Well you know, at this point nobody believes it’s bad luck anymore, right? Riding over the dismount line, dropping stuff, crashing on the way to the race “because it was still dark”, unclipping his helmet too early, losing a shoe…
A superfun loveable guy who just doesn’t share the popular “I’ll practice this and prep this just in case that happened” mentality that keeps people out of trouble. Just a theory!
Whats going to be interesting is when he goes up to longer distances, seems to be more chance of ‘bad luck’ happening to him to me, or maybe he just irons out all these ridiculous things happening to him that ruins his races with experience/maturity.
Yes really enjoy supertri. Disappointing again for Brownlee racing team. Think the decision to go non+ wetsuit really didn’t help.
GTB is an animal at this kind of racing. She went non wetsuit and was behind at the beginning. But she just seems to be so ,“on” at the moment , that it didn’t affect her.
Why do you think Beth has such a hard time with this format? Too short,? Bike too technical? After all she started biking really late in life compared to most of the others, who probably grew up on bikes.
Exactly this I think, the bike handling seems to be a weakness and any weakness at all in this format will drop you down.
Generally the best all round triathletes will medal, interesting to see your Fulgars and Mathias have monster bikes, but runs letting them down again, any weaknesses get exposed.
supertri has all the timing of each race since 2021 in their website. Someone else could do a deeper analysis, but casually looking at Potter’s progression, it was her swim deficit that caused her relatively weak bike leg especially in 2021. But she’s improved a lot in the swim especially last year and her bike leg is quite okay compared to the top women. I mean she’s training in Leeds and I don’t think bike handling is an issue even if she started late. I think she’s been underperforming this year after a massive year in 2023 because her run hasn’t been up to par. I’ve said before that it’s probably from the swim and bike focus she’s done to peak for Paris.
I’d agree with all that if Potter hadn’t have gone and got the 2nd at Weihai, (beating GTB by about 40secs)
Another great sprint finish. Yee’s race craft on the run is underrated. Bergere just left a little bit of space on the final turn and Yee covered that gap quickly to run for the win.
Very dramatic races, action packed. Podium Racing at the forefront of events despite Hauser not being able to turn up, loved it! Lehair is just such a gritty and bold racer on top of being one of the most likeable triathletes on the circuit. Comedy Central turned out to be co-sponsoring the event when she ran with the helmet in her hand, and then Wilde had one of his usual adventures with the helmet run 
One gripe I have with Neom is obviously the course. I do think they made it worse compared to last year, when (in addition to being boring and spectatorless) it was more open and the crosswinds were breaking up groups on the bike. This year the one thing breaking up groups was moto pacing. Two uberrunners riding away and the breakaway sticking in the women’s race was a bit ridiculous. Plus, the crashes could be related to wind blowing sand onto the tarmac? I thought Malibu was a thing of the past…
Love supertri
Always exciting to watch
I can guarantee that GTB would swap the SuperTri series winner for an individual Olympic medal in a flash.
Beth had one focus this year and it was Paris. She has openly admitted that she has struggled emotionally since then. Beth can ride front pack so to say she doesn’t have the technical skills is hard to understand.
I am struggling to see where SuperTri can sit permanently in an Olympic cycle during the qualifying period.
Does anyone know why Milner travelled to Neom but didn’t get to race?
i think he got 5 k for fastest series runner so i guess super tri invited him to be on podium.
FTFY
Lets get the moans out the way first, couldn’t watch live, so why couldn’t SuperTri upload the race straight away after it had finished to stop the race results being SPOILED on social media?
As someone above has mentioned it was clear from the camera, that whoever was at the front of the bike was getting a beautiful moto draft.
Moans aside, two great races and still can’t work out why people were running around with helmets on!
Luis last short course race but no so Brownlee? Whats his plans then? (Not a bad result at all from Jonny considering)
To have the three Olympic medalists sprint finish at the end gave the season final it deserved, hope Supertri can get more attention to it next year.
The moto draft was a shame following the moto-less camera setup in Toulouse which featured several fixed cameras and drones.
In terms of the format, I would have wanted to see an actual relay in the event. Since each team has 8 athletes in total and they’ve standardized the format to be a 3x swim, bike, run, I think a relay with one athlete doing a leg each plus another one doing an extra leg would be exciting and will get more buy-in for the team dimension.
For example Brownlee Racing did poorly in terms of individual results, but imagine a relay team with the likes of Mathias, Fullagar, and Brownlee doing the swim and bike legs with Potter, Yee, and Milner doing the run legs of that relay. Even if they were bottom of the team standings, they’d probably give Crown or Podium a run for their money. Heck even Stars and Stripes would also be competitive in that.
They can even restrict the gender per leg to have F-M-F/M-F-M/F-M-M to minimize massive gaps if it was a mixed gender leg especially on the bike and run.
Doing a relay isn’t a bad idea at all, only problems I see is making it a two day event (cost) and if its a one day, teams not committing certain athletes appearing in the relay in the individuals.
Saw an Newsweek article this morning highlighting a shocking number migrant worker deaths in constructing Neom. 21,000 deaths since 2017 was the estimate.
I was like…Neom… wasn’t there a superleague tri there? I’d venture 99.99% of Americans have no idea this place is being built. does it have more mindshare in Europe/ Asia? The scale and ambition of it blew my mind.
I’m sure most people have heard of ‘The Line’ which is that ambitious 170km long ‘linear city’ they’re building. It’s 1 of 9 mega projects in the region which also includes the Asian winter games ski village and a bunch of mega resorts/cities on the Red Sea.
Living in the region I know of many people who have made the move there to make bank while the sun shines.