Here is the latest tool in the bike fitter’s toolbox: an affordable, real time, 2D, unbuggy motion capture system.

Brazilian Wagner Araujo is well known for his amazing photography and passionate attention to detail and he selected his favorite images from the 2017 ITU World Championships in Penticton, Canada.

Gino Bartali, two-time winner of the Tour de France, helped save the lives of Jewish refugees during WWII by ferrying documents hidden in his bicycle and by sheltering a Jewish family in an apartment he owned. This past May, the new Israeli professional cycling team, commemorated Bartali during the 100th anniversary of the Giro d’Italia with a special ride tracing his war-time document smuggling routes.

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Sarah Piampiano of the U.S. and Domenico Passuello of Italy won Ironman 70.3 Qujing.

Frederik Van Lierde edged Andi Bocherer by 3:24 and Jocelyn McCauley topped Celine Schaerer by 2:00 at Vichy 70.3.

Lionel Sanders and Sarah Crowley won the ITU Multisport Festival LD Worlds in Penticton.

Boris Stein tops Andreas Giglmayr by 1:27 and Laura Philipp smashes the women’s field at Zell Am See-Kaprun 70.3.

Chicago police reported that a motorist struck and injured two triathletes competing in the Chicago Triathlon on Sunday.

Jonny Brownlee, after two disappointing 4th place finishes on the WTS circuit, wins WTS Stockholm.

Defending WTS World Champion Flora Duffy of Bermuda won her 5th WTS race of the season at Stockholm

Oscar Olsson finished second at the 2016 ÖTILLÖ World Championships with Paul Krochak, and wants to be on the very top this year with new partner Martin Flinta. The well liked and entertaining Swede is competing often in triathlon but at this time of the year it is all about Swimrun.

CeramicSpeed master wrench Jeff Yingling discusses proper bike cleaning. Part 1 in an 8-Part video series on bike maintenance created exclusively for Slowtwitch by the bike geeks at CeramicSpeed.

Up close with the Major League Triathlon Atlantic City, the second stop of the 2017 series, in a video hosted by Transition Four.

What I heard: “I often think that all tri bikes other than the P2/P3 and PR3/5 should be done away with.”

The extreme edition of the Lofoten Triathlon takes place north of the arctic circle in the land of the midnight sun and the northern lights and we got images.

The IRONMAN World Champions Jan Frodeno and Daniela competed in the hilly Allgäu Triathlon and totally dominated this long running event.

Amelia Watkinson won her second straight Bintan 70.3 title and Mike Phillips took his career first 70.3 victory.

McNamee runs past Guillaume with 2 kilometers to go, Lewis tops Cheetham by 3:15 at Ironman 70.3 Dublin.

Marino Vanhoenacker smashes men’s field; Rachel Joyce edges Kim Schwabenbauer at Mont Tremblant.

Michelle Vesterby of Denmark wins her 4th career IM at the women pro only Ironman Copenhagen.

Clemente Alonso-McKernan ran down cycling leader Cameron Wurf at 32 kilometers to win IM Kalmar.

Eva Nyström won the mixed division ÖtillÖ World Championships in Sweden in course record time barely 4 months after giving birth. This mother of two also has won the Duathlon World Championships twice, races as a pro triathlete and competes in road TT events.

Marcel Zamora-Perez of Spain and Tine Deckers of Belgium won the challenging Embrunman Triathlon.