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Triathlon WT Relay & Sprint World Championships 2023


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On 7/15/2023 at 3:02 AM, owenp_23 said:

Start list for Sundayʻs race.

 

:GBR and :FRA already have quotas, so any of :USA:CAN:AUS:NZL are the favorites to win the Olympic spot here. :DEN did have a good showing last year.

GB very much has a B team here (as shown by Conor Bentley's rather woeful biking on the first leg!) while the French have no team at all - it's clarifying for Olympic purposes but rather undercuts the value of a 'World' Championship

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8 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

GB very much has a B team here (as shown by Conor Bentley's rather woeful biking on the first leg!) while the French have no team at all - it's clarifying for Olympic purposes but rather undercuts the value of a 'World' Championship

To be fair it has been the British B team all weekend. With the exception of Yee and Potter, none of our podium potential athletes have made the trip. Can't think of many other sports where so many of our top athletes would choose to sit out a world championship. Particularly disappointing on the men's side where they need to be chasing as many points as possible to ensure that we have 3 athletes inside the top 30 to secure 3 quota places at Paris. 

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1 minute ago, Rafa Maciel said:

To be fair it has been the British B team all weekend. With the exception of Yee and Potter, none of our podium potential athletes have made the trip. Can't think of many other sports where so many of our top athletes would choose to sit out a world championship. Particularly disappointing on the men's side where they need to be chasing as many points as possible to ensure that we have 3 athletes inside the top 30 to secure 3 quota places at Paris. 

I think Team GB has already given up the ghost on that sadly. I'm not even convinced Brownlee will make it sxcept through the relay quota - there are 4 women fighting for three spots, all of them world class. On the men's side it's yee theeeeen..................................(plonk!)

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18 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

To be fair it has been the British B team all weekend. With the exception of Yee and Potter, none of our podium potential athletes have made the trip. Can't think of many other sports where so many of our top athletes would choose to sit out a world championship. Particularly disappointing on the men's side where they need to be chasing as many points as possible to ensure that we have 3 athletes inside the top 30 to secure 3 quota places at Paris. 

Wouldn’t say so - Potter & Coldwell have been better than Georgia Taylor-Brown this year.

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