Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack and fellow Australian Rebekah Keat topped small but talented fields at the inaugural Challenge Cairns

Luke Bell’s race-best 1:18:58 run overcomes Chris Lieto’s race-best 2:07:56 bike; Kona pro Bree Wee tops age grouper Sheila Croft by 37 seconds at Honu 70.3

Alistair Brownlee took a superb win at the Dextro Energy WCS race in Madrid and his younger brother Jonathan grabbed second place after a successful break on the bike. Javier Gomez finished third.

Linsey Corbin with help from her sponsors donated a replica of her custom painted SCOTT Plasma 3 with SRAM, Zipp and Vision components for an auction in NYC to benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

Jimmy Riccitello, who heads up WTC’s officials program, and Charlie Crawford, longtime head of officiating at USA Triathlon, spoke to Slowtwitch about this past weekend’s rules questions.

The common wisdom is that wheel mass, since it is rotating, counts "doubly bad" as compared to non-rotating mass. There’s a grain of truth to this common wisdom, but it doesn’t tell the entire story.

AS AEG’s Andrew Messick moves across to WTC, what is Providence Equity Partners’ strategy, and what does this mean for Ben Fertic? Here’s what Slowtwitch thinks of the recent hire.

Before finding the passion and speed in the triathlon world AJ Baucco was a drummer for a punk rock band. More recently he was the fastest amateur at 70.3 Florida and he had a few words with slowtwitch.

2003 Ironman World Championship runner-up Rutger Beke called a news conference today in his native Belgium and announced his retirement effective immediately.

The Amgen Tour of California was the dreamchild of Andrew Messick, who ran massive AEG’s sports division. He’ll try to leverage that success as Ironman’s new CEO

The 2011 CapTex Triathlon in Austin offered great performances, a mix up that scrambled the men’s swim, and a dismal dunking of yours truly. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.

This week we again look at rules we’ve tried to parse before: What’s unauthorized assistance exactly; and what happens when an official’s commands collide with our own best sense?

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses using a Garmin Edge 500 with a PowerTap, using the Garmin FR310XT during the swim, and some heart-rate training resources.

Andy Potts is steered off-course twice, believing the course marshal only once and that, plus a strong race, netted him an easy win at Captex. Sarah Haskins wins as well in the popular, 3000-person downtown tri.

Argentina’s Eduardo Sturla took the win at the Ironman Brazil Florianopolis for the fourth time. Amy Marsh grabbed the win in the women’s race and that is her fourth Ironman title.

Sylvain Sudrie defended his title at the 2011 Half Challenge Barcelona-Maresme in fairly hot conditions and with strong performances in all disciplines. Eva Ledesma took the women’s title with a fine closing run.

The 7-time ITU World Championship medalist from Scotland just won 70.3s at Galveston and St Croix and took her second Ironman win at Texas. Now the fleet-footed 34-year-old is aiming at breaking her jinx at Kona.

Enhanced race results returns for 2011 with the inaugural Ironman Texas. Craig Harris once again fires up his Excel-fu to slice and dice the results.

Jared Woodford is not your typical athlete with an Elite license. When he isn’t racing or training, he is working full time as a commercial pilot. We talked to him about racing Pro, working full time and living his dream.

Sarah Haskins and Rebeccah Wassner lead the women’s field. Cam Dye, Andy Potts, Hunter Kemper, Matty Reed, Filip Ospaly top the men’s contenders at the Cap Tex Triathlon in Austin, Texas.

This week we noticed the Giro Selector TT helmet, a very cool Wouter Weylandt memorial t-shirt, the GU Roctane Chocolate Raspberry, the 2012 Norseman race(s) and an interesting way to protect your bike from rain.

Kris Gemmell overcame storms and tough competition to win the 5150 Memphis in May Triathlon by a minute. Amanda Stevens’ advantage was only a few seconds but that was all she needed to take the women’s crown.

Catriona Morrison broke 9 hours and Eneko Llanos eked out a 90-second win over Iron rookie Tim O’Donnell at Ironman Texas. Photos by Timothy Carlson.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray compares the Garmin GTU to the Spot Tracker, discusses how to create CompuTrainer files from GPS files, and laments the lack of do-it-all HRM strap.