The 2010 Dextro Energy ITU WCS Finals are almost upon us and we are in Budapest to cover the event. We captured a few impressions from the days leading up to the big event in Budapest, Hungary.

Jan Frodeno favored to win World Championship Series points title, but Javier Gomez should win the Grand Final at Budapest. Timothy Carlson offers the odds and urges offended competitors to prove him wrong.

With Emma Snowsill still fighting lingering physical woes, sensational newcomer Paula Findlay of Canada is favored for the Grand Final at Budapest; Moffatt, Norden, Hewitt, Jenkins, Riveros-Diaz and Spirig fight it out for the WCS title.

Welcome to our new weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics with Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com. Read, learn, enjoy, and send in your questions for next week!

A few weeks ago Julie Dibens and Mirinda Carfrae had fun with a little online swimming trash talk on twitter and facebook and the Ironman 70.3 World Champions then decided to have a swim off challenge.

We noticed the fast Continental Podium TT tire, the Kona legal blueseventy PZ3 TX, the passionate Rafael Hoffleit, interesting patches from Knog and the unique Fahrstil magazine.

Josiah Middaugh edges Mike Vine on the run while Melanie McQuaid dominated the field at Whistler, British Columbia’s XTERRA Canada Championship.

Seth Wealing of the United States defended his XTERRA Mexico men’s title and Fabiola Corona of Mexico took the women’s crown in Valle de Bravo

Catriona Morrison of Scotland wins the elite title at the ITU Duathlon World Championship in her home town of Edinburgh; outruns France’s Sandra Levenez in final leg

Bart Aernouts led a 1-2-3 Belgian sweep of the ITU short course Duathlon Worlds, outsprinting Rob Woestenborghs by 2 seconds with Joerie Vansteelant third.

On the third day of Eurobike we came across Cube, Zoot, Felt, Giant, Bont, Fuji, Cervelo, Catlike and more. Enjoy.

We perused more halls and aisles at Eurobike 2010 and have another gallery ready plus a few more pictures right here. This was the last industry only day and tomorrow this huge venue will be open to the public.

Day 2 of the Eurobike 2010 trade show is now over and we share a few impressions of the people and products we saw today.

After several recent third place finishes, Helen Jenkins is poised to step up a spot or two at the upcoming Dextro Energy WCS Finals in Budapest, Hungary. We had a few words with the 2008 ITU World Champion from Wales.

The second day at Eurobike was even busier than day 1 and we would truly need to have a very large crew to cover it completely. But here are a few folks and items we noticed today.

More images from the first day of the 2010 Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen, Germany. An image gallery by Herbert Krabel.

An appreciation of Jim MacLaren, the man for whom the Challenged Athletes Foundation was created, and co-recipient of the 2005 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, who died August 30 at age 47.

The 2010 Eurobike show opened its doors today for the expo inside the enormous trade show center in Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1090 exhibitors awaited 40,000 trade visitors from over 75 countries.

Rudy Garcia-Tolson was born with multiple birth defects and after many, many operations to his legs, he told his parents he would rather be a double amputee. Rudy became a great swimmer, triathlete and warrior and in November of 09 became an Ironman.

We arrived this morning in Europe and after a quick lunch headed straight over to the 2010 Eurobike Demo Day in the very beautiful Württembergischen Allgäu. Here is what we noticed today.

Mark Fretta and Sarah Haskins grabbed the wins at the Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon and Eric Wynn was there.

Terry Davis and his Tri-California crew put on their inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz Sunday and Tenille Hoogland, Ben Collins, more than a thousand age groupers and the course itself put on a show. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.

After his win at the inaugural Challenge Copenhagen, Aussie Tim Berkel was not only happy about the new title and bringing home the bacon, he also was relieved not to be viewed as a one-hit-wonder anymore.

At the 2010 Subaru Ironman Canada Victor Zyemtsev ran down a long time race leader to take the win, just as he had done several times before. In the women’s race Meredith Kessler followed up her runner-up spot in Coeur D’Alene with a win today.