Following its debut at Rio later this year, Paratriathlon is to be included in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast for the first time ever. Advertisement There will just be one class for men and women, the PT1, which is for wheelchair users. Athletes use a recumbent handcycle on the bike course and…
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Ironman Legacy Programme reveals 100 athletes bound for Kona
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…
ITU paratriathlon season starts in South Africa
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…
Brownlees to race WTS Gold Coast
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…
Challenge Forte Village in pictures
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The Collins Cup: a new Ryder Cup-style team competition for long distance tri
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…
Ironman World Champs 2018: Patrick Lange is the King of Kona
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…
Martin Rey-Chirac au côté de sa mère : dernier hommage à Jacques Chirac
Jusque tard dans la nuit, les Français ont rendu un dernier hommage à Jacques Chirac le 29 septembre 2019. Selon l’Élysée, près de 7000 personnes ont défilé devant le cercueil de l’ancien président exposé aux Invalides, à l’entrée de la cathédrale Saint-Louis. Sa fille Claude Chirac, 56 ans, était elle aussi présente, soutenue par son…
Hailey et Justin Bieber : Crocs et sortie au fast-food après le mariage de luxe
Hailey et Justin Bieber seraient-ils un couple lambda ? Après avoir passé un week-end hors du commun, les jeunes époux sont très vite retournés à une vie tout ce qu’il y a de plus normale. Alors qu’ils sont rentrés mardi soir de leur mariage en Caroline du Sud, ils ont profité d’une journée en amoureux….
Democratic Senator Under Fire for Invoking January 6 Attack to Justify Opposing Vaccine Patent Waiver
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons is facing backlash for invoking the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to justify his opposition to a temporary waiver of coronavirus vaccine patents, a measure that would help enable generic manufacturers to ramp up global production of the life-saving shots. Speaking last week at an event hosted by the…