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The shining courage of Jim MacLaren

An appreciation of Jim MacLaren, the man for whom the Challenged Athletes Foundation was created, and co-recipient of the 2005 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, who died August 30 at age 47.

A visit to the 2010 Eurobike Demo Day

We arrived this morning in Europe and after a quick lunch headed straight over to the 2010 Eurobike Demo Day in the very beautiful Württembergischen Allgäu. Here is what we noticed today.

Rudy Garcia-Tolson rocks

Rudy Garcia-Tolson was born with multiple birth defects and after many, many operations to his legs, he told his parents he would rather be a double amputee. Rudy became a great swimmer, triathlete and warrior and in November of 09 became an Ironman.

A few words with Tim Berkel

After his win at the inaugural Challenge Copenhagen, Aussie Tim Berkel was not only happy about the new title and bringing home the bacon, he also was relieved not to be viewed as a one-hit-wonder anymore.

The New Alcatraz

Terry Davis and his Tri-California crew put on their inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz Sunday and Tenille Hoogland, Ben Collins, more than a thousand age groupers and the course itself put on a show. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Aussies win in Louisville

Paul Ambrose earned his first Ironman title with a win at the 2010 Ironman Louisville today. In the women's race Rebekah Keat followed up her win at the Challenge Copenhagen race a few weeks ago with another victory in Louisville.

Fretta, Haskins take Chicago Tri

Mark Fretta took a fine win at the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon, while Toyota Cup points leader Matty Reed failed to finish in the top five. Sarah Haskins grabbed the women's title with a very dominating performance.

Collins, Hoogland win SF Tri at Alcatraz

Ben Collins and Tenille Hoogland repeated their wins at Treasure Island with victories at the inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz; Collins' bike tops Kyle Leto and Hoogland's run edges Amanda Stevens.

Zyemtsev, Kessler in Canada

At the 2010 Subaru Ironman Canada Victor Zyemtsev ran down a long time race leader to take the win, just as he had done several times before. In the women's race Meredith Kessler followed up her runner-up spot in Coeur D'Alene with a win today.

A Joe Gambles update

After dealing with an Achilles injury, Joe Gambles successfully defended his title at Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens and now the Aussie has his eyes set on Ironman Wisconsin and qualifying for Kona.

The fast and humble Paula Findlay

Paula Findlay had shown quite a bit of promise the last couple years, but really stepped into the limelight with great wins at the ITU WCS races in London and Kitzbühel. The fast, charming and humble Canadian had a few words with slowtwitch.