Boxer Tom Fury's T100 finish meets Marathon Investigation!

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I really wasn’t aware of this person, but MI was on the case.

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Pathetic. And to say he did it on 10 days training. These celebs & influencers invading triathlon has to stop. Also, what is this running style. :rofl:

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Totally agree. Bring people with low integrity into a sport that mainly relies on honesty and integrity. This is what you get. An embarrassment. You are responsible for ensuring you complete everything no one else. Pretty annoyed by it. With T100’s ambitions of trying to become as big as F1 or UFC I imagine this will become a more regular occurrence

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T100 responds!
""Due to our permit for the road closures in France, unfortunately Tommy and some other athletes in the 100km amateur race were unable to complete the bike course before the cut off time. However, given our philosophy to grow the sport and encourage new athletes, we wanted to give them as full an experience as possible. So they were all given the opportunity to do the 18km run and cross the finish line. Although these times were not counted in the official results. Tommy battled on the swim, which impacted his bike leg. But he was determined to continue and completed the 18km run.”

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I wonder if thats how T100 also views Hayden Wildes shoes hes been wearing in 2 of their races

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Hang on, spill the beans here if you got them.

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Love this. I started the run the same time as him and I was pretty certain he hadn’t done the full bike.

That’s fine, I know others that didn’t make the bike cutoff as it was quite tight. But just be honest about it!

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find out more here. [Professional Triathlon News on Instagram: "World Triathlon has confirmed to teams that the ASICS Metaspeed LD 2F and Metaspeed Ray are not authorized for WTCS competition before Sept 11, 2025 under World Athletics’ approval process. ASICS also notified athletes (Aug 1) to race only “inline” Metaspeed Sky/Edge Tokyo models and that any prototype use could lead to disqualification. The WA approved list is public: certcheck.worldathletics.org/FullList. Over the last two weeks, images and broadcast audio show athletes racing in what appear to be Metaspeed Ray—including Sam Long (London) and Hayden Wilde (this past weekend). Hayden acknowledged post-race that the model wasn’t yet approved. This isn’t a shot at the athletes—their performances stand. This is about consistent rule enforcement and a level field. If a shoe isn’t approved yet, it shouldn’t make it to the start line. Questions for @t100triathlon @ironmantri @worldtriathlon : • Should pre-start shoe checks be mandatory at WTCS & aligned events? • If a non-approved shoe is used, what’s the remedy—warning, DQ, or results unaffected? • Who’s responsible—athlete, brand, team, or organizer? Sources in slides: • Email from World Triathlon operations clarifying the Sept 11, 2025 earliest-use date. • ASICS internal athlete memo (Sent August 1st) directing “inline only” & banning prototypes. • Video with Hayden and his Coach - Race photos of the models used."]

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It’s not like they are hidden or painted or what ever. The race allowed it by not checking them because they understand it’s complete BS.

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Interesting. It’s pretty dumb to say that shoe is illegal this week but legal next week.

If it was an outright violation of the rules shoe, fair enough. But the whole notion of this shoe is legal, but you need to wait until it’s publicly launched is dumb.

Almost no one will still be able to get it on launch date, and even if they do, the sponsored competitor still has an eight week head start in training with it. There’s no level playing field here and we also know that other shoes are likely as fast or faster.

Nothing burger. I’m not in favor of giving technocrats who want to amass more power to their organization a say over what athletes can use and win in general anyway (within reason obviously).

Getting down to millimetres of stack height gets very stupid, but ok, go there. But then you give the mouse that cookie and they want to assign blackout dates? Kick rocks, no milk for you.

At the end of the day, this is a marketing ploy by Asics to get attention to their new shoe that would otherwise be lost in the noise. So keep fanning their flames.

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That’s a very Rev3-esque response. (Which isn’t shocking, given that Eric Opdyke is there now.)

Works for me.

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But they are listed on world athletics site they cannot be worn in competition until that date and Hayden has worn them now for London and Frejus…

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:wind_face: :fire::fire::fire:

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Going back to the actual topic of this thread, what a little little person Tommy Fury.
Bragging he completed it by training only 10 days, yet he missed the cut-off for both swim and bike, skipped 30k of the bike and then ran like a duck bragging. Go back to Love Island.

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After the suicides (at least 1) from people this dude has gone after, I don’t understand how he continues this.

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It seems that since London, T100 has been pivoting to more influencers for their marketing. You can see it even in their prerace series which featured some age-groupers/influencers. It’s just aligned with their new business model to increase participation in their events.

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I think the “Influencer Ironman” thing is pretty funny. There is no point for experienced triathletes to get all wound up about it (unless you are in the younger female age groups watching influencer newbies podium.:rofl:).
I do like giving some of the pro CrossFitters a hard time for thier slow times though.
If it brings eyes to the sport then it is all good.

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I was more thinking the other way. In the past he’s gone safe targets - middle aged journos, dentists etc. Never really any risk in that for him. But to take on one of the Fury clan is a real step up in the stakes :wink:

I still don’t count my first half distance race as legit as I walked a fair bit of the ‘run’. So my take is as @ThailandUltras - let people do their own thing unless it’s impacting podiums, prizes or qualifications.

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I still don’t count my first half distance race as legit as I walked a fair bit of the ‘run’. So my take is as @ThailandUltras - let people do their own thing unless it’s impacting podiums, prizes or qualifications.

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The only ones I have issue with are the ones who think the rules of the sport dont apply to them.
One this week had her followers saying “you paid the entry fee you can do what you want”,after she mentioned she got a couple of warnings and a penalty

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Can you explain how PTN thinks calling Hayden out is okay but when Imogen Simmonds broke the rules it was silence?