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British domination in Madrid

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.

Bell, Wee top Honu 70.3

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

McCormack, Keat conquer Cairns

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

Corbin, Scott help CAF

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.

It’s the law

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.

Beke announces retirement

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

The fast punk AJ Baucco

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.

Messick to WTC – analysis

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.

Unauthorized Assistance

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?

2011 CapTex Triathlon

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.

It’s Potts and Haskins in Austin

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.