Thorsten is going to offer seedings(predictions) for all the 'Gold tier' (as opposed to just IMs) and the PTO have designated all the IM Pro Series races as 'Gold'. They're also applying a 5% bonus to an athlete's best Gold race (previously it was just IMs).
Here's his take (based on data/form) for St George: https://www.trirating.com/70-3-st-george-2024-may-4th-seedings/
Trirating: https://www.trirating.com/what-is-thorstens-ttr/

Tri247's take:
https://www.tri247.com/...-pro-series-sam-long
IM: https://proseries.ironman.com/...ronman-703-st-george
31 WPros; 70 MPros on the start list.
Following now not on start list:
Moench (F3)
Thek (F4)

Additions: Currie added (M6) - after his DNF/did not run on Saturday
Last year: https://www.trirating.com/...3-analyzing-results/
Metzler(W) is wearing F1: https://stats.protriathletes.org/athlete/jeanni-metzler
Findlay (F2), though, is the standout favourite.

piece of cake for Sam and Paula.

I believe Currie posted on Instagram yesterday that he was back in NZ

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Don't follow him. Can't recall why he DNF'd but he wasn't on the previous start list (M5 was missing) and is on it now: likely just poor IM admin.
https://proseries.ironman.com/...ronman-703-st-george
Moench insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eI4KQLaiR/
But Lewis still on the list: only a week after Texas. But if she finishes in (say) under 4:45 she will go into the lead in the IM Pro Series.

"70.3 St. George will take place on Saturday May 4. The professional race will begin at 06:50 MDT, which corresponds to 05:50 on the West Coast, 13:50 (BST) in the UK and 14:50 (CEST) in continental Europe.
"The race will be broadcast live, with the event the third race this year to be broadcast on the dedicated IRONMAN Pro Series app. You will be able to watch for free on race day via the IRONMAN Pro Series website."
And preview, from here:

https://www.tri247.com/...s-preview-watch-live

Race weather looks amazing. I want to do this race bad.... actually I would love to move the family out there.

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LFG!!!!!

https://watch.outsideonline.com/live-events

Looks like the first commercial just cut off the announcers, lol.... should be a good pack fighting in both men and women's race.

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You can watch on YouTube as well. Why do people stay on outside tv?

Share the link.

https://www.youtube.com/...?si=uTp8ghsFhEeNF3il

Ironman website coverage: https://proseries.ironman.com/races/im703-st-george

That guy just slotted in. Where's the penalty???

That guy in the blue kit... SHAME!!!!

Edit: That was M21. Shameful drafting a while ago.

M21 = Nic Quenet?

Yeh.

Checking in on a layover between flights. What have I missed? Looks like Costes is having a great race and Long about to take over.

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Sam already only 20sec back at 25miles in
Assume he’ll go to the lead soon? Will stay glued to the video and head to the run course to watch soon

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Marc not having a great race and falling back. Otherwise, those expected to be in front are in front. Paula leading as expected.

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just got blocked. I guess that was not a legit broadcast.

Paula in control!

So Sam was riding 1mph faster than the lead group. Now that he's caught them, does he back off? Does he keep pushing and those four guys try to hang on? Do they get dropped?

My heart skipped a beat there for Antony when he dropped his chain but man he got that back on in seconds.

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Is it just me or does Laundry look like he's on like 145 cranks?

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My first thought was that his saddle looked pretty low but could be short cranks as well.

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I'm not sure you could tell what size cranks he is riding, with the naked eye seeing a 10mm difference would be difficult. What you can see is that they are short cranks, which is in line with the new(old) position the pros are riding..

And to all you other guys complaining about draft distances and such, take a break. No body is sitting on and if a light flickers I see them moving away. The refs are letting them race, and this ticky tack call shit should be ignored. If a guy had to pass every time a light went red, well there would be no race anymore. We all know what real drafting is, I haven't really seen anything obvious or intentional...