What race is she doing, interested to follow.
Well, as a Bahrain Victorious athlete, think itâs a straightforward âguessâ.
Wow, Mika Noodt had a bike crash.
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Oh of course, she may be in a relay team though.
Sheâs doing Bahrain, I dont think GTB has another Olympics in her sheâll be 34/35 (not for meddling)
I think Luis is planning on moving up which may make her follow, she can still win ITU races next year, id prefer seeing her in T100 and a clean break from Oly.
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Van Rielâs #2 in T100 LLV result (and its PTO score: about >98)) will vault him to top of the PTO World Rankings, ahead of Ditlev/Smith/Long et al.
His lead in the T100 Rankings is, if not âunassailableâ then a formality with a completion of Dubai.
For the record I take my GTB being to old to get another Olympics in after Holland has just shown up most the ITU girls as a 38 year old mum!
If she stays in ITU I think its possible she competes in LA for a medal, I do think sheâd be better of going all in at MD though.
But hoping to be mended in time for Dubai (which implies heâll have a start there, he sits in #8). The PTO always said/envisaged that there might be more than 20 in the final (they implied in January that wildcards who raced well in the regular season would get a start and Renouf said this on the Pro Tri News interview just published.
Along with Smith and Keulen too.
Not racing? Gomez. Maybe Neumann? So the other 18 contracted will start, I assume.
I thought Geens might get a start (McNiece said ânahâ) but I shall guess that the PTO are concerned that another top performance will confuse the âseason narrativeâ. He will get his chance to shine (again) in Taupo.
Heemeryck, Laidlow and Ditlev look to be the three Kona warriors who can go on and finish in the top 10 (and thus get âgoldâ 2025 contracts).
What is the season narrative btw .
I never quite get it what it actually is and means
Listened to PTN this morning. Feel like they could work on the framing of Knibbâs dominance when they posed the question to Dylan asking (telling) him if itâs boring to watch her win these races. I think itâs PTNâs job to help make it exciting/fight against that narrative (if it exists) instead of feeding into it. When Kipchoge went on his dominant marathon run, winning majors & breaking 2, nobody was saying it was boring. Events were promoted as record attempts & we watched him compete out front by himself, once he dropped everyone else + pacers fell off. Knibb should get similar treatment. I know courses are new for T100 races so they canât really be marketed as record attempts but what weâre watching is amazing. Athletes who dominate arenât boring when theyâre competing at the top of their game. Reframe & make every race exciting that Knibb is in. Get into her bike splits & have data points & comparisons ready to fire off. It feels lazy/bad for the sport to write off her dominance as boring. She is beating good athletes & athletes who can beat her at short course.
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Very true.
When you watch Breakfast with Bob, the softball interviewer of all time that often leaves way too many unasked questions on the table⌠you notice he has a file folder of some kind he pulls info from. Youâd think for every single athlete in the race theyâd have a file folder. Wins, coaching history, top 3 split times for each discipline, where theyâve been training, goals, injuries, and other noteable info.
Itâs crazy to expect them to just turn up and remember all of this, but itâs not too difficult to turn to a sheet and integrate some factoid about the athlete we are watching.
I think Chelsea was the closest to doing this (off the cuff it seemed). Iâd love to see what she could do with a fact sheet on each athlete!
With the final T100 race of the year less than a month away is anything known regarding the Dubai bike course? With a potentially very hot day on tap might Ash Gentle and her recognized heat tolerance and extended dedicated lead up prep stand a better chance dealing with Taylor K. and Julie D. especially if the bike isnât super challenging?
The bike is not âsuper-challengingâ: transit (âthrilling no lessâ) from T1 to the loop:
âa thrilling ride from the pristine Sunrise Beach, to the majestic Meydan Racecourse and around Meydan Communityâ
and 7 laps of ~10k with 5-6 x 180s per lap and negligible change in altitude.
Looks the same as the open 100 (from website (5 laps of 13.3km plus transit) with the exception the Pros will not ride on the Nadd al Sheba Rd (so 7 laps):
The run is similarly flat and lapped.
Gentle (and Simmonds and LCB) have had a decent whack of time to train and prepare, but Las Vegas to Dubai will be 4 weeks and I cannot imagine Knibb/Derron will have had any problem recovering in mind and body by mid November.
I can see Knibb not managing to get as much of a gap to Derron, Gentle (et al) by T2 and there being all to run for. But Knibb is running well.
The starts are both at 1330 which means the runs will start around 1600.
The forecast is for a max around midday of 29-30oC and that drops by a degree by the run time.
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Excellent analysis as usual. Thanks!
So I have gone to the site and cannot find a start list for this race?? Is Lucy done for the season or does she have one more run in her? I would think that Magnus, Laidlow, and a few others that just got shelled in Kona will try and pitch up and defend their spots? Not a ton of time, but enough to have half a shot at recovering for some that didnt have to run so fast I supposeâŚ
World Tri publishes 30ish days ahead.
Includes all contracted less Gomez, Moench and Lawrence. We have no insight into who is both fit and willing otherwise.
Non-contracted athletes who have, by their T100 results, earned a start:
Women: Chura Kivioja Derron Thek Madsen (23 on list which includes Ryf (!))
Men: Smith Keulen Noodt (22 on list)
Comment: I was initially surprised that Madsen and Thek (ranking #22 and #26) had been included but I suspect the PTO have used the âhave competed in three T100sâ metric/threshold. Also suspect that they âknowâ a couple listed will not start and want a field of at least 20.
I see Ryf on the list you posted, so who else should not be there do you think??
So with this, other than the site telling me I should DM you, I wish the amount of websites you have to go for information was 1. I also wish it wasnât the ITU website. T100 has a website, that is where the start list should be housed.
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Agree there should one authoritative site, kept up-to-date. For reasons I donât know, the PTO seem a bit slow putting up the start list on their site, and slow to amend. But the PTO have signed up with World Tri (for a further 12 years no less) and that imposes some discipline (timelines, waiting lists, protocols) to an organisation used to making it up as they go along (and a great edifice it is too).
The PTO site is easier to access (I can get there straight from the rankings where I âliveâ) but really they could just link to the World Tri page till a week to go (say).
Why do you âwish it wasnât the ITU (sic) websiteâ?
Because they are the International Triathlon Union they just dba World Triathlon. Just like the IAAF is now dba World Athletics.