Puddles

And we think cycling conditions in the UK leave a lot to be desired. Come hell or high water the Giro d’Italia always delivers on excitement (Stage 9 of the 2010 edition).

Team concept

Team Trek K-Swiss: nice idea from a marketing perspective, but will it help the athletes hit new levels? It’s certainly motivational for them and for us at least! My reaction was: man, I wanna form a Tri team too. Then I realised I’m already a member of Tri London – oops!

Through the lens

Check out the ’2009 ITU World Championship Series’ image gallery on triathlon.org. I’d love me and my SLR to get such access to the elite triathlon world.

Lance, Lieto, and letting it rip in Hawaii

9.30am February 17th, Kona: one of the greatest cyclists in history – the one and only Lance Armstrong – blasts away down the Queen K highway. 9.31am: the strongest biker in professional triathlon and second placed Ironman World Championship finisher steps on the pedal in hot pursuit. 11 miles later and just 9 seconds seperate [...]

Kona image gallery

How it’s done

Fabian Cancellara: the greatest time trial rider in history? The best position. The most power. The fastest cadence. I know who I want to model my triathlon riding on! Click image for highlights of the World TT.

ITU World Champs

In case you didn’t see the latest round of the ITU World Championship series in Hyde Park… it’s on the iPlayer for another few days and longer on the download service. Triathlon has received increased airtime of late, mostly in highlight form. It’s great that the BBC showed live coverage of the Hyde Park ITU event [...]

Will Clarke’s blog

Oddly – when considering I read BBC Sport daily - this is the first I’ve seen of Will Clarke’s blog. Will is the British Champ from 2008 and most recently won the Mazda London Triathlon. I watched him compete on Eurosport recently: leading, his bike broke mid-ride, he hit the deck hard, fixed it, remounted, and still won the [...]

“Alberto came to win and, quite honestly, so did I”

Lance Armstrong, 7th July Only last week Lance was claiming he was nothing more than a domestique deluxe in the Astana team, and that Contador was the leader. This was re-stated by Bruyneel at the start of the Tour. We’d all questioned his age, his time away from top-level competition, his ‘beach weight-lifting with celebrity buddies’ [...]

The Science of Lance Armstrong

If you can get past the melodramatic music and commentary, this Discovery Channel documentary is worth watching. It reinforces what we already know about the story of Lance Armstrong: a genetically unique lead man; a big budget; an unrivalled supporting cast. But this film gives a great insight into how the three elements came together to push [...]