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IMG announces new race director Bill Burke for May 30 Escape from Alcatraz, former Escape RD Terry Davis and Tri-California start up new Alcatraz Triathlon August 29, and Dave Horning sails ahead with 30th Annual Ultimate Escape on June 20.

For a couple months now there have been rumors about a new triathlon in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and today the race was finally unveiled. Race date is March 13, 2010 and two unique distances can be conquered on that day in a very unique location.

Courtney Atkinson defended his title and teenager Emma Jackson won her first major victory over more experienced rivals at the famed Noosa Triathlon in Australia.

Desiree Ficker, 2006 Ironman Hawaii runner-up, is 10th overall woman, 2nd American woman; Meb Keflezighi first US men’s winner in 27 years at NYC Marathon.

Today What We Have Noticed a popular applesauce from Europe, running shoes from Rockport, a race repair kit from Vittoria, and a statement t-shirt from Typetees.

Eneko Llanos avenged his somewhat disappointing Ironman Hawaii performance with a superb win at the 2009 XTERRA World Championships in Maui. Julie Dibens captured her third title in a row with a dominating performance in the women's race.

The USA’s Timothy O’Donnell trumped his big win at St. Croix 70.3 with gold at ITU Long Distance World Championship at Perth; Great Britain’s Jodie Swallow smashes the field by 11 minutes as Rebekah Keat takes silver.

Joanna Zeiger, the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Champion, comes back from baffling mid-season dizziness syndrome to win Longhorn Ironman 70.3 Austin in impressive time. Aussie Richie Cunningham defends title with a 1:48 margin over Brian Fleischmann.

What kind of bikes were the top 15 pro women riding at the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii? Slowtwitch has images and details of the women and their machines. Well, we have pictures and data of the top 10 and information but no pics for 11-15.

After an exciting first year of their new World Championship Series, the ITU adds Sydney, Seoul and Budapest, but drops Washington DC and leaves North and South America off the seven-race 2010 schedule.

Today slowtwitch.com looked closer at the top 15 male runners at the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships. Check out the running shoes and strides of these amazing athletes.

Last year's look at the running shoes of the top 10 finishers was quite popular, and thus we decided to make it about the top 15 athletes this time around. Money stops at the 10th spot, but there is no reason for us to stop there.

We looked closer at the bikes of the top 15 finishers at the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. Brands and details of frames, wheels, aero bars, saddles and more.

Matty Reed again showed that when he's fresh and ready, he's very tough to beat in a no-draft oly-distance race. Lisa Norden bested Sarah Haskins for the women's title

The Slowtwitch Ice Cream Truck was in Dallas for the fifth Toyota Cup stop of the season. This was the series finale, here's how we called it.

Wellington takes down Paula Newby-Fraser's 17-year race record with a dominating 8:54:02; runner-up Carfrae breaks CW's run record with a 2:56:51; Alexander outduels a gutsy, brilliant effort by Chris Lieto on a red-hot letter day on the Queen K.

What are Chrissie Wellington, Yvonne Van Vlerken, Catriona Morrison, Michellie Jones and Mirinda Carfrae thinking on the eve of battle at the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships?

The young New Zealander who took the Ironman 70.3 World Championship crown last November says Chris McCormack didn’t work on his mind while training together in Kona. "I won't let anyone psyche me out."

The International Triathlon Union issued a six-year ban to Mariana Ohata, Brazil's top ITU female triathlete, for testing positive for the prohibited substance furosemide - her second anti-doping violation.

With the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships almost upon us we noticed Forze GPS bars, the Crowie Backstage iPhone app, the Ceepo Katana, Muscle Milk Light and an Art of Tri t-shirt.

Matt Reed leads defending champion Greg Bennett and Sarah Haskins leads defending champ Becky Lavelle and Rebeccah Wassner going into the Race to the Toyota Cup Series finale in Dallas

The two ITU World Championship Series silver medalists get some non-drafting redemption at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon; Javier Gomez tops Stuart Hayes and Lisa Norden tops Sarah Haskins.

Here's the live coverage of the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon, as we called it, from the Slowtwitch Ice Cream Truck (the unofficial lead vehicle).

Announcing the SlowTwitch Bike Lounge, powered by Retül. Meet the Slowtwitch staff, let us fete you with goodies, while you get your fit coordinates databased by the good folks at Retül

The countdown has started to the 2009 Ford Ironman Hawaii and here are a few things we have noticed leading up to the event. A unique bike case from Biknd, a data logger from Quarq, the Great Athlete Auction, a new Scott Rigsby book and an Oregon event that has nothing to do with triathlon.