Why not quote where I said this athlete will never even do ITU, lol. Again I’ve said that athletes with this type of abilities can be looked at by federations. His biggest issue is that he of course likely has AG level swim talent and he’s 28. You wouldn’t even give him Cam Wurf 1 race travel support imo. But if this guy comes to you at 22, you likely put much more into the development of an athlete.
I swear monty, most of the time you make shit up to prove points.
I’ve enjoyed his videos and wish him good luck. Not entirely clear how he’s making a living after 1st Jan, does he coach or have some other income?
Focus obviously is on long course, not ITU!
… Crazy how quick he went for this 10km given (based on Strava) he’s only been training (in an non-specific way) for this race for ~8 weeks. Can’t wait to see how he goes in his first 70.3…
What everyone doesn’t seem to be understanding is that most wtcs guys swim quite similar pool times, its the handling of the scrum that differentiates them the most. Sure there are 5 or 6 outliers each race eho are marginally quicker and can get out of the scrum but the other 50 would lilely be quite similar in stand-alone pool ttrials. If you aren’t at that level you are not even top 50 out of the water.
He is an Aus, there is a new hp director and president who may look at things differently moving forward, but as we have all heard, no funding, no starts, unless you can swim within about 15 seconds of front. This also applies to athletes who have won WTCS races and rescued every series relay Aus have medalled in when the males anchored. Although, he us full of ‘good talk’ and may be able to convince them he is worth a trial as Cam Wurf did. On that note, Cam recently stated in a random, non tri podcast he will be trying for LA as a domestic for an as now top Aus junior athlete.
LOL who is that junior?
Well I think I can guess who it is (him being from Tassie as Cam is) but he’ll barely be 20 by the time LA28 comes.
Yes, and Cam will be 45, so can’t see him being any better than he was 8 years ago when he tried to talk his way into the team.
is there any indication that jimmy wants to go itu … or is this a purely hypothetical discussion
He mentioned it in his first or second video as a possibility, but it seems his focus right now is preparing for 70.3.
“I want to win a 70.3 next year, to qualify for the T100 world tour and even to look at the LA 2028 Olympics.”
Currently the top Australian men are Wurf, Royle and Appleton. Good luck to him: it’d be good to have a decent runner in that cohort.
https://stats.protriathletes.org/rankings/men?nation=AU
Wasn’t there an American woman runner about to set USA triathlon on fire (with a pleasant visage and half a million followers): Quigley?
The AGer who set the Kona swim course record this year I believe.
No, definitely not him (he’s not a junior, just a swimmer really). I think I know who that current junior is (as stated in an earlier response).
Cam said Jack, the swimmer is Sam.
I not sure what some of you are thinking here, how in the hell could Wurf domestic for a guy that out swims him by minutes?? Some must not know what the role of a domestic actually is in ITU.
It would have to be someone who swims at par or worse for it to have any chance. And no, Cam does not catch up to leading groups on his own, did everyone forget his debut at SL Malibu?
Yep, and Jack was born in 2008 I think, so as I said will barely be 20 years old by LA 2028. And hopefully by then (this is for Monty) will swim much faster than old Cam Wurf 
We all know this, really just having a laugh at the talk Cam puts out that those that don’t know believe, kind of comparing to this guy, if you state it many will believe it, that’s why he has the support from sponsors he is getting already.