This weekend’s BG Triathlon World Cup Beijing is the official test event for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and many countries are using the event for their selection process.

Results from the 2007 Monaco 70.3 race

Results from the 2007 Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon

Results from the 2007 Triathlon at Pacific Grove

Franky Batelier (FRA) finally climbed to the very top of the podium after two 2nd place finishes at previous XTERRA races. In the women’s race Carina Wasle (AUT) proved to be too strong for her competition.

You can race fast, and you can live long, but are achieving both goals a reasonable expectation?

Maik Twelsiek of Germany won the 2007 Ironman Wisconsin and with it grabbed his first Ironman title. New Zealand’s Gina Ferguson won the women’s race in a course record-breaking 9:37:03 and with it her first Ironman crown.

Portuguese phenom Vanessa Fernandes won the 2007 Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships and thus earned the first world title in triathlon for Portugal

Daniel Unger of the host nation Germany stunned most triathlon experts and most likely himself as he won the BG 2007 ITU Triathlon World Championships in front of roughly 300,000 rabid fans.

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