Yes he got married last weekend, think it was in Italy not sure.
Thanks for the link – will try to follow up on this.
Good interview w/ Jamie Riddle w/ PTN just dropped today. He was speaking on the T100, said the contracts were “a lot of money but not enough to turn other races down” to create more “all in” athletes to T100 similiar to other sports “series” (F1). IE- which means they really aren’t going to likely reach their goals/need to truly put the best product forward overall. So it’s sorta the best of a mixed bag situation (athlete desires/needs + T100 desires/needs).
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Run up to T100 Vancouver
If LCB has a podium finish on Saturday I suggest she is clearly in the reckoning for top 3 in the Race to Qatar even with her Kona goal. Provided she manages to stay healthy. Sure to race London; likely to race Frejus (and that’s the 4). Suspect she’ll want to race Marbella (having now validated in Eagleman).
I expect Knibb to race just 4 regular season T100 races: Vancouver is #2. I expect her to choose London and Frejus because it opens up options after Kona, despite the travel. (Valencia is too close to Kona, and LLV is too soon after). If she has a fail (and for her high standards that means off the podium) then Dubai is the fall back, a week after Marbella. In her T100 mini-interview it seemed she judged winning in Qatar pivotal to an overall T100 Tour win so
I note that Derron, Gentle and Waugh have neither Kona nor Marbella slots (scroll down). So I guess they’ll race most of the T100s. They’ll be able to clean up (between them) in Valencia, LLV and Dubai - so they’ll have discard opportunities.
Whereas Knibb and LCB have Kona and then the option of Marbella. Which will certainly ‘compact’ / complicate their October and November schedule. And with no discards will place them at a disadvantage.
I wonder why Waugh is not racing Vancouver: there’ll be a reason but she has not shared it. Maybe the short fortnight after San Francisco is the reason. I expect her to race two WTCS races and aim to have a high enough ranking for its GF in Wollongong. Waugh appears on the start list for WTCS Hamburg which was published today!
Waugh is at altitude training. A lot of them are at Font Romeu at the moment but I think she is near Andorra with her squad. She was on the start list for Hamburg, assume she still is haven’t checked.
Her new squad is European based so it makes sense she is here. She said earlier London and France T100 are in her plans, so I would imagine that gives her the 4 races needed.
Maybe she isn’t at the level to do 2 T100’s in 2 weeks. First season in MD so she is being sensible?
Seems good planning. If Waugh wants to be competitive in WTCS 2025, what better way than a good block of training before a sprint (and MTR?) in Hamburg.
She remains on the start list (alongside Potter, GTB, Rainsley and Mathias).
Than back to T100s: London and Frejus (as you say).
Karlovy_Vary (mid September) can be her third WTCS race/score.
She doesn’t have supertri complications so can plan in Wollongong (mid October) and race Dubai in November to offer her a discard (most others will be in Marbella).
I am not sure she is planning on going to Wollongong.