2023 Challenge Roth | Full Race Replay 📺

foreign foreign foreign thank you and a big warm welcome to the 21st edition of The dartev Challenge Roth powered by Hep this will be the 10th year of dartif being the title sponsor of the race my name is Belinda Granger and I will be your host for today's live coverage joining me in the studio today is no other than the goat himself Jan freddino Yan welcome and thank you so much for joining me good morning Belinda how exciting to be here it is a wonderful morning in Roth and I am very very excited to be uh sitting on the other side for what I think will be another form of marathon now interesting you should say that sitting on the other side is this indeed the first time that you've sat on the other side of the fence um well I mean I've kind of had to come in and out and and commentate and of course you can't race every single weekend but it's the first time that I'm actually doing the full race sitting calling the shots and uh yeah uh experiencing the other side of them of of the race now ladles to say this could actually be the toughest and undoubtedly the longest endurance event you've ever signed up for I have a feeling despite everybody going to be very very quick today it will be a long day and uh the longest the longest day of your life I think well well we'll have plenty of coffee to feed us through and I'm sure you'll keep us all entertained now 2016. in fact you set a new course record and it was a world fastest time I think we have footage on screen right now of that incredible day talk us through it Jan yeah it was indeed uh quite an experience you know because we'd made the call early on to say we wanted to have the world's fastest time and you hear giving uh the man himself Felix a hug and and my wife Emma being there um it was a special day indeed the conditions remind me a lot of what we have today you know slightly cooler beautiful Clear Blue Skies and that whole vibe you know when you experience it for the first time Roth is uh once in a lifetime or once in in the world event where you know the vibe The Spectators the whole energy comes together and it really is as the signs say the home of triathlon and I was fortunate enough to have a great day the first time I was here and um yeah really experience the best of it unreal and you talk about the weather conditions we saw them just up on screen then 15 degrees Celsius right now so it's a little chilly I even yeah you were saying this is a little colder than I anticipated we are expecting it to climb up to about 27 degrees Celsius today so it's beautiful conditions sunny skies the water is sitting at 21.9 degrees Celsius so it is smack bang on wetsuit legal so it will be wetsuits for both our professional athletes and our age group athletes today will that make a big difference yeah absolutely I mean with a wetsuit swim you can certainly take I would say probably three minutes off uh off the swim time between three and four depending and you know the other thing is also you just manage to save your legs a little bit more it's basically you can almost not kick when you're wearing a wetsuit which does help I find for the uh for the next 222 kilometers that follow after this one and it's a it's a long day out there and really what you want to be doing is maximizing your energy and and using as little of it as possible early on so I do think a wetsuit is going to make a difference in terms of the overall time and and we have everything set for an extremely fast day here in Roth and that is the million dollar Quest fast day you still hold the fastest time here in Roth it was the fastest time and still is one of the fastest times in the world will we see that record fall well you know I've always said records are there to be broken and whereas I personally probably wouldn't have the ambition of starting a race with the idea of breaking a record in mind simply because it changes the dynamic I mean the the wonderful thing these girls and guys have is that they've got such a depth and field they're going to be pushing each other you know when I was doing it it was it was purely against the clock um and it becomes a different kind of race Dynamic whereas I think this will be a natural race unfolding and I do think that they will push each other to the Limit and therefore will push that world record or or the the fastest time here um by by quite a margin now yarn pretty much done it all you're an Olympic gold medalist a multiple Iron Man Champion You've Won here in Roth your race record still stands you've done just about everything but as we said the big question today is will someone get your record we're looking at the course right now going through that course you can see 3.8 kilometers in the Danube they will then head out onto a two Loop bike course now yarn it's not as easy as it looks on paper they go to I think something like 28 small villages throughout it and that's each lap so it is quite a technical course and it certainly is not flat well you know this this course is obviously come around over the years and it's got its uh incredibly famous hot spots um of course we all know the Solara Barrack which is proper Tour de France kind of atmosphere but what's important about this course is that the surface is extremely fast on the bike and the climbs that you've got are fairly Steep and you've got sort of long descents and it just makes for yeah very fast times the Run course that we're seeing right now has changed over the years um I only got to see three kilometers of it last year well they haven't changed much but um yeah I think the Run course is perhaps not quite as fast as it has been in the past but I mean it's all speculative you know things of things have changed and we're going to see one heck of a race unfold between the super cyclists and the fast Runners coming to push up from the back in the marathon so I'm very excited to be watching it and look that great shot I love that drone that a drone shot of the swim start here you can see already that bridge is starting to get packed full of Spectators we're expect Eric we are expecting around 20 000 Spectators to be at the swim start you can see they line both sides of the canal we've got three thousand five hundred competitors racing here today on top of that we've got 600 relay teams from 92 different nations around the world so it is indeed the largest Triathlon event in the world three and a half thousand athletes racing in the canal today yeah it's amazing I mean it really is but I'll tell you what the 2000 people that they're expecting on the sides they certainly make themselves be heard and and it's quite uh quite a narrow field so that indeed we can see everybody who's lining up the top 12 that we just had there on the men's field who are you particularly excited to see this has been the big question on everyone's lips obviously Magnus did left wearing bib number one he's our defending champion coming into this race incredibly fit and you can just you know Jan you spend a bit of time watching the athletes and I was there at the press conference and you can see that that quiet air of confidence that an athlete has and Magnus did left you know he still is so young 24 years of age but he has just come such a long way in such a short amount of time and the maturity he shows when he races he's far beyond his young years so for me I still think Magnus ditler from Denmark is the man to beat however you throw Sam laidlow down your back at guard uh Patrick Lange Ben Knute into the mix and honestly that Podium I I I cannot tell you who's going to be take those next two spots on the podium yeah it's definitely going to be exciting I'm also looking forward to seeing Brad Weiss uh he's been up in Andorra and we've done a few training sessions together I know he's worked hard on his uh on his swim and he's he's in good shape actually so I'm looking forward to seeing that and of course we have to give a big mention to seviquin challenge Roth as a competitor on his discontinued tour what a guy what a competitor and uh you know we might not be necessarily looking for him for the very top spot as a favorite per se but you never know you know he's pulled off some amazing races first rookie under eight hours at this very race definitely and uh there's a lot of history here a favorite lying if I said shed uh this afternoon that could well be the case you know I'm kind of getting Goosebumps thinking about it yes uh yeah it's just a year of you know a lot of new athletes coming in kind of normal racing has resumed and a few of the old guys stepping out I don't hey I never discount the old guys because what you lack maybe in in in that that physicality you're more than make up for in that and in the experience side of things but looking at our women's field we did have them up earlier of course our favorite our defending champ Annie Howe wearing bib 101 vanilla language from Great Britain also she led the race for quite a long time last year until she was overtaken by Annie Howe about halfway through the marathon but what I am really interested in seeing this year are these two women well actually three women Daniella riff Laura Philippe here for the very first term and Chelsea cedaro our current Iron Man world champion this women's field is insane it is absolutely and I mean the there's so much suspense around because Daniela you know the last couple of years she's had some up and ups and downs but we know when she's on she is indeed on um Chelsea satara made some big statements Before the Race that we've only seen a glimpse of what she's capable of I I thought that was um uh that was quite interesting just the way she came across in that interview and of course um you know she's she's just an amazing athlete with an amazing record that somehow you know against these ladies has yet something to prove I think um and today could be that big day for her now we've just gone through some of our starters here today five world champions racing here today but I'd like to include two more yourself sitting next to me and we've also got Chrissy Wellington here as well so that is seven world champions and I think it's nine Roth previous Roth winners that are here today in Roth I mean have we've never seen anything like it before yeah it is truly amazing and I mean we have to say this is certainly the very fast shaping into the race of the year it's just you know it's been around it's tradition it's you know all the things we want in terms of family that living out the sport and I think it is a well and truly deserving field of such a great race absolutely and what I love most about this here this race here in Roth is that we've we've just had so many epic battles uh back in the day and I'm talking way back in the day now macca versus lotha 2003. still one of the best battles ever uh more recently Lucy Charles Barkley and Daniela blimel back in 2018 for me personally still the most epic battle I've ever seen between two women in a race we've still got your record we've still got Chrissy Wellington's record but I think we're in for a treat today because with the women's field we have assembled and the men's field I think there is a really good chance that both records will fall yeah absolutely I I do agree that you know the record is something that it's most likely going to take for the win here in both Fields um and that really is such an amazing opportunity we can see the depth of the sport and how much it's grown over the last you know four or five years and it really is at a point now you know where you used to have athletes dropping off towards the back of the bike or even during the marathon and that just doesn't happen anymore and therefore the consistency is as always key in Endurance Sports to getting very fast times good results and yeah I'm certainly looking forward to seeing what the clock says in I'm guessing uh probably under seven and a half hours well there you go yarn for Dino's called it early of course we are set up here at the Finish Line it is very very empty right now but we are expecting it to be full to the brim ten thousand this uh Stadium can handle so it will be full there will not be a seat left been given reports down on ground that the conditions at The Canal at the Danube are absolutely pristine and if you look at the footage we are showing you right now you can see it is like a Mill Pond out there so it's one big giant loop anti-clockwise loop that the swimmers will do today so one big three point eight Loop thanks to zone three we know that our professional men will be starting at exactly 6 30 so two minutes to go before our professional men are underway our women will be at 6 33 and then our age group waves will start at 6 50 heading off in five minute increments but you can see now both sides of the canal are packed solid full of Spectators and of course up on the bridge but Jan what was it like those just talk us through those minutes for me personally this was the worst time at the race those those five to ten minutes before the start the anticipation the nerves they really start to get the better of you what did you do to keep it all under control well at that time you're warming up and you've actually got something to do you know whereas before you get in the water it's always have I done this have I got everything have I checked the bike and really I find that's a moment of you know actually starting to get to a point where you can call upon what you've trained for over the last months and it's uh yeah definitely a great energy as we are about to set off here and see the race unfold and that is what everybody has been waiting for the start of the 2023 challenge Roth and let's see what's going on here I mean this is a very intense phase of the race generally you know you find a lot of athletes taking it out very hard for the first one to 200 meters which makes absolutely no sense but you know the nerves are there and the karma loadings up there and uh just simply look uh there's already a few little uh a few little Peaks forming and of course we do know that our we've got some really good swimmers out there today our top swimmers of course being Ben knut from the U.S and Robert vilkovitsky now let me tell you it's taken me all week to finally say his pronounce his name correctly but it is Robert vitkovitsky from Poland we do expect these two to take an early lead but of course we've got Sam laidlow I'm from France also a very very fast swimmer so we expect him to be right there with them uh along with Daniel Becker guard Patrick Langer Bradley Vice now just to let you know we have got some colored caps just to make it a little easier for you to spot who is who in the water Magnus did left will be in the goal cap Sam Laidlaw wearing a silver cap Daniel backer guard in White Bradley Vice in Black Patrick Lange in light blue Ben Knute in purple and we do expect to see that purple cat right at the front of the field Sebastian Kinley and neon yellow Joe Skipper in navy blue Andreas dreitz in mint green Nils from hold in dark blue Andrew starkowitz yes he is here that's right the oldest in the field he is wearing a red cap and as I said currently living I think well that'll be interesting I mean you know Starkey I always like to call him the race disrupter he may not be in the top three overall at the end but he but he loves to disrupt uh and he does it very very well so Robert uh vilt kavetsky in the hive is green Honestly by the end of today I'm hoping I have got it down pat you've got it I've got it all right Karen Linda's in neon pink and Tristan Olay in orange one one guy we haven't spoken about Peter Hamrick uh wearing light purple from Belgium he had that terrific race only a few weeks ago in Hamburg will he be recovered though what was it three weeks ago is it possible believe it I just actually just as we were starting off I saw that he's on the list and I'm like wow that is that is indeed very very impressive uh it's a short turnaround from from well at least what I thought was a hard race and he obviously had a magnificent performance but uh he's also one of those athletes who's just really yeah found himself um closing that closing that Gap over the years a lovely my first tick of approval oh gosh give me another hour till I run out of things to say and we have got our women now underway as well so that came around really really quickly 6 33 on the dot German Precision at its best so our professional women are now also underway here oh wow look at that look at the big spreads absolutely and you know what I wouldn't be surprised we know vanilla language of Great Britain is indeed the fastest swimmer by quite a way here she led out last year she will be in the purple cap so just to go through our women my dear vanilla is racing under the Great Britain flag yes vanilla language she is yep definitely Great Britain and wearing a purple cap anyhow in Gold Chelsea cedaro in Orange Laura Philippe in neon yellow Daniela riff in uh fluoro green Lisa Norton from Sweden wearing the White Cap Margie Santa Maria from Italy in neon pink and Joanna Owens from Germany in mint green but as I said we are expecting fanella to take it out hard she wants to leave she's set made it abundantly clear she wants to be the first up Solara Berg she was last year I think we are that's the second time around but that's the question both times round she was up she was uh up there in first she's an incredible swim biker so we do expect to see her take the lead early but we know that that Laura Philippe Danny Reef Danny reef is also very strong as is Maji Santa Maria so going to be very interesting to see what happens early on but you can see right now in our men's race we've got someone already right at the front we do expect it to be either Ben Knute how to talk to his coached him Vance who's here with him who said Ben's in absolutely scintillating form it's the it's the second full distance race ever however it's the first full distance race that he's actually trained specifically for yeah I love that I mean you're the first one he probably just showed up and tried to win it I mean honestly I love those kind of statements it really is oh what cap can we see that looks jeez it's hard to tell with the color tone whether it's uh blue or white but uh or light what do we have up right up there but we know Daniel back again isn't right so Sam laidlow is in silver and we've got Patrick Langer in like in light blue but it's it's so difficult to see who is actually it's just the colors it is a silver cap you're right it is the silver cap of Sam laidlow so Sam laidlow from France is indeed our early swim leader here yeah it does look like his stroke as well is very smooth in the water very efficient and that's the thing about Sam you know he's he's out there he is still a bit of a surprise package because he can absolutely blow things apart or have uh a tough day I mean he's an incredibly hard trainer he definitely puts in huge volumes during training and he's somebody who really wants to win he's an exciting athlete because he does also not care about opinions and traditions and whatever and he would definitely be somebody who'd have his eye on yeah doing his best to destroy this field I mean he's made some big claims about where he wants to go in the sport and you know it's it's exciting it's what that new generation definitely brings to the table it's more than just Swim Bike Run but also the pure aggression of it and the intent of going out there and wanting to absolutely destroy things but you can see he's actually got you know a little bit of a gap on the next swimmer already um which in this case was stocky as we said Andrew starkovic there is yeah it looks he's definitely not right on his feet and if you look at his Cadence it's super smooth right up there whereas starkovich is definitely looking up much more which surprises me a little bit because it's a narrow canal and the beauty about this swim is you actually really only have to breathe to the side and keep roughly keep your distance um which which does help in terms of saving energy and just looking forward but yeah he's taking it out more like a half distance swim then a full distance but look at this shot of having the men's and the women's field in one that won't be happening for too much longer I I don't think but definitely yeah back to back great to see you as we said three minutes between our professional men and our professional women they are swimming in the Danube the main Damu canal and of course this is the is it the longest or second longest canal in the world uh for those that are wondering when you do the championship the challenge founded the championship in Slovakia the swim or the old swim used to also be in the Danube so it's incredible to think that you can be in Slovakia and now we're in Germany swimming in the same uh Canal but great overhead shot there of our that is vanilla uh at the price field and that is strung out completely I mean there is yeah there is no pack here it is on what you can see look at that Cadence she's putting up at the front she doesn't want anyone with a yarn no no she's definitely got her intentions set straight and you see a lot of athletes lifting their Cadence so they have to kick less uh because it does sort of bring your bring your legs up a little bit but she's got the kick and the Cadence definitely got the intentions of heading out hard um yeah but a 3.8k swim as you know can can also turn quite long and of course that was Margie Santa Maria from Italy trying ever so hard to stay on her feet I think that elastic band had just started to break and vanilla was definitely getting away but great great start from our women well you could see in that long shot that vanilla is actually not too far off there's somebody dangling off the back and the Men's Pro field and she's going to start getting those as well for what will all be a millisecond at the pace that she's going all right we are going to take a look at this at a swim preview that we did earlier this week six the biggest joy of the Canon swim is that we have a lot of Spectators on the side of the canal so literally so when I'm swimming in the canal if I put my hand up now I can high-five somebody which is which is pretty cool broth it's a very very easy swim actually um because everyone starts in the water in groups the groups are registered by their expected finish time so we don't have too many overtaking action going on not only in the water but later on especially on the bike course and so you start in the water you swim until the bridge which is turn around point one you turn around go all the way down here to the lock there we have turn around point two turn around go back and then under the bridge we call it uh Triathlon balcony because thousands of people are on that balcony you exit to your right side there's not going to be any huge waves that's one positive there could be current um so I think it's yeah easy to orientate it's just you know you follow the line and you turn twice so hopefully no one gets lost to be among everybody age groupers pro athletes is uh special and I received so much support from the age groupers also during the race and this is always some very special moments because I'm always asking myself like where do they get the energy from to cheer me on during their own race yeah I mean that's Triathlon huh that's the cool thing that we all share the same fears and the same expectation and the same nerves so I think it doesn't matter if you're a pro or age group or you have expectation on yourself and you can feel it then uh yeah it's it's great to share that with everyone the special thing is really that you have spectators on the swim which is really cool I'm breathing towards the right side so I've always been able to see my supporters and welcome every Spectators also to go to the to the swim because especially those guys that are serious about Triathlon you get insights about group dynamics In The Swim which is something absolutely unique and very special foreign challenge Roth powered by hip 2023 we are here we are in to the swim we know that we have Sam laidlow of France leading Daniel backer guard is up there Ben knut is up there as is Robert vilcovesky from Poland and we've got our professional men underway our professional women are under underweight vanilla language leading our women's race just to let our audience know if you want to write in and ask us a question please do so we will be here to answer them in fact you'll have no other than Jan fradino here to answer your questions uh but we have got a roaming our roaming reporter Travis Mendel who is down at the canal walking up beside the swimmers he has the absolute bird's eye view Travis can you hear me and let me know what is it like down there right now yes I can hear you I certainly can well it's been absolutely electric since I got down here after the gun went off it the crowds just went mad I'm right by the front of the women's race here and it looks like a group of five that managed to get away I couldn't tell quite who that was but uh purple cap is in the lead and yeah the men's race looks like it was splitting up a little bit as they just went by here earlier and that purple Gap cap is indeed no other than vanilla language from Great Britain we expected her to lead but I am surprised to hear that she's got some swimmers with her uh last year she got out early and she led pretty much the entire day till the half marathon stage of the run so it's interesting she's got a little bit of company now of course you can see right on screen now our professional men that silver cap still leading is of course Sam laidlow that light green cap is Robert vilcovesky of Poland we did know that these two Torsten Rader our stats man extraordinaire who does all our stats for us so big shout out to Torsten he did say that it would be both Robert and Ben reading early but of course we've got a lot more in that front group right now including Sam Ludlow up front front we know Stark is in that group we know Ben knut from the US is in that group as is Daniel backer guard yeah it's a it's it's an interesting group that will certainly light things up on the bike as well but let's not forget we are not even near the halfway mark on the swim so there's you know we've got 14 minutes that means we're about a third of the way down and that's when you know it tends to get long after about two k's there are still gaps to be made and um you know if if somebody's kind of being smart about their race and really wants to attack it I think they're going to wait a little bit uh so let's see what happens over these these next few boys you know it's it's always fascinating I tend to do one of the like a 4K straight swim somewhere within a week before a race just to remind myself of how long it actually is you know because if you're doing a swim set in a pool it's one thing you know you get in 4k 5K even 6K whatever it's it's not a big deal but I find four kilometers 3.8 here yeah um it just time just doesn't pass not passing despite there being Spectators it really is one of those things where you just kind of you just got to keep going and keep going and you don't know exactly where you are um so I always find that yeah just quite quite a distance actually it does certainly yeah fit the theme of long distance long distance Triathlon now Travis have we still got you down on ground are you able to give us an update on the men's race yes uh unfortunately the men are too far down for me and I've ran a lot already to get to this spot and I can't keep up with them they're flying what what's going on what do you mean you can't keep up because you're in training for this after 15 minutes come on Travis let's step it up buddy I can't tell you I've seen a lot of the coaches on bikes riding down running down so they're trying to keep up and uh yelling at their athletes don't know if they can hear them in the water but that's pretty exciting actually you've just you've brought up a really interesting point and that's that's the beauty of this swim course here that the coaches can actually ride up and down on the other side of the canal so once they've made that first turn the longest section of this swim course is actually down the back side of the canal and there is that dirt path that all of the coaches can as you said follow their athletes all the way down to the far end which they're doing now and you can see right now on screen and you know I think as long as those athletes are breathing to the right-hand side then they might even get a glimpse of their coach and I think that just gives them that extra push but you can see now they're making that first that's the first turn that they make it the first far end of the canal yeah and it's it's a decent sized pack you can see it's Daniel the Becker guide up at the front uh again excuse us because the coloring on the screen is a little bit makes it a little bit tricky to to decipher the exact colors of the caps but I can tell by his wetsuit that that is Daniel Becker guard uh yes Daniel back about God leading but I do think I've spotted the light blue cap of Patrick Lange in that first wow now that's dangerous be quiet that's dangerous I mean we know the man is a weapon on the Run um of course there's still 180 K's to bring him to that run but uh yeah this is quite a quite a pack and that would be uh quite yeah quite a quite a surprise now listen Travis before we let you go can you just give us an update what are the conditions like down there they were nice and crisp this morning um a little bit chilly coming into the parking lot but now it's heating up a little bit but still the conditions in the water perfectly still and uh yeah everybody's just been buzzing it's it's unreal down here brilliant check in with you through out the day I know that you're going to hit some of the top hot spots on the bike so we look forward to hearing back back from you then thank you Belinda yeah I think I've got uh the best job today but it's just hard to keep my excitement down so I'll do my best you get a long day ahead of you you need to just you know stay calm cool and collected make sure you hydrate make sure you get some nutrition in we need you uh firing on all four cylinders right to the last uh until they get to the finish line sounds good we'll do Belinda see you later catch you in later okay and of course that was Travis amen Mandel he will be our on-ground supporter on ground reporter and supporter all day long today but Jan obviously now they've made that first turn that 180 degree turn down the first end of the canal this is now the longest straightest section of the swim so is this the hardest is this the one where you really need to stay focused to stay on those feet you know when your mind starts to wander as you said it's a long swim when your mind starts to wander and you just start to lose those feet which can happen what do you do to stay focused to make sure that you keep your your eye on the prize Well I think right now this is actually quite a grateful point because we've seen that sharp turnaround which um you know is your first landmark in the swim whereas you're along the canal and when you're in the water from that perspective not much changes in terms of scenery but it's a firm landmark that's for the first time where you know you're about 50 100 meters in and now it's on the way back but this pack looks pretty set actually um you know it's very hard to kind of push the pace that much that you're going to break someone to to fall out of the slipstream and yeah this pace looks pretty set and here we have on the opposite side the women coming up uh vanilla still flying up the front creating a little bit of a gap and breaking that group of five to now just down to two and that looks like Daniela riff now we know that Daniela riff is wearing the hi-vis or the neon green I have a feeling that that is Danny Reef on vanilla languages well almost yeah pretty much on Daniella's um sorry vanilla's feet could that be right that's a great swim for Daniella well it's it's hard to tell between between neon yellow and mint yellow which we have for Johanna as a swim cap and also the that looks green to me so great swim if that's indeed Daniela riff it looks like it is that's a fantastic swim from Danielle we know that she's back with her Old Coach Sutton she's been training up in Saint maritz looking really cool and calm in the week leading in she was at the press conference I got to have a short conversation with her she had that fantastic race in Switzerland where she absolutely obliterated that bike she beat Ash gentle in the process and we know that's pretty tough to beat Ash gentle over the half distance and Daniela had a great race in Switzerland and that was only a couple of weeks ago so we know that she's coming into this race in very good form but look at that yarn straight onto the feet of vanilla language yeah absolutely there was a a meter or two there a little bit earlier and that gap's been closed again I'm not to be very Frank I'm not 100 convinced that yeah or it's uh it could be Johanna as well yeah she is in the minker and you are right so I we we have been told just so everyone knows Daniela riff is in the high Vis green Joanna arends another German in the mint green so we we not 100 it certainly sticks out yeah it does it does so it's either either or but it would be a great from Daniella but we also know Joanna arenz is a very good swimmer and here we go they're catching the green cap of of the men um so yeah they've already made up almost three minutes on the last of the pro uh gentlemen there so yeah lighting up the field and here now we can see again we've got a landmark and that's a good point to actually get a reference because sometimes with a long lens you don't know how close something is but you can see that is a solid Gap now starting to form and over this long straight that we're about to see which is actually about 2k because it's about 1500 to that first turnaround then we go back past the start point and then do another U-turn to can basically come in um through the back of the start whilst the age groupers start their long day here in Roth as well and you know that's uh one of the things I think we always appreciate about Triathlon is that you get to share that race and you get to have that very same race course experience as the three and a half thousand other age groupers do today as well even though they'll probably be seeing more of the 27 degrees high temperatures because they'll be out there for a little bit longer but yeah it's certainly time to sit down and get a coffee and ready for a long day of exciting racing all right we are going to now head to one of our graphics be up on screen shortly and there we go we can see the age group is making their way by waves and uh yeah it's an exciting energy you know because a lot of people are so much more invested in the race whereas if you have a pure spectating sport it's one thing to be there and of course people are you know very fired up but here it's so much more relatable because so many people have either gone through the process of preparing or have watched their friends spouse and partner get ready for it which is also quite an interesting thing yeah I believe not that I've uh not that I've been on that side of the fence but it's definitely something what that brings out the passion I think in triathletes you think it's such a long distance kind of event that doesn't really bring out as much emotion but you can tell when you're on the ground for those of us who are into this sport it's just yeah something that consumes you that that drives you that makes you and defines you to a sense and you can definitely see that on the swim start where everybody is very nervous whether they're racing or not it's just something where it all comes together Danny roof on vanilla language's feet so she is having a rippered up oh gosh she uh she does have the nickname Angry Birds she certainly doesn't you anger her oh gosh that's uh that's not a good start and I cannot believe the Gap they have put in here it's incredible you know it doesn't look like too much from this angle but she also doesn't need much on the bike she's used to making up time so if she can actually start at the front have we seen that before that she has come out the water right now in the front and started her you know March already already at the at the front end of the field no and I I did expect her obviously to get to the front of the field at some point during the bike but if she's already there at the end of this swim that that's it's going to be that's a scary Prospect for The Other Women I did see in that chase group though I did see Chelsea cedaro wearing the orange cap so Chelsea sedara from the US here for the very first time we've got two Americans in the field Chelsea sedara for the women and Ben Knute in the men along with Starkey of course but tell me I've got a question for you no American has ever won this race uh since it's been a challenge families challenge Roth Race So since it's become a challenge race why is that so we've got Ben knut trying to get to be the first U.S male and we've got Chelsea sedara our current world champion trying to be the first U.S female but why is it is there a reason why the U.S have not been able to crack this race you know I think it's it's one thing you could say in terms of travel and actually getting here and you know the preparation and all that kind of thing which is the same that all of the rest of the world has in order to perform in the US and I think that sometimes can be a little bit tricky if you have the luxurious situation of the most prestigious race perhaps being in your country and you're just not exposing yourself to that International competition whereas here you grow up with it you know you have always had uh years of German athletes dominating then you've had French athletes and you've got British athletes you know it's all a bit of a Melting Pot in terms of facing the best on a regular basis um and I think you know really it's something that's going to show today again that we have more athletes venturing out I mean of course we had Sam long here last year that's right um he didn't quite have the race that he was looking for but that's also something you know it's it can be quite nerve-wracking because racing in the US can be quite lonely actually compared to here you know we're expecting I think there will be along the course somewhere between 150 and 250 000 Spectators and and that can be something that's intimidating there's the history of the race but quite honestly in terms of racing you know may I be biased and saying Europeans are just you know we we have been we've been up there for a while Australia of course has a huge and Rich Triathlon history of providing some of the best athletes uh for as long as the Sport's been around um but you know that American era um has been a while between drinks and I think a lot of us athletes uh and media are of course very excited about this happening we have the question can Chelsea sidara will be the first American to win um you know I I think she definitely can there's there's no doubt about it that she has the capability but coming out and performing on such a hyped up day you know we're you're in here you're in the studio it's being talked about days out rather than just showing up to the middle of nowhere and having a press conference two days out and three or five questions and you're left to yourself where is here yeah you know that is not the case if I try to walk from here to the exit of the Expo this afternoon that will take me roughly an hour exactly and um that's something that I think a lot of us athletes might be new to while we've got this up can Chelsea said I would be the first American to win so give us your thoughts you can write in and give us what your what you think whether you think it is possible for Chelsea now the reason I like Chelsea for today she's been based in Switzerland up at Saint maritz for quite some time now with her coach Dan plus and with training partner Jan van burkel I know that they have done an incredible uh stint of training up there and speaking to Dan Blues earlier this week he has been very very happy with the way things have been going she's nailed pretty much every session she started so we know that she's coming in in really really good form but I love this story between Dan plus and Chelsea cedaro he took her on when she was six weeks pregnant now there are not many coaches around the world that would take such a chance and so since she was six weeks pregnant he stayed with her through the entire pregnancy through the other side we know that Chelsea gave birth to Skye not that long ago and it's been you know it hasn't been all smooth sailing for Chelsea since then but she's come out the other side she absolutely obliterated the fields in Kona last year becoming uh Iron Man world champion it was one of the best races I've ever seen she took she took hold of that race and she never looked back so coming in as defending Champion that that puts a little bit of a Target on you for sure but first time here she's really handled the pressure so far very very well well you know I think it's I quite a common theme amongst athletes that the biggest pressure and the highest kind of stress you put is the one that you put on yourself and Chelsea certainly seems to have that Champions mentality of wanting more of wanting it all and that's what you know what what you live with it's kind of the expectation that you have uh is is also what drives you and you know Chelsea seems to want everything and wants to win the biggest races and I think he is a good opportunity to really show herself um as you said with a Target on her back you know people knew of her run capability and she did have an amazing race uh also in Hamburg last year I believe uh where she had a great running battle with Laura Phillip um but you know that certainly was nothing compared to what she then later on showed at the World Championships it was quite something to witness just the elegance and ease that she runs was she's so incredibly efficient and makes it look so smooth which is always nice to see someone that did at the top of their craft but let's see what she's left with you know those two girls they certainly seem to have opened up a bit of a gap so let's see what yeah what they're left with at the end of the swim in terms of a deficit and yeah where she finds herself on the bike and who's actually willing to work with her because that's another problem when you're that quick and that potent of a runner is that the girls will be looking for her to do some work on the bike just to give themselves a chance I think well we do know that that lead now for vanilla and Danny reef is out to a minute 10 so they now have for the likes of any of Annie Philippe Joanna orenz and Chelsea cedaro so that's a decent lead to have uh about the halfway mark of the swim here today uh yeah where are they 29 minutes yeah so they're a little a little a little longer than that but it is indeed since that turnaround you know that long straight has opened up a big gap because just before there were still five girls and you know we were still surprised how how the pack was quite quite strong but you know Daniela seems to have the luck of vanilla just being on a mission um she is there and she she wants to bite the back of that boat in the bum and just stick to it it's definitely something where you can see um yeah the fighting Spirit come out and you know they've still got a good bit of time um or or distance to make up some more time yeah and looked great and that gives you an exact look at that you can see right where that next Chase group of professional women are so our lead women that's vanilla language on the front she's been on the front since the gun that's Daniella riff from Switzerland right on her heels and then we know that it's a minute 10 back to our Chase Group which contains the likes of Annie Hagg uh Laura Philippe Joanna arenz and Chelsea cedaro our age group athletes are underway here 3500 in total here today now men's race sitting at 33 minutes and 31 seconds into the race spotters down on course have told us that Sam laidlow has actually decided to take a little bit of a different uh Direction he's gone well he's still in the right direction but you know this isn't interesting because I know back when I used to race here and I've raced here 10 times along that back straight I was always told to stay close to the shore so close to the side of the canal which is where I think that our lead men are but it looks like what's happened is Sam laidlow has decided to go left and he's going it alone so it it'll be interesting to see if we can get a shot of the professional men down there that you can see that apparently he was over to the site he may have rejoined but our spot is down on course were telling us that Sam laidlawed specifically taken a slightly different direction it looks like everybody everyone's back together so indeed I was also probably a little bit wider in my swims here but wow that is a big pack and it looks like wow it really is um yeah a lot of uh discussion going on so it seems like the pace is on but yeah the depth is what we were talking about earlier is just increasing you know people know that you can no longer kind of yeah just ease your way through the swim and try and you know find your place on the bike it really has become more of a race than a survival and that's why you know everybody talks about it being a very exciting time in the sport and that's the exact reason it's just the amount of guys and girls racing head to head make for yeah exciting racing something that we all love to see and watch and let's see who is all in that group but yeah it looks like there's still about 10 of them yeah it is and it's a big group while we're talking about all of it we have got view on our who to watch specifically today it's very important because your professional Triathlon career is not complete unless you win this race here it's especially in this year I would say it's probably even the most important race of the year because we have women and men combined so it's the strongest professional field we'll have in the sport so I didn't really focus too much about of course I had heard that Roth was a big race but I did it wasn't until I really got here and felt the atmosphere myself that it just blew my mind and then being able to take the victory it definitely changed something it's been something that I've grown up with you know hearing people talk about it and if you were to tell me one year ago that I'd be here as one of the favorites racing some previous Iron Man world champions challenge Ross Champions you know it's uh it's an amazing experience I'm looking forward to it because I don't think even I'm ready to see what it's all about yeah I think the the field is strong enough to definitely put this world record time in danger at least I think the sport developed over the past few years and of course there are certain factors that needs to play into this time but I wouldn't say no so I wouldn't be surprised if you have to go sup uh this world record time to to even be able to to win this race here now I'm obviously here to defend my title from last year that's what I'm aiming for but I also know that it's probably the deepest field in whatever so it's going to be extremely difficult and I usually approach a race knowing that I have a chance to win if I execute all my like smaller goals so that's what I focus on is just doing everything I can to execute those soak it all in and leave it all out there and that was just a few of our top contenders here today sebby Kinley of course probably not capable of the top spot today but he is definitely the sentimental favorite he's on his final year now speaking of retirement he's decided to do the long road so he's decided on a year-long retirement Jan is it something you've thought about doing or it's not the way you're going to go uh yes sorry I'm just distracted because the The Front Field is definitely done a bit of a kinky a little bit yeah it is definitely all uh went over the wrong way so we've just gone past the start again and this is that little you know that little uh appendix pit where we basically make up the distance and go past the start and under the bridge oh look at that they are they are going that's interesting maybe there's some intentional racing here I don't think so but um yeah there was definitely some very very excuse swimming there um to the point that I can't remember your question what was your question retirement retirement come on seriously the hard questions early on um yeah it's uh definitely a topic that's that's been on my mind for a while and um you know Championship level racing is definitely something very um all-consuming yeah and I've enjoyed it and I've loved it but you know I've basically had to come back from you know being very very far down the line I've had to teach myself honestly I've had to teach myself to run to even walk straight again after what was four surgeries last year and it's hard coming back you know it takes a while um I can definitely tell that you know my body needs more time and the early season racing has been tricky but you know it's something that I'm really looking forward to because I see the body responding so well after two years of not racing um it's something where I can tell that you know things are going forwards again and certainly watching these images today here make me realize that I yes um watching these boys and girls go at it it is an amazing race and you know you're like ah why am I sitting here again I should have probably done a Peter and uh and and doubled up doubled up oh I love it look no we know we're going to see you later on this year and I think a race course is always a way better place when you are you're you are on the start line but look at that now they have finally worked their way out they are now down at the far turn so once they make this turn yarn they will come back to the not quite to the start because they'll actually they the the where they get out is a little bit before the start line yeah but it's only about yeah maybe 100 meters yeah oh my hang on oh no no they have to go around they go around this that's right but it has been it has been a little bit of a dog's breakfast this last couple of hundred meters hasn't it to be honest I'll tell you what that's uh I didn't think it was uh quite so tricky to go in a straight line in the canal but uh of course it does it does happen and um especially when there's you know a lot of sighting going on quite tactical racing but this is yeah a long string bead of what is about 10 competitors that second and last turnaround now completed for the first of the athletes and you know mentally this is a point where you're kind of thinking to bring in the legs a little bit to get a bit of blood flow to the legs you can see you know the kick picking up probably for a lot of these guys they're getting ready for T1 mentally you're kind of going through the process of where you have to go it's a short transition here always which is of course something that contributes to some quick times and yeah we have the second group going the other way um which we'll probably have some of the fast cyclists but without a doubt they're going to be some some strong bikers in that and who knows this group is it's big it is you might just see Magnus well in there from the beginning it's funny you should say that I've just been given an update down on course and in to hit Magnus titlef is in that lead group so that is that is a scary Prospect for all of these professional men now let's be honest uh on paper I had the stats I had their swim times and we were not expecting a group this large to be exiting the swim together we have got upward of about eight to ten swimmers in this group as we said including the likes of Magnus ditlif we know Patrick Lange is there we've got Sam laidlow Daniel back at guard Ben Knute uh it's a way bigger group than we thought we were anticipating a group of two or three then a small Gap then another group of about three and four then another small Gap has there been a difference because it's been wetsuits or is it just because we have the quality and we have the depth here today well I don't think they're they're mutually exclusive you know it's definitely an incredible race that'll that's been talked about and hyped up for a long long time which means athletes have been getting ready and if you look at the structure of a race in what you want to do as an athlete well then you go to the drawing board and you say okay well in the swim I have to be up in the front and that's the thing about long distance swimming is that the pace is significantly lower if you compare it to what would be a half distance or a 70.3 distance and you can make up a lot more of swimming ground through aerobic fitness and it's just a lot more athletes putting in the work in the pool rather than just you know showing up for a 3K set and um you know relying on on the bike to make up the chunk of time because it's getting much closer the racing is much tighter but again this is an exciting point of the race that we haven't really seen before um you know Magnus did live being at the front from the beginning we're now 44 minutes into the swim um so they'll be coming around out and around probably a Touch under 46 minutes and Magnus was out last year in 50 minutes 49 or 50 minutes so he's already you know three to four minutes up on that time big difference and um without a doubt that bike uh bike leg is going to be absolutely smoking well we know he set the bike record here last year 401.56 can he dip under that magical four hour mark yeah well that's the thing I think you know the well we had since we have Starkey racing Andrew Starker which was always somebody who was very adamant on going under that four-hour Mark and I think Magnus is such a good racer because he's a smart racer and he doesn't care about a record an individual record he's going for the overall he's going for the total package and he's writing to his numbers he's very very smart about it I think the conditions are extremely good um I did get to see that 401 live um but you did indeed yes last year and let me tell you the numbers um yeah in order to to go that quick were certainly certainly quite demanding but um yeah I'm actually very much looking forward to seeing how they go because you know we'll have a good indication after the first lap of where they go it's actually uh one of the local bike shops that's got a premium on the on the quickest lap because it's even uh yes it is of course famous famous around these parts yeah indeed and he gave me a whole rundown in 2016 of my splits and where they were and I think I was within a few seconds and that's something that I would expect from Magnus as well just to be extremely evenly paced and here we are 46 minutes and change for the first to get out get their feed on land hopefully have a smooth and fast transition well speaking of splits to Blitz Supreme today that I am sure Magnus ditliff is not not thinking about right now but is a almost a sure thing to take today as you can see they make their way out of the swim now they will collect their their bags they'll make their way into the change tents now their helmets must be left on their bike so they had to leave their helmets on their bikes yesterday when they checked them in so they will be going into the tent now to take off their wetsuits race belts will go on nutrition will go in the pockets and then they will make their way towards their bikes where they'll then clip their helmets and then make their way out on to the bike course two laps here today the canyon 180 kilometer two Loop course it is definitely not a flat course here we've got about three decent climbs including Solara Berg and the one out at greeting as you can see our first mail looks like is that Patrick it's either Patrick or Ben canoe trying to get a close-up here thank you I think will be but it was certainly a lightning quick very fast transition um and uh you know the Dynamics of this group of course Sam being there as well you know when when he's on and when he wants it it's definitely a very very quick Duo that could be here I think um we might have Joe Skipper in for a word for those 1500 bucks to get this that's true he could do I think it's more more bragging rights than the 1500 Euros that these athletes are a worried about but that was a lightning quick transition and here we have the big man himself Magnus all racked up remember the rules here slightly changed so there's no hydration and there's no extra aerodynamic flares as they can also be described down athletes tops for I don't I don't actually know why but um yeah that is something that you won't be seeing in that race don't get me wrong personally I love it I think it looks absolutely terrible terrible it does it really looks terrible and just you know it just becomes too much of a spaceship show um so a little bit of classic time trialing position um never did the eye any harm to be quite frankly no I agree and look just so our audience know we are following the rules of the German Federation so they differ slightly to World Triathlon rules and with the German rules today no uh hydration down the chat on the front of the chest so that includes camelback's water bottles uh and simmer they are also not allowed to have any uh water bottles on their Era Bar M so Joe Skipper had to change he set up slightly for this race at least you'll be able to see the course this is true and that is indeed Ben Knute off the front first man out Sam Laidlaw just behind him Daniel Becker guard wow and not just sitting in that pack but actually um I'm sorry not just dangling off the back but actually sitting firmly Patrick Lange wow this is incredible um out there to go and make up the top six oh that is a group that is a lead group that catches some serious Firepower yeah what would be going through Patrick Lange's head right now because I did not and this is no disrespect to Patrick he's a great swimmer but I did not expect him to be in this lead group this early on well to be honest I think his level of swimming has always been very good he's had you know better and and and and not quite as strong swims but he's certainly somebody that I would have put as a stronger swimmer than say Magnus you know um he he's definitely made front packs more times than not and it just seems to be that this group is you know gone out for 46 minutes and changes also it's quick but it's not it's not lightning quick in terms of long distance swims we have seen some 45-minute kind of um swim so um it's definitely you know within his capabilities to be right up there and and I think he's a smart racer you know he races within himself and kind of um keeps keeps to what he knows he can do but it will be interesting now because definitely I know that you know Sam especially he's going to be super aggressive and and Magnus as well um to see how he fares yeah when when the when the guys get going on the bike had no support turned up solo this year we know he is here with his coach Ian's Patterson back he's here with one of his best friends Casper Patterson uh he's here with his girlfriend Steph Madsen so he's got a nice little group nice little group support group around him and you can just see that it it's always nice to I mean when you travel it's always better when you've got that group that support network around you just to to keep you calm to keep you focused to do all the little bits and pieces that you normally would have to do by yourself to have them do it for you so you can just focus 100 on the job ahead well that's one thing I mean you know Triathlon seems like so much of an individual uh Endeavor but really there is so much more behind it of people that support you and people that come around and you know Magnus probably had all those people in his Corner last year already or he definitely did but you know in terms of being able to travel with them and and professionalizing it all that is something that would be you would be new and indeed it's just a calming thing more than anything you know because yes you can get everything done and you can go to the shops and get the oats and whatever else you need for breakfast that's you know something we all do day to day but when you're going to take your mind off it and concentrate on the task at hit that is definitely yeah something that just brings a sense of calm and lets you mentally save a few biscuits before race day because we all know that mentally you know these guys and girls are gonna have to dig deep and you want to have as much energy in your physical but also in your mental tank as possible as we here have the swim exit um and yeah we can see that kind of yeah they put almost a minute into um into the next group Peter himrick racing back to back more or less just 15 seconds back he is a strong cyclist who might be able to to close that Gap um early on and we have our lead women now yarn so our lead women now out of the water and into transition so we are expecting vanilla language and Daniella riff let's it'll be very interesting to see what sort of Gap they've been able to put into the likes of Annie haug Laura Philippe and Chelsea cedaro still phenomenal I'm I'm I'm blown away that uh you know this Duo has come out and and put the time in that they have you can still see there's still no one out of the water in sight and again looks like another quick transition um onto the bike we go now it'll be interesting to see we know Daniela riff is definitely the strongest bike rider here today I wonder what vanilla language's tactic will be or will will she stick to her own her own game plan last year she was out of the water in the same position but she was on her own she got to dictate the first lap of the bike she was in front all the way into transition into T2 now she's got company from the start will she try and stay with Danny for as long as she can or will she keep to her own power what do you do here because it's you've got to make these decisions do I just up my Pace just a little to stay with someone to the likes of Daniela roof or do I say you know what I I don't want to do this I'm going to burn too many candles too early I'm just going to do my own thing do you do you play play it for a while I know I know when I used to get out of the water with some women that were better than me you try just for that little bit of time to see what it felt like but it's making that decision it's having having you know knowing when to enough's enough or whether to stay there and go with them yeah I think you know that's just something that brings out the writer yes in the athletes there is no way you will stick to your power window if you see someone like Daniella going and especially Daniella she's built up such a resume and such a repertoire over the years that you know it'll definitely be something that will give vanilla wings and just wanna wanna go and and stick together you know she's no she's no slouch herself on the bike and I think it's definitely something that's gonna make uh it life hard for the women chasing because daniela's never really had somebody who can ride with her and let's see what vanilla can can produce here again um just beautiful to see aggressive off the front and here she is creating a Vibe like she always does she does she definitely absolutely just loves a party and she loves the atmosphere and it's something that will push her um certainly through that first lap of the bike and you know we'll see how she goes in a second but I think these two women can actually continue to do quite a significant bit of damage over the first course and this is a beautiful thing actually about the course here in Roth where you go over the bridge now they're on to a left turn and there's a little bit of a descent and it allows you to put your shoes on and take on a little bit of nutrition and get just a tiny bit of rest rather than being into that time trial position straight away so you know it's only it's it's only probably 30 30 seconds or so but it is a little bit technical where you're actually not able to pedal and it just gives you a little bit of time to find yourself ready for uh uh for the course which Ben is leading on here that number at the back is an absolute aerodynamical nightmare for me to see it actually hurts looking at it fixed that number what is going on here that's costing you at least at least three or four whites on that otherwise incredibly aerodynamic setup but this is the thing you know that happens in racing you know people are now wearing calf guards and um have all the aerodynamic kind of setups and whatever it is um but uh yeah a little mistake where the number just comes undone um you know actually aerodynamically is is quite costly so yeah I kind of hope for him then he can either fix it or or it falls off at some stage and look at that I can see Peter heimrich has indeed made his way up to that front group he's now nine seconds so he is in this front group of men so Ben Knute from the USA leading this group but Ben canuti's been here for a couple of weeks he's got in here a couple of Wednesdays ago he wanted to spend some time on the course he's been over it quite a few times as we can see Madness did left doing exactly what he does best going straight to the front of this race unbelievable so yeah as I said Ben Knute here with his coach Jim Vance he's been with his coach for seven years now and this will be Ben only Ben's second time over this distance but Magnus did left is there a rider like him oh gosh it really is exciting to see because um yeah I mean I've I've had some first-hand uh blows being dealt by this man and it really is quite something what he can put out on the bike you know and it's very much a discussion often where we're athletes you know in the front are set to be gaining an advantage um by by being at the front simply because of the whole media coverage and Lead motorbikes and all this kind of thing and you know I think credit really where credit is due Magnus uh he's just the genuine package on the bike there is he's no fluke he's no slouch he definitely just puts out an extra 50 Watts that he seems to have you know if you if you look at his legs you're not quite sure where they come from because he's not a very muscly guy no he doesn't know he's a very tall guy but he's very tall which you know is kind of the opposite of what you would imagine the perfect ideal time trial it should look like but he yeah has managed to of course through a lot of his aerodynamic testing which he's quite famous for going to the wind tunnel and going to the track uh multiple times every season to get things right um and then um having the numbers with it to back it up you know he can comfortably push you know 450 Watts for for you know five to ten minutes which is a weapon that not a lot of athletes have and it's going to be interesting because obviously he has got that group now he's gone to the front so I think what we're going to see now is he's really going to start to pick up that pace we already know uh that we've had a few casualties so far uh Robert philcovesky has fallen off the back of that lead group so he was out of the water in that front group but he has now fallen out of that group we've got Peter Heinrich who's made his way into that group but it's going to be interesting once we get halfway throughout around this first Loop just to see how many have decided to bite the bullet and state try and stay with Magnus ditliff and those that are just not able to handle this hot Pace because I think those that do stay and start burning candles too early are going to pay the price on the Run yeah that could be I mean um Magnus last year made up a minute uh on on myself and Maurice clavel actually we were we were off the front within the first 40ks last year um and he he does so intentionally he's always very much aware of where people are in the pack in order to not drag them along and here we see vanilla taking the ball by the horns off the front and she has taken that energy from the bridge and the supporters um onto the first lap and giving it some horns I'm definitely excited or very much looking forward to seeing the Gap as well that these two girls have created we were yet to see that um but yeah when they start working together it definitely at the moment actually looks like vanilla's just there was three seconds out of transition between both vanilla and Daniella but right now it is it is vanilla the entire way she's coached by her partner Billy Harris so big shout out to Billy he does a fantastic job for with vanilla they're just they're such a delightful couple I love vanilla's attitude she's always happy when she loves to race uh and last year I still have memories of her going up Solara Berg last year and the joy that was on her face was absolutely Priceless I was here in studio and I I was just I had to smile uh just as big as hers because you could just see that she was absolutely thriving out there on this course and she hasn't been the talk let's be honest she hasn't been that the female that we've been talking about this week it's obviously been Annie Hauge our defending Champion Laura Philippe and Danny riff and Chelsea cedaro more so than vanilla so I think that's that's actually given her a little bit of an incentive to say well you know what you haven't been talking about me so much this week but I'm going to show you all and right now she's doing it in style leading the race great swim looking very very solid out on the bike so far yeah indeed and you can tell by the way the motorbike is riding that there's there should be a definite Gap there because they were right behind so you can tell there is uh daylight between her and and uh Daniela uh of course vanilla being used to putting out this kind of output on the swim and I don't think Daniella is someone who would necessarily over Pace but uh yeah we'll wait and see what's going on there as here vanilla absolutely dominates the first stage of this race now once we get all our age groupers out on the Racecourse just to let our audience know so they don't think they're seeing double the race suit that vanilla language is currently wearing she had a little bit of a competition and you could actually wear the same race suit as vanilla and I know for a fact that there will be 30 other female athletes out there in the exactly exact same race suit as vanilla is wearing on screen right now so you aren't seeing double there will actually be 31 athletes on course in that same race suit yeah absolutely she's uh done a good job of matching up bike wheels and suit certainly look the part so let's see how far it carries her now Jan while we're got our professional men and women on the bike just to let our audience know we actually have got 40 less Motors on course today so uh about three or four months ago I think it started at the end of last year and uh Felix got together with quite a few of the professional athletes including the likes of Laura Philippe and also uh Patrick Lange to talk about what they could do to make this race as Fair a race as possible and both athletes I think Laura siddle was also involved in this discussion said we need fewer Motors on course and so that's what they have done so we have 40 less Motors on course making it a fairer race for all but also in doing so making it a safer race for all obviously we'd like to acknowledge the tragic event that occurred three weeks ago in Hamburg and our deepest condolences go out to the family and friends of the Lost motorbike rider as well as the athlete and photographer involved I think we all need as the sport of triathlon we need to work together to ensure that all races around the world are safe secure and fair not just for our professional athletes but for our age group athletes as well we need to unite as one and make sure that moving forward this sort of thing never ever happens again I think in order to hold a fair race you firstly need a safe race and that is what Felix Wilshire and his team are doing here today and so far looks fantastic looks like a very very fair race vanilla out in front Daniella Reef somewhere behind I'm actually surprised but like you said I think Daniella would be just finding her own fit at the moment getting into her own Rhythm uh and I don't think it'll be too long before we see Danny Reef up uh with vanilla language but as you said vanilla very very strong bike rider in her own right yes we can see the next wave of age groupers go you know for Daniela um this sounds quite wrong but I almost hope something's gone a little bit wrong in T1 because whenever it does it just fires up even more it really does I mean she's been stung by jellyfish and it just really you know it kind of settled back a little for a little bit and then just brought out the best dinner and I I think that little bit of adversity is something where you know it really gets her riled up and gets her motivated and and just you know that little bit of adrenaline is probably what she needs in order to get her personal best out of herself I still remember one uh one time here in Roth that she'd something had happened but she had to serve a a 60-second penalty in T1 and you know normally that would get you frustrated and but she was as cool as a cucumber stood there served the time clicked the helmet took a bike out she went and got on with business and end of the story is she did win that day so it didn't do her any harm yeah and especially a 60 second penalty that's normally like that oh that's a minor infringement of something that you really oh you know it just it just gets to you and of course that's the mindset of a champion you know if you're able to turn adversity into forward motion that's how you win because it is still a very long day even though the days you know with the development of the sport are getting shorter and shorter uh there is still a lot of opportunity for there to be some kind of mishap and for everything to be super smooth still is you know very very seldom in in this kind of distance of racing and and part of the beauty of it and something that Pros have to figure out while our professional professional and women are well and truly onto the bike course here in Roth you can see our age group athletes still making their way around the swim Course once we've got our 3500 age group athletes underway we've still got 600 relay teams left to go so the relay race here very very popular as the canal fills up it's not quite as glassy and clear as it was this morning just uh yeah three and a half thousand people making a splash Making Waves as we recap from our 6 30 start this morning our professional men started at 6 30 Sharp and it was Sam and laidlow that took an early lead in our swim today of course that group would come to one and we've got about seven or eight professional men swimming in that lead group and then our professional women underway at 633 and it didn't take vanilla language or Danny roof long to create a huge gap between themselves and their chases but nice fast swims Ben Knute was first out 46 minutes and change for our professional men here today as they made their way into transition really quick transition from Ben Knute of course coming from a short course background originally we didn't expect anything less our women coming out in around that 50 minute mark and it was Vanilla language and Danielle Arif but beautiful conditions down there nt1 glassy conditions in the canal we know that it's only only about a nine kilometer an hour wind blowing the sun is shining it's a chilly start I must admit I'm still a little cold here now and in our studio um definitely uh yeah I did not expect that I didn't bring a jumper or anything I can't believe you are you are the European I am I am the silly Aussie and I bought my jacket and you've made a rookie mistake and no jacket for you just a t-shirt I tell you what I don't want to be whinging but we have had the worst start of summer in Andorra for the last six weeks have been absolutely terrible and uh probably three days ago just turned into summer all of a sudden and everybody has been telling me about how great the weather is in Germany and everybody's sweating and it's 30 plus degrees a little bit spiteful so probably that's why I didn't even pack a jumper because everyone's been telling me how good it is but I tell you what who's not cold is Ben Knute here on screen Magnus did laugh um right there it's incredible you know you look at that position and it's it's he's really upright you know a lot of others I agree I agree which is probably what allow him to push such uh such good power because you know as more as the more you close that hip angle the the harder it is to produce power and I think that's a mistake a lot of athletes including myself have actually actually made that if you're too aerodynamic you're not able to produce the power and it's a fine balance you have to find but with all the testing that he's done um we definitely know it's Error despite his number also dangling on the back my gosh it's killing me you gotta stop looking at this number yeah it's going to be the death of You by the end of the day and look we know Magnus did live one thing I can say about him and I think separates him from a lot of the others is he is him and his team are absolutely meticulous apart from this race number or absolutely meticulous when it comes with that those finer details like you were just saying so while he might not look as aerodynamic as some of his competitors we know that there is a reason behind that that obviously he gets greater power and also when it comes to the Run he's able to get more out of himself when it comes to the marathon but biggest question we can see on screen can Magnus ditliff break his own bike record 40156 is the record that he set this time last year and can he break it today and as you said I don't think it's he's one of his goals his sole goal is to cross that Finish Line in first place we know that but it will be interesting will he have to break that record in order to get across that Finish Line in first place yeah I think it's some something that the overall record is definitely looking at at being broken by by a few of the athletes but again he's just in such an probably unfamiliar situation that he's off the front he's able to save energy you know normally at this time he's burning which of course is something that makes for a fast bike split um but we'll see how much that you know affects him on the second lap um you know last year probably the last 10k of the bike he did um well I would probably tend to say conserve a bit of energy rather than drop off and that is looking awfully close um for uh for for the pack Dynamics there but we can see everybody's still together and of course yeah it's always the the camera angle from the front that makes things look like they're all stacked up together but from what I can definitely confirm here in in Roth I mean the course is obviously something that over the last 40 years has been fine-tuned and perfected but Felix welshever the man himself is out there actually marshalling the motorbikes and making sure that the situation is fair stays fair and always I think has been some of the fairest I remember in in 2016 you know he was sitting behind me about 10 meters behind me and personally marshaling each individual motorbike that was up allowed to come up beside me for uh for a shot and that is something he's very very passionate about and you know that's something that should also be mentioned you know the family we've asked whoever that runs this race is just it's just another level of passion and commitment that they bring to this event it is close to their heart it is close to their home and the way that we as athletes identify as athletes you know they identify as challenge Rock it is just simply very very impressive and cool to see where they've taken this race and and and continue to do and that's why they're you know getting such great Fields as well because it really has become that that race of the year you know people want to go and and and and people want to be and uh yeah here we find ourselves freezing up butts off and having serious fun of being on course this is this is going to be my 18th year I've raced this race 10 times it's eight years now working the other side I know they've also for family extremely well they're not only someone I work for that I they're very very close friends of mine their team is without about without a doubt the greatest Triathlon team in the world Bar None uh that as you said the passion that they show for this race each and every year they're not willing to rest on their Laurels they want to make it better they want to make it safer they want to make it fairer for everyone not just the professional athletes yarn but for the age group athletes as well they want to make it an experience that they will remember for the rest of their lives and you're right I love seeing Felix and Catherine out there on the course making sure that everything is as it should be we know that there's been lots of safety um changes made to the bicos for example there's one descent switchbacks I think you know that's uh rather well the Switchback section happy to report no more hay bales on that section they've actually got ski impact protection mats which might have come in handier when you race to hear last because I I do believe you took a little bit of a spill a little bit not that it affected you at the end of the day you uh still broke the record and uh but yeah just little things like that that they're always thinking outside of the box so ski impact protection mats instead of the the straw there's no Cobblestone sections on the course there's no out and back sections on the course the course was swept last night so there's no no debris at all they've made sure that there are no potholes you can see it's absolutely pristine and what a great shot here of of the the professional men they look you can see 12 meter rule is what we're running here today so yeah well that's it's kind of the thing that you have to have on a two lap course as well you know it's it's uh it's just something that logistically when you have three and a half thousand people on a course you need to somehow also be realistic about the gaps that you can that you can keep you know because there's forever that 20 or 12 meter debate um Sam laidlow here at the back of the pack playing a smart race earlier on I think he paid the price uh earlier in in one of his races in in Lanzarote that would have been where he probably did outpace himself a little bit sooner on the race but I can attest actually I got in last night at about 10 30 early and I still saw people preparing and putting the final touches on the course it really is a stage set for Great Performances and yeah we'll see what still happens here I think Magnus definitely controlling the race early on um actually I was listening to Patrick dissect his race a couple of years ago and talking about the numbers that he was looking to push on solaro Berg and um and and the various climes out there and I think you know currently that's what you can see the the boys are playing the Tactical game and looking and preparing to push some big numbers um once we get to the Hillier parts of the course now speaking of tactics as we can see that that tactics involved on this course here in Roth the security and the fairness is of highest priority so one of the first things we changed after last year we have thousands of hay bowls that we place and all the difficult sections downhill steep turns etc etc this year we have organized T impact protection mats for the whole course from the talks with the pros they told us hey there are too many motorcycles in the front especially from media photographers etc etc so after speaking with the pros the Federation Etc we took the decision to take out those motorcycles that's 40 motorcycles less this year than last year the hot spots out on the bike course where the solar Hill is of course the main main one where I remember also first time I probably rode 200 Watts too much because I was just so hyped and people were screaming and then we got to the top and got away from all the crowd and I was thinking what the what is wrong with my like my hearing because it was so loud still that it was as if there was a noise in my head for 10 or 15 minutes afterwards so it was crazy and people were touching me on the bike which is it was a little bit scary but also super cool the bike obviously everybody is pointing out solar Hill because it's so crowded but it's not really a hill to be honest creating is much more decisive in the in a race in my opinion especially on the second Loop this is usually where we see some some gaps open up and also in the in the first Loop if you have the power that's where you can make a difference the goal is to ride as fast as possible whilst using as little energy as possible so that should be people's mango foreign [Music] welcome to the show the man talking and knowing more about aerodynamics uh well these days Innovations but um yeah as we saw Sam laidlow on screen which is an athlete riding essentially your bike why don't you give us a little bit of insight on what you think of where the triathlon bikes have gone in the last well since you're it's your time hey good morning first of all uh yeah I think we see Crazy Good Times the last few years we did our best to do our part on it we developed a little bit uh also together with you of course the last eight years I think so yeah I think bikes development will never stop it's an ongoing thing and we see yeah really good good solutions to improve the aerodynamics yeah yeah I mean it's crazy if concepts of bikes per se you know like beam bikes and all these things you know they're all ideas that have come from the 80s essentially and is it you know are they are there new ideas or is it better manufacturing techniques um what do you think where can we still see uh improvements coming from because you know you go to the wind tunnel and you find a what here and there and you find little minor increments um but you've really done something to to find a lot of gains you know over the last year so do you think uh well where do you see an area where there's still possibilities everywhere I think when we see the former times with uh you or Jung Zach or Norman or something like that I think the bank attack the the the most thing which changed is that you involve a big group of people experts on every little sector you you have the rise and guys developing a fast suit we check helmets we do our best to improve the bikes we do the best to improve the interference between athlete and bike so yeah it's it's going step by step by step like counting nuts and yeah I like that that was a direct translation for those of you speak English I hope you don't find too many it's what five Watts by what yeah and that's the thing the the interesting thing which is happening right now is that we are reaching the limits of the rules of the sport at this race the first time I think well it's interesting you talk about rules because Riders have to wear their bib number on the bike so we're talking now about all these incredible advancements that we've made in aerodynamics and saving Watts but yarn here is having a very hard time looking at the footage and seeing these right now you can see it these numbers flapping around on their backs you know how much of a difference is that going to make it's a little thing it doesn't make too much yeah yeah but yeah they also don't make a difference it's maybe a what or one and a half or something like that but yeah we also also had a solution for that already yeah of course just don't tell them [Laughter] can't give all our secrets away can we you don't want to kick them I mean there's a commercial company as well that actually sells like a little pouch that you could put them into and um yeah there are things it's just you know it's just one of those things where you see yeah everything coming together and looking like a spacecraft um and then um that number fluffy the rules is that they don't allow anything inside the fuel yes this race this is a big big change it's it was pretty modern and I think it's it it was on the edge of what is uh illegal or not accepted yeah and of course we saw this trend and we developed it a little bit further and a few weeks ago I sent an email to Felix and said Felix do you see we have this do you think it's allowed or not and then they checked it and finally they came to the decision that should not be there at this race so just to explain that um something that is called an aerodynamic Flair that actually has no purpose per se on the bike is considered illegal um and that's why a lot of these systems are combined with a function such as a drink bottle or something like that so that they actually have a functionality and then therefore become allowed whereas in aerodynamic flaring which is purely there to make the bike or the rider more aerodynamic is not allowed but just a quick look onto vanilla still here out in the front um lonely days I would love to get an update if we can at some stage to see what the gaps are in the in the women's field as well as the men's field just Wolfie being here from the canyon team I also haven't seen Daniel Becker guard out yet who's somebody who expected to be out in the very front of the swim anyways um so oh here we go here are some splits Lisa Norden 250 two down wow Chelsea cedaro almost three minutes now four and a half minutes for Laura Phillip wow that's quite that's quite interesting I didn't expect Laura Phillip to be that far down this early on in the race and look at that and how 5 10 down wow we were missing Danny Reef yes she was off the front she's off the front that is exactly right she is off the front she has got around a 30 to 40 second lead over vanilla language so Danny Reef from Switzerland actually leading our women's race here today vanilla language Great Britain in second but you have five minutes four minutes for Laura Philippe and five minutes for our defending champ and how what do you think of that this early on in the bike yarn I mean obviously we know Annie one of the best if not the best runner in the sport right now it's well between her and Chelsea it's definitely uh could be a very very uh interesting interesting battle and you know as as the old saying goes a a race is a test of exhaustion to everybody but the winner and we could actually see these two girls go head to head uh and uh and really push what is the limit of a marathon time because I see them in a similar ballpark yes um to be quite Frank and yeah um that would be something that would be an absolute eye candy to The Spectator here we go past being made uh to be honest very hard to tell from here now obviously back when I was racing wind tunnels existed but they were few and far between exceptionally expensive to go to and throughout my entire career I never actually ever got the opportunity to go so obviously I did quite a bit of bike fitting back in my day but never got the opportunity to go to a winter tunnel how important obviously for our professional athletes it's a must but how important is it safe for our age group athletes is it an absolute necessity or is it is it is it a luxury that they don't really need I see the as an important thing for every athlete who has higher Ambitions to qualify for something or to chase his best time for sure but the most important thing for all of the age group athletes out there is to have fun yeah you know not to overdo it technically wise just go there and try to have a good day at race day as well yeah well I think that's why we always call the bike the the time trial bike is the small man's Formula One car allows you to play with it but maybe both of you can explain to us a little bit more the difference also about going to the track and uh and going to the wind tunnel you know the difference of actually having to put out power uh being able to replicate results and and where you see the difference yeah the perfect solution is not there I would say yeah so on the track you have more real power output more real riding behavior and things like that but you only have one your ankle the air is always coming directly from the front as in the Wind Tunnel you can control the position a little bit better you have different your angles and can weight them so you have a final result for a real world wind condition and you know we sometimes even combined it so one day track test the other day wind tunnel test and we we try to get the best result and the best overall view out of that yeah yeah but the perfect thing is not there you know how hard it sometimes is to even charge the results of the Wind Tunnel at this second you get them yeah of course and they you know those those scales that in that that measure the the wind resistance I mean they're so fine-tuned that any little thing can really throw you on and off and you know Wolfie and I we've had some some interesting sessions there where we've celebrated we've had others where we wanted to throw our heads against the wall and that's really something that you wouldn't see as something emotional but I think we've grown as a team and kind of brought everybody together over the times um you know personally I always found that the wind tunnel is great for testing gear uh testing material testing kind of air diving aerodynamic developments but of course like you said it's not under power so what happens in the wind tunnel is that you're actually spinning quite freely you've only probably got about 100 watts to Pedal whereas uh on the on the track you know when you're trying to put out race power um that certainly makes it more realistic as to yeah what we're seeing on screen now you know trying to to keep a steady position trying to hold it together um just as we see Magnus looking back um trying to see who's still with them we know that Sam laidlow is still with him and Daniel backer guard who was sort of yo-yoing back and forward back and forth but it looks like he's back up there now as well so we've got the three lead men and they've they've created a little bit of a gap back to Ben knut yeah oh well okay so so Ben and Patrick were together they are still together but they are they they are that that elastic band is I started to break and we've got the Magnus of course still leading with Sam laidlow and Daniel backer guard and then a little further back there you go oh yeah absolutely and then you can see that a gap is created and Ben Knute and Patrick Langer are no longer in this lead group oh well maybe not bad for Patrick trying to keep his power and his power I totally agree and I think I I agree with you and I think if he over does over ride here and trying to stay with these big biking powerhouses then it it will definitely affect his his marathon and I think one of the things that we're most excited about with Patrick today is seeing what he's capable of On The Run he ran a 235 here last year we know his fastest there's a two 231 uh can he get under that elusive to our 30 Mark we know he's wearing some prototype shoes haven't been seen before he's sponsored by Adidas and they've got some new Super Shoe super secret yeah well that's the thing the rules here again are also different for this race where uh the the 50 mil shoes are allowed so they're the shoes we saw stuff Eden win uh um that's what Patrick ran his 230 30 I think it was 230 30 year right in Israel that's correct Just a Touch over um so yeah no aerodynamic flarings but we do have 50 millimeter shoes so it's definitely making it um yeah a unique race in terms of um of of where the rules are and of course I think let's be honest the stage is set everything here is looking for a record so um so here we go we did send out a question to our audience earlier can Magnus break his own bike record here of 401 I would personally love to see that for our Mark broken and and not that records mean everything but it just I love seeing advancements in our sport we know that it's due to these athletes getting faster but it's also got a lot to do with the equipment obviously yeah yeah definitely this would not be possible ten years ago I think no definitely not and just imagine a nice suit without sleeves and the nice alloy rooms let it covered up this at the back I mean you've seen you've seen it all um what do you think um what's what's excited you the most over the last you know 10 years of what's coming in terms of aerodynamic developments uh equipment by assuming yeah yes ah well and just uh for me personally it was the thing that us being able to influence it on a really high level and uh I think you see some Trends from time to time where we started it was all about hydration nutrition taking new things integrating storage to the bikes that's where we started and then it switched over from printing bottles for every race and designing bottles around the bike to the cockpit thing that's what we did started maybe 18 that's what we did 19 to a super high level and yeah we are pretty proud that a lot of guys you see on the race right now copied us yeah absolutely yeah you can tell that yeah 3D printed cockpit that's just custom made um yeah there's not a seam on that on the on the bottom of that bar it's just um yeah very very fine-tuned it's it's really nice to see Magnus riding uh really a good solution I would say but where we did this 2019 yarn he had a solution with duct tape and a yoga mat on top of it it was a yoga mat really yeah yeah yeah yeah I I'm selecting all of the pictures I call it try cockpit Trends and once there is update I send it to my colleagues and see what they got wow so look at this there must be a solid Gap if uh if the cars are even behind there the three guys flying off the front and what are we aware about oh I would say two or three k away from from the first big climb out the back of at the back of uh grading grading that's right um is this already creating um well it's not quite big yet but they're on their way but they're not they're not too far away from it should be it's a long a few minutes um and yeah this will be the first lap second time they come around here they'll be in the full blast of the Sun and you can see Magnus yeah pushing off the front two boys at the back just um staying a little bit closer together and saving their energy because they know what's coming yeah I mean this is five minutes there's really no need for them to do anything they know that Magnus is an incredible Rider he's going to ride this he's going to Pace this to perfection so really Sam laidlow now leaving a gap of longer than 12 meters which is great to see you can see Sam laidlow really making sure that he's staying out of that draft Zone and just pacing off the back of Magnuson this is the turn so they are turning into just they'll go to this next turn and then they will start climbing up greeting so this is the longest and probably most difficult of the climbs that they do today it's at the back end of the course there's a hot spot out there and so there'll be music playing there'll be a commentator screaming at the mob by the second lap of this it's a lot more crowded but this is uh definitely it's a fun climb to do it's obviously nothing like Solara Berg uh but it's a it's a really good climb and I know that when I used to ride here the second lap here used to make or break me so if I hadn't paced myself well on the first lap this is where I suffered not so much on the climb itself but it's quite deceiving because you will climb upgrading and then you've got like so you know it you're not there's that false flat and by the time you get to the second lap the wind is also picked up it's often a a headwind making that that little bit harder but you can see now they start that climb proper and it's yeah it is definitely the hardest climb on the course here today yeah I would I would agree uh I don't know how it is during racing but I live close in this area I ride it sometimes during the year and you think you did the climb and then you have a little a little reprieve yeah it goes on and on and on and at the top there that's where you make the difference also I mean definitely because everybody is ready to come here and you know push whatever it is even you know six watts per kilo up here and and really fly um and of course here uh seeing the athletes get out of the error position that tells you that the gradient must be quite a bit uh you say uh it's a fun climb I'm assuming you're talking about type two fun then that crazy sort of fun that only athletes like sound like your Friday night kind of fun but but it's a special part of the race simply because it's a good gradient it breaks up the course and um you know in terms of comfort which is something that we've worked on a lot too over the years um it's quite nice to have a climb in there that you can get out of the error position get on the base pass maybe even get out of the saddle and just look to push power push Watts which yeah you can see Sam finding a rhythm that bought upper body rocking ever so slightly and just yeah using all that he's got to get up there nice Cadence and um such a crazy mindset I would say yeah there's there's no way it's not until he pulls up on the side of the road he will he will do that before he lets go but then again sometimes with Magnus you just don't have a choice it just happens for you that's right it just happens for you and uh again you know you can see um yeah just a fearful Pace being set yep now listen before we let you go I have to a question because obviously I've been based in Girona which is a big cycling community Triathlon community been in Europe now for just over a month I can't believe the amount of cyclists and triathletes riding Canyon it's almost and you know we we see this we see this throughout years one minute track's the flavor of the month and then the next time it sits Civello but really over the last couple of years Canyon has really really it's gone next level and there just seemed to be so many not only professional athletes writing the frames but also age group athletes as well have what's the reason for that I mean is it because it is the best bike on the market right now I mean you're not allowed to talk here one reason is sitting on your left side because we we really try to develop the stuff with our pro athletes we and I think this is also uh recognized by uh the customers out there we always have a strong design philosophy behind the bike and we try to combine it with the best tech and it's really nice that Solutions like this uh are recognized on on the market yeah but of course we also have strong strong relations to the pros yeah well you can see it and it seems to be continuing I mean we've got Sam ladlow obviously doing very very well now as you said he's not leading the race but right there uh behind Magnus ditliff but uh listen great to have you on the show thank you very much indeed indeed I mean I was just going to add that um you know a canyon does of course and has always had quite a disruptive Concept in terms of being the first to actually sell directly to the consumer yeah um and that is something we haven't found it hasn't always been the most popular thing but it's definitely something that's taken off now and and people are very much recognizing it that um yeah yeah you have a that direct contact UM almost like we do as professional athletes absolutely I love it it's great thank you for being on the show enjoy the race we will indeed we just need it to warm up just a couple degrees [Music] oh look have a great day and uh thanks for coming on the show okay wonderful bye thanks and here we are on that false flat that we were talking about um Magnus on there he's back in the error position and you can see he's now working harder now he's definitely putting in and and you can see his upper body rocking he's putting some some solid power um we saw Sam in the longer shot not too far off but yeah this is the first time the boys really want to know what's uh uh who's where um Magnus keeps looking back and not getting too much help um up the front but yeah here is Sam riding this the smart line close to the center and um yeah it is certainly certainly a good stage of the race where first gaps are being made hopefully we'll get some splits on that soon to to get a bit more update of of the overall Global race situation but right now it is just and so we are going to cross down to Travis Who's down on ground with oh and a guest so let's see what Travis has to say Travis can you hear me yes I can barely hear you but I'm here with Olympic bronze medalist from Tokyo 2020 Sarah welbrook what are your impressions so far in Roth and what are you doing here it's amazing I just went in through the bridge and it hit so many people they were all cheering for the pros and I had goosebumps it's amazing it's a huge event and I'm pretty happy to be here amazing and what are you doing here I'm starting in a charity relay for 81 and they're donating a 10 000 Euros for a German Health Organization for children in need oh that is amazing okay and you saw our Pros like you said come in what do you think about the pro triathletes and how do they compare to you well they're pretty fast try athletes are pretty good and actually every three disciplines and actually also in swimming especially like Patrick Langan he's a pretty good swimmer uh yeah I'm pretty impressed Triumph leads are so like strict to their plan and they train so hard and so much really impressive amazing and uh what time are you hoping for you're swimming today what time will you be looking to get um I think between 47 and maybe 52 minutes should be releasing I think you'll be overtaking a lot of people here behind us I hope so very good thank you so much for your time I know you've got to run and jump in but we really appreciate it thank you so much you're welcome thanks a lot thanks a lot Travis that was great well as I said our relay race here today 600 different relay teams racing we've got some great teams I know that team is looking to race around or try and break that seven and a half hour mark As we see vanilla language on screen so just to look you have an update fanella is actually in second place leading our our race here today is the Angry Bird herself Daniela riff we will try and get you an update uh and some video footage of Daniella but we know fanella language currently in second place with Lisa Norton in third Chelsea cedaro back in fourth and Laura Phillip in fifth so our women uh Daniela riff with about a one minute 37 Gap now over vanilla language so she is really starting to open that Gap up but it's to be expected to be honest I think around 338 back are our next uh women which is Lisa Nord and Chelsea cedaro and then at 5 22 back we've got Laura Philippe so Laura Philippe trying to make her way up but still you know a couple of minutes in arrears of Lisa Norton Chelsea cedaro and then Annie houg at 6 10 down so 610 down on our leader Reef but that is our women's race here today as I said we will try and get some footage of Danny Reef as soon as we can but big news in our men's race is that Daniel backer guard has not been able to keep the pace of Sam laidlow and Magnus ditliff so it is now a two-man band out in front yarn yeah it's uh kind of what was to be expected of those those two well number one and two on on the on the bibs who are probably the strongest bike riders you know Sam is definitely um somebody who's shown that he has tremendous talent and tremendous ability on the bike and um and and Magnus very much being the calculated in my eyes best rider in the sport at the moment and you know if they make for a very dynamic duo and if they can share any of the workload which so far they haven't no um has been a lot of sharing done at all no there's not not too much sharing or caring um but you know Magnus yeah for someone like him to even get a few kilometers of help in between is also something that he's not used to that could yeah definitely help in getting him um through what would be his perfectly paced kind of race you know Sam is definitely leaving a big big gap to him so there's probably not that much Advantage but oh hang on are these the lead men because if they were then there are no okay no this is a group of four can't quite tell what this is from the from the top this must be I'm guessing a woman's Chase pack maybe maybe very hard to tell from uh from here especially with my short side uh short-sighted eyes but yeah a lot going on at the moment and we'll continue to try and get some more splits to give you a global position of where things are at at the bike and finally here we go here we go oh and she is working you can just tell she gets in that Groove she gets in that Rhythm being passed here by probably an age men or it could it could possibly actually be one of our slower pro professional male swimmers that's finally overtaken it because our Pro our first age group men were going off until 6 50. so quite a way behind our professionals because of course we did see them we did see the the those lead women actually catch some of them correct correct some of the others um I tell you what though whoever was must be a decent bike rider because not many people can pass Daniela at race Pace quite like that um yeah and she is putting in a solid chunk of time you know she's taken a minute onto onto pretty much everybody more onto vanilla uh as she is here in greeting and about to get up the climb the first time and of course her you know living and training in in and around Switzerland and um Saint Moritz she this is the part that she would relish you know she's looking forward to the climb she's looking forward to making some good time and this is her kind of territory so yeah next time we get some splits up at the top of the hill and look while we're looking at Danny riff as you can see out of the saddle that shows you just how steep this climb is that she has chosen to get out of the saddle to get herself upgrading we are going to go to another little clip on Triathlon secrets [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you what can I live with foreign my family they're really my motivation and my greatest support and they are the reason I'm able to do what I do you know what I work with the most brilliant coach in the world and so I 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course out reigning world champion Chelsea cedaro absolutely brilliant athletes oh unbelievable rice that was pretty nuts I have to say um seeing it live out on course and that was a a really special day to be spectating and yeah seeing her as she said go to work on that marrow alone she left no Sterling stone unturned she certainly didn't and you know Jan she's really been focused about this race as I said she her and the family her husband Steve and their little girl Skye moved across to Switzerland they've been based in Saint maritz for quite a long time now with her coach Dan pleuse who they have such a mutual respect I think watching these two the relationship that they have as coach and athlete is something truly special and I know you have it with your coach Dan larangan I love seeing the dynamic and when it works well it really really works well and I think she's coming into this race in a really good headspace she didn't have the race that we knew she was capable of at the PTO Champs in Ibiza and it has been a little bit of a rocky a rocky season but I know that she's been putting in the work in Switzerland and her coach Dan very very happy where she is now she's currently around 3 39 down on this woman on screen Daniella riff who is having an incredible race so far also based in Saint maritz under her coach Brett Sutton who she did leave for a little while but has gone back to now and I think you know it's it's funny obviously her and Brett work very very well together she's won multiple world championships under him but then she needed to take that time out has decided that she that she needs to come back and so far looking very very strong out there on the bike course can you see the dynamic looking from the side between her and Finelli you can just see uh that aggression when she's you know really pushing the pedals especially here on the climb where she's trying to create that difference where whereas other athletes are more trying to defend you know they're trying to be within their power zones and they're trying to you know get up there with as little damage as possible she is the one inflicting the damage and um yeah I'd love to get a a shot of Chelsea uh in that same position and and see where she's at as you mentioned she does have uh formed a re or seemed to have formed a really good relationship with Dan they haven't been working together that long as we mentioned earlier on but yeah he's definitely very Hands-On he's come over to Switzerland to spend some time he's actually racing out there today is trying to win the amateur race here today yeah good old dad so you can never stop him no the former world champion and I believe also course record holder for the age groupers in in Hawaii so he's a very very ambitious man himself um but yes he does have you know a lot of the pieces of the puzzle together you know when he looks at the scientific side but to have that combination as an athlete who's on the inside and can really experiment with a lot of things you know that that is that is absolutely unique and something that um I think Dan has has convinced a lot of athletes to come and train with Dan you know he does have a a strong roster of athletes nowadays but also having to fit in the fact that she's a new mom you know just gave him given birth to to Skye having to fit that Vector into the equation as well can't be easy no it can't be easy and she's very vocal about it too you know it's very much something that's on her list of priorities is what she wants to promote is equality and opportunities for women in sport and you know good honor I think that's um it's no easy task you know I looked at it after Kona and you know she was sending pushing that message very proactively and going you know out of her way to to to be heard that she was doing a lot with the added media commitments that she's had um being a mum and trying to get back ready for the sport because let's be honest no one's waiting for you no you go out and all of a sudden because of one day you have all these extra opportunities um some may call them obligations whatever it is it takes a lot out of you you know so for her to be said to have a rocky start to the season uh let's be honest and let's be fair you know you have to find that role and you have to find yourself um it took me I don't know how many years after the Olympics to get back into any decent kind of shape because I just thought oh you know I've done it now I'm here and you know that's not how the world works and that's why I think Dan would be a very um very good help for her as well to you know guide her back to form and and and and see that the numbers add up again all whilst you know fulfilling and and living your dream as a as a world champion so it's not easy and I think she's done a great job so far and let's be honest you know this is the first really big race since her world title absolutely and I know that she is ready and she's focused and she is prepared as is this young man the super Dane deadly Squad he's getting for help poor guy the only thing that's happening is that he's looking back and and losing a bit of speed every time he's um what do we got 43 seconds now down your back again is behind so he was originally with this lead group of two he's now 43 seconds behind we know behind Daniel we've got that group of Patrick Lange Ben Knute and Peter heimrich so those three writing very very well they're at about a minute twenty two uh sorry they're about they're about a minute back so it'll be interesting to see if that's changed but they that they're actually writing it very very well so it'll be poor old Daniel sort of in no man's land right now between the two well yeah I mean 43 seconds and and that's since the start of the climb so we haven't gone to this descent yet if I'm not mistaken they're about to start descending um which is what we what we talked about earlier don't take my advice on this decision yes it almost cost me fatherhood at the time actually honestly I'm getting butterflies in my stomach I was commentating obviously doing the live coverage that day back in 2016. and you but you know what Jan this is what happens you were so focused and you were absolutely going for it like you said the goal was to get that time so you had to take risks and it it actually rained in the first day so that's what happens it was wet and my my back wheel went and I just didn't I didn't think I'd get around the corner this came a little bit too hot and um that's all right you know it's uh it's what happened nothing nothing too bad too bad that's right you got straight back on but the picture of my voice was elevated for for a half an hour and then um you know things kept going but yeah it's what we said earlier about Daniela such situations can often just take your monofocus off and give you that shot of adrenaline that seemed like a setback but in the end you know okay yeah you lose the speed and whatever else but that adrenaline is really something that carries you for a long time and um you know it's something that people at home can perhaps imagine when they're um um going out for a job and there's a dog coming you know just to the gate and you get that fright and all of a sudden you've got that extra bit of kick to to pick up the pace and that's really all that happening you know even even on a professional level where a body reaction such as you know um yeah just reacting with a bit of adrenaline can actually be quite an aid well yeah oh it was I I still remember 2016. incredible day we're in for another incredible day here today we do have Felix volsifer who is on a Moto following the professional man and the professional women we've been told oh I can see him on screen now Felix hello morning Felix can we hear you I don't know if we can quite hear you yet we need to get some sound on Felix can you hear me Belinda yes we can beautiful wonderful hey sweetie hey Yan how are you hey Felix morning enjoying the race so far how about you yeah it's amazing I'm um I'm just behind the third man so Magnus and Sam just came through and Then followed by Danielle and we are waiting for the others now to come um beautiful day if you see the cornfields here no wind absolutely stunning absolutely stunning and what makes me most happy I don't know if you see it on the TV pictures the new system with less motorcycles is really really working so it's very easy for us to go through because there is no clotting together anymore so very uh very much relief now we did talk about that that there's you know we've got 40 less Motors on course some of the safety measures that you've you've put into play for this year's race are extraordinary we know that the Moto Riders are wearing black bands around their arms uh in memory of the the Lost Moto Rider from a few weeks ago but so far it's looking like a very fair very safe race for everyone out there absolutely the referees are doing a really good job the Motorcycle drivers are driving super carefully um so yeah it's really really good I'm very very happy now the the question Felix are we going to see this guy's record go today good question Belinda if you would ask me now as I said there is no wind here um it's really beautiful um it's not too hot um they are they're looking all really really strong um I I think it is absolutely possible and with the women's race we've got Daniella riff that is just stormed through to the front racing like The Angry Bird that you know she is but great to see fanella also there in second place and uh Laura Felipe and anyhow just that little bit further around that four and five minute mark off the back um do you think that they that they're still able to bridge that Gap up come the Run uh good question uh Daniela is flying I just saw her once because I start try to stay in front of the top man so that we don't interfere with anything um so I just have seen her once but she looked really really confident really really strong Angry Bird is flying she is flying everybody's angry thank you so Felix how far back do you think they are you can hear Felix is not invested at all he's a quiet spectator he doesn't have a elevated love for the sport yeah I think I I think I'm the biggest fan of the race here as well so really exciting to see all of them on the course now Felix what I know you don't know exactly but what sort of Gap was that from from that that group of three uh up to Magnus and Sam laidlow oh we might have lost Felix I'm not sure oh here we go hello we've got you back we didn't we didn't take the time Belinda and I'm very very bad at guesstimating and I don't want to talk don't do it no problem no problem look Felix absolute pleasure I hope we get to see you again I'm sure we are going to get to see you again out on course maybe on Loop two but we'll leave you now as we go back to the lead of our men's race here we've got Sam laidlow on screen I love looking at this man right he looks fantastic doesn't heon absolutely he does uh look like poetry in motion bye Felix bye Felix thanks for the update no worries um yeah Felix just uh but this is he he genuinely loves it he loves it as much as you and I do he is his passion for the sport is uh and for this race is definitely unparalleled and uh it's amazing you know you can tell like it's just it is really what it is having put on an event or two I can tell you it is hard work and long hours and it's the same thing as everything you love what you do and and you know you'll get so much further because he for him it is just it's his hobby it's what he'd love to do whereas anybody else if you're counting hours at events like this good luck I mean that's it it's gonna be very very tricky well I think he I think he averages about oh two hours sleep a day for the last week if that gives you any indication here we go there is a change in the lead and this makes me very happy to see um just the boys working together and uh this is what could indeed make the difference in this race if uh yeah Sam and Magnus managed to work working together um you know within the with in the the means obviously that they are this this is going to be exciting stuff because then they can start putting down some serious time to be honest though Felix was chatting to us for a while before and that's why I wanted to ask because obviously I have I have the results the updates on my screen right now and and it's got them only at about 34 to 40 seconds back it was definitely longer than that so that's why I was I wanted to get some sort of an indication we know that that that that is definitely blown out Felix is so well about Felix and I'm gonna have to add one more thing because this is the thing about long distance racing if you are running on the marathon there will be someone standing in a corner and say go go you're looking great which is the first lie and then they'll be like 45 seconds you've got 45 seconds yeah okay 45 seconds geez you'll Run 100 meters down great looking great two minutes two minutes be like hold on a second what four minutes and then it's 35 seconds and the guesstimating that feeling spoke about is one of the triathlon Spectators favorite tools I like that he didn't want to do it he said I'm not playing that game it really is um it's the triathlon spectator's favorite game of of guesstimating uh obviously with good intentions uh I think for most of them absolutely it can certainly throw a curveball off and uh at you and and makes it worthwhile taking your own stopwatch and and timing things but um yeah uh there is daylight quite quite a bit of daylight between these two boys and the next and now you were talking about you touched on it just earlier that you know Sam laidlow coming to the front and and taking a turn a legal turn obviously 12 meter rule being implemented here today but mentally from a mental uh standpoint and you've been in this position where you've been leading a race in fact you you're pretty much always in this position let's be honest um that how much of an advantage is it mentally to be able to just for Magnus now to just go that 12 meters behind Sam let Sam do the pacing just so we can have a little bit of reprieve well it just yeah it keeps you engaged as well you know it's something to have someone there and keep you honest on the pace you've got the numbers obviously that you're writing but um you know these these boys will make sure to to race smart you know it gives them a chance to sit up um and and get some hydration or perhaps take on a gel that you otherwise wouldn't we know from Sam that he does have an incredibly High sweat rate and just then I actually counted five bottles on his bike wow so he's got four bottles and he's got the nutrition within his frame going through the Aid Station here a good chance to fill up and make sure despite it not being that hot yet you get enough fluid um um and here we have a question coming in and how is laidla wearing his bib number and you can see he's done what uh what I was talking about talking about doing that somehow he somehow fixed it um to the point that it's not flapping around laughing around yeah you would probably either have a maybe he's got a second band or maybe he just has a slightly weighted pouch um which um there's a I think it's a British company that make them um that you basically just stick your number in and it's just it's because it's weighted it won't flap around like that and it does look so much cleaner I mean you could see it then it was a big difference when you compare it to say uh Magnus detlef and his number that's flapping around in the wind yeah absolutely and I mean here oh we have severe Kinley uh one of the ogs absolutely of aerodynamics I mean this guy pioneered aerodynamics before anybody kind of knew what what was going on um yeah he looks to be down quite a way um with his special edition bike that I believe is also up for sale uh or up for auction um he's got various charity projects that he's attached to his last year and this bike is actually um covered in what I believe was one of his first spelling tests it certainly was I had a look at it the other day it's quite incredible yeah um and uh you can just tell you know he's he's using this last year to live out his passion and live out his dreams on his self-lay will discontinued tour um and and doing some good along the way you know which is uh which is a hard thing to combine you know I think a lot of athletes you know we're so monofocused and so ego driven that um you know the charitable idea is something that um yeah it's just nice to see absolutely and of course it was 2010 when sebby came second here at this race and it was really the race that kick-started his career and what an illustrious career he has had let's take a listen to what some of the other athletes have to say about sebby Kinley Sebastian Germany I mean he's a character everyone knows him and he had an absolute outstanding career and I wish him all the best for the race on Sunday that it really has a great farewell um Year and that you can enjoy it with a good performance of course because you're still an athlete you want to perform well but he did a lot for the triathlon he made it popular and yeah I think everyone has to say thank you to you because that's the reason why we can earn our money with her because he made it popular in Germany and um yeah I wish him all the best exception is like one of those Legends and it's like every time there is a problem in the sport I have noticed every time there is some debate about stuff he's always one of the guys that speaks out and is one of the clever older people that you really I've been looking up to through my entire career he lifted the game on the bike and we the other people the younger guys have seen that and are trying to to do the same and it's he's been one of those guys that I've really looked up to sebi was the one who kicked off our winning streak in Kona it was a victory in 2014 I think he he kicked off a Great era of German success in Kona which makes him one of the greats of of all time in my mind he definitely elevated the game in sport in Triathlon he most likely introduced the specific work on the aerodynamics on the bike so he was the one who introduced like wind tunnel testing and track testing Etc he's a great guy what what people appreciate about kidney is um he's very raw you know like when he's happy he shows it a lot and when he's down or angry he also shows it and I think that's what people like about the character um and I think whatever happens you know they'll definitely be uh all the pros cheering and cheering him if there is any prose before him um at the finish line but uh definitely I think everybody is grateful for the career he's had and what he's brought to the sport Sebastian Kinley he was the Iron Man world champion back in 2014 he's Roth Champion here back in 2018 he's a 70.3 Champion back in 2012 and 2013. he was third earlier this year at challenge Wanaka fourth and I'm in New Zealand fourth at challenge Frazier and he won only a couple of weekends ago in Spain not only is this man a character he's one of the true Gentlemen of the sport I actually got to meet sebby way back and I think it was about 2004 or five when he first started his career and if you had have asked me back then if he was going to be where he is now I would not have believed you he was a little bit of a dorky uh long-haired couldn't swim was always a brilliant bike rider and to see the athlete that he has turned himself into today it's it's quite remarkable young yeah he is a little bit of a Mad scientist's needs uh he's an incredibly intelligent guy actually having studied physics and just generally being very very switched on um absolutely loves Triathlon but somehow has never able been able to let go of that six-year-old uh the energy he's got and just running around and you know making silly jokes um yeah you always uh appreciate the the company of somebody who can make fun of themselves and sebby is definitely one of those guys you know within the seriousness of the sport he does have a very light-hearted mentality and yeah of course I'm I'm a long time long time Sebastian Kinley fan and have had some of my favorite races against him and yeah it's uh it's definitely you know a truly it's a remarkable career that's sort of coming to an end somebody that's really made a difference in the sport oh I I totally agree and look when we had the pasta party on Friday night we had all of our top athletes there but I can tell you the guy or the athlete that got the most cheers by a long way was Sebastian Kinley he almost bought the house down it was it was quite emotional yeah absolutely I mean he's written history here at this race you know again we mentioned earlier first rookie under eight hours um and that is that is quite a extraordinary moment to make and of course he's racing at home he's racing his last season and there are just a lot of things that come together but I think first and foremost people appreciate sebi for his integrity and for being you know a die-hard racer who always if he can will make an influence on the race um yeah he doesn't seem to be having the very best day just yet in terms of his Pure Performance but again um it it's it's at a point where you know people are just coming out to see him and cheer him on and and and perhaps you know carry him for that little bit of of a way I know he's still got some Ambitions but um yeah it's gonna be gonna be an interesting day out there it really is and of course Daniella Riff on screen now oh my gosh three minutes it continuing to extend her lead three minutes over vanilla language but probably more importantly upward over seven minutes plus on Ann houg and around six minutes on Laura Phillippe well that's interesting because we just saw then that Chelsea and Chelsea that's right Chelsea and Lisa Norton are working together and Lisa Norton of course being a Powerhouse herself on the bike um having you know performed as a professional cyclist um they could work together and they're putting in time on both Annie and that's correct and that is something I perhaps wouldn't have seen quite that way but yeah we are 55k into a bike ride and um and five minutes is a substantial gap for something that's you know essentially you know yeah a third of a third of the way of the buy course it is but we know that if it split last year we are expecting her to have another incredible run split this year her results this year have been extraordinary first it's 7.3 Lanzarote first to challenge Gran Canaria and of course first at the PTO European open in Ibiza she's had a faultless start to the year so we know that she's coming into this race in incredible form but is that Gap going to be just too big for her to run down well the the form is one thing but you have to always remember at these races this kind of field and this kind of hype you cannot deny the mental pressure that's going on and that's something you know pressure creates diamonds but it's definitely if there is one Kink to earn his armor um it has been that pressure side it's something she's worked on incredibly over the over the career I remember her and her itu days and you know she always had incredible talent and incredible speed and work ethic but it would be exactly that pressure that would bring her down and she she's worked hard on it but you know in terms of days and as big as the days get this will be her challenge to meet because you know Chelsea's come across and in her interview she's confident she's got that you know I would say almost American sports star kind of confidence that comes across and that's that's almost Infamous um and you know that's that's kind of the opposite of where where the European mentality and and probably where Anna fits in um so it'll be interesting um you know if that Gap continues to grow I can't see any running minutes into Chelsea no don't don't get me wrong like I I think she's a phenomenal athlete and she definitely is a phenomenal Runner but I I do see the two of them quite similar um and yeah as I said earlier I would have liked to see them push the marathon but it's early days and it's definitely somebody who knows to have Pace herself very very well her of course being coached by Dan lorang as well um and and their their partnership must be going into I don't know a long time 15 probably close to 20 years now because they met at University so they've been together forever and um you know that'll be that'll be quite something but again I'm yeah looking forward to hopefully getting some images sooner or later of the chase pack of the women and remember that only four women have gone through that timing Point um so we don't even know what the further gaps are but they're one thing's for sure is the gaps are huge Daniella is dropping some serious what bombs at the front and um yeah she is also just once again in that strange position of being in the lead early on you know we have something that we've got probably two unexpected leaders um in in Magnus and Daniela very very all in the race I think we all sort of thought thought Sam Sam laidlow would uh would would be there in the beginning but uh here we see him making a pass and um yeah the boys really starting to work together now a little chat uh well it's interesting you bring up the little chat because I think the reason that this is happening now is because Magnus actually did turn around at one point and said listen come on yeah well you turned around a lot of times so so I think there were a couple of videos exchanged and you know they are getting ready now to come around the corner and actually Ascend the infamous Solara Berg so it is coming up fairly soon and it'll be as I said uh how many I mean honestly can we put a number on how many supporters do we get on Solara Burke it is thousands upon thousands upon thousands I remember the first year I did it you would come around this swing around this corner which they're just about to do and you'd see that the start of the climate all you would see is a sea oh 40 going on there just in time oh my gosh now the reason they're doing a bit unnecessary is because those motors have to be behind at the start of this climb so we are starting Solara Berg right now and the motors are not allowed to be in front they have to be behind here so that they are our professional men have a clear way up but you can see it's fenced off for now but once we get a little further once a little further you can't see the road nope it's just here we go yeah it's uh it's definitely a confidence test where you just run look at that yarn you can't even see where you're riding and look see Magnuson and uh and Sam getting that Corral cheering it's honestly unless you've done this you cannot really describe the feeling that you have as an athlete whether you be Pro or age group the feeling you have when you ascend this climb it is I get I'm sitting here with Goosebumps on my arms because it really is like nothing else in the world no it is absolutely unique and I'll tell you what the one thing people maybe don't realize is that when you're wearing a time trial helmet it actually covers your ears and normally all kind of noise is blocked but kind of it feels like that noise sneaks from underneath and then just reverberates yeah I remember having to block my ears because it was actually painful painfully loud that's how much people get into it um again on the second lap we'll see this growth even bigger crowd um just because people are making their way over from this sort of stuff this is just the warm-up this is a warm-up but it's quite a warm-up indeed but I'll tell you what I drove through there last night at 10 30 or whenever it was and I remember first time being here for a course record and I'd heard about the Solara book of course right and it's Infamous and you go there and then you ride it for the first time when you're there on a normal Thursday afternoon it is the most underwhelming thing you actually you actually question whether you're on the right card is this really it and then you get there on the Sunday of race day and the spectators just light it up and it's just absolutely crazy um of of how much passion and and kind of yeah heart people put into it but the race is here just to put into perspective on a brand new sound system I saw the speakers being set up it's like nothing I've ever seen before uh they've got a new DJ so you can hear any music but they you know it's become bigger and better so a massive overhaul of this hot spot on Solara Berg and it really is the place to be and like you said the first lap we've still we've seen a huge amount of Spectators second lap it is crazy how many people that we'll see but yeah that and that is that that's Patrick's Patrick he's not he's not in the village yet no that's the climb before you drop down so he is quite a long way behind that's right but he's he's on his own and he's looking very aggressive uh in terms of his body position and and working so he's definitely putting in a surge um making sure to yeah um put the most in but yeah you can tell also from Felix's interview I mean you can see there is so much well we call it heart blood in German just so much energy and and and thought going to this race about motorbikes about safety um and and and getting the perfect race out that yeah a sound system for one day of the year will be invested in because this is this whole region because it's worth it yeah you you drive across the Autobahn and this race is signaled on the mains on the main Autobahn you know um welcome to the home of of triathlon and uh there's just nowhere else in the world where you would find that kind of thing no it's it's really one of those races where not just the town of Roth but all of the surrounding areas they've not only embraced it but they've taken it on as their own I don't think it is One race in the world where you get the sort of welcome that you get here they they want you to be here they you know the home state program that they have at this race where they take such pride in taking in not just the professional athletes but photographers journalists age group athletes they're so incredibly proud of this race and why shouldn't they be it to me it is the greatest race in the world to be very honest like in my in my humble opinion I mean it's uh you know and they've been handed uh a bit of a golden handshake as well because um the way the world championships in Hawaii has been blown apart and you can no longer raise well men and and women are now racing separately um it's really made this the home of you know the the triathlon family kind of racing because you can go here um with your spouse or or not but it's just the whole Community comes together every single time and I think it's probably the greatest thing that could have happened to this race in terms of its Prestige of being even more elevated and actually being the greatest race uh in the world and you're right Patrick is leading that group sorry just to to interrupt you but I was looking for that perspective so that's five minutes down wow that is that's a big gap it is what it is so as I just mentioned Dart F challenged Roth powered by hip is the only event of the Season bringing together the best athletes from all over the world in one location and it really has been an event-filled weekend not only obviously have we got the main event today but we had the Bambini run and night run on Thursday night the junior Challenge on Saturday morning on Friday afternoon we had the challenge for all and of course yesterday we also had the challenge women's five kilometer run which I took part in 2 000 women taking part in that run yesterday it was uh honestly a sea of pink amazing it's always a great event absolutely love doing it uh we don't talk about types thank you very much Jan fradino you should know better it's like you don't talk about age I don't talk about times anymore but everybody saw him on my mind so I thought I'd bring up something you're still a spring chicken at 40. odd 40 yeah exactly actually speaking of age we didn't speak about it anyhow obviously our Divinity Championship is the oldest female in the field racing today at 40 years of age but but in saying that to me personally she's having one of the greatest years of her life thus far so you know ages ages but a number young indeed indeed I'm trying to tell myself that every single time um but yeah uh well when you can stay uninjured and when you can string things together the way Annie has absolutely great things can definitely still happen in an endurance Sport and speaking of guests we have got another guest joining us right now in the studio Ralph Eggert lovely of you to join us I'm trying to think when I first first met you but it was probably back in the early 2000s I do believe not that we're talking about age was a world championship medalist I know yes he was talking about age talking about age yeah we are it was great seeing all these people here and seeing people around here from the 80s from the 90s everywhere everybody's here it's even it's crazy it's been crazy time the last couple of days here in Roth unbelievable absolutely and look can you tell us what what's your role here in Roth this year and in years past well I've been um working for for DT Swiss which is a bicycle component supplier and producer and we are here as a Expo on the Expo and we exhibiting but I'm also here for the asset for our athletes that are racing on our products being here being being for their needs here and I believe we do have a clip on Swiss ride that that we are able to show right now and we'll get you to go through it with us once it's done today we were doing a lot of aerodynamic enrolling resistance measurements out on the road um extremely windy today um our measurement devices showed up to 60 kilometer an hour gusts so running deep section Wheels was very challenging today for our athlete which would mean if the wind was like this on race day rear disc would not have been possible to ride the good news is that on race day on Sunday we're expecting only 10 kilometer an hour wind from the East which means we can expect full Aero setups on the wheels so rear disc and uh you know deep section 80 millimeter wheel on the front rolling resistance was also a really interesting topic we were running Seven bar pressure in a 25 millimeter tire that was actually the best pressure to be running today so because the roads are so smooth you can run typically higher pressures no need to drop the precious due to rough roads it's going to be a really fast race on Sunday let's see who wins so what is your opinion fast day today will we see some records go definitely I think JP Jean-Paul below is just soil from suicide is he's an expert in aerodynamics he's coming from the Formula One aerodynamics years ago and it's been developing really great um great devices and also he has been a partner of Digi Swiss so there's a cooperation between us and he has a really big knowledge about what's happening here today he he was looking at the weather just two days ago and he was predicting there will be no wind today so this is knowledge is great and I think that we will see there's not not a lot of wind today and the wind slowed down in the past days nine kilometers per hour we have yes that's that's that's perfect I mean this is really fast and as also John Paul said the the road is so smooth and every everything's rolling so so great I think this this is what I can what we can expect Fast Times and you also see it in the setup of the of the athletes no matter what what what wheels or what bike he's riding they are on full aerodynamics today yeah yep and tell is that you've got some of the greatest writers or greatest athletes today we've got quite a few of them out on course right now yes one is leading already of course um this is Daniela she's she's running ahead of the field and um I honestly must say I was really positively surprised if I swim today we were the same we were saying it must be like their best swim ever for ages for a long time yeah I would say I'm really uh I was really positively surprised and then we have Chelsea there and also Anna as a as the one chasing them down now and on the Mansfield it's Danny Becker guard on on our Wheels here what's interesting we just got an update on Daniel I thought actually not Daniel backer guard is in one in one of those positions you probably don't want to be in he's he's in no man's land so he's he can't Bridge a grab the Gap across back up to Magnus but he's not being caught by that chase group behind so he's obviously riding his own race right now keeping it to his to his wattage that he needs to keep at so you know for me Daniel coming into this race Daniel was always one to watch I think he's a definite Podium Contender when he came by passed by nearby our Bulls he was really confident and he said okay I would do my own race and I think that's that's the right thing to do don't um if you go up to larger back you probably push too many watts out there but I think he said no no I want to do my own race and he was really confident about what he's doing so he's very complex complex person and um definitely did a dark horse for the for the day's race and I think also it could be quite an advantage actually yes you know we call it no man's land but it's exactly what Ralph just mentioned that you know you don't have the soldiers that a group has you saw the group of uh of Patrick and and um being quite surgey and those surges are definitely what hurts you in the second lap so yeah let's see if all those aerodynamics and setups can you know minimize his time damage uh controlling into T2 which I'm sure you guys have validated in some way or another something I mean you have been in the Wind Tunnel as well other other athletes as well but I think meanwhile at this that this time in the in the races um there is no disadvantage because they're all on the same same weapons I would say so nobody has a disadvantage looking at the frames looking at the wheels they're all on full aerodynamics there are minor tweaks that can be done but I I would I would say in general if you don't have access to a wind tunnel testing if you don't have access to the to the high profile rims uh disc wheel and the full setup by by uh by the but bike manufacturers including new cockpits as you also see on on danila she's running a new cockpit by Suicide and we validated this also with suicide in the Wind Tunnel so um and she wouldn't do it if it's not faster so the the technology is evolving still and about wind tunnel I think we do have a clip of you working in the Wind Tunnel that we're going to play right now um Talk us through that how important is most of your testing done in the Wind Tunnel well it's it's uh more or less athlete's testing we do this together with suicides it's conducting these tests uh we adjust the supply of the test and um actually the the development of wheels or frames has done before it's um more or less it was done with cfd computational fluid dynamics and then we go into the sampling into the testing of the Wind Tunnel but when we go on the Wind Tunnel we are already quite we know already where we are it's not that we have to do a lot of samples a lot of test samples and test runs in the Wind Tunnel we already know what where we are and then the athletes go there and they and we give them the opportunity to tweak the material accessories helmets cockpits uh rear rear bottles whatever they want we go with them and just test it so the setup is given but they can still tweak a lot and we've seen massive improvements in aerodynamics this year in the Wind Tunnel and we've got a great shot now of aerodynamics in play with Sam laidlow on the front we were talking before you know it was and then of course here we go Danny roof one of your athletes having a superb race so far continuing to extend her lead over the likes of vanilla language and Chelsea cedaro but Danny Reef what can you say about this woman she's she's coming she you could see that she had that air of confidence about her but she's she's very quiet compared to some of the athletes she doesn't often talk a big game she likes to just come in do what she needs to do and get on with business but she's truly a remarkable athlete and one of the greatest we've ever seen yes um I think this is one side you're talking of she's quiet or if you need if you meet her other side she's definitely different so this is um it's a very nice person to work with she's very sensitive about testing I would say Jan is one another athlete that is also sensitive about feelings where can I get some wattage we went with her on the on the track in in grenshin and we tested like some some suits with her she she wanted to test them and she could immediately say after the run without having any data which suit both facets she knew so she's really deep in into it and so and she wants to optimize herself and it's impressive it really isn't you know she's one here before she knows what it takes to get that top step on the podium and right now yarn you've got to say she is in the absolute box seat because we don't talk a lot about Daniella's run we talk about her bike and yes she is one of the greatest bike riders we've ever seen but she's still a bloody good runner yeah absolutely but uh you know while we're here on the bike leg it's just you can see how she's moving really well you can actually see her lower back and and and hips moving really well which generally speaks for a good good glute activation um uh uh Ralph please talk to her about that number if the race number is driving me crazy I'm I'm grateful that you found so many ones in the tunnel but this is an optical such a great setup she she's so strong she don't need it that's what I said it's irrelevant come on yeah but she's just gone over that little pinch that will now lead us closer to the solarburg and um uh yeah it's uh it it feels like she is not not that far behind you know if you we only saw those shots of of uh Patrick's group a little while ago and they are at the front of the of the men's race so she is definitely um flying low rather than riding fast and now the last time Danny race time ever on this on this first two uh fastest times 8 18. Ralph in your opinion and I know we talk a lot about records and yeah but it's interesting it's exciting we we can't control the conditions we've got great conditions today so why not talk about records uh are we going to see Chrissy Wellington's record now that was set back in 2011. uh Chrissy Wellington she was so many years ahead of her game it wasn't funny we've got it here today she's going to be down on the Finish Line she could have done some with some aerodynamics at a time as well this is what I'm saying could you even imagine I mean she went 8 18. uh on a bike where she wasn't that Aero uh I know for a fact she's certainly never ever been in a in a testing facility at all and you know 8 18 Danny's gone 8 22. can we see Chrissy's Welling Chrissy Wellington's time finally full today well at the end you have to run a marathon yeah this is true I would love to see the record but you know as Jan said the wind is not that strong today we don't have the high temperatures we had last year so this is also an advantage but we know that the temperatures will will pick up and I think it's essential to have have good food all over the race and I think Daniella really knows how to do it how to race and we might we might see it yeah but there are still other races inside the races of the female race that really want this record and that really want to win it so um trazon finished on the Finish Line after three disciplines including rare Transitions and I think for Danny Reef What would now is I want the win that is the number one goal and anything after that is a bonus yeah absolutely I mean I think Daniella having gone back to Red Sutton it would actually be an interesting question whether she's writing to power because I don't think she is uh she'd be one of the few ladies riding on field uh which is something that Brett is a huge advocate of um you know you you go out and and just push how you can and as long as you can and that's certainly a unique approach in the scientific kind of world of triathlon that we now live in you know we're talking about finding individual Watts but I think that's um something probably rough and the team have done really well is to get her to a comfortable position that she feels good in that is also very very fast but without too much fuss and worry about it you know she's just somebody who likes to go out and ride um and indeed if I look closely I can't see a power meter buying bushes you know in 2023 that is that that is this is giving us an indication of just how far behind second place is so vanilla language making it up that first climb she'll dip down the other side turn the corner and then she will start Solara Berg we know Danny riff is already at the top and over the other side of Solara bow but here we go this is the vanilla we know and love she just loves a crowd and honestly the crowds love her she will do this the entire way up to laraburg as well she you know and that's the difference in athletes isn't it yeah some athletes like to stay completely focused you can be screaming and cheering at them and they give you nothing and then you've got this athlete the other end of the spectrum where they just lap it up and they thrive on the energy from The Spectators no absolutely if you look at vanilla's social media feed as well um she is someone who likes to dance and you know yep uh and and and go crazy to some music and just have some fun and it's nice to see you know because like you say it is very much professionalizing and just becoming quite serious which is which is okay I myself have always kind of Embrace that more um and it's just a personal preference but it's always good fun seeing someone have a good time and that's what make this makes the sport so interesting it's not one set character that does well here or a one-step personality we've got an array of personalities even on course today and I think that's what keeps our Sports so exciting and so interesting there's it's not one shoe fits all it's what works best for you I also love vanilla's raising the style I've seen her in 2021 racing here and you see her performance improving over the over the last two years and I think it still makes her very um not only a dark horse even a little bit more so last year she led until half a halfway through the marathon that's right yeah in 21 she was passed by Anna on 60k on her bike so if we go by that trajectory she should be winning here today I mean that's the thing a question before before we let you go I do want to know because I mean you've been around as a legend of the sport for so many years I mean it's been yeah it's been it's been a few decades that you've been in the sport actively and then also passively now I mean how have you seen the change of racing you probably still remember this race what in the you would have seen it around the 90s um and and and how it was raised and you know comparing to what we're seeing today what do you what do you enjoy the most about the changes my colleagues only showed me pictures of me with running with the with the trunks the Speedos yeah so there you go having him fully gathered no I mean it's great to see the evolvement and and the sport is still evolving evolving and some sometimes people complaining how the sport is looking like and how professional is it and if you're not having the um access to aerodynamics or the money to afford a fast bike then you're out but but it is it is part of the game and it's it is how the sport is evolving and I think the office is a good example that 40 years it's they just stay the same yeah the heritage is there so this is one thing that is a really constant the surrounding racing is differently but I really like it me too I mean for me I've been in the sport for just over 30 years now and I love seeing advancements we need them in our sport it's what's going to make our sport great but I've been coming back here year after year after year and while it has got bigger and better the the foundations have stayed the same um Solara Berg is always going to be Solara Berg it's always going to be the most incredible Hill in Triathlon anywhere in the world you can see vanilla language now going up there cheering the crowds on as only she knows how but look at this route they just know what to do they get in they get their picture but they part and the only other place I know this happens is Tour de France obviously um but these these Spectators have been doing it for years on end so they know what they're doing they're well versed in in in getting in getting a picture giving a chair but then getting out of the way I I think you're right and I think this is the only race you that is like that like this and trials on there's nothing nothing compared currently so unreal so we've got Danny Reef now lead female on course looking the good so far pushing that big gear yeah you can definitely see her going side to side she is working for it I mean she's um pushing but this is Daniela so she's obviously always running out I mean you can't you can't change her and and she's putting pushing big ears and we even when we go to the winter it actually looks like this so yeah we we cannot we cannot make a difference because this is actually her style and then we have to measure the data out of this writing style and why would you it seems to be working no need to change something that's not broken that's what I say don't change look Ralph thank you for coming on again you're on the show last year we love having you on here you're just a wealth of knowledge you've been around just as long as I have we as I said we don't need to go into specifics but you know you've seen you've seen so much and you're now part of the future with DT Swiss and the technology there so thank you so much and I'm sure we're going to have you on again next year thanks for having me on the show thanks thanks always good seeing you enjoy the rest of the race buddy and uh good luck to all your athletes out there yes thank you you know good luck for you as well thanks it's gonna be a long day for Jan but it is it is and I swear our shower this morning but I am somehow surrounded by flies all over um it's gonna be the hardest and longest endurance event of your life that's all I can say but uh no always wonderful to have Ralph on the show we've got some great guests lined up later on we've got the woman herself the legend herself Chrissy Wellington coming on to the show we're going to talk about her time in the sport and what her opinion she is adamant yarn after talking too early this week she is adamant that her record will be broken today by one of these females it might be this is what your woman on on screen right now Daniela riff or it might be one of our Chase females of Chelsea cedaro Laura Philippe Lisa Norton or Annie houg but either way I think we're going to be in for a treat yeah absolutely I I mean as I said you know records are there to be broken and they are there as a as a name as a mark for the Next Generation or even the current and that's just what it is I mean just then talking to her off about how he he's seen the sport evolve over time Chrissy was definitely part of a previous generation I don't I'm not even sure she was writing a time trial bike at this day but remember Cannondale road bike with clip-ons to be honest indeed it was an aerodynamic nightmare for what you look at today and um you know for her to get put together that kind of package actually interestingly enough also training under Brett Sutton um of creating world champions a particularly with the females female world champions um yeah um one of those one of those coaches that just seems to be able to yeah get into athletes minds and and make them perform but certainly looking at the setup that she was using at the time to create the records and create her status and and and win the races that she did uh you would certainly say it was more opted for comfort and pushing Big power over a long time in order to get those results so very very impressive here we have Annie Howe going up um not quite the same demeanor as fennel language and lapping up the energy she's obviously focused and she's one of those athletes that we speak of that internalizes the the energy more but nonetheless um absolutely you know going for it and giving it her very best it'd be interesting to see how the time splits unfold more so for me personally her to to Chelsea whether she continues to to lose a bit of time or can actually get back there and see a little bit more of the Dynamics I mean yeah we'll uh we'll get some more info hopefully uh from our spotters well I can I can give you a little update now Ian we've got a reef leading vanilla 451 back and this is at the 71.3 kilometer Mark uh Lisa Norton and Chelsea cedaro now six and a half minutes back Laura Philippe at 8 25 back and Annie Howe at 9 34 back so 9 34 and our leader Danny roof honestly if these times continue uh to go out the way they are then I cannot see Danny I mean okay yes we've still got a marathon to run but we know that Danny is is pretty Rock Solid when it comes to the marathon you know it it's nine and a half minutes is a lot of time to make up yeah yeah she's got another 90k exactly that's that's a scary part isn't it she's getting there I think um yeah uh I'm I'm very impressed with uh Chelsea and Lisa holding their own holding their own I mean they've lost another minute but they've gained two minutes on um and they've gained another minute on Laura so yeah the home girls being shown that they've got their work cut out um by by our two well current and and former world champions and here we get some splits on screen actually as you just pass them to us but yeah that duo of Chelsea and and Lisa really seeming to work quite well two minutes then to Laura who is by herself and Annie also by herself another minute and and nine back wow gear whis that is that is a lot of time um well particularly because we're only at around the 70s I think it was a 71 point yep 71 between 71 and 77 kilometer Mark now so you're correct we're literally not even quite one lap through and good hundred clicks to go um it's going to get interesting that's massive I mean we're seeing the times blow up in the men's field relatively as well so yeah some big gaps um and I'll be I'll be surprised or interested to see because the one thing that I think has changed over the last you know sort of five years is that you just don't seem to see the same kind of blow-ups anymore no you know just people used to blow up spectacularly just like I did actually three weeks ago I mean had a spectacular you're still finishing four that's not a blower yeah I lost two places in the last 900 meters that's how much I flew up I was I was so delusional I could barely run a straight line I just completely overshot the mark and um you know the these athletes don't don't seem to do that I think nutrition is a big part it's a big part I do too um which makes a lot of sense because you know I've certainly made some mistakes in that department and if I look at 2016 and the race here um I took a bottle and and like a little sip of something every sort of 10 12ks which was pretty much every time when I was just starting to hit the wall and I could just feel that slightly nauseous feeling you know when your body kicks into fat metabolism and you start burning a little bit more fat and you just feel like you're about to hit a wall well then I would make sure that I take something which is of course you know by today's standards just ludicrous to think because you have to continuously take on little bits and pieces also to make sure your gastrointestinal stress is as little as possible and you keep things together but um yeah you certainly seem to see less of those blow ups is the point I'm trying to make so if the back if the gaps are that big then it's it's tough even for spectacular Runners to make that time huge amounts of time because it it just comes to a point where you know you running a spectacular race is no longer enough it is up to the other person to actually give away some of their lead and um yeah we'll uh we'll see how it continues to unfold but certainly some unexpectedly big gaps and especially in the men's race where we saw a huge swim pack um already completely being obliterated we've got obviously laid low and ditliff still leading but that chase group with Patrick Langer and Ben knutt now at about 6 22 623 out Peter Heinrich also in that group we're trying to get you an update if you're if you are looking at the results Daniel Becker guard has fallen off the result list so we know that he was in third and he may have just not registered on that next timing ship but Sam laidlow and Magnus ditliff in front we then had Daniel back at guard riding on his own and then a little further back Patrick Lange Ben knut and Peter heimrich at the moment we are not seeing Daniel backer guard on those official results but I have asked our spotters down on course to give me a some sort of confirmation that he is still there well in the meantime it's nice to get our first shots of Lisa Norton and that must be Chelsea just ahead of her the two girls obviously swapping turns because on the on the splits we've seen them being in Reverse reverse order um yeah of course like we already mentioned Lisa being a very competent writer who has written national championships that's right I think am I mistaken and saying she's even one uh a Swedish uh time trial Championship either way um she's quick she's a very handy bike rider um also with that aerodynamic cockpit that we mentioned earlier on and she just looks very classic doesn't she she looks like yeah pristine times and here we go getting nope nope I was premature I thought the motorbike may have been going to get a shot of uh of Chelsea but we can see you know this is what Felix was mentioning about the motorbikes look at that completely on their own and what I love is these two women as we said 12 meter rule that's a lot more that's a lot further than 12 meters so we've been giving reports out on course by our head officials Tech officials that they are extremely satisfied very very happy with their our professional men and women are riding today everyone is being very very fair and actually leaving more room than that what they need so great to see that the athletes respecting each other out on course and doing the right thing yeah and the motorbike is not even going past Lisa here to get a shot of uh of of Chelsea that's how much they're trying to keep the race Fair because you always have to remember I mean it's a two very distinct topics right the one is safety and the other one is fairness um and somehow of course you can't separate them but um they are very distinct topics that we need to talk about and at this stage of the race it's all about fairness now what's about to happen is that we're going to go on to lap two and that means that you are now dealing with age groupers and and passing age groupers and of course they are 90k back so the level of racing is going to be quite different um between Professionals of course and age groupers as it should be but this is you know um they go they go off in waves according to what their predicted finish time will be and if you're off two hours behind the men well then you're predicting to finish you know probably around the 11 12 hour mark and that means that these boys and girls are going to be flying past the age groupers and that's where these gaps start to become a little bit tricky you know because then you're opening a second row in order to pass the age groupers at times a third because if an age grouper is passing an age group or you have to go around again but the motorbikes on course again and that's where the situation becomes tricky you know because in the beginning like right now we've got a two-lane free space space Galore and um you know none of that becomes a problem whereas the second lap you know that becomes a little bit different but as a professional it also makes it a little bit easier because you've got many targets to chase exactly on that's the thing you've got to break the distance down into little targets but then um it just becomes a little bit of a mind game to be chasing um to be chasing athletes from point to point and you've got like mini goals and of course you have a little bit of what at least feels like a Windbreak because there's a little bit of a draft issue as you as you go up to that Next Stage Group athlete and pass this yeah of course I mean if you're going 45 and they're going 30 then that's not going to be much of a draft but it's just mentally the factor of chasing athletes and speaking of that we've just been given a split out on course Torsten rad is Danny's little magic oh here we go Magnus is now projected to do a bike split of 358 so under that under that four hour mark and even more impressive Daniela riff is looking to go sub 430. now her bike course record here on the course is 4 31.29 so she's already ridden incredibly well here in the past but she's predicted to go sub 430 while Magnus is predicted to go sub four hours and while we're on that note we're going to welcome our next uh next guest here uh no other than Jim Vance coach of Ben knut now we've just you've just heard us tell uh talk about these crazy times what do you think it is it possible I'll say uh I didn't have a lot of this on my bingo card today um but uh you know it I think it's just exciting and people are getting into it I saw that clip of Patrick Lang and I heard you say well it looks like he's alone and I'm like what the hell happened to Knute and then I could look at the tracker no he's still there it's just I gotta recognize it's Germany the German's gonna charge the front and make sure he's there to establish his dominance and mind games and things like that which look Ben and I are kind of on this American theme you know like Top Gun and Rocky so this is Rocky IV you know we came out here we trained you know against the the big bad Russians so to speak you know this is announced the big bad Germans and love it no offense it's all right right now it's a big bad Dane the big bad days out in front that's right it's true um so it's the race is look I gotta be careful because you know I I can jump to conclusions right away it's like just calm down it's a long day there's a lot going on some of this doesn't surprise us at all no we knew we knew Sam laid though is basically like you know chance chances are he's either gonna he's gonna go always gonna go as hard as he can and he's either going to blow up or he's going to do well yep and it's one or the other it is it is so he's just taken our our long time strategy and used it against us he said I I'll raise you one so it's it's going uh it's it's interesting we'll see what this second lap does uh they're not pulling away as much anymore I think the last time Gap was only about 22 seconds over 7K whereas before I think they were making like you know five eight seconds a kilometer at times like I was just like goodness this is this is uh this is going the wrong way but uh you know we'll see um I think it's telling that Magnus was finally like okay no you need to come up and help me Sam so that tells me that Magnus is like okay I'm I'm I don't necessarily think I'm gonna drop you I'm gonna have to use you so uh that tells me that the pace was pretty hot and Magnus is probably feeling a little bit he definitely took some risks so you know we'll see Lang's taking some risk every time check I see Knutson behind Lang which is a good sign I mean right where he needs to be yeah hey you're the German you're hosting us you take the lead and speaking of Ben I think he's actually in a great position riding with with Patrick Langer he's going to get so many cheers because he's with Patrick he's got Peter Heinrich there as well it's a nice solid group but can you just walk us through now obviously this is only the second time ever for Ben over this distance but it really is the first time that he's prepared for it properly let's be honest and you've admitted that yourself you you you and Ben have been coached you've been coaching Ben now for seven years I'm sure you know him inside out and this is the first really true build for a full distance race yeah I've had to uh you know work his mind probably more than anything else that's but that's always what it's been when Ben came to me he was trashed just beat down and you know I remember asking him hey how you know how many races did you do in the last year and he was like uh you know 22. I was like okay how many did you feel good at he said two two no you are doing your your competitors a favor dude let's tone the training down let's stay consistent let's really just take the long vision and let's let's work on this slowly and consistently and and show up to every race ready to perform at a at a relatively world-class level um and we we've been able to do that and you know this year we've taken a total change in our approach it's been all at like you have to if we go back to last summer Ben Ben struggled all summer um and even though the results weren't there the training showed that he was getting better and so we felt really good about what we were doing we had we had to do a hard reset after Alcatraz last year and by the time he crossed the Finish Line in in Saint George he was just like Jim that was so much fun he's like that's what I want in my career I want to go to the biggest races against the best people and I want to be competitive yep he's like I'll I'll start skipping all the small stuff Jim let's just focus on those let's really get our training in let's show up ready to race and so like this is only his third race of the year which is really unusual for Ben absolutely I mean we gave up Alcatraz yeah he was like I don't want to go back to Alcatraz and try and retake the title if uh if it's gonna sacrifice Roth he says I want to go on to this I really want to commit and I want to show up and I want to be you know you know I want to really have fun and enjoyment's such a part of it I mean you're doing so much training you have to you have to enjoy it so here we are that's I mean you want to talk about fun I I don't know if there's a more fun race in the world than this one so obviously obviously swim start yes just one just what was the atmosphere like I mean was it is as electric as it looked on on uh on screen oh more so yeah I was uh I have a we have a text string it's uh Ben's uh parents his wife Courtney uh his father-in-law who's a big fan and my wife so we really are team canoe like families all together fantastic and I I just I remember sexting at one point just there are so many effing people here I could not I couldn't even get a I had to try and go give him a split down in greeting and I was like I'm never gonna make it and then I'm like oh no it's the Autobahn I think I can't make it and I didn't make it but um no but you know that's because there was just so many people and they're still coming yeah and I couldn't get out of the parking lot no so this is it it's been amazing you know we've seen footage and we're going to be about to see these well we had footies about of Chelsea just about to get going up solaraburg and the first step's crazy enough but wait till you see the second lap it's going to be double it just it's in there it's crazy uh Jim just uh talking about the the swim early on uh what what did you think of that the dynamic I mean was sort of surprising I thought surprisingly large group um what was your take on that uh that really uh I would say was the biggest surprise to me so far of the day I mean uh Magnus Magnus played that swim perfectly he just held on the back I noticed he recognized gaps were starting to open he would move up change position um unbelievable who would have thought but you know I think it was last out of the far turn Booth you know in that group so like that tells you how he just continued to move up there was a big surge in there that I think uh laidlow had laid and then knude had laid um and he and and Magnus crawled back the Gap himself I saw so because I was walking right along the canal so I could have a pretty good view and that that Dynamic I mean once I saw that I had to have a board that gave there were only two athletes that Ben wanted to know about when he got out of the water and that was Magnus and Lang okay so I have a board and I just wrote zero with a slash through it he looked at me like what I said they're right there so uh I don't think it was any surprise he ran out of TV one first after that yeah yeah I gotta get on my own transition yes so uh look when you when you go up against the best like this and guys at Big races you have to take some punches yep and that's right now some serious punches have been thrown you know you know we had a strategy we got punched in the mouth we'll we'll stick to it and we'll you know we'll see I told Ben in our prep here that he's good enough for the podium here absolutely I just don't know which Step yep because I you know we could even come here and have an amazing incredible race you know run one ride one of the fastest times ever you know or have a one of the fastest times ever and not even make the boat that's the depth of the field I mean it's incredible it is that's World Champs style uh racing and uh you know he's but this is what he wanted this is what he's been motivated for this is uh this is why we're here and uh the dynamic is is getting interesting I you start wondering too like okay who really has has the legs who's showing you start I mean you I'm sure you're always reading you're reading body language you're eating you know Tendencies like okay they tend to take the lead they tend to not pull us this hard or they tend to take less pulls or than they're taking today so you start to just recognize okay and you can read that is that because they're confident or is because they're trying to express confidence that maybe they're trying to hide not really there yeah yeah yeah absolutely and I think that changes all the time within a race as well you know if you're feeling great at k90 you might be shooting electricity things are going you know you you pay for them for the matches you burn pretty yeah pretty quickly here and um yeah again we we were just seeing uh not to change the topic but we're just seeing the Riders swing in and out of that Dynamic now on lap two and um you know this is something yeah we're an experienced racer like Ben might also be getting some kind of benefit because you you would you know that that's it's a strange situation when you come from being totally you on your own to then all of a sudden not being sure who's where and exactly what um so nature of a two-lab course and that's what you know you have to find the balance between being spectator friendly um being fast and just being being a good race uh here we go some splits coming through as we are minutes it certainly is right where he needs to be yeah and look at this it looks like they have gapped Peter Heinrich so that's interesting so I think Peter he was always going to be a bit of a question mark only uh three weeks after Hamburg it was always going to be a big ask and I think yeah I think we're gonna find it that he's going to continue to lose time but good to see that both Ben Knute and Patrick Langer yes they're losing time on our leaders but still together still riding well but like you brought up this is this the second lap particularly halfway through this second lap for our professional men and women is when they really need to make sure that they've got their wits about them because while we have reduced them out of motors on course we've got three and a half thousand age group athletes on course and this is when it can get a little bit tricky so while I think the experience ethics can use it to their advantage they also need to be careful because it just starts to get a little bit congested well and now Now's the Time of the race where like one of the things I told Ben was you can never in Long course racing it's an emotional roller coaster you can never get too high and you can never get too low on yourself because you just don't know what's going on around you how your competitors are doing and this this is that time in the race where maybe you make some judgments you're maybe a little low on your calories and you start to recognize you're getting a little cranky and your attitude is not good and then you start adding in these age groupers on the course and you're getting frustrated it's just that little extra stress yes exactly and so it's about stay calm stay calm just rhythmical it's a long day just be smart you know there doesn't need to be major major changes especially now that things have settled in I don't think you'll see land break away from canoe I don't think you'll see canoe break away from line at this point I think their their teammates on the on the course right now uh just like you'll you see laid low and and uh and Magnus I mean I was it wasn't it probably something similar last year for you on on the bike late because it was you and Magnus out front right yeah it was uh it was the two of us we had um oh gosh His Name Escapes me but we had we had one other kid with us um but he was yeah he was sitting pretty much third wheel the whole time and Max and I are swapping was it Robert I think it was younger yeah absolutely yeah another yet another Young Gun it was indeed and um yeah I mean I remember Magnus laying down the power the first time we went upgrading and I was looking at my power meter sort of sitting at like 470 480 you know like there's a lot of power in an island I'm not sure I've seen that before and then I was really bracing myself for the second lap and I actually found one of those euphoric moments um just on that client second lap and um especially that falls flat over the top when you go past the climb where it keeps going that we mentioned earlier on sure but I do I do agree with you you know it's it's kind of um it's Patrick's strategy if you listen to the podcast about the last time when he won he dissected that race with his coach bun and they talked about you know the power numbers that they had put out there and it was it was close to Six Watts a kilo that they were planning on riding up there um and and apparently did as well and that's just kind of where the where the racing is going but it is it's it's five minutes yeah and you've got to find that somewhere um and just make sure you get the calories in afterwards but yeah Jim I do I'd agree 100 you know I don't see Ben and Patrick getting separated until T2 and um yeah and then the foot race begins but it's it's also something you know where I think in St George 70.3 worlds last year we saw Ben is capable he's he's a he's a strong athlete he's a solid racer um and he's a competitor at heart you know he does love it I think that last part you've nailed it he really is a competitor and he'll give it he's absolute all till he's either drops on the ground or he finishes as far up as he can and I see it every time every time he races he gives 100 he doesn't know any other way I I don't know if I could have sensed more excitement from you when when we emailed you to say hey we want to come to your house you I could just I don't think I've seen that many exclamation points also because you know we don't get a we were having this discussion earlier on and well there's some splits I want this I don't want this to be a European race I want it to be a truly International Affair I want us to get the best from the US I want us to get the best from Australia New Zealand um and of course I want the best from from Europe as well and that's what makes it truly a world-class event and we haven't had an American win here I know and there's got to be a reason for that and you know if we can get an American on the podium today then for me that would be amazing and to have someone like Ben that we know has worked so hard for this race whether it be the icing on the cake trivia question who was the last American on the podium here well I know I should know I know Sue latshaw one has won this race she's an American but that was before it became a challenge event it was actually back when it was a nine manner event so still like to remember lecture from America has actually won this event quite many moons ago but man hold on I have to think oh you have to be to I'm guessing Timothy O'Donnell never done it raised here but Tio has never raced you he's now retired Jesse Thomas Jesse of course dizzy Thomas yes yes yes he had a great race that year he actually stayed I remember he stayed with the leaders the whole thing we thought oh my gosh Jesse you are on fire yes and he blew up and then somehow came back to life so that second pack it appears uh with uh Bradley Weiss um who we were sharing a Homestay with with him and his wife and uh little daughter wonderful people uh they appear to be losing some time a little bit uh maybe up to like four minutes there and that's quite that's quite a good well at least holding pretty close to Ben and Patrick which that's a bigger group uh we'll see we'll see what happens we're still trying to get an update on course because Daniel Becker guard believe he's still on our Spritz we can see that you see uh that was Sam laidlow going past Magnus titlif once more so these two seemingly working quite well together on this second lap I will try and get you an update on Daniel back again because obviously he was in between our two leaders and our Chasers also it looked like keenly was moving up and was with kind of that Bradley Weiss group Bradley Vice so I don't know if he's sitting in that group or or what he's he's you can't deny the emotional connection he has here to this race today and I'm sure that he's you want to talk about a competitor and someone's going to leave their heart out there I mean I thought the guy was going to start crying in the press conference tonight you know but you didn't just see him on splits he he was he there okay thank you thank you for that clarification he's he's he's probably he and Bradley Weiss are probably the two guys coming from the back that I'm uh most worried about otherwise Ben has probably his biggest competitors right there with him or in front of him depending on where back a guard is uh backyard obviously got Ben just recently in Ibiza near the near the finish so well I think it was a close one um and uh but but I'm also another athlete Daniel Beckett guard really has fully focused this first half of the year on this race so I I put the two of them in a very similar boat they've both been completely focused on this event um not that I'm saying other athletes have not but they've done quite a few other races but for both Daniel backer guard and uh Ben Knute this has been their a-race for the year and it has been from the start and and you're talking about two really high quality Riders absolutely yeah like Ben and I really felt like there's only one guy in the in the race who could ride away from him and that was Magnus and then we thought there's only one other Rider who's probably willing to try to take a risk to go with Magnus and that was laid low so uh in that regard the fact that that Becky guard went and couldn't hold and fell back and now is potentially suffering tells me Ben probably made an intelligent decision to say guys I'm gonna stay right here for now and uh and go with this so interesting Dynamics at play I guess we'll we'll see what uh what the cost of this is um 350 something is going to be an incredible bike split oh been given enough to the mechanical but he's now in 15th position and he's behind the Andreas dreitzer's group so there's a there's another German we haven't spoken about at all this morning is Andy dreitz he's won here before and he is currently yeah he is currently at least 12 minutes down so yeah I don't know we'll try and work out to find out what's gone on with Daniel Becker gut but he is no longer at the front end of this race so yeah to lose that sort of time that quickly you'd imagine it has to be some sort of a mechanical yeah absolutely I mean he was he was bleeding time but it wasn't you know it wasn't horrific he lost about 40 seconds on that climb which is to be expected if you stick to a more reasonable power window um 40 seconds on a climb is is pretty easy but then he wasn't dropping a lot more um whereas now you see these guys here up the front they are slowly getting ready for the second time in Grand Junction and here we go the man himself looks like lying's behind him yeah that's uh yeah working together um what happened there okay I just decided to go another way all right okay at least that was short yeah wow that's kind of well that's the kind of thing that can just happen on that too you know if you see if you if they're overtaking sometimes it makes more sense and there is obviously the road is obviously closed we can see the motorbike is sitting on the completely other side of the road so there's no incoming traffic um sometimes you just got to make a decision but yeah he looks good he does he does looks fantastic just you know not not rocking too much I don't see the breathing rate anything crazy not just a nice parachute going off the back with his number floating about he's he's not gonna wait this down please we would not believe the debate we had about if it was non wetsuit was he going to put on the cap sleeves because that's right he got you when you weren't allowed to put them until you got to team one that's right did you did you wear them last year calf sleeves last year no one what's it no no just but I put on socks put on socks et1 okay well uh this is good to see um obviously uh he's just rolling along and just the fact that he's decided to come around the front like overtake Patrick Lane to say you know what I'm here I feel good I'm going to take the pace right now interesting comparison of positions as well when you saw the other boys um up front they do look like they are more open in this like he looks very much kind of like 40K uh half distance kind of aggressive sure and I think the one thing you can definitely see on these guys is that they that they've come up in terms of their position at the front just to be able to probably produce more power now is is that a Spanx he's wearing that has a number case on the back yeah I just saw the thing it said something speed something or other but that's basically why his number is the only one that's not flapping despite it being kind of shoved in life but I look at it and I if I look at that solution I would wonder if that would give you quite a bit of pressure on your stomach yeah I mean it looks it looks like that lip on the back on his back so I I would wonder if that's been tested you know like because you've gotta you definitely do have a change um and I don't know if that was necessary the scene yeah but you would have that with a race belt as well yeah true yeah um but it's just a little bit lower though on your back I would think compared to that's a little bit higher I mean those kind of things they're such theoretical gains like from from The Experience we've made in the wing tunnel and that kind of thing it's like it's the same as if you put on a race suit right you put it on you test it you test with it and then you have like 15 minutes of rolling into it and you test completely different just because the seams have changed around a little bit on the body it's so minute and in a race situation you can't really um um you know factor that in when we see a lot of freewheeling from the boys at the front now um and they are obviously getting ready for the second lap and you know that was always going to be the advantage of Magnus actually having somebody there um of Sam as well because Sam is a handy Rider so yeah we have canoe followed by Lang and it looks like there's another Rider back there and I don't know if that's an age grouper but the yeah because Peter heimrick was the only other one we have been told now that it looks like Daniel Becker guard had problems with his shifting so we're going to try and get that updated but it's yeah it was definitely a mechanical as we expected you don't lose that much time unless there is some sort of fairly serious mechanical hopefully you can get that fixed but so disappointing for Daniel Becker guard because he was in Prime position he was running very very well on his own yeah and I feel like he's he's had a bit of a rocky start to the beginning of the season in terms of the expectations and The Prodigy that he is and what the the the the kind of you know yeah expectation that he also places on himself I think um yeah he really probably would have um wanted to have a bit more from his early season races and then to put all your eggs in the basket in one basket and then suffer from a mechanical you never want to see that no not for anyone but it yeah we're always trying to look for those little little you know emergency situation so things that we do like we take uh like Ben obviously brings a set of training wheels because he's like Jim I don't want to ride around on these new tires and you know for a week and a half for the race I don't want to risk stuff we don't we don't do any type of yeah we basically make sure that the bike's ready to go and we really shut down the bike first uh kind of in our taper um just just I just I'm very superstitious I'm like if the bike's good just leave it don't touch it don't touch it yes I'm gonna try to squeeze in one more extra ride don't try to what is the plan for me where do we go on to the course what where are you trying to come ahead uh I'm gonna I'm basically gonna meet him about every aid station so on the run on the Run give him kind of what he needs just update him on splits uh try to be a positive support uh this I really do like the rules here that allow us uh to to give it to to assist uh at least 100 meters past the Aid Station up to so um so I've got everything kind of in the car over here uh let's go Frozen but still kind of melting a little bit so he should be good for that uh on the Run um yeah you know gels some different little mini bottles that he has and yeah and then I'm just gonna scream my head off I love it so just a on the Runner about approximately approximate station the professional athletes are able to have their coaches family or friends provide them with special needs they have to be at the end of each aid station but it's a huge help particularly for uh pro athletes that have got specific needs that they've been training on that they might not otherwise get out on course and I know that the professional athletes really love that they get the opportunity to have this um this at the at Roth yeah yes it's it's just another just another check in the box of what makes Roth you know very athlete-centric very uh very supportive and understanding the value of high performance you know really doing what they can to make sure that athletes show up and go fast absolutely and that's what we want we want fast racing tonight and wait wait we're getting fast racing together today and this is I gotta say that this was always a dream race of mine that I regret never having done and so to come here it was the first race I told Ben that I wanted him to do when he went long um unfortunately Arizona was just a little too easy sleeping in his own bed and coming off St George but uh you know it certainly gave us the opportunity to come here and do this and uh this has been uh just the people I mean the elect you just feel it when you come to town or our home stays The Neighbors Home stays coming over with books of pictures of all the years she's hosted and the different athletes James cunama who won and big sexy yes and all these things so just uh you can just feel like everybody wants to help and be a part of it and boy this is uh it's it's certainly only lived up to to it all yeah it's fantastic well listen Jim it's been wonderful having you on show sure I know you're going to make your way now to T2 in anticipation for Ben's arrival but best of luck to Ben out there we'll be I'll be we'll I'll be cheering for him here in the studio last question before you go what kind of shoes is uh is Ben up for today yeah I think we have 150 millimeter stack bait on his new hocus yeah they're basically stilts that makes a lot of sense um no he's wearing the Hoka carbon x2s rocket x2s I think um it's kind of been his go-to and uh you know hook up and they've their shoe technology has really jumped uh we went from being really scratching our heads worrying to oh my God what an advantage we have now with Hoka so uh uh great great shoe and and you saw it I think in uh St George nobody had been with a top three run split coming into that race pretty amazing not that it was just the shoes nothing else thanks Jim you're amazing and that was Jim Vance coach of Benny Knute who's having a great race so far very solid race out there right now running with Patrick Lange and they are in third and fourth position we are back at greeting for the second time with our lead men we've got Sam laidlow who I did notice while we were talking to Jim just a little earlier he did spent a little bit of time getting out of the saddle giving it a little bit of a stretch just to make sure that those hamstrings and those glutes weren't starting to seize up on him but you can see now making their way up greeting for the second time I do believe we have Travis down on ground in greeting is that correct [Music] [Music] look it looks amazing and we can we can here we can hear how loud it is out there and this is what we love I mean it's one of the most popular hot spots that we have here in in Roth greeting it always is good fun and I'm pretty sure that these boys will be very very happy when they get to the end of it because that is greeting done and dusted for the day and then they are on the Homewood stretch back to Solara Burke and then that little extra Loop before they start making their way back to T2 now we know that the gaps probably gone out to about eight and a half minutes Travis before you will see the likes of Patrick Lange and Ben Knute so that Gap is continuing to grow but looking on screen both Ben and Patrick still looking very focused and still looking looking the goods I think he's having a very difficult time hearing me hey look there's you can hear in the background they've got a DJ going they've got the music going look Travis is starting to have a bit of a dance as he cheers on the age group athletes that are making their way up greeting for the very first time but you can see now he's showing us all the crowds all the supporters all of the different Triathlon teams now really interesting facts with this race a lot of our Spectators and volunteers that are here this week they take their annual holidays so they actually take actually take the annual holidays to come here and either support the races or volunteer or as a spectator so I don't know any other race in the world where that happens where they would take actually take their holidays to come and work at another race but that just shows you the effect that challenge Roth has on the rest of Germany and it truly is an institution here in Germany but these two men they've been faultless all day long we are three hours 33 into our men's professional race we've got Sam laidlow from France on the front and Magnus titler from Denmark the Great Dane the Danes have had a lot of success here in Roth we've had Rasmus Henning win it in the past uh we've had Dirk Buckle also win and of course last year with Magnus ditliff so three Danes have won here before and I know that Magnus ditliff would give his right leg to win it for the second time as we go back to our women's race and it is this woman Danny Reef absolutely obliterating at the field right now continuing to put time into her pursuers yarn she still looks fantastic she does um well I just need a little bit of breakfast to get me going Santa Claus I don't want to complain I want to sleep so you just it's not trained you're not trained like me no no I'll teach you no by the end of this day you'll be an absolute Pro but she really does look fantastic doesn't she she's great position as you said earlier still not rocking those heaps and hips nice and still in the saddle no she actually is rocking those hips but like you know in a good way like it's looking super smooth not that it's getting too much for us for her for her low Cadence um and um yeah just looking looking smooth and that's really what you want to be in the in a long distance kind of race she doesn't look that uh she's in any sort of trouble at all I mean let's be honest not that she ever really doesn't um even when she when she is but yeah um time splits on both going out uh for the leaders so um Daniela here well we don't have a current uh time switch he would be going through I can tell you right now she's she's just gone through 100.8 kilometers and she's got eight minutes and four over vanilla language and just over ten actually Lisa nodd looks like she's put a bit of a gap into Chelsea sedara So Lisa Norton at 1005 back Chelsea sedara now at 10 10 24 back and Laura Phillip at 11 53 back yeah which is surprising because Chelsea was actually when we got that little close-up of her earlier on she was looking fantastic very good um she's looking super smooth and aggressive uh at the same time which is which is nice but double-digit gaps that's that's a hard call and we actually saw the the same thing um uh with Peter his his he's also dropped two minutes back to Patrick and and Ben so yeah lots happening on the bike and um yeah I guess we'll continue to wait and see what the splits are um especially in the women's Pursuit and we still haven't got that split on any so it'll be interesting to see how where that's at uh we've only got we've only got the splits for the 100K Mark only back to fifth but Annie will be the next up on screen but it's going to be you know well over 12 minutes yeah that's I mean let's be honest that's it's it's massive for someone to to make up and you know you mentioned it earlier Daniela is known for her prowess on the bike but she's nice um you know it it like I remember in Saint George you know everybody was talking about a great Annie was looking and she's looking this fluent great running style beautiful Runner and you know it's just like this kind of strong kind of muscling of the course um uh on Daniella's behalf and they were running the same pace it's incredible it was it was quite something I think the the Run course here isn't tough enough to make it a strength based run you know where you know you kind of have to differentiate between the runners who run more strength based and and the the true Runners such as Annie and and Chelsea who have that elegance and that lightness that you would see in in you know dedicated Runners as well um and of course on a flat course that has a bit more that that's a bit more speed prone you'll see you know the more fluent Styles probably Prevail over the strength based running um but yeah uh true to her biking style and the low Cadence and the strength kind of endurance um Daniella matches matches her running style equally which is it's it's efficient it's what she does and it works for her and it gets her across the line in first place more times than not this is true and we've got a great close-up now of vanilla language still holding second place she's writing very very well eight minutes back of Danielle riff but she still looks fantastic and we're going to go to a Quick Clip now on bike tactics with our women foreign is fast we all know the bike course is fast we all know that and it's silly you have to kind of push the hills there'll be a lot of fast descents a few tricky Corners as well the case can be really long and you're always tempted to go harder because in the beginning it's quite rolling and you want to push but I mean you have to run a marathon after that so you should save your energy a bit raise smart we can expect wind so everything that makes a bike ride exciting I think offers this course so I'm definitely looking forward to the bike course I hope we won't have too much wind so we can actually go really fast and yeah especially with the women's lineup I have a few scenarios in my mind that might could happen but I'm prepared for everything thank you it's bumpier than I maybe expected but I think that it's still super fast like the roads are very nice the towns and Villages break it up so you always have things to look forward to and there's some terrain to navigate so you'll have to know how to ride your bike I think that by the time you're getting towards the end of the bike you're just excited to do something different so I look forward to the run and I'll have a really specific plan as to how I'm going to execute the race I break it up into smaller parts and create little mini goals I look forward to the aid stations and I'll really be soaking in the energy from the crowd thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so that's an easy one I think I can't live without cake my secret weapon is faster with cake so now you know definitely part of a successful performance so I pay a lot of attention to a healthy diet and also on nutrition on race day I think you can definitely lose or win your race with the right or wrong nutrition I do have a routine schedule that I like to stick to but obviously this is not always possible so it does give me a good feeling if I know I can stick to my rhythm but if anything unexpected happens I it won't drive me crazy I don't have one personal hero but I'm just very inspired by the whole Triathlon community in general coming together at races like in Roth here is just super inspirational motivational and I just try to soak it all up I'm always really looking forward to the Run Part obviously a marathon is very long but I try to break it into yeah small pieces and since running is one of my strengths it's definitely the part I'm looking forward to most also because it brings you to the finish line and then the race is over in general I share quite a lot of my life and training so I don't think there are too many Secrets but yeah maybe some of you don't know that I just learned to swim in the age of 24 so pretty late for a pro Triad lead but yeah maybe a good example that it's never too late to start something new [Music] foreign I think my morning coffee I mean that's definitely important to get my training done I think on Long concentrations are very very important factor it's a fourth discipline so it's very important to get that right oh I don't want to pick a single one I think there are so many great athletes where I can get inspiration from and I mean when I saw a triathlon Emma frodeno Emma snozza was always my hero because I mean her run was just incredible and she was always my big role model all right I mean you have to expect that there are up and down faces and you always have to stay positive so every time a bad thought comes up you have to push it down with a good sword and always stay confident it's so long and it will get better even if you have a bad bad face in it so um yeah running is my strength so you have to believe in that and every step takes you further to the finish line then I wouldn't tell I think I don't think I'm not that mysterious to be honest thank you [Music] [Music] what can I live without I mean obviously as a travel you need fast material I'm having a good bike to you very feel comfortable in the TT I think that's probably one of the most important things [Music] I'm aware of nutrition and I know a lot about it but I try not to be too extreme because it can make you quite unhappy as well so I try to keep that balance and not measure or overthink about nutrition I try not to have too many routines just because it's good to be flexible that keeps you you know a little bit less stressed that everything has to go into your routine pretty much the only thing I I always do is tune two days before the race I have a glass of wine just to relax that's pretty much the only routine I have thank you um I would say there's two I mean Chrissy Wellington is an amazing he's an amazing athlete or was an amazing athlete and what she did was absolutely outstanding um she still holds the record here in golf which is absolutely phenomenal phenomenal if we even think about how much the material changed and yeah she did that with pretty much her own power and that's very impressive and of course Nicolas Spirit she what she did also for the sport with her Youth and kids cup and um still you know winning the or not winning but having a medal at the Olympics twice um yeah absolutely outstanding and the pressure she could handle there is very impressive um I don't know yeah I I don't have any secrets but um yeah with our leaders at the head of the race we've got on screen right now Daniela riff leading our women's race here today how she has done since she left T1 so we know that vanilla language LED for just a little while the beginning stages of the bike ride but it wasn't long before this woman absolute powerhouse on the bike took the lead and has not looked back vanilla language Still Still Holding strong in second and we've got Lisa Norton third she's created a little bit of a gap between herself and Chelsea cedaro followed by Laura Philippe and Annie haug now at 13 minutes in arrears of Daniela Riffe in our men's race well it's been the Sam Laidlaw and Magnus did left show all day long at about nine minutes back just over nine minutes back we've got Patrick Lange and Ben Knute then at 12 minutes back we've got Peter heimrich but the big mover through the field as expected is no other than Joe Skipper from Great Britain he is riding now at 13 minutes in arrears along with Daniel Becker guard who we know has had issues with his shifters we're hoping that he's had those issues taken care of um one more update on courses uh Andrew starkowitz unfortunately is out of the race due to a mechanical so Andrew stuck if it was from the USA is now out of uh the race but great to see Joe Skipper making his way through the field he's a fantastic fantastic bike rider up and we have a question will Joe Skipper end up in Austria now that's not fair uh that's not fair what did you say I missed that one is that an Insider yes Paul Jones last race in the U.S um went the wrong way it well didn't even go the wrong way Mr turn yeah of course I mean I was going to make that and say well now that he can actually see where he's going because the rules don't allow his setup this is exactly it so you know we're hoping looking now like Joe knows where he's going and as well and truly on course so we'll just Skip and make it to Austria or end up in Austria hashtag yes hashtag no I think my hashtag no for me because I think he's doing a superb job so far making his way through the field now holding sixth place but 13 minutes and two seconds down yarn that's a long way that's a long way indeed I mean um yeah he's obviously he uh gone back to his to his more traditional setup um again eye candy compared to what it was so it may be very efficient maybe very fast but it was hard to look at um and um you know Joe's a good bloke he always provides good and he's a good guy and it's it's nice to see I mean that's a big chunk of time I mean he's a good Rider but double-digit splits are obviously don't you find anything it's the same split back to Annie Howe so anyhow 13 minutes in arrears of Danny reef and we've got Joe Joe and Daniel now both 13 minutes in arrears of our lead men yeah don't get me wrong I I I like Joe but my I don't think his running price is quite uh as up there as any hugs no in terms to the front um you know I'd sort of not at all best case in on a good day he could probably run with Magnus um and um that's just yeah that's just being being realistic but anyways he seems to be having a a decent day did you see sebby split him in there because they were 11 minutes back um is it's actually a big group that group of uh of Andy dreitz is in there Nils from hold um Silas Kern Sebastian Kinley uh they're all sitting at about actually no Sebastian Kinley is not in that group he's at 16 minutes back so it's quite a big group at 13 minutes back yeah Bradley Vice is in that group and he dreitzes in that group uh but Tristan Olay Andre Kubo Kieran lindas they're all in that group of 13. so that is a huge group but then you've got sebi Kinley that is now at 1623 back there we go so that's uh well that's that's significant and also you know Andy writes used to used to be the you know um well I wouldn't wouldn't go as far as to say a Helper but he used to be the faithful companion of Patrick uh on the on the bike and and kind of make sure he's pacing him well and here is Patrick taking by the horns riding um yeah writing his his best ride I think and um yeah really really fascinating to see how the front just keeps blowing this race apart but here looking at the girls vanilla um still holding her own um sort of in between Daniela and uh Lisa Norton at this stage Lisa Norton's put a minute into uh Chelsea if I saw that correctly from the last splits I don't have a fancy laptop so I'm kind of just sighting off memory here but um yeah Lisa definitely seems to have paced herself well for the second lap uh we'll see how well that is because of course we know that Chelsea is very calculated and and Dan would have a very specific power plan for her to ride to in order to perform as well as she can on the run but 11 and a half minutes it's uh so it's it's a long big chunk of real estate to make up wood to chop and a lot of water to carry so yeah we'll um we'll see what it holds but uh yeah it's certainly looking like at least the 430 Mark will fall for we'll fall for Daniela and um we'll yet have to wait a little bit more until Chelsea gets uh sorry until vanilla gets to grading to fire up the crowds a little bit more and and lap up a last bit of energy before she gets to sarberg and onto the run and now Jan while I love having you here in studio with me today you are a man you've got to go everywhere everyone wants a piece of you you we're gonna lose you now just for a little bit of time while you go across to the German live coverage because the Germans want to hear from you too so now you get to speak is he Deutsch uh talk in Germany made in Germany here we go I've got my pen that I'm holding on to uselessly if anybody wants to see I've been taking lots of notes uh making sure I wish we could actually see out if we could see our desk here now I've I've got a desk covered covered in notes yarn's just uh flying flying by the city of his pants but he's doing a superb job we can't wait to have you back in here I know you're only going to be gone for about 30 minutes or so so all right we see you back here sure all right we'll see some more developments then and uh boys a little closer to T2 thank you see you later see you soon so of course Jan ferdino he is just leaving the studio for a small amount of time so that he can go next door to the German live feed of course that's how big this race is here in Germany it is shown live on germantel television it has been for years on end they do a spectacular job and I love that my studio is so close to them all they're an incredible group so I brilliant brilliant job from both live coverage today as we can see Daniela riff looking absolutely magnificent right now on the bike doing it on her own we know that she's now nine minutes 20 ahead of Danny of excuse me of vanilla language at 10 27 back is Lisa Norton from Sweden she has managed to uh Bridge or snap that uh elastic band between herself and Chelsea sedara so Chelsea sedara now at 11 31 back Laura Philippe from Germany from just on 13 minutes back and anyhow now at 14 minutes in arrears of Daniela riff this is the Daniella roof of old this is the Daniella roof that we used to all watch in Kona as she absolutely obliterated the field but to have 14 minutes already at about the 122 kilometer mark on the bike to have 14 minutes on the likes of Annie Howe is truly incredible but I may have lost Jan fradino but I have gained Chrissy Wellington here in the studio so Chrissy she's just getting her headphones on but Chrissy Wellington while she's doing that three times winner here in Roth multiple Iron Man world champion and still to this day holds the fastest time over the full distance at uh uh an official event let's say uh 8 18 13. Chrissy it is so good to have you here uh we got to catch up with each other a couple of days ago and I think we were like children little kids in a lolly shop um so lovely to have you here and just so appropriate with this particularly with this female field that we have assembled here today some of the greatest long-distance female athletes that we have on the planet and to have yourself an athlete that was so far ahead of her time it's it's crazy it makes my head spin what does it feel like firstly to be back here in Roth after so many years and secondly give us your your opinion on the on women and women's racing today I just stepped onto the finish line and it took me back to 12 years ago when I when I crossed that you know hallowed hallowed lion and all the emotions come flooding back and you know to me challenge worth epitomizes two things it epitomizes family and coming home and it also just epitomizes kind of testing your limits this was a place where I was able to test and in many respects exceed my limit so to come home I just I think just brings all of those all of those emotions and and those feelings back and you know it's a credit to Felix and the whole team that they've managed to assemble such a competitive strong deep women's field you know like you said it's changed beyond recognition not to say it wasn't strong and deep when we were racing but now you you know you look at these these women and they're such phenomenal athletes across all three disciplines and you know to to be here and to be able to to watch them race in in person is is a real privilege and it's funny you talk like their that incredible human beings which they are incredible athletes but you yourself you still hold the record here at 8 18. so no one's come close to it well Danny Reef's probably been the closest and and Annie hug at 8 22. but you hold actually the first two fastest times here in Roth and then Danny uh reef is third and Annie Haugen fourth you did it at a time where you'd never been in a wind tunnel uh I think you when you won here I don't even know if you were on a time trial frame I don't know if it was just a road bike with clip-ons but you know we we had earlier on today we had Wolfgang Cole from from Canyon and also Ralph Eggert from DT Swiss talking about how much of an advantage it is now with all the incredible advancements that we've had in technology when it comes to the bike when it comes to race wheels imagine a Chrissy Wellington racing today I mean it's a scary thought Chrissy let's be honest I think some of those Technologies were open to us and I um for a number of reasons decided not to utilize them um you know it's it's an interesting thought I think technology can be a double-edged sword um because I think it's so important still to focus on what happens most and that's creating a mind and a body that that's capable of enduring over the Iron Man distance and and that's what we do so there are technological advancements I think that can facilitate that but I don't think we should ever let them distract from what's really and and truly very very um important but yeah that notwithstanding I mean I don't even recognize the bikes are they even bike compared to what we we used to ride there's definitely been a significant change at the kind of macro level just you know visibly looking at the bikes they look different but also at the micro level you know the the the stitching on the suit I was listening to you talk about that and and I would not have given a second thought not the stitching you know on the suit as long as my shorts had a chamois and maybe an inbuilt bra that was good enough I I was I was happy my boobs were not falling out and and everything was good um but now you know that they're they're looking at things that you know in in micro detail and and not only the the tech you know the the technology and the equipment but also the the techniques that they're using whether it's lactate testing whether it's wearing these glucose monitors whether it's being in the Wind Tunnel so they're utilizing um all these um all these different techniques um from within the sport but from also without the sport to enhance their performance but I you know would add the caveat that I hope that it's not distracting and I find it refreshing still when I listen to the likes of say Max Newman who speaks to the kind of uh Back to Basics approach that you and I kind of followed and then you juxtapose him with someone like Kristen boompad who follows a totally different approach and they can both be extremely competitive and so it shows that there's not just one route to success still and of course we saw that not so long ago at the PTO open in Ibiza where Max Newman came out on top and actually you know beat the entire field we had a brilliant race to this day the best race of his of his career so it was fantastic to see but what I love most about the the right about Triathlon moving forward for now and I know you'll understand this is we've always had a depth of field with our men it's just it's been the way it has but I I feel what has changed from when you and I were racing to now is we now have that depth of field in our women's racing as as well I mean even in this this race today I look at the fields and any one of of about five or six women uh could win here today we've got multiple world champions uh anyhow running times that are just absurd well absurd I say that but at the same sort of times you used to run uh back in the day but have you seen the it's been such an incredible advancement particularly when our with our women when it comes to the sport of triathlon absolutely you know I'm coming into this race I was asked to you know pick my pick my top three and and it's incredibly difficult to do that and that's a testament to to the depth in the field um and it also demonstrates the level of support that the female athletes are getting setting not just the top athletes but that's filtering down to enable other athletes to develop so the commercial opportunities the media exposure that that the female athletes are getting it it all you know adds to the ability to for for women not only at the top but also you know slightly lower down to elevate their their performance and and come up to challenge for the for the podium so it I mean it's incredibly exciting um we're seeing some phenomenal racing and um I'm you know I'm really excited to see where where the sport goes from here and Chrissy obviously last time you were here was back in what 2000 I mean you set the record in 2011 but your last time here 2017 2017. so have you noticed any significant changes at all or it's still same as it always was um it's really pleasing to return here and the the heart and the soul of of challenge Roth doesn't change um of course there's slightly more bells and and whistles um the Expo area is definitely ridiculously huge bigger um I think the course has changed marginally um but not significantly and but the essence of the race the the organization the support that's given the the community spirit that heart and soul that I spoke of is is alive and and very much kicking and and I think all of those things um when they come together enable the athletes to elevate their performance it's not just about coming here and being um on your best form and having your best kind of training and a preparation it's about the the organization and the support um and the you know the the number of people that come out to watch it enables you to rise to the occasion and that's really what makes Roth so incredibly special it's the place where I think that if if you're on form you can be the very very best athlete that you can be well it's interesting you say that because we've been given reports out on course right now that these two men on screen Sam laidlow and Magnus ditliff are definitely on course to break the record now of course Chrissy you know as well as I do that's when they head into T2 they have still got 42.2 kilometers left to run so it's no mean feat so while they're on world record Place price right now a lot of things can go wrong and right once they hit T2 what was your experience here in particular with the Run course now it has changed since you've done it majority of the Run course back in your day was up on the canal now of course they do about a 25 kilometer section on the canal they then come back through town and they shoot out the other side of town to the little town of buchenbach which is all on road so we've got half of the run on that hard packed dirt half of the run on road and that little section in between on cobbles which you know for a lot of people that change of surface can actually make it more difficult because you're in and out of rhythm it's not about just getting on a road surface holding Rhythm for that entire time there's that change of pace change of Rhythm which for some athletes can really be of detriment but for runners like yourself I actually think it was an advantage I I really enjoyed the you know the the slight change in surface when when we raced here I definitely enjoyed running along the canal I think in the latter stages you benefit from having a slightly um softer you know softer surface but of course we were racing in entirely different shoes we've renamed it shoe gate is we know that Patrick Langer today is racing in a brand new pair of super shoes that none of us have seen before and uh so it's going to be interesting to see what he can produce today of course he is really trying to get under that elusive two two and a half hour mark you know is it the athlete is it the shoe I mean who knows but yeah it's come a long way since our day yeah but you can't stand the tide you you you work with these technological developments but I think what's important is also that they're um applicable to our sport you know we're not swimmers cyclists and Runners we are triathletes and I think we need to look at the technology and apply the technology as it as it suits our sport but it is constantly evolving and and the sport needs to evolve with it um but I also hope that age groupers participating in the sport don't look to it and thinking think I need to spend you know 250 euros on a pair of shoes in order to be able to participate because that you know that creates a barrier for entry that is just insurmountable for many people so I you know I'd like also people to to realize that whilst those shoes may be nice to have they're not absolutely essential to um running really fast times but I I'm sure I'm sure they will and I'm sure that elusive 230 barrier for for the men will will be broken um if not today um very soon sometime in the future and as I said we've got so many incredible athletes racing here today in both our men's and women's field looking at our women's race right now Daniella roof same coaches you had back in the past Danny elleriff has done just about everything there is to do she's you know along with yourself renowned throughout the world as the greatest long-distance athlete we've ever seen we've got this woman on screen now Lisa Norton who has now managed to overtake vanilla language so she is now in second position so Lisa Norton from Sweden now in second position with vanilla language in third but going back to Danny Reef uh you know she had a little bit of a tough time of it the last couple of years when I say tough time a little bit up and down but she raced a couple of weeks ago in rapidsville in Switzerland and she looked like she was back at her best best she's looking today like she is back to her absolute best um Chrissy what are your thoughts on Danny she just she's incredible when people ask me you know who who is the best triathlete of all time um she is yeah she can Race Across all distances be incredibly competitive across all three desperately all three um oh sorry all all distances you know you put her in a Sprint race you'd be you'd be scared you put her in an Iron Man distance race and and she's you know the one of the most competitive athletes out there so she's so phenomenally versatile and and that's you know I think that's scary what you know makes her the best for me of of all time but you're in the sport as as long as Daniela is and you're going to have highs and lows it's analogous to racing you know you have your highs your lows and and um it's a testament to her as an athlete that she's able to endure those kind of lower points in her career and then come back and prove everyone wrong again when they've written her off and I spoke to her um at the pastor party on on Friday night and she was calm she was confident but never arrogant and she just seemed to be in a really really positive place and I spoke to her about her changing coaching and and she said you know I had two years where I could explore and I think that that exploratory process was really really important and now she's back to you know her former coach and and I think takes great confidence in that and we're seeing that today that we're seeing that today but the the wonderful thing about Daniella is you can never ride her off um and she's tenacious um and she's a a fighter and and even if the race doesn't go her way you know that she's gonna give it everything and and cross that with that Finish Line regardless um and you know I I have such deep deep respect for her as as an athlete and I think she's one of those athletes that that should the record go she would be the one to hold it well she was definitely one of the people to say uh the press conference that she believes that whoever wins today whoever crosses this Finish Line behind us in front today will need to go either very very close if not break your record in order to win and I and I think we're seeing conditions obviously conditions play a huge part the wind is starting to pick up here now when we got here this morning it was deadly still starting to warm up but I think I think they're going to get off the bike before the wind plays too big apart and I think that little bit of breeze on the run will actually be in their favor so we really could see some fast times here today yeah it's nice to have a slight cooling breeze um you know obviously there's a fine line you don't want um to be running into a serious a serious Headroom but I think a slight breeze will be nice but all of these athletes have shown the aptitude for racing in the heat you know it's warm today it's not Hawaii one but it but it's warm but they that these athletes are more than capable of of running in these conditions and performing in these conditions so I I expect to see some really phenomenal run times here today like we're seeing you know the the predicted bike splits are blowing absolutely blowing my mind sub 434 Denny and uh sub four hours for both Sam laidlow and Magnus ditliff who are you know and actually this is one thing I wanted to talk to you about obviously when you came into this bought you weren't you were a little older not older a little older well aren't we all but you know what we've got two young men leading the race today and they're both uh you know 24 years of age their babies as it when you talk about long distance racing and we're seeing this more and more now in particular with our men but to a degree with our women over the middle distance um what's your opinion on that do you think it's wise sometimes I think as my role as mother hen I get a little worried about their longevity in the sport moving forward you know here they are at 23 24 25 years of age and they've already done three four five six up to ten long distance events and they're doing them incredibly well I mean who's to argue we've got two youngsters winning the race today who am I to argue that they're too young to be doing this distance I just I just worry about their longevity in the sport I would like to see them have long illustrious careers and I don't think there's enough research out there right now to see the effects of this sort of racing has on their bodies I think doing Iron Man distance has been normalized over the last 10 15 years so it whereas once it was um considered something that's very exclusive I think now it's it's much more normal to do an eyeman distance and and do a number of Iron Man distance races um you know each year um and they are a lot younger the athletes are are coming into this a lot younger I think that that's also um a testament to the the development program and that that children um and young people are getting into the sport earlier and they're being transitioned not only into Olympic distance but also into Iron Man um but like you said you don't necessarily only need to be physically robust and to have a long illustrious career as you said but you need to be psychologically robust yes as well and you need to have that psychological maturity not only when you're racing but to deal with all of the kind of additional components of being a professional athlete because it's not sufficient now only to swim bike and run you need to be able to to manage every single element of what it means to be professional and that's really important and that could be quite demanding for anyone let alone someone that's 20 you know 25 that doesn't have that maturity you know quite yet yeah and I think you've nailed it when it comes to someone like Magnus ditliff yes he's young but one thing I've noticed from the very first moment I met Magnus was he had this mature this calmness of maturity about him that was well beyond his young years and I think that's what's really helping and again also having a group having having this um Team around you that can that can manage that for you you know when you come here to Roth it's not just about turning up and making your way to the race line there are so many commitments press conference um signing sessions the pasta party I mean it goes for days in advance but then on top of that you're expected to line up on the start line and give your absolute best and for a lot of athletes that have never been here before it's the first time it is incredibly overwhelming it is and it's really important to have like you said have that team around you I I you know I find it interesting now that that the athletes do have an Entourage larger than we ever had you know I had I had my husband and and my manager that came with me and yes my family and friends came out to watch but these athletes do have um a uh a much bigger team around them to support them with that but but Belinda that's what being a professional is all about it's not just about being able to perform on Bay States being able to um uh create a team around you that will enable you to fulfill all of your obligations as an athlete whether that's attending the pasta party and making sure you can get there and you can leave on time or it's fulfilling your commitments to sponsors and you need to be able to do that and be able to manage that so that you you can you know deliver on those commitments but that it doesn't impact your your performance and and that's where you you know your team comes your team comes in and I think that's the difference between last year and this year is we saw Magnus ditliff just make his way up solarburg for the very last time gets a little tricky on the second lap because obviously there is is not a lot of room up Solara Berg and particularly when you then throw in the age group athletes who are on lap one it can be really really quite daunting and this is when the athletes really need to make sure that they've got their wits about them but Magnus did lift leading the race here today we know Sam laidlow there on screen right now is with him so those two men have been faultless since the gun went off at 6 30 this morning and Magnus spoke about I had a good chat to Magnus uh about three days ago and he said you know last year I turned up here on my own and it was overwhelming he is he's quite introverted he's not an extroverted athlete he's quite introverted and he's come back here this year knowing that the pressures that are going to be put on him and he's come with his best friend he's come with his coach and he's come with his girlfriend so he has a support network he's only got the three but he knows those three are all he needs to get him through this week and to racecourse in the position and the and the right mental attitude that he needs to win again and look Magnus is uh as I said is he's a brilliant athlete but he's a Charming young man I remember last year when he'd finished and I told him okay Awards tomorrow and he goes oh do I have to give a speech I said Magnus you just won one of the biggest damn races in the world yes you have to give a speech and I went home and I remember saying to my husband oh I'm so worried about this speech I don't think it's going to be any good and I take my words back he was Flawless it wasn't a long speech but it was brilliant it came from the heart and I remember thinking there and then this young boy has got what it takes to be one of the world's best he will be our next young for Dino so they are big Tuesday very big shoes to film I'm glad he can't be saying this as he's over in the next Perth but yeah it's it's incredible to watch I think one of the things I love the most about my job as Pro liaison is seeing these young men when they young women as well when they first come onto the scene there's quite a few young women now not so much in the in the full distance but in the middle distance that I'm dealing with now um Lucy Byram comes to mind Meg McDonald they're these young athletes that are just starting to find their way and then you know you roll forward two or three years and the progress that they've made and there's nothing like it and Magnus is the best example for me because when I first met him he really was just starting out and to see how far he's come in such a short amount of time to being one of the very best in the world it's it's an amazing feeling but what you said before about him coming to the race last year realizing that it was overwhelming but learning from that yes and that's really really important because it has to be exploratory and you have to go into these races thinking maybe not everything's going to go perfectly but I'm going to learn from that and I'm going to build from that and I'm going to grow as an athlete and it shows that he's willing you know he's willing to do that and adapt what what he does even though he was a winner athlete you know last year he's prepared to still adapt and and change things and and that iterative approach is is really really important and stand some really in really good stead now looking at the race now you can see where the lead men and the lead women are we know the lead men are at about the 160 kilometer marks so they have got around 20 kilometers or just under before they start making or before they get to T2 so they will start they'll complete lap two and then they've got about an eight kilometer straight shoot and it's slightly downhill I don't know if you can remember but it's a great way to finish 180k bike ride it's about eight kilometers slightly downhill they take a hard right hand turn before they enter T2 we know that the women well right now we've got Daniella riff is the only one that's made it past that 136 kilometer timing band how she's biking today oh I agree I think Daniela is having is on track to having one of the greatest uh races of her athletic career it's looking fantastic and in the men's race obviously we've we've spoken a lot about the the two youngsters Sam laidlow from France and magnesite left from from Denmark but obviously you know we've got so many other great bike riders in the field oh great athletes in the field we've got Ben Knute who's sitting in a very good position yes he's a good 11 12 11 11 or 12 minutes down but he's still riding up there with Patrick Lange and they're both at around 11 and a half minutes down on our two uh young leaders Ben Knute here for the very first time so has never experienced this before it's going to be interesting to see how he goes he's done a lot of work on his run so his run was never his was never his strength but I know talking to his coach he's done a huge amount of of training when it comes to the Run particularly over this longer distance so what are your thoughts about the men's race if these two youngsters they've got it in the bag and and these others are just Racing for third or you think that we're going to see some changes on the run it's never in the bag um you know it's nice to have that buffer and going into onto the run that I think they'll take great Confidence from that but until you're you're in this amazing amazing finish area and and you can look behind you see no one's there and and really you know embrace the experience but I think these athletes will be very much focused on on you know maximizing their performance in each and every moment rather than getting to letting their minds travel too far um too far ahead no I totally agree and looking on screen right now Danielle Arif I wonder if she knows just how significant her lead is unbelievable racing from The Angry Bird here today but she looks so smooth I know I know it's incredible doesn't she you know she's got slower Cadence than as you know um normal I guess in quotation marks which is typical of of a coach you know a coaching star but she's just she just looks smooth she's passing here's the comparison we've just gone over to Lisa Norton look at the difference in Cadence right now so Lisa much faster Cadence beautiful Rider Lisa Norton I met her a long long time ago when she was a junior she came to Australia to begin her athletic career or her Triathlon career it's quite an extraordinary story to be honest because she was never into Triathlon she was she got into Triathlon she she's quoted as saying because her mother had a bit of a midlife crisis and wanted to start writing so they rode their bikes all the way to Italy so it's quite it's it's a really great it's a great story so when a mum turned 40 she decided that she wanted to ride a bike to Italy and that and that Lisa was going to come with her and that was in the summer of 2000 they had no cell phones no Google Maps they just did it by feel and it's it's honestly I love the story they made it all the way to Venice after 19 days of cycling and Lisa said it's still one of the most incredible experiences of of her life when she got back home obviously a lot fitter there was a little local Triathlon and she decided to give it to go she had to actually breaststroke because she didn't know how to swim freestyle back then this was in 2000 she had no idea how to swim freestyle breaststroke the whole swim anyway got on the bike what got on the Run long story short won the race so that was the start official start of her Triathlon career but she did come to Australia very very early on she was coached by spot Anderson in Sydney so I used to see her quite a lot so for me to see where this young woman has started to racing the Olympics and having that incredible Sprint finish with Nicholas Spirit yeah just coming in shine getting second place to seeing her now still racing so so very well at 38 years young I mean what a career this woman has had and then on top of that as you said time trial specialist has written many UCI events has done very very well in these events so she's she's a great cyclist in her own right but what an athlete that her story coming into the sport reminds me of mine yeah it's a little bit like your videos you do some cycle touring you know you gain kind of physical or psychological stretch you think oh you know I'll give Triathlon a go and look look where look where it leads but it does it does speak to the fact that there's so many different routes that people take into the sport like we spoke earlier about people coming you know young people coming into the sport early you know she's taking a slightly you know different route encouraged by her mom and and look where look where she is now and like you said still competitive versatile you know second in the Olympics with that Sprint finish like you said and now incredibly competitive longer distance too um and and that's really really impressive because they are very different kind of skill sets and and they Place different physiological demands on on the athlete so to be able um to straddle all of those different distances I I I think is is really phenomenal and it's funny we talk about all these athletes and and they're incredible achievements over the years like yourself you know going down in history is one of the greatest long-distance athletes we've ever seen you're still doing well because the sneaky little birdie told me that you entered yourself in a trail race the other week and came away with a sneaky win is this true um you know when I have dope shy Chrissy come on when I retired from from Triathlon or transitioned away from Triathlon I like to call it I wanted a new A new challenge um and for me trail running running off road presented um an incredible challenge um and it's something I really enjoy something that I can fit um into our lifestyle um much more easily than I could ever imagine doing with with Triathlon so I feel like I have balance in my life I still I still love to run I love to run off-road um and uh yeah last weekend I did the zuke's ultra Trail the 70k um 70 kilometers wow and it was just it was just phenomenal it's so special to be able to to run in the Alps I I still you know realize how privileged I am to be able to do that and yeah to Come Away with the win was was a surprise um but it was it was it was it's really wonderful to be able to to realize those emotions again you know that nothing ever comes close to Crossing this finish line and the feelings of elation and pride and satisfaction um and life changes and life moves on but it was really nice just for for a moment it's like a drug and it's just nice to have it every now and again and absolutely when you're an athlete of your caliber I don't think you ever truly lose it you're it's always still there and and I mean I was when I read that did one it was it was amazing not surprising but it was it was amazing now Chrissy we are going to let you go but you are coming back later on today so we'll have another little chat and we're gonna talk about the women's race because I'm sure when you get back here the women will be well and truly onto the run so we can discuss what's been going on and uh I cannot wait to have you back on it's an absolute an honor and a privilege to have you here today thank you it's been wonderful thank you Christine and of course Chrissy will be back with us later on today once the women hit that 42.2 kilometer run course oh my gosh Chrissy I I was lucky enough to have her in my training Squad I did a lot of training with her most of the time it was me seeing the back of Chrissy I have to admit because she was such a phenomenal athlete and our light years absolute light years ahead of her time but so fantastic to have her here and more importantly to have her down on the Finish Line at the end of the day to put the finishes metal around our first three our top three professional women finishing here today but wow 4 hours 30 and 4 hours 27 for our women for our study for our men into this race here in Roth dartif challenge Roth powered by Hep dartif the 10th year that they have been the title sponsor for this race as we can see on screen now the big Dane himself Magnus ditliff and we're going to go to a short little uh article that we've got on the boy himself as Sam Laidlaw goes past him these boys are doing a great job working together having a little chat as they pass each other just keeping each other in check but let's go to that short little article we've got on Magnus deadlift oh my bike I think is probably the most thing I need pretty much especially for this full distance races we do a lot of testing with uh sweat rates and how much sodium is in my sweat and also then with the carbohydrate intake how much I'm actually able to to get in so I would say I'm in in maybe not the most but in the top [Music] I try not to have too many superstitions because I find that when I travel all over the world it's sometimes difficult to get exactly what you need so I try to be adaptive and follow the the place where I'm at I think actually Erasmus Henning is probably one of them if I have to pick one from Denmark he also one here in Roth so I think it's pretty cool that me and him is the are the only Danes so far that has uh the rough title try to break it up in smaller parts and and to execute all these small parts one at a time uh one fun fact is that I'm actually a chemical engineering I have a chemical engineering background so I have a bachelor in that which I decided after that to take a break from the studies and focus full time on Triathlon which I think has been a good position so far and I hope they will be able to get back to University foreign y I am back fueled and uh caffeinated up uh unlike oh boys and girls out on the course it is going to the final stage of the bike for the men we've got our last split at 1 55 um only Magnus and Sam through so far but yeah um you can see them sharing the lead world there's a few phases going on where they're just soft pedaling and and trying to save some energy but man you can see the crowds have come out cheering on and that's what makes this race so special you know it really is something uh of a difference if you're at 180k by yourself or you've got uh cheering on going on here and here's exactly what I was talking about um Magnus just being smart at the end really saving his legs knowing that he's got a possibly tough nut to crack in Sam you know I I still am so surprised how he gets away being under the radar you know he's a very confident guy makes big statements and then still people seem to underestimate him and find themselves surprised that he's here at this stage on the bike uh to be honest I thought that you know the two of them are definitely dynamic duo that can light a bike course on fire and you can tell um you can tell that they certainly have done exactly that and you can see the advantage of riding with a second person even if it's just the two of you you've got a dedicated goal they both want to get away from I guess mainly Patrick the strongest Runner coming from behind and you know um last we saw it was a good good 10 minutes that they'd that they'd put into the into the chase group and this is kind of the dream scenario I think both of them would have been hoping for but now it will be fascinating to see the marathon you know we know that Magnus is probably the more calculated and well-tested guy and you know Sam being perhaps a little bit more emotional and just kind of fueled by um yeah his his intentions of of wanting to be the best in the world uh can go out and and and overpace but at the same time we have seen how he can absolutely hold on and surprise everybody I think that's exactly what he did in Kona for most of us um but he's had some solid training he mentions his team a lot that he's now got in his corner and you know he's got no more excuses and um you know he's he's riding the waves of what it means to be an endurance athlete at at the top of the game you know you have your good days you have your bad days he's had some great races he struggled in others um I think personally perhaps more because of pacing strategies that may have just been a little bit overly ambitious but hey I've been there a lot of us watching have probably been there you go out with high hopes and uh come down crashing in Flames that's the nature of the game and we can certainly expect for Sam to put up one heck of a fight at least that's what I'm looking forward to coming back to the chase group this looks like Patrick um and and Ben the dynamic duo still being together Jim called it earlier his co-ben's coach saying that he doesn't see the two of them getting split up and I think they've they've really found themselves um Peter Hamrick was with them earlier on but he may have paid for that early effort when he tried to close the swim swim Gap and let's not forget the guy raised a a full distance Iron Man three weeks ago so it was always going to be a tight turnaround personally I don't know how he how he did it I certainly don't feel like I could do another one right now and that's why these two men are powering ahead doing damage minimization let's be honest here um last I checked there were 10 and a half minutes down oh we've got a new split that's just come up on my screen Belinda was kind enough uh before she excused herself to lend me this laptop of hers 1122 they are back so they've lost another uh 52 seconds since the since the split at 1 46 wow that's that's in nine case so that just shows you the boys at the front are motoring um it's definitely um yeah impressive we were due for a sub four hour bike ride I don't have any anticipation um or rather calculation of where they are but this is the last the last bit of them heading towards transition and they are making light work and especially fast work of it trying to cut through these age groupers just to make their way back before they get to lace up the shoes let's see if uh while we've got these images where where we are on the on the girls so I'm just looking at the splits for the women's race Daniela threw at 146k but uh no one else yet so I'll keep you posted on that as soon as they come but let's just enjoy the the pictures we can hear of Sam looking very consistent you can see he's still working really hard pushing and pulling a full pedal stroke I feel like that bottle was exactly as full as it is right now 150k ago it somehow seems like he's got uh well it looks like he's got Coke or something like that in the back of the bottle but it's always been like that just that last little sip in there and he hasn't refilled or changed it um but that may just be my imagining it as he is absolutely flying across the canyon bike course here welcome back BG in the house thank you very much just a little break please no details no it's all right darling we don't want to hear about it I just had to go and get my coffee everyone knows that when I do these uh long day saddle so no it's great and look you were talking about Sam laidlow and Magnus titlif these two have been Inseparable the entire day long they are on their way back now so it should be I think about just on seven kilometers just around that the bike ride here is a just a tad short of 180 I think it comes in at about 178 point something to be absolutely precise but it's um it's just a tiny it's a shade short but well within the parameters so great shot there of Patrick Langer and I was just reading some of the updates from our spotters out on course and they are saying that he looks really really good so you know just nice and relaxed you can see and then just move his head side to side but he's looking very very strong very very relaxed he is of course a long way behind we know that but he still looks very very good what would be going through his head now I mean obviously I'm sure he's got people out there that have given him a split a split up to the the men in front I mean is that demoralizing or do you just have to keep your head in the game and just do what what you can do and not not let the noise in not let it I mean it's a long way ahead what are you thinking now when you hear that sort of split of you know nine ten minutes well I think Patrick is somebody who's always got a huge confidence in his run and and rightfully so you know he's somebody who's who's very much got that as a weapon um but at the same time you know last year he was about five minutes quicker running than uh than Magnus and they're 11 and a half down right now you know you don't want to call the day before it's over no no but you know these boys are here uh shooting the quite frankly at the front they look like they're having a chat and just going out for a casual TT between them um and uh they actually look like they're already out on the on the bit yeah where they would have turned off the two lap course so they're by themselves they've got no more traffic to worry about and it's literally about getting the last bit of nutrition in and getting ready for the Run and I think quite frankly you know listening to the statements before I think this will be a bit of an eye-opener for Patrick because he very much blamed his deficit last year on the motorbikes now if you've got 40 less motorbikes eventually you just have to realize that Magnus titlif is a very handy bike he is himself a motorbike let's be honest he is indeed himself pretty damn quick and you pair that with Sam laidlow who is also a an absolute weapon on them well in all three disciplines but particularly on the bike you know these two are yeah they're a pretty gruesome combination uh to deal with and I think whether he realizes that now Patrick that is or or in hindsight you know it's just something that the world of triathlon is going to have to get used to um and that that goes for all of us like you know myself included we kind of to realize like if you want to go up against these guys you just have to do a lot of work on the bike and you know they've got phenomenal setups but they've also got a phenomenal set of legs on them and it's just yeah it's it's really impressive you spoke of the maturity that Magnus has put you know to light for his 25 years 24 years of age I think he's just turned 25 so he's 25 whereas uh Sam laid low 24. when I was 25 . hard to believe I had not won a single race I had not won a single race until I was 27 years old not one and then all of a sudden and then I just like I won the right one but still like like these boys they are killing it early on in their career and it's just you know the dedication they have and the the love for the sport is just you know it it almost makes me feel like I wasted my time at that age and just going out and you know I still lived a normal life for two months of the year and when went out and had a good time and I remember one winter coming off the off season and then you know there was a warm-up and then a 400 meter effort in swim training and I remember going like around 4 40 after six weeks of holidays and I got out at that moment and told my swim coach now I'm not unfit enough yet I'll come back I'll come back two weeks off and that cockiness is obviously something that's carried into the new generation but they just live so much more professionally and and and just and honestly they just do it better yeah and um and and it's wonderful to see because even now at the tender age that I find myself at um it's you know I still continue to soak up motivation from these boys because they're really yeah they're just doing their thing and they're doing it well and but it's interesting you talk about that but honestly on if I'm to be critically honest I think you were the one that started this I think the reason that we are seeing these young men doing what they're doing now getting a support network around them getting a team around them being so professionals because once you had made it and admittingly it was a little later than what they're doing now you were the first in my eyes to actually really take this sport to the next Notch to really make it a professional sport it wasn't just about turning up on race day and winning races it was what you did off the racecourse which was just as important if not more so than what you did on and you created that team and you had that super team and I talk about it often when I'm I give speeches about you being the the full package you are you are the full professional package as an athlete and I think it's thanks to you that these young men have had the opportunity to see what it's what it takes and yes they're in an advantage because they get to do it at a much younger age but really I think you are the reason that we are seeing this this shift in the sport and this more professional attitude both on and off the racecourse some of the athletes are struggling with it I don't think everyone's perfected it yet I think Magnus titlef is one that has as you can see now they are making their way into transition uh satellite calculation is right that will be a 359. oh my gosh that I mean that is that is mind-bogglingly quick and um wow absolutely absolutely good because of you know they look like they were still able to save some energy in those last few days and absolutely keep the speed Top Notch um whilst maintaining um whilst maintaining their the the their their energy levels and here a quick change into the tent and off they go I mean it's heated up looking for a spectacular day but just to round up on that I think where the sport has gone and regardless of who started it or not I think people do realize that it's important who you surround yourself with to have good people in your corner that you know for I see more than two and yeah that you simply have a positive vibe around in order to to get you going and um no I agree and Jan do you think organizations like obviously the PTO coming on board offering a lot more money offering a lot more opportunities for a lot more a lot more about a top level athletes do you think that's also helped shape these athletes I mean Magnus ditliff um Sam we've got so many young young athletes Clermont mignon I mean there's 23 years of age Max Newman as we've spoken about you know do just one in the the PTO Champs in in Ibiza I mean was that sort of money up for grabs when you first started out no but I I believe that is maybe the one thing that you know our generation has highlighted and that's come to light more is that the opportunity was always there just yeah it's just about getting out Chris Chris McCormick yeah he never suffered no you know he was never struggling to make ends meet you know in the beginning yes but once he had had that success and it was always the opportunity is there because the sport provides a wonderful platform that allows you to sell yourself and to you know to make a good living and to be living well so we just got a bike split in for for the boys 357 44. it's a new record four minutes quicker than last year that is mind-boggling but you know to finish off on the on the opportunity it's also yeah Daniela and and just people showing that you can make it in sport PTO is providing a great platform and they're providing a great medium and providing great great prize money but that's a new thing you know these athletes they've been working for like this for four or five years to get to that kind of level you know it just doesn't happen because somebody puts up a hundred thousand dollar race and if you think back there have been hundred thousand or more dollar races you know the Triple Crown challenge the HyVee races lots of races that provided big big money um I just think that in general there is more opportunity and perhaps more depth and um it's no longer a scary to go onto the Journey of being a professional triathlete you know my mom always had a heart attack it probably would have helped to have people you know um at the front of the sport making a decent living um and providing that safety blanket for those that seek it but um let's rather get back to some awesome racing action because yeah I guess Daniella can't be too far off either yeah a predicted time of 4 25 so she is going to obliterate course record here as well yeah so that would mean that she's about another 24 minutes or so from from T2 um so obviously an incredibly fast day and great conditions well yeah not just conditions but just everything into place that's right and falling into place at the end of the day we can talk about conditions yarn but you know as well as I do that it takes more than just a good day to create these sorts of times it's the athlete coming in delivering what they know they're capable of delivering we talked about we've talked quite a lot today about technology as well and it's all of the pieces of the puzzle coming together on the day when you need them to come together well that's the one thing and and the other thing is you know Roth has always been Infamous as a quick course and people always used to say that it's short and I'll tell you what it's that one kilometer on the bike that's about no difference no um but you know what they do do is they make sure that the roads are swept the night before and that the potholes are taken care of I mean um I've written on courses without naming without naming anything I mean you literally thought you were riding through a Warsaw and you know it was if before I was sure we weren't going to have any more kids well afterwards the deal was done it was absolutely crazy just how you how you should have almost had a full suspension bike um and you know that that all adds to Little Things where athletes just know you've got the confidence to keep your head down a little bit longer because you know you don't you're not going to go and fall off a cliff into a pothole and just yeah um also that's I guess we're 40 less motorbikes helps because you've just got less traffic on the course less things to think about and you can just concentrate on your race yeah absolutely and I think that'll Pendle into a bit of a medium because um you know looking at this we probably could have done with one or two more pictures of the girls racing further down but that's that's the way you have to do it you have to push the extreme and that's exactly what challenge Roth has done here they've cut it down to an absolute minimum and they're going to see how that works and then they can add a few extra and until they find that this is the hardest thing I think I mean obviously I've been an athlete and now I'm on the other side and you know listening to people complaining about a race not being fair because there's two Moto Zone course but then you hear the other side of people complaining that they're not getting great live feed because there's not enough Motors on course and it's like well you're down if you do down if you don't and you're right it is about finding that happy medium that makes everyone happy in the long run and that's a fair insightful for all yeah absolutely and and I think we're seeing yeah just an example of of what's possible in in that regard here um a traditional race that's been around for 40 years you know that obviously helps because you've got you know the same corners and and you've got a community that sees you know it's not just a race organizer that's like oh maybe we should do this and if you've got a you've got thousands of people here seeing every bit of the course and you know uh openly discussing things afterwards in meetings where they get together and the community gets together and just makes this the best race possible it really does and that that goes not just from the team here itself to the volunteers but ever to the to government high up and all the way down just at this park Triathlon Park where we're sitting now ten ten days ago this was just a massive of grass and it looks like a permanent structure it's crazy it is crazy but you know what I I walked out of the uh out of my accommodation this morning and I was kind of a bit lost between directions and I opened Google Maps and the first thing that came up Finish Line challenge so this place as well for Chelsea I think per se in terms of her running prize but um imagine if Chelsea would have held on there uh things could have looked a little bit different but water Shoulda Coulda we just saw a little Grand glimpse of the first case of the marathon and the boys have still continued to virtually hold hands stick together I think there's about I think there's about five or six seconds separating them which is absolutely nothing yeah exactly and um well we'll see how how it holds up but I think it's just about every single athlete's nightmare imagine this goes on for another 40K and they actually just five or six seconds I'm dying for that I would love it yeah we would as Spectators but I'm not sure those two the last time we had a Sprint finish here was Lucy Charles Barkley and Daniela blimer were they literally oh really they literally yes they came into the stadium so just for our viewers back home it's not a straight shoots finish as normal races it's actually like a mini a mini stadium so once they enter the stadium they have to run how far would you say that is round to the Finish it's it's 100 meters you have two 90 degree turns yes it's like a little mini athletic track and I remember Daniela blimel and Lucy Charles coming into Stadium head to head and at the end of the day Daniella I think because the crowd was just cheering her on so much she was able to just get the better of Lucy but it's still to this day the greatest battle I've ever seen between two Elite women there you go unbelievable yeah well let's hope for us Spectators that we get to see it um and um yeah hope for the hope for the athletes that they can create a bit of distance in between beforehand but yeah so far certainly shaping up to be interesting as we see Ben and Patrick still trying to do damage control and roll in with what will essentially be a really quick bike split um interesting so Magnus has his nutrition or something shoved down his belly now that he's allowed both of them showing the world their chest hair and running with heart rate belts Sam's got a bottle in hand and two very very tall athletes like yourself of course Magnus being the taller of the two is Magnus about the same height as yours he's slightly taller um I think we're about the same to be honest though I I wouldn't know exactly but you can see these guys setting into an iron Rhythm here um doesn't look as fast or as elegant as a Patrick probably isn't either but yeah you can see Patrick really putting in the work here to gain a few seconds on Ben or rather lose a few less to the boys up front there we go we already had our question answered 195 for did left 194 for you so he's a smidge taller 193 yeah indeed well okay there you go it's um I don't know that title anymore geez I used to be the tallest guy nothing more today the the Roth record is definitely gonna fall um I'll tell you what though Patrick says he's he's got the best coffee on the Expo and I'm like ah nah nah nah you can have you can have the time you can have the record but I've been going I can't have the best I've been going to rise on every day it's it's it's the goods yeah I have to admit it's the goods it's all fun and games you gotta have a little banter and uh and not not take it too serious as you can see our our third and fourth professional men so that is Ben Knute and Patrick Lange now into T2 it's going to be upward of about 11 closer to 12 minutes and oh that is a tender takeoff look at the difference here Ben knut looks like he's doing a Sprint distance race into transition no that's Patrick was that Patrick Patrick oh so that was Ben that was looking not so great oh that was Ben getting oh no but tender um and uh Patrick he looked like he's been he'd been waiting for this Marathon the whole time he's like get me off this bike and let me start the Run exactly he's uh he he's looking forward to leaving it behind and let's see what his prototype shoes do can do for him and um yeah be interested to see and hear if anybody on social media has any input as to which brands can actually provide 50 millimeter shoes because for a while they're I think Nike had an attempt and Adidas definitely had them well this is he's definitely with Adidas yeah he's he's running them yeah so he he he raced a couple of races with him um I know Hoka had one in the pipeline but they shot that on they shut it down as um as no as the rules change oh I can't you are correct in saying that on did indeed of course have them because that's what goes Stephanie in Hawaii in Hawaii and well it's uh let's see it's an interesting course for that because it's not all Road no so on a road surface that will obviously do oh 12 minutes just shy of 12 minutes that's uh yeah yeah that's going to be a lot but as you I mean I I think Magnus is Rock Solid normally I would say sam laidlow not so much but so far how does he do that how does he how how does he go and make these claims and be such a you know such an outward spoken guy and even you don't have him on your list of favorites well I did have him on my list of favorites but with Sam Laidlaw and he he's admitted this to himself he the reason that he had to pull out of his last full distance race was because he had terrible uh stomach issues and he does have he was diagnosed quite a few years ago with leaky guts so he really has to be quite particular not just on race day but for the entire week leading in with what he eats what he places inside his body but they did find out they did a bit of that further testing after that race and he did come out with um a bit of a liver infection so there was a lot more going on than he gave it credit so my biggest thing for Sam coming into this race is one he hasn't been able to do the work that he wanted to do and two is he is he completely over this infection or not and so when when was this tested after after lazarote exactly exactly because in Lanzarote I honestly I mean he just went out hard yeah he went out so hard on the bike somehow managed to calm himself down then he ran he started off in like a 1 15 half marathon or something like that now they're in there in unison this is incredible look at the two of them I mean yeah exactly and you know I think it's just basically because of his uh as he has said himself very high sweat rate and and energy needs um I think that's something that that plays into it but I thought Lanzarote on his behalf was probably bad pacing facing and it could have well been but he definitely did some testing afterwards and he did have a liver infection that needed to be treated yeah okay no I had no idea about that that's obviously a different different piece to tackle yeah um but you know not being able to do the work for someone like Sam might also be a good thing because I do I agree I I agree I don't train with him so I don't know any exact details but he's definitely up on the higher end of of volume and intensity and you know he was posting the week after uh Lanzarote the week after he was running 3 400. so liver infection here or there um you know if you're missing work and you're running 3400 the week after a nine man that okay you didn't finish but still you know that's that's a lot of work and it's very taxing on the body and perhaps that smidget that he was able to do less could have absolutely there we go now for nutrition and this is quite funny because Sam is taking on everything he can and he's got a or he had a bottle in hand anyways which is now let go and it's quite surprising because you have your your Aid stations every 2K every 2K and for 100 meters after that you're able and allowed to get special needs from your own team team that's correct which correct 20 times right which is which is great and on a warm day like that even better but personally I can't stand running running the bottle I don't know how you feel no I could never do it not even with a runner with a belt I hated it absolutely I can't stand it so for him to be running and now they've been running a good 15 minutes if my calculations are right so they should be about um well what's that four it's about just over 4K it's just shy of 4K up to The Landing that's where you saw that first aid station they then have now turned right they are on the first part of the canal so this is a different surface that they've changed onto now it's a hard packed dirt surface last year because we'd had such a dry hot summer in Europe it was very very dusty it was very very slippery underfoot and I heard a lot of people complaining about the Dust particularly the dust of the motorbikes or the Riders were putting putting up in front of them and it was they were breathing it in and it made it quite difficult to breathe we've had a lot more rain this year I've run out on the canal several times since I've been here and it's it's a lot more compact you don't get that slip underneath the foot and they'll they'll run down here now they'll take it and make a 180 degree turn and that next section yarn is when you go all the way through so you go all the way through past the landing and all the way down to the other end of the canal and make that far turn down the other end this is also their opportunity and I'd like to get your opinion on this once they get down to this end of the canal and they make that turn and they start heading back that's going to be their first opportunity to see where their competition is my question is when Now it's 12 minutes will they actually get back before Patrick gets himself onto the canal do you see what I'm saying I don't will it will it be a case where they've already got themselves through the Landy and out the other side before Patrick comes onto the canal hence not even being able to see him and what will that do to Patrick if that's the case I think it's very individual I mean the only time that I can relate and remember was in Hawaii I think 2016 running out of transition with sebi at the time and we were running out uh along alihi and after like maybe 6K or something uh sebi's coach was on the side of the road and he and sebby asked him the split back to I'm trying to think it may have been Sanders at the time oh what a what a good man serving us with coffee here we go we had to wait till like 10 30. as bad as you thought it was fantastic um now team's looking after us really well but you know sebby asked about the split to I think it must have been um Lionel Sanders at the time right yep and I was like dude what are you worried about like like I'm here you know it's like you and me it's like and it's just concentrate on us exactly and that's exactly what I'm thinking here these two boys um they they would be so busy focusing on each other and they've got each other to race like if you are there personally I would be in a bubble it would just be this guy and myself and seeing that I don't miss a step that I don't miss anything um and I just tune in to the other guy's breathing I tune into his stride see if I can find any weakness and try and Bank it because at the moment you're still playing the patience game you know you're still waiting um no it's very very early days into the marathon right now I mean they're still they're still probably finding their groove exactly and when you see you know when you see a gap that big you know like they don't need to worry about it it's the only way they are going to lose this race to Patrick is if they blow up like Patrick can run the marathon of his life he's not going to catch them on a normal day you know what I mean and um I'm not trying to call the race early I'm just saying that the race we've got on our hands is a proper it's right here right here Sam versus Magnus and and it's a beauty like it isn't it it's a ripper this is an absolute Ripper and you know I think um the most safe thing I see at the moment is the bronze medal very honest yes oh look it's it's amazing and to see these two Young Guns battling it out up front you know Sam as I said both here with their coaches Sam laidlow coached by his father Richard who's doing a tremendous job with his son of course they were born in England but moved to France when they were very when he was very very young I think three years of age he speaks fluent French Sammy does you speak to French people and when he actually speaks French they say you cannot even hear his English accent it's crazy because he's got quite a project this is absolutely and I and I was talking to a to a Frenchman once and I said really he said no when he speaks French it is pure French you would not even know that he had that English accent so well we all know if you're in France and if you spend a week in France if you don't learn at least five words of French you're not going anywhere I remember racing the French league and at the time it was Chris Gamel the the the New Zealand athlete some of us may remember um a good friend of mine and he went into the bakery and tried to get some uh some baguettes and and pastries for the guys and they they would not refuse to serve him because he couldn't say it in French and five minutes later we went in together and I ordered you know I said three words of French and try to order a little bit there you go there you go we walked out with a bag of stuff oh Chris and of course don't get me wrong it's absolute Prejudice but it it's it's a good story and uh and one of those anecdotes we like to repeat just because well yeah that's how it is so we we certainly understand that Sam has a great motivation to learn the purest form of friendship he absolutely lives there and breathes it and yeah and has a home world championship title to fight for in just 11 weeks but uh I'm sure right now that is the least of his words last thing he's worrying about and look if Sam could pull off the win today it would definitely be an incredible I mean we second last year in in Kona and to win here today I'm sure it would mean everything to him what a great shot we just had then of the boat coming down The Canal at the two lead men running along the canal I have been told we have got Catherine Voss sofa in T2 we know it's not long now before we see Daniella Reef make her way into transition but Catherine can you hear us yes yes hello you too oh look at that smile honestly you look like you've just had the time of your life out there on that bike of course look at this I mean that's insane how many I think it's something like is it 6500 or 7 000 volunteers all together and it's 752. 500 but in ships now here you can see the sponge kits unbelievable it's unreal I mean seriously at the beginning of the week when I came in on Tuesday um I knew it was going to be a big day but Catherine I did not know it was going to be this phenomenal the weather is absolutely spectacular me too me too and you know what everywhere there are people little families oh there's a baby coming baby's coming oh here we go oh we've got sebby coming into transition so Sebastian Kinley has now made his way into T2 of course he's this is part of his year-long discontinued tour this will be his last long distance race in Germany so it's a very very big day a very very emotional day for sebby and I can tell you all now that we will be having a very very special presentation for him at nine o'clock tonight down on the finish line so I tell you I have a I I think tonight Catherine you and I are both going to have tears in our eyes when we uh give that emotional farewell to sebi Kinley I hope you will like it oh I'm sure he will like it we have organized a little surprised with his wife Tina it's gonna be amazing ah well deserved well this option absolutely absolutely you can you can see all our volunteers Belinda they are helping you you know that and yeah of course as well they are helping and supporting them um all the day sunscreens everything so and they are full fully with love today hi Catherine let's be let's be honest the volunteers here in Roth are by far and without a doubt the absolute best in the world and I will say that too proudly they're incredible and again you can see Catherine just as enthusiastic as Felix it is beautiful to see you guys loving your race and what you've created so we can only say we thank you from our part um and very much very practical that you have provided the scene for thanks Young perfect you did you see all these are all these little hot spots little hot spots along the course we did crazy so many families with their kids and and and sticks and everything we're sitting along the street that was so nice uh I tell you these These are the future the future Triathlon superstars in the making we're starting them young now they get to see the biggest event in the world in the hope that one day they will also be racing here in Roth with these Superstars that we've got on screen right now but oh the hot spots are just when you don't think they can get bigger and better so the likes of of greeting and Solara Burke but then you've got these little tiny hot spots we had the canyon hot spots we had the Schmidt Bakery Hot Spot um it's unbelievable and every year it just gets bigger and better I just I shake my head Catherine because I just don't know you think no no this is the last year this is as big as it can get but surely and then it's going to be even more bigger I know it's incredible ah look I hope we can check in with you later on but thank you so much for that update um let you get back to it we know that you need to you'll be on the are you where do you go from here Catherine do you go out onto the road outside the course if everything is good but Belinda everything is good they do everything oh it's a well-oiled machine perfect and Catherine that's one thing I'm going to tell our viewers that they don't realize what race owners or race directors around the world do you ever see where they go around and physically thank every single volunteer at every single aid station and that's exactly what you and Felix do you do it on the bike and now you're about to go out and do it on the run it is it is unbelievable that's very necessary and important for us of course it is because you are just the most amazing human beings on this planet so anyway we will check in with you later thank you so much for the updates so if you make it till nine o'clock oh wow bye oh look honestly yarn I've known the wall surface now since 2004 was the first year I came here obviously Herbert their father who was an enormous part of this he is the reason he was the vision he's the reason that we are here today that was Felix's uh late father and I remember meeting them for the first time and of course Catherine and Felix were babies back then um and I just remember walking away from that very first experience that year and saying when I got home to my family I don't think I've ever met a family like it and of course roll forward I've been here I think I've missed two years 2020 uh 2021 because of covert and then or I missed one year one other year I think I've been 18 years now and Counting wow that's how special it is that is that is indeed quite the record um it does show you're a bit of a spring chicken on the course yeah anyways we'll keep that exciting news run 4.3 K the lead has gone through 6K already but it is the first time we have a split back to Patrick uh it's 11 46 and Ben Canute is another 33 seconds behind that at 12 19. Patrick ran out at 1209 so he has made up uh 14 23 seconds in four and a half K mathematically that is uh well let's just leave it at that but the fact is that Patrick obviously has a strong second half he's always very much he'll get faster whereas these guys well where's these guys are currently kicking ass yeah quite a lot of it actually each other's primarily but um this is this is great stuff I mean um yeah to see it they're not giving more than an inch and uh you know we forever Talk of the iron battle but it is also time for that to get a bit of a Polish and an update give the uh give the old Die Hard fans something new to talk about and us something else to enjoy so they're up on the um just about to make that first turn or not too far away from making that first turn first turn and they're off onto onto a here we go tarmac kind of surface which is you know something where yeah it just changes all the time but I'll tell you what the reason I always thought that Roth was such a fast course is because you ran on that let's call it cracker dust that kind of yes dirt road which is hard packed but it just absorbs a lot more of the shock and instead of having the Run 42 kilometers on that hard tar exactly and I think that's something that the Super Shoes have definitely taken care of because they're so much more spongy so for those who are in in the know on these shoes they know that the carbon plate is one thing um you know that adds a bit of relevance but the actual thing about these shoes is the sponge the material um the foam that's um extremely well it it's extremely spongy in terms of a feel it feels very soft but it rebounds extremely well so it basically the energy you put into it you get back a lot of whereas normal shoes you just sort of sink in and it's certainly something whether it has a performance benefit per se to put you for it is one thing but uh it saves your legs a lot on that kind of surface and that is something that Daniella is about to enjoy right now as she enters transition so Daniela riff having had an incredible ride I have no doubt at all that she has broken her previous record here of 401. uh sorry 431 we know that she's going to be going under that 4 30 Mark I think to Austin's last update to me was around the 425 Mark so that is absolutely flying Jan that will be a very happy and uh excuse my tongue-in-cheek I'm sure Sebastian will be happy to have just left the tent ahead of us I don't think he wants to see that no I don't think he does but I don't think he's safe either uh Daniela is having an absolute smoking day and let's remember that she started three minutes behind and she did just get ahead of out off the bike excuse me ahead of one of the pros so she is having a Blinder out here and yeah going to have a hopefully quick transition and settle into her Rhythm which she does ever so well you know this is a position she's very comfortable with she's very familiar with that's right and she is out there to go and crush it whereas we see some Pro just walk cool thing that I just go and get a couple of cold towels and cool down if you have that kind of margin you can do that yes and why not you know and she's obviously well within reach of the record let's just do some maths here 5 16. so you know she's got her on a three-hour marathon and she'll still beat the world record um I know I know we shouldn't call it that but whatever the course record whatever you want to call it world best time in an official race there you go that's it yeah don't sign me up don't sign me up for political correctness I am well and truly out of her oh you don't need to um I just toss and reds just got it through she rode Danny roof just wrote a 420 to 52 and she did it on her own that is incredible that is the greatest ride of her life amazing writing from Danny Reef 36 years of age anyone's life uh yes it seems yes unbelievable wow a great shot now of Patrick Langer he will get an opportunity now this is his first opportunity since the gun went off this morning for him to see those lead to Men of Sam laidlow and Magnus ditliff so he will be making it going one way on the canal wire the two leaders the two boys will be making their way back so first time for all three to eye each other it'll be interesting to see if they even look sideways but looks a little bit uncharacteristic for him I mean I mean those sponges make him look a little bit like RoboCop I think he looks like Andy dreitz that when I first saw that I thought is this Andy dreitzer is it Patrick Langer but yeah it's definitely he um he's not looking as comfortable as I've seen him look before let's be honest and look just behind um I don't know I don't know who it should be better it should be Ben Canute but Ben was behind over 30 seconds at the first split um let's just have a quick let's just have a quick question because this doesn't it just doesn't doesn't look doesn't look Smooth by his terms uh hang on whoever's whoever's running behind him is looking really good I mean he's got the turnover yeah he almost Patrick almost looks in Pain by his standards it does it's hard to tell because he's got those sponges in his suit and it makes him look extremely stiff and that's one of the things you know Patrick does so well is keep loose and yeah you know he's always very much about technique um but yeah it just um looks a little bit uncharacteristic for him but let's be honest for the good or the bad he's got another 37 case to figure it out there you go so it is it is actually on dry struts I knew it oh Jesus I thought so I'm thinking this is definitely not Patrick it's it just didn't look like him so that's a bad blooper of mine isn't it no no well they're both in the same they're both in the same earning a kit it can be hard to tell but honestly um so 11 27 so he's made up another 20 seconds and I just thought this is just short time this that was the as I said earlier that was the exact run form of anti-drights and great to see him out onto the onto the Run he's had such a hard time of it since that horrific bike accident that he had in the states where he broke some vertebrae and it's taken a very long time there you go there's the pass that they've made so we've got Magnus titlef and Sam laidlow running down one way along the canal while we've got Patrick Lange heading up to that first turn around a really nice welcome sight for these two men they'll see that they've got a huge lead both men have got their coaches out on course today so they will be well informed about where their competition is but interesting to see now Sam laidlow quite happy to just tuck in behind Magnus ditliff along the canal they've got the longest section longer straight shoot section right now where they'll run all the way down to the very far end of the canal they'll do a U-turn they'll then make their way back to the landing now the land is where they actually jump on and off the canal and that's at about the 25 kilometer Mark so once they get off the canal they'll then run all the way back past transition they don't go through it but just past it they'll then run straight into the town of Roth through the square now that's where it gets a little interesting yarn because that's on Cobble so it's the only part of the Run that's on Cobble but it's quite tricky and I mean you've run on Cobble many times and you can you know it if you've got to really watch where you put place your feet because you can go over on your ankle quite quickly but once they make their way through town through that square they'll then shoot out the other side towards the town of buchenbach and that is all on road so on tar and it's quite undulating the good thing about that so out of the course that part of the course A lot of it is shaded because there's a lot of trees on both sides of the world what road whereas now right out in the sunshine there is no cover whatsoever on this canal so as it starts to heat up this section of the Run becomes very very difficult now that's more like here we go that's the Patrick Langer we know and love looking much better I feel uh probably embarrassed to have a mistaken the two but Patrick indeed looking smooth and looking you know how how we expect to see him and um just before uh it looked like Magnus was making a bit of a move through that aid station um but I think it's just Sam that's fallen off the wagon I actually thought because we can see a few waves on the canal that Sam was just playing it smart and and tucking in behind um whereas you know if the breeze is only a slight one you might even appreciate appreciate it for some cooling but yeah Magnus looking around now yarn oh and yeah he actually he he yeah he almost looked surprised himself because he turned around three or four times just to just to check what's happening um and uh might be the first time we see a bit of separation between these two and again you've raced here before yeah not yet Jan don't don't cut the chickens before they hatch but can you just give our audience an idea of what it's like running on this surface because I know I've spoken to Chrissy Wellington about it she thrived and she loved it her run form suited this surface you talk to the likes of mirinda Caffrey she didn't like it because I think she she said she felt she's that she slipped on the surface just a little bit uh Braden Curry was the same what are your thoughts on the way you run did did it make no difference for you did you actually enjoy it I mean obviously it's better on the legs but did you feel like that you were losing traction at all well you know if you look at actually millin uh mirinda Marinda Melinda Melinda I've got the both of you together uh mirinda I wish I could like mirinda and um um and um geez now my name's a slipping um Chrissy well you look at Miranda's running style and she has a large extension yes towards the back and so does Braden you know he's somebody who really if you run with him you feel like his heel is flicking up towards his bum every time you know very classic kind of extension out the rack it's very high hamstring activation where they pull each other or pull themselves forward um and I think for the strength orientated Runners you know have perhaps a slightly higher impact and more importantly I think what a lot of triathletes tend to do is they land slightly before their center of gravity so they're not Landing exactly underneath and then pulling or pushing themselves forward but they're Landing forward and then letting the momentum carry them over that dead spot where you've basically got neither the quad nor the hamstring activation and then that surface would really help because for the impact where you come in you actually get a little bit more Sponge you get a little bit more kind of rest on your eggs per se you know if you're running on concrete which would be the worst kind of surface you just get the full right of that impact and that's where you basically get the full eccentric loading on your muscles and which is the where the muscle fibers break down and where you just get that incredible fatigue despite running the same pace so I think the classic Runners perhaps um you know you could see Annie as well as somebody who who flicks up the back you know it it literally looks like they're flicking the heel out the back and that Cracker dust obviously comes with it and doesn't give you quite the same grip and when you're running Tempo kind of work you know at your limit um that's definitely something where things tend to get a little bit uncomfortable yeah um and uh here we have that should be an aerial shot of Patrick making that turn down the far end so it feels like about 11 minutes yeah there we go um you know and for him as well but that's the thing I mean there are also such world-class athletes that they can obviously deal with it and and change their stride a little bit which you have to sometimes anyways just passing Ben going the other way so he hasn't made a huge dent on on Ben yet but that's the thing about Patrick he's just got magnificent pacing and really uh is is good on that second half but coming back to the stride and stride length it's something that is an iron distance athlete you have to adapt all the time I'll never forget my first uh my first full distance experience I had a clock I had a cramp my first cramp jumping off the bike you know and you just have to shorten your stride so much until your muscles no longer cramp and then slowly you can try and extend extend it again and that's the kind of thing like here on surfaces you just you know you have to adapt and that's something you come that comes with experience you know also that you don't get panic when you get a little cramp or the the starter yeah you can work through it you just have to adapt your stride a little bit and keep on keeping on but um yeah Magnus definitely showing that he's done some great Pace work here I mean let's be honest there's not too many guys in the world that can ride a 357 and say they've paced it um which you probably wouldn't do but he's moving magnificently it's only 10 seconds but it's of course come within a very short time and um again it doesn't necessarily look like an acceleration on magnus's behalf and it happened Jan when I looked at him running he always he looks like he's running slower than what he actually is so you're looking at 195 does to you exactly and that long that long slow uh stride of his and it's it's not till you get the pacing up on screen that you realize oh actually he's moving he just he just looks lower as you look at someone like Patrick Lange who just he's got that quick turnover and he looks fast he is fast but he also looks fast whereas looks can be deceiving with this young man he always looks like he's running slower than what he actually is yeah it's it's definitely got something to do with stride length but then there are also different philosophies of running you know someone uh who we've mentioned a lot is Brett Sutton and he was very much always about Cadence at least uh so my wife tells me in her all her run trainings it was always Emma was always about you know getting the Cadence up and and you know making ground rather than trying to extend uh your stride and in the end you also have to deal with the genetics you dealt with if you've got 195 uh of body length to deal with well then you know it's going to be a lot harder to lift those legs um um versus you know whatever he's running at here I personally I never really got into that debate and found it too technical to actually change my own uh Cadence and look at it unless you know you're obviously running at a hill but he's still looking around a little bit in disbelief and just and I really can't I can I can't see I cannot see Sam in the background could you see him then I could only see Magnus obviously on screen and I was trying to look back for Sam this is when they come back through that the Landy so remember I was talking about the Landy so he'll run through the landing now like he's done and now the longest section of the course so he'll make his way down to the far turn this is a lot longer to get down to this next turn than it was for the previous you'll make that turn right down the far end and then once he makes his way back up here he'll exit The Canal at the Landy and make his way back into town but looking fantastic so far still nice and relaxed in the upper body breathing looks controlled arms arms are nice and relaxed yeah taking on his nutrition and you know I think what we can tell from the tiny little ripples on the canal is that there's an Ever So slight breeze we can actually just feel it here uh at the finish line and it's just sort of come up and he'd probably be appreciating that because the temperatures are rising now and you know on the marathon that's the first part where you actually feel yeah like the heat is getting to you and our first shots of the female leader Daniela in customary Iron Man Shuffle she gets along um yeah just really really yeah getting getting her Rhythm and finding her rhythm she's obviously recently changed a run shoe sponsors as well and seems to be very happy with her choice um and I think yeah let's wait and see if it reflects on her marathon time today well she's already caught two of the back Mark Pros so she as she ran out of transition and started making her way up onto the canal did you just call them back marker prize they are now they've been overtaken by Danny remember she was started three minutes behind them so incredible racing from Daniella she's running at about four minute 10 pace so per kilometer so doing just keeping it well within herself not doing anything silly she doesn't need to do anything stupid here I'm sure she realizes the lead she has but she's going to play it safe for now but I would love to see a Ride On Target to death I think she only has to run a 301 to break Chrissy's long-standing record from 2011. as does this young man here on screen yeah he doesn't need to run much because he's got a predicted finish of 722 so that is looking very very fast and um I'll tell you what within what is it one and a half K Sam has lost a minute sorry 30 30 seconds 30 seconds he's started going backwards a little bit we're still waiting on the next split of um Patrick to see where that is relatively because maybe we do have a how you know the the card set for a Podium Challenge and and Patrick certainly you know being so consistent and so very quick and within a shot uh of of making that well current silver medal absolutely and it's a little bit of a sniff Sneezy knows that someone up front is starting to hurt just that little too much and I think now obviously also seeing that that separation has taken place between Magnus ditliff and Sam laidlow that's just going to add fuel to the fire for Patrick Langer and it would not surprise me at all if he starts to take big chunks of time out of Sam laidlow but Patrick Langer we know is the fastest on course he holds the record here he wants to run faster day Ben Knute I know he would love nothing more after talking to his coach Jim Vance nothing more than two get a Podium that's what they said Jim said I think you're capable of a Podium I can't tell you what spot on the podium but you are for sure capable of a Podium position and you know he hasn't lost a lot of time to Patrick as yet he's still doing very very well I think it was it was around a minute just up of a minute I'm not sure of the new split it could be it was actually even less yeah it was it was around about 40 seconds earlier really running well well but you know on screen now Daniela riff I I shake my head I don't have enough I don't have enough words enough adjectives to describe how amazing this woman is but she's really this is the the Danny Reef that we all know and love just looking absolutely faultless and she you know as well as I do she's such a clever such a smart such a strategic racer she won't do anything silly now she'll just play her cards safe and I think once we get to that back half of the marathon I think probably around booking back when she's on her way back we may see her start to try and do something even more special but she knows that she doesn't need to do anything too dramatic to break that record no absolutely and you know it's uh I I don't I I'm very certain that Daniela is not focused on the record no um it's something that she might care about in hindsight but she's just out there too I agree quite honestly I sometimes think she just wants to make it as tough as she can for herself yeah everyone else I don't know when Daniella's on then you know that well you we tend to run out of superlatives but the the thing is she's just she's just on a mission and uh she's got the blinkers on and that's generally the moment when she doesn't really have to worry about anyone else coming we do have a first split uh on the Run start for Lisa Norton who is 13 minutes behind so she lost another three minutes in the last you know few kilometers handful of kilometers and we have a first split of Patrick Lange in from this is kilometer 10.3 so 10K in and at that stage he was 10 40 behind right which sounds like a lot but it means he's made up a minute and a half 129 to be exact and he's made up uh more to Sam so you know so that's a quarter of the Run course um done but again you know the quick tend to get relatively quicker and the slow tend to get slow go backwards more so it's a big chunk of time but definitely you could be heading towards a bit of a nail biter of a finish and here we have Ben who has indeed as you predicted he's now lost a minute okay um which is not surprising that doesn't that's not to say that he's he's not running well he's just not running as well as as Patrick Langer which is pretty normal when you get into a race Patrick Langer is more often than not the greatest Runner or the fastest runner in the field so the fact that Ben Knute has lost a minute doesn't really mean anything it does not mean that he's running poorly it's just Patrick running well and probably running smart you know Patrick's probably going out uh at 115 half marathon times and um also uh we have the next Run start um times from the girls uh Laura Phillip has caught vanilla language so they are together now almost 18 minutes back well that is who would have thought at the beginning of this day who would have thought that Daniel larif would have 18 minutes over uh Laura and Annie Howe well even more no and it hasn't hasn't started so we'll see but um yeah I hear Freddie Funk is waiting somewhere I don't see him oh Freddie's here there he is another Superstar a list of guests here today he's got a he's got a bunch of Band-Aids I haven't heard the story yet oh what Freddie Freddie come on she ran off so it's okay so still alive you poor thing so obviously part of the earning a team along with Patrick Lange Andy dreitz and uh we've just been talking about Patrick Langer he's the makeup to hit the front yeah I think so too I think uh to big um so I'm excited if he is Magnus the race assist yeah I do too and what is it I'm doing all I can here and you're just shutting it down come on guys seriously little and what is it with you Young Guns I mean your 20 24 years of age 25 same as as Magnus 25 we've got Sam laid low 24. 3 all these young men coming up and absolutely starting to dominate is It Something In The Water what's going on uh yeah I think you definitely see here and yeah as the sport is growing uh yeah the younger guys uh I'm like some Layla Magnus did left already erasing uh the full distance good boy this is what I like to hear good boy a bit different uh tactic in terms of my my career there but uh really got us the most here in the the last two days when I finally what are you doing I'm always a bit a bit annoyed by it so um yeah definitely feeling the pressure there yeah well this is of course especially right now I think it's a really good time to race the half by the PTO um but yeah I think in two years I'm gonna do my full long distance but next year yeah I'll take your time on I think honestly I think you've done you've done last year so just if you want any advice not that uh you your time honestly it's like you say it's an exciting time to be in the sport across uh and uh yeah I think the Paris Olympics is definitely French ground where you just see the overall level going up through all distance I think you can't really make a mistake as to when and where you start I obviously used to race your mum and dad back in the day well not your dad but raced with your dad fantastic battles with your mother we've spoken about it many many times they were both nominal bike riders I think it was in the in your jeans you are you're one of the strongest over the middle distance do you think mum and dad have helped player python from a very very young age watching them race around around the world as well aren't they they're still racing to this day yeah they usually try to do the races because when yeah they're like only watching and cheering on me they usually get uh and they're racing as well but yeah of course I think there is some from them but also just like how they taught me um the sport having having fun in the sport and yeah just just took me and Triathlon and yeah I think that definitely helped a lot like uh you people time how hard is it for you to find that your that balance because most 25 they're going out they're socializing they're having fun you know there's parties obviously you have to pick and choose your poison here you can't you can't be has it been difficult I mean it's easy for me to sit here now as a 50 year old and say oh we don't um but what's it like I mean there are a lot of sacrifices to be give up and some people say Well when you're doing something you love it's not a sacrifice but that are going out they're saying no Freddie come out come out come on just this once how actually is it's not as hard as you think because like I'm not really like because I really grew up in the sport I honestly don't know yes all my friends are in the sport as well so obviously they're also not and of course I know it's important to also like have have fun here and then and just especially for uh for the mental aspect um but yeah I have to drive from my whole life I really don't know um I do I know that you you're very very serious but I also know that you know yourself to do that and I think for longevity in the sport or so many athletes that just focus purely on that and not allowing themselves that you spoke about before about having two three four weeks off after a big race I think somewhere along the line it's going to catch up with you and and you physically or mentally uh yes of course and it's also the same reason why for instance I mean my my goal is to really like a long-term career I [Music] uh too early just really built over the years and uh yeah aspect is definitely really important as well are you not all in though all in of course like believing in myself and um I have potential I I'm trying to keep myself potential so I can yeah I mean I know you're trained by Dan obviously we share the same Coach and he's you know very smart I don't believe you get to your level and you know the kind of races you've shot even though they're not you know it's not every weekend but you've had those before can't do that if you're half-assing it so I definitely think this it's all in and that doesn't that doesn't limit your potential in the future you know in this game because otherwise there's there's no hope of I think particularly now yeah over the years just continue to step and you kind of you have to be really good if you want to make a mark in Germany that's just the way it is and you know the the the knowledge is there and I think we have that more protected approach that um that other uh Nations perhaps don't have like exactly what Freddie was just talking about that you're building up over a long time and and having the long-term goals but look at Patrick on screen here the first time I raced him was in 2005. WoW uh duathon wow you know and he's he's quite a bit younger than me but he was already you know he he was mountain biking before then and trying around it's just something that you know is is kind of ingrained in the in the club culture that you have in Germany so in German Triathlon very much or sport in general Works through clubs and you kind of have the older generation passing on their knowledge to the younger and like everything has its pros and cons but that's definitely a uniqueness that you say wouldn't find in the in the US where it's just every man for himself and maybe you you know have a swim club or the universities but that's where they're going to be making a big mark because Triathlon has just become a university funded sport so people are now on scholarship that can see some good talent come through I think absolutely yeah yeah um as John said and Triathlon it's just uh really growing in Germany um I mean he had uh Thomas startler I have uh yeah and uh yeah it goes on like that and of course when you have this um yeah just people in the sport in Germany um you just have much more uh younger athletes coming coming through and yeah working really hard and then you've got races like here in Roth um yeah where which obviously really supported by by the German crowd as well and uh you've got great sponsors in Germany as well so you can finance a sport which is obviously really important for us as well and uh yeah it's it's a great time right now actually it's interesting racing but you've got so many professional athletes that have come to this race they're not racing but they come here to support their sponsors to support the race that's almost unheard of in other races around the world yeah true um I mean like myself okay I came this weekend basically only to to meet my sponsors meet a lot of fans and I was also a chaperon for the for the junior race here where I did my first triathlon actually exactly uh 20 20 years ago with the age of five and it was just great to um yeah to see all the all the kids racing there there yesterday and of course the weekend's been great as well just to see um all the sponsors and uh yeah today um it's obviously a bit more cheer for me and I can just enjoy watching the race yeah honestly and what is that sorry sorry what what's the next race after here for you uh I'm going to or I'm planning to to race next week um challenge YC in Austria I hope so you might you're you're my bet for the win so you've got a race and now look honestly you look after yourself now they look like they're fairly surferred look at me talking it up he's got a race yeah we'll challenge Walter I'm obviously heading there too first time that's one of the most beautiful races I've ever I mean I've never been there physically but in the pictures looks like one of the most beautiful races in the world yeah I I love the race it's it's definitely one of my favorite ones on a circuit um I mean I didn't grew I grew up not not too far away from it so it's basically my my home race I could win the race already uh two times and um yeah when whenever we fit next Sunday I try to go to for the hat trick there yeah I mean you certainly uh put in a magnificent bike performance and uh just quickly um before we wrap it up just going back to the women's race um where we've got some splits and um yeah that was uh that was pretty amazing close to 20 minutes um was Daniella's lead on um on Laura Laura Phillip at the end um I think Chelsea's still a minute ahead and um uh yeah it's certainly a dominating performance that she's put on here on the bike and now well like we kind of said is is holding on to more or less on the Run yeah she really is Lisa Norton still in second but 1351 behind Danny at about the six kilometer Mark so there's vanilla language on screen crowd and Camera favorite today without a doubt I've seen seen lots of her and I hope she can put it together that we continue to and yeah she can Crown her courageous effort today because uh you know she's taken it by the horns and of course the way she is laughing up the crowds would absolutely be quite quite an atmosphere Buster if she walks in here she looks fantastic and you know the run I don't well I don't think the run is a weakness it's not a strength but she's definitely it's improved greatly over the last couple of Seasons so still looking strong out there but we know that vanilla in fourth Laura Phillip now moved her way up into 30 17 and a half minutes down but Chelsea cedaro back in 5th 18 25 down in Annie haug almost at that 19 minute Mark so we're moving up we're trying to sit we've got Daniella riff now through the eight kilometer mark but it's going to be very interesting to see if Annie houg is able to make any inroads obviously Danny roof very very safe but let's see for those final two Podium positions whether any hog is able to make a way through the field she was phenomenal here last year uh obviously vanilla language LED for the for such a long time and was only overtaken by Annie at about the 21-22 kilometer mark now what do you think of this young man so obviously Sam Laidlaw he was up running with Magnus did left we know here that elastic band eventually broke and he's now running in second he's not looking that comfortable he's not looking bad but he's not looking as comfortable as he did when he was running with Magnus ditliff we know he's had some issues in the past with his stomach we know that he's had a bit of a an infection that he's had to get rid of before he came into this race but do you think we're going to see the best of Sam laidley here today or you think it's going to be a bit of a rocky Marathon for him he's three minutes down currently three minutes yeah I mean it doesn't doesn't look like um doesn't look as good as it looked in corner last year uh I would say um to be honest I I didn't guess uh my personal guess wasn't uh for him uh to be on the podium um but yeah he showed a Grace really great race until now so um I I definitely hope he can keep that holding spot there I think he should write a book on how to be the underdog like he's just I do too he shouts so loud and nobody like like how can you not have him on your list like it's phenomenal guys done really well and you know okay fair enough it wasn't the the deepest field or toughest field but he's beaten Patrick this year uh a challenge uh Gran Canaria um you know how does a guy like that just keep floating on the radar like he doesn't float under my radar I know I always have have him as a potential because you know I think the thing with Sam Laidlaw right now is he just lacks that consistency in his racing whereas someone like Magnus did left now is so consistent every time he turns up you know you're going to get the best version of Magnus whereas with someone like Sam laidlow he wears his heart on his sleeve a little bit I think Sam moving forward as I said he's still quite young he needs to learn to shut out the noise I think sometimes he lets his personal life and emotions run into his Sporting Life and I know it's easy for me to sit here and say well you know separate them and it's not so easy to do that in in mainstream life to separate those two and for for someone like Sam he's an emotional guy and I think he just needs to learn how to control them a little bit more and as soon as he can have that little bit of segregation I think we will start to see a more consistent sound later because the talent is absolutely there you do not come second in Kona if you do not have the talent it just doesn't happen you do not fluke it so we know that the man is very very talented I think he just needs to work out how he can separate certain things from his life so that when he gets to a race course we always see the best version of Sam absolutely I think he's just more the emotional kind of racing you know you see it a lot even in the in the Tour de France you know the absolutely the French writers they're just famous for just you know almost almost throwing their uh their power meter uh into the grass when they when they feel that they're worse than just attacking with all they've got and then seeing what comes out so yeah it's um yeah it's and look at this woman I mean Danny Reef we've spoken about her a lot today Jan and I and obviously we know she's one of the greatest that in the sport has ever seen particularly long distance we just had Chrissy Wellington on before who said that she thinks Danny reef is the greatest triathlete that we've ever seen and what are your thoughts on Danny and I mean she's 36 years of age she's done just about everything and look at her here having one of the greatest races I've seen her have in a long long time yeah it's it's really really impressive I mean we have such a strong field of woman racing here today and then he is just she's making them look ordinary let's be honest to say but it's it's the truth she's making these others athletes who we know are incredible but she's making them look ordinary yeah she's really on a completely different world and uh now she's she's still looking really really good on a Rancher it doesn't look like she uh yeah pushed pushed too hard or anything on the bike and I mean she knows how to Pace uh these these races she she's not doing it she's done it a few times she's not doing it the first time so she's a very very experienced athlete and um yeah and looking really great out there oh look yeah she's incredible athletic I mean it's pretty crazy you're just looking at the splits and Laura Phillip is the one who's making up a bit of time on her um or the most time on her Chelsea's made up about a minute um but Laura was behind her off the bike I if I remember correctly yeah she was um and uh so Laura Phillip is now in third we've still got Lisa Norton in second she is 1350 behind and this was uh significant time back because Danielle is that far ahead that the first joint split we've got is is already 4K is behind it's unreal um but Laura's uh 17 minutes now so she's um what's that that's less than four minutes three and a half minutes to Lisa Norton so that uh is a tough position for Lisa to be in because she's got three All-Star Runners coming from behind um vanilla language is just 15 seconds behind Laura and uh and then it's Chelsea another 50 seconds back so almost a minute and Nani haug 130 back on Laura um yeah lots of racing to go here we have her on screen um also just looking smooth just such a beautiful Runner she's one of the the most beautiful along with any Hogg I just love watching these two women run because they it looks so effortless it does distinctly different but but yes absolutely both different but beautiful yeah mirinda coffrey another Runner you know I used to love watching her run they just it just looks like I know they are putting the effort in but it just doesn't look at it just looks like it comes so incredibly naturally to them both all all three of them yeah absolutely and that's the only thing like you know new if you compare that in the in the men's field you see Patrick running and it's that kind of thing he always looks like he's putting in a search but he's putting in a 42k search a Non-Stop a Non-Stop effort but yeah Laura definitely um really nice to see her in in in this kind of field as well just you know giving giving it all um and we'll wait to see what she can close the gap to but as we said at the moment between those between those three runners yeah it's really to see who can get on the podium still and all right before we let you go Freddie we're going to put you on the spot because that's what we do to people that we interview I want you to give us your top three for the for the men and top three for the women at this point in time at this point um well Magnus did left and Daniela roof uh fought for the win um for second um I hope uh sebler keeps the second spot and then Patrick on Third and uh for the woman um I guess it's Laura for second and uh Chelsea for third nice choices no love lost between teammates yeah oh look Freddie it's been it's been a pleasure having you on I really hope that we see you fit and healthy next week on the start line for volsi I mean you're young you you youngsters it looks like a big boy I can't believe a little pussycat took you down it was actually a really small coat we're not in Africa you can't tell us it's alive I'm gonna be fine yeah it looks worse than it is it is and it's going to be a great race we've got a great field assembled for volcia next week as well with Tom bishop and Jan stratman I think is also racing and quite a few others so really great time I will see you there I'm sure I'll see you later on today as well but thank you so much for coming on thank you thanks for having me ready send it good luck for the rest of the season and uh maybe see you in America in America yeah Milwaukee Milwaukee love it we'll uh have a quiet moment at the anthem and then it's still one of those strange things in America every time you have to pause for the national anthem before they go I know I do patriotism is off the charts it is it really is now I think that should be a great race I'm looking forward to that one as well but thank you very much and we'll um we'll see you later on thank you see you Friday see you all right that was Freddy funk I think he's got the coolest name in Triathlon I always said he should be at Formula One driver Freddie Funk it's still or a DJ or a DJ a DJ in Ibiza I could see Freddie doing that after he's at Triathlon career I'm sure it'd be awesome but uh yeah Freddie Funke he's one of the good guys in the sport such an incredible uh not just bike ride I mean we talk about Freddy Funk as being just strong on the bike but he's strong across all three let's be honest and yeah I've known his mum and dad hiker and Harold funk for many many years had many the great battle with hiker funk in the past but um yeah they're a great family yeah he certainly made a name for himself and um and um he's certainly someone who's worked on his weaknesses and you know um yeah consistently just kept chipping away and um that's something what I guess makes the sport you know in the end you have um the three disciplines to combine and it used to be a lot about you know putting in individual blocks if you listen to Sebastian keaneley's only training he used to go to Majorca and basically just cycle for three weeks to have that Uber biker kind of performance um whereas these days you know everything's become more calculated and everything's become more tactical as well if you look at the kind of running the pacing um yeah it's more calculated and definitely more tactical yeah I agree and and as you said while we're talking about run tactics back in the day Sebastian was never really realized that you know what I can't just be an Uber biker I need to be an Uber biker and Runner he worked on his run and now he's one of the he was for a while there one of the fastest runners in the sport as well but while we're speaking about running let's go to a short clip that we've got on run tactics the canal is for sure something uh for itself but I I remember last year was actually good for me because it has been so many impressions in the race so far so once I hit the canal it was not many Spectators and it was actually nice for me to get out there and get into my own mind and get some more relaxed atmosphere and then when you go back into the city that's pretty much where you really really starts to get tough then it's really nice to get the lift from The Spectators again but on the canal it was nice to be able to focus on my own thoughts there for a moment the run I would say there's not a specific thing but the second part of the run like in every marathon is pretty tough but especially here in Ross with the newer Run course it's really a hard and relax breaker if you're tired to run down these last Hills and also run up them so yeah that's where the race is gonna decided the marathon in Iron Man is always like you get off the bike of 10K you feel like Superman you're just sure that you're gonna smash this marathon and then for 20K it's kind of just normal pain and then the last 10K you realize what this Iron Man thing is about you know and that's what make your break you and uh I've had my fair share of blow-ups in the marathons so um yeah I think uh I need to keep that in the back of my mind in them first UK [Music] actually I'm not a guy who has like a mental game strategy I think that I'm more like a friendly person than I don't want to get into any heads or something like that so I'm I'm focusing on my own head and try to have my race strategy in place and just race as hard as I can all right and that and that was racist strati is definitely the fastest on field at the moment but he is so far behind that young man Magnus titlif was basically had the swim of his life today to come out in that lead pack and as I said I I'm still that's got to be the biggest one we talk about this race after it's one and done that swim was really what set him himself up for where we see him now I mean to be able to stay on the back of that lead group and not just be content with staying on the back of it actually towards the end working his way through it that he so that he came out of the water in the pointy end of of the whoever would have thought a year ago that Magnus detlef would be getting out in the lead pack up the front well you know I think he's somebody who who attacks it very strategically and he looks at his weakness and he knows he's got a winter to do it and you know you can tell like if you're missing a minute uh on a half distance uh which is what it was in Ibiza or or just a touch over um you know he oh oh here we go Sam coming to a halt there's something in his calf or something yeah it looks like he's stretching his hamstring or his calf does not look good that does not look good uh oh gosh this is heartbreaking to see come on buddy Shake It Out Shake It Out yeah that's of course oh come on come on all right it looks like he's just got a cramp yep for sure he's he's suffering and he's dying and I really really really hope that he Embraces the suck you know and he needs to he needs to because the problem is when you pull out of these races and and you do it too often um unfortunately it becomes very easy to do it becomes too easy and unfortunately we talked about it earlier that you know in an iron distance is something's always going to go wrong and you can never know what happens at the end of a race you know and it's it's never over um you know you can have be passed in the last 200 meters but you can also be passing in the last 200 meters so there's always a value to keep to keeping on going and especially this kind of race I feel like you know it's so traditional and it's such a heavy weight amongst the races that yeah I really do hope he finds something to dig deep uh of course he pulls up with a little cough niggle and straight away we're talking about pulling out that's also probably not quite fair but yeah but yeah I mean because that's the way he's been racing of ladies either on or he's off there's doesn't seem to be any gray area with Sam Laidlaw at the moment I think he needs to find that and we've seen it with quite a few athletes over the years I know Peter heimrick who's also racing he had a period of about a year and a half where that was becoming the norm he was pulling out of too many races and I spoke about it with him and now he's back on a roll but it does you know once you pull out of your first race it's very very easy to keep that Trend going and it makes it every time it just gets a little bit easier to step off the course and I think it needs to come to a point in time well you know what I'm just going to finish it off even if it means I have to walk off the marathon I need to get that that you know bear off my back and just finish the race and with Sam Laidlaw I think he's still trying to find the perfect nutrition plan you can see now he's cramping maybe he hasn't got enough electrolyte in and we know we spoke before he has a very very high sweat rate so maybe he hasn't quite found that that happy place for him so that he can get through this but I've seen him crap like this before in one of the PTO events I've seen him cramp and he still came back at the end and I know that's a lot different an 18 kilometer run as compared to 42.2 kilometers but let's hope that he can get to that next aid station getting a little bit of more electrolytes get that salt back any system so that he can make it through but I think it's important that he try and finish this off here today well the thing is also let's not make the common mistake of thinking that cramps unnecessarily always a latter no no you can also very easily just be a form of exhaustion of your muscles just you know being being at their limit and and being empty um so those are the kind of two big pillars of cramping um but interesting enough we've got the next split in just before the halfway mark and Sam Lelo is now exactly halfway between Patrick and Magnus didlift so Patrick has made up another good chunk of time he's now nine and a half minutes down on Magnus um but who is moving really well is Ben connote he has only lost a minute and a half to to Patrick wow um so you know um Sam either way has to keep on trucking on because um that Podium is yet to be is yet to be confirmed and isn't it interesting in both our men's and women's race we obviously know that the Danny reef and Magnus detlef have all but got it in the bag as long as they continue doing what they are doing right now and they are both looking faultless but second and third for both our women's race and men's race is totally up for grabs and yeah it's going to be interesting I think it's going to come right down to the Y before we see who can take those last two spots on the podium for both races here today we know that if both of our current leaders keep on doing what they're doing those records those world best times in both the men's and women's race will be taken here today Jan I think if we are going to get you down on ground to put that uh that finishes metal around magnus's neck it's going to be a cool sight to see we've got Chrissy Wellington here to do it in the women's race and I you know I think that's what I love about Triathlon that um we've got so many generations here uh from over the years so many world champions with I think we said seven world champions nine athletes that have that have uh stepped on the top spot of the race here in Roth I mean there's not many races around the world apart from World Championship events where you get that that quality field well yeah I mean if you include me we've got lothra and Nicole leader just behind us on the TV there so you've got a few more Roth titles wow we certainly do and uh you know some some legendary performances here and um yeah that's that's the cool thing about this event you know that it manages to bring everybody together and that's why yeah it's nice to be here even though uh not in an active form um just watching greatness unfold on our screens you know as a as a fan of the sport but uh I do have to oh my gosh I I swear to God after this I'm finished but did you see how Daniela has tied a little elastic shoe string around her waist to hold her number and she didn't even bother cutting the ends off no like she goes to the wind tunnel testing I don't know how many thousands of Euros it costs to run a single one of those tests plus development plus this and that everything that goes into aerodynamics and then you take a shoelace and tie it around it um yeah certainly certainly quite something so here he is the diesel look at him it just keeps chugging along he looks great still looking nice and relaxed in the upper body hasn't got that head tilt you know often towards we often see towards the end of the marathon you start to get that head tilt just when the body's just starting to tighten up slightly but it's through halfway he is through halfway through 21.1 we know when he makes his way off the canal he'll be at about the 25 kilometer mark That's 22.7 so I don't know where he is he is heading back to the Landy about that he's uh it is a great shot of the canal that Danube so the main Danube canal the body of water that they swam in at 6 30 this morning as Magnus is now making his way we've got Daniella making her way down one end of the canal as we've got Magnus you can see them Crossing so Daniella making her way down to the far end of the canal while Magnus did left is about to exit the canal so not too long before we see Magnus make his way back to the landing he'll then turn right and it's a nice complicate downhill although what we often forget with this run is before they actually make their way back into town there's that rotten dog leg it's just before yes you always forget about it Jan and you go you go down the hill as if you're heading back to transition and then they make you Veer right and it's about 800 meters there and back so about 400 each way this rotten dog leg and you often forget about it it's more of a pest or a pain than it is anything else it's dead flat but you've got to do it before you come back out onto the course proper and make your way into town and out the other side of Roth but right now you can see Sam laidlow 7 45 back so he is really in a bit of trouble yeah right now he's going uh he's going backwards whereas um um Magnus is actually increased his Pace to know to now be predicted for under 722 wow and that is uh that is pretty mind-boggling indeed for uh an accurate course um and you know Fair conditions and just good running but uh yeah Sam's definitely struggling he's oh poor guy I mean yeah certainly know the feeling and um it's tough you know you just need to to go through and just remember that things don't always go worse so can can I talk to you quite candidly about it obviously this time last year you were leading the race look we can see him again it's that calf you're dead right it's that calf muscle that just keeps tightening up on him for someone like Sam Laidlaw obviously not having the day that we know he's capable of when you get home when it's all run and done When the Crowds are gone and you're at home on your own in your own thoughts honestly young how do you deal with this how do you move on how do you say Okay tomorrow's another day I need to put this behind me and I move on to the next race I mean it sounds so easy for me to sit here and say it but you know yourself it is not that easy well you've been there yourself and the thing is I mean I think people take it very differently I mean for me it helps a lot just dealing with it you're like you've got to get through and unfortunately they're the cards you were dealt with at the time and that's just what happens you know and and many times I've been fortunate enough to go through moments like that and still have it be enough for a win uh in this day and age it certainly isn't um that that depth has just changed and and somebody's just on and it's it becomes harder and harder to fake it but nothing is worse for me personally than stopping because it ends your pain right there but the journey in your head of going through hell only just starts and that's one of the things I think that you know successful athlete it's um yeah for lack of a better word that Champions probably have is is we don't have an off button no and it just for me personally it just it just ate away from me and it's it's a point you know where yeah uh self-hate definitely comes into it like it's it's amazing how many sessions afterwards it fuels I mean that's that's the one positive you take from it is that eventually you know you just kind of um take the motivation and take the fight for it and you know you you learn from what you've done but it's the same thing with the with my race recently in in Hamburg oh man I just wanted to get back on the horse and I just really needed to get going again to try and improve and to try and get better and close that Gap and some to some extent you know it really is something that you that you can then look forward to um because well some days you win and some days you learn as they say but definitely it's a it's a toxic thing and here there's the past we have to pass Patrick Lange has now passed Sam laidlow we know that Sam laidlow's been struggling now for the last few kilometers with cramps in his calf he's walked several times but he's always managed to get himself going again and of course now Patrick Langer who is running very very well on course has now made up all that time has made the pass on Sam laidlow and is now up into second place but good to see Sam laidlow still at least running he's still moving forward okay and here we are talking about 40 less motorbikes and just as we see the past Patrick almost runs up to the back of a motorbike motorbike but you know that's just I mean there are obviously dedicated cameras and um Patrick just flying along here like absolutely making it look like Child's Play and uh I mean he has to he's made up 12 minutes and a half marathon that that is flying along and and moving quickly but as you say you know this is a tough moment where Sam is realizing okay the podium's starting to slip away Ben isn't far behind and they're the mental moments that make break and Define you as an athlete I I believe you know it's uh something where you know um yeah you have to make sure that you actively also try and influence what you want to be remembered for you know it's it's one of those things for yourself for your team everybody's out here and in the end yeah you have bad days and you know being able to push through those can also have a reward um I'm not one of the fans who says okay well just give it your best you know and if you give it your best that's great job that's good enough I I I I don't believe that I I um yeah I I could possibly be judged for parenting my children differently and telling them that winning does matter um but that's an attitude you always have to go for it you know you have to you have to reach High and um I think that's what's gotten this man to the front he just wants to win you know and he's seen Rasmus Henning who you know in his era and his home for Denmark was a dominating athlete who put out some breathtaking performances also extremely strong bike rider um and you know striving for the top and striving for the tip top step is is what what gets him to where he is and um that's where hopefully Sam is is aiming his his Mark at I've actually been in this position in Roth before where Sam laidlow is now maybe not not as bad and I certainly wasn't suffering cramps but I was suffering mentally so I got off the bike and I think first position thinking I was going to at least hold on for a Podium my wasn't running was never my strength and I remember getting down to the far end of the canal and the wheels started to fall off more mentally than physically and I distinctly remember on my way back stopping because I feel I was having a pity party and I was feeling sorry for myself and there really was no reason for me to be feeling that I I just I let emotions get the better of me and I remember stopping at one point and pulling over to the side of the canal and actually screaming to myself if this is what we're going to be doing today pull off the course now because I'm not this is it you either make a decision to give you to give it everything to stop feeling sorry for yourself and to run like you know you can run or you walk off the course because I'm not dealing with anything in between and it was like I was giving myself a little bit of a you know this is it this is the ultimatum you either decide to go for it or you walk off and of course walking off was never an option for me particularly here I'd been coming for many many years never had a dnf and so I completely changed my attitude and no I'm not going to tell you that I came and back and won the race or even finished on the podium but I think I was sixth or seventh that day and I finished it off and I I pushed through it mentally and I think that's what Sam needs to do now I know he's struggling but it's very very easy when you start to struggle physically that the mental demons start to really take over and all of a sudden it's a lot worse than it might actually be and so I really hope um that Sam can come through with the goods I I don't know how severe his cramping is of course but he's still got a long way to go as I said he's not even through 25 kilometers yet here so it's it's a tough decision and it's in a decision that all athletes have to make we know that his most important race this year is probably later on in September is he doing damage Now by finishing it off I mean these are the questions you have to ask yourself right now no definitely not honestly like these guys they're all so fit um you know at this pace your body is simply not giving you the access to the resources to do damage to do damage right if you go out and completely blow up that's that's one thing you know but at this pace this is a long day for him yep it's just a long time let's put it into perspective they are currently three guys looking to go under the old course record right three guys and he's struggling and he's currently pays two minutes above it he's currently looking for 737 which is insane and we're just talking about celebrating Sebastian as a sub eight hour rookie and that feels like it was just a few years ago so the level today is absolutely tremendous and um that that's one of the things you know you have to realize like um he's actually still going bloody quick and that's what I think yeah exactly needs to really just turn that head around and there's an actor doing it and I used to do it by a lot of self-talk out loud or in course and it worked for me everyone's got their different ways of doing dealing with it but I think it's a real Knack that you need to be able to give yourself some really good self-talk and just change that entire attitude that they have that you know I can't do this it's all over I'm walking and just try and change it to concentrate on things you can do uh it's yeah Danny roof of course doing everything right uh nothing no problems for her so she her mental attitude right now would be just what can't I do um and the same with Magnus ditliff and oh it's it's you'll be surprised honestly I think they're you know there there is there is a struggle to it even if you're winning well you're still going to get you've still got to get through the 42 point 0.2 kilometers that doesn't change that's the same for everyone exactly and and keeping up your mental guard when you're when your lead is that much that's you know that's certainly something quite uh challenging at the time because you're like okay well why can't the Finish Line just be here this is kind of you know where where it's happening um that's Lisa Norton right there now so Lisa knows Lisa yeah looking and you can see the difference in Cadence between herself and Danny Reeves so at least a norm with a much slower running cadence then Danielle Arif and of course when we had footage up of Laura Philippe and also Chelsea cedaro so I dare say that it won't be long up you can see behind now I think that's was that was that Chelsea sedara that I just saw behind in the white wind the white wind suit is that is that Chelsea it is I think it is it looks like Chelsea cedaro is coming for Lisa Norton motor train but uh yeah that means that she was hang on she was about and she was 19 minutes behind Lisa was 13. so she's made up six minutes um in yeah in about 15K that he's moving and um well that's the world champion does you know Lisa hats off to her because that's what she did she threw her in the ring and um and and you know came off the bike second and now yeah of course it's a struggle street but that's you know what for for many this game is about so let's see where where she can hold it off and uh what the other super Runners are doing um I'd love to get some splits but I think that for now I have to head off and have a chat to our colleagues but you know what they don't seem two-faced so just because I care I just want to quickly see the splits well I'm not sure if the tracker I think the tracker might have might be a little Frozen at the moment so we're trying to wait and see if we can get that updated I can see is Lisa Just a Touch under 16 Chelsea Just a Touch over 16 so they've now met which means that Chelsea would have put three minutes into Daniella um Laura Phillip is in fourth but of course she was in third so Chelsea's actually yeah yeah Chelsea having a very very good run out there right now and she is currently in second place on course uh Chelsea yes if she would have passed Lisa then she said Lisa that's right Lisa's in third Laura Phillip in fourth vanilla still in fifth and then but oh no um because there were just two seconds apart at the 11.7 Mark and we can see here now Daniella is already at 16.4 K so it's a little bit uh behind but um calling it as we see it yep all right well you and we'll get you back you're back 15 20 minutes time alrighty fantastic to see you thank you very much and so while we've had to update on our women's race back to our men's race and a little bit of movement there too so we do know that Ben knut from the U.S has now overtaken Sam laidlow we know Sam laidlow's having all sorts of issues out there on the run today with his calf Magnus titlif of course still leading the way he looks fantastic don't be fooled by that long loping stride of Magnus did left he is still moving very very well we know Patrick Lange from Germany is in second and now Ben knut from the US in third it would be so good to see a U.S athlete being able to take that last spot up on the podium we've also been told that Daniel backer card who had lots of issues with his shift as he was unable to shift for quite some time so Daniel Becker guard we know that he is in fifth place and looking where our spotters have been saying quite a lot a thousand times better is the exact words our spotters have used better than Sam laidlow So Daniel backer guard so good to see him rally and get back into this race it's always so hard when you get a mechanical and you've you've dropped so much time just mentally to get yourself back in the game but hats off to down your backer guard because he has done just that and I dare say will not be long before we see Daniel backer guard make his way into fourth place in this men's race here today in Roth beautiful day we've been told all of our swimmers are out of the water so every single one of our of our swimmers our athletes today have made it out of the water are now on to the 180 kilometer Canyon bike ride and so while our professional athletes making their way our men are through halfway on the run and our women are almost at the halfway mark we've got our age group athletes making their way around the bike course We Know Dan pleuse coach of Chelsea cedaro is out there somewhere trying to win the amateur race today I'm sure he will be very very happy with how his young athlete is going Chelsea cedaro having made her way up now into second place there's a shot of her right now she looks fantastic just what we expected beautiful relaxed look at those arms she's comes from a running background she was an elite runner for many many years she crossed over to Triathlon she's our current Iron Man world champion and she looks fantastic and joining speaking of Iron Man world champions past and present Chrissy thank you for joining me back in the studio wow there's been a little bit of movement since you were last up not with our first place first place is set in stone I think we've got Magnus Title left still in the lead for our men and of course Daniel Arif for a women but this young woman on screen now Chelsea cedaro what a run she is happening now up into second position not really unexpected but in saying that when you've got the likes of Annie hauga and Laura Philippe there with you uh and of course we know that Laura Philippe was in front of her for some for a little while there and Chelsea is also obviously taken that second place now with Laura Philippe behind any surprises so far for you I think the extent of Daniella's lead yes I'm still I'm still Blown Away um it's just such a phenomenal performance um but it's great to see Chelsea there fighting for you know fighting for the podium um you never know what's going to happen um and we we you know you can't predict what is going to happen you know a kilometer down the road you know let alone 10 kilometers down the road so I think there's everything still to fight for and I think that's really really important and and she's a tenacious racer and and she knows that um you can't predict what's going to happen to the athletes in front or or behind you and and so she's going to give it absolutely everything but you know her her form looks phenomenal she does like you said look really really relaxed um it's a really exposed section going along the canal there it's um it's really exposed um you've got a gravel track that is you know maybe more gentle on the legs but yeah it is exposed if there's any Breeze any headwinds you you feel that really really acutely um and you know I just stepped outside of the shade today and um and it's really hot so they'll they'll be feeling you know feeling that heat running along running along the the canal but as we spoke about earlier that they used to uh racing in in the Heat and Chelsea especially has shown herself there's not too many issues in the heat she doesn't um but but all the same you know it is hot out there and they'll want to factor that in um uh to their you know nutrition hydration strategy and not only that plan to you know maybe take on some ice um through the aid stations I I always used to like to hold some eyes put it on my wrists just to try and keep your core body temperature and even if it's more of a mental thing even if physically it's not really doing anything I think mentally just feeling cold a great shot now overhead shot of Laura Phillips she's here for the first time obviously we know that she's an incredibly fast athletes who came oh so close to Breaking that magical 8 18 last year in Hamburg my nails have just recovered and so you know we know that we know that Laura Phillips got the goods to go fast she's look she's having a solid race here today first time in Roth she was uh up there in second position she's now fallen back into third behind Chelsea sedara but you know honestly hats off brilliant racing from these women we know that they're a long way away from Danny Danny Reef but to finish on the podium here at this race is still such an incredible uh a goal it's it's such an achievement and and it's so incredibly special um and they'll be still fighting for for that Victory um and uh you know not like I said not knowing what what might happen but like you know like you said to finish on the podium is incredibly special and given the the strength and the depth of the field it's such a phenomenal achievement to to do so and um I don't want to say if the record is broken but when the record is broken um you know today it will be broken by one person but it could very well be broken by two or three um so they have they have everything to to fight for um and you know a really good chance of you know breaking their own personal best times over this distance while you're out on the like obviously you've been here you've done this you know what it's like and we would you cut this run up into different sections because we've got the connect section up on the canal which is very exposed to the wind to the Sun to the elements they run back through town I know you haven't experienced this part of the course yet they go straight through the center of town it's packed full of people on either side it's on Cobblestone so it's very uneven it's only a short section of the run but sometimes the whole I think the whole thing when you're doing it doing a marathon in a long distance Triathlon is trying to get into that Rhythm and hold it as long as possible but here when you're changing surfaces so much it's very very difficult to hold that Rhythm so I think for our for our Pure Runners it can be a little difficult for someone like yourself Who Loved I mean obviously you love the trail running you love the off-road running it wasn't such a such a problem but you know how difficult is it to to mentally prepare okay I I and cut it down into sections is that the best way to do it or did you used to see it as a whole like just get through the 42k I think different athletes use different psychological strategies when in the racing one that was very important for me was to segment the race not just to run but the whole race I call it chunking so when I you know started the swim I never you know thought about the entirety of the swim I broke it down as you know you get the first 200 meters and you get that the first boy and it's the same with the bike and like you implied it's it's the same with the run so however they want to break it down it could be age station to aid station it could be to your next competitor or like you said it could be transitioning from one surface um to it to another um I would imagine that break from uh gravel to tarmac will be quite welcome some of them have a you know much more of a strength on on road but I I do believe that many athletes benefit from from that slightly softer surface earlier on in the run and it helps them in the latter stages to finish much more strongly but like you said we never had to race on on on or over the the course but whilst that might be more challenging hopefully the crowd will be incredibly uplifting I like the way you think a great shot here of the fastest on course right now is in second position Patrick Lange he's about 8 52 or just under 8.50 down on our leader Magnus titlif Ben Canute having such a great race here for the first time ever 10 45 back so really great racing from Ben Canuck that's our Podium for now Daniel back again well we know he has now moved his way up into fourth place so he is also overtaken Sam laidlow so Dan back at guard he was up there right at the pointy end of the field at the beginning field at the beginning of the bike but unfortunately suffered a few mechanical issues with his shifter but so fantastic to see him back in the game now and running very very well he's at about 14 34 back but you can see now they make their way back into town they do have to do this little dog leg so very very shortly Patrick Langer will Veer right and he'll do an out and back section of about 800 meters but Chrissy look at this aerial shot right now of the canal it's just it's fantastic but you can see from this shot just how exposed it can be along the canal with little or very little shade and also the wind and the wind is starting to pick up it's definitely a lot windier now than it was this morning who added CIS woman this woman has absolutely Style on the show here today Daniela riff from Switzerland spends most of her time in Saint maritz training there with her coach but she looks really relaxed she really does I'm very very very focused um you you can you know never tell from that that game face what's going through what's going through her head um but she she looks comfortable um uh you know I'm still thinking back to that that bike split and you know it's it's absolutely mind-blowing and to be able to run off that is of you know phenomenal Talent isn't it that's as a triathlete that's what you need to be able to do not just post a faster swim or bike split but be able to run really strongly off it and not compromise that run um by trying to go um even faster on the bike so she looks as though she's got the balance exactly exactly right exactly where she needs it yeah still you know still a still a long way to go but she's you know I guess using that that welcome shade while she's got it going through the woods there absolutely and look Chrissy I want you to stay on with me for a little bit longer we do have another guest to uh bring up into the studio it's Philip rousher who's a nutrition expert from PowerBar because we all know that you can be as fit as you need to be to get through this distance but without proper nutrition without proper fueling it doesn't matter how good you are you will not make it through the race so I would like to see I think pretty soon Philip will be making his way up here and into our studio but the nutrition will be so important to these athletes won't it and we were speaking before about how you know the advances that have been made technologically and and that's also the case with with nutrition not just the products that they're taking on but the science behind that and the and and the techniques and and the strategies they're using to to optimize not only their nutrition but but their hydration which is incredibly important and and these athletes would have developed strategies that have you know tailored very much to them and and their own kind of physiology um and it's not just about what works for you physically it's also about what's palatable so it's it's finding finding out all of those things and and for me when I raced you know it was a learning experience and and I you know for for me racing was was also a testing ground and sometimes you go into a race wanting that perfect strategy but you are constantly learning about you know what what's palatable what what delivers the the correct amount of energy the correct amount of of electrolyte um and and also um supports you know good gut health because we all know that that can you know play a huge part a huge part especially in the run and and you know has affected many many arrays so I think it's those three things that palatability what you know what is is digestible and works with your own gut health but also you know what gives you the energy that that you that you need but all these all these athletes would have invested a considerable amount of time testing different products um absolutely Chrissy I totally agree and while we are talking about nutrition thank you so much for joining us this is you can sit here I'll move over here thank you for having me so oh no absolute pleasure I mean obviously we can see on screen right now we've got a great great shot of Daniela Reef who was absolutely dominated obviously not having any issues with her nutrition today I have to say yes yes no not yes yeah that's awesome running like clockwork uh so everything done perfect uh perfectly awesome incredible race day today it really is now obviously you can get it right you can be in the shape of your life but if you do not have a proper nutrition plan when it comes to raising this distance no amount of training is going to get you to the Finish Line it's if you're guessing out uh in this in this position you're no chance to uh to reinvent that so it's very important for all the data athletes today to have a proper nutrition enough sodium and especially a good carb management because the hotter the environment the slower the fat metabolism the more important the carb metabolism so I think that's very very important uh part of the of the race today now we've seen looks like he's struggling I mean you've probably seen the coverage it looks like he is struggling with cramps now I know it doesn't always mean that you haven't got enough electrodes electrolytes in but often it does let's be honest often it does and I think it's starting to warm out here the canal is very exposed to wind and sun could it be that Sam just hasn't quite worked out what works for him over this distance yes maybe so I think it's very important to have enough electrolytes um even before Before the Race um yes yes and if you if you're guessing out on electrolytes when you start to cramp the game game over yes absolutely so that's so important and uh Sam really did a great race until then and um yes that's unfortunately so and maybe we don't know but but it could it could be it could be yes and we can see here now Magnus did left making his way back into Roth what a race he is just like our women's race Magnus did life has been just as impressive in the men's race doing everything right here as he makes his way through Ross but um Power was one of my longest standing sponsors yes I know so I'm so I'm so happy to be here with you many moons ago I'd like to say but you know it was it's been around as a nutrition company it's been around for so long and you've sponsored uh Sammy kinlay I think has to be your greatest yes athlete that you've ever had and he's been so loyal I think it's been an incredible working relationship between the two of you yes I think around 15 years now and that's impressive so nice guy and um yes awesome and I think he's uh 25 minutes uh back at the moment so I think he's he's on 16th uh what's my last information but uh yes on his last run I think the the crowd will will be getting high yes yes we'll get a moment it will us it will be awesome for him it will and what I've been told is he's out on course he's been cheering other athletes on oh okay okay he's in good spirits he's obviously not having the greatest race but it's not a bad race but he's enjoying every second of it I got told that when he passed when he was crossing with Chrissy Wellington he was screaming at her go as hard as you can this is yours you're amazing I mean this is typical Sebastian Kinley yes you know he's just I think for this last year he's just really he's not leaving any stone unturned and he's just he's as he should he's milking it for everything it's worth and I think you're right when he comes into this Stadium later today he is going to get the loudest cheer of any athlete I think so I think so it was um this morning uh during swimming uh it was it was the same so yeah on Friday yeah yes or Friday night yes it was crazy it was crazy wasn't it we thought there was all cheering when they got Patrick laying it up and they got Magnus ditliff and Annie Howe the both defending Champions but then I thought oh this is great and then all of a sudden we invite uh Sebastian up I thought the tent was gonna fall down it was like yeah he's he's loved and it's just Testament to you know what he's achieved in in the sport is phenomenal athlete and phenomenal person absolutely now with the athletes now UK obviously for our professional athletes they're going to be finished before it really starts to heat up we know it's going to get to a high of about 27 28 degrees Celsius and I used to find back in the day in the in the warmer weather it was so much harder for me to get my calories in with solids it had to be liquids have been liquids especially during running so it's harder to to chew during running um so I think the chills are the number one um supplement you can you can take now because it's I'm not um that big from from volume side and you don't have to chew it and even the other environment the harder to chew the harder to have solid foods and so on so um the better or better go-to drinks and gels and tell me what was racing I plain gel so no no Coke so Coca-Cola no caffeine but then towards the second half of the of the marathon I used to take gels with caffeine along with Coke from the aid stations is it is it ever a point where it's too early to start on the caffeine or should you really try and keep that to the latter phases until the end of the run so um to the end of biking I think for the last 20 to 30 kilometers and then from 30 to 32 kilometers on on marathon and then you have that last kick that brings you to the to the Finish Line um so that's a good idea um but especially during um that hot environment it's uh also a little bit risky to to work with two um much coffee in so you should have trained that and don't overdo it if you um yeah if you didn't train it I still think that's the number one piece of advice that you can give to any age group athlete out there is do not change things for race day I think often you come to Big Expos like this they see the pros they see what the pros use and they think oh well if it works for them it'll work for me and they change things that they haven't trained with that they haven't tried before and then they wonder why the wheels fall off on race day absolutely so the number one rule is uh cranial nutrition like you do your running your swimming and your uh your cycling because don't do any experiments during the last week during the last day before the competition and especially not uh on on race day yeah I agree well listen thank you so much for joining us absolutely has been such a wonderful supporter of the sport of triathlon and um yeah I'm so glad that we're you're still so deeply entrenched in this book because it's great to have you thank you very much thank you have a nice day thank you uh it's fantastic Philip rousha one of the nutrition experts from PowerBar great to have him here great to have so many experts here giving us so much wealthy little bits of knowledge but we can see Patrick Lange now second place running very very well as he makes his way into the Old Town the old part of Roth so they will run through the main old square of Roth that's when they'll hit the cobblestones that's where it gets a little tricky but we've got so many people it is absolutely lined so the entire way through there is just lined with people and that's so uplifting at that stage in the race you have the kind of Solitude along the canal which I always found quite welcome after you know the in the noise of of the bike along a lot of the bike course and then you have the Solitude on the canal but then you're ready to be uplifted by the crowd so it comes at a really really nice time in fact you did right because as I said by the time they hit town they've probably done around 30 kilometers so and you always say I remember our Old Coach used to always say the marathon does not start till the 30 kilometer Mark so it's that last 12K where you can be feeling incredible for 30 kilometers and all of a sudden at around that 30 32k Mark the wheels start to fall off so I think it's a really nice time for them to go through town to reset and then to just get that last half of the course done well you can see Magnus titlef is now so he's on the last 10 to 12 kilometers of the marathon here today this is the out and back section they will go out all the way to book and back you can see Chrissy the greatest part of this course is that there is a lot of foliage there's a lot of cover so they get that reprieve from the sun we know it is heating up it's about 25 degrees Celsius out there right now if you think about we started in I think 10 or 12 degrees so it's climbed pretty quickly so it does start to get a bit hot once they get into booking back they do a lap round the town of Brooklyn back and then they'll make their way straight back into the town of Roth and to the finish line here it's not flat so while they were doing the canal which is deadpan flat this is not flat it's actually quite undulating so can be quite nice Chrissy because they start to use different muscle groups which can be quite a relief yeah it's it's really important we saw it on the bike you know you get a slight incline you get out of the saddle just to recruit different muscle groups and give some respite to the ones that you've been using maybe your lower back from being in the time trial position so it's the same the same with the run so it is nice to have that slight you know shift in terrain but for some athletes it's not they like to get in you know into their Rhythm and then and then hold it I mean I he looked at labored there but he's so tall and if that was a slight incline then it is going to affect his his form um slightly um but he's you know for such a tall guy to be to be running so quickly um you know it's it's phenomenal but Patrick Langer definitely looked the more uh kind of bouncy yeah yeah um of the two um but yeah I absolutely agree that the marathon really doesn't start and and so whilst we're all getting carried away thinking yeah it's all sewn up in in your head as an athlete you're thinking but I know I have 12K to go and I know that so so much can happen in in in that period of time I mean we've seen it historically haven't we many many times yep some have you know some of the in the most surprising of Victories come because you know things happen in in the closing stages of of the marathon so I imagine that these athletes are are still very much focusing on on the here and now and and maximizing their you know their their form um thinking about what they can control we spoke about the nutrition the hydration their form how they're carrying their you know their hands um great view now of exactly what you're just saying he still looks nice look looks can be deceiving with Magnus because he we know he's the tallest in the field he's a monster he's very he's a he's not a big monster he's a slight monster but he's very very tall and he's got that very that long loping stroke stride and it often looks like he's running a lot slower than what he actually is now he's got just shy of nine kilometers left to run and we're at six hours 51 minutes on the DOT oh it's gonna be unbelievable to see what time is powerful like we're sitting here at the finish line and you can already feel what starting with the energy yeah and you know I look behind me now in the stadium as you can see great great shot of Patrick Lange he's just gone through town you can see it is lined with Spectators about four five six deep all the way through town so here's a look at them they just love him screaming for him as he makes his way out of town and towards the town of buckenbach but Patrick Lange really looking very very smooth right now on the Run course he's still about eight minutes or just over eight minutes down on Magnus did left but Ben knut from the USA we haven't seen him lately but we know he is not that far behind Patrick Langer he's running very very well in third place with Daniel Becker guard in fourth but the the big mover that we haven't spoken about much at all is uh Joe Skipper I I wondered whether you're gonna you know I guess what we're gonna mention we did we did a little little mention about him but it was about just to see whether he was going to go the wrong way on the course but of course we knew he wasn't it was just a joke uh but Joe Skipper doing what he does best he's he's very strong bike Runner and he's done really really well he's now also overtaken Sam laidlow so good old Joe uh well we've seen that in Hawaii of course we have yeah you know you almost feel like writing him off and then no the recovery like a train so it's a great example of of someone that can make up a phenomenal amount of time and and for me Daniel I mean that's another race of the day to have been kind of derailed with a mechanical head back into the game and realize that it's actually not over and sometimes you know that those are you know that adversity that you encounter he might have got a bit of rest on the side of the road um but he's come back and you know he's in he's in fourth place and to be to have that mental fortitude is um is a real credit to him um absolutely it's great that he's got that fighting Spirit as has this man on your TV right now Ben Knute currently in third place from the US it would be fantastic to see Ben Canute hold that place on the podium but we do know that Joe Skipper is running very very well and there's only about a minute 20 difference between Daniel backer gut and Joe Skipper Sam laidlow now down into six with Bradley Vice in seventh and Andrea strikes in eighth so great to see Andy dreitz who's had a really tumultuous year after that horrific crash in America it's taken so long to get him back but eighth place for Andy right now and the great thing about the course in Roth they'll be getting a lot the athletes will be getting a lot of feedback as to where their competitors are they've got they've all got you know teams around them that can provide them with um accurate splits which are really really important so I'm sure that Joe will know just how much time he needs to make up he'll know how much ground he's got and he'll be able to do those calculations in his um in his head and it you know it can be really useful to to know what those what those splits are oh they feed you don't they I mean when you can get a sniff that you are that that time is coming down and coming down quite significantly all of a sudden you get wings and you know it's look at this look at this look at the stride on Patrick Langer now he's got such a such a quick strike when you compare it to the likes of Magnus titlif who's got that long loping stride and speaking of splits right now with about six kilometers left to run for magnets and a little longer for Patrick Patrick's On Target to run a 232 Marathon while Magnus Is On Target to run a 237 that will be the fastest time that Magnus has ever run if he is able to keep this up for the last seven six or seven kilometers that he has left to run so but look at the difference in run run technique and run form between Magnus ditliff and Patrick Langer it's it's quite significant isn't it yeah and when I look back when when I used to race you know the difference between my run form yours and say Melinda car free you know I had I had quite the shuffle she had a phenomenal leg lift um and you know you just play to your strengths your your physiology but obviously he's an incredibly tall guy and and that will affect his his stride um his leg left and we are at the final stages of America the marathon so everyone's form is is going to be impacted by that that fatigue um out there and the road surface of course like we spoke about before very very different running on the the kind of hard packed trail to the cobbles to the um to the road but Patrick definitely does um look incredibly kind of light on his on his life on his feet um I don't know if he's you know going downhill slightly there but yeah he looks really really relaxed and yeah very very bouncy we do know that he's wearing a prototype Super Shoe today from his sponsor Adidas so be very interesting to see talk to him afterwards about that we know that this shoe will be become available to the public towards the end of the year but it'll be interesting to see how he thinks it's gone I mean obviously now being such a spongy shoe uh it'll be great on this section of the course but it'll interesting to see his feedback on the canal which is that hard packed dirt that we would I was talking about earlier on with yarn and how you can often you lose a little bit of traction and I think we were saying for runners like marindu who has that big Kickback and so the likes of Braden Curry it can naturally be not detrimental but it just feels like you are losing energy over the over the canal whereas someone like you as you call yourself a shuffler yeah you don't get that so I think that's why you were able to move so quickly over that over that Canal surface and I wonder with these shoes whether they sue a specific style of Runner yeah obviously they've been engineered with with Patrick and run as light Patrick in mind of course you know um with a a specific running style um and I'd be interested to know what the other athletes uh are using um because some of them are you know four foot round so they run right on their their toes others more more on the mid foot some have a leg lift some some like myself when they strike on the heel Striker which was me and but when we were racing you know the lightest lighter was was better no not no padding no Chrissy this one isn't it funny how things go full circle you know we've gone we've gone from way back in the day um with I think the Nike waffle this is going way back which was basically just you know a piece of cloth yeah the tiny piece of rubber underneath and now you know and then we went you had to use the lightest shoe known of mankind now we've gone back full circle we wondered we want the shoe with the most cushioning you know with the biggest drop and you know I think sometimes now it's like this big so it's um it's interesting to see how things come full circle and yeah again it'll be interesting to get some um feedback from Patrick once this run is over but it's this woman on screen now Daniella roof The Angry Bird not looking angry today just looking like she's uh doing what she does best but what a lead you can see now on screen just where our top three men are we've got Magnus titlef in the lead he has made his way into the town of book and back and he is on his way back into town so he will be able to see exactly oh so they'll cross each other absolutely they do so he will be able to see so you can see now this is the town of book and back fantastic hot spot on the course you'll see this line with people phenomenal look at that it is look how many people there are Chrissy this is unbelievable I would imagine about 300 000 have turned out today because they're all over the course not just in sections this entire course is lined and you can see now he hasn't even actually made it into the town of book and back properties he gets right in there into the Town Square he'll do a loop around town and then he'll make his way back and that's when he'll get to see for the very last time exactly where Patrick Langer is and then Patrick will be able to see exactly where Ben Canute uh and Daniel Becker guard are so it's it's really their last opportunity to I get their eyes on these athletes and then from this turnaround we literally only have about five or six kilometers to go so what wonderful addition to the course though it really is isn't it a slight change from when we used to race it but yeah it's phenomenal to have like I said have that crowd support at this at this stage in the race um incredibly uplifting and you know now you know I think it just sets you up you get to it gives you a chance to reset you know you're taking that crowd the cheering from the crowd and now he knows this is a great point of the run with Magnus ditliff he knows he is on the way home and I think mentally even though he's got what do we got up there we've got 36 kilometers so we've still got seven kilometers to go he knows that he is on his way home while the rest of his competition still have to make it outside you know a very it'll be interesting to see when he gets to cross with Patrick Langer but whether he looks to the side whether he has a little sneaky look to see how Patrick is looking but knowing Magnus did left he's such a professional for such a young athlete he's so mentally strong uh that I won't give much away even if they even if they're struggling no they won't they won't they won't give much away the shoulders will go back I used to always try and do it I mean honestly as soon as I go past him I'd fall in a heap again but you know for them yeah fantastic that's good yeah you'd keep the mouth closed to show them you're breathing through your your nose but all the tricks that you play all the mental tricks and yeah water rice this young Diana's had I've just seen him improve year after year I remember when I very first met him at it was a challenge Daytona back then it's now Clash Daytona and we remembered that seeing him perform and thinking this young kid just was blue past everyone on the bike I'm like who is this young man and where did he come from and so obviously since then I've been following his career and he's uh yeah he's just improved to being to now being one of the best middle distance to Long Distance athletes in the world but what's interesting though is is the way in which he's coped with the pressure because undoubtedly there would have been a significant amount of pressure going in both that he's he imposes on himself but that there's that that broader and wider expectation and for him to to come into this race to perform and to perform under under pressure and under that weight of expectation is is really impressive um especially for someone I don't understand patronizing but but a younger athlete who isn't necessarily used to that way of expectation is um you know real credit to him as an athlete yeah it's unbelievable and while we've got great footage here of Daniella Reef leading the race we have been told that she has slowed down slightly and at that last aid station she actually slowed right down almost to a walk just to get enough hydration in but that to me is smart racing Chrissy I mean she knows she's not under pressure now second and third are a long long way behind it's all about preservation and making it to that Finish Line she knows she's under the world's best time right now but she has definitely slowed down uh behind her we have Chelsea cedaro now fun fact thanks to Luke McKenzie who is following from America we know that Chelsea is On Target right now for an 8 15 39. I mean that's insane but the interesting fact with that her coach Dan plus who was racing in the amateur race is on for an 8 1507 oh that's insane I did speak to her about it um on Friday um and she was just hoping hoping to pip him at the line right now what a great story Incredibly Close that's amazing but those times Chrissy 8 15. come on no I mean I I would have predicted going into this race um that the record would be broken um I didn't necessarily know who would who would break it I would have imagined that that Annie Howe would have been um you know up up there the most likely um but yeah just the the bite splits especially uh are just mind-blowing to me but you know as an athlete that's had the privilege of holding a world record you know that you just hold them you don't own them no they're not yours to keep you hold them for a little while I've held mine for probably longer than I would have been exactly let's be honest 2011. you've got it more longer than most so you you hand it over and and you hope that you've elevated the performance of the you know the next generation of athletes and sport has to be iterative you have to pass that baton on and that includes the world record so however hard it is admittedly to see it to see it fall it's really important that it does absolutely because you want a leg I don't really like the term Legacy but you want your legacy to have raised that bar and given someone else something to to aim for men and women and I think that's incredibly important so for that record to be broken not just broken but smashed um by the looks of it um you know is is really important to the sport absolutely and I think at the likes when I go back now Paula newbie Fraser Natasha bardman Chrissy Wellington Daniella reef and now we have the new generation daniela's still there oh she's still there absolutely I keep thinking you know maybe this year's her last year and then she comes back and she's more phenomenal than that than ever and she uses her wealth of learning and experience at this distance to continue to perform but then again like Daniel today she doesn't let kind of problematic races derail no I don't want to say failure she learns from them they she comes back stronger and that is admirable you know that's really admirable with again speaking about pressure but she's under a considerable amount of pressure you know what it is Chrissy it's it's a true champion absolutely and that's why she's the the best in the world and I think the best of all time and and I don't use those words lightly but you know for her to bounce back and and to to cope with the pressure but to cope when things don't go according to plan is yeah pretty it's impressive yeah Well Chrissy we have loved having you on here today oh thank you we're going to get yarn back in because we know it's not too long away before our professional men make their way towards this incredible Finish Line looking behind me now the stadium is starting to fill up we have room for 10 000 Spectators we know that there will not be a seat left here in the house in the over the next 30 minutes but it's a beautiful day the sun is shining Chrissy you're an absolute Legend and I do not use that word lightly you have definitely helped shape the spot to what it is today I have no doubt that when you were racing you raise the bar not just up one slot but I think about a half a dozen slots when you raced and it's the reason that we've got these phenomenal women out there today doing what they're doing doing what three or four years ago we would have thought was impossible and you've just proven that nothing is impossible and it's been an absolute honor I know I'm going to be partying with you later on on the finish line so I'm looking forward to that I'll be there till midnight yeah but thank you so much you're amazing absolutely amazing uh Chrissy Wellington she really is an absolute Champion she was so many years ahead of her time and it's just so apt to have her here today as we are watching history being made in both the men's and women's race here in Roth with Magnus ditliff looking to set a new world best time who's going to be breaking a yarn for dinos cross record time here in Roth as is Daniella Reef with our women a new world best time in the making for Daniella roof in fact I think we're going to see several of our women go under that record Ben Knute what a race he has happened happening here today he still looks really good you can see that that tri-suits unzipped you know that it's getting hot out there we know it's about 25 26 degrees Celsius it's really starting to heat up greatest part about this section of the run that they do get a little bit of reprieve because there is quite a bit of shelter from the foliage on both sides of the road but look at that he looks so comfortable as he makes his way into book and back but Danny elarif oh and finally look at this well oh wow so we've got a change here now this is interesting Annie houg now overtaking Laura Philippe up on the canal so we've got the two Germans Annie held the defending Champion Laura Philippe here for the very first time we know that Chelsea cedaro is up ahead so this is now Annie houg in third place and Laura Philippe back in fourth place with vanilla language in fifth and Lisa Nord now slipping back to sixth place so big changes in our women's race here today but anyhow look at she just looks absolutely stealth as she's gone past Laura Philippe Laura Philippe that head starting to move around a little bit she's got to just stay under control Jan thanks for joining me back here now wow some movement in our women's race yeah I wouldn't want to miss it it's uh certainly all happening and chopping and changing and that's what we want to see the stadium here slowly filling up um we've got a chance to pick some Mingle for a bit there and it is heating up last few k's exciting time on the race honestly I I knew there'd be a little bit of a few changes but this is what I love about long distance racing and we always say it's never over to the fat lady sings and I think that's what we're going to see here today we just saw footage before of Ben knut he still looks really really good as does Patrick Lange Daniel Becker guard surprise packet because I thought after he had those problems on the bike that that would be it it's so hard to mentally get yourself back in the game when something goes wrong but he's just showing the class athlete that he is so he's having a really good race uh another mover Joe Skipper so he's doing very very well so Joe Skipper just behind Daniel backer guard and then we've got Sam Laidlaw I don't think it's going to be long before Bradley Vice and Andy dreitz uh overtake Sam laidlow I'm hoping that Sam laidlos are able to hold it together big thing is great to see Sam still out there on the course moving forward yeah absolutely that's what we were talking earlier about the mind game um less for um for anything except for his own attitude and and his getting together for for future races and yeah uh step away for 20 30 minutes and uh you miss all the action this is what and you know what that's what you expect when you have racing when when you have racing of this quality you know you cannot afford to step away even for five minutes and look at that Ben Canute is absolutely flying now this is Testament to the training that he's done because I think with Ben he's never really had a really good block of full distance training he told me that during covert he him and his coach Jim Banks really really worked on his run and wow aren't we seeing the proof in the pudding right now because I thought if there was ever going to be anything go wrong with Ben it would be the back half of his Marathon but as he wakes his way into book and back now he looks like he's actually faster now than he was when we saw him up on the canal well I I was about to say he looks the same as he did at kilometer two um he's definitely clicking in and he was also you know probably the second fastest mover he only lost 90 seconds to Patrick in the first half marathon um and you know that's generally a sign that you know you're you're moving well um and I'd just like to uh say that we've got Laura settle join us now as well in studio so Laura thank you very much now firstly Laura as much as I love having you here in studio with us I would much prefer to have you out on course racing because you've had some incredible races here over the years you are the darling of Roth I think I passed on that baton when I retired and you've taken it but look you've been out on course you've been in the VIP bus following the race around give us your thoughts on first of the women's race and then on the men's race but what a spectacular day we're having I mean it's absolutely fantastic I think when we saw Daniella Reeve come out the water with vanilla I thought oh if this is her phone this is on and I think she's going to be in another postcode and um there must be out on course has been amazing I was out at Solara big hill actually able to be in the crowd this year and just watching how Daniela rode up there and what she's doing to the rest of the to the course to the record to the rest of the field but um I think it's fantastic we've now seen Annie move up into third Chelsea's in second you know the three pass world champion well current world champion and previous world champions obviously Daniella and Annie have won here before and uh it's fantastic to actually see those all at the front of the race as well oh look I agree I agree and our men's race obviously exciting racing but isn't it interesting that both their men's and women's race same sort of scenario we've had both Danny reef and Magnus ditliff take control very very early on and not look back and really their leads are incredible even more than I thought that they were would be able to achieve but behind both those two that's when the action's really starting to play out again I think you know when we saw Magnus come out with that front front pack on the swim if it was kind of the warning shot that I think everyone expected him to be a little bit behind and to be chasing and so then he just took control straight away and went to the front and has absolutely destroyed it and you know it's fantastic to see him come here as a defending Champion with so much pressure on and so young age I mean last year it was his second long distance race ever he did race a lot then last year but to come here defending and put on a performance like this it's just been simply magnificent magnificent but as you said like the Ben Knute now coming through Patrick Lang is running fantastic they just they're just trying to try to chase and running space Oh look and look on screen right now Laura we've got Laura Philippe here for the very first time anyhow having just overtaken it but Laura's not giving up we just saw that shot then and she is really trying to hold on and amazing racing from both these Germans I mean I think if you look at the splits they're all running so fast I mean Laura's a fantastic Runner as well and he's just running about that little bit faster at the moment um you know Chelsea as well and even Danny Allen's still looking so strong and she's got a very different technique so I guess you what you might call the pure Runners of Annie and Chelsea and Laura but um it's just fantastic to see such a good battle between all the women and all trying to close down close down and fall back in Danielle Aries well just to give you some perspective there's only about two and a half minutes between Chelsea cedaro and and uh Laura Philippe now so those three women are still very very close together and they've still got a good chunk of the marathon left to run so all three are gonna have to run their hearts that's it and you know as we always say it's it's not over till the finish line and we've seen races an athletes deteriorate and things unravel in spectacular style within the last couple of kilometers of a Race So I don't think we can say it's Daniella looks pretty comfortable in the lead and obviously Magnus the same he's coming back through town so he's only a few minutes away um but yeah I don't I don't think you can kind of truly say it's over until we see them in the stadium and you can see Magnus did left now making his way back through the Old Town back through the town square look at the people the crowds the entire part of this course will be absolutely chock-a-block full of people you've been out on course today you've seen it all the crowds are inside it's this year it's just it's absolutely it feels it feels bigger and better than ever I think obviously the last couple of years we're probably still in fact well the first year definitely effective until by covid and even last year was kind of probably like that that half field of rock but this year it feels bigger you know back to its best but bigger and better than ever and I think you know the athletes the start field we've got I think people have just embraced this race and yeah and you can see it in the crowds out there [Music] [Music] [Music] this bit's a really cool part of the course because you you can almost hear the finish line and you know you're coming back but those cobbles that slight uphill and you've actually had like the last couple of kilometers along the the back of the back street so run really kind of they seem to last forever because you know the Finish Line's then you can hear the stadium you know you're getting close but uh yeah it's just not quite close enough at that stage [Music] oh okay the young Dane the 25 year old from Denmark oh so close to the Finish Line 40.2 kilometers so he has exactly two kilometers left to run he now Max his way out of town and he is on his way fast track back to the finish line here to the Finish Line Stadium yarn for Dino the goat himself has made his way down to the Finish he will be the man to pass that baton on to put that finishes metal around Magnus Title left's neck pass that Batman because Magnus titlef is about to set the new world best time over an official full distance race here in Roth in spectacular as well I don't think you know I think we knew both the the fact the records were on to be broken but I think like you were saying with Chrissy earlier and I'm sure with the other guests uh to be broken by such style and by such a a huge amount I think you know it's fantastic to see the athletes on the men and the women's side they've really raised their game today oh they really have and look I'd love to get your opinion I think I know the answer but this young man is he the future of long distance racing in the world will we see him become a world champion Roth Champion several times over I mean he's going to win it for a second time here today I mean this is a man that could dominate for years to come it could um I think we're at a fantastic stage in our sport where there's so much evolving and everyone is raising the game and and uh the athletes the men and the women are jumping onto the back of that and everyone is trying to step up and the Magnus is certainly certainly leading that you know he won here last year in his second full distance ever he did race a lot last year I think four or five full distances so obviously learned a lot in that process he is still so young and actually what is good about Magnus he's actually really good over the half distance as well but I think his true strength does lie over the full distance and I I do think we're going to see him around for a lot of years to come pushing the sport and hopefully dragging everyone with him and just to let our audience know prize money today 125 000 Euro that's around 135 000 US dollars with the winner taking home 25 000 Euro we do know that ikoi fastest bike split of 1500 will go to Magnus deadlift today it is a platinum PTO tier event and of course also big points on offer for the end of year World bonus challenge family World bonus well look at this look at this crowd it is absolutely packed I looked behind here 30 minutes ago and it was it was here and there I looked back 30 minutes later it is now packed solid yeah it's just slowly being it we're not slowly actually rapidly coming up 20 minutes is obviously as the men were getting closer and they realize they're about to witness something spectacular so it's it's fantastic to see I really do believe it's one of the best Finish Lines in the world just the stadium atmosphere really just makes it this cauldron of energy and you know we're going to see something special when magnets crosses the line and I think that that energy you'll just actually continue to build over the night as we welcome home all the other finishes as well oh look I I absolutely agree look at this look at this shot of Ben canoe honestly this it's only second ever full distance race uh we know the first one he didn't really specifically train for it he's come out this time he's been in rock since two Wednesdays ago he's taken it very very seriously he sent me an email asking me I think there was like 24 questions uh on different aspects of the course it's not funny that because you have to be a load of questions as well certainly did his homework yeah he's with no stone unturned his coach is here with him he'll be absolutely over the moon we had to invent him earlier I think they were just gunning for a Podium position I don't think they cared at the end of the day what one it was going to be but Ben Canute looks absolutely terrific right now and you know it looks he's running almost if not just as well as as Patrick Lange and he just lost that time early but now it looks like they're actually holding very very similar Pace yeah and it's funny because Ben's an athlete who over the past few years has tried to go the the short course and the long course tried to qualify for the Olympics and then you know yeah as you said this is only his second full distance race and I I really think he's found his his form and he's found his feet and you talk about athletes for the future I think like watch out for them it's fantastic it's another us athletes and uh I hope he comes back and I hope he challenges for that win and we have that American American male winner well the one thing that I loved the Jim Vance's coach said to us earlier was that Ben's not interested in just doing these small races here and there when he races and when he chooses his races he wants to race the absolute best hence why he is here in Roth he knew it would be a competitive field I remember when I got the email from Ben asking and I was just over the moon because I would love nothing more than to see an American on the podium it's been far too long and great to see him and quick we are going to get an American woman on the podium as well so we get the double whammy in One race which is amazing it's fantastic it really is fantastic Ben coming through as you said like he does pick those Championship races hence why he wanted to try for the Olympics like he's a big race day performer I think this performance today in his second long distance race you know is impressive like if you think about it that learning and the long distance so much can happen it's uh yeah it's an incredible performance by Ben as well even and to gun on the podium I totally agree and he's just so he showed long course racing maturity Beyond his long horse racing is I know he's been a professional tracker for a long long time now it's a very different it's a very different ball game absolutely Laura and you know but it's only a matter of time before we see Magnus did lift the 25 year old from Denmark he's coach Jens Patterson back is here his girlfriend said Madison is here and his best buddy Casper Patterson is also here supporting him I'm sure they are down there look at this I think I want to look at the screen that we're meant to be watching and then I want to look behind us at the stadium and then he overhead it it's just insane it is and he's on his way in now you can see that stadium in the background so he will make his way undone that Arch and into the stadium wait till you hear it it is absolutely going off here in the stadium so he's about to go under the last Arch which will take him into the stadium look at that shot more it is just unbelievable and look at that time we are at seven hours 24 minutes and 29 seconds [Applause] legitimately enjoy the high five yep absolutely well there you go the winner of the darkness challenge Rock powered by hit for 2023 being embraced by no other than himself the ghost himself Jan verdino down on the Finish Line a new world's best time Felix Mustafa also down on the finish line Felix will be absolutely over the moon and honestly can we say enough good words about Felix he's been everywhere today everywhere on the bike on the run and now here at the Finish Line to congratulate Magnus I know I've been out and about with some of the the buses and the VIPs and Felix was out you could see him all over the course and he's such a big part obviously a big part of this race but he gives so much on race day and uh always wants to be he goes and shakes all the hands of the volunteers around the whole course and uh yeah no surprise that he's there at the Finish Line as well the whole family to be fair and that's his girlfriend down on ground stiff Madsen fantastic short cross athlete herself but Magnus he's giving it he's all there you go Felix volcifer congratulating our new Champion he's done it again he was our defending champion from 2022. he's now our champion of 2023 with a new world best time of 7 24 40. incredible I think the uh let's also see if he's perfected his beer paw because I know that was whatever he didn't quite get pretty sloppy last year brought it over the back of the head let's see come on Magnus you can do it you can get it right this time okay [Music] oh look that was incredible racing what an athlete I hope he just takes those moments uh to appreciate this as well and what he's just achieved in such style you know obviously the record is incredible at what the amount of time he's taken off but coming back is a defending Champion not always impression he is still so young and um yeah I just hope that that all takes those moments to make it sinking all right so while our professional men's race here we have our winner across the Finish Line in a new world best time of 7 24 40. we've got Patrick Lange making his way back to the finish line right now so while the crowd is still cheering our champ [Applause] not be too long before we see Patrick Langer also work his way through as we go down to the finish line foreign [Applause] so amazing scenes down here in the stadium it is packed solid with 10 000 Spectators from all over the region as I said earlier these people these Germans come from all over Germany they take holidays just so they can come and watch the race just so they can volunteer at this race that is how special this race is here in Roth Patrick Lange on screen now he was second last year to the young man down there at the Finish Line he's going to be second again this year [Music] also going to go faster than the previous world best time which I think is impressive Testament to the racing today and absolutely and Laura as we said you've been out on course the conditions were just about but the wind is starting to pick up now but I think that's actually going to be good for a lot of the athletes come the run just to keep them a little cooler it is I mean it was fantastic this morning the race start was absolutely incredible I think I don't think you could have asked for more perfect conditions obviously a fast fight course as well I mean I was a little bit worried with the the heat perhaps on the run and it may be causing some issues if they haven't looked after themselves well enough but you know they're professional athletes they know how to manage it um and yeah we've just seen those performances come through and here he comes Patrick Langer of Germany one of the crowd favorites he is definitely the hometown favorite today he was second last year to Magnus titlap he will be second again this year as he makes his way around the stadium [Applause] he had one of his signature runs yet again he's one of the best if not the best marathon runner in the sport he's cheering up the crowd telling them to cheer a little bit more as he crosses the finish line in 7 30 and change so seven hours and 30 minutes fantastic race from Patrick Felix Mustafa down there on the finish line and I think he's just been his run time he was wanting to run Club 230 and I think he's just seen the 27 seconds I was about to comment on that and I think you saw it he was so so close to 30. so we know that he's Run 2 30 before in Israel he really wanted to crack that 230 he oh but honestly that would have been the icing on the cake from let's be honest but well let's not take away from what he's just done here today now we know that Patrick Lange won't get this wrong he's done this at many many times I love it as well it should be well well hurt reverse he's been an earning athlete for many many years [Applause] [Applause] what a fantastic performance by those two men and I'm just trying to check I was trying to work out how far behind Ben canoe was to be he's gonna be pretty close to that to that time as well I'm not sure he's gonna quite We're Not Gonna I don't think we're gonna quite have the full Podium under the previous fastest time but definitely deferred to has been pretty impressive actually you can see now this has been coming through town so he's he's oh oh so close then uh he's got what four minutes or so to to get to the stadium still running really well Ben as we said like his second full distance race [Applause] but really great to see Ben canoe he had a very very intelligent race today out with the lead group stuck with Patrick on the bike he knew that Patrick was the experienced athlete here he said I'm just going to do exactly what Patrick does that they game came into T2 together and now Ben running his way home for that final spot on the podium back to our women's race Daniella roof making her way out to the town of buckenbach she doesn't need to do anything silly Laura she's this is just effortless I'm sure it isn't if we were to ask her right now but looking on the screen it's just she is fully in control of this race we know [Applause] that she's still got around 14. it's over Chelsea cedaro the interesting thing is just looking on the splits is that Annie hog has made up quite a bit of ground to Chelsea cedaro now so I'm telling you it is over and when you're talking about Ann housing nothing is set in stone until we cross the finish line and I mean although like Daniella's got 15 minute lead at the moment and looks pretty comfortable she's probably not looking as as you would expect it's you know 30 kilometers into the marathon she's probably not looking quite as as good as she did when she starts but she has got quite a big buffer to relax doesn't need to panic she does just need to keep moving forward that one foot in front of the other um it's up to the women behind to chase her so hopefully she can if she isn't is going through a rough patch as can be at this 30 kilometer Mark as they head out to book and back and hopefully the crowds that will come back will will spur around the crowds are huge yeah it's a bit like I always used to call um we'll come back when they put it in it's like the Solara Berg of the Run course it is absolutely that's what it is fantastic so it's wonderful oh and here she is herself running very very well written now in second place so look at that there you go Chelsea cedaro and how 50. four seconds Laura oh my gosh we have got a race on our hands between these two women it's gonna be an email Laura Phillips not that far behind but I think Annie is the one moving through and when she comes up on Chelsea I'll be really interested to see what she does whether whether she surges past or where and Chelsea tries to go or uh she well and truly takes it and we have third place now making his way into the stadium Ben Canute from the USA fantastic rice the friend has had here in what is only his second ever going over this distance so his second time racing the full distance [Applause] I've been so impressed with the way this man has raced all day long checking the watch for one last time we know he's coached in vance will be out there I think I think we saw him looking over his shoulder earlier as well and I was like it's okay baby I think you've got a buffer Panic your brain plays tricks with you all the blood all the Bloods rushed from the brain it's down in the in the muscles down doing the works that need that's needed and so look look at this he's not far it's only at least I think 200 meters before he makes his way onto the Green carpet here at the stadium you can see I think that's a smile I think we're getting a smile oh yeah it's a smile he's been so pumped by this whole experience all week sort of his first time here he's had a fantastic home stay he's just been soaking it in and like you said so from what he's heard about the race before now just to come and experience it and then now he's going to finish on the podium in third yeah absolutely and you know it's one thing to talk about to be actually experience it for yourself I don't think we can do it justice I know you and I have tried it for everybody oh I just I can't wait to see his face when he comes into this stadium and sees that sea of people on both sides but Ben canoe from the USA coming home in third place here today he entered T2 with Patrick Lange he's run so very very well he's pumped around one more time then I think he was surprised at you about the balloon the kids following him I thought that was the keys so here we go and look at that time Laura I know 7 36 oh right on 37 37. absolutely fantastic and he's giving it everything look he's got absolutely nothing left yarn for dino down there to give him a handshake and a congratulations Patrick Lange also there look the camaraderie amongst these athletes is absolutely amazing and um we did just see there on screen that I think that was Annie Howe making the pass on Chelsea Fedora so hopefully we'll catch that again we'll go back to their very very shortly but just to recap here right now Magnus did left coming home in first place in a new record of 7 24 40 Patrick Lange coming home in second in a time of 7 30.04 and now he nailed it on his first [Music] top three men we will go back to our women's race said you picked it up because you've got such a Keen Eye you saw that Annie Howe had made that pass on Chelsea sedara so our last split was about 54 seconds of course the Spritz we're getting are a little delayed but you spotted it I think she's probably just going through a I would say I call it a rough patch and that's all relative in how they're racing I mean she's 30 30 plus kilometers in um and she is on a tough bit of the course out to book him back and she does have a labor to run style to start with she is just looking so strong so it's really hard sometimes to tell if she is actually suffering if it is just uh just her running self if you look comparatively to then anyhow the Chelsea Laura Phillip who just seems so three of the most beautiful Runners we've got in our sport so yeah tough tough ask when you've got three of the runners of that caliber but anyhow honestly she was so far behind tomorrow when they came into T2 I remember seeing split and going even for someone of the caliber of Annie the greatest runner in the sport right now without a doubt and you know we know Chelsea sedara was also an exceptional Runner but Annie Howard and Annie having such a great view so far this year I just thought even for Annie this is going to be just it's impossible but look at him look at her now unbelievable she looks so comfortable I could watch her run all day long and this is the thing they're not giving up like she knew she'd got a Daniel and swim the bike I think just you know put it out of touch early on we'll hopefully see you again it's not over till it's over I remember plenty of races passing people in there in the last little section and things falling apart for people but um it was a big ask but and he's trying to try to grill her in and trying to pull it back and trying to as she would she's a champion racer she's a big a big game day performer so she's doing her best and wants so probably a fast run time to to put down as well and when you think about it the two women up the pointy end of the field so Danny reef and anyhow more experience than anyone on course I mean Chelsea cedaro really hasn't been in the sport that long and Laura Philippe as well so we've got two of the most experienced females going one two right now and then obviously Chelsea cedaro is still having a fantastic day uh as is Laura Philippe both women here for the first time were as we know Daniela and Annie have been here many times and he was going for the hat trick very very difficult um and hats off to Danielle art roof for making it looking now virtually impossible for anyhow to do but we've still got a little bit of running left to go here what I think is going to be really spectacular if if it stays as it does at the moment is seeing the three world champions on the podium together I think that's gonna be pretty special you know Danny Ellery five times Annie's one you know Chelsea the reigning Champion to have them all battling out at the front it's insane honestly we could not have asked for more and it just because as we've been talking about it all day Laura the caliber of athletes that we have at this race this year I've been here for 18 years now um I've never seen anything like it it's and honestly look at I'm getting I keep getting Goosebumps it's ridiculous I can't help myself oh it's fantastic and you know to top it off with such superb weather the crowds are just they're on fire and we know even once it's all run and done we get to the end of the night it's not over here we've got that spectacular laser show that everyone comes back for there's going to be tears we know we've got a special uh farewell for Sebastian Kinley but we all do I've told the world um that we're putting on for Sebastian and I don't think there's going to be a dry eye in the house I mean I think and we can hear now the emotion in Ben Canuck's voice so Ben Canute is down on ground giving uh oh no no oh sorry Daniel Becker guard is down on ground fourth place we didn't even see him past because we were looking at the women so just to update you fourth place Daniel back again is now across the Finish Line he is quite emotional and totally understand why if you had asked me at about halfway through the bike ride here today really nasty Mechanicals where he had absolutely no shifting he was stuck in one gear I thought his race was done and dusted for him to fight back and to finish in four fourth place is true Testament not only to the caliber athlete than he is back to button to holding it together unbelievable so hats off to Daniel Becker guard fourth place unbelievable it's still exactly in its Testament to him and who he is as an athlete to pull that back into and like you said anything happened so he's kept it and kept himself in the race and he's kept running through to the end in case you know to take every opportunity if it through itself at it and honestly Laura 739.59 was uh Daniel back again time with a mechanical where there was I think a good almost an hour or more where he was stuck in the same gear I think he was eventually able to get it fixed but you know to go from leading the race being in that front group with the likes of Magnus and Sam and then all of a sudden he'd lost 15 minutes now to turn your head around on that I mean I thought I was pretty tough back in the day but that would have been a that would have been a tough ask and then you know if you've been stuck in one gear that can have such an impact on your legs physically for the the marathon I'm not sure what time he ran for the marathon but I think it was pretty Swift from us what we can tell if it's finished in fourth with that time unbelievable and it should be exceptionally proud of his performance here today so while we are down here on ground doing the podium so our first second and third places in our professional men's race we are back with our women's race Daniela riff leading as she's heading out to boot and back we know we have Annie haug in second Chelsea cedaro and third life Philip in fourth and we're down on ground for our top three men Ben Canute in third [Applause] here in Ross from Germany [Applause] such great camaraderie amongst these men [Music] and here he is the Great Dane winning it for a second time new world best time Patrick Lang bowing I love it Next Generation right in front of our eyes here [Applause] both Magnus titlifts and Patrick Lange going under the previous world best time over this distance Ben Canute with an enormous PB over the distance in his second race and long distance race so our top three men I think we're seeing some new stars of the sport I certainly do this so our resulting today Magnus did left 7 24 40. Patrick Lange 7 3004 and Ben Canute in third 7 3701 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] coming across the line [Music] trying to get a good look we haven't got him up on screen quite late yet [Music] it looks like it is Jason Paul what an incredible race it was I was just waiting to get a look at his number and it looks like it is number 22. Bradley Vice I think also finished Bradley Vice in front of him so we are waiting for our timing to catch up these managers too fast for us today and I think Joe Skipper has also finished so just update behind Daniel back again fourth we had Joe Skipper and fifth brother advice in Sixth and now Jason Paul home in seven so Joe Skipper with a fantastic run signature run from Joe as we expect I mean it's crazy all these like top we're still in the top 10 and they've all put fantastic times all so close to to that incredible time that was set previously by Yan and there's Sam laid low credit for him for finishing that race hats off to Sam I honestly there was a time there on the canal I thought he was going to pull a pin he was walking it was obviously he was in all sorts of trouble he was in pain his calf was giving him so much grief but he battled on so hats off to Sam redlife from France coming home in eighth place so amazing racing from our professional man here today on that one because I think I was with you I saw him on the same on the canal and wasn't sure he was going to be making it to the finish line but hopefully he'd heard so much about the finish line and wanted to do the race in it justice and obviously as long as he's okay and not hurt himself or injured himself for the future um it's great to see him finish yeah obviously back on the screen we have Daniella Reef she is through 32 or 35 kilometers now on the Run uh 36 kilometers she's well and truly back on her way back to town um she'll be able to see as well she'll go past anyhow soon and see what much how much of that buffer she still has and we were talking Sid earlier about that with the men this is the last opportunity that Danny Reeves gets to see her competition and it's a very nice feeling because once you make that turning book and back you meant that mental change where you know I am finally on my way home to the Finish Line while my competition is still making their way to that last turn she's going to see how big the Gap is and even though I'm sure she is suffering I think you just get wings don't you you know that okay I just need to put one foot in front of the other hold it together and I've got this this is mine it is you definitely use this you did uh you go around the pond or the lake it will come back and as you start running back towards the finish your weight your eyes are at the road going where's that next athlete where's that next athlete and uh waiting to see where she is I mean as we said Daniella's got sort of 15 minutes on Annie Annie's going through the woods now Danielle is already out pretty much you know on the edge of the town of Ross I think um the other update that we're seeing on the tracker actually is now that look Laura Phillip has actually overtaken we overtaken Chelsea sedara and moved into third so um and it looks like you know so we've now got Daniel Louise in first with that 15 minutes over Annie Howe Laura Phillip has now moved into third about 30 or 20 seconds in front of Chelsea cedaro and vanilla language language in fifth 22 minutes back that's going to the 36 kilometer Mark for the women so lots of changes in our women's race we do need to head to a very short commercial but we will be back with you shortly 4 News straight the important thing is to keep at it ag1 with valuable micronutrients supports mental Fitness immune system Muscle Recovery energy metabolism so that you keep at it start your new routine with ag-1 and 90 day money back guarantee foreign doing it in style here today will not be long before yeah absolutely it will not be long before we see her cross pods with Annie houg who is in second there she is oh there you go thank you oh don't you love it when that happens in television Laura you know what it never ever happens look at me that's very impressed I actually thought that I was already crossed this team we work with you is the absolute best so there we saw it that's the last time that these two women will cross paths anyhow making her way towards booking back while uh Danny Reef making her way towards the Finish Line we are going to head down towards uh the Finish Line because Jan freddina we do believe is going to be down there interviewing our winner if you can get in there's about 500 000 people down there trying to interview our winner but we do have Jan rodino down on ground trying to get an interview with Magnus ditliff we're not quite sure I can see Magnus did left down there here we go oh he's with Patrick Langan okay with the runner-up the fastest runner in the sport it's 2 30 27 absolutely awesome I do have a feeling you were looking for those 28 seconds I am but you know what if you wouldn't have celebrated now that in all in all seriousness that was probably a pretty epic run to watch how you feeling thanks man I appreciate it um yeah it was again an epic day in Ross and all in all like um thanks to you guys um I think thanks to the crowd it's like amazing every year they they seem to put on an even better show like you wouldn't expect that it's just mind-blowing and um yeah to be fair like you said like I had uh I would love to have this 28 second cut off of the time but I needed to have a little Dixie break maybe that's also a good example seven two thirty with a Dixie break man that is that is mind-blowing thanks yeah I know um that was a all in all was a was a good day um had a good swim like I'm really solid swim with the boys um so the the tough work like works and um then Joint Forces uh his band right here and we did I think a good job together and I mean what the guys in front uh uh had pulled off especially my because it's just amazing he's just uh the Beast like honestly and yeah the runner gave it all it's never boring when when I'm when my feet touch the ground I think so um yeah I made the most out of it yeah I mean I was uh staying around kilometer too you look like you're putting in a real search then I looked at kilometer 22 and you were still putting research and at 38 you were still searching sorry in fact I think you just had a freaking blistering around um 300 000 people were on recording today they reckon uh you're riding with obviously one of the Local Heroes Patrick your coach Jim called it early he said you guys are not going to Pathways how did it feel out there bike week was incredibly hard uh but the crowds were incredible I've never had experienced anything like solar Hill and to ride around the forest with a German star that much better yeah absolutely I mean they uh they put on a good show but as they do you know I think it was worthwhile and seeing you guys we really um enjoyed seeing seeing your run you know it was kind of you're a bit of a rookie to the longer distance um you must have yeah done a lot of work on that run you were losing bleeding very little time to Patrick especially in the beginning um pull up with a Podium Squad uh what green tomatoes oh yeah I mean I'm putting member often it's just incredible um the run I've really put in a lot of work the long distance seems to agree with me I maybe was regretting it a little bit with my mouth ago that was probably some of the darkest five miles I've ever been in but the crowds kept me going and I just kept putting one foot in front of the other and managed to have a really solid run time so it's just an awesome day cool guys well um before we wrap it up I mean of course now it's time to recover and put the feet up for a little bit but uh what everyone knows what's next all right obviously uh great with beneath them and focus on training so where are you going uh going to St Morris okay crabs in the mountains for this mountain race it's like a good idea yeah it makes sense I mean you're a a lightweight writer so uh hopefully that course will suit you but uh to be honest I'll be there so hopefully it doesn't suit you too much how about you buddy I've got the PTO races in the half Ironman World Champs so it'll be busy August for me yeah all right well then we are off and out of here with our two champions awesome racing thanks very much for switching on and it's time to watch the women and the Magic Dragon [Applause] so that was our second and third place here today Patrick Langer from Germany and of course Ben canoe from the US we will be going back down with yarn shortly uh with our winner and our new world best time record holder Magnus did left but some incredible racing here today we've got some incredible racing Yet to Come the women that's honestly behind Danny roof on our screen now it just keeps chopping and changing we had Chelsea in second then we have We've Got Annie in second now we've got Laura Felipe in third Chelsea's falling back to Fourth and we've got vanilla language overtaking Lisa Nord and it's just all happening it also looks like from the the tracker and I'll I'll say that um that actually fanella's moved up into fourth now stop it that she had quite a decent Gap behind Chelsea so I wonder if something's happened I really hope it hasn't I hope Chelsea's all right but um I'm carrying on but just to go back to Daniela at the front of the race we said she went through a bit or she looked like she was going through a bit of a dark patch she certainly doesn't look like it now but I think like you said she's gone around that turn at book and back she knows the she's on the honeymoon much like this lady still looking absolutely fantastic and you know it's exactly what we expected from anyhow now our defending champion and so while we watch anyhow making a way into book and back we are going to go back down on ground with the one and only Ayana fredino he has our winner our champion from today our new record holder here Magnus titlift so down to you young so it looks like we're not quite ready to go down to yarn just yet we are waiting so that's okay I don't mind more on the women the better so it's great and you know when you're watching this woman run as I said earlier I could watch her run all day long as she makes her way around the town of Brooklyn back I mean Laura you've done this part before is it does it give you a bit of a pick-me-up because honestly at this point in the marathon you are exhausted it doesn't matter how well you've been looking after yourself you just want to get to that Finish Line does this give you that pick me up you need to carry your home oh it definitely does I mean I love I love running around the the pond or the Laker book and back um I feel like it's been like the Solara Berg of the Run course I think I've said that and it it just gives you that added boost to you know once you're around that you know you're on that home stretch it's still it's still 5K to go I think or 6K it's still still gonna go over those Rolling Hills and through the woods it's not quite there yet but um yeah you know you're certainly on the home stretch that's for sure fantastic overhead shot of Daniela riff [Applause] just entering the outskirts of Roth Now she's only I think if we look at the time only sort of 10 minutes less than 10 minutes or so away from the finish and look at that time Laura we what we're at we're at 7 57 we haven't even cracked eight hours yet 10 minutes away I remember back in the day when if the males cracked eight and the women cracked nine that was like unbelievable now you crack nine now it's nothing it's certainly a new era of racing which which is fantastic we need to move the sport on and you know I think we have to put a lot of credit to the on that too Daniella Reef who we're seeing on the screen and her dominance a few years ago is let's say pre-covered was just incredible and she's had she has maybe a few oh a little bit more up and down now she certainly hasn't won every race but when she's on form and she's on fire she is the best in the world and in a different postcode when we had Chrissy on we spoke about this briefly it has been just a handful of women there's been some amazing women let's get that straight but there's been a handful of women that have really made a difference to long distance racing you know we started with Paul and you'll be friends stuff we went on to Natasha badman we talked about Chrissy Wellington and Daniella riff and to me in the time I've been in sport they have been the real movers and shakers they have been the ones that have really raised the bar for the rest of us to try and follow and Daniella still continuing to be that athlete that raises the bar and forces the rest of the athletes to follow and at 36 years of age to still be raising that bar it's Testament to just how talented she is it is it's so impressive and I think we are seeing though there's a whole bunch of women chewing up lining up they want to challenge her they've seen she is beatable on you know if she has a slight off day she's not quite uncomfortable they've seen she's beautiful people have been beating her like you know I had to think about you know the likes of Kat Matthews as an up-and-coming and other athletes you know Chelsea sidara here today but Daniella just keeps saying don't write me off yet yeah I'm still here and I can raise my game and I take it to another level I'm not going anywhere you've got to chase me a little bit harder yeah exactly yeah you know what I get kicked I get down and then I'll just come back have you had an ice cream yet I haven't looked at it but uh I would like a nice boot for sure yeah I'm sure but that'll fake all the numbers so you've got to unfortunately wait another 20 minutes um seriously uh I think what most of us were you surprised us early on was that swim what have you been doing to get your swim up there I mean that was uh that was impressive to see yeah I think my swim level has actually been quite good for a long time but just haven't showed it in the races yet and this year we've made a big hit for the night hired a technical coach that only focusing on me a lot of the training so I've had a big technical focus and uh I'm really pleased to see that it's I was able to hit the front deck today I think it made a a big difference to the race Dynamic yeah definitely I mean just seems like you're saving that much more energy but I have a feeling Sebastian Kinley is coming close is he here oh is he here sorry buddy we're off to see Sebastian [Music] Charlie you won't give users I promised myself I would not I would not lose control I'm not looking at you Laura I'm not gonna look I mean this man I oh what can I say oh absolute Superstar yep and even Felix wall safer down bowing to one of the greatest athletes that's ever come out of Germany one of the greatest long-distance athletes we've ever seen in the world he's down there with his little boy Nino and his wife Tina the crowd favorite as well oh not just a crowd say but I think athlete's favorite I think you know one of the consummate professionals all of us respects him as an athlete and what he's achieved over the years and yeah this is truly special don't do it don't go back before you break I'm gonna break he truly is not just an incredible human being when it comes to racing but incredible human being in general he was down in New Zealand in February this year he raced challenge Wanaka was so amazing to have him there on the South Island there you go even young for dino down on his knees oh look at that three of the greatest athletes to come out of Germany yard for dinner Patrick and Sebastian Kim Lane just incredible scenes here in Roth in the stadium the 21st edition of The dartef Challenge rather powered by hip and this is going to be a collector's item this photo it certainly is isn't it look at that wow there's a few titles between that those three just a few showing a gold medal at the Olympics as well just for good measure [Music] but amazing racing so far today our professional men and well we are still down on the Finish Line with Sebastian Kinley fairly soon we will take it back to our women's race we know that yeah Daniella is through 40 kilometers so very very soon only four or five minutes to go before she's uh gonna be through the stadium here issues oh Laura this is incredible 40.9 kilometers so there's a smile I don't think I've ever seen ever seen her smile at the this foreign kilometers ago or something realizing what she's achieved you know Chrissy Wellington nailed it when we were talking earlier you know Danny roof she left a coach she wanted to go It Alone she tried something different I think she just needed to find herself again I think she got to the point in the spot where she was just a little bit stale I don't think she was seeing any movement either way she needed to take yourself out of the situation actually needed to be happy again and now she's come back with this refreshed invigorated new Danny roof and we are seeing we are reaping the benefits of that right now we are seeing just what she's capable of I know it's absolutely fantastic to see I think also maybe the the swissness of her is she's always been that very stealth mode but I think as she has got older and matured in the sport and what she's achieved you have seen a sort of relax and mellow into that and yeah it's gonna be pretty special when she crosses the line with Chrissy here as well in such a fantastic time unbelievable and we've got Sebastian Kinley down here giving a farewell speech it will be the very last time that he races over this distance in his home country of Germany we've got Danny Reef making her way back one kilometer left to go for Danny roof one kilometer look at the crowds they are cheering her on look at that time we're at 804 804-43 she could walk the last bit and so call in soak in all the crowds and still uh still go under that 8 18. she's gonna alliterate This Record here today now we know we've had fast conditions we know we've had great conditions it's warm out there now it's about 25 26 degrees Celsius but it is a not stopping Daniela rip who is going to come home with a new world best time a great over short head view of the town of Roth this Triathlon Crazy Town of Roth that for 50 weeks of the year is so quiet and calm and no one would think that sport exists saw Triathlon exists and then for two weeks of the year every June in July it just goes absolutely madness madness but what I love the most about that Laura is every single local Embraces it they don't dislike it they don't leave they take us all in with Open Heart of arms and they absolutely love it as they should be as they should be it's their race the Walters have made it abundantly clear that it's not just their race it is the entire town of rock and the surrounding areas the race belongs to them feel that you know I've been with my home state family for seven years and I think she would probably disown or kill me if I thought about staying anywhere else someone else I've been to their son's graduation you know you get really welcomed and embraced in the community and the family and you do when you arrive it's always that sense it's everybody wants you to be here from you know anyone you meet in the street out riding in the shops in the regions when the bike course goes out to you know out to grading and they're they're still so happy that you're here and you're racing and they yeah it's just a really special environment well I've had the same Homestay family the hills since 2004 when I first got there their son was one year years of age he's now 19. so it's unbelievable the Homestay program that they have here but Danny Reef I don't think I've seen her um it's the Finish but I've never seen her smash a record quite so severely in my life as well so Danny Reef really loving it up this is a more relaxed grounded a happier Danny Reef and what a race I ate I've got no words to be honest which is quite surprising because you know I've always got words Laura I mean I think she won twice here hasn't been here for a while saw what anyhow did in the last two years performance and thought I can have it better hold on a second I'm coming back here she is getting about to enter the stadium and I think it's all about her racing doing races that make her happy during races that she has an emotional attachment to and I think rock is that race and we've seen it today that is why we've seen the best out of it that is why she's performed at the level that she's performed today and she is literally about to make her way here she comes here she comes Christy Wellington they're ready ready to be the first to congratulate her look at her Chrissy getting the crowd going oh and look at the emotion it's unreal I think she's fed up I bet she's sprinting around the Finish and here she comes everyone the bird and she is flying today so we don't have an Angry Bird today we have got a flying bird today Daniela your 2023 datab challenge Rock powered by hip champion in a time in a timeline of 808-21 that is ridiculous 10 minutes 10 minutes and you know I think Chrissy just shut it bowing down to to absolutely it is yeah one legend of the sport to the next I think I've I think I've got more Goosebumps now than uh with what Magnus achieved I think just win what Danielle has done in the sport over over the years and then you know the last couple of years and like you said sort of moving away trying to do stuff on our own trying to find herself and then come back and you know that when she's on her day she's unbeatable she's unbeatable she's in a different postcode we saw that today and look at that this is what I love more than anything because Danny roof was quoted as saying earlier today that Chrissy Wellington was someone that she looked up to inspired to be like and then we had Chrissy in studio saying that she thought Danny Rick was the greatest athlete of all time so such mutual respect between two absolute Champions her best friend Maddie's down on the line with her incredible we have just witnessed something very very special [Applause] I did say Laura coach will be incredibly proud right now maybe not shocked but incredibly proud [Applause] and just to put in a perspective we've got professional men now still finishing behind our first female as she tries to pour me over everybody and Chrissy thank you I mean that was the thing seeing her come in to um T2 off the bike she was ahead of some of the professional men in the race it was just an absolute spectacular performance on the bike and then she finished it off with a fantastic run so that official time for Daniela riff today 808-21 what was a run split in the end did she uh let's find out but here we see second place at the moment another absolute legend of the sport Annie Howe is uh on her way back on our way back to Ross to centering the town she's going to be crossing the line in the next 10 minutes or so still an absolutely fantastic run by run by Annie I think when uh when she came off the bike it was going to be a tall a tall order to close down Daniella Reef something would have had to go drastically run for Daniella Ferreira Annie which which could have happened it could have been no but she's still she's 13 minutes behind now and I think it was 20 minutes at the it's done the start of the bike so it's doing absolutely but we haven't spoken about that she was behind off the bike from the likes of Chelsea cedaro Laura Philippe vanilla language so she's run all these women down uh Lisa Norton was another so it just honestly yes it's second again uh sorry second to Danny roof but look at the time that Danny Reapers had to do to stay in front and I can't wait to see what time that Annie houg is going to do because it's going to be under as well well should be close I'm getting trying to get I think it's gonna be close 251.54 so a huge new run PR for Danny roof um whilst we see the women on soon I do just want to acknowledge the athlete in the finished shoot at the moment the stadium nails from hold again previous Champion another final finish line for him very emotional and a previous champion of this race as well ending his career another athlete who's chosen to end his career here in Roth I think that shows Testament to this race Testament to the team what it means to so many athletes here again [Applause] so interesting facts uh Anne is currently projected to run the same time that Chrissy Wellington ran when she broke that wrecker when she went 8 18 to 44-35 so that gives you some indication on just how well Annie houg is running now so good I mean she never seems to you know a lot of people by the time they get to the end of the marathon years you can expect it's a long day and you know their form starts to break down and it starts to become a little bit of a slog just to get to the Finish Line anyhow just has such mechanical strength in her run form and holds it together so well I mean it's what makes her a fantastic Runner but she looks as good now as she did in the first kilometer absolutely and we are going to go back down with Yan fredino he does have the one the only Sebastian Kinley down on the Finish Line This is the international feed um awesome last day um the atmosphere obviously something really special but must be quite emotional how are you feeling happy that you're not talking uh Catalan or one of the other eight languages you are able to to speak um yeah definitely emotional day obviously I would have mixed him some emotions that come from success success would have been a Podium but that was definitely not in the books even without any uh um mishapans that that um that I had today um the guys are just on another level um it's the Next Generation I'm happy that I I retire I mean they are certainly moving quickly during the live feed we had a chance to look back at your first race here you know sleeveless racing back on the old super tune I mean you are one of the pioneers of aerodynamics per se um now it feels like everybody's got their own cfd calculator and you know um I guess uh we have kids that's also they're much longer than than I and I I think the the wins against me they can't double because now that I know what it means and not to mention we were running in wooden shoes back then um so I was actually quite happy I think the the super super soft twos were the only reason why I I wasn't walking the marathon today because when you start to run slow it actually feels even worse than running fast um I would say if I do another one I'll better run past again my feels a little bit like walking on a trampoline but um just quickly take us through it a little bit because on the bike we saw you had some difficulties you mentioned you had a flat uh or a slow flat your tire sort of almost came off a little portaloo I mean it's a story of uh of of fighting new demons in the last race oh yeah yeah that was um I actually felt okay I have it wasn't a million bucks but um you know how it is like racing on a bike that you just get like six days before the race and I wanted to do something special and you know how it is you plan like a whole eight months ahead and then obviously of course it's always in the last 10 hours where you get everything dialed and uh maybe that was the mistake I mean I have to touch my own nose um how we say in Germany um about the about the tires I think there wasn't a puncher really or something it was system because they were too too fresh on the rim or something I had to stop twice in my CO2 exploded on me I was like let's throw away another bike now or um but yeah I mean of course this race you it's definitely no option to to dnf that so I decided to try this um enjoying I don't know if that is possible to be honest no I think there are other races um I mean thanks for your explanation 101 of German Proverbs but um just while we're on the bike I mean it's a it's a really cool design I I thought the idea behind it charity and auctioning it off for Education something that's close to your heart but not the first thing you think about Triathlon and and I think shows all of us there's more to you than just the athletes um tell us a little bit more what guys uh guys and girls sorry can do to uh to get your bike for a good course uh thanks for the opportunity yeah so um the main thing was I'm racing five big races this year um this is the second one and we're raffling up from five bikes so that not just um You Know Rich dude can buy all five um everybody can participate you can go to viprice.org CB unless you find all the information and uh the bike I'm racing in Ross um all the donations go to stifton building which is actually like you said um every heavily involved in children education in uh Nationwide to give children and young adults the same opportunities when it comes to education and uh yeah I think this is uh the source um and the Cure of most of our problems actually there you go what a legend I mean the guy is thinking about education whereas everybody would paint their own awesomeness on their bike and how many races they've won uh maybe we see that all right we are back great interview with Ian and sebi kinlay we are back with the women's race we are waiting for anyhow she's our defending champion from last year safely in second place it will not be long before we see her make her turn into the stadium you can see there now now of course we know that she will not go under Chrissy's previous best time but there is still a chance that she will run a faster marathon time than Chrissy Wellington's 244 35 so Chrissy Wellington said that time back in 2011 when she broke the original record that record of course has now been obliterated by the Swiss Miss Daniela riff said behind Annie Howe there's been a few I knew what it's going to be now or never I mean this record has been up for so long and the conference is so good and I just wanted to go for it and all I don't know I don't even know how it was possible because I didn't really train for a full album and I was so scared to blow up and run and I was just hoping not to blow up with a 425 bike what are you worried about I don't know I just talked to make it to the Finish Line I'm so happy backing it up with a 251 Marathon um especially here that last bit on the cobbles that must have hurt it's my fastest marathon so yeah that's incredible I mean it did hurt the crowd was amazing and to be honest uh you're an inspiration I had you in my mind I remember just 17 more you press the records and then Chrissy was kind of my shadow you know I thought she was catching me in my head I'm I it's probably my best friend ever so uh most surprising to me as well it certainly never looked like you look back it's absolutely incredible the aerial shot so you really get an appreciation of the last few kilometers and that finish line that they come down the shoe before they actually enter the stadium is pretty fantastic and here she comes and that stadium that you're talking about Laura is absolutely packed jam-packed solid ten thousand I think isn't it ten thousand people that's right here she comes anyhow a defending Champion she's fought so hard today she's brought out her trademark Marathon and she's coming home in the second place today the time of 8 2108 she has given it absolutely everything on that Marathon we've got Chrissy Wellington down there facing that finishes metal around her neck but look at that and he really did give it everything that she had today so you've got Felix while suffer down there giving her a hug we'll get you an update very very shortly on the marathon time all right it was at 2 44 45 she's missed it by 10 seconds so anyhow 2 44 45 Marathon for an 8 2109 overall finish in second place I mean I think when we when they came off the bike we knew that Annie Laura Phillip those sort of athletes were gonna have to run a 240 to potentially have a chance of catching Danny but Danny was just an illegal road today but still super impressive performance by Annie and look it up you can see she's given it absolutely everything it's not often you see Annie on the finish line down on the ground but these women have battled all day long you know it kept changing and he got off the bait but quite a ways behind she ran her way up to third she then overtook Laura Phillip they both overtook Chelsea sedara it was cat and mouse for a while there but it was funny I was with some of the the guests from dative today and they were asking about what is it like when you know the feeling that when you cross the finish line are you spent are you collapsing and I'll say these professional athletes will give every ounce of energy and we'll probably very likely see their last few steps over the Finish Line they can hold it together for so long and how many times have we seen that particularly this Dane racing when you have the depth and and the caliber athletes that we see here today where these these men and women their hands are forced energy that keep it going or fall behind and you just see each of them getting just that little bit like squeezing that little bit extra out of themselves and for a lot of these big races is the mental energy as well like the build up they've had for so many weeks and the preparation And the emotions you go through through the day not just the physical like I said the mental that actually when you cross the line just everything just seems to like sort of emotionally collapse straight down on top of your blue [Music] well our men's race here is almost done our female race we've got first and second across the line we are expecting Laura Phillip also from Germany to come home in third don't think she's only a couple of minutes away entering the stadium very soon and what a fantastic performance below a debut in Roth rookie Roth I think Laura to me she's had so many incredible results she's yet to win that really big race but I think a third on the podium here today behind the likes of Daniella reef and Ernie Howe I hope she's really proud of her performance today as she should be and of course I love Laura Philippe uh faster with cake and of course it wasn't fast with cake it was faster with gelato that's right she had the homemade gelato I went and had one the other day uh I think it was mango and it was delicious so I have a her stand so I love that fast with cake fast with July but hey we've got to agree with that don't I'm quite happy they did do fantastic the Germans are very well known for their bakeries so uh I visited far too many in my lifetime of course Schmidt's Bakery being one of my favorite bakeries in the world foreign our third place finisher on the women's field Laura Phillips [Music] [Applause] and here she comes Laura where do I get Goose comments with all the women as they enter the stadium well we've just oh hello that is really small stuff come up to give me a kiss hello my love oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] but as we see Laura Phillip also across the finish line she's here of course with her husband and coach Philip seep he will be down there he will be so incredibly proud of what his wife has just done here today I'll have to be honest there was a point in time on the marathon up on the canal where she did look like she was faltering ever so slightly Laura to see her pull it back together and to come home finishing in third true Testament to just how tough this young woman is yeah and I think you know we have to remember the marathon at the end of a full distance is still a long way to run and that Canal can be can be brutal if you go through a rough patch it's it's flat it's straight there's no there's no shade it's very exposed it's a horrible place to be not feeling great but I think you have to remember and perhaps Laura that you go through ups and downs throughout the whole day there's still a lot of running left in the race as she's done and you can still pull it back and you still can have an incredible performance and the lessons that she's going to take from this and from exactly what you've said and then take it into her next race she just did a rookie bear for yesterday all the first timers they've got to come back again thank you but how incredible to see our top three women on screen right now third place Laura Philly from Germany in second place we had Annie house also from Germany and of course our number one rock star of the day Daniela Russo the flying bird from Switzerland I definitely don't think you can call her The Angry Bird anymore no maybe on the swim in the bike but not on the run she was way too happy those last few kilometers maybe this is it maybe it's the new uh it's the new way to go the Happy Bird Chrissy Smiles because you see it always works for Chrissy Wellington all right we can we can rename and we'll celebrate tonight it's the happy bird from now on oh it's been so much fun here today I just love it to think that we started the day back at 6 30 at the main Danube Canal to a beautiful conditions conditions pristine conditions on the canal amazing conditions for the ride it just started to pick up that wind ever so slightly for the back half of the second half of the bike and then onto the run and well we've got our top three women and we're waiting for more of our professional women to come across that Finish Line our age group athletes are out there in force most still out on the bike some lucky enough to be on to that Marathon it is warming up we expect to get to a high of about 27 28 degrees Celsius here today so we know he's going to be very very warm for our age group has come the marathon and it'll certainly feel hotter than that when you're running and by that stage in the race there's definitely a few additional degrees that are added on so there'll be uh dousing with water ice whatever they can get finding those bits of shade in the in the run but hopefully again soaking up the atmosphere watching the incredible athletes come in the other direction and it'll get them and then waiting we're all here to welcome them home at the finish line and of course you and I will be here till the death as we always when I get off scramble to give my chicks a message because I'm starting to cry you know we saw Sam Ludlow cramping in his cars I'm cramping in my cheeks from smiling too much it's killing me it's been like that all day it's just been such an incredible experience to be part of I absolutely love it his thing he's had an absolute ball it's been the longest day of young for Dino's career longest endurance event he's ever had to do but he's done it in style I think every one of you out there that's been watching will agree that he's been incredible all day long some of the Insight that he's been able to give that you know even though I've been in the spot longer than John but I couldn't give such Insight because I I haven't been at the top of my game like the young for Dino he's just he's accomplished so much in his career um it's been absolutely eye-opening and he's just yeah he's been amazing so I think he's laughing at I don't think he's enjoying himself he might be stuck with me till the death now Laura because I don't know if he's coming back up here I think he's seen an Escape Route down there to the party the party on the finish line and he's taking it whatever well I'm quite happy for you to stay as long as you can Sid so that's great we are waiting for our fourth placed FEMA we do know it is Chelsea excuse me it is vanilla language we're going to try and get you an update with Chelsea sedara where she has not come up on our screen for quite some time we don't know officially if she's still on course or whether she has decided to walk off course uh we will give you that update as soon as we can but for now we know vanilla language should be the next one home in fourth place followed by Lisa Norton from Sweden and uh yeah again what fantastic performances by both you know fernella and Lisa Lisa again have rookie here great bike came up in second you needed a good run and you know she's always going to put together a solid run Lisa I think and be that Contender vanilla I think you know I think vanilla would have been quite surprised when Daniela Reef was on her feet out in the water but you know potentially quite excited as well at the opportunity to potentially ride with Daniella and Daniella was in another league as we said but uh vanilla she's she's had third here she's had second hair I know she wanted that win but it was always going to be stupid so yeah I don't think there's any uh she shouldn't be uh there's no shame coming home finished fourth a few times it's okay you have you know what it's like you're very experienced to stop the podium no just amazing racing by both our professional man and our professional women today we've got lots more racing yet to come we talk about the 3500 age group athletes that are currently out on course we've still got our relay teams out on course it's unbelievable the amount of people that flock to Roth on this one weekend long weekend of course it hasn't just been about today's race of course this is the main event but we've had the Bambini run you were there on Thursday night we've had the challenge women's 5K run something that we always do and even though you weren't supposed to you've walked you've walked the adventures this time you were still a part of it you're very sensible um we've had the uh challenge for all as well and the junior Challenge on Saturday morning so it's been an event packed long weekend the expo here is one of the best Expos I've ever come across it's got absolutely everything it's been fantastic and of course the big event for us we've got the laser show tonight which is unbelievable and then of course the uh volunteers party and after party tomorrow night and that's you know one of the other special things about Roth is the fact that they really value you know the pastor party that was on Friday night where all the pros get up on stage so you know The Athlete's going to get that interaction with them and then but the main event for them obviously after the race is that volunteers party on Monday night the the volunteers they've seen you on the race day and they've helped you go through those highs and lows but the actual opportunity to to be in that to touch you you know I hope they do it this year that autograph signing because the volunteers just go they get so excited they're queuing up around the tent and uh it's really special and it's again like I said one of the other things that makes this race so unique and so special is just what they do to embrace the community to to thank the volunteers um yeah it's a we can talk about it and we we always talk about it and say how special it is but I think when you have to come and experience it for yourself and the one thing I always love is for our rookies our first timers here you know you you see when they go to the volunteers party and they're like oh why are we here they get them up on stage and you see their eyes they're like you know sourced and they just like what is going on here I don't think they realize just how much they are loved and adored and treated like absolute rock stars I mean I mean Magnus has said it all week you know obviously winning last year as sort of the underdog but coming back in as defending chair the defending Tampa Bay he's really been embraced by the community and they've also take almost taken him as as their own and he said the reception that he had has been amazing and I just want to cut this is uh We've now got vanilla language coming in place female coming around now she'll be having a party we do not want to be so finished because she is one woman that we know will always get the best out of herself will enjoy every single minute vanilla language as she goes through that finisher thanks 8 33 she's got to be that's still an incredible time unbelievable is definitely a PB day for vanilla here her partner and coach Billy Harris will be somewhere down there [Music] and she's given a hug from Jan fadino language one of my absolute favorite athletes because I just love her attitude she has fun she has one and we saw it again today she was cheering up the crowd up Solara Berg she just she Embraces the entire and you know it's not for everyone we talked about this it's not in everyone's personality to race like that but for now for vanilla she raises best when she's happy when she's emotionally invested and that's what we see on course that's it she feeds off the she gives the energy and then feeds off the energy that she gets in return that's a fantastic way to race I love it so our top four women home right now vanilla language from Great Britain home in a fourth she was second here last year fourth this year but the three women who were in front of her all incredible athletes here we go dance clue dance blues and that is our first amateur athlete across the line I do believe yep that's a Chelsea cedaro's coach I know they had a they were going to have a bet on which I'd been asking them about all week who what the handicap and the best well they were on target to come home in an almost identical times I think a few seconds separating them yeah 8 1801 for Dan please wow he'll be happy with that yet this is the German ladies um quite damage between them but uh these absolute speedsters out there it looks like you've given your all what a day 300 000 people came out to see you guys girls and uh you delivered an awesome uh awesome race out there beautiful to watch from start to finish how are you feeling tired really hard but so many yeah people everywhere in Solara bag I mean that's just I mean you can't describe it you get like uh you call it uh yeah amazing yeah there you go the whole back and forth out there the dynamic on the marathon I mean wow that was uh it was probably exciting out there to watch and um you know what what's your take away from the especially the marathon well I think it was today was another of never giving up first I thought okay I have a fourth place today I mean with Chelsea and Annie running so strong but yeah it shows that at the end you have to keep it together for the whole marathon and I think at the end I Pace myself a little better um than Chelsea unfortunately but still she really pushed it on the run and uh yeah it was a good fun but I was also very happy that I'm yeah I made it to the finish line now uh this one because it's actually pretty brutal with all the uphill and downhill the last part is quite nice because you have some Shadow but um on the canal I think it was really really tough yeah it certainly looked it and uh temperatures creeping in sitting here we're all uh asking for a little bit of shade but how was it out there I mean the problem is 40 less motorbikes also meant that we couldn't get all the coverage all the time we got the splits but anything out there that you really noticed or that was particular on the bike or the swim so on the bike I think it was great actually I didn't see many motorbikes at all so I had a referee motorbike following me behind um so I think in this case at least for me it was a very honest time trial and yeah that was good I don't know how it was for the rest of the field but um yeah it looked like uh yeah the improvements worked and I think uh yeah daniela's time especially with that is out of this world yeah that was uh that was certainly quite something to watch because we know I mean you girls of world class you are the best the sport has to offer and um Daniella on the swim we weren't quite sure if we're seeing correct because there were two green caps um what did you think of it when when you came out the water yeah I didn't know her time but I mean I I got some split times and she was already 15 minutes gone so I assumed she had a damn good swim as well sewing into two it says 20 minutes on you okay he's out of the world today so for me it's fighting for the second and it feels like a win because she was like out of the world today all right from a personal perspective I have one last question to both of you how on Earth do you look so good fluent and easy when you're running please I need the tips anyone I don't think we can give you any tips but uh yeah I guess it's hard work and never stop improving working on run technique and especially on a course like this where you have running here like Rolling Hills it pays off if you know how to use the gravity your center of gravity um but yeah both of you don't really have to worry about gravity too much I think that's all sort yeah thank you well here we are with uh the ladies kicking ass and uh rounding off the podium today absolutely phenomenal performances get some rest and some shade and maybe a massage so I love that big thanks to the challenge Roth crew big thank you to all of you out there watching online today we appreciate it more than you can know we love having people from all around the world watching us live it's been a long day but it's been a highly satisfying day and an emotional day an incredible day I tell you I have to take a break I won't be getting out of bed tomorrow till at least 10 o'clock and then I'm going straight to the bakery yeah that's true I will meet for breakfast I've done so much today sitting here no it's been an incredible day and of course we are waiting now for our fifth place female we know it is Lisa Norton from Sweden this is Lisa what can you say she's an incredible athlete she's done all distances silver medal at the Olympics now racing over the longer distance and she's here with her partner Cali she's an incredible woman I've known her since she was a baby when she came to Australia all those years ago we had the same coach of course you did spot Addison you did too many times at different times slightly differently she went to the Olympics now an incredible yeah incredible long distance but what a career she has had as well and still having uh mind you are just incredible athlete uh I love having her in Long course now she's such an amazing bike rider and she's yeah you know the marathon is something that she hasn't quite perfected yet but you know she's getting there and she's she's hung tough today and it's great to see yeah I think um you know her cycling pedigree and this is of course I think that suited her very well she's Swedish national time trial champion in the in the past um like like you I think it's fantastic that she's in Long course I think she's still finding her way a little bit on the run but she says some great performances at the World Championships last year and um I think she came to this race again like you know in many of the athletes they saw at the start this they wanted to race against the best Lisa is one of those athletes that wants to put a pitch herself against the best athletes in the world and so yeah I think when she comes home in fifth it's going to be a yeah hopefully a special day for her as well foreign honestly it was interesting when we were not sure who I was going to be able to get to do the commentary with me this year uh obviously we thought long and hard and there were a couple of suggestions given and I kept pushing them no no and then yarn's name popped up and I remember contacting yarn's manager Felix thinking he's going to just say no way not a chance he's not interested but then I got an email back saying give me give me some time to think about it and then the next thing I know jackpot jackpot and of course I guess we'll see you for the evening show you're hanging around where are we gonna go we're going to go to the VIP Tech first uh I think I'll try to get uh actually I'm not saying where I'm going but um I know it's very hot in here here she comes we've been waiting for her Lisa Norton of Sweden making her way around the Green carpet she's cheering the crowd home in fifth place here today brilliant race strong race from Lisa well John come on what what a race no absolutely the way she uh paced herself on the bike that was really good you could see her second lap was so much stronger and she made up good time actually uh or should I say I lost very little to Daniella um and yeah well done to her I mean we know that she's been trying to figure the long distance game out for a while but absolutely amazing to yeah see her have a great day these kind of conditions I mean it's getting hot now oh it is I don't want to whinge because I'm standing here no I know but I was happy to get a few of those cold water showers and uh what I love about this sport is I just received a WhatsApp from your wife Emma fredino back home in Andorra with your two kids and look at I mean for those of you watching I've got a picture of Yarns two children watching uh myself and Laura I'm so proud of their dads but this is what I love about the sport of triathlon the camaraderie we saw it today on the Finish Line with the athletes but also the friendships that we've all made I mean I've known you since 2009 now a sid I've known you since most of my time in his Cafe yeah in Girona but don't you find that is something so so special about the sport of triathlon yeah there are certainly a new unique element a unique craziness that probably combines us all you know we're all a little bit of endurance nachos and have that type 2 fun we spoke about um you know that most people look at and like what are you fun what are you talking about um and it's something that you know allows us all to more or less travel around the world together being the most uh amazing sceneries suffer through winter well you can't really suffer from a winter or new service um and just mentally something where we do like to push and support each other to get the very best performances and genuinely can say that you know personally I'm happy for Magnus but I'm also happy for myself because it gives me another Target it gives me another uh guide to aim for and yeah to know that you were part of the process you are a huge part of the process you set the bar you said this with Chrissy Wellington we say it with you they don't call you the goat for it they call you got the goat for a reason you know you don't just get that into that fairy let's give the girls a little round of applause round up the podium finishing off their day Anna Howard was not in a good way after the race or she's been struggling son quite amazed that she's back up Miss Chrissy Wellington's record time here by 10 yeah but that time is it was very impressive Let's uh be very Frank today it was all the Daniella show she was out there and just um she has that the last time I saw it in 2018 when she won the world title afterwards she has this pumped up energy about her that's almost like whoa okay everybody's breaking down on the floor what is going on yeah she's ready for the dance floor I know what she's talking about is the after party so let's honor a champion for what she's done today that was uh extraterrestrial I think yeah it truly was incredible two new world best records in both our men's and women's races Magnus did left defending his title honestly I have not commentated a more action-packed race ever I do believe ever always always more magnificent human beings that as well but truly incredible spectacle ride here and we know it's going to keep going our age group athletes are still out on course they will be out there all day and all night we do finish tonight with one of the most spectacular laser shows you will ever see fireworks laser show but we will be while we are going to stay through now to the end of the podium for our women after that we will be ending the live production but we will be back online at eight o'clock so you everyone can join back then then but you know honestly while we look at our top three women on the Deus now by the way it's not the Angry Bird anymore it's the Happy Bird it's not the Angry Bird anymore it's the Happy Bird we've renamed them that sounds a lot better I mean it doesn't really matter her spirit but uh and you today either way the bird was flying she absolutely was [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you amazing day amazing scenes all day long that's Felix vulcer down on the Finish Line Felix and his sister Catherine and mother Alice Queen Alice of Roth and their incredible team what an event they are put on here today I would like to thank Jan fradino the one and only Laura siddle thank you for being here in studio with me today you've been amazing to work with as I said we are ending now but it will be back tonight at eight o'clock but uh until then thanks for joining us thanks for having and guiding us BG it's been an amazing race to watch two races to watch I feel like they were uh yeah super exciting despite actually knowing kind of you know the first place early early on there was still so much action going on in the in the next places that uh yeah and truly has been a pleasure so thanks again for your garden and uh we'll chat later on can I convince you next year next year next year and that's all for us see you again soon thank you [Applause] fear s [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Sun Jun 25 2023