Seriously. The T100 has a lot of factors working against it, but who would have thought it would be the athletes working against their own self interest at the top of the list. I’m annoyed so I can’t even imagine what Sam Renouf must be feeling.
On the bright side the women’s race might actually be competitive.
I am disappointed she is not showing up, it’s terribly unprofessional
I was equally surprised when she took the contract or whatever she was given. If your primary goal is Kona or world champs, it’s hard to do both especially for someone like her who always races in the front
So you think it would be better if the current t 100 champ says IAM not doing a single t 100 race 2025 since Kona is my goal?
At the same time IAM not sure how well she was well advised to use the same phrase as ex ironman Texas winner Hernandez, who cited, personal reason for not doing Roth …
You are meant to be all in for T100. You can’t just say I do a “single” T100 and leave it as that.
But this is just not going to work.
If you want the big long distance names.
Not sure why it’s any harder for a top swim-biker.
Here’s a perfectly reasonable schedule for an athlete whose primary goal is the IMWC (this contains less races than Philipp raced last year; satisfies the 4+1 T100 contract; note that Marbella is optional):
| Date | Type | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Apr | 70.3 | IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside | California, USA |
| 26-Apr | IM | IRONMAN Texas | The Woodlands, Texas, USA |
| 31-May | T100 | T100 San Francisco | USA |
| 15-Jun | T100 | T100 Vancouver | Canada |
| 28-Jun | T100 | T100 Frejus | FRA |
| 09-Aug | T100 | T100 London | GBR |
| 11-Oct | IM | IRONMAN World Championship (WPro) | Kona, Hawai`i, USA |
| 08-Nov | 70.3 | IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship | Marbella, Spain |
| 12-Dec | T100 | T100 GF | Qatar |
Well most of the established LD folks have opted out of T100. The exception is LCB but she hasn’t done a full season of T100 + IMWC yet. Most can do it but it’s not easy excelling in both
The above schedule has 8 top class races. In the past most have raced fewer with the goal of peaking for 2 races each year maybe. I have the feeling most do like showing up for a T100 and only 80% ready and the global travel is not easy for many as much as they all post about racing in exciting destinations
I would like to see MVB do well in both
and in a way that would be kind of the best thing for pto if the current ironman world champs get hammered , ie look our series is so good that the current ironman champ has no chance. rather oh the current ironman champs cant be. bothered to do our series.
or as happened last year the female ironman champ just about made one third place worlds best race series .
if they have the big names at 80 percent that gives a lot more credibility to the series than them not turning up at all. as long as it is not Leon chevalier style of course that was more like 60 percent…
I’m not suggesting anything, but the last time we heard “personal reasons” was when Tomas Rodriguez pulled out shortly before Roth.
Well, Singapore is/was mandatory so that would complicate things which is probably why Knibb all of a sudden had “personal issues”. Now if she doesn’t show up to IM Texas I’ll give her a pass.
Yeah, cos when you get a broken bone you always are ok to train through and race about 3 or 4 weeks later… like never…
If he didn’t notify them when it happened he was holding out so that his replacement couldn’t prepare properly and wouldn’t get to race to their full potential, leaving his return performance to appear a better athlete and his season points safe. It is the only reason anyone pulls out last minute, when they are aware prior that they won’t be racing… common in T100.
Excited for the women’s race now, might actually be watchable. Hoping for a good run battle in the heat.
What, do you think they’re gonna do? Sue the athlete? They’ll be toast the moment they do that to one.
Haven’t seen the contract, but if they were smart the structure of payment should change if they intend to use coercion as their primary method of getting the Athletes to race.
Outside of money, what makes Moritz Events Co “attractive”?
Since you enquire with typically transparent earnestness:
Perhaps, given that T100 is not the end all be all for these folks. The whole “5 hard events” in a season is too much. We see how these folks get slight niggles and it derails who seasons.
We’ve seen multiple people have a bug and then race a full two weeks later etc.
We can accept these are in fact real, or we can look deeper and wonder if the experience really is ‘Amazing’.
She returned a positive for fericqual.
McDonald and Schaufler as rehearsed upthread, are the Singapore wild card replacements for Knibb and Pearson
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That is simply not true…Since long distance now begins with the T100 distance, I would say most of the top long distance folks are back and going at it once again. A few ironman athletes that are not so good at anything shorter than a full ironman have opted out, as they should. Most of them would give no benefit to the fans racing T100, and certainly no benefit to themselves. The pep[le we need racing to have great races are there, and no doubt like last season, once it is over there will be many stories to be told that kept us all watching and looking forward to those races…