I think he did extremely well. He was completely alone riding against a pack of some of the strongest athletes in the world. The tracker was showing a group of at least 20 (didn’t show more) in less than 40" and he wasn’t even losing a minute. Drafting (legal or not) must have been huge and it’s also mentally tough to go all out and see you’re not making up time with all of them packed.
Certainly needs to improve his swimming to be competitive but he chose a 5 star level race to start.
Do you have a photo by any chance? You can actually measure the distance using highway paint stripes as they have a measured length and spacing, but most of the time when fans are complaining about this they don’t realize that they are misjudging the distance based on the view angle. The marshals can provide instruction and warnings like they did to Bogen at 70.3 worlds, so it’s not fair for you to say they simply let the whole group cheat without providing any evidence.
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And more importantly, if he didn’t see the red lights flashing then there wasn’t illegal drafting. Race Ranger is used to take any question out of the zones. Red- drafting, orange- maybe yoyoing or overtaking so get a move on correcting, blue all good. This information isnt just visual, it is also sent live to official’s so they can still give out a penalty without having to be there to witness the offense.
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Exactly…RR knows exactly who is drafting and for how long during the race. Everything is recorded and can be scrutinized
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“Sal Smith” must be extremely thankful RR switched the competitors real names. But I worry there is a Sal Smith IRL on Strava or IG getting some nasty messages right now as I figure some folks missed the part that the names were changed.