Men's Olympic Triathlon
Eric Schwartz (duathlon)
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August 26, 2004
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Gold - Hamish Carter (NZL) 18:19/1:00:24/31:46 = 1:51:07
Silver - Bevan Docherty (NZL) 18:13/1:00:32/31:51 = 1:51:15
Bronze - Sven Riederer (SUI) 18:17/1:00:28/32:11 = 1:51:33
4. Greg Bennett (AUS) 18:19/1:01:13/31:34 = 1:51:41
5. Frederic Belaubre (FRA) 18:04/1:00:39/32:34 = 1:52:00
6. Andreas Raelert (GER) 18:07/1:01:23/32:30 = 1:52:35
7. Rasmus henning (DEN) 18:19/1:01:13/32:32 = 1:29:59
8. Olivier Marceau (SUI) 18:18/1:00:28/33:20 = 1:52:44
9. Hunter Kemper (USA) 18:11/1:02:23/31:30 = 1:52:46
10. Simon Thompson (AUS) 18:19/1:02:17/31:38 = 1:52:47
11. Simon Whitfield (CAN) 1:53:15
12. Carl Blasco (FRA) 1:53:20
13. Tayama Hirokatsu (JPN) 1:53:28
14. Stephane Poulat (FRA) 1:53:51
15. Igor Sysoev (RUS) 1:53:51
16. Andrew Johns (GBR) 1:54:15
17. Daniil Sapunov (KAZ) 1:54:33
18. Tim Don (GBR) 1:54:42
19. Maik Petzold (GER) 1:54:50
20. Eneko Llanos (ESP) 1:54:52
45 finishers
DNF: Scaba Kuttor (HUN), Vassilios Krommydas (GRE), Conrad Stoltz (RSA), Xavier Llobet (ESP), Andriy Gluschenko (UKR)
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by clasicboy on August 27, 2004
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Congratulations for Hamish for the gold medal on the running after swimming and cycle-drafting sport, please do not call it triathlon.
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by shdysctt on August 27, 2004
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Come on clasicboy, those guys swam 1.5k in 18 minutes, biked one of the hardest courses I have seen (18% grade climb 5 times) and ran a 31 minute 10K. Drafting does little to minimize how hard those guys rode. Drafting is here to stay, so lets stop trying to minimize what these guys do.
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Anonymous post on August 27, 2004
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That comment from classicboy is so unfair. Would you say the only true cycling is the time trial? And the pelotons are just people drafting on a bicycle?
Why can't we have different disciplines in our sport? The same way we have different distances. And everyone races in the discipline that they like better, without degrading the other ones.
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by dirty on August 28, 2004
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Sport evolves get over it....
Additionally I think that is very inappropriate to say something like that... the Olympics are all about recognizing great efforts and humanity to squabbling over what you think triathlon is...
get a life man....
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by TriZealander on August 28, 2004
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Get outta here Clasicboy
That course definately sorted the men from the boys, your comment is retarded.
Drafting on that kind of course is an awesome concept for an olympic sport and is more than valid. It was a great spectacle!
GO KIWI!!!
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by jimmyarcher on August 28, 2004
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Clissicboy,
Have you ever done a road cycling race? Or am I to assume that Merckx, Kelly, Lemond, Indurain, Lance, etc. etc. are all weak cyclits that couldn't hang in say an Ironman, or non-drafting Olympic distance race.
If the course is designed correctly, with either hills or lots of cornering (preferably both), draft legal racing is an awsome style of racing and fits perfectly into the Olympics. The only downside is if you have a lame bike course where 70 guys are going to roll around a flat non-technical course for an hour talking about where they should go out afterward.
Course design continues to improve. If we keep seeing courses like Athens one could argue that draft legal racing is actually the only TRUE style of raceing that forces you to have skills in all three diciplines. Not only do you have to ride hard, but you have to have technical skill as well. You could say that non-drafting doesn't ask enough since you don't have the technical demand, just ride hard in a strait line, right?
The point is draft legal is only a pro event and the pros should be the best in the world. Thus the Olympics should be a very hard course, a very technically demanding course, and give us a true champion. We should see people crack, we should see some crashes, and we should have some surprise performances. All this is ok since we are dealing with pros and they know the risks of what they are getting into. Obviously you can't expect to though amatuers into the same situation. But the style of racing is valid even if everyone can't participate.
JImmy
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by TriZealander on August 28, 2004
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Exactly
Well Put!!!
Attacks going off all around you zap your legs much faster than sticking to a TT schedule.
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