In addition to our featured race coverage, the Weekend Box brings you tales of races in Hawaii, Switzerland, Spain, Texas, North Carolina, Portugal …
by Tim Carlson, June 1, 2014
Gwen Jorgensen won her second WTS race in a row and vaulted to the top of the standings with a killer run and a dominating victory, and Sarah Groff made it a 1-2 U.S. sweep in London
Mario Mola edged Richard Murray and Joao Pereira at the WTS London sprint; the Brownlee brothers took 4th and 5th while Javier Gomez’ 3-race win streak ended with a 6th place.
Kevin McDowell’s roller coaster life includes bronze at 2010 ITU Junior Worlds, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a long recovery, then silver at the Chengdu World Cup.
This weekend of big motor races at Monaco and Indy, we bring you triathlons long, middle and short, off and on road, from Spain and Ukraine, Mauritius and Texas, Austria and Dunkirk, and thrills from Brazil.
Maddy Tormoen won $50,000 one day at Zofingen and won eight straight Powerman women’s races leading to that triumph; the price of her love of sport was dozens of operations and a scary case of ventricular tachycardia.
Jessica Broderick showed a lot of promise by winning the 2009 USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals; after a tough 2013, she broke through to a World Cup podium guided by renowned coach Darren Smith.
The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the inhalation of xenon and argon gases, used for a decade by Russian Olympic teams, because they instigated the production of the performance enhancing drug EPO
Defending World Triathlon Series champion Javier Gomez dropped Jonny Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Richard Murray and outsprinted fellow Spaniard Mario Mola to win Yokohama – his 3rd straight WTS in 2014.
After her first clean swim and ride at a World Triathlon Series event this year, Gwen Jorgensen laid down the law on the run to dominate the third WTS round at Yokohama Saturday.
The Weekend Box brings you two half Iron distance races from beautiful European resorts, a stirring first World Cup in Chengdu, China, and more
Lake San Antonio was almost empty thanks to the drought; still Tri-California held another Wildflower so Jesse Thomas could four-peat and Heather Jackson three-peat.
Triathletes arriving at Lake San Antonio for the 32nd Wildflower Triathlon were met by a shocking sight – a yawning, empty pit of sand and a few green reeds. Wildflower race director Terry Davis explains.