The image of Max Longrée devouring a huge hamburger at the finish line of Ironman Louisville made quite an impression on people who followed the race on Ironmanlive.com. We talked to the Ironman Louisville champion from Germany.
by Herbert Krabel, September 17, 2008
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Why did the Gills family sell the Ironman? Why did Providence Equity Partners, a private equity company, buy it? What does it all mean to you and me?
Life Time Fitness CEO Bahram Akradi proposes joining ITU Super Series, brokering USAT-ITU peace summit, mending fences, merging rules, and raising triathlon to its proper place in the mega-sports universe
Jonas Colting reports from the unique Island to Island event in Stockholm, Sweden. Teams of two cross the Archipelago area of 20 islands and the water in between them.
Alexander and Zeiger cruise to dominant victories at Ironman 70.3 debut of the 1992 ITU Olympic distance World Championship venue
Ironman Brasil 70.3 celebrates move from Brasilia to the seaside resort of Penha with two sizzling hot duels
After winning the Accenture Chicago Triathlon a few weeks earlier, Stuart
Hayes of Great Britain and Becky Lavelle of Los Gatos, California returned
to the top of the podiums again at the 2008 Nautica Malibu Olympic distance triathlon.
ITU opts to halt 19-year-tradition of single day elite World Championships in hopes of growing the sport
Charlie Crawford, the Commissioner of Officials of USA Triathlon is fairly well known in the triathlon community but most triathletes usually prefer not to see him, well, officially that is.
When Chrissie Wellington stormed to her Ironman Hawaii World Championship title last year, many people were asking the question “Chrissie who?” This year she’ll be surely on everybody’s radar and she checked in with Slowtwitch pre Kona.
The enigmatic 1999 ITU World Champion from Kazakhstan who took down Simon Lessing at Montreal accepts two year ban for positive EPO test
Justin Daerr finished the 2001 Ironman California in 12:55 and just 2 years later he recorded a 9:20 finish at Ironman Florida. A couple weeks ago he was 5th overall at Ironman Canada in a time of 8:37 and we had a talk with him.
