Charlie Crawford, the Commissioner of Officials of USA Triathlon is fairly well known in the triathlon community but most triathletes usually prefer not to see him, well, officially that is.

When Chrissie Wellington stormed to her Ironman Hawaii World Championship title last year, many people were asking the question “Chrissie who?” This year she’ll be surely on everybody’s radar and she checked in with Slowtwitch pre Kona.

Justin Daerr finished the 2001 Ironman California in 12:55 and just 2 years later he recorded a 9:20 finish at Ironman Florida. A couple weeks ago he was 5th overall at Ironman Canada in a time of 8:37 and we had a talk with him.

The enigmatic 1999 ITU World Champion from Kazakhstan who took down Simon Lessing at Montreal accepts two year ban for positive EPO test

Here’s a Slice of the triathlon world you rarely get to see: everything about a top pro’s bike, including all the fit specs. Introducing Mirinda Carfrae’s Cannondale Slice

John Cobb’s venture capital start-up, Blackwell Research, was a bold venture that’s run out of capital. Absent a white knight riding in (in the aero position) Blackwell is destined to cease as a carbon-based life form.

After almost 20 years of ownership by the Gills family, World Triathlon Corporation, owner of the Ironman World Triathlon Championship, has been sold to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners.

Complaints about drafting are often heard after various triathlons, but more so after certain events. So who is to blame? Should we point fingers at the athletes themselves, the race directors or the officials? Slowtwitch talked to Jimmy Riccitello about this issue.

Nicola Spirig came off a 6th place finish at the Beijing Olympics and
Andreas Raelert took solace at missing his third Olympic team with wins at
the fourth annual Monaco Ironman 70.3 triathlon Sunday.

Stephen Bayliss and Bella Comerford won Ironman South Africa earlier this year and today the couple also took the titles at the 2008 Ironman UK.

After their Los Angeles Triathlon wins, Bennett and Lavelle
now have commanding point leads in Life Time Fitness series.

Biscay’s 33rd career Ironman-distance attempt, 9th this year, is the charm as Chris McDonald quickly avenges Ironman Louisville loss last weekend

Simon Thompson won the 2008 Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore in hot and humid conditions and narrowly held of Terenzo Bozzone. Rebekah Keat took the women’s title.

In a special edition in our series on bikes of the pros, Canadian Olympian Colin Jenkins talks about his 14.5lb Olympic Special Edition Cervelo SLC-SL.

Triathletes are perfectly wired to be in the world, but not of it, as we routinely demonstrate an ability to cycle without exhibiting any outward signal that we are, in fact, cyclists. Evidence: wheels.

As the end of the 2008 season approaches, we are seeing lots of bike sponsorship changes in the Pro road peloton. Who are the winners and the losers of the 2009 bike sponsorship challenge and who just swapped teams?

Henry Forrest is not doing well and he really needs us to keep him in our thoughts. According to his wife Lou, doctors called his recent PET scans very alarming.

Eurobike 2008 started officially today in Friedrichshafen, Germany and we were able to get a closer look at a 2009 prototype of a company that has been fairly quiet in terms of tri bikes recently.

Julie Dibens stormed to the top of the podium at the 2007 XTERRA Triathlon World Championships in Maui, Hawaii and she is currently getting ready to repeat that feat.

Adventure racing legend Ian Adamson is betting the proverbial house
his 24 Hours of Triathlon at Cherry Creek State Park will hit it big.

Olaf Sabatschus has 3 Ironman titles and endless other podium placings on his resume and he just recently won the Inferno Triathon in Switzerland. He talked to Slowtwitch about racing, training, rules, drugs and a few other interesting subjects.

Maximilian Longree wins by 21 minutes, breaks Ironman Louisville course record, Mariska Kramer-Postma overcomes 17-minute deficit

Wellington dominates field, Loy takes second straight ITU long course World title in Almere

Scott Curry had the fastest bike split at the 2008 Ironman Canada, and finished in 11th place. After the race he was quite outspoken about some issues in the pro field and talked to Slowtwitch about it.