to head pretty soon, so let's see![/quote]

What race?[/quote]

I see Frodo and Brownlee on the Barcelona 70.3 start list:

http://www.ironman.com/...startlist%20pros.pdf

95% of citizens in the USA know what Kona is.

Yeah cause we all know the colonels been racing sooo long now that he's got zero room for improvement .

Except that being a household name in the UK is a bigger market than being well know triathlon name in the states.

Of course, if he could crack being a household name in the States.... but have any triathletes ever truly done that? Is Gwen? Were Mark and Dave?

You missed one very important word out - American

There rest of the world is well aware that Ironman <> Triathlon and Triathlon <> Ironman.

Nevermind Leanda (who in any case is more Aussie than Brit), most wouldn't know who Chrissie is. And of those none tri folks who do, most would know her as a parkrun ambassador rather than as 4 time Ironman world champion.

Nope.

Triathlon is a niche sport.

Outside the US, long distance triathlon is a niche distance of a niche sport.

In the UK, when Chrissie was racing, there was only one IM and one 70.3 (amongst many many long distance races), Chrissie only ever raced the 70.3 once, before she won her first Kona.

She is barely known as a triathlete in the UK. She is somewhat known as a parkrun ambassador.

AB's not stupid - earned a place at Oxford (or was is Cambridge?) to study medicine - so he knows what he's saying, and how it might be taken.

But, he's also plain speaking and generally doesn't bullshit.

He didn't give that answer to rub LS's face in it, he answered a straight question with a straight answer, but he would have been well aware that that answer also put down a marker for all his rivals - this is what I can do after 6 months on the piss and only a couple of months "proper" training, be afraid!

If it was anywhere remotely approaching even the vaguest outskirts of 95% of Americans knowing what Kona was we wouldn't all have been following this race on live timing. This comment thread would also be closer to being on page 150 than just reaching 15. There is no way in hell it's at all close to 95%.