{"id":8137,"date":"2021-05-07T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:31:40","slug":"chicago-elite-men-in-quotes-murray-gomez-mola-and-brownlee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Elite Men in Quotes: Murray, Gomez, Mola and Brownlee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonny Brownlee, GBR, 12th in race, 11th in Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In his first race back from injury, Brownlee was unsure how the Grand Final would pan out. With the leaders until T2, he slipped down into 12th at the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been disappointing if I\u2019d done any better than that. It would have been a bit unfair with the amount of running I\u2019ve done. I haven\u2019t run more than an hour in the last three months. I\u2019ve only run 10k two times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI knew it wasn\u2019t going to happen on the run. It was the first time I\u2019ve run off the bike since Gold Coast, and I was like \u2018wow, I shouldn\u2019t really be here\u2019. But when I surged I had nothing, I just had to be really cautious about it. But I don\u2019t know why people were chasing me down on the bike because I wasn\u2019t a threat to anyone. I\u2019ve done three weeks running! The name on my bum can work against me sometimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get a result that\u2019s respectable off the training I\u2019ve done\u2026 you\u2019ve got to be realistic but it is frustrating\u2026 on those dead turns and you see those people [ahead] and think \u2018I should be there\u2019. But I was in the race, not hanging off the back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all just came too easy at the start of the year. I still believe that performance in the Gold Coast was the best overall performance this series. I had the best swim I\u2019ve ever had, me and Varga did a two-up time-trial 40k and then I put 20seconds into him on the first 3k of the run. That shouldn\u2019t happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an aim to be here three months ago and the doctor said you\u2019ve got no chance. But here I am! I said to my coach this morning, \u2018it can\u2019t get any worse than London.\u2019 But then that\u2019s not something to be very proud of really. I was probably in the form of my life in London, but whereas today I wasn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll have less rest now than I normally have cause I had a big rest in the middle of the season. And then get back in Gold Coast form and hopefully it all come too easily again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Richard Murray, RSA, 3rd in race, 4th in Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Murray bridged a 40sec gap on the bike to the leaders in the course of one lap, to run himself onto the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone started to smell the fumes of the front group, I think. There were a couple of points where it was a bit confusing and it almost didn\u2019t come together and I didn\u2019t want to leave it to chance. Because whenever we got really close everyone sits up and the gap can open, so I literally just went for it to make sure I was there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shouting for five or six laps. I probably spent a couple of hundred calories just shouting! I think a lot of the guys aren\u2019t used to the whole rolling, road bike side of it, so they pull off and go really wide on the bike and it starts to confuse the whole group. But luckily it started to work nicely together and we had a lot of strong guys and then we managed to close the gap. But it definitely burnt the legs a lot. By the time we caught them the amount of energy spent was massive. So on the run I was cramping from about the second lap. It looked like it was not going to end up pretty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually in agony, cause at all the right-hand turns, my left hamstring\u2026 so I had to hold it back and Mario and Javi went off and I couldn\u2019t run any quicker cause I was actually cramping up. And luckily towards the end I was actually feeling better over the last lap to go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Javier Gomez, ESP, 2nd in race, 1st in Series\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gomez needed to finish fourth or higher to take his fifth ITU world title. Finishing second behind teammate Mario Mola, he crossed the line to make history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised at the way Mola came out of the water, to be honest!\u00a0 He was in front of me, and had a great swim. I know Mario\u2019s probably the fastest runner, he had a good day today, but I was happy with my title in my pocket, running shoulder to shoulder with him. I still tried to win the race, he was just stronger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m happy with a second and of course with my fifth world title. I\u2019ll need some time to understand what I\u2019ve achieved over these past nine years. I\u2019m really proud of my career so far. And I hope it\u2019s not the last one. I hope I\u2019m still competitive in the next few years. I\u2019m really enjoying my career at this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried [to surge] a couple of times on the last lap, and the last time I tried I surged pretty fast, and said I\u2019m going to give everything now and see what happens, but [Mola] was a bit stronger in the last 300m and was able to hang on. I just couldn\u2019t beat him, he was faster today. I think we ran pretty fast, I gave it my best, I ran well, he was just stronger. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m running faster and anything could happen [heading into 2016 for the Rio Games]. You can get injured\u2026 but obviously I\u2019m still on top and this gives me a lot of confidence for my training next year and I\u2019ll hopefully be running a bit faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t do 70.3 races before Rio, I need to focus. I really enjoy 70.3 racing but it could be my last Olympic Games and I want to give it my best shot. I\u2019m still enjoying this kind of racing, I\u2019m still competitive. It\u2019s hard to decide [if I will go long after Rio], I will decide next year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mario Mola, ESP, 1st in race, 2nd in Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mola ran side-by-side with compatriot Javier Gomez until a surge with 300m to go saw him take the race win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI always learn from Javier, so when I have the opportunity to run side by side it\u2019s always an amazing feeling. I was lucky to get this one and win today but he\u2019s five times world champion, what can you say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been training and working on my swim and sometimes it shows up, but we\u2019ve got to be happy with that. I have a good teacher in [fianc\u00e9e] Carolina [Routier]. She deserves this as much as I do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that it was very hard to become world champion today because Javi had been on the podium in almost every single race he\u2019s done. So as soon as I was side by side I was sure he was going to be world champion, so my options were to keep the silver and the second position overall, so I tried to make the gap bigger to make sure I was able to finish in that position. In the end, I got first so I can\u2019t be more pleased than that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt that point [when he made the move that would stick], when you already have 1hr40 racing in your legs you\u2019ve got to go flat out. I was just waiting for my chance. I knew that if we were together for the last 4-500m I could beat him, so that\u2019s why I tried to stay as close as possible. And that\u2019s when I made my move. There wasn\u2019t much energy left but you\u2019ve got to go to the end to find that little bit of extra energy and motivation to make it to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonny Brownlee, GBR, 12th in race, 11th in Series Advertisement In his first race back from injury, Brownlee was unsure how the Grand Final would pan out. With the leaders until T2, he slipped down into 12th at the line.\u00a0 \u201cIt would have been disappointing if I\u2019d done any better than that. It would have…<\/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-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","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=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}