Triathlon TV Watch [SPOILER ALERT]

Fazz

Ty Miniature Survivor wrote: »

Is the mens on tonight and ladies tomorrow for San Diego? Looks like coverage starts around 11.30 tonight?

Opposite ladies tonight.

Start time correct but men's is half an hour later tomorrow.

TI with the 20% discount just in time. Lovely.

EC1000

Red button on the beeb also

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

EC1000 wrote: »

Red button on the beeb also

Red button not appearing for me for some reason??

Bambaata

any decent betting on this anywhere?

EC1000

Ty Miniature Survivor wrote: »

Red button not appearing for me for some reason??

Coming through clear here. Aileen has gunned it so far

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

EC1000 wrote: »

Coming through clear here. Aileen has gunned it so far

No red button coming up for some reason so watching online, silly penalty for Aileen

EC1000

She didn't look happy!

littlemsfickle

There is no highlights show on bbc tomorrow is there?

Great result for non Stanford!

shotgunmcos

Predictions for Yokohama this weekend?

Bryan Keane back, moderate field how will he do? Johnny Brownlee taking his turn, can Richard Murray take him? Women's field pretty short so Aileen could podium?

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Predictions for Yokohama this weekend?

Bryan Keane back, moderate field how will he do? Johnny Brownlee taking his turn, can Richard Murray take him? Women's field pretty short so Aileen could podium?

Men - Gomez 1st/Brownlee 2nd/Murray 3rd, Keane could nudge a top 5.
Ladies - Caelars 1st/Jorgenson 2nd/Moffat 3rd.

Bambaata

I thought i had read somewhere that Conor Murphy was in for this one but i dont see him on the start list (which seems small). Might it be they havent just updated it and listed all those starting yet?

Edit: I see he is not going for it now after recent crash - http://www.trimurphy.com/Latest_News.asp

bombidal

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/triathlon

Fazz

Mens:
1st - J Brownlee
2nd - Gomez
3rd - Silva
4th - Murray

Womens:
1st - Jorgenson
2nd - Moffat
3rd - I do think Aileen has a shot here too so fingers crossed.

shotgunmcos

Brownlee
Murray
Gomez

Keane 9th

Jorgensen
Moffat
Caelers

Aileen 6th

shotgunmcos

Paid to watch these races live :rolleyes:

shotgunmcos

Anyone else not getting the live feed?

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Well thats Caelars race over, inexperience showing and a silly mistake.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Anyone else not getting the live feed?

I am on to bbc red button from the off.

squod

It's was free on saorview 301. Aileen did well.

Fazz

So...

Any Madrid predictions?

Anyone else think Aileen's races thus far have been interesting from a strategy point of view?
Hard on lap 1 of swim, hard on bike and see what's left then?
At a guess, this seems to be a focussed improvement plan with a goal of getting her up to 1/2 podiums again this season?
Maybe start getting in the mind frame of leading races, involved from the start and showing her swim capabilities?

If so, you'd imagine Madrid would be high on the agenda after last year's result.

Slight problem in that it's quite stacked this year though with quite a few in top form.

I reckon she could be really putting it on the line here today, and aiming for a podium.
Don't think Moffat is racing.

Women's Top 5:
1 - Haug
2 - Jorgenson
3 - Reid
4 - Abram
5 - Stanford

Men's:

Hard to look past the usual's, but will Gomez have the legs recovered enough after Barcelona?

1 - J Brownlee
2 - Gomez
3 - Murray
4 - Mola
5 - Justus/Vasiliev

El Director

That advertisement banner is annoying me!

RacoonQueen

F*cking red button doesn't have this on till 5 past three.

Must stay away from twitter until then...

El Director

Nice gap formed for the breakaway but the chase group should catch them no problem.

El Director

Reid and Hewitt have their work cut out. Haug and Findlay way back! Non wetsuit really makes things interesting.

El Director

Aileen should be fresh for the run anyway!

El Director

God, Aileen's bloody transition again. Not slick enough. She looks like she's struggling too early on the run. Stanford looks great though!

RacoonQueen

El Director wrote: »

God, Aileen's bloody transition again. Not slick enough. She looks like she's struggling too early on the run. Stanford looks great though!

That was a brutal T2

El Director

RacoonQueen wrote: »

That was a brutal T2

Yeah, it's happened all too often now with Aileen

Reminds me, must practice my own transitions

pgibbo

From a mail I got from Active Europe:

The IRONMAN series returns to Channel 4 & 4HD this weekend, with the first show on Saturday 22nd at 7:30am and the second show on Sunday 23rd at 7:30am, which will cover 70.3 UK and Jenson Button racing 70.3 Berlin

subscriber

Am I correct in saying mens race in Kitzbuhel tommorow starts at 13:06??? That`s an odd time, will this be the same as Irish time?

RacoonQueen

Is it on red button? Last year I got ITU live and they were all on red button, now they're not

El Director

According to the Beep website, Kitzbuehel: 12:00 & 15:20 BBC Red Button on Saturday.

God so much sport in one day!

El Director

I was watching the BBC's highlight show of the recent Hamburg ITU event. The BBC commentators never cease to amaze me with their arrogant and condescending manner. They really could not see another winner in the relay event and were so very disrespectful and dismissive of other countries. It never seemed to enter their little heads that a mechanical, a crash or anything else that might go wrong. It's sport. It happens. Regularly.

BTW the replay was great to watch. The running dives were a particular highlight

couerdelion

El Director wrote: »

I was watching the BBC's highlight show of the recent Hamburg ITU event. The BBC commentators never cease to amaze me with their arrogant and condescending manner. They really could not see another winner in the relay event and were so very disrespectful and dismissive of other countries. It never seemed to enter their little heads that a mechanical, a crash or anything else that might go wrong. It's sport. It happens. Regularly.

BTW the replay was great to watch. The running dives were a particular highlight

Ah c'mon - you're watching a British TV channel with the Brits dominating the sport and you expect them to be neutral? if only that welsh one hadn't fallen off the bike!

El Director

couerdelion wrote: »

Ah c'mon - you're watching a British TV channel with the Brits dominating the sport and you expect them to be neutral? if only that welsh one hadn't fallen off the bike!

Haha....silly Welsh ejit!

Well TBH I don't think it's too much to ask for a little humility and just to even contimplate for one second that team GB is not invincible. I have had a problem with the Beep's athletic presenters for quite a while now and this just enraged me! It was nice to hear them flailing around and be left scratching their heads when Ger came into T2 first. They actually were sure that the Germans had got it wrong and that Non just just be so far ahead that they were concentrating on the battle for 2nd. Crashing/mechanical never entered their heads. It took them an age to realise what happened.

Upon reflection perhaps I should have posted this in the 'gripes' thread

catweazle

El Director wrote: »

Well TBH I don't think it's too much to ask for a little humility and just to even contimplate for one second that team GB is not invincible. I have had a problem with the Beep's athletic presenters for quite a while now and this just enraged me!

One of my pet hates El D - have a listen to some of the RTE guys and be objective, we are no better. Any Des Cahill presentation and Jimmy McGee and boxing is cringeworthy.

One of the best TV moments I saw all year was Peter Collins trying to put a positive spin on Fionnulas Brittons after a disappointing world championships. Fair play to Catherina McKeirnan no matter how much he tried to put words into her mouth she wasn't biting and was pretty critical over her performance, poor Peter wasnt prepared for that at all

Sweeny in the Indo wrote a good article about it the following week
Athletes lead field in straight talking

Peter Collins was struggling Sunday lunchtime. He wanted a nice feel-good wrap-up dwelling on the positive aspects of Ireland and Fionnuala Britton's performance in the World Cross-Country Championships but, tee her up though he might, Catherina McKiernan was giving him nothing.

He pointed out that Ireland had finished fifth and were the first European team home and that Britton's 14th place equalled her previous best performance in the championships. But McKiernan was having none of it. The possibility of medals for both Britton and the team had been mooted in the build-up and she wasn't going to be pretend that the race hadn't fallen short of expectations.

She wanted to speculate why this had been the case and so, while Peter tried to make her look on the bright side, the greatest Irish cross-country runner of them all suggested Britton's build-up had been poor because she had run the wrong kind of races. Maybe she was right, maybe not but she was determined to get her points across and they were far more interesting than some patronising insistence that both team and individual deserved nothing but pats on the back.

I like Peter Collins. But he was no match for McKiernan. She was implacable and you haven't heard implacable till you've heard it in a Cavan accent. For that matter the other pundit, former Olympian Thomas Chamney, was less interested in soothing the nation's tortured soul than attempting a forensic analysis of why things hadn't quite worked out.
Athletes are the least sentimental of people. They work harder than almost any other sportspeople, must depend on themselves rather than a team and can't cod themselves about how good they are. The clock doesn't lie.

That's why there's a certain clear-eyed and flinty [COLOR=#009900 !important]quality[/COLOR] about them as analysts. Jerry Kiernan has it in spades but so too do Chamney, Ailis McSweeney and David Matthews. It makes them the most knowledgeable and interesting of pundits. A performance like that of McKiernan and Chamney this day last week is a breath of fresh air.


Other sports take note.

El Director

Yeah I vividly remember that CW. It was fun and frustrating to watch at the same time!

shotgunmcos

Stockholm ITU kicking off in next few mins. BBC are there so maybe on the been red b. Bryan Keane on start list for the men later

Kurt Godel

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Stockholm ITU kicking off in next few mins. BBC are there so maybe on the been red b. Bryan Keane on start list for the men later

Women's race was on today, men's race will be on tomorrow (Men's race and women's highlights: Sunday 25 August; BBC Two 14:50-18:00 BST)

catweazle

Mmmmm I see The championship on my guide for BBC today - is it on the red button (bloody UPC)

A pity as my favourite triathlete Vanessa Raw should be getting a good bit of coverage as well for a change

Solobally8

It's on bbc2 hd right now.

shotgunmcos

Any predictions for the Grand Final this weekend?
Where will Aileen and Bryan finish?
Aaron O'Brien and Chris Mintern in the Juniors.

Best of luck to all travelling over too.

bryangiggsy

So who of the age group irish do you think if any will podium in London this weekend ?

Kurt Godel

AG Sprint starting in 10 mins (at 08:00), watch it live online at http://www.triathlon.org/live

Kurt Godel

20-24 Males about to swim...

"There's an Australian athlete about to go in without a wetsuit, is that a good idea?"
"Do you want the long or the short answer?"
"Give us the short answer..."
"NO!"

Kurt Godel

Saw Alex Gray finish (1:09, slow bike?), he looked beat. 16:19 run, fantastic finish to a strong year from him.

BTH

Kurt Godel wrote: »

Saw Alex Gray finish (1:09, slow bike?), he looked beat. 16:19 run, fantastic finish to a strong year from him.

Looks like a below par bike from him. Maybe he went down, seems to be slippy over there.

Kris Muldoon 8th in his AG 25-29. Nice work. 16:12 run, but again not a great bike split.

Siobhan Gallagher 9th in her AG.

Not a bad start. But of course we're all waiting on Thornton this weekend!!

BTH

Oh, and keep an eye out for Mrs AKW out later on this morning. Expecting big things!!

El Director

BTH wrote: »

Not a bad start. But of course we're all waiting on Thornton this weekend!!

...and my club mate and newly nationalised Bjorn Ludick representing IRE for the first time!

BTH

Brian Harris with a sub 10 swim. Nioce

Steven Macklin also out on the course. Bike splits seem slower than expected all round so either its long or its even more technical than I thought.

I really have work to do...