Watching the YT stream here in the US. No ads yet.

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The ads on one of the Eurosport streams are light touch - every 15 mins and six of 15 secs. . . and back to the race
Buckingham making the pass on LCB @1:20.
Think LCB has called her through, actually. But Buckingham a weaker runner, by at least 5 minutes, so she has to try for a gap. Her surge has meant both of them have gained ?15 secs on Gentle.

How many red light blinking-Situation by race ranger devices the PTO is willing to accept without giving penalties?
Lucy Buckingham had already a lot of situations with entering the draft zone of LCB without overtaking.

Well Buckinham is pushing on now.
RR is an indicator, the refs will not just see a flashing red and card the athlete.
Care to recall that Byram and Buckingham are in identical BMC Pro Tri kit.
We're also seeing Simmonds, Byram and Lee pulling up to Gentle.

Great commentary, but when will they stop referring to the heart rate data garbage? You can’t seriously believe someone does a 3-hour race at max heart rate. Even non sports people would scoff at that.

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"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden

Agree. But you and I (we) are not the target for that cobblers.
Lee passing Simmonds and right up to Gentle who is either riding restrained or is not on her normal top form.
gentle quite often has a slow start to her season. We'll see! (copyright Knibb).
Pierre has DNF'd.

Great interview with Team Buckingham! British low key honesty at its best. 🙂

Mark was excellent: very transparent. He just hopes Lucy (redhead) can hold it together for 18km in these adverse conditions.
Suggest LCB will reckon she can win a run against Gentle with a 4 minute lead.
Lee is starting to erode the lead of the front two and has dropped Simmonds and Byram.
This is shades of Miami in terms of Lee's strength in the second half of the bike.
Lightening threatening to stop the race.

That risk of shut down for lightning sounded bad. They need to shut down if within 13 km? And it is at 15 km now?

Fingers crossed the weather doesn't effect the race.

Yes. We all need to cross our fingers it stays far enough away.
Rabbiting on about HR % of max!! What do you expect downhill?
Lee tryed to pull away from Gentle but seems to have then dropped back to between Simmonds and Byram - so that's pack of 4, all losing time to Buckingham/LCB.

100%...........loved that interview!

I don’t remember who but someone suggested that since the ceiling for water temp was 31 Celsius, the race organizer would find a way to measure at 30.9 degrees 😂

Guess what the official water temperature is

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"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden

Kelly said "30.9C" 😂
@2:02: Buckingham cramping (temporarily). LCB rolled through.
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Els Visser has pulled up to that chase pack and has gone straight past Lee and Byram.
"Supernova Slo-Mo" but has a cowbell with an IRONMAN stencil on 😂

Visser - coach not named but 'in China' ;) - goes through to #3, overtaking Simmonds and Gentle.
We are getting too much coverage of Buckingham and LCB and not enough of Visser Gentle Simmonds Byram.
Lee has dropped off that chase pack.

Visser is crushing it!

Visser is gaining (merely) a second a km on LCB, with Gentle in tow.
2:23 with 6 miles to T2. Byram up past Simmonds as the latter weakens.
https://www.trirating.com/...-13th-14th-seedings/
Thorsten has Visser as #20, with a run 11 minutes slower than LCB.

Into T2 @2:29:00
Buckingham seconds back - heading out to survive the run.
Kelly said humidity was 58% at the start and is 78% now.
Gentle ran 6 minutes into LCB last year and is 'only' 5:28 down at T2.
And headed out strong.
What are "running sticks"?

I had not heard of running sticks either. Small sticks you hold to (allegedly) improve running technique. Link to a review: https://www.nok-kon.com/...ting-running-sticks/

Lee has dropped out, I'm afraid, not mentioned in commentary. Edit: I'm told she "didn't have the lungs".
Gentle assured of the win. Not clear who is most likely for #3.
Looks like either Reischmann or Visser: both running same speed at present but Visser 100 secs ahead, one lap in.
Watkinson not out of it and running faster than those two, but 2+ minutes down.

As the Frodeno just said, what does LCB need after T2 to win a T100, if Gentle is in the race? 8 minutes?

In these conditions, maybe. In reasonable racing conditions, LCB will win with a 5 minute lead. We'll see in London.
Visser looks like likely for #3. If Buckingham can maintain speed she'll beat Reischmann, which would be a great result for her: probably won't. Watkinson looking as if she may run into #4.

Tri is always biased to the runners. Crazy how you can continually dominate two legs of a race only to be outdone by someone who is top notch in the third.

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Emma Snowsill used them when she won gold!

Gentle will earn over 100 PTO Ranking points for that.
And after Knibb has vaulted to #1 over Haug, Gentle then edges above her by ?0.3 of a point into top ranked athlete.
Let's get back to see the Visser, Buckingham and Watkinson head-to-head please.
And we missed it: Watkinson taking Buckingham in the last few hundred metres, closing right up on Visser.