Maik Twelsiek of Germany won the 2007 Ironman Wisconsin and with it grabbed his first Ironman title. New Zealand’s Gina Ferguson won the women’s race in a course record-breaking 9:37:03 and with it her first Ironman crown.

You can race fast, and you can live long, but are achieving both goals a reasonable expectation?

Daniel Unger of the host nation Germany stunned most triathlon experts and most likely himself as he won the BG 2007 ITU Triathlon World Championships in front of roughly 300,000 rabid fans.

Portuguese phenom Vanessa Fernandes won the 2007 Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships and thus earned the first world title in triathlon for Portugal

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There are several companies that say they have rubber nobody else has. Let’s take a look at those claims, and the rubber they’re using, and see what we can glean about the state of materials in the wetsuits we use today.

If the frame of a bicycle represents the “heart” of a bicycle, it can be argued that wheels and tires represent the “soul”.

After two decades of heated declarations and ill-informed pronouncements, there remains not one shred of evidence suggesting one of these wheel sizes is inherently superior to the other. And yet…

It is not that often that a person needs a custom bike, but this is the most typical of circumstances when a custom is indicated.

The truth is, almost every wetsuit feature has a corresponding detriment, and certain features have only the detriment, and no corresponding asset. You must decide what features matter to you.

In a move certain to shake up the manufacturing and retail marketplace Eurobike, the top European bicycle trade show, is establishing in the United States a competitive alternative to Interbike, currently the World’s preeminent bike show.

One of the most misunderstood elements in swimming is the “high elbow.”

Neither the Lance Armstrong foundation nor the purple-jerseyed TnTers who fatten multisport’s starting lines formed the first intersection between triathlon and cancer.

The primary reason triathletes ought to pay a lot more attention to the swim is that it’s free speed.

As doping scandals savage the sport of cycling, and track & field reels from a positive test by a world record holder, many triathletes wonder about the state of drug use in their sport.

For the second time in as many decades the owners of the popular San Diego-based De Soto Clothing company have had to take its German distributor to court to protect its manufacturing and distribution rights.

“What does global warming have to do with triathlon?” you might ask.

The new Portland-based trade show that only a month ago had the bicycle industry buzzing is gone as quickly as it came.

It didn’t take Skip Gilbert long. For the first time in 16 years USA Triathlon’s board of directors has approved a deficit budget.

Though competition is not always healthy in the short term, the market works itself out in the fullness of time.

One of triathlon’s most exciting new bikes will have its formal coming out party today or tomorrow, depending on the time zone of the reader. On Thursday, January 13th, at Mission Bay’s downtown store.

America’s three glossy monthlies became two some months ago, when American Tri folded itself into Inside Triathlon and absorbed its editor/publisher Kyle DuFord.

Venerated Bicycle Sports, owned and run by John Cobb out of Shreveport, Louisiana and more recently Tyler, Texas, is no longer in business.