From USAT site
Check out this letter from Team Australia to the ITU, http://www.triathlon.org.au/newsdetails.aspx?NewsID=486
I agree fully with what they say. Unfortunately I don’t have a solution for picking who will go to Honolulu that will please everyone. The current “everybody can go” solution may seem fair to US competitors, but it’s not fair to everyone that qualified from other countries. It will be interesting to see if ITU responds to the Australian’s letter. I just hope there are no long term repercusions, like no more age group world championships. We’ve been very lucky in this sport to have the opportunity to compete at an annual world championship.
What was a USTA problem is now an international issue, this has been met with silence from the ITU ?
US team is well over 450 ???