The 2010 Eurobike show opened its doors today for the expo inside the enormous trade show center in Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1090 exhibitors awaited 40,000 trade visitors from over 75 countries.
by Herbert Krabel, September 1, 2010
We arrived this morning in Europe and after a quick lunch headed straight over to the 2010 Eurobike Demo Day in the very beautiful Württembergischen Allgäu. Here is what we noticed today.
Rudy Garcia-Tolson was born with multiple birth defects and after many, many operations to his legs, he told his parents he would rather be a double amputee. Rudy became a great swimmer, triathlete and warrior and in November of 09 became an Ironman.
Mark Fretta and Sarah Haskins grabbed the wins at the Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon and Eric Wynn was there.
After his win at the inaugural Challenge Copenhagen, Aussie Tim Berkel was not only happy about the new title and bringing home the bacon, he also was relieved not to be viewed as a one-hit-wonder anymore.
Paul Ambrose earned his first Ironman title with a win at the 2010 Ironman Louisville today. In the women’s race Rebekah Keat followed up her win at the Challenge Copenhagen race a few weeks ago with another victory in Louisville.
Mark Fretta took a fine win at the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon, while Toyota Cup points leader Matty Reed failed to finish in the top five. Sarah Haskins grabbed the women’s title with a very dominating performance.
At the 2010 Subaru Ironman Canada Victor Zyemtsev ran down a long time race leader to take the win, just as he had done several times before. In the women’s race Meredith Kessler followed up her runner-up spot in Coeur D’Alene with a win today.
After dealing with an Achilles injury, Joe Gambles successfully defended his title at Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens and now the Aussie has his eyes set on Ironman Wisconsin and qualifying for Kona.
Paula Findlay had shown quite a bit of promise the last couple years, but really stepped into the limelight with great wins at the ITU WCS races in London and Kitzbühel. The fast, charming and humble Canadian had a few words with slowtwitch.
Andy Potts and Chrissie Wellington stormed to dominating wins at Timberman 70.3. Eric Wynn was there to capture the action.
A bit more than a year ago we featured a gallery of Pros with their dogs and now we share part 2 of that series.
Andy Potts led from start to finish as he won 70.3 Timberman three straight times now. Chrissie Wellington also never trailed in this triathlon as she took the title for the third time in as many attempts and finished 10th overall.
