Ironman World Champs Nice Sept 10th

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Chris is 623

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Year after year such a shite broadcast.

So Skipper is miles off? Where is he Andorra?

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Hadnā€™t realised Jan had actually started the run.

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Run course is void of support isnā€™t it

Iā€™m currently eating my words about Laidlow. Heā€™s still trucking isnā€™t he. Donā€™t think heā€™s actually won an iM before? Would be quite the performance to bring this home

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Just tuned in. How long are the laps? Itā€™s ā€˜niceā€™ (boom boom) to have something to look at in the background.

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4 laps so 10k ish.

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Ah cheers. There does seem a lack of crowd but if it was the choice of standing on the road in that heat, or watching in a bar, I know where Iā€™d be!

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Lange is on his wayā€¦,

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Whatā€™s the gap?

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Looks like Jeff and Chris still going well.

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2nd Ditlev +5
4th Lange +9

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Didnā€™t he win Lakesman three years ago with a sub8?

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Considering his 2nd place last year, he canā€™t ever again be easily discounted.
The problem in judging how heā€™s doing is 5hat he always looks great and on for the win, until the wheels fall off, which theyā€™ve gone back to doing this year since Kona.

Getting very hard to not see him at least on the podium though now, half way in and still looking strong.

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He may well have done and that does sound familiar - I meant a pro Ironman race? Not sure if he has

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Joe will have to run out of his skin to get in the top 15. Not the day he will have anticipated.

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Wasnā€™t it his first ever full distance race ?!
And he won it at 19-20 years old

IIRC it wasnā€™t sub 8
8:31?

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Love to know what has gone wrong today. Maybe just had no bike legs?

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Being 6 mins down in the swim and no one to bike with (like in Kona) would have been a mental blow!

Heā€™d normally be starting the bike with Sanders, Kienle, Wurf et al.

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They keep forgetting the first all German podium in 1997 (Hellriegel, Zack, Muller). Welch is crap mind.

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Being gapped on the swim should have been less of an issue on this course as bike packs are less of a thing. But Joe just seemed to have no gas on the bike either.

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