Articles by Herbert Krabel

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The smart and fast Joanna Zeiger

Joanna Zeiger has won races ranging from the Olympic distance to the Ironman, but really seems to have found her calling at the 70.3 distance. She is one of the favorites going into the 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater.

by Herbert Krabel, November 6, 2008

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Party on Benjamin Sanson

Benjamin Sanson is one of the most respected swimmers in the Professional triathlon world, but the enigmatic French triathlete is also know to have a great fondness for fine wine, parties and women.

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Outgrowing the team

The Slowtwitch forum and the triathlon world as a whole was occupied on Friday with the news that Chrissie Wellington, Belinda Granger and Hillary Biscay were leaving team TBB and coach Brett Sutton. We dug a bit deeper.

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Ruzafa surprises and Dibens repeats in Maui

Ruben Ruzafa (ESP) stunned experts and onlookers alike as he came from nowhere to win the 2008 XTERRA World Championships in Maui, Hawaii. Julie Dibens (GBR) looked very strong as she repeated her title from 2007.

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Introducing Clemens Coenen

Clemens Coenen from Germany was the top age grouper at the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championships in Kona with a fantastic performance. But he impressed many folks even more by slowing down at the end to let the female overall champion Chrissie Wellington enjoy the lime light.

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70.3 World Champs revisited

Ramon Serrano sent us a nice selection of images from the 2007 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater, FL to get us all pumped for the upcoming 2008 event.

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The world according to Marky V

Neo Pro Mark Van Akkeren currently resides in Boulder, CO among many of the triathlon elite. He is an amazingly fast cyclist, an even faster swimmer and quite possibly the fastest talking man in triathlon. Word now has it that he is bringing his running up to speed.

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One part of Magic – Faye Yates

It is tough to do a race in Tennessee or Alabama which isn't either organized by Team Magic or touched in another way by them. We wanted to know more about Team Magic and had a few words with Faye Yates, one of the owners.

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An XTERRA Maui teaser

With the 2008 XTERRA World Championships in Maui now just a few days away, here is a gallery of images of the 2008 US XTERRA Championships in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

All images © Nils Nilsen/XTERRA

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The running shoes of the top 10 women in Kona

Chrissie Wellington and Sandra Wallenhorst ran sub 3 hours at the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championships and finished 1st and 3rd respectively. We looked closer at the shoes which carried them and the other top 10 female finishers through the marathon.

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The running shoes of the top 10 men in Kona

While we started to look closer at the bikes of the top finishers at Ironman Hawaii last year already, this year we also wanted to know more about their running shoes.

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Kona 2008 race day images

The 2008 Ford Ironman World Championships are now in the books and here are a few images from the exciting day.

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Ironman Hawaii 2008 – the bike check-in.

The athletes had 5 hours today to check in their bikes into the bike pen on the pier. Slowtwitch was there to capture some images of the athletes and their bikes.