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.

Ben Collins and Tenille Hoogland repeated their wins at Treasure Island with victories at the inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz; Collins’ bike tops Kyle Leto and Hoogland’s run edges Amanda Stevens.

Mark Fretta took a fine win at the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon, while Toyota Cup points leader Matty Reed failed to finish in the top five. Sarah Haskins grabbed the women’s title with a very dominating performance.

Paul Ambrose earned his first Ironman title with a win at the 2010 Ironman Louisville today. In the women’s race Rebekah Keat followed up her win at the Challenge Copenhagen race a few weeks ago with another victory in Louisville.

After dealing with an Achilles injury, Joe Gambles successfully defended his title at Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens and now the Aussie has his eyes set on Ironman Wisconsin and qualifying for Kona.

Paula Findlay had shown quite a bit of promise the last couple years, but really stepped into the limelight with great wins at the ITU WCS races in London and Kitzbühel. The fast, charming and humble Canadian had a few words with slowtwitch.

Andy Potts and Chrissie Wellington stormed to dominating wins at Timberman 70.3. Eric Wynn was there to capture the action.

Denmark’s two-time $200,000 Hy-Vee winner, Olympian, Ironman China and Challenge Roth winner, and Kona contender has a beautiful home and family in the small town of Birkerod 30 kilometers north of Copenhagen. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.

A bit more than a year ago we featured a gallery of Pros with their dogs and now we share part 2 of that series.

Daniela Ryf, Ruedi Wild, Nicola Sprig and Sven Riederer teamed up for a back-to-back ITU Team Relay World Championship home country victory for the Swiss, who beat France by 40 seconds; USA 8th.

Andy Potts led from start to finish as he won 70.3 Timberman three straight times now. Chrissie Wellington also never trailed in this triathlon as she took the title for the third time in as many attempts and finished 10th overall.

Australian Pete Jacobs outruns Terenzo Bozzone and Magali Tisseyre of Canada outruns Michellie Jones in wilting heat to win Philippines 70.3

Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) stepped up to the plate and won his first world championship title at the inaugural ITU Sprint World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lisa Norden (SWE) got away from Emma Moffatt (AUS) to take the women’s Sprint crown.

While Germans Marc Pschebizin and Andreas Wolpert managed to take the top spots at the ultra tough Swiss 2010 Inferno Triathlon, Swiss Nina Brenn grabbed the win in the women’s category followed by a bunch of her country women.

Joe Gambles defended his title at 70.3 Lake Stevens and Melanie McQuaid showed that she is fast on the road too. Pics by Randy Sadler.

We noticed new triathlon shoes from Gaerne, a new bag concept from Gyst, the recently released book about the life and times of Igor Kenk and a tomato flavored energy gel from Squeezy. Good times.