We talking bread now ?
If you want to talk about baps, fine.
Sourdoughnāt you take that tone with me young man
Iāll tri to be butter behaved.
Europe look ridiculous!
Shouldnāt Skipper, LCB and Lawrence be in the rest of the world team now?
Isnāt LION-el racing Copenhagen the week before trying to get his Kona slot sorted? he doesnāt learn does he?
Yes but itās not a race, itās a media promotion.
I believe Lionelās plan is to be perpetually in ārace weekā so Talbotās videos can keep comingā¦ā¦
in fairness, heās probably making a shit load more from Insta and YT clicks and promotions than most others are making from racing!
I heard it once said that a reality TV star, think a Katie Price type needs a major life event - think marriage/divorce/baby etc every 6 months to keep the interest up.
I sometimes wonder if Lionel knows he needs an epic race blowout/post race blub every season or so to keep his clicks upā¦ā¦
Captains picks:
Team USA : Katie Zaferes, Taylor Knibb, Chris Leiferman, Justin Metzler
Team Internationals : Ellie Salthourse, Sarah Crowley, Jackson Laundry, Kyle Smith
Team Europe : Kat Matthews, Emma Pallant-Browne, Sebastian Kienle, Daniel BƦkkegƄrd
Think George Goodwin can feel a bit hard done by there
Weāve known for a few days.
There are lots of talented athletes but many thought 3rd at Daytona and European 70.3 Champ may have been enough.
Maybe not enough social media followers.
Did they not consider the TriTalk commentary feed in their analysis?
Anyone planning on watching this, I keep getting things pop up on FB & Twitter but I think you might need to download an app to access it. One of the posts was Phil Liggett whoās gone over to commentate.
Iāve been watching the pre race videos the PTO had been putting out on YouTube and also just watched Breakfast with Bob & Lionel. Not sure Iād bother with the PTO stuff but the Lionel vids are always worth a watch.
The European team has nearly all the best PTO ranked triathletes so on paper it should be a walk over.
Is it free to watch?
Oddly I think the 1x1x1 match up format will be less compelling. Itāll be hard to broadcast, ideally you need live coverage of the 1 or 2 pivotal, and close matches while regular updates of the overall scoreboard āas isā given placings and gaps in the other matches.
Iāll be surprised if they pull that off. Suspect weāll get hours of footage of Jan, Lionel and Daniela and struggle to get a feel for the overall match position.
Iād rather all men and all women set off together (different waves), be fun to see draft tactics in the swim and paceline strategies on the bike.
Build up has been impressive I have to say, Iāll give it a go. Itās intriguing for sure. As you say Europe look too strong, they should have put Brexit UK in with the internationals () it would have looked a bit more balanced.