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Less then 24 hours after the completion of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games triathlon, today the ITU announced an innovative new platform for the sport by establishing a pioneering new series that will is hoped to take triathlon to new heights. The new format will consist of six World Championship events plus a Grand Final every year, extending the current single World Championships event into a series.
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Australia's triathlon head coach Bill Davoren said that there is limited window every four years for athletes to have their moment. It sounds like a really obvious statement but often we only concentrate on the moment and not at the precision it takes to get the human body to perform at its' best. Resident wordsmith Campbell Maffett has been glued to all the action and checks in with his thoughts on this very idea.
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Few things in sport inspire more passion than Ironman footage. While these snaps started off as mere news reports, it all changed when the majesty of the sport began to be realised. The first inclination that this was going to be a special event was the now famous crawl to the finish. The crawl of course took place in the 1982 Hawaiian Ironman, where Julie Moss made a name for herself for such a valiant fight to the finish line. So this got us thinking around the old firstoffthebike.com shed and we threw the idea around of our top 10 Ironman video moments. You know, the ones that made you cringe or the ones that made you cry for the passion, humility and sheer guts.
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The hardest thing any athlete can do is peak for the right time. From Olympic stars who must getit right one week in four years to the local athletes who wants to smoke their mates at a smaller event the trick is still how do you achieve that maximum performance and keep it going for when you need it. Time and time again we see awesome athletes not go the full distance because of the dreaded drop off in form. Campbell Maffett, one of Australia's best age group athletes and running coach offers his take on this.
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The International Cycling Union (UCI) has officially confirmed Australia has been awarded a second starting place in the men's road time trial for the Olympic Games. Cycling Australia was notified earlier this week of the offer and after discussions with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has officially accepted the position.
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Well we are in July already and while the Tour de France captures the imagination of the world we thought it was time to take a look at triathlon and give our mid year report card. Who is the benchmark so far this season? and who has made the biggest impact on the sport? We kicked around the idea and came up with a few of the athletes who have made the season a great one so far. We took into consideration their record and that X factor.
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The Olymics are the biggest race of the year for the ITU athletes. This season has been a series of stepping stones towards the ultimate prize in ITU triathlon racing. The final hit out in Austria last weekend saw some predictable results but also saw the last shuffle of the ITU deck and a deal out of the new World Rankings before the Olympics come and go. But will form and points in the season long competition translate into Olympic gold?
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Australia has produced some amazing Triathletes. From the sport's inception into the country it has been embraced and loved by so many. We were sitting round the offices of firstoffthebike.com (ok we were down at the pub talking/arguing this point) and we decided to compile our list of the best Australian triathletes in history. We took into consideration their international record and what they had achieved over their career. So retirement is not a pre requisite for this one! We also crossed all distance boundaries so it was an all in look at who is the best.
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