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A Newsman with a View

I read Cyclingnews.com with vigor. I do so every morning. A cup of coffee, a muffin, and that site starts things off right for me. It was during one of my forays over to Cyclingnews, reading Tour coverage, that I saw an ad for Cenegenics.

Potts, Kaye lead Toyota Cup Series

Heading into the 4th round in Minnesota, Andy Potts' 2-1-1 finishes lead the 2011 Life Time Fitness / Toyota Cup series men's points chase; while Alicia Kaye’s 4-2-2 finishes lead the women

Brown, Lawn take Korea 70.3

Cameron Brown leads an all Kiwi men’s podium ahead of Guy Crawford and Kieran Doe; Joanna Lawn tops the women and makes Korea 70.3 an all-Kiwi winner’s sweep

Vanhoenacker crushes all-time record

Marino Vanhoenacker smashed the all-time Ironman record of 7:50:27 set by Luc Van Lierde in 1997 and recorded a stunning 7:45:58 at the 2011 Kärnten Ironman Austria. Mary Beth Ellis took the women's title in 8:43:34.

Csoke, Bevilaqua win IM Korea

Balazs Csoke of Hungary won his first Ironman and Kate Bevilaqua of Australia won her second IM title and first race of 2011 at Ironman Korea.

Petraeus, Steffen take Challenge Aarhus

When Rasmus Henning DNF’d with cramps, Rasmus Petraeus combined a race-best swim, 6th-best bike and 3rd best run to win the swim-shortened Challenge Aarhus half; Caroline Steffen devastated the women’s field

The end of Team Commerzbank

Commerzbank, the main sponsor of the very successful Commerzbank Triathlon Team announced that they would not extend the sponsorship past 2011 and would focus on soccer instead.

John Carson’s swan song

After an accident in 2009 John Carson was destined to be wheelchair bound but he was determined to walk again. He has since finished Ironman Lake Placid, the Boston Marathon and Ironman Coeur D'Alene, but that one was his swan song of sorts.

Doug MacLean – stepping up

Boulder, CO based amateur Doug MacLean was the top age grouper at Ironman Coeur D'Alene and managed to break into the top 10 overall. Moving forward though he'll be starting with a Pro card and much tougher competition.

Triathlon’s Doctor Phil reflects

Philip Skiba is a cancer survivor, ex-volleyball player, enthusiastic runner and Clydesdale triathlete, osteopathic physician, author of triathlon training books and software who’s coached world champs Joanna Zeiger and Catriona Morrison.

When Harry Met Javi

ITU racing is compelling, the athletes are superb, it's good, hard, clinical, scrubbed, white bread, racing. Until this past weekend, when it finally, happily, developed an edge.