USAT inducted Paula Newby-Fraser and Barb Lindquist, pioneer race organizers Valerie Silk, Jim Curl and Carl Thomas.
by Tim Carlson, February 15, 2010
Rebecca Dussault, Emma Garrand and Heather Best of the USA dominate women’s ITU Winter Triathlon world championship team gold; Norway takes the men’s title, US men 7th.
Rebecca Dussault of Gunnison Colorado won gold at the ITU Winter World Championship Saturday at Eidsvoll, Norway – the first US woman to win the title. Andreas Svanebo of Sweden took the men’s title.
ITU President Marisol Casado was formally elected as one of six new members of the International Olympic Committee in a meeting prior to the Vancouver Winter Games.
The 2009 ITU long course world champion and multiple Ironman 70.3 winner Timothy O’Donnell during February training in Boulder.
50,000 Euro pro purse for 2009 Challenge Barcelona held up as Felix Walchshofer’s Roth-based Team Challenge takes Evolution Sport to Spanish court to force payment and stop advertising 2010 races.
Reinaldo Colucci beat Daniel Fontana by 1:48 to capture the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Pucon. Amanda Lovato topped two-time winner Heather Gollnick by over 5 minutes to start her 2010 season with a bang.
Longshot Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown comes from way behind to score a huge upset win for the late Edward Kennedy’s US Senate seat. He says he’s also an All-American 50-54 age group triathlete.
Joanna Zeiger, the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Champion, 2000 Olympian, PhD in genetic epidemiology, and survivor of countless medical setbacks answers a few existential questions posed by Timothy Carlson.
Great Britain’s Fraser Cartmell edges James Cunnama, while South African Rhodes Scholar Mari Rabe breaks course record, tops Sandra Wallenhorst at Buffalo City.
Richard Ussher, former Olympic mogul skier, adventure racer and 2009 Quelle Challenge Roth podium finisher beats Justin Daerr and Gina Crawford outduels Rebekah Keat for third straight Challenge Wanaka win.
John Duke, publisher of Triathlete Magazine since 1997, resigned last month after he was removed him from control of the Competitor Group magazines. Part 1 of a 2 part interview with the man who nicknamed himself The Devil.
From DC to LA, from Boulder to Kona, from Chicago to Clearwater, the Best Running Images of 2009 in a photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
