Massive packs on the bike, most likely will be a running race.
Cam Wurf surprisingly not gaining on the bike.
Please someone tell the commentators how to pronounce stuff!!!
They’re not in “Van D” with Nicholas “Men”, Mattia “Ciacciacelli” and some other terrible stuff. Just have some respect and learn the names at least!
Greg Welch doesn’t get anal with how first names are pronounced. No need to! He just addresses athletes by last name only. Brilliant!
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Greg Welch doesn’t get anal with how first names are pronounced. No need to! He just addresses athletes by last name only. Brilliant!
For non-U.S. audiences and U.S. audiences who have installed a VPN (ST’s vide nesting functionaltity doesn’t seem to work for live streams):
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It’s the surnames he’s completely effing up.
Brilliant indeed.
Laura Madsen with back to back im70.3 wins! Only 21y/o!
Laura Madsen with back to back im70.3 wins! Only 21y/o!
Definitely one to watch! And a T100 contract beckons for 2025!
Imponerende! New Danish comet!
Laura Madsen with back to back im70.3 wins! Only 21y/o!
Quite a lot of bad crashes as the riders went back into T2 where it had rained more than on the course and the speed made it tough to ride through roundabouts
Svenningson seems to have broken his clavicle (again). He was riding great even faster than Wurf (just like in SAF) Wishing him luck as he seldom gets to race to his potential.
Petersen had 2 technicals and a fall too at a roundabout
Guerbeur who was in the leading group also fell a at roundabout. He got a blue card at Tremblant and again rode pretty close and it somewhat looked like Frisco with lots of potential drafting calls. Guerbeur is a former Duathlon word champ who won Alpe d’Huez tri last year and is not a bad swimmer. He may be net up and coming Frenchman.
Germans had another fantastic day. Mann may not make the headlines but his score is as good as Lionel (on better fields). Vogel became the 13th German to qualify for Taupo. And many of them are young. Next year we may have Noodt, Stratmann, and Mann instead of Frenchmen Chevallier and Mignon (or/and Weiss/Kanute)
As stated in the Pro Series, Mignon and Guilloux both had pretty good results and have jumped up quite a bit in the ranking considering they both had good IM results in the 4600 range. ignon who has 70.3 WC experience showed that he could factor in both distances. Hope he just goes to Roth for the participation fee. He is already taking the T100 money to finance his IM Series expenses, he may as well continue ! As previously stated, Lange, Schuster, Guilloux and Skipper have not qualified for Taupo whereas most other contenders have.
Greg Welch doesn’t get anal with how first names are pronounced. No need to! He just addresses athletes by last name only. Brilliant!It’s the surnames he’s completely effing up. Brilliant indeed.See also pronunciation of Les Sables, and calling Pierré, Marjolaine “Jolie” (she is, but assume Welch has zero French): eventually reverts to Pierre (not recognising that funny slanty thing on top of the ‘e’).
Aside from that detail which maintains his stature/reputation as a commentator . . .
very close racing; men and women.
Top 6 men out of the water in the top 12 (in 24 seconds).
Run was about 400m short: Mann still ran effective sub 1:13, having kept mid-pack, nose out of wind all 90km. Bogen blew in last few km after a hard bike (leading the pack of ?9 for way more than fair share).
Mann has made a step change in performance from last year, confirming his Majorca win with this one. How? Coached by . ? One more performance like that and he’ll be top 8 in the PTO rankings (currently #131!): with that a candidate for a Las Vegas wildcard (half the contracted athletes will be away in the Pacific).
https://stats.protriathletes.org/athlete/nicolas-mann
Keulen’s #2 will earn him great PTO ranking points and lift him from #7 to #3 !!! above Smith, with only Long and Ditlev ahead. Wildcards Smith and Keulen head-to-head in T100 London, with others in the conversation.
Mignon has a good base for a top finish in the IM Pro Series: a good race in Frankfurt will set him up. Race Roth $$ (but only 8 days after this so assume a modicum of control here) and train through London.
Madsen’s win earn sufficient PTO ranking points to break into top 20 (currently #23, estimate #17).
Pleased to see Bartlett race so well after a challenging time with injury. https://proseries.ironman.com/watch/pro-womens-podium-interviews-ironman-703-les-sables-dolonne-vendee
She has an IMWC Nice slot.
Curran in #3 should jump about 17 places (from #50 to #33).
Just wanted to point out that in Matllorca and Les Sables T100 athletes Bogen and Margirier seemed to have the 18 km distance dialed but blew their lead - and actually both ended up 4th ! Just showed that the distance is almost the same, but note quite !