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Snowy is back!

It’s hard to argue that Emma Snowsill is slipping after her comeback run to win her second Life Time Fitness $200,000 payout to go with her three World titles, Olympic and Commonwealth Games Gold.

Germans win again in Germany

Andreas Raelert stormed to the win at the 2010 Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany with a superb bike split and held off a stellar field. Sandra Wallenhorst ran down Caroline Steffen to take the women's title.

Pro Tri groups responds to WTC

The Professional Triathlon Association (PROTA), conceived to represent the interests of American pros, expands to non-U.S. pros, confronts its first challenge in responding to WTC's proposals.

We are on for Abu Dhabi round 2

The inaugural Abu Dhabi International Triathlon was announced in November of 2009 and made quite an impression a few months later. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority now announced that the registration for the 2011 event is open.

Wellington on WTC changes

Reigning Kona three-peater Chrissie Wellington weighs in with a thoughtful, thorough response on Ironman's proposal to overhaul its prize money and World Championship qualification system.

Podium man Ben Hoffman

Ben Hoffman is having a great season so far with a runner-up spot at 70.3 Boise behind Craig Alexander and several other nice podium finishes including a 3rd place at Buffalo Springs Lake 70.3 a couple days ago.

Ironman’s proposed architecture

Ironman has clearly been frustrated by the lack of quality athletes toeing the starting lines of many of its events.  The new proposed framework attempts to address this.