Friday, June 25, 2010

Hy-Vee Triathlon 2010

If you have not seen World Cup triathlon, it is an amazing competition to behold.  Here is one of the only domestic World Cup events:

2 comments:

  1. maybe a silly question, but why are they riding road bikes? i'm assuming by the pack formation that the hy-vee is draft legal, and that is why?

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  2. The reason is that it is a World Cup race, which is draft legal. This format was designed for the Olympics to be more viewer friendly, and also so that the outcome of the race wouldn't be changed after-the-fact due to subjective drafting penalties.

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