Frodeno takes Bejing Gold: Men's Triathlon Final

Germany's Jan Frodeno out-kicked world champion Javier Gomez and 2 other former medalists earlier this morning at the men's triathlon final. Like the women's final this contest became a foot race, with Frodeno gluing himself to Gomez in the last several hundred meters of the race before busting ahead of the lead pack to take the gold. A true testament to how close the race was - USA's Hunter Kemper finished in 7th place even though he was less than 60 seconds behind the leader.

Official results, Men's Triathlon final: http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/TR/C73B/TRM001101.shtml#TRM001101

For official photos (I'm not in the mood to pay royalties to Getty Images today):
https://en.beijing2008.cn/photo/

Emma(s) Medal at Olympic Games: Women's Triathlon Results

The Aussie women dominated women's triathlon this weekend by taking the Gold and Bronze medals in the triathlon final. Portugal's Vanessa Fernandes, favored to take the top prize held off a 1-2 sweep by keeping herself wedged in between Emma Snowsill and Emma Moffatt for the 40k bike. She was unable to catch Snowsill on the 10k run leg and ended up finishing a minute behind.

USA's Laura Bennett was first out of the water but was unable to shake the Aussies in the 10k run and placed 4th overall.

Stay tuned for the Mens' final which happens tomorrow August 19th at 10:00a local time (tonight the 18th! in the U.S.) .

For all the official Olympic results: http://results.beijing2008.cn/

Se Habla "Ironman"?

Attención! A New Ironman has been added into the Western Hemisphere circuit. Online registration opens for Ironman Cozumel on Tuesday August 19th, but you'd better already be in phase 1 of training by now! The inaugural event includes 50 slots for Kona 2010 and will take place on November 29th -
now THAT's a turkey trot!

Official race site: http://www.ironmanmexico.com/cozumel/home.html