Month: March 2021

  • Physical performance decline starts at 50

    While many of us would like to think that the 50s are the prime of our lives, new physical performance research shows that this decade might instead mark the beginning […]

  • Athlete killed in Ironman Boulder

    Michelle Walters, who was 34 years old, was hit by a vehicle and did not survive her injuries. The two-lane highway was not closed to vehicles during the cycling leg, […]

  • Mental toughness found to be key to elite cyclists success

    The study looked at the performance of 11 professional and nine non-professional road cyclists. Both groups of cyclists were asked to complete a 20-minute cycling time trial in the laboratory […]

  • Just 100 spots left for Ironman 70.3 Weymouth

    The Ironman Weymouth race organisers have told 220 that there are just 100 spots left for their debut Ironman 70.3 race in Weymouth on Sunday 11 September. Advertisement The major […]

  • New research into recovery might hold key to performance success

    Whether you’re an elite triathlete aiming to win a 70.3, or just wanting to complete your first triathlon, the age-old rule applies – race results don’t come without putting in […]

  • German athletes dominant at inaugural Challenge Regensburg

    The sun was shining and historic German city of Regensburg was ready to welcome triathletes from all over the world to take on the inaugural Challenge Regensburg. But it would […]

  • Alistair Brownlee wins Olympic gold in Rio

    Alistair Brownlee has continued Great Britain’s winning Rio Olympic form by taking the men’s triathlon title here in Rio today. The multiple world and European champ made his move over […]

  • The Olympic triathlon course

    Brit ITU racer Mark Buckingham competed at the Rio Test Event in 2015. Here are his insights into where the Olympic Games races will be won… and lost Advertisement The […]

  • Brownlees’ Rio Olympics quotes

    Click:reaction flywheel Having obliterated the field at the Rio Olympic Games triathlon, the Brownlee brothers pulled off another fine performance in the press conference at the Forte Copacabana as well. Here […]

  • Tri at the Olympics: Sydney 2000

    It’d taken years of planning, deals, courting, boycotts and, with the implementation of draft-legal racing, a fundamental change to the nature of Olympic-distance elite triathlon. But finally, on 16 September […]