The preliminary start lists for T100 Singapore are out: https://triathlon.org/events/start_list/2024_t100_triathlon_world_tour_singapore/638335
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Opt outs are:
Women: Holly Lawrence, Paula Findlay, Daniela Ryf, Skye Moench, Tamara Jewett, Emma Pallant Browne, Kat Matthews, Anne Haug, Laura Phillip, Taylor Knibb, Flora Duffy and Taylor Spivey.
Men: Mathis Margirier, Marten Van Riel and Rico Bogen.
Thanks for posting. So far it looks like the men have suscribed to the “season long narrative” idea, unlike the women.
Unless I’m reading it wrong and it has to do with Kona being “more of a world champs” than Nice and the guys wanting to accumulate T100 races earlier in the season to be able to alter their prep with their minds set on 140.6 Hawaii later on.
According to Pat Lemieux, if you are a contracted athlete who regularly opts out of races after DNFing, you’re reducing your chances to get another contract next year. May not apply to people who genuinely got injured or ambulanced out of the venue like Matthews and Pallant.
Thanks for posting and well… Men list looks super exciting, but women list looks still exciting (Sodaro vs Gentle vs Charles-Barkley, plus others).
Singapore got bad reputation from the last year’s sickness (whether it was covid in hotel, food or water, it doesn’t matter that much now). It’s also pretty far away for everybody, with the most convenient being for Gentle, Watkinson, Sodaro (quite established in Oceania) and Simmonds (she used to race in SE Asia quite a lot).
Great to see Max Neumann back, also happy to see Mika Nootd with the wild card.
What’s wrong with the girls? More opt-outs than starters. Field gets weaker and weaker… If they already start missing races when the calendar is not super busy and they’re not injured, it will be difficult to meet the 6 races. There will be many who don’t fulfill the contract for sure.
What’s wrong with the girls? More opt-outs than starters. Field gets weaker and weaker… If they already start missing races when the calendar is not super busy and they’re not injured, it will be difficult to meet the 6 races. There will be many who don’t fulfill the contract for sure.
yeah, it’s strange - you’re really putting yourself in a difficult position for later in the year.
on the other hand, singapore is a LOOONG travel for european and north american athletes, and - like florida - it will be really hot and humid for early season.
i think this is one of the big limits on the ‘season long narrative’ that they want to build. F1 drivers and ATP tennis players travel the world, but they fly first class with a team of physios, and sleep in 5-start hotels and so on. triathletes are grinding it out in economy and building their own bikes in their hotel rooms, putting a huge pounding on their bodies and then doing it again a few weeks later.
PTO gives you the option to skip races to focus on others. Playing the long game to better prepare and bet that LCB and Indie Lee will be burned out and injured by the end is a reasonable bet.
At a minimum, simply taking the time to build into fitness for the season is reasonable.
LCB gambles on peak fitness season longevity. Anne Haug gambles her last races will be strong when the early season racers are weak.
Which is a better bet?
PTO gives you the option to skip races to focus on others. Playing the long game to better prepare and bet that LCB and Indie Lee will be burned out and injured by the end is a reasonable bet.
At a minimum, simply taking the time to build into fitness for the season is reasonable.
LCB gambles on peak fitness season longevity. Anne Haug gambles her last races will be strong when the early season racers are weak.
Which is a better bet?
but don’t you HAVE to do 6 races unless you’re at the olympics? with 2 races down already, anyone who skips the first 2 is cutting off their other options.
PTO gives you the option to skip races to focus on others. Playing the long game to better prepare and bet that LCB and Indie Lee will be burned out and injured by the end is a reasonable bet.
At a minimum, simply taking the time to build into fitness for the season is reasonable.
LCB gambles on peak fitness season longevity. Anne Haug gambles her last races will be strong when the early season racers are weak.
Which is a better bet?
Anne Haug and Laura Philips will have to do Ibiza after Nice. Very doable but none of them will have the legs do excel. Does indicate how much importance both place on the series overall
The PTO sorta hedged their play very well. They didn’t make it “exclusivity” (so they can get credit for caring about all of pro triathlon) but for all intent purposes they have made it very hard to race a full T100 schedule + other A events. If this series can somehow stay long term (very much in question) you are certainly going to see an specificity of athletes racing this specific distance (again it still has to stick long term, and that obviously is very much in question). There was obviously going to be races skipped due to racing all over the world, and you have athletes primarily either Euro or US based. But the worst thing you can do is go to an T100 race and get injured/crashed out/DNF because you then have to go to another race to get a score on the ledger.
The season will be incredibly long from T100 Miami to the final in Oman.
The 70.3 Worlds won’t see lot of the “stars” this year, I believe.
It’s only natural that athletes focus on a solid build-up in the early months of the season an traveling to Asia (+racing) costs at least 2 weeks of good training during an important period.
Miami is/was a terribly boring course and Singapore has a strong reputation dept from last year.
The females leaning more towards long distance like Haug and Philipp will have a clear focus on Nice. London, Ibiza are relatively easy to reach from Europe.
Wait what? Oman for the grand Final? - when did that get announced
Last few women’s races are going to have to be loaded by default. Just happy to see these lists being published well ahead of time. Now they can do their best to promote the race
What’s wrong with the girls? More opt-outs than starters. Field gets weaker and weaker… If they already start missing races when the calendar is not super busy and they’re not injured, it will be difficult to meet the 6 races. There will be many who don’t fulfill the contract for sure.
Epb and matthews are out for good reasons.
But field still super stacked!
Lcb
Sodaro
India lee
Mathews had no plans to race Singapore anyway just like ryf so they can get their nice slots. Will be interesting to see if mathews can bounce back fast enough to race a stacked field in Texas.
Epb may have re think hot races the rest of her career. The more you get a heat related injury the quicker it can happen again.
Mathews had no plans to race Singapore anyway just like ryf so they can get their nice slots. Will be interesting to see if mathews can bounce back fast enough to race a stacked field in Texas.
Epb may have re think hot races the rest of her career. The more you get a heat related injury the quicker it can happen again.
Hope Matthews can clinched her Nice spot in Texas otherwise she has to do another IM which will make it even tougher for her to complete 6 T10 races although I believe she has another one planned for the summer as she is also “all in†for the Ironman series I believe
Mathews had no plans to race Singapore anyway just like ryf so they can get their nice slots. Will be interesting to see if mathews can bounce back fast enough to race a stacked field in Texas.Hope Matthews can clinch her Nice spot in Texas otherwise she has to do another IM which will make it even tougher for her to complete 6 T100 races although I believe she has another one planned for the summer as she is also “all in†for the Ironman series I believeOff topic for Singapore (this thread), but she shared her programme (in late Feb) as T100 Miami and then Texas (as the first of the IM Series) and to IMWCQ (6xWPRO slots). That gave/gives her a full 7 weeks between: entirely doable, tho’ injury means (assumes successful rehab) far less quality training in that ‘block’.
A finish at IM Texas will surely be top 6 - am crossing fingers for her to treat/rehab her calf tear effectively. Then is San Francisco; six weeks after Texas. Not clear which summer IM she will do (it was ‘tbc’ on insta): options are Hamburg (but miss SF T100), Vitoria-Gastiez or IMLP (can’t see her going to Cairns).
Or maybe can that full and do a half instead (eg Les Sables) and accept a 2500 point handicap (which is ‘only’ 41 minutes worth) but a 70.3 will be a darn sight easier on body and to recover from, in good time for T100 London and then an 8 weeks run in to Nice (with Tallinn as a sharpener).
Matthews doesn’t need to complete six races as only four races count for scoring… I’m sure that Miami counts as one of the required six races/appearances… likewise for EPB…
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I would assume anyone who starts the race but doesn’t finish still gets credit for the race, paid for the appearance but no points for the dnf in the series.
Matthews doesn’t need to complete six races as only four races count for scoring… I’m sure that Miami counts as one of the required six races/appearances… likewise for EPB…Yes: for the contracted athletes they are required to ‘race’ 5 regulars (3 for Olympians) plus the GF (and yes, starting meets their contractual obligation). As you say only 3 regular scores will count towards the T100 ranking, which will, with a GF score, determine series prize winnings.
But also keep in mind that an athlete’s 3 best T100 scores will likely determine their end 2024 PTO ranking (some might count IMWC (Diamond tier) if they’re top 5 but the SOF there will be lower than any T100 race).
PTO Ranking will thus be important for the athletes outside the T100 top 10 and it will AQ them for a contract in 2025.