Matty White took second place at Challenge Cairns and also earned the runner-up spot at 70.3 Busselton and Ironman Western Australia. But it appears that the blond Aussie firefighter is ready to move up one more step.

A few days ago Brazilian race car driver Vitor Meira raced the Indy 500 and has quite a few other IndyCar races to tackle this season. But when Meira is not in a fast car he loves to swim, bike and run.

WTC today announced the 2012 Ironman US Championship in metropolitan New York City – New Jersey. Combined with yesterday’s unveiling of Ironman Mont-Tremblant in Canada there will be 2 new Ironman events in North America.

Lukas Verzbicas just ran a stunning 8:29:46 at the 2-mile distance at the Prefontane Classic, smashing the High School record. But before Verzbicas competes in college this fall he has some unfinished business in triathlon.

James Cunnama and Julie Dibens were the winners at the 2011 Rev3 Quassy Triathlon and took the lion share of the $150,000 purse. Enjoy this race gallery by Eric Wynn.

During the development of the Firecrest 404 wheels, Zipp engineers decided to take a slightly different approach than has typically been used in thinking about and designing the rim shape. So, what’s the bottom line? How well did the engineers do?

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses using Garmin’s elevation correction feature, measuring heart rate and distance underwater, and setting up walk/run intervals.

James Cunnama held off Terenzo Bozzone and Joe Gambles to take the win at Rev3 Quassy in 3:59:17. Julie Dibens established a huge lead on the bike and ran to the win in 4:23:37.

Maxim Kriat beat Paul Ambrose by 7 seconds in a fierce duel to defend his title at the Ironman 70.3 Mooseman. Lesley Paterson’s bike speed edged Caitlin Snow’s run for the women’s title.

Andy Potts’ race-best swim and bike held off Bevan Docherty’s sizzling race-best run; Nicky Samuels’ killer bike and run topped Leanda Cave by 4:21 at Escape From Alcatraz

Andreas Raelert ran down Sebastian Kienle late in the race to win the Challenge Kraichgau. Yvonne Van Vlerken battled Rachel Joyce but at the end had to hold off Julia Wagner to take the women’s title.

Paula Findlay grabbed her second title of the 2011 Dextro Energy World Championship Series with a superb win in Madrid, Spain. Helen Jenkins finished second and Emmie Charayron rounded out the podium

Andreas Böcherer beat local favorites Ronnie Schildknecht and Mathias Hecht at 70.3 Switzerland by a good margin. Caroline Steffen defended her title and also took a reasonably comfortable win.

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.