Julie Dibens stormed to the top of the podium at the 2007 XTERRA Triathlon World Championships in Maui, Hawaii and she is currently getting ready to repeat that feat.
by Herbert Krabel, September 3, 2008
Adventure racing legend Ian Adamson is betting the proverbial house
his 24 Hours of Triathlon at Cherry Creek State Park will hit it big.
Olaf Sabatschus has 3 Ironman titles and endless other podium placings on his resume and he just recently won the Inferno Triathon in Switzerland. He talked to Slowtwitch about racing, training, rules, drugs and a few other interesting subjects.
Maximilian Longree wins by 21 minutes, breaks Ironman Louisville course record, Mariska Kramer-Postma overcomes 17-minute deficit
Wellington dominates field, Loy takes second straight ITU long course World title in Almere
Scott Curry had the fastest bike split at the 2008 Ironman Canada, and finished in 11th place. After the race he was quite outspoken about some issues in the pro field and talked to Slowtwitch about it.
Paralyzed from the neck down, she asks to be taken off ventilator
A doping test of the top 3 male and female finishers by the Spanish National Anti-Doping Commission at the Zarautz Triathlon in the Basque region of Spain, resulted in a postive A sample, 3athlon.de reports.
Kiwi Bryan Rhodes has been around the triathlon world for 16 years now and just a few days ago recorded his 4th Ironman title. Meet the man with the big smile and a very determined attitude.
Marko Albert is an ITU triathlete from Estonia who just recently returned from his second Olympics. He talked to Slowtwitch.com about his Olympic experience in Beijing, his training and what he is up to next.
Witnesses are sworn in and asked to identify the guilty party in a lineup of Olympic athletic catastrophes. Roll tape. One by one, they watch a series of mind boggling disasters.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported today that endurance athlete Barbara Warren of San Diego suffered a broken neck Saturday while competing in the Santa Barbara Triathlon.
Stuart Hayes won the 2008 Accenture Chicago Triathlon despite having to deal with a severely swollen knee the night before. A super fast bike split helped Becky Lavelle take charge of the women’s race.
Australia’s Belinda Granger and New Zealand’s Bryan Rhodes both won the 26th Ironman Canada titles with strong bike splits Sunday on the classic Penticton, British Columbia course.
LOOK’s growing presence in the triathlon realm is evidenced as Slowtwitch.com was taken through its 2009 Tri line. And while they have truly competitive new products, their design principles take a different tack – one that perhaps changes conventional thinking of what aero really is.
Sheila Taormina wrapped up an amazing career by placing 19th of 36 entrants at the modern pentathlon at the Beijing Olympics Friday.
This simple statement of the planned final fact in her athletic career does her no justice.
In 1978 Henry Forrest was another one of those adventurous souls who plunged into the waters of Oahu for the start of a crazy new event called Ironman. He talked to Slowtwitch about his memories of the event and a much more important recent battle.
Although a bit “lost in translation” our roving reporter at the Olympic Games in Beijing got to see a very surprising sprint finish of the men’s triathlon triathlon and managed to get some shopping done too. Enjoy his final report.
On Thursday 08/21 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific time, Olympic silver medal winner Simon Whitfield from Canada will be live on slowtwitch.com to answer a few questions about the event, his training and the Olympics in general.
When all the shouting at Shinsanling Reservoir was over, a surprise longshot German outkicked a triathlon murderer’s row to take gold in the Olympic men’s triathlon.
These things are almost always impossible to predict. Which makes this endeavor an amusing fantasy, not unlike playing the lottery. But honestly speaking, there are only 8 to 10 men in the field of 56 who have the foot speed and leg power to win.
It came first, and was very much unlike the men’s electric, exciting, adrenaline-rich Olympic four-man duel that would take place a day later.
Our embedded Olympic reporter Hector Fernandez got to see an incredible women’s triathlon and various track and field events before returning tired to the hotel. Here is his day 3 report from Beijing.
Are the Beijing Olympics just another totalitarian infomercial? Or do they signal something hopeful—China reaching out to free world values? Granting the Games to countries with mixed human rights records is not new.
Another update from the Olympics in Beijing courtesy of our embedded reporter Hector Fernandez. Hector checked out the women’s marathon and ran into a few triathletes a bit later.
