This superseded @ajthomas initial ‘postTokyo’ ITU thread which only made it to 78 posts. @ajthomas 's post was the OP of the second thread he started in May 2022, when the Olympic Q window opened. That thread made >3000 posts and prevailed over the other competing ITU threads.
I suggest we invite/ask @Jackets (this thread’s OP) to amend his thread’s title to a more generic ‘ITU short course looking forward to LA28’ - he will think of a better title. There is lots in this thread which looks forward and a new thread would lose it all.