Mea culpa: and annoyed with myself. Should have realised it was ridiculously too good. Have amended post.
So unless she has done some serious TT work over the winter (unlikely given she’ll have been preparing for Abu Dhabi, mainly) she will swim at or near the front and fall off (maybe with Spivey) on the bike. Will be interesting to see how Lee fares in the first race of 2025. All will be chasing LCB who was impressive last April. Given environment Gentle must fancy her chances this time to beat Knibb, but on form Derron and Duffy will have a say. I can see Byram into T2 in #2 with Simmonds not there.
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Hang in there. Hopefully the cyclone hit won’t be too hard. With all the spiders and the ostriches, I mean of course emus, Australia doesn’t need any more trouble does it!
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Cheers,
I am at the northern end of the predicted “land crossing zone” and don’t expect it to be too bad here (just been out for an hours ride up to Noosa and back in the dark and the sky is full of stars). South of Brisbane is already getting hit and the poor buggers are going to see some serious flooding.
Selfishly ,I am just hoping our airport here on the Sunny Coast stays open as I fly to Perth on Monday to ride back across the country (If the NSW Outback isn’t flooded that is).
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Bold! And good luck.
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Boah this start list for the men. Wow wow wow.
Max Stapley and Tyler Mislawchuk have been given Singapore wildcards.
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And, Emma Pallant Browne announces a pregnancy - so there are potentially 2-3 roster spots available already for the women pending IS and Laura Madsen’s injury
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It’s a credit to the T100 that they are (or at least appears to be?) honoring contracts with women who get pregnant. For a start-up in their situation, it’s a pretty sizeable liability that at any given time a significant portion of their contract athletes could be on maternity leave.
Thinking some more of my random thoughts: That’s a pretty tough situation to be in for a startup with limited funding and budget pressures. What’s the equitable way to spread that financial liability? Every additional athlete they bring on to cover the cost of the sidelined one reduces everyone’s pay (males included) by some percentage? Or do they not replace contract athletes who are on leave with another contract and just fill in no-compensation hotshots?
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With those 2, that’s 20.
https://stats.protriathletes.org/race/singapore-t100/2025/participants
On EPB’s news, now clearer what Pro Tri News was wibbling about (2 spare contract places)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHByLY3MNqK/
How does the maternity leave work? Do they just get to defer their contracts, or are they paid while on leave?
Here’s at least what’s posted on their site:
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The T100 contracts are less in value than last year and are split into a ‘marketing’ element and a race element.
EPB did not finish in the T100 top 10 so was not offered a ‘gold’ (more valuable) contract but was one of the additional 6 offered contracts on the basis of PTO Ranking.
I don’t know what Lawrence and Moench received but expect that EPB will receive her marketing element but not the race element. ETA: I note her and Jaryd’s post announcing pregnancy was a collab with T100 (to part satisfy a marketing requirement element).
My estimate is that EPB might receive $30k for 2025, paid monthly.
The other aspect worth bearing in mind is that in previous years including 2024, an end-of-year bonus based on the EoY PTO Ranking position was paid to the top 50 ranked athletes. Those monies look to have been swept into the T100 remuneration package: there’ll be no such payout next January (EPB (#14) got $18,000 for 2024 PTO EoY bonus).
The published maternity policy shared above looks out of date.
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Singapore WPro wild cards announced:
Watkinson
Deboer
Perterer
Perez
I like that they are giving wild cards to both established middle/long distance athletes next on the PTO lists and some short course specialists that would not yet have a PTO ranking sufficient enough otherwise (Stapley, Mislawchuk, Perterer).
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I like that too, but… we are again exchanging views on names today 
but let me get back on topic:
These are some weak ass additions to the start list, sorry.
Watkinson, sure, but I only vaguely remember who Marlene de Boer is (I had to refresh my memory), although she did race the T100 GF last year, so it’s on me. But. Lisa Perterer barely makes the top 100 in world tri ranking. She’s lately been a top 20 World Cup finisher (managed a podium in /EDIT/ each of the 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons; I stand corrected here - not as far back as 2019). Cecilia Perez is #100 in the PTO world rankings, although she’s a middle distance regular. Honestly I was hoping we were talking about Sara Perez Sala with the last name skipped
The PTO really dug deep to fill this one. Women aren’t interested in racing Singapore maybe…
I thought Lisa had won a couple of World Cups, but that may be prior to your 5-year search?
I think all of you should remember Lisa Perterer’s name, because she is going to become “an overnight success” really soon
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You’re right in that I made a shitty search and her last WC podium (not win) was in 2023 in Weihai. Edited my post. You’re also right that she won WC Cagliari in 2018.
Perterer has been dabbling in MD over time while keeping the SC going. Her best result to allow benchmarking is Zell-am-See (+5 mins on Pohle) so she’s a good wild card (and a #1 and a #2 at end of last year). We’ll see how her bike has come on over the winter.
Perez seems likely to struggle but I guess the PTO can say they’re giving the winner of the first race in 2025 (Pucon) a go, and does well in the heat.
Watkinson was a T100 contracted athlete last year but got injured in the summer iirc: hopefully well and fit, and can take full advantage of another shot.
De Boer is PTO ranked #37 so likely picked on that drop down.
However 3 of the above were on the Waiting List so that’s hollowed out to just three listed: top two on the Waiting List are Kaidi Kivioja PTO #32 and Kate Curran PTO #34.
With these 4 added, still only 19 on the start list. Room for one more on the top deck.
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Considering Imogen’s suspension and Emma’s pregnancy announcement, I’ve been hoping for Georgia Taylor-Brown being included. Either as hot shot (17-20) or wild card.
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