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The always fiercely-contested Ironman Brazil takes place in Southern Brazil this Sunday. Florianopolis, the venue for the tenth edition of the race, is a vacation destination spot for South American's located on the Island of Santa Catarina. It will be no vacation for 1,600 competitors as they swim 3.8 kil…

So, what's your typical training regimen the week before an Ironman? Rest up, do a few workouts, check out the course. Might work for most, but not for Guinness World Record holder Luis Alvarez. What was he up to the week before Ironman South Africa? He was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. But that's only part o…

There is something about Chris McCormack. He may be one of the most polarising characters in the sport of triathlon. He is a mixture of opinion and speed and he has the credentials to back up his words. But there is more to Macca than just talk off the course. He is still a force in the world of triathlon and will be favorite to repeat his domination of the Austrian 70.3 this weekend. Macca feels comfortable racing in Europe and that must be a concern to those wishing to knock him off the top of…

The third round of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series touches down in Madrid, Spain next weekend, with the women set to race on Saturday, June 5th and the men to follow on Sunday. 2010 marks the 8th year in a row that Madrid has hosted an ITU event in Casa de Campo Park, on a course that serves up a 12-percent grade climb on each of the 8 laps of the bike leg. The race will be the first opportunity for athletes to score points toward securing a spot for their country at th…

by Marilyn McDonald

When I came into triathlon I had never swum a lap. Not one! I knew how to play in the water from when I was a kid, but I never actually knew how to do a stroke of freestyle. My background was riding a horse. That said, I did run around from competition ring to competition ring and I rode a bike everyday to get to the farm. But I lived inland in Alberta and hated getting wet, so there was no swimming for me as a kid. There were no swim lessons in country southern Alberta (why…

Sunday, a 10-member American contingent will compete in Valencia, Spain, at the World University Championships, held by the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

Some of the world’s top up-and-coming multisport athletes will compete for individual titles, and team scores will be awarded based…

by Sue Aquila

When I was younger I thought everyone had unlimited potential. The American way is that we are all capable of succeeding beyond our wildest dreams.

Flash forward 20 years later and I see potential differently. I have come to the point in my life where I am completely underwhelmed by potential. Today when someone describes potential it usually ends with a reference to a person's failure or their business failure. "But (insert name here) had so much potential."

Now most people wil…

I am sitting on a rooftop of the world here in LA with arguably triathlon's biggest superstar at the moment, Chris Lieto. Now he is laughing as I say that but seriously he has been on the co…

The deputy chief of the Royal Air Force and former equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh, collapsed and died yesterday during a charity triathlon competition.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Moran, 54, is believed to have suffered heart failure while completing the running stage of the event at RA…

Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist into the back rooms of sports medicine, where he just said yes to the m…

Contrary to what we’ve been led to believe, no one knows what causes muscle cramps. The common lore is that the culprit is electrolytes, but this is highly doubtful. Much of the sports nutrition industry, however, is based on this myth. The first product I recall ever seeing that strongly promoted the myth was called E.R.G. (Electrolyte Replacement with Glucose). I sold it in my running store back in the early 1980s (Foot of the Rockies in Fort Collins, Colo.). It was a powder that came in a tea…

Australia’s Chris McCormack, Great Britain’s Chrissie Wellington and the United States’ Chris Lieto all had the opportunity to compete in yesterday’s Amgen Tour of California Time Trial Stage.
Chrissie Wellington wore a Team Liquigas cycling kit in her time trial race. Photo: Nils Nilsen
The time trial…

Veteran Australian triathlete Greg Bennett has switched his allegiances to the United States so he can be part of his American wife's 2012 Olympic campaign.
Triathlon Australia said Monday it has granted a request by the 38-year-old Bennett to…

Although squash isn’t ready yet locally, there’s some beautiful organic yellow squash from Mexico in my local supermarkets and at Trader Joe’s. I couldn’t resist using it for this Greek-inspired chicken soup with bulgur. Make your own chicken stock if you can; use the stock that resulted from poach…

Prototypes of Trek’s sleek and streamlined new tri bike have appeared under the likes of Lance Armstrong and Chris Lieto but they have been riding dumbed-down iterations of the real Speed Concept. You may have seen the Kammtail tubes, the hidden brakes and the integrated stem but you haven’t seen the real Spe…

Spain’s Eneko Llanos and Scotland’s Catriona Morrison beat out a tough field on rigorous course to take the 2010 Ironman Lanzarote titles. Llanos earned the win by staying in the front pack throughout the race. Morrison’s day was not quite as smooth, as she came back from a bike mechanical to take the win.
Llano…

The 25th anniversary of the Terre Haute Triathlon was a special day at Hawthorn Park thanks to the winning performance from one of the sport’s great Olympic Distance triathletes, Simon Lessing, who had averaged 5 minute, 35 seconds pe…

Triathlete Mike Bernico isn't sure how much he weighed at his peak two years ago. His scale didn't go higher than 380, and the needle was pinned.
"I was almost 400," guessed the technical analyst at State Farm Insurance Cos.

He stood 5 feet, 10 inches tall and his waist was…

After only three years in existence, the Hy-Vee Des Moines ITU Elite Cup has already become one of the most important triathlon events in the world, consistently drawing the fastest athletes in the world to Des Moines, Iowa, for a share of the mammoth prize purse. This year’s event will…

I'm not sure I'd have the guts (pardon the pun) to sign up any race just days before I was heading into surgery to give up one of my kidneys, but David Deak certainly does. The Canadian, who now lives in Holland, was so sure he was going to bounce back from giving his father a kidney that days before the su…