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President Trump told reporters that he doesn’t believe that Iran intentionally shot down an American spy drone Thursday, an act he also referred to as “a very big mistake.” U.S. officials say Iran shot down the drone over international waters over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, while Iran claims it shot down a U.S. drone flying in its airspace.
When asked by reporters what his response to Iran would be, Mr. Trump replied, “You’ll soon find out.”In a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House, Mr. Trump told reporters he believed the strike on the American drone may have been a mistake.
“I find it hard to believe it was intentional,” Mr. Trump said, adding that it was perhaps a general or someone “under command” of the Iranian government who mistakenly authorized the strike. “It could’ve been somebody who was loose and stupid,” he continued.Mr. Trump did say that he would react differently if it was an American pilot who had been shot down.Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated since Mr. Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement last year. The U.S. is blaming Iran for attacking two oil tankers targeted in the Strait of Hormuz last week, but Iran has denied any involvement. Former acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced Monday the U.S. would be sending 1,000 troops to the Middle East in response to increased Iranian aggression.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned of the danger of miscalculation Thursday, asserting that the U.S. has to be “strong and strategic in how we protect our interests.””I don’t think the president wants to go to war. There’s no appetite to go to war in this country,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference Thursday. A group of congressional leaders was briefed on the situation in Iran on Thursday morning.Several members of Congress also gathered at the White House in a meeting with Mr. Trump Thursday afternoon. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Democratic members urged the president not to make any decisions without congressional approval.”Now I told the president that these conflicts have a way of escalating. The president may not intend to go to war here but we’re worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war. We told the room that the Democratic position is that congressional approval must be required before funding any conflict with Iran,” Schumer said.
Trump ally and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, told reporters Thursday morning that he had spoken with the president that morning and said that Mr. Trump believes “his options are running out.””He believes that we’re getting into a bad space, that his options are running out,” Graham said. “He’s not going to relieve sanctions because the Iranians are worse than they’ve been.”Graham told reporters later on Thursday that Iran should get ready for “severe pain” if it continued to act aggressively.”Here’s what Iran needs to get ready for severe pain, inside their country,” Graham said. “If they’re itching for a fight, they are going to get one.”Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein urged caution, however, and said that the administration should speak with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. She wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to set up a meeting with Zarif.”I think our government ought to take him up on it,” Feinstein said. “I’ve known this foreign Minister for 20 years and it would be unfortunate if those conversations don’t take place.”Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell told “CBS This Morning” Tuesday that while sending additional troops to Iran was a show of strength by the U.S., there’s a risk of miscalculation by either of the two parties, which could lead to conflict. If Iran were to attack a region with U.S. forces and American troops were killed, Morell said, conflict between the two countries would be more likely.
Morell also said that U.S. allies were somewhat skeptical about American intelligence conclusions on the tankers, in part because they still remember the faulty U.S. intelligence that assessed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, leading to the conflict in Iraq in 2003. Iraq was later shown not to have weapons of mass destruction.”It’s going to be a long time before that gets out of people’s memory,” Morell said.Mr. Trump, who promised to scale down American presence in the Middle East throughout his presidential campaign, has also said that he is not eager to enter into a conflict with Iran. In an interview with Time Magazine this week, Mr. Trump said that the attacks on the tankers were “very minor.”However, Mr. Trump said that he would go to war “over nuclear weapons,” and that he would keep other motivations “a question mark.”
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These prestigious annual awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of sportsmen and sportswomen around the world and other great names recognised included tennis players Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, and the Kiwi rugby team the All Blacks.
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The Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year is Jan Frodeno! #LWSA16 #janfrodeno #ironman #laureus #laureus #berlin
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Larger than life for a brief moment on the sport worlds biggest stage. What an amazing journey our sport has sent me on and what an amazing time to be in the game of triathlon. Grateful to share this truly happy, nerve wrecking, grateful and breath taking night with my best friend and wife @emmafrodeno . Off for a run to celebrate a way only an endurance freak might appreciate… @laureussport #LWSA16 #WorldActionSportsmanOfTheYear
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In 2015 Jan Frodeno became the first Olympic champion to win the Ironman World Championship with a dominating triumph in Hawaii. In July Jan Frodeno has announced he will go for the long distance world record at Challenge Roth.
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The Laureus World Sports Awards, were held in Berlin on April 18, 2016. This was the event’s first return to Europe since London in 2012, after taking place in leading sports cities around the world in recent years, including Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai.
Among the sporting greats who have been named as winners of Laureus Awards since 2000 are Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic, Michael Schumacher, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Alex Ferguson, Lewis Hamilton, Rafael Nadal, Pelé, Steve Redgrave, Ronaldo, Kelly Slater, Shaun White, Yelena Isenbayeva and Zinedine Zidane.
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Kabul, Afghanistan — A powerful bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital early Monday, sending smoke billowing from downtown Kabul and leaving more than 100 people wounded. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack as peace talks between senior members of the Islamic extremist group and U.S. negotiators appeared to struggle to make headway in Qatar.
The bomb blast hit a military compound in Kabul less than two miles from the U.S. Embassy. Health Ministry official Wahid Mayer said 116 people were wounded, including 26 children and six women. He confirmed at least one person was killed by the blast, but added that the toll could still rise.The explosion went off with Kabul’s streets packed with morning commuters. Mohammad Karim, a police official in the area, said a car bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building. Militants then ran into a nearby high-rise in a crowded market area and began firing down toward the ministry. Police and Afghan security forces swarmed the area and cordoned it off.
CBS News’ Ahmad Mukhtar said at least two assailants took up positions in nearby buildings and engaged Afghan forces on the ground. Later the Ministry of Interior said the attack was over and the situation was under control. The capital had been relatively quiet in recent months following a spate of violent explosions, many claimed by the local Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate. Peace prospects dimThe attack in Kabul came as the latest round of talks between the United States and the Taliban moved into a third day in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar, where the militant group maintains a political office. Some sources told CBS News that the talks — the seventh round of direct negotiations between the parties — appeared unlikely to progress beyond Monday, however.The Taliban said their focus during the talks was on getting an announcement of a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan. That announcement would, theoretically, be accompanied by a Taliban promise to hold intra-Afghan talks and agree to an eventual cease-fire. Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Doha, told The Associated Press on Monday that “our main concern is to make sure a timeline for troop pullout is announced.” Taliban officials have previously said they want all foreign troops withdrawn within six months.Washington has pushed for a longer timeline of a year to 18 months, however, and the firm insistence that the Taliban open a direct dialogue with the Afghan government. The militants have thus far refused to talk to the Afghan government, calling it a U.S. puppet regime. Washington accelerated attempts to find a negotiated end to America’s longest war with the appointment last September of Afghan-born American Zalmay Khalilzad, who was a special presidential representative to Afghanistan and later U.S. ambassador in Kabul in the years immediately following the ouster of the Taliban. U.S. and European officials with direct knowledge of the talks told CBS News’ Sami Yousafzai on Monday that Khalilzad planned to leave this round of negotiations and return to Washington as the Taliban had not shown enough flexibility in their demands. Officials on both sides of the discussion had called this round crucial — possibly a last chance to strike a peace deal.
Khalilzad’s staff did not confirm his plans, however, and it appeared that his negotiating team, at least, would remain in Doha to keep working with the Taliban representatives. In past rounds of the talks, the senior envoy has left Doha for consultations while his team continued working. But Shaheen, the Taliban spokesman, hinted in a tweet on Monday at an impasse. “When the withdrawal timetable of foreign forces is announced in the presence of international representatives then we will start negotiations with Afghan side, but we will not talk with the Kabul administration as a government,” he said. CBS News’ Ahmad notes that Khalilzad has repeatedly stated that “nothing will be agreed until everything is agreed” — which includes direct talks between the Taliban and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government. Less than a week ago, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a short visit to Kabul and said the Trump administration was hopeful that a peace deal with the Taliban was achievable by September. A day after he left, two U.S. troops were killed by small-arms fire in Afghanistan. More than 2,400 U.S. service personnel have died in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led coalition invaded in October 2001 to oust the Taliban and hunt down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. A senior official with the Afghan government, which has deeply resented being sidelined in the peace talks, told CBS News the attack in Kabul on Monday was evidence that the U.S.-Taliban negotiations were not making progress, and were unlikely to bring peace to his country.
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The International Triathlon Union (ITU) have announced that the elite races at the 2016 Kitzbuehel ITU Triathlon World Cup have been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. However, the junior races will continue as planned, and will be organised with the time-trial format that was scheduled to debut at the elite races.
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“Despite our best efforts to identify a solution, in the end we were unsuccessful. Therefore, we believe that it is in the best interest of all to cancel this year’s World Cup race as soon as possible to allow for Federations and athletes to change their race and travel plans. We do apologize for any inconvenience this causes, and hope to return as a host of ITU races in the future,” said Event Director Herwig Grabner.
“We are disappointed we will not be able to contest the World Cup race in Kitzbuehel this year, a city that has a storied history of hosting successful of ITU events. However, we remain committed to debuting new formats and will therefore introduce the time-trial format in the junior race so that we can explore how this format could be incorporated in future events,” said ITU President and IOC Member Marisol Casado.
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To date, the Kitzbuehel World Cup will not be replaced on the 2016 schedule.
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A new global half distance championship triathlon event for professional and age group triathletes alike, organised by Challenge Family, is to take place in Samorin, Slovakia on June 3, 2017.
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Known as ‘The Championship’, the event will take place at the incredible x-bionic® sphere in Samorin, Slovakia. Jan Masek, CEO of x-bionic® sphere said: “ We are thrilled to host The Championship and are committed to providing triathletes from across the globe with a truly unforgettable experience at x-bionic® sphere.”
For professional athletes the event will carry a minimum €150,000 professional prize purse, and professional athletes will be able to qualify for The Championship via Challenge Family events worldwide.
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Professional athletes who finish in the top five at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, or a top three finish in the 2016 World Triathlon Series end of season rankings, 2016 ITU Long Distance Championship, 2016 Ironman World Championship or 2016 Ironman 70.3 World Championship will also receive an invite. Challenge Samorin 2016 will carry double the qualifying slots for the event.
Professional athlete’s qualifying at non-Challenge Family events will be required to validate at a Challenge Family event within the qualifying period, which commences at Challenge Fuerteventura 2016 and concludes at Challenge Rimimi 2017.
Age group athletes will have the opportunity to qualify with a top five age group finish at any Challenge Family event worldwide during the qualification period. Top 3 teams in the male, female and mixed categories in relay events will also qualify at Challenge Family events.s
Three hundred loyalty slots are available to any age group athlete who participates in at least four Challenge Family events within the qualification period. Loyalty spots are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis for athletes who meet the minimum participation criteria. Loyalty slots are not dependent on an athlete’s race time or finish position.
“At Challenge Family we’re driven by the same thing that drives our athletes: the passion to push limits, to perform at our best and to enjoy what we do in style. The Championship embodies this and it is our goal to set the new standard in triathlon,” said Zibi Szlufcik, CEO of the Challenge Family.
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The Championship comprises of a 1.9km swim, 90km bike and 21.1km run and is to be an annual event.
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Dark chocolate has similar performance benefits to beetroot and can give you an extra edge in your fitness training scientists from Kingston University have discovered.
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“Beetroot juice is rich in nitrates, which are converted to nitric oxide in the body. This dilates blood vessels and reduces oxygen consumption – allowing athletes to go further for longer,” explained postgraduate research student Rishikesh Kankesh Patel
The Kingston University team wanted to find out whether dark chocolate could provide a similar boost, as it contains a substance called epicatechin – a type of flavanol found in the cacao bean, that also increases nitric oxide production in the body.
After undergoing initial fitness tests to establish a baseline for comparison, a group of nine amateur cyclists were then split into two groups. The first group was asked to replace one of its normal daily snacks with 40g of a dark chocolate known to be rich in flavanols for a fortnight, while the other participants substituted 40g of white chocolate for one of their daily snacks as a control.
The effects of the athletes’ daily chocolate consumption were then measured in a series of cycling exercise tests in the sports performance laboratory. The cyclists’ heart rates and oxygen consumption levels were measured during moderate exercise and in time trials. After a seven-day interval, the groups then switched chocolate types and the two-week trial and subsequent exercise tests were repeated.
The study, which has now been published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, found that after eating dark chocolate, the riders used less oxygen when cycling at a moderate pace and also covered more distance in a two-minute flat-out time trial.
Mr Patel said the results opened the door for more research which could eventually lead to dark chocolate becoming a staple part of endurance athletes’ diets.
“Both dark chocolate and beetroot juice are known to increase nitric oxide, which is the major mechanism we believe is behind these results,” Patel said. “We found that people could effectively exercise for longer after eating dark chocolate –something that’s not been established before in this way.”
“We want to see whether the boost in performance is a short term effect – you eat a bar and within a day it works – or whether it takes slightly longer, which is what the initial research is showing,” Mr Patel said. “We are also investigating the optimal level of flavanols. At the moment there is not a lot of consistency in flavanol levels in commercially-available chocolate. Once we’ve found the optimal chocolate dose and duration, we’ll compare its effects to those of beetroot juice, and also test the influence of combining consumption of both, as they produce an increase in nitric oxide in slightly different ways.”
Sport analysis lecturer James Brouner, who is an ultra-distance runner in his spare time, said that the research suggested dark chocolate could offer particular benefits to endurance athletes.
“From a performance perspective, making an athlete more efficient can have major advantages in long duration steady-state exercise,” he said. “With so many athletes consuming beetroot juice to achieve this gain but complaining of the palatability, dark chocolate could have a similar effect but with the additional benefit of tasting good too.
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“When performing endurance-based activity, being as economical as possible in energy provision is key to enhancing your performance. From our results, the consumption of dark chocolate has altered the participants’ response to the activity and therefore could enhance their endurance performance.”
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Improving strength and stamina
Some of the world’s most acclaimed nutritionists, including Louise Burke of the Australian Institute of Sport and Team Sky’s James Morton, have joined forces to formulate sports-nutrition strategies for training in Olympic year.
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The authors also say there’s credible evidence that the following ergogenic aids improve strength and stamina: caffeine, creatine, sodium bicarbonate, beta-alanine and nitrates. The team highlights the emergence of vitamin D, too, showing that the science suggesting that vitamin D encourages muscle regeneration does add up.
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Finally, the team looks at compounds such as epicatechin, nicotinamide riboside, resveratrol, beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate, phosphatidic acid and ursolic acid that may also promote skeletal muscle adaptations to endurance and strength training, though studies of these compounds have largely been limited to rats.
>>> Dark chocolate found to improve endurance
Benefits of organic meet
It’s official: organic meat is better for you than non-organic. A team of 25 researchers undertook a meta-analysis examining how nutritional content varied between organic and non-organic red meats. Though the evidence wasn’t strong enough to verify differences in antioxidant and mineral content, it did show that organic meat contains 47% more omega-3 than the non-organic alternative. This is good news for triathletes, because this polyunsaturated fatty acid has been proven to improve recovery, reduce muscle soreness after exercise and even increase fat metabolism.
Beetroot
First it was claimed that beetroot (rich in nitrates) sent endurance through the roof, then it was labelled a memory enhancer. Now nitrates have been shown to improve neuromuscular function.
A study from Ohio, USA, assessed isometric and dynamic contractions in 14 resistance-trained athletes before and after three days of nitrate supplementation. The nitrate hit resulted in higher mean peak electromyography amplitudes: electrical signals travelled that bit faster. So nitrate supplementation could enhance muscle activation, leading to greater power and speed.
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WTS Gold Coast victor and current leader of the WTS rankings, Britain’s Helen Jenkins, won’t be competing but her Rio team mates Non Stanford and Vicky Holland will be there, along with Jodie Stimpson, whose disappointing run in Australia ruled her out of a place on the British team. Holland won her first WTS race in Cape Town last year, and Stanford has a proven winning record at the sprint distance.
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Last year Holland finished ahead of Katie Zaferes (USA) and Olympic Champion, Nicola Spirig (SUI) in a thrilling tight finish exactly a year ago.
She said: “This was the race that gave me the confidence to believe I could aim for the top of the podium, it was quite a break through last year, so it’s great to be back. This year it’s a sprint rather than Olympic distance, and my first race of the season, so it’s quite different, but I’m looking forward to getting out there.”
The line up also includes Flora Duffy (BER), second on the WTS rankings thanks to her two fourth-place WTS finishes in Abu Dhabi and Gold Coast, who will be hopeful of a podium finish.
As one of the best cyclists in the field, in Gold Coast Duffy successfully led a breakaway of three away from the lead pack that allowed a healthy advantage going into the second transition zone. South Africa is a familiar setting for Duffy, as she trains down the road in Stellenbosch for much of the year, meaning Missing from the line up is Gwen Jorgensen
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Meanwhile the question in the men’s race is can Mario Mola keep up his unbeatable run and make it three in a row at WTS Cape Town in South Africa this weekend? The South African city is offering up the first sprint-distance course of the season as the men vie for more valuable Olympic qualification points as they tackle a one-lap swim, five-lap bike and two-lap run.
Joining Mola is fellow Spaniard Fernando Alarza who joined Mola on the Gold Coast podium by capturing the silver in the final lap of the run. He also just missed the podium in Abu Dhabi with his fourth-place finish.
Hoping to beat Mola will be Britain’s Jonathan Brownlee, however he won’t be joined by his brother Alistair as still has not recovered from a virus and unfortunately won’t be able to defend his 2015 victory in Cape Town. Jonny will be joined by fellow Brit Adam Bowden.
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The women will get the 2016 Discovery World Triathlon Cape Town underway at 14:00 on Sunday April 24, while the men will follow at 16:30 local time. Follow all of the action live at triathlonlive.tv or follow us on Twitter.
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Brit Non Stanford pulled off a stunning victory in the Cape Town leg of the World Triathlon Series 2016, putting down a marker ahead of the Rio Olympics and showing her return to full fitness is almost complete despite doubts before the race.
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Non Stanford and Vicky Holland secure spots for Rio
Although heavy storms greeted the athletes on their arrival into Cape Town, conditions were perfect for the race itself with temperatures of 20c and light winds. After her devastation at not been selected for the Olympic Games, 2014 WTS Cape Town winner Jodie Stimpson was racing purely to bolster her hopes of a strong position in the ITU series itself. Fellow Brits Vicky Holland, who won in Cape Town last year, and Non Stanford were looking to send a message to their opponents ahead of Rio having already qualified. The winner of WTS Gold Coast Helen Jenkins opted out of this race, as did current world champion Gwen Jorgensen.
As the athletes dived off the pontoon, Bermudan Flora Duffy and Carolina Routier quickly broke away from the pack, and Duffy broke away again to exit the water in a rapid 8min 55secs. Routier was unable to ride out with Duffy, who rode off solo and established almost a 30sec lead.
The rest of the ride followed the same pattern, with the chase pack not closing up any of the gap until the final 2km of the bike. Going out onto the run course 6secs in the lead, Duffy was quickly reigned in by four athletes, made up of all three Brit girls of Stimpson, Stanford and Holland as well as Anne Haug of Germany.
It then became a case of how long Duffy could hold on, having exerted herself more on the bike and not possessing the run speed of the three Brits. It was now looking like a potential 1-2-3 for the British athletes, with Haug looking to put a spanner in the works.
However it wasn’t so clear cut, as surprisingly Vicky Holland dropped off into 5th with Duffy holding 4th place going into the final 2km of the run. Non Stanford began to show her return to full fitness is nearly complete, and began to put the hammer down. Haug and Stimpson followed her every move, whilst Kirsten Kasper (USA) overtook Holland to move into 5th place. Stimpson then consolidated 2nd position, with Haug fading.
Stanford continued to pull clear and broke the tape in 59:49, whilst Stimpson held on for 2nd place and finished 7secs back. Flora Duffy capped off a remarkable performance by overtaking Haug, claiming her first podium this year after 4th place in the previous two rounds of the series.
It was Stanford’s first race of the WTS Series this year, and she expressed surprise at her victory in an interview with ITU Triathlon: “I’m not in my ideal race shape so came here to see how I’d get on, so it’s great to take the win. There’s more to come yet which is really exciting!”
Despite the disappointment of missing out on a place in the British Olympic squad, Stimpson showed immense mental strength to finish in 2nd place. She said: “I want to thank my coaches for putting up with me the last couple of weeks, as I haven’t been the most pleasant person to be around! But I will train hard and concentrate on this year’s series and try to finish as high up as I can.”
Results, top 10. (Full results at triathlon.org)
1. Non Stanford (GBR) – 59:49
2. Jodie Stimpson (GBR) – 59:56
3. Flora Duffy (BER) – 59:59
4. Anne Haug (GER) – 1:00:07
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5. Kirsten Kasper (USA) – 1:00:08
6. Vicky Holland (GBR) – 1:00:15
7. Ali Ueda (JPN) – 1:00:21
8. Yurie Kato (JPN) – 1:00:26
9. Sarah True (USA) – 1:00:33
10. Kaidi Kivioja (EST) – 1:00:34
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Fernando Alarza captured his first World Triathlon Series victory in Cape Town today, with pre-race favourite Mario Mola of Spain, looking to claim a 3rd straight WTS victory, unable to catch up after failing to get in the lead bike group.
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With Alistair Brownlee sitting out due to illness, it was down to brother Jonny to lead the British contingent. Fellow Brit Adam Bowden was also racing, looking to impress selectors with an outside chance of gaining a place on the GB Olympic team. Richard Murray was also missing with an injury, as was Javier Gomez – otherwise it was a stacked field, with Mario Mola being the one to beat due to his blistering run speed.
Off the pontoon in the sprint-distance race it was one long line for the duration of the 750m swim, with almost no breaks whatsoever in the 64-strong field. It was business as usual for super-swimmer Richard Varga (SVK), who exited the water in 8mins 54secs, followed closely by Henri Schoeman (RSA) and Jonny Brownlee.
Mario Mola came out of the swim almost 30 secs down, and found himself in the chase group on the bike. The front pack included all those tipped for potential podium places barring Mola, with Brownlee pushing the pace early on. The chase group never managed to claw back more than 6 secs over the whole 20km bike leg, and it was Brownlee, Fernando Alarza (ESP), Dorian Coninx (FRA) and Shoeman who came into T2 first.
Jonny Brownlee comes into T2 well positioned before going on to take 2nd place, with eventual winner Alarza going neck-and-neck. Image credit: ITU
The front group slimmed down to three after the first 1km of the run, with Brownlee, Alarza and Coninx breaking away. After 3km it was looking like Mola had left himself too much to do, 20secs back from the leaders but running blisteringly fast and under 14min pace for 5km.
With under 1km to go Coninx finally dropped off the pace and Alarza put the hammer down on Brownlee, and continued all the way to hold on a massive first WTS victory, surely securing a spot on Spain’s Olympic team. Mola finished in 4th, putting in the fastest run split of the day (14:24) but ultimately unable to secure a place on the podium. Adam Bowden put in a solid performance to finish in 16th place, with an impressive sub 15min 5km run.
Speaking to ITU Triathlon, Jonny Brownlee commented: “I’ve felt pretty bad after what happened at Gold Coast, I’m just happy not to finish on a stretcher! But from where I was two weeks ago it’s a decent result, I worked really hard on the bike and hopefully I can turn it round in the races leading up to the Olympics.”
Alarza said: “I’m really happy today, I think now I’ve finally earned my spot for Rio and I can concentrate on training hard for that now.”
Results, top 10. (Full results at triathlon.org)
1. Fernando Alarza (ESP) – 54:12
2. Jonny Brownlee (GBR) – 54:17
3. Dorian Coninx (FRA) – 54:23
4. Mario Mola (ESP) – 54:33
5. Pierre Le Corre (FRA) – 54:38
6. Henri Schoeman (RSA) – 54:40
7. Aurelien Raphael (FRA) – 54:48
8. Vicente Hernandez (ESP) – 54:52
9. Richard Varga (SVK) – 54:53
10. Andrea Salvisberg (SUI) – 54:55
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