The T100 World Tour is Coming in 2027. More Details from PTO CEO Sam Renouf

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[1] I would actually be extremely surprised if the ITU didn’t have an EventsCo handling their events.
[2] a lot of their events are delivered by the host federation or at least in partnership
[3] PTO/T100 hasn’t delivered a single race on their own.
[4] I definitely don’t believe [the PTO] already deliver events, those have been delivered by a local federation or a partner where they piggy backed.
[5] Did they pay for the Broadcast? yes.
[6] World Triathlon doing this sounds pretty ignorant and the Deloitte report clearly doesn’t understand triathlon.

1. Well someone here surely knows how World Triathlon manage this aspect, and just how surprising, or not.
2. Guess it depends what you want “delivered by” and “partnership”.
3. You assert this (twice!): in any event there’s an element of partnership (see below).
4. Again ‘delivered by local’ and ‘partner’ may be doing heavy or light lifting.
5. The PTO don’t “pay for” the broadcast, they produce and deliver it.
6. Review this and consider whether it “sounds pretty” arrogant.
   (#) As Ryan says:

@rrheisler

My sneaking overall suspicion is that much of this remains the same as it does today, in that WT contracts with a local organization to produce the event. T100/PTO does a lot of this, too; there simply isn’t enough traveling circus for them to do it all themselves.
Is it a risk? Of course. But it is more of a financial one, IMO, than it is one of logistics.

Read Ryan’s post, that’s been my point since I first read their press release and then read Tim Heming’s article.

And yes, they pay for broadcast. They do not own a production company. They contract a local production company to produce their broadcast product. Did you think I meant they pay the broadcaster? Which to be honest, they might be buying air time (we don’t know). PTO doesn’t have an organic production arm, everything they do is contracted out whether it is the race broadcast or their youtube content.

Delivery means they own everything soup to nuts, they are the ones getting the permits, they are the ones organizing the volunteers. They so far have been an add on to every “race” they have.