{"id":7712,"date":"2021-03-14T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2021-03-14T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:35:19","slug":"jonny-brownlee-pulls-out-of-super-league-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Brownlee pulls out of Super League Triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rio Olympics silver medalist Jonny Brownlee will be unable to compete at the inaugural Super League Triathlon on Hamilton Island in Australia, in less than three weeks\u2019 time, due to hip injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>$1.5 million dollar Super League Triathlon unveiled<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe doctors confirmed my hip injury, which is really disappointing as I was in full swing preparing for the race and the hot conditions,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is sad to miss out on this opportunity, but the great thing about Super League is it\u2019s not just this one event. It\u2019s a series and I believe I can still be in the running to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Super League co-founder Michael D\u2019Hulst explained that the series format allows athletes to make up for not starting in an earlier event. \u201cPoints are awarded according to finish position after each event, and these are tallied at the end of the season to decide the series winner. We are rolling out a Double Points Day in our upcoming events and if Jonny does well then, he certainly has a fighting chance at a series win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The all-new Super League Triathlon series will feature 23 of the world\u2019s best male triathletes racing for US $1.5 million. Launching this month with a \u2018stake-in-the-ground\u2019 event on Hamilton Island, the series will officially continue in October 2017 through to March 2018. The series feature five new format races, each comprising a 300m swim, 6km bike and 2km run, and you can find out more about the formats and how the series works here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0His brother Alistair remains on-track to start at Super League Hamilton Island. \u201cSuper League Triathlon is really exciting to me,\u201d said Alistair. \u201cIt\u2019s racing across a number of different days, a number of different formats, in different ways, which should suit a really hard style of racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonny said: \u201cI will see you at the next race. Super League is not won yet. I will be watching Super League Hamilton Island keenly and if I can\u2019t win it, then I hope Alistair does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Super League Hamilton Island will be broadcast live on www.superleaguetriathlon.com on 17-19 March 2017 from 1700 AEST (10 hours ahead of UK).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Olympics silver medalist Jonny Brownlee will be unable to compete at the inaugural Super League Triathlon on Hamilton Island in Australia, in less than three weeks\u2019 time, due to hip injury. Advertisement $1.5 million dollar Super League Triathlon unveiled \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cThe doctors confirmed my hip injury, which is really disappointing as I was&#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-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}