Ironman St. George will become Ironman 70.3 St. George in 2013, announced the World Triathlon Corporation today, but the upcoming 2012 event next week will remain a full distance event.

Light & Motion was founded in 1989 and has since been in Monterey, CA. We might best know them for their very fine cycling lights, but they got actually started in the diving world.

Tom Bishop was part of the British U23 podium sweep at the ITU Triathlon World Championships ln Beijing last year, and we are convinced that we will hear a lot more from this fast twin.

Andy Jacques-Maynes of the Kenda / 5-hour Energy Pro Cycling team is the current race leader at the Sea Otter Classic, and here is a look at his Cannondale Slice TT bike.

David Hauss of France topped Italy’s Davide Uccellare and Kathy Tremblay of Canada outran Ireland’s Aileen Morrison to score breakthrough World Cup wins at Ishigaki, Japan

Trevor Wurtele and Sarah Piampiano took breakthrough wins at the Ochsner Ironman 71.1 New Orleans that became a duathlon when the swim was canceled due to high winds

Six-time Ironman World Champion Natascha Badmann won her fourth Spec-Savers Ironman South Africa at age 45; Clemente Alonso-McKernan topped the men’s field at Nelson Mandela Bay.

The third day of the 2012 Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic was highlighted by Pro MTB cross country, the Pro road TT and the Pro dual slalom. But like always, there is more to life than racing.

Matt Cooke of Team Exergy won the road race at the Sea Otter Classic yesterday and is currently sitting in 3rd place overall. We decided to take a closer look at his Felt F1 race bike.

Redeeming himself for a penalty that cost him the win last year, Dustin McLarty of UC Irvine parlayed a race-best swim to victory over Karl Kahsar of CU Boulder at the USAT Collegiate Nationals men’s race.

Spain’s Javier Gomez’s blazing 30:20 run propelled him to the victory by 20 seconds over Russia’s Alexander Brukhankov at the ETU European Championships at Eilat, Israel.

Colorado may have been shut out of the individual races, but the Buffaloes swept the men’s, women’s and combined team titles at the USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Zipp’s 101 wheelset looks like a training wheelset, but they perform like they were meant for racing. So, which are these all-aluminum but still toroidal wheels? It seems the best answer is both.

Marissa Ferrante of Stanford crossed the line first in 2:06:28 with a 5-minute 20-second advantage over Jenny Shaughnessy of Duke in the women’s race at USAT Collegiate Nationals.

Another beautiful day at the 2012 Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic with road races, mountain bike events and product launches is now behind us.

Nicola Spirig of Switzerland outdueled Ainhoa Murua of Spain down the stretch to win her third ETU European Championship title Friday in Eilat, Israel.

Magura finally unveiled the long anticipated hydraulic road lever conversion option at Sea Otter Classic called simply MC1. Magura also finally showed off their RT6 TT brake.

The 2012 Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic got on the way today with quite a few competitive events and the typical monster sizes expo. We snooped around and captured a few impressions from the day.

Lesley Paterson played rugby with the boys and danced ballet as a kid, wrote, produced and acted in films and videos, won 70.3s, fought Lyme disease, modeled swimsuits and is the 2011 XTERRA World Champion.

I believe this suit every bit as fast as the TYR Hurricane. However, it’s better for the right swimmer, and I’m not him. I’m slightly long in the torso, and this company’s ideal morphology is average to leggy.

New Zealand names its Olympic triathlon team – Andrea Hewitt, Kris Gemmell, Bevan Docherty, Nicky Samuels, Ryan Sissons, and Kate McIlroy – Debbie Tanner and Clark Ellice are reserves.

We recently had the opportunity to visit Industry Nine Components in Asheville, NC and here is a gallery of images of the day in the life of that cool brand.

This is one hell of a shoe, created with passion for the sport, and it will definitely be my shoe for the coming season. Still, distribution and customer service will be this shoe company’s challenge.

Breakdowns in communication and planning have imperiled the Olympic dreams of several of USAT’s elite athletes. As USAT prepares to host a WTS race doubling as an Olympic Trials, few American athletes are set to compete.