The British duo will be joined by fellow male athletes Gordon Benson andTom Bishop, who will be hoping to impress the British selectors for Rio and get the third spot on the team with the Brownlees.
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The British duo will be joined by fellow male athletes Gordon Benson andTom Bishop, who will be hoping to impress the British selectors for Rio and get the third spot on the team with the Brownlees.
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The women’s race features Jodie Stimpson and Helen Jenkins, who will be looking to impress British selectors and claim the final third team place for Rio, with Vicky Holland and Non Stanford who have already secured their Olympic spots.
Both demonstrated good form by winning gold and bronze respectively in the previous round of the Series in Abu Dhabi.
Qualification requires evidence of ability to win an individual medal in Rio, and a nomination committee will meet following the race to review performances.
Stimpson, who won in Abu Dhabi and also in the ITU World Cup the following weekend in Mooloolaba said: “This is a massive race, which is unusual this early in the season, but I have taken a lot of confidence from my first two races this year. I will put in my best performance possible on the day, that’s all you can ever ask for.”
Double ITU World Champion, Jenkins said: “I have had a great training block since Abu Dhabi and feel like I have moved my fitness on. I need to put in a performance that shows I am able to podium at Rio. It’s going to be up to the selectors to decide on the athlete they want to take.”
Both races promise to be exciting races with a strong British squad hoping for glory. The Brownlee brothers will want to set up a fast swim to ensure the pace is high right from the start. Spain’s Mario Mola is currently ranked number one in the world following his win in the opening round of the Series in Abu Dhabi.
Jonathan Brownlee, who will be hoping to emulate his victory here last year, said: “The Gold Coast race was one of my best ever performances last year so it’s brilliant to be back. The first race of the season always has a few unknowns, but I can’t wait to race.”
Olympic Champion, Alistair Brownlee, who underwent ankle surgery at the end of last season, said: “Jonny and I didn’t actually get to race together much last year so it’s great that we’re both here this time. I’m happy with how things have gone recently and excited just to get out there.”
The women’s race is up first at 12:30am UK time on Saturday morning followed by the men at 3:30am. Both will be live on the BBC Red Button and online. Highlights are on BBC Two at 1pm on Sunday (10 April).
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When the Pro Triathlon Union launched in July last year, the frisson of optimism soon gave way to an air of scepticism. With a board hastily assembled at a closed-shop triathletes’ meeting in Bahrain, it offered little to deliver cohesion in a disparate sport.
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Long-course professionals struggling to pay their rent were irked at being asked to fork out up to $600 for membership. It took a further blow when Jan Frodeno declared he was “no fan of unions” and then the PTU’s vice president, Dirk Bockel, sent an ill-advised tweet asking Lance Armstrong for support. Had the whole thing faded away quietly, few would’ve been surprised.
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When I met Charles Adamo, the chief executive of the Pro Triathlon Organisation (PTO; note the switch from Union), it was the morning after golf’s Ryder Cup. The USA had triumphed 17-11, buoyed by the patriotic fervour of packed galleries in Minnesota. It was without the nails-to-the-quick final-day drama that has spoilt sports lovers for much of the past three decades, yet the unique allure of the biennial contest still captured imaginations on both sides of the pond. Adamo produced a newspaper with the headline: ‘The theatre of sport at its finest in the bear pit’. “This is what we need to create,” he said.
Championing new ventures doesn’t come naturally to journalists, however it didn’t take tweets from multiple Kona winners Dave Scott (“a fantastic competition”) or Chrissie Wellington (“très excited, bring on 2018!”) to convince this hack of the merits of The Collins Cup. If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, then the Ryder Cup has a devotee in the PTO every bit as passionate as the Americans hollering at Hazeltine. But where triathlon will move beyond golf is by including the rest of the world. And, thankfully, women.
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The Collins Cup, named after Ironman founders John and Judy, is a three-way non-drafting competition: Europe versus USA versus the ‘Internationals.’ It’s akin to the Ryder Cup singles format with six men and six women from each region. Eight will be chosen from the new PTO world rankings plus four captain’s picks – which allows wriggle room to involve stars from the ITU’s World Triathlon Series. Set off at regular intervals, triathletes race head-to-head-to-head over a 3km swim, 120km bike course and 25km run. Bonus points are awarded for each 5min increment – so it doesn’t pay to milk the finish chute.
Turning long-distance triathlon into a spectator sport isn’t easy. In contrast, the real sagacity of The Collins Cup is how the intrigue builds throughout the day. Anyone who has watched the Ryder Cup scoreboard swing from red (USA) to blue (Europe) and back, will understand how it can command your attention in its vice-like grip. Moreover, the focus is on the team, so if Frodeno or Daniela Ryf disappear up the road, the contest isn’t over.
That said, golf is a behemoth compared to triathlon, built on a history of 19th-century mashies and niblicks, not neon Speedos in the 70s. Can a new competition with a complex format really thrive? Adamo points out that the Ryder Cup only prospered from 1985 when the USA started to lose, and that interest soared in Olympic basketball when the USSR inflicted Team USA’s first ever loss in Munich in 1972. His point is less about revelling in US misery, but more that the success of a tournament is driven – not just by its history – but by unashamed rivalry.
The triathlon calendar is already packed and the date (June looks favourite) will depend on which broadcaster – if any – bite. To help this, Wasserman, the world’s fourth largest sports media agency (for comparison, IMG are ranked 12th) with contracts worth $2.3billion, will act as business partners. It lends some serious financial clout.
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The PTO’s solution to ensuring a crowd is to make the pro race the showpiece of a long weekend where age-groupers race on Saturday and then join the celebrations on Sunday. For a venue, think a dedicated resort rather than busy city centre streets. It’s due to run annually from 2018, and for a sport that continually innovates, I believe this could be one of the best moves yet.
The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes.
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Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke the Ali’i Drive finish line tape in 7:52:39 to become the Ironman World Champion for the second time. Following the German home was Belgium’s Bart Aernouts in second and David McNamee of Scotland, who ran in his way to third in 8:01:09.
Brit Joe Skipper would come home in seventh, while Javier Gomez was 11th on debut in Hawaii. Tim Don, after his horrific bike crash just over a year ago, crossed the line in 36th in tear-jerking scenes.
BRIT EXPECTIONS
Not since the multiple Ironman world champ Chrissie Wellington went toe-to-toe with Julie Dibens, Rachel Joyce and Leanda Cave in 2011 have British elite athletes received some much focus in Kona (head here for the women’s report featuring Lucy Charles).
In the men’s race, Scotland’s David McNamee was hoping to go even better than in 2017, when his third-placed finish was the best British male placing in Kona history. East Anglia’s Joe Skipper – second behind Jan Frodeno at Challenge Roth in 2016 – was also vying for his first top 10 finish in Hawaii, and there was the emotional appearance of Tim Don in the starting field, following a severe crash ahead of the 2017 edition of Hawaii.
Elsewhere on the starting pontoon was the five-time ITU World Champion, Javier Gomez, making his Kona racing debut, the reigning champion Patrick Lange, former winner Sebastian Kienle, and a Jan Frodeno-shaped hole after the two-time Kona champ pulled out ahead of the race.
In relatively cool and calm conditions for Kona, the men’s event saw Aussie athlete Josh Amberger first out of the water, closely followed by France’s Denis Chevrot. Gomez came out in 5th after 47:46mins and David McNamee was in 13th, 1:52mins down after a time of 49:31mins. Don would exit Kailua Bay in 50:34, 20th pro man overall
Some big names were already 2-3mins in arrears, including the reigning champion Patrick Lange and 2014 winner Sebastian Kienle. The 2017 second-place finisher and uber-biker Lionel Sanders was a further 3mins back.
.@JoshAmberger is in the lead and nearing the swim exit. #IMWC
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Onto the bike, and the major early news was that Kienle had suffered a puncture and was riding with a replacement wheel. But the German star had moved up to 14th by halfway through the 180km bike leg, with the field being led by biking powerhouses Andrew Starykowicz (USA) and Australia’s Cameron Wurf. Gomez was in ninth, Lange tenth, while the Brits of McNamee, Skipper, Don and Will Clarke were riding in proximity to each other in around 20th place.
Approaching transition two and Wurf’s bike course record of 4:12:54 from 2017 was in jeopardy, and the Australian would once again enter the Hawaii record books after a 4:09:36 split.
#IMWC @cameronwurf has come off the bike with the lead and established a new course record of 4:09:36! pic.twitter.com/koj3J5Y9Ee
— IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) October 13, 2018
Lange would enter T2 around 6mins back, with Gomez 8mins behind, and both in serious contention to see their run prowess move them to the front of the race. Kienle, meanwhile, would quit in T2.
THE 8HR BARRIER
With the 40 years of Ironman in Hawaii being celebrated in the build-up to the race, it was apt that major landmarks in the sport’s history would be broken in 2018. And that was the men’s course record and the magical eight hour barrier in Hawaii, a time that had eluded such greats as Mark Allen, Dave Scott, Craig Alexander and Jan Frodeno in Kona history.
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— IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 14, 2018
Lange, who we interviewed earlier in the year about the sub-8hr record, moved to second almost instantly and was in control of the chase group on Cameron Wurf. He made the pass after 15km and gave Wurf a classy fist bump on the way, before taking off at 6min/mile pace to deliver a 2:41:32 marathon run that kicked the course record into touch. His 7:52:39 finish time was nearly 10mins faster than his 2017 course record of 8:01:40, and was scarily only his sixth-ever full Ironman race.
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Aernouts was next home in 7:56:41 to become the second man to dip under 8hrs in Hawaii, while McNamee was third in 8:01:09, which itself was the third-fastest Hawaii time in history. Skipper was seventh in 8:05:54.
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Artiste aux multiples talents, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi avait confié à Gala sa forte ambition pour la suite de sa carrière. “Je commence tout juste ma carrière d’actrice et de chanteuse. J’aime travailler, surtout faire ce que j’aime“, expliquait-elle. Sa carrière d’actrice semble d’ailleurs avoir pris un tournant. En juin 2019, nous apprenions qu’elle figurait au casting de la série Amazon The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
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John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, said Tuesday that “we just have to end the subsides” for fossil fuels to tackle the climate emergency.
Kerry made the remarks during a virtual panel—entitled “aising the Bar on Climate Ambition: Road to COP 26″—which was part of the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting.
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“It’s illogical,” Kerry said of the subsidies, “at a moment we all know we have to incentive alternative, renewable, sustainable” energy.
He added that “technology necessary for about 50% of the [emissions] reductions is not yet available. It’s going to come from future technology,” he said. “How do we do that? We need incentives.”
“You must create incentives for the right behavior, not the wrong behavior, and we have still have [fossil fuel subsidies] in the United States. We’re going to try to end them,” Kerry said. “They’ve got to be ended everywhere around the world.”
The pledge to no longer prop up the dirty industry—long a demand of the climate movement—follows the White House’s proposed repeal of fossil fuel subsidies.
The Made in America Tax Plan “would end long-entrenched subsidies to fossil fuels, promote nascent green technologies through targeted tax incentives, encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, and support further deployment of alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power,” the document states. Cutting off the subsidies “would increase government tax receipts by over $35 billion in the coming decade.”
But, according to Greenpeace USA senior climate campaigner John Noël, that’s not enough.
“Fossil fuel corporations receive $15 billion in direct subsidies from the federal government every year. Not a dime of our tax dollars should go towards corporations that poison our communities and wreck our climate,” Noël said last month.
He pointed to proposed End Polluter Welfare Act, “which would save taxpayers $150 billion over the next decade and allow us to invest in the clean energy economy of the future.”
350.org U.S. policy director Natalie Mebane also lamented what she said was Biden’s planned “investment in carbon capture projects that will only keep dirty power plants running.”
“We want 100% renewable energy by 2030 that creates millions of jobs,” she said. “The best way to decrease carbon emissions is to ensure a just transition and keep fossil fuels in the ground.”
During Tuesday’s panel, AFP reported, Kerry also criticized what he sees as lack of adequate climate action worldwide.
“Emissions are going up, we are on the wrong track—people are building back from Covid as if there were no reason to be thinking differently,” said Kerry.
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Soirée luxe et exception, le mercredi 2 octobre 2019. Les célébrités françaises les plus avides de saveurs prestigieuses se sont réunies au Salon Cristal de l’hôtel Lutetia de Paris. Au programme : à boire et à manger, puisqu’il s’agissait de lancer un tout nouveau coffret “Château Minuty x Casparian Caviar”. Afin de partager une coupe de bulles et quelques amuse-bouches, Enora Malagré s’était munie de son plus beau sourire. A ses côtés, la talentueuse Clara Luciani et sa douce voix de velours, le comédienMichaël Youn, ou encore le présentateur Harry Roselmack…
L’ambiance était à la fête. Acceptant de prendre la pose pour marquer le coup, ils ont tous affiché une hilarité communicative de circonstance : Sandra Sisley, reine des folles nuits parisiennes cannoises, ainsi que Marie Poniatowski, la comédienne Axelle Laffont, Jean-Claude Jitrois – fondateur de la maison de luxe du même nom –, Isabelle Camus, l’épouse de Yannick Noah, Natty Belmondo, Jérôme Pulis, l’homme politique Luc Chatel avec sa femme Mahnaz, Alice Isaaz – Un moment d’égarement de Jean-François Richet (2015), Elle de Paul Verhoeven (2016) – et son compagnon Paul Cucuron (Synapson). Vous auriez tout donné pour être une petite souris et assister à la scène ? Comme on vous comprend.
Sohrab Bahar, président de Casparian Caviar, était au paradis ce soir-là. Ses convives étaient venus jusque dans le sixième arrondissement de notre capitale pour découvrir les accords et arômes de cette subtile association en bouche. Si vous voulez, comme nos amis les stars, goûter à ces succulentes saveurs, il faudra néanmoins vous hâter. Le coffret “Château Minuty x Casparian Caviar” n’est disponible qu’en édition très limitée et ne sera vendu qu’en 281 exemplaires. En son sein, la cuvée d’excellence de Château Minuty 281 et la boite d’Osciètre Impérial de 281 grammes, également de la Maison Casparian Caviar. Que demander de plus ?
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The Principality of Monaco has approved a maximum attendance of 7,500 spectators for its upcoming F1 Grand Prix.
Monaco returns to the calendar this month after a hiatus last year – the first in its history – due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The glitzy Principality has erected grandstands along its waterfront which will host a maximum of 6000 Formula E fans this weekend. But that capacity shall be boosted to 7,500 for Monaco’s showcase F1 event that will take place on May 20-23.
However, to enjoy the on-site action, fans will be required to display proof of a negative PCR test for COVID-19 taken no more than 72 hours before attending the event.
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Earlier this year, Bahrain granted access to 4,500 spectators for its opening race of the F1 season, but Imola and more recently Portimão were both forced to close their gates to fans.
This weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona will take place in front of 1,000 selected fans seated at the Circuit de Catalunya.
But the wearing of face masks will be mandatory for those present while food and drinks will be prohibited.
“We are very satisfied to be able to make the first step towards a gradual opening of our facilities,” said Josep Lluis Santamaria, the circuit’s general manager.
“We can welcome again all those who love motorsport, even if this time it will only be a small number.”
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Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on a recycled SpaceX capsule, marking another victory for the Elon MuskElon Reeve MuskHillicon Valley: Acting FTC chair blasts Supreme Court decision limiting agency consumer power | Police tech under scrutiny following Chicago shooting Senate Democrats ask regulator to look into driver-assist systems after deadly Tesla crash NASA picks Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build spacecraft for manned moon missions MORE-owned company.
The Falcon 9 launched at 5:49 a.m. Friday from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked at the space station just after 5 a.m. ET.
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The four astronauts, hailing from the U.S., France and Japan, will stay at the space station for six months and replace four others who will return to Earth next week on their own SpaceX capsule.
Flying in the craft were Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of the U.S., Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet of France.
The trip was the third by NASA using a SpaceX capsule in the past year but the first in which it used a recycled rocket and capsule. Musk has said he plans to push more recycled capsules to fly to the moon and Mars.
Another team of astronauts will fly to the space station for another six-month stay in the fall.
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The United Nations is expected to announce, in a landmark report, that reducing methane emissions must play a larger role in preventing the worst effects of climate change, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
The global methane assessment, a report put together by an international group of scientists, is expected to express the growing determination that the globe must begin to quickly decrease planet-warming gas emissions, including methane, the principal component in natural gas, to help matters in the short term.
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The Times reviewed a detailed summary of the report, which they said is expected to be published next month by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the United Nations Environmental Programme.
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The report, according to The Times, identifies the fossil fuel industry as the field with the largest potential of reducing methane emissions at little or no cost.
The assessment reportedly adds that, without the creation and deployment of new technology that removes greenhouse gases from the air, increasing the use of natural gas conflicts with holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the Paris Agreement.
According to The Times, the report indicates a shift in the global conversation regarding climate change, which has largely focused on reducing carbon dioxide.
The looming report comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that carbon dioxide and methane emissions surged last year, even in the thick of coronavirus shutdowns.
The topic of climate change has been a key priority in the first 100 days of the Biden administration. Last week, the White House hosted a two-day virtual climate summit with forty heads of state.
The White House announced at the summit that by 2030, the U.S. expects to reduce its carbon emissions by between 50 and 52 percent, compared to 2005 levels.