iron_mike wrote:
rrheisler wrote:
On that end, from Outside:
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Outside sincerely apologizes to followers of Outside Watch, fans of IRONMAN, and the triathlon community at large for today’s broadcast outage on our website, [/url]which prevented viewers who tuned in to that channel from enjoying a thrilling women’s IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship race.
We experienced technical breakdowns that were isolated to the website and did not affect the live broadcast in the Outside Watch app or FAST channel.
Unfortunately, the website issues disproportionately affected European viewers, and we support IRONMAN’s decision today to shift the web feed to its IRONMAN Now platform.
As passionate fans of triathlon, we’re deeply disappointed that we couldn’t bring viewers full race coverage across all of our channels, and our engineering team is working feverishly to resolve the problem.
To help fans who were unable to view today’s race, we’re making the full replay free to all users, whether or not you’re an Outside+ subscriber, along with a two-hour recap show.
IRONMAN's also announced that the race will be available on IM Now, as well as Outside Watch. So just plan on going to ironman.com/live tomorrow.
And for the record, the app didn't work here, either. So the whole "it was just our European users impacted by the app outage" line from Outside was laughable.in their defense, they say 'disproportionately," not "only." i'm all in for kicking IM/outside on this fiasco, but let's kick them for the right reasons.
at this point i think IM are doing a great job hammering nails into their own coffin. PTO/ITU are looking dangerous, superleague is still interesting, challenge is putting on a staggering show in roth . . . and IM seem to be stumbling from one failure to the next. the press they have gotten lately has been for all the wrong reasons. the race is lahti will be good, but some key names are missing and it seems to me they really, really need for nice/kona to be slam-dunks. and to have some great ideas in the off-season.
I think you are wrong here in that Ironman is hammering their coffin.
So far the complaint are about outside tv which Ironman gets paid by. Ironman quickly got it on you tube for free.
Too many commercials which Ironman get paid for! They suck but it’s business. Super Bowl has lots of commercials and we aren’t missing more video of Knibb biking ahead of everyone.
Second tier pros were the talk two weeks ago, we just saw the best females race for less money.
Why they has to race, even with 5 pto races a year they would need more to make a living with this travel and training schedule.
I think a few are easily influenced by those paid by pto to push the narrative about pto vs Ironman right now.
Plus lots of people sucked ass on their last Ironman and blame Ironman not the fact they just didn’t do the right work etc.
But the reason you haven’t heard about a bike death or swim death in pto is no age groupers are racing them.
Pto Edmonton had 200 athletes at $200. The local tri club race has More.
Notice the same blame game is not happening about everyone getting sick in Singapore. Long even said “ like everyone is quit about it” told how to push the message, controlled.
You guys want the money , bow down and ….
Remember Sam last year post worlds 70.3 vs now. They all know although pto is good you have to work for them, Ironman is contract work take what you want when you want it.
If an Ironman race had all the pros sick it would be taking about so much blah blah blah.
Itu and pto just had two races with illness issues and water quality and the Same talking heads are numb to it. You do know jack kelly is paid by pto.
I mean he just slammed the same people commentating today that he was working with 3 weeks ago. He is becoming the tucker of triathlon.
Technique will always last longer then energy production. Improve biomechanics, improve performance.
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