{"id":6705,"date":"2020-11-12T06:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2020-11-12T06:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:58:15","slug":"ali-brownlee-to-make-his-ironman-debut-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6705","title":{"rendered":"Ali Brownlee to make his Ironman debut in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On 23rd June all triathlon eyes will be on the double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee as he takes on the full distance for the first time ever at Ironman Cork.\u00a0<strong>How Brownlee\u00a0fares here could indicate what the future holds for arguably the greatest short-course triathlete in history.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And so far indications are good for the Brit over longer distances. Ali moved up to the 70.3 distance in 2017, notching up wins at\u00a0Ironman 70.3 St George, and\u00a0\u00a0Gloria Challenge Mog\u00e1n Gran Canaria<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, injury unfortunately kept him off the start line at the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship and delayed a possible long-distance debut, but he came back in formidable fashion in 2018 with wins at\u00a0\u00a0Ironman 70.3 Dubai\u00a0and\u00a0Ironman 70.3 Liuzhou\u00a0and a second place at the2018 70.3 Worlds\u00a0behind Jan Frodeno and ahead of Javier Gomez, in perhaps one of the greatest 70.3 battles of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But how will he fare over the full distance, just two weeks after the Olympic distance WTS Leeds? With the Ironman World Championship in Kona now in his sights, will he qualify in Cork? It\u2019s going to be an exciting watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already knew the eyes of the triathlon world would be on Cork this June, but with Alistair Brownlee choosing to make his IRONMAN debut here, viewers and local supporters will be in for a treat,\u201d said John Wallnutt, Ironman Cork Race Director. \u00a0\u201cIronman Cork was always going to be a historic event being Ireland\u2019s first ever Ironman race. Now, it becomes the race where one of the greatest triathletes of our time takes the next step in his triathlon evolution. This is something we can\u2019t wait to see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch Alistair Brownlee take on his first ever long distance at Ironman Cork, as the event will be streamed live on\u00a0Facebook Watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23rd June all triathlon eyes will be on the double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee as he takes on the full distance for the first time ever at Ironman Cork.\u00a0How Brownlee\u00a0fares here could indicate what the future holds for arguably the greatest short-course triathlete in history. And so far indications are good for the Brit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}