Last round the first mark!
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She’s done well to bring it back though!
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She really has. Back to the front pack again now.
British Triathlon making no friends trying to get her DQ for swimming too far.
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I guess their argument is she would have swim even further without the jet ski guy interfering. But feels pretty tenuous
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Yep, will be really harsh. It’s possible the jet ski riders were acting out of a safety consideration too.
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I guess in an extreme case you could argue she wouldn’t have corrected, gone around the wrong buoy and been DQ.
But best athlete won, it’s not a good look to try and win by getting your competition DQ’d
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Not that the athlete didn’t know the course, and received outside assistance to put them on the correct course?
It is for Outside Assistance that the protest has been lodged
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Yeah, so any outside assistance is a rule violation, so technically right if she did receive some.
What a bunch of arseholes for trying it though…
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Original result stands
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As it should.
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This wasn’t a question of BTF being arsey, but a test of the rules, and if it had led to a DQ for Beaugrande then so be it. Should CB have been offered assistance to get her back on line? Yes and no. Yes - it came from a member of the event team which is allowable. No - it stretched that relationship to being non-allowable in that the athlete should know the course.
Similar in some ways to the Spanish protest of Brownlee helping Brownlee in Cozumel as Spain lost the title as a result. The incident wasn’t covered by the rules which led to a change of the rule.
Maybe this one will??
Anyhoo - correct result imho - CB was by far the best athlete on the day.
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Men’s race is now on, on about lap 3 of the bike.
Summary
Front pack of 5 with Bergere and Wilde. Yee is in the chase pack.
I believe he needs to finish 6th, so may be ok even if the front pack stays away?
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This is turning into quite an interesting race.
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Assume Yee could still run down some in the front group if he’s feeling OK.
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Cracking win for Wilde and brilliant for Alex as WC.
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Considering Yee was only 1:28 down at the finish and 1:39 behind off the bike, if he had made the front pack the final run would have been a hell of the show down
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Didn’t get to watch the mens race, but read that Hugo Milner had the fastest run, sub 29?
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yep - 28:47 vs Yee 29:17 and Wilde at 29:29
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