Probaly the Brownlee brothers finish in Cozumel in ‘16 was the closest to the Julie Moss moment we’ve probaly ever had and then the associated “world wide press” from it. To the point AB was sorta wondering what all the fuss was about during most of the interviews. I don’t think you can get much influence from age groupers finishing in 1883 and 5 hours after the 1st person even if they are an “influencer” and it’s some epic crawl yourself to the finish line type of moment. Hell at this point, your not even going to be allowed to finish if your falling over all the place with 2mi to go with as much medical help is likely going to be around said incident. So I wouldn’t even think we could even see an Julie Moss type of finish with today’s medical standards.
I’ve had a few people tell me they saw that clip when I mention that I do triathlons and how inspirational it was (or some variation). Then when I explain what was going on, I always get the “oh, I guess that’s good too”
Part of it has been pushed through the inspiration machine and stripped of its context.
Wasn’t the Julie Moss moment on NBC or some major broadcast network? We just don’t have any outlets these days that get anywhere near that number of viewers. I’d say we’re more likely to have a clip of someone shitting their pants go viral than some sort of inspiring moment.
ABC’s Wide World of Sports as part of an hour long pre-recorded coverage of the race.
My favourite one..
Paula’s was pretty epic..
The scariest one
Has anyone else watched the Roth documentary called We are Triathletes? I call it a Roth documentary because that’s basically what it is. Sort of similar to the NBC Special on Kona where they followed some pros but mostly amateurs.
Yep.
This is always why the NBC broadcast of Kona was interspersed with the so-called human interest stories…because those were what sold the pro race to a broader audience, not the other way around.
Brownlees at Cozumel 2016 always seemed cringe AF for me. Starting with allegations of Mola that Alistair ripped his goggles and cap at the start of the swim and ITU not even conducting an investigation and then Alistair pretty much carried his brother through the line, is that even within the rules? i.e. can an athlete carry an athlete like that during the run. Anyway, this does not come close to Julie Moss epic scene.
It was within the rules at the time, the rules were changed after IIRC
Was it within the rules in 2016? Yes - there was also about an hours worth of appeals that all went back and forth because of it.
is it allowed now? No
Regardless of what you feel about it, it created a weeks worth of coverage from all over the world etc. so I think your argument is semantics.
Hell the “help” Moss got wouldn’t even be within the rules now if we are wanting to be pedantric I wouldn’t think. Both literally were helped and at times carried along the road to the finish. This idea that moss did it solo is a bit revisionist history.
Thanks, so lame…but within the rules.
Anyway, nowhere close to Julie’s standalone effort.
“it created a weeks worth of coverage from all over the world etc”
So did Gary Brolsma’s Numa Numa video in the early 00s. But again, cannot be compared to Julie’s epic scene.
Ok dude if you want to argue that go right ahead lol
both athletes got assisted to the finish line, how is one cringe and one isn’t? Which is why BB got all the coverage of the heroic just as Moss did and became the most iconic IM moment ever. If that’s your opinion cool but both were literally thre same damn thing lol. Wiling themselves to the finish line with “help”
Will the ptn guys say Lionel should lose his pro licence because he’s interfering with the women’s pro race ???
No. but they will promote the 30 m draft zone as this is really the issue. Both Lionel and Sam get cheated with the 20 m draft zone.
No, because Sanders went through T2 more than 20 minutes before Knibb and Loevseth came in. Would’ve been cute to see Loevseth run past him, though.
The following MPros were caught on the bike: Lukacs, Fuskevaag, Richard, Stahl, Ion, Quinn, Readmann, Arishita, Weaver, Saroni, Jackson; and a few who DNFd on the run.
Most of those who biking well slower than the two women: all except Fuskevaag, Richard who were (more or less) same speed.
It’s a joke. Fucking internet.
Hot take
Pro tri news shit on the fact RVB was on the pro panel over ( they didn’t say it but , Sam long , Lionel … they said other American )
And he was top 5 and under 7:30!!!
Shit that’s hot. And he didn’t wear those bison horns either so he won and won .
RVB is just one of those quiet athletes that keeps showing up. I believe he said he wasn’t in the best shape recently which if true, makes his result today even more impressive. You have to hand it to the guy, he seems to show up, in a very quiet way, when it matters.
PTN loves to hate when their bias’s aren’t given preferential treatment.
I think the lesson here is
When you are winning training sessions you are likely overreaching and risking a bad performance.
When you are healthy , fresh and feel sessions are good but not amazing you have extra energy on a race day.
Anna haug kona win, Gustav many times, Casper last year.
Kristen made sure to win training vs Gustav and Casper in 2025 , I think he learned a lot from that and we see it in 2026 .