It’s a moot point anyway, at least until she changes her mind. Waugh told Chelsea Burns on Chasing the Burn podcast this week that she wanted to go to LA. This year was about the T100 and racing some short course to not let her ranking slip too low, and then next year it becomes all about qualification for LA.
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Noticed Lehair on the 70.3 Valencia start list next weekend.
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And Eim and Knoll
And Briffod and Westermann
All looking (assumed) to get a slot for Marbella (WTCS final/season finish is 4 weeks before that)
Le Corre, Holm, Schomburg, Bitados, Westermann; and (W) Meißner on the 70.3 Venice start list, emboldened hoping to get a slot for Marbella (other two have).
3WPRO/3MPRO
just posted about it on the Pro Series 25 thread as starting a new thread for each 70.3 may not be needed!
Yes - I went to your post next!! Think analysis congruent. Mine not exclusively ‘male’.
Last year ‘we’ used the IM Pro Series thread for the ‘non-high profile but Series’ 70.3 banter.
do we have an updated world tri waiting list, i can only find 26th of march ?
That edition seems to be the latest. The start list for Yokohama has low numbers both men (51) and women (45), so maybe there IS no waiting list!
WT ‘First Looks’:
https://triathlon.org/news/first-look-at-the-womens-wtcs-yokohama-2025-start-lists
Beaugrand, Periault, Tertsch, Eim, Lindemann, Potter, Jorgensen; and going short: Waugh, Spivey, LeHair
Wilde, Pearson, Hidalgo (70.3 winner in 3:30) going short.
Who’s not there?
Yee, Le Corre, Hellwig, Lührs (post-op), Cantero, Garcia.
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Hayden Wilde with a 27:39 10k at the Asics Speed Race in Tokyo. Nine seconds short of the NZ road record.
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Can’t seem to find the results anywhere from either the 5k or 10k. Could you send a link please?
I just saw it on YouTube where they posted the top 20 in the feed.
For reference, Yee has a PB of 27:52 for 10000 meters (on the track).
Had the pleasure of running into a blast from the past- Hunter Kemper this past weekend at a U19 race in Virginia that I was recruiting at. He’s now old enough to have a son racing in the youth division of the USAT junior series events; finished 9th looks just like him; we laughed that time doesn’t slow down for anyone. Had a good chat for about 30 mins, talked about what LA will like like for US.
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Russian doper Valentina Riasova, who returned from a 2-year suspension a few weeks ago, crossed the finish line first at Chengdu World Cup - the opening shots of the world cup season (pun intended). Roksana Słupek from Poland was formally second, and Spaniard Sara Guerrero captured bronze. Top ranked starter Verena Steinhauser from Italy could see her fourth spot promoted to podium in a months, who knows. It’s 1. Słupek 2. Guerrero 3. Steinhauser to me.
On the men’s side, 20-year-old Reese Vannerson won the first Oly distance event he raced in this life and it had to be at world cup level 
(see background article). Shachar Sagiv (ISR) came second and Aussie Brandon Copeland was third.
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It’s insane that World Triathlon only gave her a 6 month ban and it was RUSADA who pushed for two years.
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Awesome to see Reese take the win
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Are these your words are ar you quoting something/one? After she’s served a two year suspension why do you think she’s likely to be suspended again. Or are you a ‘banned for life’ advocate?
"Valentina Riasova’s urine sample rom in-competition testing Sep 2021 at the Europe Triathlon Championships Valencia returned an AAF for the prohibited substance 5-Methylhexaneamine. .[“an aliphatic alkaloid with sympathomimetic and stimulant properties”] . .World Triathlon. . .imposed a ban of six (6) months on Riasova.
“The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) appealed World Triathlon’s decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), requesting a longer ban. Upholding that appeal CAS banned the athlete for two (2) years [ending] 14 March 2025”
One presumes she’s not a favourite with RUSADA: is that good or bad?
Racing again in Samarkand in a fortnight and with a couple more results like that we’ll see her well up the rankings.
Ghastly race: veritably a blow dry after the 9 at the front could/would not work together.
It’s an opinion and a somewhat informed prediction. My opinion is that two years was way too short. My prediction, based on her history of doping and her history of World Cup results (no top 10 finishes and just one top 20), is one that forum rules prevent me from posting.
Not wanting to derail the thread, but whats wrong with wanting to ban athletes for life from doping?
Nothing ‘wrong’: each to their own.
I asked because it was not clear whether @kajet was of that view (but they’ve indicated that they consider repeat offences as likely).
I deduce that the athlete concerned was not on a ‘Sport in Russia’ doping programme when she was caught because why would RUSADA then appeal the World Tri 6 month ban (must have been a reason why so lenient) and get it upped to 2 years. Maybe she has gone public against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And will transition from ‘AIN’ to another nation shortly.
On ‘banning for life’ I lean towards a rules based system (in AD as in the world order) and the current penalty tariff (with max 4 years) seems to me to balance penalizing wrong doing, detering it, but by time limiting allows redemption for individuals (especially those who are young (like this woman)). Riasova has clearly been training hard during her suspension (FP swim, hang on the bike, and run): we’ll see how Samarkand goes, up against some better runners.