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Petraeus, Steffen take Challenge Aarhus

 When Rasmus Henning DNF’d with cramps, Rasmus Petraeus combined a race-best swim, 6th-best bike and 3rd best run to win the swim-shortened Challenge Aarhus half; Caroline Steffen devastated the women’s field
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Brown, Lawn take Korea 70.3

 Cameron Brown leads an all Kiwi men’s podium ahead of Guy Crawford and Kieran Doe; Joanna Lawn tops the women and makes Korea 70.3 an all-Kiwi winner’s sweep
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Vanhoenacker crushes all-time record

 Marino Vanhoenacker smashed the all-time Ironman record of 7:50:27 set by Luc Van Lierde in 1997 and recorded a stunning 7:45:58 at the 2011 Kärnten Ironman Austria. Mary Beth Ellis took the women's title in 8:43:34.
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Csoke, Bevilaqua win IM Korea

 Balazs Csoke of Hungary won his first Ironman and Kate Bevilaqua of Australia won her second IM title and first race of 2011 at Ironman Korea.
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The end of Team Commerzbank

 Commerzbank, the main sponsor of the very successful Commerzbank Triathlon Team announced that they would not extend the sponsorship past 2011 and would focus on soccer instead.
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John Carson’s swan song

 After an accident in 2009 John Carson was destined to be wheelchair bound but he was determined to walk again. He has since finished Ironman Lake Placid, the Boston Marathon and Ironman Coeur D'Alene, but that one was his swan song of sorts.
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Doug MacLean – stepping up

 Boulder, CO based amateur Doug MacLean was the top age grouper at Ironman Coeur D'Alene and managed to break into the top 10 overall. Moving forward though he'll be starting with a Pro card and much tougher competition.
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When Harry Met Javi

 ITU racing is compelling, the athletes are superb, it's good, hard, clinical, scrubbed, white bread, racing. Until this past weekend, when it finally, happily, developed an edge.
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What We Have Noticed: Cervelo …

 We stumbled upon the new Cervelo S5 aero road bike, the Zerod Vanguard wetsuit, the Leg Lube shaving gel, the Headsweats visibility hat, the Butterfinger Buzz bar and funky cufflinks from Gotham Smith.
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Ron Smith

 Even on his next-to-last day, none of us would have been surprised to see him swing his feet out over the side of his hospital bed, stand up, shake out the kinks and stride off down the hall, with his bare ass hanging out of his gown, trailing tubes and wires and shedding cancer cells like fleas.