Month: March 2021

1. 1st male overall was Patrick Lange (GER) in a time of 7:52:39, who broke his own course best set in 2017 of 8:01:40. Advertisement “Did you know? 16 facts from the 2018 Ironman World Championships”

A 20-year old Guatemalan woman seeking asylum and sent to Mexico under a controversial Trump administration policy died early Tuesday morning after attempting to re-enter the “Asylum seeker dies trying to re-enter U.S. after she was sent to Mexico”

It’s not often swim, bike and run makes football play second fiddle, but there are more spectators here for the inaugural Dubrovnik Triathlon than attended “Dubrovnik Triathlon makes its debut”

Gibraltar — The captain of an Iranian supertanker at the center of a diplomatic standoff no longer wants to keep command of the ship, which “Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 is free, but may not be leaving Gibraltar anytime soon”

They have multiple established kayak, bike and run races in Ireland, but now the Quest Adventure Series race organisers have confirmed their first UK race “Quest Adventure races arrive in UK”

The federal agency that oversees care for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children is planning to create an internal judicial system that would eliminate the role “Migrant kids appealing detention might soon lose access to judges”

The new 70.3 race is to take place on October 27 2019, and athletes will take in many of the famous monuments and landmarks historic Marrakech “Morocco to host its first Ironman 70.3”

For the third time, Mark Zuckerberg is refusing to answer questions from an extraordinary gathering of lawmakers from around the world who are investigating Facebook’s “Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg declines latest invite to appear before international lawmakers”

After 157 days at sea and 1,792 miles of swimming, 33-year old Ross Edgley today became the first person to swim around the UK coast “Ross Edgley completes 1,792-mile Great British Swim”

The happy throng: Swimmers get ready to escort Ross over his last mile – 220’s Helen is in there somewhere… Advertisement Swimmers leave him to “Ross Edgley’s Great British Swim in pictures”