There was chat on the PTN pod about that. But SM crickets.
I am sure she was offered a T100 Hot Shot contract, but declined.
Then we had the ‘training with a cycling squad’ stuff. Who knows? Maybe even she doesn’t yet know where her destiny lies.
Maybe racing the T100 series with Luis in the men’s race is not the additional attraction we onlookers assumed.
Also there was talk of the PTO not offering wildcards to athletes who turned down 2025 contracts. Such a policy can be maintained without difficulty on the men’s side (and Laidlow going for Roth means he won’t push for a T100 Cote D’Azur slot). Maybe that’s blocking the ‘GTB variation’.
Would seem attractive to offer Philipp and/or Matthews a slot at T100 London and Sodaro for one of the USA/Canada races.
Not having a T100 race in Germany is a disappointment given the strength of that triathlon nation in both SC and LD disciplines.
In addition, Høgenhaug is top of the Waiting List so, with 25 days to go, must have a strong chance of a start.
Van Riel racing IMSA 6 days earlier!
Okay, I may have maybe not disrespected but sold short Perterer. Please don’t deny me future schnitzels, Austria!
Agreed, its going to get boring just watching T100 as just another distance ITU athletes (current and former) are racing at.
Want to see more longer distance athletes in.
Not sure how you can say this lineup is going to be boring, that mens field is going to be punishing to just get top 10. And keep in mind that many of the ITU folks that step up, are stepping up for good and leaving draft legal in the rear view mirror. SO in essence they are now long distance triathletes, just like Jan/Javier/Ali did in their days… In that case most of the folks racing T100 will be considered long distance folks, with only a few going back and forth and staying in the olympic game…
To your earlier re. Wildcards.
Since the PTO aligned with ITU they are now wholly beholden to strict guidelines on waiting lists and therefore wildcard roll downs.
So if athletes do not bother to register with their National Federation an express interest in racing specific or all PTO races nor do they complete the required medical
health check then they will not appear on a waiting list for wildcard roll down irrespective of their ranking
If you are to bemoan wildcard choices (drawn from ITU’s waiting list) direct your ire toward pro athletes not PTO.
Thank you for the response. I will of course not direct my ire towards the athletes (though I see the irony).
The PTO wants to put on a show and I thought the World Tri registration was a mere formality. Athletes forgetting to register or just not thinking about it would’ve been a bit weird with the PTO being pro active. I’ve also heard a coach bemoan the fact that his athlete didn’t get on a T100 start list last season because someone (doesn’t matter who) jumped the line. They basically registered too late (according to the coach’s account) but were allowed in.
So it’s somewhat surprising to me that, with all that supposed fighting for spots, we’re seeing athletes with a lower profile get in. I don’t hate this fact and I hope they’ll put up stellar performances in those miserable conditions.
It’s not weird… plenty folks ranked 50-100 probably think will never get a sniff at a wildcard and / or have no desire to race in certain locations.
But much like in life “if you don’t ask you don’t get” and “you gotta be in it to win it” 
Interesting because I had a similar experience with an athlete last year where we realised might be a chance to jump up wait list before a decision was made (based on world ranking), quickly approached NGB to process desire to race, they couldn’t do it in time nor could we get the medical check done ASAP and so rightly missed out. My question to that coach would be “had their said athlete completed and submitted evidence of medical check up in time?”
This is a great example of why the NGBs should not be involved in this at all. The athletes are not racing for or representing their country so adding more bureaucracy to this process is idiotic.
So you agree with me by saying the opposite of what I said?
With respect (and I’m shading what you say: dead on on the pure waiting list aspect)
The start lists and wildcards for T100s are not dependent on the World Tri Waiting Lists, until they are.
Start Lists:
- Contracted athletes (who, btw, have been asked to give as much notice to PTO as reasonable as to their race schedule (which racing; which not)). 20 minus that = wildcard numbers.
- [3.10.] Saturday after creation of the start lists, invitations (wild cards) are awarded by a panel composed by PTO and World Triathlon (NB NOT from waiting list, necessarily). And the athletes do not (have to) appear on the published World Tri Waiting List. No idea about medical.
3.11. The start positions not filled by the invitation panel are filled by the next eligible athlete on the sorted Waiting List.
https://cms.triathlon.org/assets/d0370b72-ac20-42d0-8049-9391c9f9d65b/T100-Triathlon-World-Tour_Qualification-Criteria_2024_20240917.pdf
3.3. All athletes entered in the waiting list will be sorted as follows:
b) ranked according to PTO World Ranking points.
c) Then Athletes without PTO Ranking points (more detail: see 3.3 of the link)
We can safely assume “yes” as said coach is an NGB official responsible for World Tri liaisons, submitting athlete names to all kinds of races, monitoring rule changes, etc. His knowledge of the subject is on a truly wonkish level. And… he had already had the athlete start at a T100.
I never said it was boring, have a look at what I said reference Singapore line up.
GTB is having a year enjoying herself with less control by NGB.
She has moved from Leeds to Girona and left her training group. She has been controlled by NGB since she was a youth. She deserves some”me” time to have fun and rebuild a team around her.
She is still training. We see her out with Beaugrand all the time on the bike.
Yup have seen and read all that before. I think “in practise” most times the process is more streamlined shall we say and less bureaucratic and then perhaps other times, to @kajet points about an athlete hopped over, it is more bureaucratic/panel based.
Would have been nice for GTB and Learmonth to get back train and race for Singapore, they definitely used to get the best out of each other.
T100 could have got a good storyline out of that also.
The consensus about GTB must be that we would love to see her race the tour, but better for her to figure out what she wants first. Else we could end up with another Haug or another Jewett, both unwilling and respectively either ignoring the T100 or grinding her teeth to race and being unhappy.
Maya kingma would have been the obvious choice.
Thorsten has published his ‘Seedings’.
Has LCB up there, jousting with Derron, Duffy and Gentle for the podium.
NB Not an ex-SC athlete.
LCB raced very well there last April.
MvR heads his list, but Thorsten’s data based predictions will not take into account MvR’s intent to race IMSA 6 days before in very different environmental conditions (trying to get KQ). For him I’d have thought Texas, 3 weeks after Singapore was a much more sensible choice, with plenty of time before Las Vegas (rumoured to be in May).
Below him are: Wilde, Geens, LONG, Smith, Bergere with predicted times suggesting that competition for the first 9 will be frantic.
https://www.trirating.com/singapore-t100-2025-apr-5th6th/
Thorsten deserves massive credit for what he’s done, but these ratings won’t do much for the early T100 races this year.
I mean, Sam Long outruns Hayden Wilde in this simulation. I know Sam is a terrific runner, particularly when everybody’s dying a death by a thousand cuts from the humidity, but think about the odds of him putting time into Hayden on the last stretch of a triathlon, particularly after soloing much of the bike.
I like Waugh’s rating of n/a. I think we can all agree she is the dark horse here.