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Sarah Haskins and Laura Bennett in Sports Illustrated

I got this email from Brian and the picture is great: his wife Sarah Haskins and USA teammate Laura Bennett in a Sports Illustrated two paged picture of the Beijing Olympics Triathlon. It is not everyday that you get to see triathletes in SI, and specially rare to see a 2 page spread. Which [...]

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Beijing Olympics Triathlon Photo Slideshow - the Women’s 100

One hundred pictures from the 2008 Beijing Olympics Women’s Triathlon. This was a combo effort from team Fernandez as I tried to shoot video, shoot from a point and shoot, and Chelle ran the SLR. Hope you like the - and if you need the actual pictures (pro/sponsor/etc) just shoot me an email. Below [...]

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My Triathlon Gear for SALE ! !

If you are a faithful reader, then you know I am about to head off to mba school which means I am semi-retiring from our wonderful sport for 2 years and need to sell gear. I am becoming a full time student and some book $! This is gear that I can’t see using in [...]

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Official Women’s Beijing Olympics Triathlon Results

Official Beijing Olympics Triathlon Results for the women’s race are up and here is the link over at triathlon.org I have obviously done a horrible job of chronicling the the actual Triathlon race at the Ming Tomb Reservoir since I was actually there, but the videos are coming soon (hopefully before I start mba school in [...]

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• >коли под наемg Alexander just wrote himself into the triathlon history books by winning the 2008 Ironman World Championship in Kona. On the 30th anniversary of the toughest one day race in sport, Craig used his signature run to catch the leaders and give Australia another world crown. I have had opportunities to not only interview him but also hang out and I can tell you the humility and hard work ethic you see in the magazines and on video is genuine. The years of running around Europe with little money are gone, the doubts aboyt whether a one IM season is enough are crushed, congrats man! | Permalink |
• The Age Group National Triathlon Championships in the USA are in the books for 2008 and my friend Cathy Yndestad got 2nd overall and won the 30-34 age group. The overall winners were Brooke Davison and Jason Schott, both in the 35-39 categeory.  It's great to see that Brian Bich from Duluth was top 10 overall and 2nd Master's.  Lastly, my boy Curt Wood got 2nd in the 30-34 category right behind Mark Harms from Madison.  Oh and yes this is my first post in weeks...gosh!  slowtwitch.com has a much better story on it here. | Permalink |
• Once you earn an Olympic medal life changes forever. Here is a short video I saw with the Australian's coming back home, and of course you get to see Emma Snowsill - Gold Medalist at the Beijing Olympics Triathlon. | Permalink |
• Simon Whitfield, Olympic Gold medalist from Sidney and now Silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Triathlon is having a live Q&A with slowtwitch.com on the forum. Check out tonight, Thursday August 21st at 8pm EST. | Permalink |
• Here is a link to a growingbolder.com video on Hunter Kemper's triathlon adventures. I hope to catch him here in the enxt few days! | Permalink |
• You need to click the permalink button bellow and to the right to see the first pic pre-Beijing...Chelle recorded an interview on her iphone on the drive to Chicago but I haven't figured out a good podcast host - yet. | Permalink |
• This youtube video from the Ference family encouraging Simon Whitfield to get another gold medal is priceless - their little daughter swimming, biking, and running - I love it. | Permalink |
• Official Turtleman Triathlon results are over at the jmsracing results page. Right off the bat, this is what I learned from talking to the folks at the race (Chelle and I ran a half marathon so I was not present.)  Curt Wood led the whole race, posting fastest swim and bike, but got run down by an on fire Sam Hauck (5:24 pace baby), and Dan Cohen. Podium was Hauck in first, then Cohen, then Wood.  On women's side Cathy Yndestad gave herself a 30th birthday present by winning, again, after crashing coming into T2, by almost 5 minutes. Huh? 5 mins with bandages? Yes siree. Katherine McCann was second and Becky Younberg was third.  Congrats to Devon Palmer for getting 4th after nabbing a slot for Clearwater 70.3 World Champs at Steelhead 70.3 last week, as well as Caius Rickard for getting fastest under 19 again (Caius, those compression socks must er..work). | Permalink |
• Gordo's August 8, 2008 post about Greg and Laura Bennett is pretty good - specifically re: attitude. He also praises Greg for being "The only person that [apart from Dave Scott] I've met with a similar level understanding of mixing terrain, skills and tactics."  All I can say is that the 20 minutes Greg spoke to me about running (off camera) at last years Chicago Triathlon taught me soooo much.  Go to team-bennett.com to keep up with them. | Permalink |