@Tom Demerly

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Hallo, first thanks for your great site and reviews.

As noted in the thread about the blade, you got the IM-Austria result wrong. I think that - even if Chabaud had a great race and lost 2-3 minutes on being guided into the wrong direction in T2, it’s time to give the real winner (by much more time) the credit he deserves.

Chabaud hat the fastest bikesplit, but he did not win IM-Austria by a mile. You said, you would correct that.

   1 Zyemtsev Viktor 0:50:53/7. 4:33:30/8. 2:44:55/1. 08:12:58  2 Tissink Raynard-Shayne 0:50:56/8. 4:33:05/6. 2:49:54/3. 08:17:48  3 Sabatschus Olaf 0:51:10/20. 4:33:15/7. 2:53:28/6. 08:21:54  4 Anderson Mitchell 0:54:08/62. 4:28:33/3. 2:56:44/13. 08:23:20  5 Shortis Jason 0:53:39/48. 4:42:28/15. 2:45:38/2. 08:26:06  6 Vrobel Lukas 0:50:56/9. 4:37:37/9. 2:54:58/8. 08:27:29  7 Chabaud Francois 0:50:43/5. 4:18:54/1. 3:14:20/47. 08:27:58  8 Leitner Werner 0:51:02/14. 4:41:09/12. 2:53:11/5. 08:29:18  9 Langbrandtner Norbert 0:51:06/15. 4:43:52/18. 2:53:04/4. 08:31:46  10 Frühwirth Alexander 0:51:08/18. 4:42:20/14. 2:55:48/11. 08:33:01

You can easily check the results at http://www.ironmanaustria.com

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When someones race goes wrong chances are there final result isn’t representative of what could have been their potential. Sure, the winner won fair and square but if mistakes hadn’t been made elsewhere what else could have occured.

Just going on figures alone doesn’t always give the true picture of the race…

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No problem, if things are made clear. IMHO the winner auf IMH 2003 is Stadler, because Reid was allowed to draft, but I can’t write “Norman Stadler who won 2003-2004 IMH” without any further comment.

And I have been there, I have seen Chabaud running (still in the lead), with all due respect, it was obvious, that he had not the (running) legs to win the race. I have big respect for his performance (needing more than 50 minutes more on the run and 1:20 more on the bike :wink: on that day), but the winner should get the credit. Zyemtsev run a 2:45 in terribly hot weather and did nothing wrong, so he should get credit for the win.

The problem is, Zyemtsev runs an old bike and tends to win on the run, not good for bike business.

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Quote:

“Just going on figures alone doesn’t always give the true picture”

You are making progress, Stato, definite progress!