Specially designed bike celebrates London and offers a cheeky tip to her competition The post Cube and Lucy Charles-Barclay pay tribute to London (and warn her competition) with special bike appeared first on Triathlon Magazine Canada ..read more

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With less than a week to go before the Paris Games, it’s hard not to be focussed on the pinnacle of draft-legal racing. This weekend will offer up a pair of exciting long-distance races as the T100 Triathlon World Tour makes its first European stop of 2024. While the T100 series has signed many of the sport’s biggest names, to date the series has struggled to get all of those athletes to the same race at the same time. That’s not going to be much different in London, although we’re still going to see some big names vying for the podium. Charles-Barclay looks for hometown win She’s the reignin ..read more

In a short statement on Instagram earlier today, 2022 Ironman world champion Chelsea Sodaro announced that she and Canyon “have decided mutually to end our partnership.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by CHELSEA SODARO (@chelseasodaro) Sodaro signed with Canyon early in 2023 after winning the world championship in Kona. The company enjoyed a prominent position on her race kit. At the race in Kona in 2022 she competed in a pair of Asics shoes, but her race kit included a Hoka logo – she reportedly asked Hoka to let her out of her contract because she wanted to be ab ..read more

It was a tough spring for Canada’s Dominika Jamnicky, who made a gallant effort to qualify for the Olympics in Paris, but came up just short after a busy spring spent flying around the world. “It’s been a bit of a tough road, missing out on qualifying for the Olympics by just one spot,” Jamnicky said in an interview just before Challenge Cap-Quebec on Sunday. “So, I thought, what better way to distract myself from that by jumping into this race in the heart of Quebec.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Triathlon Magazine (@triathlonmagazine) Jamnicky’s spring invol ..read more

Ironman has updated its Pregnancy and Parenthood policy so that athletes who become pregnant after registering for an event can defer to that same event for up to two years. (The previous policy allowed for a one-year deferral.) The newly named policy – it was previously known as the “Pregnancy Policy” – also allows for deferrals to those who “are adopting or birthing via surrogacy, and athletes with a pregnant partner.” “Athletes who are adopting or birthing via surrogacy will be eligible to defer their entry to the same event the following year with proof of surrogacy birth or adoption withi ..read more

Just two weeks after finishing fifth at Challenge Roth, American Danielle Lewis stormed through a 2:52 marathon run to take her first Ironman title. The feat was even more impressive considering that Lewis trailed the swim leaders by a whopping 15:37 as she ran to T1. It was American super-swimmer Lauren Brandon who exited Mirror Lake in first, with Rachel Zilinskas in tow. The Netherlands’ Lotte Wilms was third out of the water, a shade under two minutes back of the two leaders. By the end of the first of the two laps of the bike Zilinskas and Wilms were out in front, with the rest of the pre ..read more

Lionel Sanders’ 2024 unbeaten streak ended today thanks to an incredible 2:36 marathon split by one of his training partners, Trevor Foley, who passed fellow American Matthew Marquardt in the closing miles of the race to take his first Ironman title. Australia’s Josh Amberger led the men out of the water, with Marquardt in third, three seconds back, while Sanders finished the swim almost six minutes down, with Foley almost 30 seconds behind him. Can Lionel Sanders win his first Ironman race since Arizona, 2017? Marquardt would blast through the bike in 4:16:53, which put him 8:30 ahead of S ..read more

It was a small pro field, but lots of triathlon enthusiasts were keeping their eye on the action in Quebec City today for the inaugural edition of Challenge Cap-Quebec. It’s no secret that Challenge-Family has struggled to make its mark in North America, so a successful event here in the picturesque city was critical. We’ll have more on the entire event and the age-group racing over the next few days, but suffice it to say that the event was a huge success. The exciting pro racing just added to the great day. Moody takes fourth win of the season The Kiwi might be gearing up for a big day at h ..read more

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, might have felt comfortable jumping into the Seine yesterday as a way of proving the water will be just fine for the Olympic triathlon and open-water swimming events in a few weeks, but many water-quality experts remain wary of the conditions. That’s even if the E. coli levels come down over the next few weeks to meet what organizers have deemed an acceptable level –  1,000 CFU/ 100 ml.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Anne Hidalgo (@annehidalgo) “It’s still pretty risky,” says Dr. Heather Murphy, who leads the Water, Health ..read more