Wonder how much time Lionel will lose in T2 putting on his huge socks (not joking....)

Taylor’s positions and equipment choices look so much better

Should have put them on in T1 like Knibb.

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Why are they not showing the front of men's race? Come on.

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Sperl's bottle is only about 1 inch into that rear cage...

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Geens 20s to the 5th wheel at that check point. 30s to the front. They need to put a minute on him over the last 13.5 miles imo or he can run them down. I'm only feeling good if I'm Long or Sanders even with 60s+

This is unwatchable. No way Outside and Ironman think it is acceptable to have ads every 45 seconds

Dubrick in really good position to battle for a final podium spot.

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The key there is that Geens is all on his own, and that last 12 miles is brutal and really rewards big guys with big power. So I expect they will put a bunch more time on him, but more important, taking some of the piss out of his run too..

Lionel hanging in second but looks like he is working super hard to keep sam in sight

They better have the camera ready for the start of this run as we are going to have an itu take off 10+ surging the first 5 km.

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Knibb is unreal. 2:05:00 total time at 42.5 miles on the bike. That would have her 31st in the men's race, with the long T1 to put on socks...

Sam making his push as he should at this point, this is a great spot on the course for a guy like him. And to me it is Laundry that is the real threat at the moment, be good to get a gap on him too.

I don’t think he should be too disappointed with how things are going so far, he’s never seemed under any illusion that he’s really a contender over 70.3.

He said on his podcast this week his main focus was to finish well in relation to the others going for the overall IM series ie Patrick Lange, Matt Hanson and he’s well ahead of both now. I expect he’ll want a good gap to PL off the bike though.

Taylor is virtually 31st overall just in front of Matt Hanson… 1:39 virtually behind Lange physically 4:39

Physically on the road she’s 35th overall on the road (because of 3 minutes start behind the men).

When they did the last pan back, looked like someone came around Lionel and was pulling them back to Sam

I wonder if Didi and Matt know they're speaking to no one as they commentate through half of the commercials.

8 minute lead 40 miles into the bike. Should be racing the men today

at 42 mi into the bike Knibb is 8:14 ahead of Findlay in second.

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Outside is an abomination. Nothing will ever change even with new clowns in charge at Ironman

8 minute lead 40 miles into the bike. Should be racing the men today //

You think she would be happy being in 31st place? Remember in the past the top women in Kona and other Ironmans, are often top 20 to 25 overall, so this is not that big a deal. One year PNF got 11th overall in Kona even..

These adverts are crazy!!!

So here's the thing. What commercial have we been seeing? I dont think I've seen any products other than Outside. So no one is buying into the coverage, and of course for IM it's never really been about the pro product. They are an race producition company not an pro develoopment series. So I'm guessing they've gotten like no product sponsors who have ever wanted to buy in for ad space. Thus it's basically Outside infomercial every ad.

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KT and whatever the car ad is (Lexus?)

Lange took a wrong turn somewhere. Not sure if that was mentioned already, but that explains the lousy bike.

its seems like there's a disconnect between commentators and broadcast.
"well be back after these messages..." followed by a minute of silence, and cutting to commercial mid-sentence.