{"id":7562,"date":"2021-03-13T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2021-03-13T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T23:56:10","slug":"is-lance-armstrong-set-to-take-on-an-otillo-swimrun-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7562","title":{"rendered":"Is Lance Armstrong set to take on an \u00d6till\u00d6 swimrun race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Lance Armstrong planning an \u00d6till\u00d6 debut in 2018? That\u2019s certainly the suggestion on his Strava account, which this week has a session logged under the description \u2018\u00d6till\u00d6 Training\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spotted by the Editor of our sister magazine ProCycling, the session shows Armstrong covering 6.8 miles around the Colorado River area of Austin on 24th April, with an average moving pace of 07:05\/mile. See the session here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00d6till\u00d6 (meaning \u2018island to island\u2019) is the Swedish originator of the sport of swimrun, which is increasing in popularity within the triathlon community. Armstrong famously competed in several triathlons before being banned from competitive sport following his doping confession.<\/p>\n

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His ban was lifted in 2016 but he has so far not returned to multisport, although he did win a 35km trail running race in California in 2015 which would indicate he would be a strong competitor. Any return to multisport is bound to polarise opinion however.<\/p>\n

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We contacted Lance Armstrong this morning and are waiting for a response. We also contacted one of the \u00d6till\u00d6 race directors, Michael Lemmel, who this morning told us that he has no further knowledge of Armstrong\u2019s plans. We haven\u2019t spotted him on any \u00d6till\u00d6 start lists either, although with most of the season ahead, there\u2019s still plenty of time for him to enter one of the World Series races and the mention of \u00d6till\u00d6 on his training log seems to indicate a clear intent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00d6till\u00d6 sees competitors race across trails and swim between islands, in conditions that are beautiful yet tough. Image: Pierre Mangez\/\u00d6till\u00d6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If Armstrong has his sights set on the \u00d6till\u00d6 World Championship race in Sweden in September, which comprises 65km of technical trail running and 10km of tough sea swimming, then he will need to qualify.<\/p>\n

With the director\u2019s choice spots already chosen, he would either need to qualify by winning an \u00d6TILL\u00d6 Swimrun World Series race, accumulate points through merit races, or participate in seven races in 24 months (five \u00d6till\u00d6 and two merit races).<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll keep you posted with any further updates on this story. In the meantime, what do you think? Would you want to see Lance Armstrong race \u00d6till\u00d6? If so, who do you think would make a good swimrun partner for him? Post your comments below:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Lance Armstrong planning an \u00d6till\u00d6 debut in 2018? That\u2019s certainly the suggestion on his Strava account, which this week has a session logged under the description \u2018\u00d6till\u00d6 Training\u2019. Advertisement Spotted by the Editor of our sister magazine ProCycling, the session shows Armstrong covering 6.8 miles around the Colorado River area of Austin on 24th…<\/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-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","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=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}