Respect to Pro Tri News and The Triathlon Hour, but I came straight to The Daily Tri when I heard the news. Great reporting and analysis-super stoked to learn about all of this!
I'm sure Jason West will do amazingly well, but I'm a big fan of Ditlev so gotta put Magnus in #1 and West #2 and I'm gonna bust out my dark horse into the #3 spot because I love his channel--Daniel Baekkegard! So dark horse will go to my USA dude, Kanute. For the ladies, gotta go with Taylor in #1! LCB in #2 and Haug in #3...dark horses are Paula and Kat! This is gonna be quite a year for Tri!! God bless, Megan ps. Keep on pedaling, Travis
I personally like the T100 name! It fits and I like the new website design etc. I really hope the California destination is Alcatraz! That would be epic! My predictions 1. Jason West 2. Sam Laidlow 3. Max Neumann Dark Horse: Fred Funk 1. Anne Haug 2. Paula Findlay 3. Lucy Charles Barclay Dark Horse: Imogen Simmonds
No surprise that Blu isn’t signed at all. He is so focused on the Olympics that he didn’t even turn up to 70.3 Bahrain in December to simply roll around and get a validation race done in his off season. He WILL race T100 in 2025 though.
I feel ya, not a fan of the T100 name... I immediately look at the CA race possibility too and saw Alcatraz on that weekend... I'm not sure if I like that idea though, I'm more keen on a San Diego event of something warmer. I was super excited yesterday until I found out that we still cant sign up for all the races? Mainly Vegas or CA ( the ones I want to get on the schedule.
Vegas will be available soon! California sadly I think will be the only one this year, especially if it's Alcatraz (my guess). Otherwise, Miami / London / Singapore / Dubai / Ibiza / Grand Final will be race-able too!
I'm wondering how this is going to turn out for the upcoming Pros, who are not on top of the leaderboard yet. They're struggling to find sponsors at the moment and to fully focus on the sport, as they always need to see how they pay their bills, while the TOP 30 earn tons of money. Isn't that going to divide the sport even more? What's your take on that?
Agree, and it seems super hard to get into the top 16, as they don't have the same access to the PTO races, that generate the most points. To be honest I am quite worried about the divide this will create.
It makes sense to me. I don’t think she’s snubbing it in the bad sense of word, I think she just wants to win the T100 and it looks really hard to do that! I’ll hopefully have the news out tomorrow and I’ll talk about it more
What do you think about Malibu for California? They already are investing $300k there, right? I need to go think about my predictions now, haha. Left Ashley Gentle out... ouch. I love Paula, so she will be my WC.
2:20 - what about Australia? I’m pretty disappointed that the PTO didn’t take the opportunity to leverage their new partnership wit World Triathlon to hold a T100 round in Townsville on the weekend of 24-25 August as part of the World Triathlon Long Course - multi-sport festival. Given that they did exactly that in Ibiza last year and also in 2022 and 2021 as part of their Collins Cup in Slovakia. It seemed to be a ‘no brainer’ for me as the race schedule in Townsville is vacant on both the Saturday before the long course world title race AND on Friday afternoon after the Aquathon WC race. PTO ‘twilight’ races would be both spectacular and also provide good international broadcast time slots for Europe and Asia (but not America alas).
Really do not like sports being dishonored in that way when put in countries where money is the obvious and only reason, makes me lose enthusiasm in watching it
@@dbo4506 I am fully aware of that and that is not what I am suggesting rather that certain countries’ values are not a good representative of sports in general and therefore it is too obvious that it’s just money nothing else whatsoever, that is what I am purposing with my comment.
Agreed and I assume you mean the Middle East, but they can cough up the money which is what makes the series so big, kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. My concern for the grand final is the location is ugly, you can’t dress mutton up as lamb, not to mention low spectator numbers. Imagine the grand final in Noosa Australia, now that’d be a spectacular.
@@timwhitburn6260 I don’t want to mention any specific countries though it is obvious in many cases. And I agree it would be sad having these (or any) athletes race something similar to Neom like super league did. Disaster.
Do you know how many pros will be in each T100 race? Do they only take the top 30 pros or is it open to more? I'm registered for the 70.3 race on 22-Sep in Lansing Washington. Do you know why they changed the location to Lansing from previous location?
I would prefer if they would have at least 50 pros male/female for each race. I'm not sure if I want to see the same 16 people + 4 wild cards for 8 races. Why don't they allow more pros to participate? Hope to see you in Lansing. @@thedailytri
they used to call the races opens now its t100, they call the circuit 7 months ago and finally almost got all the info, they dont disclousure California and grand final, So I dont kind on trust them, one year one thing, other year other thing, Collins Cup? and I think its a lots of races, they are humans no cars like F1 so race 8 times not sure, I can see a lots of injuries
12:30 - I think your women’s picks are dead wrong. Knibb is the wildcard, not favourite, because she has an olympic focus until after T100 London: so she could win it all, but she’s likely to be spread too thin. Classic wildcard. Also, I really think that Annie will be focused on peaking for Nice - especially given that Lucy wont be racing, and I’d say she’s pretty vexed that she has 4 podium finishes but no wins at the IM WC and at aged 41 that will be weighing on her pretty heavily. The T100 series favourites really have to be drawn from those athletes who are solely focused on the T100 series - Ash Gentle and Lucy C-B foremost. In my opinion Ash will have the edge for several reasons. Firstly, she IS the form 100km distance specialist. Including her Collins Cup race she has done six PTO 100km races and either won or finished second in all of them. Secondly, she is very experienced in these year long ‘world series’ competitions, having cut her competitive teeth with a decade on the ITU WTS series. Lucy has no experience in that, and indeed has experience in acquiring serious injuries over the duration of a competitive year. Thirdly, although Lucy’s swim is a weapon, Ash will be well placed coming out of the water to work with other super strong cyclists who are as strong or stronger that Lucy over 80km and then she will simply outrun Lucy in most races (although one should keep in mind Lucy’s astonishing run at St George in 2021, not to mention WTS Leeds that same year). Ash was super strong on the bike in Singapore last year, and is just improving so much in that disciple with her current coach and training set up that her bike/run combination promises to be THE weapon for the duration of the series. So, my tips: 1. Ash; 2. Lucy; 3. Annie (strong in the first half of the series, maybe even leading it on points by T100 London, but fading post Nice). Wildcards: Knibb; Byram; Duffy (if her body holds together).
@@user-wm2td4uy9u yeah, after i posted i realised id forgotten 2019. Still: a long time between drinks and i think Annie is thirsty for another IM WC. More so than a PTO series win.
Really not a fan of the concept feels to me to be a really greedy money grab from top athletes. Also forgetting the grass roots of the sport and general public.
A money grab from a sport that has some of the worst prize money of all professional sports. Yeh sure mate. Ironman makes billions. And pays nothing to their pros. 75k contract for 6 races isn’t a money grab 😂 what planet are you on mate? If you actually loved the sport you’d want the pros to be paid. Explain to me how this is a money grab by the athletes.? I’m intrigued how you are gonna articulate such an absurd take.
Iron man is a business that bases its revenue off participation of amateur athletes so they focus their business model off that. They invest there money in putting on events catered to the people paying there bills essentially paying out prize money to them is just marketing budget and if it wasn’t for that there wouldn’t be prize money. Also billions is a massive exaggeration filling’s show total revenue of the iron man events pre pandemic as 91 million. If they were making billions like NBA or soccer. I do love the sport and like that Ironman is focus is on participation not just professionals like many sports have become. In my country rugby is the national sport is dying at an amateur and grass routes level because all the money goes to the professionals and most club teams are bankrupt. Is this what you want to see happen to triathlon. All money and focus goes to 20 woman and men on a basis ranking system that actively makes it hard for any new athletes to qualify for their elite league
Predictions 👇👇👇! Working on the giveaway (it'll be a good one!)
Respect to Pro Tri News and The Triathlon Hour, but I came straight to The Daily Tri when I heard the news. Great reporting and analysis-super stoked to learn about all of this!
Predictions: Women- Taylor K, Ashley G,Anne Haug.
Men: Jason w, Sam laid low, Javier Gomez
Awesome video, excited for this one
I'm sure Jason West will do amazingly well, but I'm a big fan of Ditlev so gotta put Magnus in #1 and West #2 and I'm gonna bust out my dark horse into the #3 spot because I love his channel--Daniel Baekkegard! So dark horse will go to my USA dude, Kanute. For the ladies, gotta go with Taylor in #1! LCB in #2 and Haug in #3...dark horses are Paula and Kat! This is gonna be quite a year for Tri!! God bless, Megan ps. Keep on pedaling, Travis
Women - Knibb, Gentle, Haug (WC: LCB) ---- Men: West, Ditlev, Van Riel, (WC LONG)
I guess Gustav still recovering from his injury.
1. Lucy 2. Taylor 3. Gentle
I personally like the T100 name! It fits and I like the new website design etc. I really hope the California destination is Alcatraz! That would be epic!
My predictions
1. Jason West
2. Sam Laidlow
3. Max Neumann
Dark Horse: Fred Funk
1. Anne Haug
2. Paula Findlay
3. Lucy Charles Barclay
Dark Horse: Imogen Simmonds
Website design was incredible! And me too!
M: Laidlow, Neuman, West
F: LCB, Haug, Knibb
For Ellie Salthouse, she might really want to do 70.3 Western Australia the same weekend as the T100 Grand Final.
And 70.3 Worlds is so close to home
Great point!
No surprise that Blu isn’t signed at all. He is so focused on the Olympics that he didn’t even turn up to 70.3 Bahrain in December to simply roll around and get a validation race done in his off season. He WILL race T100 in 2025 though.
mens 1 Max newman 2 laidlow 3 west dark horse Sam long...woman 1 taylor nibb 2 Ashley Gentle 3 Paula findlay Dark Horse Pierre
I feel ya, not a fan of the T100 name... I immediately look at the CA race possibility too and saw Alcatraz on that weekend... I'm not sure if I like that idea though, I'm more keen on a San Diego event of something warmer. I was super excited yesterday until I found out that we still cant sign up for all the races? Mainly Vegas or CA ( the ones I want to get on the schedule.
Vegas will be available soon! California sadly I think will be the only one this year, especially if it's Alcatraz (my guess). Otherwise, Miami / London / Singapore / Dubai / Ibiza / Grand Final will be race-able too!
@@thedailytri You mean *only Pro for CA? I can definitely see that if it's Alcatraz too.
I'm wondering how this is going to turn out for the upcoming Pros, who are not on top of the leaderboard yet. They're struggling to find sponsors at the moment and to fully focus on the sport, as they always need to see how they pay their bills, while the TOP 30 earn tons of money. Isn't that going to divide the sport even more?
What's your take on that?
Agree, and it seems super hard to get into the top 16, as they don't have the same access to the PTO races, that generate the most points. To be honest I am quite worried about the divide this will create.
M. West, Ditlev, Long (WC Brownlee)
F. LCB, Knibb, Haug (WC Pallant)
1. Magnus, 2. Sam Laidlow, 3. Max Neumann
Hey, Travis, what do you think about LCB snubbing Nice this year claiming that she will defend title in Kona next year?
It makes sense to me. I don’t think she’s snubbing it in the bad sense of word, I think she just wants to win the T100 and it looks really hard to do that! I’ll hopefully have the news out tomorrow and I’ll talk about it more
What do you think about Malibu for California? They already are investing $300k there, right?
I need to go think about my predictions now, haha. Left Ashley Gentle out... ouch. I love Paula, so she will be my WC.
Hey Marcelo! Sam shared about it on PTN's podcast saying they invested there ,not to have a race, but to hopefully save the Celebrity race
2:20 - what about Australia? I’m pretty disappointed that the PTO didn’t take the opportunity to leverage their new partnership wit World Triathlon to hold a T100 round in Townsville on the weekend of 24-25 August as part of the World Triathlon Long Course - multi-sport festival. Given that they did exactly that in Ibiza last year and also in 2022 and 2021 as part of their Collins Cup in Slovakia. It seemed to be a ‘no brainer’ for me as the race schedule in Townsville is vacant on both the Saturday before the long course world title race AND on Friday afternoon after the Aquathon WC race. PTO ‘twilight’ races would be both spectacular and also provide good international broadcast time slots for Europe and Asia (but not America alas).
1. Jason
2. Magnus Ditliv
3. Maxy Neumann !!!!
wild card Alistair Brownlee
Women: 1. Knibb 2. Haug 3. Gentle (Dark Horse LCB)
Men: 1. West. 2. Newman. 3. van Riel (Dark Horse Ditlev)
Really do not like sports being dishonored in that way when put in countries where money is the obvious and only reason, makes me lose enthusiasm in watching it
Lol cool bro. Everyone goes to work to make money. Yourself included. Welcome to reality champ. 👍
@@dbo4506 I am fully aware of that and that is not what I am suggesting rather that certain countries’ values are not a good representative of sports in general and therefore it is too obvious that it’s just money nothing else whatsoever, that is what I am purposing with my comment.
Agreed and I assume you mean the Middle East, but they can cough up the money which is what makes the series so big, kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. My concern for the grand final is the location is ugly, you can’t dress mutton up as lamb, not to mention low spectator numbers. Imagine the grand final in Noosa Australia, now that’d be a spectacular.
@@timwhitburn6260 I don’t want to mention any specific countries though it is obvious in many cases. And I agree it would be sad having these (or any) athletes race something similar to Neom like super league did. Disaster.
You have a similar voice to Daniel bakkegaard
Haha that’s funny. I’ve heard I’ve looked like him too
Admit that you’re his hidden brother
Do you have any sources for the gustav @ challenge roth rumour?
Unfortunately not. Just Jack's post. I'd love to see it though!
Do you know how many pros will be in each T100 race? Do they only take the top 30 pros or is it open to more? I'm registered for the 70.3 race on 22-Sep in Lansing Washington. Do you know why they changed the location to Lansing from previous location?
Hey Donald! There will be 20 at each race. I actually dont know why, i'll have to look it up! I think I might race there too!
I would prefer if they would have at least 50 pros male/female for each race. I'm not sure if I want to see the same 16 people + 4 wild cards for 8 races. Why don't they allow more pros to participate? Hope to see you in Lansing. @@thedailytri
they used to call the races opens now its t100, they call the circuit 7 months ago and finally almost got all the info, they dont disclousure California and grand final, So I dont kind on trust them, one year one thing, other year other thing, Collins Cup? and I think its a lots of races, they are humans no cars like F1 so race 8 times not sure, I can see a lots of injuries
M. West. Long. Ditlev. F. Knibb. Lucy. Haug
12:30 - I think your women’s picks are dead wrong. Knibb is the wildcard, not favourite, because she has an olympic focus until after T100 London: so she could win it all, but she’s likely to be spread too thin. Classic wildcard. Also, I really think that Annie will be focused on peaking for Nice - especially given that Lucy wont be racing, and I’d say she’s pretty vexed that she has 4 podium finishes but no wins at the IM WC and at aged 41 that will be weighing on her pretty heavily.
The T100 series favourites really have to be drawn from those athletes who are solely focused on the T100 series - Ash Gentle and Lucy C-B foremost. In my opinion Ash will have the edge for several reasons.
Firstly, she IS the form 100km distance specialist. Including her Collins Cup race she has done six PTO 100km races and either won or finished second in all of them.
Secondly, she is very experienced in these year long ‘world series’ competitions, having cut her competitive teeth with a decade on the ITU WTS series. Lucy has no experience in that, and indeed has experience in acquiring serious injuries over the duration of a competitive year.
Thirdly, although Lucy’s swim is a weapon, Ash will be well placed coming out of the water to work with other super strong cyclists who are as strong or stronger that Lucy over 80km and then she will simply outrun Lucy in most races (although one should keep in mind Lucy’s astonishing run at St George in 2021, not to mention WTS Leeds that same year). Ash was super strong on the bike in Singapore last year, and is just improving so much in that disciple with her current coach and training set up that her bike/run combination promises to be THE weapon for the duration of the series.
So, my tips:
1. Ash;
2. Lucy;
3. Annie (strong in the first half of the series, maybe even leading it on points by T100 London, but fading post Nice).
Wildcards:
Knibb;
Byram;
Duffy (if her body holds together).
You might want to consider who won Kona 2019 (top tip: it wasn't LCB or Daniela or Chelsea)
@@user-wm2td4uy9u yeah, after i posted i realised id forgotten 2019. Still: a long time between drinks and i think Annie is thirsty for another IM WC. More so than a PTO series win.
T100 is a Toyota pickup truck
I’m here for someone to explain to me wtf this thing is 😂
Hahaha I did my best... took me a while!
@@thedailytri you did a good job!
Really not a fan of the concept feels to me to be a really greedy money grab from top athletes. Also forgetting the grass roots of the sport and general public.
A money grab from a sport that has some of the worst prize money of all professional sports. Yeh sure mate. Ironman makes billions. And pays nothing to their pros. 75k contract for 6 races isn’t a money grab 😂 what planet are you on mate? If you actually loved the sport you’d want the pros to be paid. Explain to me how this is a money grab by the athletes.? I’m intrigued how you are gonna articulate such an absurd take.
Iron man is a business that bases its revenue off participation of amateur athletes so they focus their business model off that. They invest there money in putting on events catered to the people paying there bills essentially paying out prize money to them is just marketing budget and if it wasn’t for that there wouldn’t be prize money. Also billions is a massive exaggeration filling’s show total revenue of the iron man events pre pandemic as 91 million. If they were making billions like NBA or soccer. I do love the sport and like that Ironman is focus is on participation not just professionals like many sports have become. In my country rugby is the national sport is dying at an amateur and grass routes level because all the money goes to the professionals and most club teams are bankrupt.
Is this what you want to see happen to triathlon. All money and focus goes to 20 woman and men on a basis ranking system that actively makes it hard for any new athletes to qualify for their elite league
Your predictions are off, sorry ! Great content.
In what way? What are yours?!
@@thedailytri In a way that you are an American, who predicts an American will win both the Men's and Women's 🤣
Please anyone but Jack Kelly; he is TERRIBLE 🤮
10:22 Gotta figure out how to hunt down all those worm blood dopers!🪱🩸