About a month after testing positive at the 2013 Bilbao Triathlon, Virginia Berasatagui called a press conference today and confessed to having doped recently, and said she will thus forgo pursuing the B sample.

James Chesson is a fast age grouper from New Jersey who finished 10th overall at 70.3 Eagleman, and won his age group at Rev3 Williamsburg. His Kona 2013 spot though he had already snagged at Ironman Texas.

Sam Betten is an upcoming young Aussie Pro who is racing 70.3 and 5i50 events. This 25-year old won the ITU Junior Aussie Champs twice but is now committed to non drafting racing and has Las Vegas and Hy-Vee on his mind.

Dirk Bockel is currently in Luxembourg and getting ready for the 2013 Challenge Roth. He has been very busy recently and checked in with us.

French newspapers are reporting that a 30-year old British triathlete crashed during the bike segment of the 2013 Ironman France in Nice and died on the way to the hospital.

Ironman announced today that it acquired privately held YWC Copenhagen, which organizes Danish triathlons; Ironman thus takes licensing rights of the Copenhagen and Aarhus events from Challenge.

After a little break we again pick up our What We Have Noticed feature with new aero wheels from Easton, a WTS campaign, fabric race numbers from Champion Systems, the Soleus Draft GPS cycling head unit and more.

Our second edition of the Slowtwitch Mailbag features two questions. First, how does one go about prioritizing their triathlon investments? Second, Joe Friel weighs in on power and pacing

Erik Limkemann and Kelly Williamson took the titles at the Rev3Triathlon Williamsburg and here are images from this inaugural event.

Marc Lees introduced North Americans to a Super Sprint Triathlon experience in 2010 and later this year during the 2013 Interbike show folks can watch another edition of this Australian inspired fast paced racing live in Las Vegas.

Ben Hoffman combined a 2nd best swim, race-best bike split and 3rd-fastest run and Heather Wurtele broke the women’s course record to win the men’s and women’s titles at Ironman Coeur d’Alene Sunday.

Super swimmer Eric Limkemann added a superb bike split and a good run to soundly beat Richie Cunningham and Kelly Williamson overcame a 9 minute deficit off the bike with a sizzling run to win Rev3 Williamsburg.

Gregory Rouault of France edged Kyle Jones of Canada in the men’s race and Amelie Kretz led a 1-2-3-4 Canadian sweep of the women’s race at the Edmonton ITU sprint distance World Cup Sunday in Alberta.

Joe Gambles of Australia dominated the men’s field and Olympic silver medalist Lisa Norden of Sweden finished 7th overall and topped women’s runner-up Heather Leiggi by 22:49 to win Ironman 70.3 Syracuse.

Terenzo Bozzone of New Zealand broke away from Canadian Brent McMahon on the run and Linsey Corbin of the U.S. held off Canadian Magali Tisseyre to win Ironman 70.3 Mt. Tremblant.

Frederik Van Lierde won his 3rd Ironman France title in a row with a superb effort all day and a final time of 8:08:59. Mary Beth Ellis took the women’s title and broke the course record with a time of 9:12:54.

Cameron Dye pulled away on the bike and held off Andy Potts on the run to take the 2013 TriRock Philadelphia Triathlon. Angela Naeth had to chase down Sara McLarty on the run to grab the women’s title.

South African Conrad Stoltz grabbed his second XTERRA Brazil title today, having won the inaugural race back in 2005. Shonny Vanlandingham from the United States earned her 3rd title there in the last four years.

Switzerland’s Markus Stierli grabbed the top spot of the inaugural Swissman Extreme Triathlon in 11:29. Brit Emma Jane Pooley who won the 2010 UCI TT World Championships and resides in Switzerland dominated the women’s race.

Ironman announced today that Boulder, Colorado, one of the world’s great triathlon meccas, will get its own Ironman event, the 10th in the Ironman U.S. Series, on August 3, 2014 and registration will open July 17.

Ironman’s chief Andrew Messick answers questions on Ironman Boulder, Ironman’s view on whether the sport is growing or not, where it fits in versus other local races, and on doping.

British triathlete Tamsin Lewis is known on twitter as @SportieDoc and this former AG World Champ recently finished 2nd at 70.3 Rimini. Enjoy this video chat.

Triathlon’s signature etailer TriSports filed for Chapter 11 protection on the 14th of June. What does this mean for its customers and for its future? Here’s what you need to know.

We give the full details of our coolest bike review in a long while – our custom Serotta with 650c wheels. Why 650? Why custom? For all of the specifics, read on.