The Olympics will be a Sprint Tri in Paris…
If that’s something they’re considering then you’d want them to announce it pretty soon to give teams clarity.
Having watched the mens race now, that felt a bit more open in the semi-final, rather than the comfort of Duffy, Knibb, Zaferes, Spivey knowing they could easily make the final.
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you tend not to get the top elite triathletes at the duathlon champs
When they did this in the women’s cycling, the leaders waited for a group to form, ended up a bit of a farce. Would work better if it was up the side of a mountain like in Kitzbuhel that year.
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it came from a team, so i guess they know…
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they have been talking of this since London, to go from Rio but we’ve had two Olympics and no change. I know a sprint is better for the average attention span, but for me its not the same event. I do suppose typically you would get similar athletes winning both but it does give the younger, less developed athletes a greater chance. IMO would make it more a younger persons game.
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plus it’s called the ‘Olympic’ distance! 
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it’s only supposed to be applied to the Olympic Games event due to trademark issues (IOC own the use of the word Olympic) - all other events using this distance should correctly be called Standard distance.
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and @Hammerer
the Paris 2024 website still shows the event being the 1.5k/40k/10k format - Triathlon aux Jeux de Paris 2024
but that’s not to say it can be changed I guess
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Wow, that would certainly favour the swim specialists 
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edited to correct the typo!!
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