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Mario Mola has said that he believes Alistair Brownlee impeded him in the swim leg of WTS Cozumel. The story was reported by The Independent in the UK, based on an interview that the new ITU WTS Champion gave on Monday September 19 with Spanish station Radio Cope.
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Jonny Brownlee, Alistair’s younger brother, was Mola’s biggest threat for the title, and it was this race that would determine who would be crowned ITU World Champion. If Jonny Brownlee won, and Mola didn’t make the top three, Jonny would be World Champion, otherwise the title would be Mola’s.
WTS final in Cozumel: who will win men’s world title?
“I don’t know who removed my hat and goggles off me in the swimming leg but I’m almost sure it’s the older of the Brownlees,” Mola reportedly told the radio station.
“I’d like to think it wasn’t intentional, but in the case that it was, I think it was totally unnecessary.
“After the finish, Jonny Brownlee gave me his congratulations. With him I’ve always had a good relationship. Alistair, he didn’t give me any.”
Thanks @jonny_brownlee. You had a brilliant year, it’s been a pleasure to share competition with you. See u in 2017! https://t.co/Sh9BPrpFMi
— Mario Mola Díaz (@mariomola) September 20, 2016
The swim at the start was very rough and the men were bunched together for the majority of the 1,500m swim. Alistair exited the swim in second place in a time of 16:52mins, just in front of Jonny, while Mola came out 22 seconds later in a time of 17:14mins.
However Mola has tweeted:
@220Triathlon, @AliBrownleetri and I discussed it post race, no video or prove about intentionality. To me only a forgotten race situation.
— Mario Mola Díaz (@mariomola) September 21, 2016
The finish line drama – with Alistair helping Jonny over the finishing line to secure second behind Henri Schoeman after Jonny almost collapsed with heat exhaustion 400m from the finish – has since become worldwide news.
WTS Cozumel: all the drama and emotion in pictures
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220 has invited Mario Mola and Alistair Brownlee to comment
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British Triathlon have confirmed that the British Standard Distance Championships will move to Leeds for 2017, after four years at Tri Liverpool.
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This means the Leeds event will now host the fourth stage of the ITU series, the British Triathlon Championships and the English Aquathlon Championships over the same weekend.
British Triathlon Chief Executive Jack Buckner commented: “After four fantastically memorable years at Tri Liverpool, we have decided to move the British Standard Distance Triathlon Championships to the heartland of the sport in 2017.
“As we prepare to witness the greatest athletes in the world go head-to-head in Leeds next June, what better opportunity to showcase the best of British age-group talent than see them finish on the same iconic blue carpet in Millennium Square.”
British Triathlon also confirmed the date and venue for the British Duathlon Championships, which will be hosted by Nice Tri Events at the Bedford Autodrome Duathlon on 9 April. The 2017 British Championships are now fully confirmed as:
British Duathlon Championships – Bedford Autodrome Duathlon, 9 April
British Sprint Distance Championships – Strathclyde Park Multisport Festival, 27 May
British Middle Distance Championships – Vitruvian Triathlon, 9 September
British Standard Distance Championships – Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon Leeds, 11 June
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Inspired by golf’s Ryder Cup, The Collins Cup features teams of professional triathletes from the USA, Europe and the rest of the World (the ‘Internationals’) competing to determine which region dominates the sport of triathlon.
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Each team will consist of 12 professional triathletes, six men and six women.
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Chrissie Wellington said: “I am thrilled to have been selected as one of the European Team captains for the inaugural Collins Cup. Triathlon is such an amazing sport – innovative, forward thinking and truly open to all.
“The Collins Cup marks a hugely exciting and important new addition to the race calendar, with the best male and female athletes in the world racing head-to-head in a fantastic new format.”
Men’s captain for Team Europe Stadler is a 2x Ironman World Champion (2004 and 2006) famous for his unyielding racing style. Stadler holds the Kona bike course record of 4:18:32 and is recognised as the most formidable cyclist in triathlon history.
Stadler said, “It is a privilege to be able to serve as a Team Europe captain with Chrissie. The Collins Cup, with its Ryder Cup format, will produce an exceptionally exciting and dramatic event.”
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This announcement follows the news Dave Scott and Karen Smyers being named USA team captains for the Collins Cup. The captains of the ‘International’ Team will be announced soon.
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Stockholm has proved happy hunting ground for Rio silver medallist, Jonny Brownlee; today’s win his fifth visit to the Swedish podium, including two wins, but this his first over the Olympic distance. His best result of 2017 had been silver behind his brother Alistair in Leeds, but illness had curtailed his title challenge ever since.
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The race started well for the younger Brownlee, following in training partner Richard Varga post-swim for a swift T1 and straight into the lead bike pack of seven athletes. But Varga became the first casualty, dropping back into the large chase pack of 25 men, which held series leader Mario Mola and teammate Fernando Alarza, 36secs back, before withdrawing entirely.
Alarza was the next to call it a day, a mechanical seeing him fall back to 40th before retiring from the race.
Following in Jodie Stimpson’s itchy footsteps from just a few hours earlier, South Africa’s Henri Schoeman received a 15sec stop-go penalty in T1 for an early swim start.
It was largely a group of unknowns in the lead group of six alongside Brownlee, only Aussie Aaron Royle and Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt having mounted a WTS podium. But it was still strong enough to hold off the chasers and build up a cushion of 53secs by the start of the four-lap 10km run.
Jonny, who’s won a WTS race every year since 2011, stretched out a 12sec lead over Royle and Germany’s Justus Nieschlag within the first lap, which climbed to 40secs by the bell lap and allowed him to cruise to his first win of 2017.
“It’s been a tough few months with my body not being right,” said Brownee at the line. “I was waiting for it to start hurting on the run but it only started with about 2km to go. But that how’s I like to race. It’s nice to have a race where the swim, bike and run all counts. I was worried about not winning one this year, but I’ve got one now, I can retire.”
Using his destructive leg speed, Mola had clawed his way back through the pack to challenge the chasers, but he had no answer when Blummenfelt made the first move for a podium position. And in a sprint uphill to the line, the Norwegian managed to pip France’s Pierre Le Corre for silver.
“That was such a hard last lap,” said Blummenfelt post-race, “especially with the sprint up the hill. I didn’t want to do too much work [on the bike to save his run legs], but I also didn’t want to lose too much time to the chasers, so it was a hard balance.”
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GB’s Tom Bishop was the next top Brit across the line, coming in sixth ahead of Mola, who still has four wins, and therefore maximum points, to take into the Grand Final in Rotterdam in three weeks’ time, where he needs to finish fifth or above to retain his title.
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Cassandre Beaugrand destroyed a steller field to record her first World Triathlon Series win in serene fashion in Hamburg.
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The reigning French champion had finished eighth in Yokohama and recorded the fastest women’s split in the mixed team relay in Nottingham in June.
But this still represented a huge breakthrough for the 21-year-old who dropped out of last year’s race in Hamburg after the swim.
Germany’s Laura Lindemann – who beat Beaugrand to the junior world title in Edmonton in 2014 – held off series leader Katie Zaferes to go one better than her third place in Hamburg last year. Non Stanford and Jodie Stimpson were the best of the Brits in sixth and seventh.
“Last year I had a crash and today it’s Bastille Day and my boyfriend’s birthday, so I’m very happy to win,” Beaugrand said.
Lindemann said: “I didn’t expect to be on the podium after the swim and bike. I had such a bad transition and just ran for my life. I really like to race here with a home crowd.
“Cassandra was amazing. I raced with her as a junior and mostly I won, but now I’m very happy to see her winning a WTS race.”
The women’s race started an hour after the men’s in Hamburg and was again a non-wetsuit swim. It featured a strong British contingent with Vicky Holland, Jessica Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown, joining Stanford and Stimpson.
The series also welcomed back reigning world champion Flora Duffy. The Bermudan won in Hamburg last summer, and had been out with injury since winning her home WTS in April.
Learmonth, the Commonwealth silver medallist behind Duffy, was ranked eleventh having only appeared twice in the WTS this season, but it was no surprise to see the Yorkshire triathlete emerge first from the water with the competition lined out behind.
Duffy and Taylor-Brown were also in close proximity and it was the Bermudan who surged to the front on the bike as a front pack of six formed also including Beaugrand, Vittoria Lopes of Brazil, and the steadily improving Taylor Spivey of the US, who finished seventh in Leeds.
While Duffy so often manages to break away, either solo or in a small group, the rare presence in WTS racing of 2012 Olympic champion Nicola Spirig, combined with the efforts of Australian Ashleigh Gentle and Britain’s Jodie Stimpson, meant the chasing pack cut the lead from 25sec to just 13sec heading into the final bike lap of six.
The field were back together by the time they reached T2 and while Spirig and Stimpson took the lead initially, it was soon Beaugrand who burst with seeming effortless ease to the front and was never threatened as she decimated a world-class field over the run to win by 30secs.
Rounding out the Brits, Taylor-Brown finished 11th, Learmonth 14th and Holland 22nd, as she slipped from second to fourth in the overall standings.
Hamburg WTS: Race result.
Cassandre Beaugrand 58.06
Laura Lindemann +30sec
Katie Zaferes +31
Nicola Spirig +36
Kirsten Kasper +38
Series standings
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Katie Zaferes 3493pts
Rachel Klamer 2639
Vicky Holland 2579
Flora Duffy 2496
Kirsten Kasper 2480
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The Starman Night Triathlon took place for the second time at the weekend with double the amount of competitors than its 2017 debut.
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Set against the backdrop of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands, the middle-distance Starman (sharing a name with one of Jeff Bridge’s greatest films/Bowie’s best songs) saw competitors kick off the unique 113km challenge (see also the iron-distance Midnight Man in Kent) by slipping into the black waters of Loch Morlich for a 1.9km swim in the dark of midnight. This was followed by a 90km cycle along the silent Speyside roads before taking on the summits of Cairn Gorm and Meall a Bhuachaille as the dawn rose.
People from as far afield as Caerphilly in Wales and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire took part, with the overall winner Chris Watson, 32, from Crieff, finishing in 6:20:55. The first female competitor to cross the line was Claire Campbell, 42 from Fife in 7:50:57. Relay team winners – Andrew Jones, Mark Madigan and Ryan McLennan from the Moray Firth Triathlon Club – crossed the line first in just 6:02:28.
The event is managed by True Grit Events, who set up the Starman Night Triathlon in 2017 to offer something different for triathletes and outdoor adventure addicts.
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Pfizer and BioNTech on Thursday announced a new trial aiming to test the safety and efficacy of its coronavirus vaccine among pregnant women.
The companies, which together produced one of the two COVID-19 vaccines the Food and Drug Administration approved for emergency use in the U.S., said in a press release that it had given doses to its first group of participants in the new study, which aims to provide clear data on any impacts the inoculation may have for expectant mothers and their newborn children.
William Gruber, senior vice president of Vaccine Clinical Research and Development at Pfizer, said in a statement along with the press release, “We are proud to start this study in pregnant women and continue to gather the evidence on safety and efficacy to potentially support the use of the vaccine by important subpopulations.”
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Gruber went on to say, “Pregnant women have an increased risk of complications and developing severe COVID-19, which is why it is critical that we develop a vaccine that is safe and effective for this population.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pregnant women who are infected with COVID-19 have a higher chance of severe illnesses, including “ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and death compared with non-pregnant women of reproductive age.”
Pregnant women were excluded from the initial Pfizer-BioNTech clinical trials, and the most updated CDC guidance states that it is a “personal choice” for pregnant women on whether to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Pfizer’s new trial will include about 4,000 healthy pregnant volunteers ages 18 and older who are anywhere from 24 to 34 weeks into their pregnancy, according to Thursday’s press release.
Pfizer and BioNTech said the trial will “evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of two doses” of the vaccine 21 days apart, with half of the participants receiving the actual inoculation and half getting a placebo.
Each woman is expected to participate in the study for seven to 10 months, with researchers looking for any side effects in women, including miscarriage.
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The researchers will also monitor the infants until they reach approximately 6 months of age to detect any adverse reactions, as well as the possibility of a vaccinated mother transferring protective antibody to the child while in the womb.
The press release added that those mothers given the placebo will have the opportunity after the study to receive the vaccine.
The additional trial comes as Pfizer, as well as Moderna and AstraZeneca, all have clinical trials underway to determine the safety and efficacy of vaccinations among children, as the inoculations have largely been tested and approved by countries for emergency use for people as young as 16.
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A woman who was shot by police in Myanmar during protests against the recent military coup has died, becoming the first casualty in this month’s demonstrations.
Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, who was about to turn 20, was shot in the head on Feb. 9 during a protest in the capital city Naypyitaw, the Associated Press reported.
Although the army has toughened up recently and has been arresting thousands of protesters, Khine is the first known to have died at the hands of the military.
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“Please participate and continue fighting until we achieve our goal,” said her sister Mya Thatoe Nwe.
The army has been aggressive towards the demonstrators, putting armored vehicles on the streets while pointing guns and firing rubber bullets and slingshots into the crowds, which have been protesting ever since the military coup on Feb. 1.
The military claims they had a right to overthrow the civilian government, saying there was election fraud that wasn’t thoroughly investigated.
Officials say Khine was throwing rocks at police before she was shot and that they will be investigating the incident, according to the AP. Khine’s funeral is set for Sunday.
There has been international condemnation of the coup with the U.S., United Kingdom and Canada all announcing sanctions until proper leadership is restored.
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Twitter warned Tuesday that the rate of user growth will slow after a boost attributed to the pandemic and recent election, while expenses may increase this year.
The company said in a report of its earnings from the end of 2020 that average monetizable daily active usage reached 192 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, up 27 percent from the same time period the year before. Twitter said the growth came from ongoing product improvements, as well as the global conversation around the U.S. election and the coronavirus pandemic.
Twitter said it expects user growth in the next quarter to slow to about a 20 percent increase, potentially followed by quarterly growth rates in the “low double digits” in the following three quarters of the year.
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Twitter also told shareholders it expects total costs and expenses to grow 25 percent or more in 2021.
“Assuming the global pandemic continues to improve and that we see modest impact from the rollout of changes associated with iOS 14, we expect total revenue to grow faster than expenses in 2021. How much faster will depend on our execution on our direct response roadmap and macroeconomic factors,” Twitter said in the report.
Apple said it will roll out an update to its iOS 14 operating system in early spring that will include a privacy feature that will limit the reach of targeted ads. The feature will require platforms to ask users permission before tracking their data across websites. Facebook, in reporting in its quarterly earnings last month, also noted challenges it may face due to the planned update.
Twitter overall reported a “strong finish” to last year with a revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28 percent year over year.
The company also reported $1.15 billion in ad revenue, an increase of 31 percent.
Twitter’s revenue product lead, Bruce Falck, said in a statement Monday that the company is looking to possibly add subscription-based features as Twitter looks to diversify its revenue beyond ads.
The company is still in “very early exploration,” though, and doesn’t expect to see any “meaningful revenue” attributed to those features this year, he said.
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Four environmental groups launched a legal challenge this week calling for the review of a federal permit for a long-closed oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Limetree Bay refinery shut down in 2012 after a series of oil spills and accidents involving pollutants, which spurred a $5.4 million Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fine. Its new owners, ArcLight Capital Partners, received approval to reopen from the Trump administration and then-EPA head Andrew WheelerAndrew WheelerOVERNIGHT ENERGY: Court rules against fast-track of Trump EPA’s ‘secret science’ rule | Bureau of Land Management exodus: Agency lost 87 percent of staff in Trump HQ relocation | GM commits to electric light duty fleet by 2035 Court rules against fast-track of Trump EPA’s ‘secret science’ rule Biden ‘freeze’ of Trump rules could halt environmental rollbacks MORE in 2019.
In their petition, the St. Croix Environmental Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Sierra Club asked the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to review the refinery’s permit. The refinery, which resumed operations this week, is located on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, where 76 percent of the population is Black and 27 percent live below the poverty line. Its infrastructure sustained major damage from Hurricane Maria in 2017, the groups noted in a statement.
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In their petition, the environmental organizations argued that the APA did not properly address “the disproportionate burden that an environmental justice community will bear and it failed to provide multi-lingual access to information.” It also claimed the EPA approved the reopening based on “unacceptably high” pollution standards and ignored the pollution generated by restarting the refinery.
“We allege that the emissions caps were set at unlawful levels because they failed to remove from the cap polluting equipment that had been shut down since 2012 and that failure represents a failure of Clean Air Act regulations,” John Walke, clean air director for NRDC, told The Hill, calling the case “the worst environmental justice abuse and the biggest air pollution permitting fiasco that I have seen in my 25 years as a clean air attorney.”
“Because have a new admin now, not the admin that issued the permit, the Biden-Harris administration will have the opportunity to reopen the permit, to revoke the permit, to file papers with the environmental appeals board,” he added. “This controversy could heat up to become a political and policy and legal controversy all at once and certainly the first marquee environmental justice controversy of the new Biden-Harris administration.”
The Hill has reached out to the EPA for comment.