#108 - CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS PREVIEW with Chelsea Burns + Tommy Zaferes
Join us for a special on-the-ground preview of the Championship Finals from Wollongong, Australia with Chelsea Burns and Tommy Zaferes, analysing the chances of favourites Matt Hauser, Cassandre Beaugrand and Beth Potter and what it will take for their closest rivals to stop them
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#107 HENRY GRAF - THE BATTLE OF BOHEMIA
Fresh from his mammoth debut World Triathlon Championship Series win in Karlovy Vary, Germany's latest triathlon talent Henry Graf joins Doug Gray and Tommy Zaferes for a full run-down of the latest and greatest Battle of Bohemia!📈 Being nearly two metres tall in an era of smaller, faster triathletes🍿 Winning your debut the same day as Ironman short-distancers light up Nice – shouts to Casper Stornes, Gustav Iden, Kristian Blummenfelt and friend Jonas Schomburg💪 Taylor Spivey’s mega bike effort to catch onto Maya Kingma’s mega bike effort🐠 Oliver Conway’s impressive debut with 4th place new talent coming off the GB production line💥 Beth Potter back on top of the podium and Jeanne Lehair bouncing back from bashing the barrier🦿 Hitting the KV roads hard with breakaway boys Tjebbe Kaindl and Mark Devay✍️ Hayden Wilde’s pre-race car incident, Swim behaviour penalties, John Reed clocking the rapid runs, prospects for a Series podium and his chances of taking Csongor Lehmann’s crown in Tiszy
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#106 JEANNE LEHAIR race recap with Tommy Zaferes
Third in the world heading to WTCS Karlovy Vary on 14 September, it was in the south of France last weekend that Jeanne Lehair ripped up her coach's notes and took the race to Cassandre Beaugrand at WTCS French Riviera.Photographer Tommy Zaferes is back on the podcast this week as we pick through the ashes of that race and look ahead to the penultimate action of the Series ahead of the Championship Finals Wollongong, where the moves were made that decided things in Frejus and the 'what if' of whether Jeanne could she have found one more push to hold off the Olympic Champion in her back yard.
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#105 JOLIEN VERMEYLEN
The newly crowned European Sprint Triathlon Champion, Belgium's Jolien Vermeylen is one of the sport's great characters, and heads to Istanbul at the end of August chasing a huge continental double with the Olympic Distance title.On episode 105, the 31-year-old opens up about having her post-Paris 2024 words twisted and the pain of a resulting social media pile-on, putting her 70.3 ambitions on hold to chase a career-best Series ranking in 2025 and soaking in the arc of taking up the sport after reading the Brownlee book on holiday in Corfu and then winning supertri gold for Brownlee Racing in Toronto a decade later."You can read subtitles on my face. If I like something I show it and if I don’t you’ll know it. But maybe for racing I need it!"
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#104 ROKSANA SLUPEK 🚀
In recovery after suffering a bad bike crash at WTCS Hamburg in mid-July, Roksana Slupek is our guest this week, and the Poland number one shares her reflections on the highs and lows of her journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic start line.From attacks of self doubt and depression to ultimately qualifying for her life’s dream, and the harsh realities of racing on – and crashing out of – the world’s biggest triathlon series, the 26-year-old shares an eye-opening hour of life as an elite athlete, and how recent events have made her re-evaluate her attitude towards her fellow competitors on the World Triathlon Championships Series.
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