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Tom Ziebart talks to Slowtwitch

Mother nature and safety concerns caused the organizers of the 2008 Whirlpool Steelhead 70.3 triathlon to change the race to a duathlon. We followed up with race director Tom Ziebart to find out more about the decision and related topics.

by Herbert Krabel, August 4, 2008

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Brett Sutton Interview: Part 2

In Part 2, we talk with TeamTBB coach Brett Sutton about training on his team, general training philosophy, technology and managing egos in the strongest team in triathlon.

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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Hurricane Bob is a popular triathlon columnist... for another publication. We love to read him on Xtri.com, and we love it when he visits here. He recently posted to an Ironwidow thread, and we asked if we could publish his post as an OpEd.

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Slowtwitch talks to Yvonne Van Vlerken

Yvonne Van Vlerken recently broke the long standing record of the great Paula Newby-Fraser over the Iron distance with her time of 8:45:48 at the Quelle Challenge in Roth, Germany. Find out more about this flying Dutch woman.

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Vanhoenacker and Granger win in Antwerp

Marino Vanhoenacker ruled the 2008 Ironman 70.3 Antwerp and with it repeated his win from 2007. Belinda Granger was victorious in the women's race.

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Legh and Kehr win 2008 Steelhead “Duathlon”

The 2008 Whirlpool Steelhead 70.3 triathlon was turned into a duathlon because of very wavy and choppy waters and Chris Legh and Gina Kehr were able to run away with the titles of this altered event.

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Steve Larsen is back indeed

A couple years ago Steve Larsen left his career as a professional triathlete to concentrate on his real estate business in Bend, Oregon. Recent results though have indicated that Steve Larsen may be far from retired.

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Wellington rules Alpe d’Huez Triathlon

Chrissie Wellington ruled the 2008 Alpe d'Huez Triathlon with her second place overall finish. Only Brasilian Pro Marcus Ornellas was faster than the 2007 Ironman World Champion on the 2.2k swim, 115k bike and 22k run course.

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A chat with Will Ronco

At the 2008 Ironman Lake Placid, Will Ronco came through with a breakthrough performance and finished 5th overall. After trying to hug anyone in sight at the finish line, Ronco now has his sights set on Kona.

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Brett Sutton Interview: Part 1

In the first of our two-part installment, we chat with the enigmatic coach of TeamTBB, a remarkably dynamic squad with 17-members in camp, each harboring as many goals

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Alexander and Carfrae victorious in Newfoundland

Craig Alexander won the highly competitive 2008 Ironman 70.3 Newfoundland and held off Richie Cunningham and Chris Legh. Mirinda Carfrae had a dominating performance in the women's race.

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Bikes, drugs and sponsorship

We sat down with Scott Montgomery, the general manager of Scott USA to discuss the recent Tour de France drug scandal involving Saunier-Duval / Scott athletes Ricardo Ricco and Leonardo Piepoli.

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Meet Marino Vanhoenacker

Belgian triathlete Marino Vanhoenacker has now won Ironman Austria 3 times in a row and has also been victorious at Ironman Florida in 2005. That is certainly not shabby for someone who was a duathlete not too long ago.