{"id":6712,"date":"2020-11-12T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2020-11-12T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T07:42:10","slug":"ali-brownlee-back-itu-racing-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"Ali Brownlee back ITU racing this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There might be a key World Tri Series\u00a0event happening this\u00a0weekend in Japan, but the multisporting world will\u00a0also be\u00a0keeping one\u00a0eye on the Sardinian capital of Cagliari. Why? Because the two-time Olympic\u00a0champion Alistair Brownlee is making his\u00a0first ITU World Cup start in over a decade there. But how will he fare on the sprint course after <strong>mainly\u00a0<\/strong>racing middle-distance triathlons for the last year? And does this return mean he has Tokyo, and a third gold medal, in his sights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just to recap, the 31-year-old\u2019s last three short course-triathlons appearances included a disqualification at the 2018 WTS Grand Final due to congestion in the swim at the first buoy, a fourth in the 2018 Glasgow European Championships and 10th in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. But, unsurprisingly, he\u2019s fared better over the middle distance, where he\u2019s focused most of his attention. Results there include a second place at the 2018 70.3 Worlds behind Jan Frodeno and ahead of Javier Gomez, in perhaps one of the greatest 70.3 battles of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Cagliari and, if fit, Brownlee senior should make light work of the field. Challengers include Mexico\u2019s\u00a0Rodrigo Gonzalez\u00a0and Germany\u2019s\u00a0Justus Nieschlag\u00a0as well as Italians Delian Stateff\u00a0and\u00a0Davide Uccellari.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>For the full men\u2019s start list click\u00a0here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 triathlon tips from Alistair Brownlee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>While Alistair has stolen the headlines, GB will also have strong\u00a0representation on\u00a0the\u00a0women\u2019s side \u2013 bothJodie Stimpson\u00a0and\u00a0Sophie Coldwell will be toeing the line and hoping that together they can drive the bike to set up a medal-winning finale. Stimpson wears the number one in her first start of the year, while Coldwell marked her return to action with a fourth in Madrid a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the full women\u2019s start list click here<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can follow all the action as it unfolds exclusively on\u00a0TriathlonLIVE.tv\u00a0as well and on social media channels via the hashtag #CagliariWC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><br \/>\nWhat\u2019s next for the Brownlees?<br \/>\nAlistair &amp; Jonny Brownlee\u2019s top speed tips for Olympic-distance triathlon<br \/>\nAlistair Brownlee\u2019s key triathlon training sessions<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be a key World Tri Series\u00a0event happening this\u00a0weekend in Japan, but the multisporting world will\u00a0also be\u00a0keeping one\u00a0eye on the Sardinian capital of Cagliari. Why? Because the two-time Olympic\u00a0champion Alistair Brownlee is making his\u00a0first ITU World Cup start in over a decade there. But how will he fare on the sprint course after mainly\u00a0racing&#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-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","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=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}