Archive for the 'drafting' Category

Ironman World Championship - qualifications drafting problem

Friday, October 10th, 2008

One for all and all for one! at Ironman Austria 2008
Another big problem with the Ironman World Championship is qualifications. With so much illegal drafting in qualification races Ironman Hawaii is not about the best of the best only but it has an uncomfortably large percentage of triathletes who qualified by cheating.

Ironman Austria 2008: race of shame

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Even official photos can not avoid evidence of mass drafting
If I had an idea what kind of a race Ironman Austria is I would have never come. I am so disapointed and frustrated by coming here, by this horrible race.
I have been hoping for a Hawaii slot, I have been training all year for this [...]

Draft box pro voting

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Triathlon-Professionals.org have made a survey among triathlon pros about Ironman draft box. Check it out here…
I am not sure how relevant it is for pros to express their opinion because, after all they are a very small portion of the triathlon population and they actually do not pay for the races. However it is interesting [...]

Picture worth a thousand words

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Found this photo on Trifuel.com. It did not say where it is from and the name of the file is 70.3. Don’t know if its training or racing. Still quite dramatical.

Ironman drafting poll

Monday, October 30th, 2006

I found a cool way to organize polls on the blog and here is the first one:
Click here to take the Ironman drafting poll