Hamburg World’s is happening in oh about 11 hours… this is the real deal, many of the olympiads still have to earn points (check out latest triathletemag for the complicated world system) - but anyways their tricast video coverage is the real deal (and no sob stories to boot).
check it out at http://www.triathlon.org/hamburg2007.php
Current Rankings:
2007 World Cup Series Men
2007 World Cup Series Women
Women competing:
Erin Densham = AUS
Annabel Luxford = AUS
Emma Moffatt = AUS
Emma Snowsill = AUS
Kate Allen = AUT
Eva Dollinger = AUT
Tania Haiboeck = AUT
Lisa Hütthaler = AUT
Flora Duffy = BER
Carla Moreno = BRA
Lauren Groves = CAN
Carolyn Murray = CAN
Kirsten Sweetland = CAN
Kathy Tremblay = CAN
Hong Ni Wang = CHN
Lin Xing = CHN
Vendula Frintova = CZE
Jana Jirouskova = CZE
Radka Vodickova = CZE
Lenka Zemanova = CZE
Helle Frederiksen = DEN
Ana Burgos = ESP
Maria Pujol = ESP
Zurine Rodriguez Sanchez = ESP
Merja Kiviranta = FIN
Jessica Harrison = FRA
Marion Lorblanchet = FRA
Carole Peon = FRA
Michelle Dillon = GBR
Kerry Lang = GBR
Andrea Whitcombe = GBR
Anja Dittmer = GER
Joelle Franzmann = GER
Ricarda Lisk = GER
Christiane Pilz = GER
Zita Szabo = HUN
Charlotte Bonin = ITA
Daniela Chmet = ITA
Nadia Cortassa = ITA
Juri Ide = JPN
Shizuka Kutsuna = JPN
Kiyomi Niwata = JPN
Saori Ohmatsu = JPN
Akiko Sekine = JPN
Ai Ueda = JPN
Yekaterina Shatnaya = KAZ
Elizabeth May = LUX
Adriana Fabiola Corona = MEX
Melody Ramirez = MEX
Birgit Berk = NED
Lisa Mensink = NED
Taryn Mcleod = NZL
Debbie Tanner = NZL
Samantha Warriner = NZL
Evelyn Williamson = NZL
Maria Czesnik = POL
Ewa Dederko = POL
Vanessa Fernandes = POR
Anais Moniz = POR
Mari Rabie = RSA
Kate Roberts = RSA
Irina Abysova = RUS
Olga Dmitrieva = RUS
Evgeniya Matveeva = RUS
Olga Zausaylova = RUS
Magali Di marco Messmer = SUI
Daniela Ryf = SUI
Sarah Schutz = SUI
Nicola Spirig = SUI
Lisa Norden = SWE
Olesya Prystayko = UKR
Laura Bennett = USA
Sarah Groff = USA
Sarah Haskins = USA
Sara McLarty = USA
Julie Swail = USA
Margie Shapiro = (USA)
Rosemary Lopez = VEN
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Dude’s competing:
David Dellow = AUS
Matt Hopper = AUS
Brad Kahlefeldt = AUS
Simon Thompson = AUS
Simon Agoston = AUT
Franz Hofer = AUT
Axel Zeebroek = BEL
Juraci Moreira = BRA
Colin Jenkins = CAN
Kyle Jones = CAN
Brent McMahon = CAN
Paul Tichelaar = CAN
Simon Whitfield = CAN
Yiming Zhang = CHN
Jorge Arias = COL
Leonardo Chacon = CRC
Zvonko Cubric = CRO
Michel Gonzalez = CUB
Martin Krnavek = CZE
Filip Ospaly = CZE
Rasmus Henning = DEN
Javier Gomez = ESP
Ivan Rana = ESP
Jose Tovar = ESP
Frederic Belaubre = FRA
Cedric Fleureton = FRA
Tony Moulai = FRA
Samuel Pierreclaud = FRA
Stephane Poulat = FRA
Laurent Vidal = FRA
William Clarke = GBR
Tim Don = GBR
Stuart Hayes = GBR
Jan Frodeno = GER
Steffen Justus = GER
Maik Petzold = GER
Andreas Raelert = GER
Daniel Unger = GER
Daniel Lee Chi Wo = HKG
Tamas Liptak = HUN
Gavin Noble = IRL
Ran Alterman = ISR
Dan Alterman = ISR
Emilio D’Aquino = ITA
Andrea D’Aquino = ITA
Daniel Fontana = ITA
Yuichi Hosoda = JPN
Hiroyuki Nishiuchi = JPN
Hirokatsu Tayama = JPN
Ryosuke Yamamoto = JPN
Daniil Sapunov = KAZ
Dirk Bockel = LUX
Arturo Garza = MEX
Sander Berk = NED
Terenzo Bozzone = NZL
Bevan Docherty = NZL
Clark Ellice = NZL
Kris Gemmell = NZL
Shane Reed = NZL
Marek Jaskolka = POL
Bruno Pais = POR
Hendrik De Villiers = RSA
Kent Horner = RSA
Erhard Wolfaardt = RSA
Dmitry Polyansky = RUS
Igor Sysoev = RUS
Vladimir Turbaevskiy = RUS
Olivier Marceau = SUI
Sven Riederer = SUI
Ruedi Wild = SUI
Omar TAYARA = SYR
Andriy Glushchenko = UKR
Volodymyr Polikarpenko = UKR
Mark Fretta = USA
Timothy O’Donnell = USA
Andy Potts = USA
Matthew Reed = USA
Jarrod Shoemaker = USA
Joe Umphenour = USA
Ivan Morozov = UZB
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Ok last thing, if you want video interviews with both emma or vanessa that I took at lifetime in July, go here
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No Hunter Kemper. No Peter Robertson. No Greg Bennett.
Kind of a changing of the guard.
all you west coasters or college slackers…it starts in 2 hours. i have to be at work at 6:30am for a boring half day of bond trading, but those of you awake should watch the real live video coverage…
go timmy o’donnell! Go Navy!
Kemper isn’t racing at World’s as he is waiting for Beijing two weeks later, which is the first Olympic Qualifying race for the US. The first American across the line in the Beijing World Cup gets an automatic Olympic spot.
Robo had an injury, but I’m sure he’s also focusing on Beijing World Cup.
As for Bennett, I don’t know why he isn’t racing. He has been opting for the non-drafting races in the US this year (in which he is still in the running for the $300,000 bonus), so perhaps Australia didn’t take him because he hasn’t been competing on the World Cup circuit.
The Beijing World Cup in just over 2 weeks time is going to be an amazing race, perhaps more so than Worlds this weekend. A lot of countries will be using the Beijing World Cup as an Olympic qualifier (Can, NZ, US) to name just a few.
Well it looks like U23 already went, so in a few hours we will get the elites. As far as bennett goes, I have an interview with him at chicago last week, and while I left it uploading to youtube overnight, i was not too happy to walk into work today and realize that youtube “failed to upload”. gosh!
but yeah, he mentions that he wants to focus on returning usa to the glory days of chortcourse in late 80s, wants to support laura (which is something that brian lavelle also mentions in my interview with him), and he already did lys once last time around and was 4th…
Hector…
The U23 Women race is on right now…live audio coverage and a still camera in the transition zone.
Currently Jasmine Oenick from the US has a 45 sec lead after 2.5km of the run
The U23 Men go later this morning (11:45am EST)
The Elite Women race tomorrow morning (EST)
The Elite Men race Sunday morning (EST)
Dano, What did you think of the Jr race? It seems to be European dominated. North America, in general didn’t appear to be in the running with the Jr’s with the exception of a couple Canadian women who appeared close. (Aussies/NZ werent up there either in general)
These races are all sooo competitive so the stress of travel might make more of a difference for Jr’s who aren’t used to it. (??)
Jamie,
I watched the coverage of both races this morning…You’re right…it was def. European heavy at the top.
I know Canada only sent 2 men, and 3 women, that’s all they were able to send. The swims of the Cdn JR men aren’t at that top level speed, they were both almost 60" down out of the water…and then the group of 5 guys got away in the race.
I think the travel might be part of it, but part of it might also be the level of competition that they are used to racing. In Europe, I’d bet their JR races are a lot more competitive than the JR races in North America.
As for the U23 women who just went, 1 North American in the Top 10, 1 Japanese, 1 NZ, 1 AUS, otherwise heavily dominated by Europeans as well.
The U23 men should be interesting…there are going to be some guys that need to get away on the bike…hopefully it dries up (the rain has stopped there right now). I think it will come down to a huge pack coming off the bike…and one hell of a run!
Bennet isn’t racing world cups because the Aussie federation has basically been screwing him. He lives and trains in the US now, so I think they’re a bit miffed and are putting their ‘up and comers’ in the world-cup races. Greg had a bitch of a time even getting into Hyvee where he had a great race. Its a shame, because after a couple injury plagued seasons he really seems to be back on form. One of the few guys who can really excel at both the drafting and non-drafting disciplines with his solid swim/bike and still world class running abilities. Basically sucks for the guy that even though he is whipping up on the rest of the Aussie team he wouldn’t be able to go to the Olympics for them no matter what because of politics.
He’ll be there supporting his wife Laura though 
Awesome couple and have been psyched to see them doing so well this season.
The top American junior male is currently on a full ride scholarship to run at Stanford, so even though USAT sunk a lot of money into him in the last couple years, I don’t think we’ll be seeing him much while he’s running. The other American juniors are all about even, solid guys, but no one stands out. There is one guy from Southwest Florida, can’t remember his name, he was the strongest junior at the beginning of the year, but I think has a stress fracture.
That’s all fine and good, but everyone here really wants an update on H2Ofun… (-;
U23 men are racing right now…14 C and just pouring rain right now.
That bike could be pretty hectic, big groups coming around corners…
The American men are looking good right now…Seymour, Dahlz and Collington all in that 44 man lead group…
Yeah, Dahlz and Collington had bad swims, but it didn’t seem to matter. I’d be suprised if Brukhankov doesn’t win this. He’s just really fast.
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Graham