The San Diego Union-Tribune reported today that endurance athlete Barbara Warren of San Diego suffered a broken neck Saturday while competing in the Santa Barbara Triathlon.

Stuart Hayes won the 2008 Accenture Chicago Triathlon despite having to deal with a severely swollen knee the night before. A super fast bike split helped Becky Lavelle take charge of the women’s race.

Australia’s Belinda Granger and New Zealand’s Bryan Rhodes both won the 26th Ironman Canada titles with strong bike splits Sunday on the classic Penticton, British Columbia course.

LOOK’s growing presence in the triathlon realm is evidenced as Slowtwitch.com was taken through its 2009 Tri line. And while they have truly competitive new products, their design principles take a different tack – one that perhaps changes conventional thinking of what aero really is.

Sheila Taormina wrapped up an amazing career by placing 19th of 36 entrants at the modern pentathlon at the Beijing Olympics Friday.
This simple statement of the planned final fact in her athletic career does her no justice.

In 1978 Henry Forrest was another one of those adventurous souls who plunged into the waters of Oahu for the start of a crazy new event called Ironman. He talked to Slowtwitch about his memories of the event and a much more important recent battle.

Although a bit “lost in translation” our roving reporter at the Olympic Games in Beijing got to see a very surprising sprint finish of the men’s triathlon triathlon and managed to get some shopping done too. Enjoy his final report.

On Thursday 08/21 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific time, Olympic silver medal winner Simon Whitfield from Canada will be live on slowtwitch.com to answer a few questions about the event, his training and the Olympics in general.

When all the shouting at Shinsanling Reservoir was over, a surprise longshot German outkicked a triathlon murderer’s row to take gold in the Olympic men’s triathlon.

These things are almost always impossible to predict. Which makes this endeavor an amusing fantasy, not unlike playing the lottery. But honestly speaking, there are only 8 to 10 men in the field of 56 who have the foot speed and leg power to win.

It came first, and was very much unlike the men’s electric, exciting, adrenaline-rich Olympic four-man duel that would take place a day later.

Our embedded Olympic reporter Hector Fernandez got to see an incredible women’s triathlon and various track and field events before returning tired to the hotel. Here is his day 3 report from Beijing.

Are the Beijing Olympics just another totalitarian infomercial? Or do they signal something hopeful—China reaching out to free world values? Granting the Games to countries with mixed human rights records is not new.

Another update from the Olympics in Beijing courtesy of our embedded reporter Hector Fernandez. Hector checked out the women’s marathon and ran into a few triathletes a bit later.

In the final installment of our series on Team TBB coach Brett Sutton, the coach responds to many of the comments and questions posed by our readers in the forum and over email.

In what may have been a small preview of the 2008 Ironman World Championships, Andy Potts and Chrissie Wellington ruled impressive fields at the 2008 Timberman 70.3 triathlon festival.

It is not easy being a pro triathlete in a country that is home to several active Ironman Hawaii champions, but Germany’s Uwe Widmann keeps plugging away and he just recently finished 3rd at Ironman 70.3 Germany.

Slowtwitch.com heads to Beijing for some coverage of the Olympic Games. Embedded reporter Hector Fernandez checks in with this update from the first week in China.

Jenny Gowans won the 2008 Norseman Extreme Triathlon and was kind enough to send us her race report. She was looking for an adventure and a race she would need to treat with more respect than a conventional Ironman.

Øyvind Johannessen won the 2008 Norseman Extreme Triathlon in Norway and battled a tough course and an unhappy stomach along the way. Jenny Gowans was the first woman to finish the event.

Simon Thompson won the 2008 edition of the 5430 Long Course Triathlon with a fantastic closing run. Tim O’Donnell and Brian Fleischmann rounded out the podium. Joanna Zeiger ruled supreme in the women’s race.

Faris Al-Sultan led the 2008 Ironman 70.3 Germany from start to finish and held off hard charging Enrico Degasperi. Virginia Berastagui won the women’s race and thus defended her 2007 title.

In part five of our series, the Olympics are just around the corner. Canadian Colin Jenkins is packing his bags for Beijing and putting the final touches on his preparation for the Games. And, of course, there is that brand new limited edition Cervelo Soloist…

When Chrissie Wellington recently stormed to a second place overall finish at the Alpe d’Huez triathlon she put her competitors on notice that the Ironman Hawaii win wasn’t a fluke. For our “the bikes of the pros” series we take a closer look at her Cervelo P2C.