A deal’s danger of “blowing up” increases exponentially as the parties prepare to sign. Nevertheless, we handicap and analyze.

The sale of Triathlete and Competitor Magazines, as well as Elite Racing, owner of many of North America’s largest footraces, appears imminent. Both magazines are part of a blockbuster deal that places top caliber endurance events and media under the same ownership.

In two shorts years, 2XU has moved from newbie to triathlon goliath. We take a look at their trisuits, including the new for 2008 Super Elite Endurance suit.

Emily Finanger turned Pro and got married in 2006 and spent part of her honeymoon racing and winning the 2007 Norseman Xtreme triathlon in Eidfjord, Norway. Meet this Boulder, CO transplant.

Until a few weeks ago, Charlotte Paul had raced 13 Ironman events and has finished as high as second place. Now she has won the 2007 Ironman Western Australia and she talked to Slowtwitch.

Amanda Lovato shares some of her thoughts about racing and training with us and reflects on a season she calls the worst year of racing in her Ironman career. Find out more about this pro triathlete / realtor.

Mac Brown was the top age grouper in St. Croix and Ironman Coeur D’Alene and closed out the 2007 season as the 4th OA age grouper at Ironman Hawaii. He is turning Pro in 2008 and talked with Slowtwitch about that and more.

This is the first of monthly installments on the physics of bike riding, with an emphasis on training and racing using power meters. We’ll present our first two intro-to-power articles back-to-back.

The nice thing about the Internet — or the maddening thing, if you like finality — is that there rarely is any finality. Articles that we publish are not the last word on a subject, they’re typically the first word.

Tim DeBoom won the Ironman World Championships in 2001 and 2002 and after a few tough years he came back to finish in the top 5 in 2007. He sat down to chat with Slowtwitch.

With global domination in mind, the LA Tri club has grown quite nicely over the last few years. We talked to their president Paul Hekimian.

27 year Bree Wee from Kailua-Kona Hawaii was the top age grouper and 13th overall female at the 2007 Ford Ironman World Champions in Hawaii. Slowtwitch had a chance to find out more about this Hawaii resident.

For our series “Profile of an age grouper”, we talk to Andy Meyer from Cohutta, GA. Andy won his age group at Ironman Florida 2007 after mostly racing road bikes for the last 2 years.

Massimo Cigana and Liz Blatchford are the winners of the 2007 edition of the Laguna Phuket Triathlon in Thailand.

For the new series “the bikes of the pros” we want to know more about the Cucuma/Walser of Timo Bracht (GER). He won Ironman Europe in 2007 and he talks candidly to Slowtwitch about his ride.

The season endening triathlon World Cup turned out to be historic, as Hirokatsu Tayama became the first Japanese athlete to win a Triathlon World Cup and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland grabbed her first World cup title.

At the 2007 Ironman Western Australia, Patrick Vernay was on course to break 8 hours and Charlotte Paul smashed the old course record.

Here is the second part of the conversation with Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting. He tells us what the race was like and how he prepared for this grueling event. Part 2 of 2.

Montana resident Linsey Corbin won the 2007 Ironman 70.3 Baja in her first pro season. Ironman Hawaii though did not go as planned, she checks in with Slowtwitch.

In barely a month USA Cycling joins the UCI in legislating the Randy Newman ethic: “Don’t want no short people round here.” Fortunately, there is a deceptively easy alternative for both of cycling’s governing bodies.

We have followed the 2007 Ironman World Championships via the internet on race day, discussed it feverishly in the forum and checked out all kinds of websites and magazines since. Now we’ll get to see the NBC coverage on Saturday.

Several people had thrown around the idea of a Triathlon specific festival / trade show, but to this day this has not really happened. It now appears that Trifest 2008 in Tucson, Arizona will step up to the plate.

XTERRA just announced their 2008 America Tour schedule.

This year’s Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting, tells what the race was like, how he prepared and shares some of the thoughts that went through his head. Part 1 of 2.