Yee looks done here I think. Wilde looks like he has the title.
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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That makes sense. So would a potential solution be to shuffle the order so that cycling is first?
You train all your life to compete at the highest level, you are at the Olympics and quit the second you are behind? The honor and legacy of even just competing, let alone finishing in the Olympics is massive.
feck me Wilde is gone
What? No
Apart from the fact that it's not that feasible because you'd have to change wetsuit twice instead of just shedding it once, the order simply is what it is. Drafting is not allowed in a lot of races so it's not an issue most of the times.
Thought Yee was supposed to be good at running?
What? No
Apart from the fact that it's not that feasible because you'd have to change wetsuit twice instead of just shedding it once, the order simply is what it is. Drafting is not allowed in a lot of races so it's not an issue most of the times.
This is literally the first or second time I am watching the triathlon so please forgive stupid questions!
No worries! It's kind of a bummer in the Olympics but rarely an issue otherwise, time differences can be huge during cycling in 70.3 or full distance.
Bit of a repeat of the women's race here, we supposedly had "by far the best runner" in the lead in the run.
There's a lot of running to go here, but it would be weird for Yee to have let him go that far ahead if he had something left in the tank. Hopefully Wilde has gone too hard too early.
There's a lot of running to go here, but it would be weird for Yee to have let him go that far ahead if he had something left in the tank. Hopefully Wilde has gone too hard too early.
He is. For whatever reason he doesn’t have it today though.
Disallow drafting is the easiest solution which they do for longer distances e.g. Ironman. Admittedly it would be quite tricky on a course like that because you have so many athletes in close proximity after the swimming anyway. Would need a really wide road course.
Another way would be to make the cycling course super hilly/mainly uphill. That way you can get more easily separation as a cyclist. But obviously also not easily doable in terms of finding the correct location etc.
Last option would be a staggered start as suggested in here already and taking each individuals time like a time trial. But that obviously makes for very meh viewing experience.
Yee just blew up after 1km, don't know why he went in so hard as he has an excellent finish in him (actually beat Wilde to silver in Tokyo after Blummenfelt placed his attack). Will be interesting to see his final running time, because he's certainly able to run in the low 29' after a race like this.
Think he will get caught by the two French athletes here.
Think he’s probably got enough actually. Looking a bit stronger again now.
What a comeback from Yee!
Wowwwwwww
Where the feck did Yee come back from?
Fairly ridiculous triathlon ending! Wilde completely blew up!
What a triathlon!
Okay yeah, he still has that finish. Wow
Was he just cruising all this while
Common Yee, what an end to the triathlon
Well done yee!
Holy shit!!
Last burst was crazy, must have been banking it all that time.
Yee of little faith
Has to be said that the camera coverage of that was absolutely terrible.
That was wilde
Slim chance, just following Wilde would've saved him quite some energy, there's draft to be had running at 20km per hour.
Shit, I had the triathlon on with the sound down while I was working and thought Yee was miles behind the Kiwi, but just looked now and he’s won! At least watching it on Eurosport means I can rewind it and see what the hell happened
Amazing by Yee.
Would love to see the final 1km and 2km splits there. Did Wilde completely blow up or did Yee manage to pick it up?
A sprint finish. That's just wild. What an extraordinary finish. Congrats to Yee, but wow.
Omg where did that come from?!
Not with the shoddy camera work!
Lewisham lad too. Go on son.
Big I commentate on the efforts of professional athletes whilst living in my mum's basement energy here.
Yeah, the commentators said he was still 12 seconds behind, and then the next time they mentioned him he was virtually on top of Wilde. The camera operators seemed to be more interested in the French guy in third.
WE WON A MEDAL, GET INNNNNNNNNNN
incredible finish to the triathlon! Shame the camera man didn't realise it was happening!