Month: November 2020

Triathlon is warming up for the Tokyo test event in more ways than one. Anticipation is building among athletes looking to all but guarantee Olympic “Tokyo 2020 test event preview: what to expect and the Brits hoping for victory”

We were sad to hear the news that renowned multisport photographer, Michael Rauschendorfer, has died aged 51 following a battle with cancer. His photos have “Michael Rauschendorfer remembered”

Britain’s Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown crossed the line hand-in-hand in a shortened Olympic test event in Tokyo – and were disqualified for intentionally trying “Learmonth and Taylor-Brown DQ’d after crossing line hand-in-hand at Tokyo test event”

Tyler Mislawchuk took victory in the men’s Tokyo test event that in contrast to the women’s race the day before was almost completely drama-free. Advertisement “Mislawchuk wins Tokyo test event as Brownlee finishes fifth”

Lauren Steadman, Joe Townsend and Dave Ellis, guided by Tim Don, were the British winners as the Paratriathlon World Cup doubling as the Paralympic test “Triple Paratri success for Brits in Tokyo”

Great Britain’s Alex Yee lost out by the slimmest of margins to France’s Dorian Coninx in a thrilling finish to the Tokyo mixed relay test “GB beaten by France in mixed relay photo-finish”

1. Duffy holds the key. Two-time ITU world champion Bermudan Flora Duffy, who hadn’t raced at this level for over a year because of injury, “Tokyo test event: 5 things we learnt”

The International Triathlon Union has fought persistently and successfully to add the mixed team relay to the Olympic programme and a third gold medal to “Olympic triathlon relay: does it affect the individual tri event?”

Jonnie plans to work with a group of disabled children to show them, and their families, that there are no barriers to participating in sport “Paralympic sprint champion Jonnie Peacock to mentor four disabled children in new Channel 4 series”

Champion-elect Katie Zafares knows staying upright on the bike will be her top priority if she’s to achieve a richly deserved first world title in “Brits lay in wait if Zafares slips up in Lausanne”