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I find it interesting that people always fall back to these two second place finishes as some sort of amazing career defining moment when there have been plenty of other triathletes who have done the same but get no similar accolades. Hell,Pete Jacobs came second and then won the damned thing and he gets almost zero kudos here on ST.
I like Lionel and find him entertaining but the over inflation of his achievements is truly fascinating.
No one also says Pete Jacobs was a shitty full distance athlete. LS is polarizing. His haters give him no credit and shit on him at any opportunity and his fans overly praise. There simply seems to be no middle ground.[/quote].
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Who has said that Lionel is a shitty Ironman athlete (apart from Lionel himself)? I have said for years that Lionel is more realistic about what he has achieved that his rabid fans are.You just have to watch his YouTube vid's to see that.
Lionel is a good Ironman athlete but so many people put him in the same category as Macca,Crowie,Frodo,Lange,the Norwegians,etc,etc and he just isn't.He always had the potential to be great but it just didn't happen.
You can spin it any way you want but the stat's don't lie.