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2008 – The Year In Review

In 2008, triathlon may or may not have had its best moments in history, but it had two very different epic performances at the Olympics, giants retired and passed from the scene, youth and age shined bright. Plus there were moments of comedy and perfidy as well.

by Tim Carlson, January 11, 2009
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Inside Triathlon’s face lift

 Inside Triathlon returns as a coffee table book, every other month. It's exceptionally well done, and Competitor Group's risky gambit may prove out.
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Kona Odds – The women

 Last year, Chrissie Wellington was an unkown dark horse and her shocking victory was the biggest upset in Kona history. hius year, it will be the biggest upset in Kona history if she doesn't win.
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Ironman: Is it all about Pipe?

 Why did the Gills family sell the Ironman? Why did Providence Equity Partners, a private equity company, buy it? What does it all mean to you and me?
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Butterfingers!

 Witnesses are sworn in and asked to identify the guilty party in a lineup of Olympic athletic catastrophes. Roll tape. One by one, they watch a series of mind boggling disasters.
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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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Jay Prasuhn joins the Slowtwitch family

 Jay Prasuhn has established a reputation for competence, fairness and for being exceptionally well-informed. He's one of triathlon's wordsmiths and as our new Senior Editor we're glad to report he'll be smithing his words here.
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Does field size actually matter?

 The Olympic Trials this weekend will be a quite interesting and exciting race but might not indicate who will do best in Beijing. The small fields in both events will most likely impact the race flow and the final results and there won't be small fields at the Olympics.
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Trek dumps LeMond—analysis

 What follows is an opinion piece written by a new voice we’ll feature on Slowtwitch for just such occasions as Trek’s decision to abandon the LeMond brand. The author goes by the nom de plume Padraig, and is one of the two voices of the blog Belgium Knee Warmers.