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70.3 Clearwater odds: the men

As Crowie, the new King of Kona, takes a rest, and defending champ Andy Potts is presumably still recovering from his Kona debut, the men's field at the 70.3 World Championships is wide open.

by Tim Carlson, November 7, 2008

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70.3 Clearwater Odds: the women

With 2006 champion Sam McGlone sidelined by Achilles tendinitis and 2-time Ironman winner Chrissie Wellington resting on her laurels, can anyone beat defending champion Mirinda Carfrae?

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Clearwater 08 impressions

A day before the 2008 Ironman 70.3 Word Championships, Ramon Serrano sent us a nice selection of images of the activities surrounding the big event.

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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.

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Cliff English rides the triathlon coaching roller coaster

Samantha McGlone's coach and fiance emerges from losing his job at USAT to the hottest coach in the business in a momentous six months.

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Matt Reed, Jodie Swallow take Escape to Bermuda titles

Cooler temperatures suit American Matt Reed and Great Britain's Jodie Swallow in second Escape to Bermuda triathlon, which mirrors Alcatraz with a jump off the ferry start.

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Evans smashes course record, Comerford takes 5th Ironman Florida title

Canadian Tom Evans’ 8:07:59 is the fastest ever men’s 40-plus Ironman time, while Scotswoman Bella Comerford celebrates her birthday with a smashing win just three weeks after finishing 7th at Ironman Hawaii.

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Biscay revises, extends comments

Hillary Biscay made a bit of news last week with her blog comments. She broke the story, unintentionally, that she, Chrissie Wellington, and Belinda Granger are leaving Team TBB. We asked her to amplify on her comments.

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Yvonne Van Vlerken checks in

With her second place finish at the Ironman World championships in Kona, Yvonne Van Vlerken showed that her record breaking performance at Quelle Challenge in Roth wasn't a fluke. The "flying blonde Dutch girl" is the newest ST contributor.

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Joe Gambles – coming to the USA

2008 has been a coming out party of sorts for 26 year-old Australian, Joe Gambles. Slowtwitch sat down with Gambles to see if he has what it takes to climb onto the podium at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater next weekend.

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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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Wolfgang Dittrich – the rabbit

In the late 80's and early 90's, Wolfgang Dittrich made his living as the ferocious rabbit Mark Allen and Dave Scott were forced to chase down in the marathon portion of Ironman Hawaii each year. Slowtwitch sat down with Wolfgang at a Boulder bagel shop.