2010 ITU London WCS men

A week ago at round 4 of the Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Series in Hamburg, Germany Javier Gomez battled local favorite Jan Frodeno for the title and managed to take the win with Frodeno grabbing the runner-up spot. Fast forward a week to today and this time in London, England Gomez battled Brits Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee step for step before eventually taking another impressive win in front of the partisan British crowd. Surprisingly it was the younger Brownlee who grabbed the runner-up spot while pre-race favorite Alistair bonked very hard with 400 meters to go and dropped from second to tenth position.

All images are © Eric Wynn of ericwynn.org

A late afternoon start in London allowed the athletes to casually get to the transition area.

Simon Whitfield even found time to clean some debris of the course.

A very jovial Tim Don before the start.

Time to set up the feed zones.

Delly Carr in action in London.

After the warm-up swim Manny Huerta gets back to the start area.

The focused eyes of Javier Gomez look past Alexander Brukhankov.

Last week in Hamburg Frodeno was 2nd, today in London the Beijing Olympic Champion wanted to step up higher.

It is time to go.

The swim is like a big washing machine at that level too.

A dizzying vision if you were not in that pack.

Ouch, that hurt for sure.

Interesting facial expressions in the front pack.

A lat attempt by Stuart Hayes to get away from the super speedy runners.

With a couple kilometers to go it was down to Jonathan Brownlee, Javier Gomez and Alistair Brownlee.

A bit further back a serious fight for position.

The pain now shows on Alistair Brownlee's face.

Alistair Brownlee was on the verge of collapsing before the finish line.

Jonathan Brownlee and Javier Gomez congratulate each other while on the ground.

Alistair Brownlee is getting medical attention.