I added a new point 1 to my post, so calling AGers “customers” in the case of this race would be a stretch IMO. Potential customers - sure.
And the way it looks to me right now is “we’re not covering T100 events or indeed anything related to the T100 series but we are covering stuff related to the T100 series when we can criticize the PTO”.
Here’s the thing: I agree with the move to run them alongside WTCS events. That’s probably the better model (the best would have been aligning with existing races and just boosting prize purses / owning the broadcast rights but that’s another story for another time).
But if you actually expect to be a race production company, which is what they’re doing with all of these AG events – this is not the way.
With regard to race coverage: I was on vacation this weekend. Eric and Kevin were on site at two different events. We’re the three currently handling race coverage. That’s it. I included T100 in the Ups and Downs report from the weekend. Not sure what else you wanted from us.
I’m pretty sure that they did, I’m sure I compared the price vs the T100 London event.
They’ve shut them again I see so you have to register an interest
Certainly the London to Valencia gap in the T100 Tour was a large gap in prime competition summer, now filled.
However contracted men racing IMWC Nice now have to miss two T100s (this and Valencia).
I wonder if the athletes at Singapore were told this?
Wilde said he would miss both SF and Vancouver and return to the T100 fray in Frejus in late June. Not now!
@SheridanTris mentioned months ago that there might be significant jeopardy if/when a snap French general election is called (NB minority staggering government) and end June a likely time) because that would affect many sporting events.
Agree 100%.
well we have had ironman 70.3 dresden a few years ago that was postponed like 5 days before the race date and some people had already been at the venue
Internet Wayback Machine shows a “Register Now” button for the old France date.
I may well be wrong then. I lost interest as it was moved to the same weekend as Glastonbury. Someone did confirm that entries opened in late January.
They haven’t been putting up races for long was my point. And you know better than most it’s a tough job; both in absolute terms and also when one is “a new name” in the game.
“We appreciate that the delay in being able to confirm the French Riviera T100 course and the change of date hasn’t been ideal,” explained Sam Renouf. “But we’re very confident that this breathtaking course will have been worth the wait.”
thats pretty impressive ironman world champ race ,t100 race and world series race within 70 k and within 2 weeks
I’ve been very critical of the pros for how they’ve sorta managed this influx of money and helping with the long term viability.
But at the same time you as an organization only get so many “first impressions” before you are what you are. It’s always felt like they are over reaching in so many ways. They went from what 2-3 races 1st year to wanting to do nearly 10 and they couldn’t even find a GF for forever. So you don’t want to be too critical but it’s sorta like “guys get your shit together”.
I think it’s really really hard to do what they are doing. But it also seems like every step along the way there is an accompanying stumble. There has been nothing “easy” for them in this process and it just seems like every other press release is seemingly an update on the schedule or policies etc.
“hasn’t been ideal” is an understatement.
Whilst I get that this is early days for them putting on races, what would have really been sensible was for them not to hike the prices up this year (certainly for London it was a big jump) so that people have less to moan about.
Funnily enough though - the new date in August I can actually make now (previously was the same weekend as Glastonbury) so this might be back on my race calendar haha
Athletes in Singapore were made aware of the Frejus date change several days pre-race.
So Wilde’s next T100 is London then, 4 months later!!! He needs to score three more so: London, Frejus and Valencia.
Plenty of time for a 70.3 in June to get that Marbella slot, as well as racing two WTCS races (perm two from Yokohama, Alghero, Hamburg) to line up for a WTCS win overall at Wollongong in October.
Here’s my suggestion for a reasonable calendar:
| Date | Type | Event | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-Feb | WTCS | Abu_Dhabi | UAE | a |
| 05-Apr | T100 | T100 Singapore | SNG | 1 |
| 31-May | WTCS | Alghero | Spain | b |
| 12-Jul | WTCS | Hamburg | DEU | c |
| 09-Aug | T100 | T100 London | GBR | 2 |
| 30-Aug | T100 | T100 Frejus | FRA | 3 |
| 20-Sep | T100 | T100 Valencia | ESP | 4 |
| 18-Oct | WTCS | Wollongong | AUS | gf |
| 08-Nov | 70.3 | IRONMAN 70.3 WC | Spain | w |
| 12-Dec | T100 | T100 GF | Qatar | gf |
| Note: | Column 4 | Letters are WTCS | Numbers are T100 |
The T100 LLV date (was October) is still ‘tbc’ have to assume heading for cancellation.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a T100 race in Oceania, alongside a World Tri race, perhaps in October?
‘Front page’ article: PTO Postpones T100 French Riviera Race Date for Second Time, Now to End of August
I appreciate the fact that you pay this much attention to this.
If you ever ahem wanted to write on the front side of the site on the pro stuff – DM me. We’re looking for more contributors.
Wondering if the athletes sort of knew about it given that Luis and Funk are racing in Roth which was supposed to be the following week. For Luis, it was amazing that he would not race in the first T100 race in France. On the one end, i see it as a great move, some athletes who will race Nice could use it as a last session (Long, Van Riel, Benito, Margirier) and to have a WTCS race on the same week end means more media and spectators. On the other end, it does not look good for a race which may struggle to find AG willing to spend a lot for a race which is not IM branded and outside the usual format.
PTN was also extremely critical last year of T100 letting athletes walk all over them. They we’re constantly saying “are you in or are you out?” in 2024. Kat and Magnus chose out. Now they are mad they they are out. shit take.
Not mad they are “out” they chose to be out. But I’m assuming they considered they’d still be counted in the PTO rankings for a bonus and/or possible inclusion the following year. Either way, from the sound of it, PTO hasn’t paid the rankings yet anyway. So it might be a moot point.
So I’m guessing that either all the contracted T100 types will skip this race or there will be way less crossover at 70.3 Worlds.