Your attitude is 100% wrong if you want the sport to grow. I’ve never player anything but backyard football as a kid, but like tens of millions of other Americans with similar backgrounds, I watch games and comment upon what the coaches and players did wrong. And because of the tens of millions of Americans that care enough to, among other things, criticize every call, play or decision made during a football game, just about everyone employed by the NFL or its franchises makes more money than just about all professional triathletes.
If no one cares enough about the sport to criticize what the professionals in it do, then no one will care how they do, what wetsuits they wear, what bikes they ride or how they train. Would that make the sport better for the professionals? Would that make the sport better as a whole?
Thanks for informing us idiot middle of the packers about how the PROs race. But I have to call your post the biggest load of crap I have read for a while. If your post is referring to a couple of people questioning the French guy, then you are way out of line. The French guy has either DNFed or DNSed on EVERY IM he has signed up for the last 5 years or so. That is like, 15 straight IMs. Don’t you think there might be something a miss there. When will his true friends say …“Nobody has that much bad luck”, Maybe its time to get to the route of this problem".
I mean…as a friend when do you draw the line. When does being a real friend mean that maybe its time to talk about help. Put another way…a way you can relate to in your past. A guy has a drinking problem. His bar buddies let it go on for years. When is it time for a true friend to stand up and say…“you have a drinking problem and I like to help you work through the problem”.
And cut the crap about its different for him becaue he’s PRO. That’s crap. He is a professor, he doesn’t depend on Tri for a living.
Obviously. Also obviously you have some anger issues.
Record 10, anger issues?.. noooo…
A few paragraphs on why we should all be more open minded to pros, their circumstances, situations, DNFs, ect, you submit a nicely written response, and it generates a response of “I don’t give a fuck”.
Chip is Chip and he will take the shirt off his back for you. He does post with invective. But since he is family, he gets to come to Thanksgiving. YEAH, HE MIIGHT GET DRUNK AND START A FIGHT WITH YOUR COUSIN, but, WTF, thats what family holidays are all about.
Record 10, anger issues?.. noooo…
Chip is Chip and he will take the shirt off his back for you. He does post with invective. But since he is family, he gets to come to Thanksgiving. YEAH, HE MIIGHT GET DRUNK AND START A FIGHT WITH YOUR COUSIN, but, WTF, thats what family holidays are all about.
Now that you mention it, I do have a cousin that could use an ass-kicking…
"With IronMan we get to play the game at the same time with our hero’s - the Pro’s. "
Are the pros really heros to you? The fascination some of you have with some above average athletes, in a sport that encompasses such small segment of the population amazes me. Most triathletes dont even know what slowtwitch is, and have never even heard of Francois…he and everyone else have nobody to answer to but themselves…