You might not “need T100” but as long as they pay out the athletes sure do.
World triathlon have a wait list of 37 which is the athletes the start list should be generated from. Should be a great field.
that would be a solid field with the 23 ,24, 25 ironman 70.3 world champ winners racing. and the 2024 Taupo ironman 70.3 world champ podium potentially racing. also 4th places from last years ironman worlds and 2nd place from Texas a couple of weeks ago.
Of course they would be dismissed as average athletes by the ironman fanboys lol
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lol that is too funny
it would not be a good look for the sponsor if it did not …
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They’re that irrelevant, that IM ban all trace of T100 being mentioned from their broadcasts!
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T100 has been a lot more interesting than the IM pro series.
Right so you thought Wilde just running away with it was “interesting”? Who was second?
And Knibb seeing off Fullagar with minimal doubt as to the result? Good to see Simmonds back on a podium after the ITA decision procrastinations after her AAF which was immediately clear, on the balance of probabilities, to be contamination; and ‘No Fault or Negligence’.
Compare that with the men’s fights in Geelong (the ‘unbeatable’ Wilde being run down by KB and Geens). And Oceanside with Schomburg going for it - so close; and Long brave but melt. Thek chasing down Matthews in Geelong.
And Foley vanquishing others in a topsy turvy Taupo with Le Corre excelling in #2 on debut. Or Blummenfelt’s world best time in a proper full distance race at Texas. Drama of Geens failing in precisely the way / distance the Norges (KB, Stornes and Iden) warned him about. Five of the top 7 from IMWC Nice 2025 in the top 8! The strongest men’s field we’ve ever seen outside a world champs. Shame we didn’t see Sanders, but he’s not really a full distance athlete now.
Guess we can throw in Texas with IM World Champion Loevseth riding down and breezing past multiple 70.3WC Knibb. Despite Knibb actually running a marathon PB to foreshadow the battle in Kona. Matthews’ IM Pro Series screwed by the scalped tyre - how to recover from a (near) 5000 point loss. Sanchez strong after last year’s Kona travails.
Having said all that, both Pamplona and San Francisco look lit. I suspect you only watched snips of the races/series you disparage. Or your criteria for the “interesting” metric are just ‘different’. ‘Your witness!’
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Who said anything about the last couple of races? You’re in every post, you couldn’t have missed me say the start lists have been a bit disappointing this year, in the Singapore thread, the Spain start list is a lot more interesting.
Last year no one cared about the pro series (I still don’t)
So it seems that everyone is super surprised when KB blows through the field on the run in an imp race almost every time but take it for granted what’s going to happen in a T100 race. Got it.
That sponsorship could be 500k and it could also be worthless from a inbound $ perspective and it’s just a VIK deal that allows them to pay money without paying currency conversion fees.
Sleeping with a doper is definitely not a no fault, if you buy the excuse.
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You can turn that around and say, exactly. It’s so irrelevant to the pro series that you don’t even need to mention it or the athletes racing there.
One of the key things about Ironman is the power of their brand. It’s so much more than just a race. The fact that they want as much as possible to be on brand, and it doesn’t detract at all from their series tends to demonstrate how irrelevant T100 is to them.
If you watch, you know this isn’t the angle. It’ll be like, “Here’s Mika Noidt, wow, looks like he hasn’t even raced since 2023, I wonder how he’ll do after all this time off. There’s rumors he’s in great shape, but we can’t really verify that.”
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LOL swap verify with reveal.
Props for the proper use of his name, but I think it needs an exclamation point after Noidt! every time to be sure.
Almost as good as Kasper Stoiynes.
But either way, the comment is kind of true if he hasn’t raced the 70.3 distance in a while. It does seem like that extra bit on the bike and run is a bit much for some.
not sure if jelle geens and lionel sanders would agree with you that mika finds it hard to do the extra few k…
I think he meant the series, not the actual races. As in the T100 series standing is easier and more interesting to follow than the Pro Series standing which is a bit “all over the place” and hard to follow.
This year the 2 T100 races so far have been disappointing but the next 2 seem loaded and super interesting.
In regards to Ironman not mentioning T100 in its broadcast, that may have been true last year, but this year I recall a good few instances when T100 was specifically mentioned (without any perceivable uneasiness from the other commentaters). Maybe they understood it was a bit silly of them. Also, Sam Appleton on the podcast admitted there was absolutely noone from Ironman asking him not to mention T100 and he censored himself from saying it, all on his own (which was a bit disappoinging because I think other people in the broadcast had already mentioned it).
Actually, now that I think about it, this could be true for all the commentators just assuming Ironman doesn’t want them to talk about T100 and just playing it safe !
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I would agree and both t100 and iornman are growing up and are more relaxed to talk about each other now.