This weekend’s Challenge Mogan Gran Canaria is the 2018 race season starter for many athletes on Saturday (220 included), with the reigning Ironman world champion, Patrick Lange, the big name on the start list. Advertisement We caught up with the German tri star – who shot to prominence in 2016 when he won Ironman Texas and broke the Kona run course record in Hawaii, before smashing the overall Kona course record in 2017 – to…
Tim Don doesn’t want dwell on his (frankly quite amazing) recovery from a near-fatal neck injury that ruled him out of Kona 2017. Oh no. He has bigger fish to fry than that. Much bigger. Like, winning-Kona-sized bigger… Advertisement It’s during our exclusive interview below that the multiple world champ, Ironman world record holder and 220 columnist reveals the mindset that has seen him go from lying on the roadside after a horrific bike crash,…
After two successful pilot races on Jersey and Hamilton Island (Australia) last year Super League Triathlon (SLT) have announced their 2018-19 season schedule, which sees the top 50 (25 male and 25 female) triathletes from around the world compete to find the best all-round triathlete. Advertisement $1.5 million dollar Super League Triathlon unveiled There will be five championship rounds as well as two qualifier events. The qualifiers will take place in the iconic triathlon heartlands of…
Is Lance Armstrong planning an ÖtillÖ debut in 2018? That’s certainly the suggestion on his Strava account, which this week has a session logged under the description ‘ÖtillÖ Training’. Advertisement Spotted by the Editor of our sister magazine ProCycling, the session shows Armstrong covering 6.8 miles around the Colorado River area of Austin on 24th April, with an average moving pace of 07:05/mile. See the session here. ÖtillÖ (meaning ‘island to island’) is the Swedish…
Our sister title Bike Radar and manual makers Haynes have teamed up to create The Road Bike Manual app, a comprehensive guide to maintaining and repairing your bike, with step-to-step practical tutorials on everything from hubs to headsets, and everything in between. Advertisement Priced £2.99 it includes 20 step-by-step videos, 50 sections of content and 40,000 words, plus new content updates every month, under the following sections; Pre-ride Checks, Drivetrain, Wheels, Frame, Brakes, Cockpit and ‘Get Me…
Riding high after victories in Abu Dhabi and the Commonwealth Games, the one to beat in Bermuda had to be South African Henri Schoeman – but would he be able to keep the rest at bay and claim two WTS wins in a row? Advertisement The 50 elite men that made up the rest might not have included the Brownlees, but there was plenty of quality all the same with 2017 world champ Mario Mola, Schoeman’s…
For the women’s WTS race in Bermuda all eyes were on one person only, reigning ITU and Commonwealth champion Bermudan Flora Duffy. Here Duffy would be racing on home soil at the inaugural WTS Bermuda, and this race, above all other WTS races, was the one she really wanted to win. Advertisement Although the first WTS race in Abu Dhabi of the season did not go to plan, Duffy is the in-form athlete taking five…
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WTS Yokohama: The women’s race Continuing in her formidable form Bermudan triathlete Flora Duffy has collected the first WTS win in the official Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying period, and her second straight WTS victory of the 2018 WTS season. Advertisement First out of the swim, she remained in the lead bike pack and then stole the race away in her run, which ultimately landed her at the top of the Series leaderboard in the WTS rankings.…
2012 Ironman World Champ Leanda Cave has announced her retirement from triathlon. Advertisement That day every professional athlete must face – saying goodbye to a career of racing:https://t.co/fiCUaXUlbW https://t.co/fiCUaXUlbW — Leanda Cave (@leandacave) May 17, 2018 One of GB’s finest triathletes has called time on her illustrious multisporting career. Leanda Cave, now 40, started out in Bath in the 90s, taking the U23 world title in Carlsbad in 2001 before embarking on a breakthrough 2002…