2005???

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Yup.

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TBH, I had to google her and look at her Wiki profile, but I knew what you were alluding to :)

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Happened about 15m away from us & really couldn't tell in full speed. But it's pretty clear on the replay, Faldum (Hungarian in the brown suit) made a totally unpredictable & hard swerve left right into Alarza, who went down & the AZE athlete Pevtsov ran right over the top of him. The Frenchie (who got up & finished the race) swerved into the wall to avoid the mess.

The women's wreck was nasty! With my new triathlon crush Beaugrand getting the worst of it :( We were up in VIP beside the German Jrs/Coach & heard talk little later the Police motor braked hard & ripped the carpet up causing it all

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Interesting about the carpet, that would fit because when I watched it back it seemed very bizarre, there was a rider going along by herself who then went head over heels off her bike. I assume her front wheel must have snagged on the carpet. Very unfortunate.

Ouch.

Can you 'invest' in today's relay?

South Africa looks tough, and the Swiss team.

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4th isn't a bad result in today's relay for us Brits considering we didn't have any of our main players out and the massive fook up in T2 on the 4th leg.

What was up with the white tape on all of the Aussie's backs? I'm assuming kinesio tape, but seemed a bit odd.

i assumed it had something to do with the go-pros on their bikes. k tape usually isn't white and in the middle of your back.

 
Accelerometers.

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Why didn't Gomez or Mola race for the Spanish?

no lo se....

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Seems a bit arrogant to me for them to sit that out, maybe I'm wrong and they have genuine injury concerns? Alarza has a very good excuse of course.

Steve is that really true are are you winding us up?

Thanks,

Hugh

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Or Gomez doesn't even like sprint races so a super sprint may be something very disliked by him, also this race often suits the younger athletes and maybe Spain wanted to give some experience to the next gen. And prize money is much more appreciated by less highly exposed athletes, nice of them to share it around maybe.

Considering it was essentially a British C team, 4th is super solid... Everyone else is racing on borrowed podium time if they can every field a healthy team... Canada was closed to sneaking onto the podium until Lepage scrubbed out, still huge that he got up and fought his way to 5th... And Kanute... Whenever he's in the MTR, he's on fire... If there was such a thing as an MTR specialist (super sprint specialist) he's got to be up there... Was also impressed by the Dutch, super solid race from their team, and it helps to have the reigning U23 Duathlon world champ as your anchor, when it comes down to a bunch sprint in the last 800m... Especially after the alarza wreck, and the other guys sitting out, it would have been hard to bet against Australia... They had so much depth in the races on Saturday, they had enough options to likely field two teams capable of top 5 placings in the MTR (especially on the ladies side)...

The format certainly makes for exciting viewing. There's so much potential for a slight slip up to alter the outcome if teams are at all evenly matched and with the four racers there are 4 times as many likely times to slip up i.e. getting into and out of shoes, getting race kit into box etc. There's also the "nerves factor" where team mates get hyper excited for their turn to take over and are more likely to make a mistake as a result.

It's definitely way more exciting to watch than the full length Olympic format.

Hugh

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let's not get carried away with the UK team. it was their B team with the #4 ranked guy anchoring it (and the #15 guy on the 2nd leg). yes, there was no non, stimpson or holland but it's not like coldwell and hall are 2 newbie randoms thrown into the fire (they are both ranked in the top 30 in the world). however, if the UK goes with the Bs and 2 of non, stimpson and holland in tokyo, that is going to be a really hard team to beat.

why would mola and gomez do the super sprint? routier was ok on the lead-off but spain doesn't have a 2nd woman so they knew they would be losing at least a minute on the 3rd leg. gomez is not a sprinter. mola obviously is but having weak women and forcing him to chase solo doesn't play into his strengths. there was zero chance the spanish were going to medal with such a weak 3rd leg. it also was raining and the roads were slick so the chances of a crash on those windy city roads were much higher than normal. they already saw alarza get taken out in a crash so why risk a fall and a season ending injury in a race that they had no shot at podiuming on (after last year, gomez has to be particularly sensitive to potential crashes)? i do think that france has a medal potential team if beaugrand is on the third leg. that's at least a minute there. connix and luis are really good in the super sprint format.

So every nation that has no chance of medal just throws the race and tells there star players to sit it out and puts through there young hopefuls?

Looks like Murray and Schoeman didn't get the memo?

where did i say that every nation does that? i said that SPAIN did that this year and it's not that crazy. when you become a triathlete ranked in the top 10 in the world and are given the option to race a relay on windy wet streets that you have no shot at podiuming on, you can do it. i'm not going to rip on those that elect to do the opposite -- especially one who isn't a sprinter who missed the olympics last year due to an early season crash.

I was maybe a bit harsh with what I said about the UK team, the two ladies were no slouches, and Bishop is slowly establishing himself as a legit #2 male in the UK behind JB (when Ali doesn't race). I was making reference to the fact that they were still competitive, without access to their #1 male, and potentially top 3 ladies, speaking to the depth of talent that they have... They could be tough to beat if they actually had a healthy cast (although Australia is starting to re-emerge too, they have a lot of depth with a number of athletes both male and female starting to breakthrough in the ITU ranks...)...

To be fair, I think a few stars who didn't see the potential to make the podium with the cast they had, opted out not because they had no shot, but because of the carnage the day before, and the similar conditions, they didn't want to take the risk of crashing... Not to say that's the right decision, and good on some of the others who did race (although in some cases, if they hadn't, their NF would have had to withdraw because they couldn't field a team, and with the recent promotion to olympic status of the MTR, placings in the discipline can be essential to securing funding from their respective governments leading up to Tokyo so there was likely "strong encouragement" for them to step-up...)

Definitely agree. Hungary getting bronze in 2014 really solidified the relay as being the most fun event to watch, IMO.

Joanna Brown had probably the most impressive individual performance from yesterday, and it's a shame we didn't get to see if the US/Canada duo would've been able to stay away for gold/silver. Was a highly entertaining hour and a half nonetheless, and I'm really excited that the event will get an Olympic debut in 2020.

Yes, a very impressive run after doing almost all the work on the bike.

I think on Saturday in the sprint she may have been hampered by the crash and lost the front pack or would have had a higher finish. She'll do well on tough bike courses - are there any left on the WTS circuit?

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It's a bit laughable to write Gomez off at the relay distance (sprint is certainy not his strong point) if you'd have put him on that 2nd leg yesterday how much times he losing? (If any?) He's certainly doing better than whoever it was who ran that 2nd leg for Spain.

As I said maybe they both have slight injuries, but if not and I was Mola and Gomez I'd be jumping at the chance of representing my country.

Iirc 2004 Sam and Jill savage came to Logan lake triathlon as a tune up for Athens.

Many athletes still have some great memories of those two bsing with a bunch of total newbies.....basically this was a very small triathlon in the middle of nowhere (but about 1.5 hours from penticton)

Both very nice ladies and excellent ambassadors for the sport, I hope they remember small moments like this during their "retirement"

Still occasionally in touch with Sean Clarke and Tara lee Marshall (at the races) they are in Vancouver and run an excellent AG and youth program, both also great coaches and ambassadors for the sport.

Hope all is well down there.

Edit: meant for salmon Steve

Cheers,