Joe Skipper didn’t want to pay British Tri’s pro license fee last year so he got his license from USA Tri instead. Maybe USAT’s fees are too expensive for him this year too.
At some point this is going to catch up to him and cost him more than a few hundred bucks.
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With short course racing, one is really dependent on federation support. In some countries, it is relatively generous, basically you won’t starve but the prize money is woeful and little sponsorship opportunities
Glad he is making some good cash moving to middle distance and hopefully we will see a T100 debut soon enough
it was not the pro license fee , he argues ( and in my mind correctly) he should not have to pay for a race suit as an elite athelte at elite long course world champs.
i would agree its not worth the hassle to argue about it, as at the end of the day, iam sure its part of the athelte agreement he signed, but on principle, i think he is right.
one should not have to pay for an elite race suit.
I knew about the situation with Brit Triathlon but had never heard anybody mentioning his new change of affiliation.
Checked today the updated list of qualified athletes and Le Corre is listed as ‘Saudi Arabia’, which is really strange. A couple of years ago Le Corre was military world champion as he benéfited from the ‘armée des champions’ program through which athletes receive a salary and possibly early retirement benefits in exchange for PR; Wondering if its a typo, else not sure that the French federation and the army would find it ok.
On the nation front, Zorgnotti listing as French Polynesia is a bit like If Main chose to represent Scotland…
Also noted that so far only 9 athletes are qualified for both WC: the 2 Norwegians, RVB, 3 Germans (Dreitz, Hirsch and Schomburg), Riddle, Aernouts and… Brazilian Toldi. Not sure many would have bet on that one.
I would not take this so seriously there is obviously something going on with the flags being used.
I would assume lovato and griesbaur got the job to put flags besides the atheltes…
its like ironman selecting myself to check if the spelling of atheltes is correct.
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70.3 Aix-En-Provence (France) looking tasty! I’ve not post the 2nd page of the pro list as I’ve never heard of anyone on there, don’t want to upset anyone though so let me know if I should have!
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I’ll see your 9 and raise you 9 (WPros), to whom add Philipp (assume 70.Qs at Kraichgau):
| Surname | First Name | Country | KQ | 70.3Q |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Græsbøll Christensen | Katrine | Denmark | IRONMAN South Africa | Gdynia |
| Hollioake | Regan | Australia | IRONMAN Malaysia | Geelong |
| Lumkes | Gabrielle | United States | IRONMAN New Zealand | Geelong |
| Matthews | Katrina | United Kingdom | IRONMAN Texas | Tallinn |
| Perterer | Lisa | Austria | IRONMAN Cozumel | Cozumel |
| Reischmann | Anne | Germany | IRONMAN Cozumel | Venice |
| Sanchez | Marta | Spain | IRONMAN Barcelona | Western Australia |
| Strehlow | Annamarie | United States | IRONMAN Chattanooga | Indian Wells, La Quinta |
| Knibb | Taylor | United States | IRONMAN Texas | AQ as WC 2024 |
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Cameron Main is on the second page, he was 2nd in Venice 70.3 on the weekend and 4th at Geelong 70.3 in March.
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the course was pretty much the same as the past years. I raced there last year and it’s quite tight, with some dodgy sections, such as the wooden bridge where you do a U-turn and the 2 other bridges built for the race which are steep, tight and slippery.
It is stupidly fast being so flat, but this year looked much worse in terms of drafting. There were groups last year, but not as big as what I saw this year.
Le Corre is listed as racing for france in World series Alghero in a few weeks.
from the St George race day thread
No chance. I’ve just looked for any women here that might be top 15 in the IM Pro Series and came up with just two: Hering and Wilms. The former is racing Hamburg (NB Matthews, Haug and Philipp making ‘every second counting’): not sure about the latter: I guess Cairns and IMLP would work.
A 70.3 weapon (eg Findlay) might be up there with 3 plus 2 IMs but that would mean a good result at IMLP (at the Pro Tri News live show I detected some wavering there), and then she’d have to race Kona ‘as well’.
As for Sanders or Long “wiggl[ing] into the [IM Pro Series] conversation” Long has T100s to race - so ‘no’. Sanders seems all in on IMWC Nice (NB both already Q). Whether he races IMLP as a ‘tester’ is a strategy he’ll have to discuss with his coach. IMLP is only 7 weeks before Nice, though.
Good results for Sanders at IMLP, IMWC and Marbella would net him (estimate) 17,700 points. That would’ve got him #6 last year, but there are several others in the mix this year, so maybe just into top 10 (on 2 IMs plus 3 x 70.3s). His sickness after Oceanside and thus inability to include Texas in the California-Utah sandwich has cost him big time, unless he travels to Cairns (echoes of Long’s 2024 flip-flop). I can’t see him losing focus on Nice for that, despite it possibly worth $50k.
Hamilton goes top of the standings, with Wurf second: transitory. I guess both will race Cairns for ‘easy’ points.
Findlay only mover in WPro top 10, but three IMs are required to be in the running (applies to Birtwhistle too).
Riddle (M8) is a DNS, apparently
Race #7 on the IM Pro Series
Thorsten’s seedings:
https://www.trirating.com/70-3-aix-en-provence-2025-may-18th-seedings/
He has Schomburg up there.
Riddle maybe not DNS.
Main mentioned from page 2.
Le Corre has to be a threat to the Norges.
Stornes and Stratmann keen to nail a Marbella slot.
WPro:
According to that ‘look forward’ Løvseth and Curran are late additions. Otherwise Perterer will start favourite, I’d have thought, but only 3 weeks for the latter after Texas. Morier and Diederiks may have a say, besides the very low bib numbers (above). Also note SC athlete Meißner.
Start time and how to watch live
Starts 7:00 CEST Sunday (6:00 BST and 01:00 ET)
The race will be broadcast live and for free across multiple platforms for viewers around the world including https://proseries.ironman.com/, Outside TV for US and Canada viewers, DAZN, iQIYI, L’Equipe Live, and YouTube among others.
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IM Hamburg start list is out (24 listed).
Hering, Philipp, Matthews and Pierré top of the list.
No Haug.
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Go behind the scenes with Wilhelm Hirsch, Marjolaine Pierré, Jonas Schomburg, and Bradley Weiss in this pre-race episode of a A Fighting Chance presented by HOKA.
Starts at 7:00 a.m. CEST Sunday May 18 which is 6:00 BST and 01:00 a.m. ET
Broadcast live and for free across multiple platforms for viewers around the world including proseries.ironman.com, Outside TV for US and Canada viewers, DAZN, iQIYI, L’Equipe Live, and YouTube among others.
Dickenson leads out of T1 Aix-En-Provence
KB all of 20sec back coming out of T1. Will be interesting to see how he rides the course with the climbs.