{"id":7787,"date":"2021-03-14T23:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T23:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2021-03-14T23:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T23:32:33","slug":"alistair-brownlee-says-critics-dont-understand-heat-exhaustion-after-wts-cozumel-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7787","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Brownlee says critics “don’t understand” heat exhaustion after WTS Cozumel heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"

After footage appeared to show Alistair Brownlee shouting at Richard Murray shortly after getting brother Jonny over the finish line at WTS Cozumel, he revealed to 220 Triathlon that he simply said: \u201cI would have done the same for you\u201d \u2013 rubbishing the theory that Alistair was simply\u00a0prioritising his brother\u2019s chances of winning the World Triathlon Series by getting\u00a0him to the line quicker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking at the Brownlee Triathlon in Leeds, an event the brothers have been involved in since its inception four years ago, Alistair was critical of those saying Jonny would have been tended to quicker had he left him with a steward:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who\u2019s saying\u00a0it was potentially dangerous doesn\u2019t understand the medical implications of heat exhaustion, frankly they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople who are suffering with\u00a0heat exhaustion\u00a0need medical attention as quickly as possible, and no one in the crowd or any of the stewards\u00a0could have got him to the finish line as quickly as I could, where the medics were. I\u2019ll be honest when I saw the blue carpet it crossed my mind that I was going to get\u00a0Jonny over the line too and he\u2019d be in with a shout for the world title, but\u00a0the priority\u00a0was getting him medical help.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0the stand-alone footage of Alistair hauling Jonny\u00a0to the finish\u00a0has taken\u00a0on a life of its own in the mainstream media, both\u00a0brothers\u00a0admitted that although the exposure for triathlon was positive, on a personal level\u00a0it wasn\u2019t what they wanted to be known for, with Alistair calling it \u201cembarrassing\u201d numerous times:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit embarrassing really, you put all this work in only to get more famous for being the brother that helped the other one over the line! If\u00a0Jonny had have got the world title that would have been a successful season between us, job done.\u00a0While we were in Mexico we\u00a0were away from all the media, and it\u2019s been a bit of a strange week since. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two big plusses that have come out of all this is the exposure triathlon has got, reaching an audience it usually wouldn\u2019t and if it\u2019s inspired people to take up the sport there\u2019s no harm in that at all; and being able to talk about the danger of heat exhaustion and how seriously that needs to be taken is a big positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonny said work began immediately after he left intensive care to establish what happened:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me I lost the World Championships, which was disappointing and obviously you want to correct what went wrong. I was on the phone to the British Triathlon doctor the next day, and I\u2019ll be getting some heat testing done over the next couple of months to ensure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Jonny said that world champion Mario Mola\u2019s comments about Alistair possibly knocking off his goggles early in the swim\u00a0were likely misinterpreted in the days after the race, although\u00a0Alistair\u00a0said the\u00a0Spaniard did initially\u00a0suggest foul play but apologised \u201cfive minutes afterwards\u00a0following\u00a0a frank discussion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alistair said:\u00a0\u201cI just said what happens in the swim happens, 200m in there\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to have time to think about knocking someone\u2019s goggles off, that\u2019s ridiculous. We spoke after the race and cleared this up, Mario apologised and we\u2019ve been in touch through email since as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAt the line I said to Richard (Murray)\u00a0that I would have done the same for him, I got heat exhaustion (in a World Series race) six years ago and it\u2019s not a good position to be in, you need to get medical help straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n


For more\u00a0information on the Brownlee Tri, head to www.brownleetri.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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For 220\u2019s full interview with Alistair and Jonny look out for issue 332 of 220 Triathlon, on sale 10th November<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After footage appeared to show Alistair Brownlee shouting at Richard Murray shortly after getting brother Jonny over the finish line at WTS Cozumel, he revealed to 220 Triathlon that he simply said: \u201cI would have done the same for you\u201d \u2013 rubbishing the theory that Alistair was simply\u00a0prioritising his brother\u2019s chances of winning the World…<\/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-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}