Month: May 2021

Now its fifth year, the Ironman Legacy Program has once again granted 100 athletes the opportunity to compete in the prestigious Ironman World Championship at Kona. Advertisement Of these 100 chosen five are from the UK including Rav Dighe, Amin Golbidi, Bob Gordon, Alistair McVeigh, and Mark Walsh, and one from Ireland, John Milne. To be eligible for selection for Kona the athletes must have;  a) Completed a minimum of 12 full-distance Ironman-branded races  b) Have never started the iconic Ironman…

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The ITU World Paratriathlon season starts this Sunday in Buffalo City, South Africa and Brits Lauren Steadman and Alison Patrick will be hoping to seal their Paralympic Games selections. Others are chasing ranking points that will help them qualify later in the season. Advertisement >>> Paratriathlon: the ultimate guide  Steadman and Patrick can achieve automatic selection by virtue of having won medals at both the ITU Paratriathlon World Championships in 2014 and 2015. Winning this weekend…

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The British duo will be joined by fellow male athletes Gordon Benson andTom Bishop, who will be hoping to impress the British selectors for Rio and get the third spot on the team with the Brownlees.   Advertisement The women’s race features Jodie Stimpson and Helen Jenkins, who will be looking to impress British selectors and claim the final third team place for Rio, with Vicky Holland and Non Stanford who have already secured their Olympic…

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Planning next year’s race diary? After looking at these images by photographer José Luis Hourcade you might be tempted to try Challenge Forte Village in Sardinia Advertisement

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When the Pro Triathlon Union launched in July last year, the frisson of optimism soon gave way to an air of scepticism. With a board hastily assembled at a closed-shop triathletes’ meeting in Bahrain, it offered little to deliver cohesion in a disparate sport. Advertisement Long-course professionals struggling to pay their rent were irked at being asked to fork out up to $600 for membership. It took a further blow when Jan Frodeno declared he…

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The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke the Ali’i Drive finish line tape in 7:52:39 to become the Ironman World Champion for the second time. Following the…

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1969  Kansas City, Kansas: – NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk, Jr. wrestled Dick Murdoch to a time limit draw  1976 Indianapolis, Indiana: – Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Ox Baker & Chuck O’Connor to win the WWA Tag Team Title in a steel cage match – The Strangler beat Pepper Gomez to win the WWA title – AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Art Thomas – Art Thomas won a 16-man battle royal…

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Après avoir fait une apparition dans Les Mystères de l’amour dans la peau de son personnage phare du Miel et les abeilles Johnny, à l’occasion du mariage de Fanny et Christian, l’acteur Cyril Aubin fera le show dans une autre série culte. Selon le site PBLV-plusbellelavie.fr, l’acteur de 50 ans apparaîtra dans Plus belle la vie (France 3) dès la fin du mois d’octobre. Il n’incarnera malheureusement pas un personnage récurrent. Il a en effet…

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Grâce aux réseaux sociaux, les célébrités sont plus proches de leurs fans. Elles y découvrent, parfois, des sosies frappants. Après Rihanna, Selena Gomez en fait l’étonnante expérience… Sur Instagram, Rihanna avait récemment exprimé son choc après être tombée sur le visage d’une petite fille lui ressemblant comme deux gouttes d’eau. Un sosie de Selena Gomez fait également des vagues. La craquante Lara Valentini surprend de nombreux internautes grâce aux nombreux traits qu’elle partage avec la…

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More than 100 national, state, and local advocacy groups will launch a mobilization Saturday to counteract the Republican Party’s systematic dismantling of the United States’ democracy, calling on supporters to help fight for legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote. At the John Lewis National Day of Action, groups including Public Citizen, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Common Cause plan to “ignite public support for restoring the effectiveness of the Voting…

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