Articles by Tim Carlson

News

Potts, Haskins win Escape

Andy Potts won his sixth Escape From Alcatraz title by 38 seconds over Bevan Docherty of New Zealand and Sarah Haskins won her first Escape by a 23 seconds margin over Mirinda Carfrae of Australia

by Tim Carlson, June 1, 2014

News

Weekend Box June 1 2014

In addition to our featured race coverage, the Weekend Box brings you tales of races in Hawaii, Switzerland, Spain, Texas, North Carolina, Portugal ...

News

Jorgensen takes London, and also the World Triathlon Series lead

Gwen Jorgensen won her second WTS race in a row and vaulted to the top of the standings with a killer run and a dominating victory, and Sarah Groff made it a 1-2 U.S. sweep in London

News

Mario Mola prevails in London

Mario Mola edged Richard Murray and Joao Pereira at the WTS London sprint; the Brownlee brothers took 4th and 5th while Javier Gomez’ 3-race win streak ended with a 6th place.

News

Back from the brink

Kevin McDowell’s roller coaster life includes bronze at 2010 ITU Junior Worlds, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a long recovery, then silver at the Chengdu World Cup.

News

Weekend Box May 25 2014

This weekend of big motor races at Monaco and Indy, we bring you triathlons long, middle and short, off and on road, from Spain and Ukraine, Mauritius and Texas, Austria and Dunkirk, and thrills from Brazil.

News

Maddy Tormoen Zofingen star

Maddy Tormoen won $50,000 one day at Zofingen and won eight straight Powerman women’s races leading to that triumph; the price of her love of sport was dozens of operations and a scary case of ventricular tachycardia.

News

The Broderick breakthrough

Jessica Broderick showed a lot of promise by winning the 2009 USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals; after a tough 2013, she broke through to a World Cup podium guided by renowned coach Darren Smith.

News

WADA bans xenon and argon

The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the inhalation of xenon and argon gases, used for a decade by Russian Olympic teams, because they instigated the production of the performance enhancing drug EPO

News

Gomez edges Mola at Yokohama

Defending World Triathlon Series champion Javier Gomez dropped Jonny Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Richard Murray and outsprinted fellow Spaniard Mario Mola to win Yokohama – his 3rd straight WTS in 2014.

News

Jorgensen dominates Yokohama

After her first clean swim and ride at a World Triathlon Series event this year, Gwen Jorgensen laid down the law on the run to dominate the third WTS round at Yokohama Saturday.

News

Weekend Box May 11 2014

The Weekend Box brings you two half Iron distance races from beautiful European resorts, a stirring first World Cup in Chengdu, China, and more

News

2014 Wildflower long course

Lake San Antonio was almost empty thanks to the drought; still Tri-California held another Wildflower so Jesse Thomas could four-peat and Heather Jackson three-peat.