Articles by Herbert Krabel

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Ironman Hawaii 2008 Expo

The expo at Ironman Hawaii had its first full day today and it is quite a big larger than ever before. There are actually quite a few companies present who had never been in the official Ironman expo in Hawaii before. Plus it is a great place to run into various pros and industry folks.

by Herbert Krabel, October 8, 2008

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Ironman Hawaii 2008 – the morning swim.

There are still 4 days to go until the 2008 Ironman Hawaii, but the venues are already busy as if the race where tomorrow. We went down to the swim start this morning and checked out the action there.

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The year of Stephen Bayliss

2008 has been a very magical year for Stephen Bayliss with Ironman wins in South Africa and UK, and a bunch of other very fine results. He is currently getting ready for Kona and has even bigger plans for late November.

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Meet Alex Wassmann of SRAM

Alex Wassmann is a good man to know, as he manages the technical relationships with SRAM sponsored teams and athletes in the triathlon, road & cyclo cross disciplines. Slowtwitch.com had a few words with him.

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Normann Stadler – ready for Kona

The 2-time Ironman World Champion Normann Stadler is one of the pre-race favorites going into the upcoming 30th anniversary event, and he talked to slowtwitch.com about his state of readiness, his team and the middle of the year sponsorship change.

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Fleureton and Norden superb in Lorient, France.

Cedric Fleureton was victorious in today's Lorient BG Triathlon World Cup and the one-two finish of French men made the home crowd very happy. Lisa Norden won the women's race and with it her first career world cup title.

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Interbike Las Vegas – Day 5 report

The final day of the 2008 Interbike Las Vegas show has arrived and we were able to snap a few more images.

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Interbike Las Vegas – Day 4 report

More goodies and personalities from inside the Sands Convention Center. This also marked the day of the Lance Armstrong press conference.

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Interbike Las Vegas – Day 3 report

Today the doors inside the Sands Convention Center opened up for thousands of bicycle retailers and that is to most folks the real start of the Interbike show.

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Interbike Las Vegas – Day 2 report

Today was the second day of Outdoor Demo of the 2008 Interbike Las Vegas trade show and meanwhile inside the Sands Convention center the exhibitors were scrambling to get their booths set up and ready for tomorrow.

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Interbike Las Vegas – Day 1 report

The 2008 Interbike trade show started today with the first day of Outdoor demo at Bootleg Canyon in Boulder City, NV. We went out there and captured a few impressions of the activities out in the desert.

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Macca talks to Slowtwitch.com

Many eyes in Kona will be on Chris McCormack to see if he can repeat his Ironman World Championship title. Slowtwitch.com talked to the outspoken Aussie talked to find out what we can expect in Kona from him.

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Luke McKenzie’s Scott Plasma 2

For our series "the bikes of the pros", we look closer at the Scott Plasma 2 of Luke McKenzie. The fast Australian switched mid season to this new ride and we wanted some numbers and details.