Javier Gomez topped Olympic champion Jan Frodeno to win the Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Series in Hamburg, Germany. Frodeno takes over WCS points lead.

Nico Lebrun won his second straight XTERRA Mountain Championship and Shonny Vanlandingham took her third consecutive title at Beaver Creek Resort

4-time Australian triathlon champion Courtney Atkinson is currently sitting in 3rd place of the Dextro Energy World Championship series. With round 4 in Hamburg only a couple days away, the Aussie sat down with slowtwitch.

The new Lava Magazine has finally arrived plus we also noticed the Panache Gran Fondo jersey, the Honey Stinger Chocoloate Mint bar and the Smith Optics Forum shades.

The USA’s Ben Collins and Canada’s Tenille Hoogland took first ITU professional victories, joining a select group of former winners

Kiwi Bevan Docherty has already an Olympic Silver and Bronze medal to his name among many other fine results, but he is not done yet. There are quite a few more goals on the horizon of the man with the big smile, but no excuses.

The 2010 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon is in the books and Eric Wynn was in Minneapolis, MN to capture the action.

Terenzo Bozzone ran down Paul Ambrose to win the Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island and added another win to his already fantastic 2010 season. Kate Major chased down Sam Warriner to win the women’s title.

Matty Reed and Sarah Haskins repeat as victors at the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With his win Reed now leads the 2010 Race To The Toyota Cup, while 3rd place getter Mary Beth Ellis leads the women’s standings.

Ivan Tutukin won the 2010 Holten ITU Triathlon World Cup and narrowly held off fellow Russian Yulian Malyshev and Portuguese Pro Joao Pereira. Aussie Erin Densham grabbed the women’s title with a slightly more comfortable margin.

It’s hard to argue that Emma Snowsill is slipping after her comeback run to win her second Life Time Fitness $200,000 payout to go with her three World titles, Olympic and Commonwealth Games Gold.

Canada’s triathlon Golden Boy confronts aging, tactics, fatherhood, the evolving new wave of his sport, and the angst of rooting for Canadian hockey gold

The last few days we noticed the AVIA AVI-Quest Lite training shoe, a Chris Macca McCormack comic strip, the new aerodynamic Scott F1 road bike and SPF 50+ sun block from Scape Labs.

Alistair Brownlee is back to his dominating 2009 form as he crushes the men’s field at Athlone; Nicola Spirig wins her second ETU European Championship in a row and second major event in a month.

Innovation is the fun part of producing triathlon. In the beginning, a race director learns the basics: what equipment is needed, how to recruit volunteers, how early to stop publishing your phone number before race weekend.

Marino Vanhoenacker’s 7:52:05 is 4th fastest all-time at the distance as the Belgian captures his 5th straight Ironman Austria; Eva Dollinger takes women’s crown.

Andreas Raelert stormed to the win at the 2010 Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany with a superb bike split and held off a stellar field. Sandra Wallenhorst ran down Caroline Steffen to take the women’s title.

The Professional Triathlon Association (PROTA), conceived to represent the interests of American pros, expands to non-U.S. pros, confronts its first challenge in responding to WTC’s proposals.

Bont’s moldable, monocoque cycling shoes bring something new to the tri shoe category: a shoe so form fitting the single-strap closure method isn’t the liability it once was.

The inaugural Abu Dhabi International Triathlon was announced in November of 2009 and made quite an impression a few months later. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority now announced that the registration for the 2011 event is open.

The Tribute is an update on the Tribal: a tri-specific cycling shoe with an extremely soft Lorica upper. Don’t expect the same fit, feel and features: the shoe is an improvement, or not, depending on you.

Reigning Kona three-peater Chrissie Wellington weighs in with a thoughtful, thorough response on Ironman’s proposal to overhaul its prize money and World Championship qualification system.

Ben Hoffman is having a great season so far with a runner-up spot at 70.3 Boise behind Craig Alexander and several other nice podium finishes including a 3rd place at Buffalo Springs Lake 70.3 a couple days ago.

Ironman has clearly been frustrated by the lack of quality athletes toeing the starting lines of many of its events.  The new proposed framework attempts to address this.