Pro race chat (Tri)

You could have told me that 5hr ago… :wink:

You can also re or delayed watch it on iplayer.

Just watching the Johnny Brownlee interview as of 17:08

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Enjoyed that. Just finished watching.

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For anyone who bet their life savings on Blummenfelt winning the Tour I have some bad news for you

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Surprising. Not that he’s sacked off a transition to cycling, but that’s he’s sticking with short course. I feel that ship has sailed.

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Strong agree. Hard to see how he’s going to be faster over 10km in 2028 when he’ll be 34

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Just needs another pandemic - they seemed to come out of that a bit fitter.

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Maybe one for the PEDS thread but it was chicken and eggs so nothing to see here :thinking:

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Need to get me some of them chickens!

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It’s all the WOKE health rules that don’t let us Europeans dope our animals, I thought Brexit was going to let us get proper food full or roids.

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While driving to pick up my new (to me) car, I passed Vincent Luis and GTB who were cycling home. Would have stopped and got a photo or something but was in a rush due to birthday prep for daughter.

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Cycling home? To your house for the birthday party?

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Haha, I guessed they were riding back home based on where they were and the direction they were riding in. I think they’re driving around to ours later. I bet Mrs A wouldn’t be adverse to Luis turning up.

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Vicky Holland turning the clock back a bit and winning the European Elite champs in Vichy over the standard distance. Not a hugely stacked field but she beat France’s Periault - they were neck and neck heading to the finish but Periault had to serve a 15sec penalty so it was then game over for her.

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LCB is out of Nice tomorrow.

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Randomly it is on the Kona 25 thread.

Its a shame but I thougt that might be the case. Although I thought she’d try and DNF at the start of the run.

Does it open it up a bit?

I would have liked to see her just do the swim to cause chaos.

Haug, Kat, Phillip podium. Lee top 5?

It’s more like the Ironman WC thread that gets the year changed and now includes Nice :joy:

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Though so… but not overly obvious.

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Javier Gomez is retiring at the end of the season

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A WCTS race was held this morning in China. I think it was just a World Cup race or something that recently got upgraded to the top level. It was on BBC red button so probably on iPlayer. It was a great little course with a nice climb on each of the eight laps of the bike and a little bit of a bump or two on the run.

The racing wasn’t particularly exciting - if they can make a 10 minute highlights video that would be ideal. I watched the men’s on the turbo this morning at about 2x speed!

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T100 Ibiza tomorrow. Not sure if it’s split days on race race after the other. I think the first race starts about 7am UK time.

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