{"id":7782,"date":"2021-03-14T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2021-03-14T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T23:13:33","slug":"jan-frodeno-claims-too-many-beers-to-blame-for-comments-made-against-gbs-harry-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"Jan Frodeno claims “too many beers” to blame for comments made against GB’s Harry Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno has in part appeared to apologise for the way he expressed his feelings towards Harry Wiltshire, claiming\u00a0on\u00a0220\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Twitter page\u00a0that \u201ctoo many beers\u201d may have been to blame for his strong words\u00a0in an interview with Triathlete Magazine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Frodeno claimed Wiltshire was swimming on top of him throughout much of the 3.8km Kona swim leg, and aired his feelings publicly in the interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frodeno begins by saying he had \u201ca lot of lows\u201d during the race, and that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t break the swim group at the start which is thanks to Harry Wiltshire\u201d, before looking directly at the camera as if to address Wiltshire and saying brazenly: \u201cIf you\u2019re watching this, you\u2019re a pr**k.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frodeno continued: \u201cHe basically swam on top of me and properly disturbed me intentionally the whole way back, that was a really unsportsmanlike move from him(sic).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

However while Frodeno said on Twitter he \u201cstill didn\u2019t think what happened was cool\u201d, he did apologise in part for his language, hinting at the strong possibility that alcohol could have played a part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The to-and-fro\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>on\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>social media between\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Ironman World Champ Frodeno and Harry Wiltshire, who was first out of the water<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The accusation will come as a shock to many pros and the British Triathlon community, in which Wiltshire is generally held in high regard; however, it\u2019s not the first time the former ITU triathlete has been involved in dispute over swim tactics, as Wiltshire served a six-month ITU ban back in 2011 for \u201cunsportsmanlike conduct\u201d, after footage emerged that showed him swimming over the then ITU World Champion Javier Gomez of Spain.<\/p>\n

Wiltshire congratulated Frodeno on his victory numerous times, and has received support from athletes, fans and sponsors defending his character. While the two have appeared to call a truce of some sorts the alleged incident opened up a wider debate into the refereeing of swim tactics on social media, and whether athletes have the right to complain about unintentional clashes on the swim.<\/p>\n

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*Since this article was published, Harry has sent 220<\/em> this statement: \u201cWhen you have just added your second Ironman World Champs to your Olympic Gold medal you can pretty much do anything you like. Jan didn\u2019t need to publicly apologise, but he took the time to publicly say he overstepped the mark the day after a phenomenal race: one more reason why he is a worthy champion.\u201d*<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Double Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno has in part appeared to apologise for the way he expressed his feelings towards Harry Wiltshire, claiming\u00a0on\u00a0220\u2019s\u00a0Twitter page\u00a0that \u201ctoo many beers\u201d may have been to blame for his strong words\u00a0in an interview with Triathlete Magazine. Advertisement Frodeno claimed Wiltshire was swimming on top of him throughout much of the…<\/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-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}