Double BTS bottle - not seen her rocking that before.
Edit: Way better Slowtwitch photos.
Are all of the faster women rolling with horizontal double side-by-side bottles BTS?
Knibb a few posts up. LCB too. Maybe not Philipp. Clutterbuck:
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Interesting trailing edge underneath the bottles
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Ten great minutes from Taylor Knibb
https://youtu.be/1lEt0USb6RU?si=WffwirjOFA5FB2iF
Dr Sara Svensk:
Why did they shorten the Hoâala practice swim today?
Oh man, that really sucks. I remember one year I basically just went to Kona to do this swim, and then secondly watch the race later in the week. It is an iconic swim and certainly most all doing it want to test themselves on the actual course..Also wonder what happened?
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Did any of the favorites do the swim?
Live results for the swim here: https://sportstats.one/event/hoala-swim/leaderboard/144948
Yes they did shorten the swim to about 2600m!
and why did they shorten it the official was 2.74 k and I saw a few 2.78 and 2.8 k swim files.
Taylor going back to short course and road racing for the Olympics?
Are there âin personâ interviews this year or is it all virtual interviews (hell I donât even know if thatâs the norm now). I guess it also shows I dont know when the last BWB interview I actually cared to watch (love him for what he has done for the sport, but havenât watched an pre race interview in years, donât get much âintelâ from his interviewsâŚbut his cheerleader puff pieces are exactly what the athlete and sport need as well)
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Bob got to Kona yesterday and is plsnning his usual live interviews from Mon.This interview was done last week and can only imagine it was early for a reason. Maybe some of the big names just wanted to get them out of the way.
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Have to confess slight disappointment that these two will not be interviewed directly âOn the Rocksâ.
On the plus side he shared 35 minutes when normally heâs limited to, what, 15 minutes. A series of unheard anecdotes from Taylor all through the interview. As for the above posterâs ânot much âintelââ [SPOILER=â2027â]her intent to get stuck in to SC and cycling TT again next year[/Spoiler] because she likes to race and you canât do nearly as many if you race full distance races which take a lot of prep and a lot out of you.
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The side stories were great. I wish we got to hear more of the everyday funny stories from all the athletes. Iâll take funny anecdotes over power numbers any day of the week.Michelle Vesterby was great for that.
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As you pointed to, if they only have 15 mins itâs going to always be a puff piece. This was surprisingly 45 mins, so sorta no duh some âintelâ is going to be discussed. Knibb has this personality trait seemingly of âquittingâ something in the moment in her head with seemingly every race she does (she spoke on this in the TC video just released), and then after the fact, getting back into a routine. While she was saying she wasnât going to race an parking lot itu race in LA, she was imo always going to race a home ITU olympics (sheâs still âyoungâ); even if sheâs full of IM training in that cycle (so far that arenât that many US women who are pushing non specific itu athletes out of the way). You basically summarized why I donât really watch Konaâs BwBâs until post race, they are just 15 min car wash with all the heavy hittersâŚ..pleases the sport, please the sponsors, but those offer very little intel.
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Looks like a lot of the women pros and really none of the men contenders. Good on the ladies for having some fun while still getting in their last minute workouts. Lucy won the ladies of course, but an age grouper male will out in front of the short swim..
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Strong first day lineup. I imagine athletes want to get it over with.
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Taylor said a lot of stuff that makes you think she might have her best Ironman event ever .
not sure why it matters if bob is live with the person or not ??? I listen to these on AirPods and never see you screen anyways?
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