So far 2010 has not been kind to four of the world’s top triathlon stars. Ironman World Champions Chrissie Wellington and Craig Alexander, and ITU World Champions Alistair Brownlee and Emma Moffatt have had setbacks in the first couple months of the New Year.
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Australian Renee Nicholls, a woman who burst onto the Ironman scene at the 2009 Ironman World Championship, passed away yesterday morning in Australia after sustaining injuries from a bike accident on Friday. The 27-year-old dominated the women’s 25-29 age group race in Kona in 2009 with a time of 10:01:48 and was set to receive [...]
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Ironman World Championship runner-up Chris Lieto talked with VeloNews’ Neal Rogers about the twitter time trial, training as a cyclist and exactly how fast he thinks Armstrong can finish at the Ironman World Championships.
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Last weekend at the Trek/K-Swiss team triathlon camp, Chris Lieto talked about his time trial challenge with Lance Armstrong. After seeing Lieto training in Kona, Armstrong tweeted out to his 2.4 million followers that they should have a time trial on the Queen K.
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There are only a few days left to enter for a chance to earn a lottery slot to the 2010 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, which is set to take place on Saturday, October 9.
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Written by: Liz Hichens
Every year two professionals win the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, Florida and earn coveted slots to the following year’s Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. And it seems every year we are left wondering if they will take the slots. Former Ironman 70.3 World Champions like Craig Alexander and Samantha [...]
One advantage of living and training in Kona is that on any given day you might see one of several professional triathletes and cyclists that travel to the Big Island for some heat training. Professional triathlete Bree Wee resides in Kona and often gets the experience to rub shoulders with some of the sport’s top [...]
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After challenging each other to a time trial through twitter while the two were training separately in Kona, Lance Armstrong and Chris Lieto finally met up today on Lieto’s last day on the island. The pair named it the “Twitter Time Trial” and according to Armstrong he beat Lieto by 15 seconds. Armstrong also joked [...]
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According to the website Eitb.com, Basque triathlete Virginia Berasategui was involved in a car accident in Mallorca on Monday, Feb. 15. Berasategui is an up and coming long-distance triathlete with a 2009 victory at the Wildflower triathlon and a third place finish at the 2009 Ironman World Championship on her resume.
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Today on TriCenter we ride and run with some of the world’s top athletes, and Craig Alexander and Chris Lieto reunite on our set to look back at their battle in Kona.
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Matt Reed was born in New Zealand, moved to Australia when he was nine and became a US citizen in 2007. He shares his stories about moving to France and Germany in his early 20’s to try to make it as a professional triathlete, which can be tough when you are 6’5” tall and are [...]
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This week on TriCenter we recap Ironman 70.3 Pucon, Matt Reed talks Kona and we unravel the mystery behind kinesiology tape.
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