2027 70.3 Worlds Canadian Bid locations: Whistler-Penticton-Ottawa-Tremblant

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Could doesn’t mean will surely happen.

With a down river swim, it’s certainly more likely they’d be in the battle for the win than without a river swim.

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Late to this thread but whistler always has a soft spot for me. Great swim and run routes. The bike can be logistically tricky.

Also, I would vote for bringing back the old Vancouver half iron course. That course was an absolute blast. Super fast beautiful three loop bike around UBC, swim and run at Jericho Beach. This event was always a banger before Ironman bought the race series and consolidated everything to Victoria 70.3.

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Whistler has off road tri , running events etc go do them it’s fun. For me a don’t need a race in whistler to go have a good weekend there .

Vancouver half is basically the now t100 same course exactly, so that one too.

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General reply …would be awesome in Canada but looks like US location, but in that case maybe we need a 70.3 Worlds Caracas or 70.3 World Greenland … I would rather go to Puerto Rico or Hawaii if we want to think about Greenland and Puerto Rico in 1897 like we are thinking about Greenland and Venezuela today almost 130 years later

But it seems like we are getting into a window for planning. Maybe they can just rotate it between Nice , Marbella and Taupo and Oman and keep 140.6 worlds in the Kingdom of Hawaii

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So you’re thinking most foreigners do not want to visit mainland USA ?

Let’s not go to political but if people didn’t want to visit USA due to political reasons why would that same person want to go to Omar ?

Canada has the long course 2027 champs in Edmonton so I think that’s a great option for everyone.

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Apparently that would still be in the US….

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It was more of a joke about conquoring other countries. Everyone forgets how Puerto Rico and Hawaii became American. We’re roughly seeing the same play out, but it there will be lots of Europeans and Latin Americans not wanting to travel to a worlds in US (and Canadians will be 50/50…some will not touch US soil, others it’s not changing how they live). It’s not a big deal for ironman, they will fill the slots with Americans. Canadian venues could have less visitor related liability based on last summer’s tourism number that buoyed somewhat and next year probably larger because lots of trips by foreigners locked in from the winter booking for summer travel, people did not want to eat the loss. This year is a bit different in terms of personal budgets .

It is what it is but I am guessing that the rolldowns for a 2027 worlds in the US at European races may be higher. Example was Ironman Copenhagen Kona slots this August. Asking European women to make a trip to US particularly last moment, not everyone was jacked about it. (could be last moment, could be political, could be a combo).

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What “political reasons” do you think would make athletes not want to visit OmaN?
It’s a stable country: the Sultan is a rational man and the Omanis have prospered, both recently and under his father before him.
My only experience of Oman is Sur and Ras al Hadd. Would love to visit again, with or without a race.

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Exactly

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Thank you for being so succinct, albeit at the expense of clarity.
As you say “Canada has the long course 2027 champs in Edmonton so I think that’s a great option for everyone.”
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1142884/edmonton-triathlon-multisport-2027
They surely won’t be up for an IM champs race as well. And the PTO have Vancouver locked down.
I wonder if anyone has more ‘irondark’ scuttlebutt on the short short list for 2027’s championship?

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well two reasons for me would be

  1. LGBTQ rights, or lack of

  2. women’s rights. Sounds like this is improving but still falls below what I would consider supporting with my travel

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The main issue is the new Visa requirements. I have crossed into the USA countless times and while it was better over the last couple of decades than it was in the 80’s- 90’s when my parents lived in China . My unlimited Visa for China freaked USA Immigration out but we always dealt with it. The 2000’s onward have been great.

Now the social media,email and personal data requirements are just insane.If you did want to give up all that info to get your ESTA and were successful there is no guarantee that you wont come across an Immigration Officer who just wants to be a dick or is just plain ignorant of the world outside the USA.

Plenty of stories of Aussie travellers,arrested and detained for no reason in the last year. I have a brother who is an American permanent resident and no bloody way am I going to visit.

Hell,some of the things I have said about the USA bias here on ST would give some in the US Immigration enough fuel to turn me around at the airport.

This post alone might be enough.

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I haven’t seen that. It’s proposed change that might take effect on February 2026. Likely some minor changes will be made, but who knows if it will be scrapped or go through entirely.

Here’s the complete list, which I consider bonkers crazy and my tinfoil hat has me wondering if the NSA has all this data stored/hacked they can have AI query on demand as part of accepting or flagging applicants. Makes one sick to wonder how this ever gets untangled (as surely it will be happening everywhere eventually).

  • Mandatory social media information collection. CBP is planning to add social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application and will require applicants to provide their social media information from the five years preceding their application.

  • Additional required personal information. CBP intends to add several data fields to the ESTA application “when feasible,” including:

    • Telephone numbers used by applicant in the preceding five years;

    • Email addresses used by applicant in the preceding ten years;

    • IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;

    • Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children) and dates and places of birth;

    • Family telephone numbers used in the preceding five years;

    • Family member residences;

    • Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

    • Business telephone numbers used by the applicant in the preceding five years; and

    • Business email addresses used by the applicant in the preceding ten years.

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