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Chrissie Wellington takes a break

Chrissie Wellington, the 4-time Ironman World Champion, the holder of the women’s Ironman distance and Ironman world best times, talks about her decision to take a year off from Ironman competition

New Leopard Dirk Bockel

Dirk Bockel recently announced that he was joining Team Leopard-Trek, but this does not mean that he'll end his triathlon career and compete on the road. He sat down with slowtwitch on Fuerteventura.

A statement on the recent Slowtwitch outage

On Jan. 18, Slowtwitch experienced a server outage of several hours. This was the result of damage to the fiber optic lines connecting our servers - and others - to the rest of the Internet. The outage came at a time when two bills in the US Congress threaten to make such disruptions more frequent. Here are our thoughts on both issues.

Slowtwitch Explodes

No, you weren't banned. No we weren't protesting PIPA and SOPA. An explosion blew up the fiber optic cables carrying our signal to you. Slowtwitch was down from 2pm Pacific to midnight.

ITU bumps WCS prize money by 15%

The International Triathlon Union is raising its total prize payout for the 8-race World Championship Series by 15% - up to $2.06 million - and series winners will earn $60,000

Fuerteventura impressions

We came to Fuerteventura for the launch of the new Cervelo P5 and will post details about this very cool bike tonight, but first enjoy these impressions from the Playitas resort in Fuerteventura.

The Cervelo P5 unveiled

Cervelo introduced the highly anticipated P5 to a fairly small group of triathlon journalists at the Playitas resort on Fuerteventura over the last few days and we were there to take a closer look.

2012 WADA Prohibited Substance List Updates

The annual update to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited substance list was published on October 1st and will be effective on Jan. 1, 2012. Each year WADA updates the list in accordance with evolving scientific principals, changing social habits and increased understanding of what constitutes an ergogenic substance or process.