The bit they feature in his bio about his wins in 1997 seems weird to me…
Regardless, good on Maccer. Hopefully he’s working on that open water 1500 time! Sticksy needs him in the lead group on the bike if he’s going to be of value.
The bit they feature in his bio about his wins in 1997 seems weird to me…
yea cuz its really only important they mention his Ironman world championships. all other racing is irrelevant. including the highlights of his short course career
The bit they feature in his bio about his wins in 1997 seems weird to me…
yea cuz its really only important they mention his Ironman world championships. all other racing is irrelevant. including the highlights of his short course career
I wasn’t saying that. The Ironmans are in the headline/ title/ whatever next to his name. I just think he has big non-Iron wins more recent than 14 years ago and more meaningful to the modern triathlete. I don’t even know what the Triathlon World Championships was/is, and I’m probably towards the pointy end of the knowledge spear for their audience. What about that epic stretch after he was left off the Olympic team where he rattled of a million victories in the US?
I see that is also the first paragraph of his bio (credited to Wikipedia?!) from his website, but still odd to me. Makes him seem old and past his prime, not a current force.
Here is the paragraph in question:
hris McCormack (born 4 April 1973) is an Australian triaathlete, known affectionately to the triathlon community as Macca. McCormack began competing on international-distance courses in 1996, winning both the 1997 Triathlon World Championships and the 1997 ITU World Cup Series; to date, no-one else has won both titles in a single year.
I’d either include the second paragraph (below) or, if size is an issue, edit both down to one.
After shifting focus to longer distance racing he displayed exceptional aptitude for the distance winning many races. McCormack won Ironman Australia in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Twice he has finished the Quelle Challenge Roth, an Iron-Distance triathlon in under 8 hours, a feat only 5 other athletes have completed. In 2007 he won the Ironman World Championships in Kona Hawaii after 6 attempts at the race coming as close as second, within 2 minutes of the winner, in 2006. He again won the Ironman World Championships in 2010.