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70.3 World Champs + TPS - The Gretzky Episode (#99)
Edit: TPS 99 has dropped. Forget my stupid picks and listen. Then discuss.
http://thetriathlonpreviewshow.libsyn.comI'm going to be so bold as to make my calls BEFORE listening to @EmilyCocks and @Zach Miller on the TPS. So I'll probably be wrong.
Men: Gomez, Currie, Kanute, Frodo, Brownlee. Top 10 rounded out by Appo, Weiss, Raelert, Von Berg, and Wild.
Women: Ryf by 5+ minutes, Federiksen, True, Findlay, Wurtele. Top 10 rounded out by Salthouse, Blatchford, Kaye, Seymour, and Charles. Huetthaler might be in there somewhere but who cares.These are some strong fields!
#KOAT
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Ryf, True, Pallant, Wurtele, Charles.
Thanks to @laurenbrandon for doing exactly as I asked and pointing out how dumb my picks were
I am very excited for this race. The bike course doesn't seem very hilly so it will favor the fast runners. It is always hard to tell if Alistair is healthy or somewhat injured. He raced the Euro champs and looked ok until the run but you never know with him.
Gomez, Frodeno, are going to be flying. Even if they are tired for Kona I think their "pretty good" is better than everyone else.
It will be interesting to see how Brownlee, Kanute, Currie and Appleton do. I guess no Kienle, he is doing Challenge Walschee, which is disappointing but understandable. One's achilles can only take so much. On the women's side I'll be rooting for Wurtele, and True to do well. It will be interesting to see what Pallant, Haug and Hauschildt do. Also Jennie Seymour racing at home.
Not gonna talk about the actual dopers/ suspected dopers/ not normal people.
1. Alistair Brownlee
2. Jan Frodeno
3. Javier Gomez
4. Braden Currie
5. Ben Kanute
Ryf does single leg drills on the bike and wins without breaking 110bpm. But Anne Haug is going to run through the field.
1. Daniela Ryf
2. Anne Haug
3. Lucy Charles
4. Sarah True
5. Emma Pallant
I hope Charles and Haug can make a race of it, but if Ryf is racing, Ryf will win.
He is hard to predict because he often turns out amazing performances coming off of injury but Brownlee didn't look like his best self at the Euro champs (3 weeks ago). He won a small 70.3 in China in April, he didn't look great at the Commonwealth games, Dubai 70.3 in March was pretty good on a short course. Basically he looked great last year at WTS Leeds, but even then won it on the bike. Since then he's had surgery, and more injuries. I think Frodeno and Gomez are much safer bets right now, Gomez especially. If you think he's lost "speed" you are crazy.
Ben Ka-Nu-Te will beat those schmucks though.
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I think Frodo will win, he is on a mission this year. Womens side, Lucy Charles will win the "Non-Ryf Category".
How much as Ali raced since his hip surgery?
How much did Gomez work on getting a more aero position?
Jan was delayed one day in arriving in PE. What's up with that? Drama? He hiding something? We shall see.
Charles in the non-Ryf category. 16:45 5k last weekend. She has killer swim/bike and can back up a great run.
Hopefully I'm wrong. I'm hoping Ryf has a mechanical and Lucy takes the win.