Best women’s long course field outside Kona; Julie Dibens should pick up the big check with absence of injured Chrissie Wellington but Sam McGlone, Yvonne Van Vlerken, Rebekah Keat and Cat Morrison will dispute
by Tim Carlson, March 10, 2010
Now that World Triathlon Corporation is poised to launch its own print publication, it’s about to make its biggest statement to date about its posture toward the future.
Little known fact: The most commonly engaged-in vocation among triathletes is Lawyer. Here is a cautionary tale, when lawyering is eschewed in favor of overlawyering.
The UCI is frequently accused of incompetence, a charge (sometimes valid, sometimes not) leveled against all governing bodies. Now UCI has done far worse: It’s guilty of bad manners.
These days we are confronted by all kinds of charges in our life, including having to pay for air at a gas station. But now it seems that some bike shops have stepped up to the plate to also charge for air.
Chrissie Wellington’s record-smashing and Alistair Brownlee’s perfection gave 2009 some of its bright shining greatness. But there were clearly more amazing triathlon items in 2009.
In the sport of triathlon there’s no brand like Ironman. Here, iron is wealthier than gold. Funny how much love Ironman doesn’t get from the very entities that ought to love it the most.
Gazing into a crystal ball in an attempt to pick the women’s winner of this highly competitive Ironman 70.3 World Championship at Clearwater is a futile task. But here we go again
Timothy Carlson sticks his neck out to predict what will happen in the men’s race at at Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater, Florida this weekend. Will he be correct with his call?
One good thing about how the race in Kona was called this year: It gave a lot of pro athletes a chance to catch up socially with their competitors. Some did a lot of socializing.
No, this isn’t the Slowtwitch swimsuit edition. It’s an analysis of how the women’s race has changed at the Hawaiian Ironman; where today’s best women are slower than those of yesteryear, and where they’re faster.
Now that the ITU World Championship series is over, several European and Australian stars have come to fight it out with Life Time Fitness series stars in Los Angeles
Picking Ironman Hawaii odds is a risky business. What if you miss a 1996 Luc van Lierde? Or the Faris Al-Sultan in 2005? Or Scott Molina in 1988? Timothy Carlson takes on the unforgiving task.
