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.

Swedish triathlete Åsa Lundström resides in Denmark where she studies medicine. She won Ironman Sweden in 2012 and finished second to Virginia Berasategui in Bilbao this year, but that result may be changed.

Emma-Kate Lidbury is back on track after a suffering some tough breaks in 2012; she credits purplepatch coach Matt Dixon, swim coach Gerry Rodrigues and a move to Santa Monica

With the Ironman 70.3 World Championships moving to Mont Tremblant for 2014, our intrepid scout Dev Paul gives folks planning to race there a primer.

Brian Mahony is the Director of Global Projects for the ITU and we had a video chat with him about the WTS series, the Olympics and much more.

Mike Gadzinski finished 11th overall and 2nd in his age group at Ironman 70.3 Eagleman in Cambridge, MD. With a Kona slot and a Vegas slot earned, he made a decision that made his family and another athlete happy.

Pro athletes often complain about the lack of prize money in triathlon and we typically agree. But hearing that only 5 male and 5 female Pros have signed up for the $142,000 MetaMan Bintan race makes this editor’s blood boil.

We look closer at the Giant TCR Advanced SL race bike of Team Rabobank – Liv/Giant Pro Megan Guarnier, the 2012 US Pro road champion.

This is our third and final article in our educational Power Meter series. We look at a few final graphs and attempt to distill all of the nonsense into a few succinct messages.

Felt has a guerrilla house brand division. It does not wage conventional war. Rather than making a full suite of saddles, handlebars stems, wheels, it picks off an occasional project and usually nails it.

Kevin Metcalfe has been trying to go sub-50 for a 40k TT for more than 20 years now, and finally at age 52 he stormed to a record breaking 49:29 in the Northern California / Nevada TT Championships.

Ritchie Nicholls outran fellow Great Briton Tim Don and Ireland’s Eimear Mullan’s better bike and run trumped Holly Lawrence’s swim to take the men’s and women’s titles at Ironman 70.3 UK

Michael Raelert of Germany is back to his 2009-2010 form with a dominating win: Olympian Barbara Riveros-Diaz of Chile had an equally decisive foray at the middle distance at Ironman 70.3 Berlin.

We take a close look at the full line of 2013 Shimano Dura Ace 9000-series carbon wheels. They range from 24mm to 75mm deep, and are available in clincher or tubular.

Spanish newspapers El Mundo and Marca reported today that Spanish triathlete Virginia Berasategui tested positive during the Bilbao Triathlon held on May 18th 2013. Berasategui won that Half distance event in 4:49:23.

Ivan Vasiliev of Russia topped Alessandro Fabian of Italy by 7 seconds and Rachel Klamer of the Netherlands edged Vicky Holland of Great Britain by 2 seconds to take the elite titles at the ETU European Championships.