Here are my fantasy league picks:

Mens:
1. Kristian Blumenfelt
2. Braden Currie
3. Patrick Lange
4. Gustav Iden
5. Lionel Sanders

Womens:
1. Daniela Ryf
2. Lucy Charles Barcley
3. Laura Phillip
4. Anne Haug
5.Ruth Astle

Fastest Swim:
Sam Laidlow
Lucy Charles Barcley

Fastest Bike:
Cam Wurf
Daniela Ryf

Fastest Run:
Kristian Blumenfelt
Anne Haug


I've leaned more towards those with past experience in this race, but Blu seems very hard to touch at the moment. Ryf is very hard to bet against long course.
There are so many possibilities though and really I'm just excited for a great race. I am definitely biased towards Aussies/Kiwis and other athletes I generally enjoy watching race, so who knows?! We'll find out Saturday.

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Hope this works...

Kienle in the press conf ....what was the question? LOL

Kristian seems so confident...so does Iden. Was Seb trying to play mind games talking about the experience?, because Lionel quickly said they were no rookies with all the data and tech they had developed...

Sarah True can be a factor...dont know if she is really fit, but if she is, she is a fast woman on the run... cannot wait to see

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Spaniard. Sorry for my english for the sensitive ones :P

he sure does recover well

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http://howtobeswiss.blogspot.ch/

You are correct. She did surprise me by winning the IM after a long break. I was checking her Instagram and it was mostly about baby, family and light workouts. And suddenly Bam!!! She killed it.

Fastest swim by male will be by Svensson or Amberger.

I think what I see with their training is that it’s so specific and monitored they don’t train stupid in terms of going too hard. So when that happens you don’t really need extra recovery, you simply can move on to the next thing and be ready. It’s one of those philosophies that If you need days to recover from a workout you did it wrong. With them basically turning into real life science “experiments” they know exactly what they can handle.

So the workouts are pretty much dialed in exactly and thus the recovery is there but not an abundance is likely needed due to too intense etc.

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

Does anywhere know where you can bet on the races? in the past you could... was a good way to take advantage of sportsbooks that gave good odds on the favorites.

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“The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?”- Lance Armstrong

Unbelievably, Barstool's Sportsbook had it.

I'm sure every book in the UK will be on it.

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Barstool currently has it? or last race?

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“The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?”- Lance Armstrong

I can just imagine Barstool’s Big Cat looking at tri like “look at these mofo’s wearing Lycra shorts all day” and he’ll probably put down some wages not knowing a damn thing about the athletes lol.

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

It was active yesterday -- not spotting it this morning so not sure if they closed it or what.

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That would be 100% on brand for BC.

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Yup 2017 a week out we practised whole course including hydration hand ups as planned and taking on extra salt. Week later 2nd so worked okay (except for the taking on extra salt on race day advice).

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David T-D
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got it--thanks!

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“The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?”- Lance Armstrong

Any bets on drop outs due to Covid?

It's still a few days to go and from the various videos I have seen almost no one is masking/isolating/distancing. From my personal experience, asymptomatic Covid probably wouldn't have much of an effect, but like any illness, being sick would generally be a problem.

Noticed this too and i seem to remember not that long ago the likes of Lionel staying at the back of the Pro briefing or not doing an interview here and there to make sure there was no chance of getting it, it seems now no one is really bothered about it 🤔

Both Philipp and Haug had masked up for the (so-called) Press Conference. And it's not still a few days to go: the race is 'today'.

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Yes - that's why I said "almost no one".

I'm not sure what you mean by "today"? Time from infection to symptoms can be as little as 24 hours. So lots of time still to catch and develop COVID.

Holly Lawrence and Lisa Norden got Covid after coming back from one of their races I believe. Daily cases report to CDC is about 80K a day, but many people don't even get tested or test at home, so they won't be captured. I can see cold/flu medicine shelf at Walmart has been pretty empty, so I know something is still up. Anyway, lets just hope no one get sick so everyone has a good race. Kat Mathew out is already and that's enough.

I'm not thinking of it from a spread of the virus point of view, just from a "I would hate to see some favorites have to drop out or have a compromised race" point of view. There is definitely lots of covid out there still. I wouldn't want to race with covid, or the flu or anything similar, so I'm just surprised so many people are seemingly taking no steps to mitigate risk.

So, did anyone pick Sodaro to win???

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

Dan Plews?

OK, did anyone in this thread pick Sodaro to win???

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

first triathlon was 2017.....first time kona...she won in hokas as well...

I got 9/1 on Lange to win if anyone fancies that? If I get time ill go through the bookies odds later, he was my favourite anyway.