Super League Jersey 2017: Day 1 Triple Mix - #SLTReloaded

after the brutal heat of hamilton island australia super league triathlon has crossed the globe to just off the coast of france and we've doubled in size our men are back they know what's coming and they have scores to settle and here we'll crown our new queen with 25 of the best women in the world taking on super league for the very first time four races 50 athletes olympic medalists world champions iron men and women it doesn't get much better than this this is jersey this is super league we're back what is super league fast painful tactical action-packed this is super league hello one will mccloy and alongside me two of the greats of triathlon emma snowsteal and chris mccormack and maca super league hamilton island was great this is a bigger and better challenge well i think we all agree super league hamilton island exceeded all our expectations and now here on jersey it's going to be absolutely marvelous an epic course to have a look at twice as much talent emma we've got 25 of the best women in the world as well it's a deep field strongest women's field we've seen assembled since rio these women are going to put on a true show for us as well so very exciting to see what they can produce and we get to stand on top of a castle that's not too bad either let's find out a little bit now about what super league is all about [Music] swim bike run that's triathlon and that's all it has ever been until now brutal tactical explosive super league triathlon takes every traditional element douses it with rocket fuel and welcomes each willing athlete into the furnace the series to boot hamilton island in australia took the established triathlon order and threw it straight out of the window it's alistair brownlee is missing from this front group of runners he's been shelled he found that bike ride very very difficult yeah really struggled through that just my legs just don't want to go hopefully i'll get better as the races go off some struggle [Music] why well it's much shorter for a start 300 liters in the water six kilometers on the bike and a two kilometer run each stage cutting eight per cent or more from the olympic distance it's short it's hard it's aggressive racing it rewards those athletes to take chances if you're not ready you're gone then there's the tactics today's triple mix switches up the traditional order swim bike run yeah there's that but there's also run bike swim and bike swim run anyone can shine and anyone can fall oh we've had a huge accident there who is that in the red helmet that's been sure what a day for ben shaw tomorrow it's the eliminator and the tactics change again his three races have swim bike run with 10 minutes break in between only this time the tail end is a cut at each stage finish burn yourself a place in stage 3 with the rest of the top 10 and you're in with a shot there's no difference between winning this event and finishing 15th he was counting them yeah that's lovely super league takes the best of triathlon breaks it down and rebuilds it with one sole purpose to be the true test for the multi-sport athlete body mind and pure grit with a series lead and a very big check on the line that was hamilton island and it's all behind us now as we move on to round one proper 50 men 50 men and women are going to take on what is an incredibly technical course alongside me maca as uh he was before on top of that castle which was fun alistair brownlee dual olympic gold medalist and vicky holland also with an olympic medal if you don't mind plenty of talent here maca will start with you you must be excited very very excited it's been six months since hamilton island jersey a remarkable place a beautiful venue very very excited about the action getting underway you guys don't get to race but ali i know you've had a little swim this morning uh your hips obviously giving you trouble but you got out there amongst the boats how was it i'd love to be racing but i managed to get in the water this morning as part of the corporate relay which was a bit of fun i think it's a great swim course the water isn't too cold it's pretty tight you've got to avoid the boats on the way around and i think everyone will love it another island another place with a lot of super yachts i like that you pick good spots for us to do this but vicki you you were going to see your course walk in a second what do you think of the course it's a technical one a little different to hamilton yeah a really technical bike course seven corners or u-turns each lap five laps that's 35 corners for each stage of the triple mix today a lot of surging and that's really going to hurt the legs well we're going to see each of you guys out you'll be in commentary and vicki will be down in transition which is going to be incredibly exciting for you we'll be stuck up here in the uh in the commentary box in the studio but still uh plenty to look forward to and we're going to take you through absolutely everything step by step so you don't miss a minute of the action right now we're gonna have a look back at exactly what happened in hamilton island there was plenty of pain and plenty of elation too [Music] it was something never seen before the most watched triathlon in history and super league hamilton island in the heart of australia's great barrier reef did not disappoint [Music] first up came the triple mix three stages three different orders the first to suffer olympic champion alistair brownlee who was in for a tough weekend tasmanian jake burtwhistle took stage one and he would lead as stage two got underway [Music] but with the swim last no one could catch superfish richard varga it looks as though richard varga is going to do the job in stage two of the triple mix richard varga wins a race bargain dominated the swim again in stage three but there were plenty chasing ryan bailey did manage to run him down but richard murray was too strong for them all big smiles across the south africans face the veteran has done it here in stage three and he's very happy about it as well after 12 hours rest it was on to the equalizer a six kilometer morning time trial with a maximum gradient of 24 ouch colorado native cameron dye posted the early mark however he was upstaged by some local wildlife dye led the field into the afternoon's pursuit style swim run and swim bike run but it was burt whistle first out of the water and he was soon caught by murray and spanish superstars javier gomez and mario mola with murray waiting until the final run to kick into gear a big crowd very happy to see richard murray do it once again he's going to lift the tape richard murray is the winner of our equalizer that left richard murray nine points clear coming into day three's eliminator of three swim bike run stages it was keep up or go home and the pressure told oh there's your first crash ben shaw is down christian blumenfeld took the first stage with dye among nine names to be eliminated that left 15 back in the water for stage two with all the big names making it safely through for the final shootout ryan fisher opened up a huge lead coming into the final run with murray burt whistle and moeller running him down it was the aussie who kicked behind he's left the world champion for dead jacob burt whissel wins the eliminator in a huge run richard murray is going to do the job and go home with 100 000. so it was richard murray who finished super league hamilton island as champion 100 000 richer and with a points lead to defend here at super league jersey what a great weekend it was we're about to do it all again a lovely shot there of elizabeth's castle as jersey has turned on such a beautiful day a lot to expect for the uk in september but there you go here's the weekend schedule up next of course the men's triple mix the same as on friday at hamilton and then the women for the first ever time will be taking on super league with their triple mix at 4 p.m british summer time and then on sunday that is tomorrow of course we switch the order the women's eliminator and then the men's eliminator and then we crown our champion from round one in jersey it's going to be absolutely fantastic cannot wait for that a huge amount of action eight hours live on air we'll take you through all of it right now let's have a look at the course maps as well this is a very interesting course a very technical one as well let's start with the swim we go 130 out to the boy amongst the super yachts we talked about and then two tight turns but uh you know it's a unique one and and relatively cool the water about 17 degrees so that'll be something the athletes have to look at two left-hand turns the last one being quite tight and deep we've got a very narrow run-up into transition there's probably one maybe two wide so hopefully no slow runners there they'll get stuck behind someone and then we move into what is as vicky said quite a tough and technical off-camber different surfaces as well on the bike in the run seven turns they've come out of transition the first turns quite tight and small but then they open up on this sharp left-hander at the top here that's probably the fastest section of the bike course off camber turn there all cobblestone so could be treacherous it really uh sort of favors the explosive rider isn't it because there's a lot of uh tight turns as you say and then got to take off quick you know seven turns per lap that's 35 turns for the total buy course all right and it might be flat but it's going to be very very difficult the run uh is the same as the bike so great for spectators here and we're expecting a whole lot as jersey they love this board and the first part of this runs a slight uphill so it allows the back section of the run will be slightly downhill it'll be interesting to see how this run unfolds same as you said same same run course as the bike course but a straight shot to the finish yeah five laps on the bike two laps on the run and of course all different orders now vicky was up here with us and uh is now down on the course she's got a little course walk for us to give us some first hand look at it all this is the swim exit ramp they come out of the swim straight up this ramp it's long it's narrow there's only maybe two athletes wide that can fit up here and on top of that we've got rungs on the left hand side this could also get really slippy when it's wet [Music] this is the first swim turn we're 130 meters from the start pontoon and the athletes will arrive at this point within 1 minute and 30 seconds of the start they'll then have to negotiate a sharper than 90 degree turn and they will be jostling for positions here expect it to get messy so not only is this the swim exit ramp it also acts as the entry ramp on two stages of the triple mix the gradient is going to really play a factor here it's so steep the athletes are going to come flying down here and they're going to have to show some caution this is the first corner of the bike course where the athletes will come to when they're carrying any kind of speed at all the angle of this corner is greater than 90 degrees they're going to be changing road surfaces and have to be very mindful of the fact that athletes may be coming in the other direction so they can't go over the midsection of the road this is potentially the most dangerous corner on the bike course the athletes will come down this downhill gradient round this sharp 90 degree corner they'll have to negotiate a change of road surface even though this bollard won't be here on the day this drain cover will and drama could happen right here drain covers tight corners the athletes are ready the weather is perfect the course is brutal but the format maca is certainly one of the stars of the show we had the triple mix in hamilton and we have it right again here first up the men have done this before but the women for the first time three stages swim bike run then run bike swim then bike swim run so there's plenty to think about 10 minutes in between each one now in hamilton uh everyone started each stage at the same time but this time it's pursuit it's a pursuit format at the end now so we're going to see the winner of the stage 3 will be actual winner of the race so it's a be a very very interesting dynamic yeah people are going to be stuck there uh waiting and watching people disappear uh from in front of them if any if anyone falls 90 seconds or more behind they are eliminated from the triple mix the same will be said for the eliminator tomorrow now it's time to look at the men to watch i know you're going to give us some tips in just a second but let's have a look now at some of the big names [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] there is a huge amount of talent in this men's field as there is in the women's field we'll get to that later on as i said but uh it's hard we were discussing this just before uh having a bit of lunch discussing who we think is going to win and i actually have no idea what do you think well i think mario mola is going to be very very difficult to beat here he looks very very relaxed he's come off a spectacular year defended his world championship look for him to be very very strong jonathan brownlee he really wants to avenge the race that his brother had on hamilton island he showed some late season format a quiet year but christian bloomfield in particular that the norwegian he was very very good in hamilton island at late he's been spectacular for him he's very very strong and this type of course will suit him a lot he hates coming second and he's come second in the last three wts races yeah yeah and they just looking good for him richard murray not so much but i'm happy to be surprised all right well richard murray of course uh is our champion we're going to uh keep uh as we're seeing a little a few more of the heli shots here the athlete's getting ready it's amazing it's finally here the anxiety in the hotel has been very very hot but it's it's show time it certainly is showtime uh obviously richard varga would have been the truth of run the triple mix uh had he been uh in a pursuit style we now see the guys line up the slide draw was interesting one two wasn't it it always is the slot draw for for super league triathlon athletes get to draw their competitors out of the field and out of a hat and position where they're going to be on the start line and in this race in particular slot position number one is the most beneficial start position all right we're going to have a look now at how uh some of the star trial worked out uh we made the men choose each other's uh positions on the pontoon so there was plenty of rivalries i think 100 you will get 100. [Music] [Applause] [Music] three [Music] jake burt whistle picks himself um but there were a lot of people who were not uh were not too kind on each other well that always seems to be the case we're hoping there'll be a lot a lot of people who are a lot more evil with each other and put people in bad positions but jake being the guy he is he's pulled out number one put himself in the best start position probably going to get you about a body length uh if you're number one on the pontoon or the far end as we see on the shot right now versus the other end and that's a that's that's a lot yeah 1.7 meters difference between that first turning cam which is the most important turning can in the swim of course between slot number one where jake bert whistle is and the 25th start position also important to be uh you know next to someone who's quick oh without question to set your whole race up a lovely wide shot there as we can see the crowds are certainly building and we knew they'd turn out and the weather's turned on too it's fantastic when we when we planned this course we had to set up a completely new fan zone which is at the northern end of the course up near that sharp left-hand turn on the bike course they're expecting six to seven thousand people down here in jersey today which is what ten percent of the population let's have a look at the start list right now jake versus bert whistle as we said in number one tyler mislecha who's been a little bit ill alongside jonathan brownlee daniel hawks worth our wild card from right here in jersey he's a very nervous man richard vargas the superfish look for him on the swim henry skewman as well also very very very strong in the water and ben dykstra who is only 18 doing his a levels this year and fitting this in as we see christian blumenfeldt in number 12 position alongside dimitri pollansky another a great swimmer from russia richard murray our champion and mario mola the world champion are next to each other in 15 and 16. we move further down the order ryan fisher from australia is having a very strong season in 70.3 racing fernando olathe and ryan sissons there in the 20th position as we round it out with a couple of aussies there ryan bailey matt houser and aaron royal man house of the junior world champ e or polyansky and andreas schilling who was the first man called out and therefore got number 25 the furthest one from the boy on the running order it's going to be fantastic isn't it but if anyone can come from that position and go well as andreas schilling very very good swimmer very very good biker fantastic dave we can see a lovely shot from up high there of elizabeth bay marina we're about to get into the action it's going to be a fantastic one the stage is set for the triple mix six months wait and here it is that's wheel we've got the weather as you say we've certainly got the star-studded field and alongside me we've got two people who want everything there is to win in this sport olympic champion triple world champion and commonwealth games champion emma snowself on the double world and olympic champion and it's the brownie i'll come to you first up and down all year personally yeah you know we haven't seen any consistency really from many of the athletes and this is a completely different format so you know the world series final in rotterdam last week um all these guys raced but this is a completely different race so it's really hard to predict anything any fancies okay i think you know exactly we're in a totally new form athletes uh some athletes embrace the world series some have taken little breaks and you're gonna have fatigue which is something we didn't probably have in hamilton island let's quickly go to vicki hollow down on course reporter attention building just seconds before the start yeah that's right we're down here on the pontoon all the athletes getting ready to go we've got jacob we saw drew himself at slot one we've got mario and richard at 15 and 16 and then as we go to the end we've got andrea schilling who has unfortunately given spot 25 got a little bit further to swim but maybe he can stay out of trouble wide on the outside then 24 of them tyler misled not in this field he is out ill unfortunately but we still have a massive amount of talent richard murray defending the title that he won on hamilton island way back in march will it be easier or harder to defend it than it was to win it we'll find out over the course of the next two days three stages remember today for the men then the eliminators [Music] i guess you would say that's a pretty good start position yeah to be honest it's an age-old argument when you want to be inside or outside it depends on the kind of swimmer you are and we can see the two guys on the inside there whistle and johnny kind of next to each other really well and i actually can't see richard coming at the front yet which is an interesting one but yeah it's an argument johnny's got the inside line but to be honest i i don't agree with what the guys were saying earlier i agree that uh you know if you're a good swimmer from the outside and even if it is you down and you know that advantage so called at the start too yes okay maybe slightly yeah the shortest line but um well you can't really predict what's going to happen here uh ill but in general he's been performing pretty well um it's been a kind of an up and down season for johnny with injuries and and illness where is he in terms of gracefulness he's had a tough yeah you know not only is that post olympic year where we you know committed a lot of time to things away from training last winter to have a rest and other reasons but he's just been unlucky he's had injuries he's had illnesses and it's just been one of those years that's been bitty and tough for him but he's leading this swim now uh he's unfortunately got burr whistle right on his hip which is slowing him down you know tactically they should be at least swimming apart to spread this race out as quick as they possibly can rather than slowing each other down and making it easier for people behind them but that is the tactics of traveling i mean that's what i was going to ask you i mean do you speak to it to each other even though you're not racing i mean when you know you both were known for working together in this sort of circumstance but do you think he would have spoken to jake and say look you know if we do have this position are we going to try and work together or you just think that i'm you know you know you've run the world and he wants to do his own race yeah i mean he wants to do his own race he wouldn't ask for my advice too much i don't think he would he's too close to me and he won't have spoken to jay you know like i was just talking about before it's almost impossible to call exactly what's going to go on especially in such a short race it should just be understood that if you're next to each other like that you don't want to be on each other's hips because you're slowing each other down you're making it easy for richard morris and mario models behind you and be interesting to see how much it splits up but this very very steep um steep incline up to transition now and so many people close all falling over on each other pereira took a bit of a tumble they found it hard to get out of the water so up the ramp they go bert whistle and brownie with the first two out there's johnny yeah really good swim for johnny and bert whissel henry schumann next ryan bernards houser um polyansky ben and royal you know some really strong bikers richard varga back there in fifth or sixth so he's struggled there a bit on that sort of place we've never really seen it we don't see that very much i mean you know him well is is the temperature of the water obviously it's still a short swim but it is cool to not be wearing a wetsuit it is cold not wearing a wetsuit three and a half minutes i think you know you're probably going to be okay um i don't think that's the reason i imagine someone dived in on top of him in the start of the swim and we didn't see him there from the start which is one of the interesting things you know normally within three or four strokes i swim next to him a thousand times and i can't get anywhere close to him so he's so quick over those first few strokes already under pressure some big names molar and murray and blumenfelt all with plenty in front of them as they head off on the bike it's 5k so five laps of a one kilometer course as we are head on with brownlee scooterman who always swims very consistently but you can see already how narrow it is and that's going to make it tricky for those at the back including the likes of of mora murray yeah really tricky for the guys who aren't in the front four or five you know hopefully we see them really commit and i know johnny will be absolutely committing to this first two or three k and then sit up and maybe see what's going on if some of those guys are on the red line from the swim getting out of the water and on the first part of the bike he's just going to hurt him at these corners which you know we can see he's just committing 100 now what he needs to do and even if more and more only five seconds back at this point he's going to be putting him under pressure and making them work for it how tricky is it in terms of do you can't go full cash surely can you win the first stage because if you want to win this thing there are six different stages no i i truly think that that's what they need to do i think you know they need to put the pressure on early and people like johnny who are so accustomed to just you know the minute the gun goes he puts everything out there whether it's a an olympic distance event or whether it's this and and it's exactly like we said you know the the they have to put with the rest let's put it this way you know they have to put the hurt into them now i mean of course the races have broken up and they have this so-called 10-minute break but that really doesn't count for much so he just wants to build lactate he wants to hurt these other athletes as soon as you can i mean he's known for doing it but i think it's now is it even a better opportunity for him to show that he's a real straight back yeah johnny will know the harder he can make it from the off you know even if he's making himself tired he's making everyone else tighter and he's just going but we actually saw him there the motorbike getting in the way he was yelling at the motorbike so the motorbike wasn't going fast enough around the corners for him so he's trying to get that out of the way and uh he's just taking it on i mean no one else has come to the front yet and we might not need anyone actually of course this is going to be interesting to see and there's already guys you know it could be out the race now well there is a rule 90 second or if you're 90 seconds behind at any stage you are taking out the race and that's at the stage and you won't be in a race again today so no one wants to be there richard murray actually has made up some time he's just 10 seconds to drift out the water he's half that deficit so good work from the south african yeah richard murray is on the back of that group of two four six man there so the front group um and yeah he's very good uh traditionally very good at the water on that first lap technically a great bike rider as well so this course will suit him and he's made it technically and i think that i'm not sure who's on the front but someone else pushing it i think could well be canoe possibly um he's a great bike rider as well but daniel knows technically he's good and very clinical and will be pushing not only to make it hard but trying to force mistakes out of some of the other guys here that's what i was going to ask you i mean would johnny let somebody that he knows you know is not maybe as technically great as he is on the bike um you know to to take any risk on a course like this no if he sees someone who's not as as good as him in front of him he'll be wanting to get around him very quick you know one of the big things we say a lot is to win often and to win on a one day thing like the olympic games you've got to take everything into your own hands so you don't want that kind of person in front of you and uh these things will be going through his mind that's definitely there had a fantastic race a couple of weeks ago in the world 7.3 in chattanooga a fantastic fight rider and it's been great doing well in the wtf series as well so johnny couldn't have a better person there riding with him yeah he was second to having a gomez [Applause] for the united states yeah definitely i think one of the interesting things about the mixed team relay and this format is although we talk about being short and fast actually it's sometimes a much better uh test of an all-round triathlete than olympic distance because people get exposed you know we see people who might not have a great swim or a bike get exposed because you know not only are people going full-on but it splits up you know people have to swim on their own sometimes people have to ride on their own and when that happens you know people gaps open and people might have to ride five or six k on their own and suddenly if you're not a good bike rider it shows [Music] decent crowds who reckon six to seven thousand lining the course we reckon also around about three or four five have actually flown in for this event from either or predominantly great britain but also from france as well where the sport is extremely popular with all the club events that they have there yeah we're uh very close fairy ride away from brittany and uh anyone who's done triathlon for a long time knows that rooney's a real heartland of triathlon with french gun free races and and world cups and all sorts over the years so it could be a better place for a race i don't think do you think that the europeans have some sort of advantages i mean you have like you said the french grand prix the german bundesliga i mean did these playing to the the hands of athletes erase these sort of conditions before these sorts of styles yeah i think uh you know we're europeans are possibly a bit more used to racing um i think we're a bit more used to different formats and i think there's just more of a culture of that swimming cycle running different things you know a lot of us are growing up doing bike races uh you know did a lot of cross races quick races so we've just got that background in different types of racing that i think is good and we're actually seeing most of it kind of come back together now um there's not massive gaps anymore but the interesting thing is how much damage it's doing on some of these guys it was just kind of hanging off the back as the elastic is stretching and they just make it back on well there's parts of this course the allure of seeing the group just there i mean obviously it motivates you to try and tack onto that group in front of you but it's like you said at what expense does that come yeah so on the front of that second pack there there's christian bloomer felt and schilling they're both uh great bike riders technically good and the kind of riders that are aggressive are going to take it on so they're effectively bringing back to this front group with johnny's the only one who's done pretty much anything yeah there's there's a group of around about nine within two seconds of each other brownlee burt was the royal house of canoe murray schumann and fisher and bailey the two aussies have gone on the end of that leading group as well yeah i think johnny's just set up there and thought right you know like i said he's done the first two or three k and thought i've pushed it pulled it out see what's going to happen uh there's no point doing it for the whole the whole race and set up and that's why we're seeing someone else on the front and that's actually aaron royal and hauser and then burt whistle and johnny just behind him so he'll be very comfortable riding behind aaron you know trains with him a lot and knows he's a very technically uh decent white rider i'll just ask you about henry schumann because he's in that leading group obviously he had a phenomenal olympics he won the dramatic grand final where you and your brother were center stage as well but this season hasn't quite gone as well as he would have wanted is that kind of like post olympic syndrome to a degree yeah i think there's definitely a post olympic effect and we'll talk about this as well you spend so much time focusing on that event and rightly so you know it really is the highlight of the triathlon calendar and that's all i've ever really wanted to do in my career but there's got to be a flip side to that as well and i think you do quite often see that you know you realize you've raised the same world series races for eight nine ten years and there is just a kind of a psychological effect to that but i think you know he had a good he had a good year last year but his tactics were sitting at the back of the bike pack and hoping no one notices and then i'll run all right and i think some of the other guys have got a bit wise to it i think he's tried to move his running on and it's cost his swimming you know we haven't seen him swim as well um and he's just getting that balance right it's the constant struggle that every triathlete is trying to deal with really johnny is back at the front there momentarily yeah he's pushing on here you know he's i think this is a bit of a ride on the course out of that roundabout and every time he's working out there um so he knows he's going to be hurting the people who are coming out that corner and pushing it hard as long as as well as the fact that the motorbike isn't too far in front of him which always gives a bit of an advantage well also emma i mean it's like to be a significant distance first to last and if you're towards the rear of the field you're going to be a bit concerned even though it's early stages in this day it's an elastic band and i mean the further back you are the more energy it costs you to keep up with those front runners you know you're not um breaking and you're breaking and accelerating far more at the back than you are at the beginning of that group and of course these tactical riders and experienced writers all know that it's small energy conservation um it's very clever on their part and it's just aggressive racing and they know what they need to do where they need to be at every point in this race so off the bikes then with just a two kilometer run to go in this first stage first of three today and whoever comes out on top will end up with 25 points to carry into tomorrow when we go into the eliminator brown exactly where he wants to be good swim good bike yeah we've seen uh first into transition there although he wasn't on the front of the bike at all and forced out so he's a big great transition can kind of relax these first four or five hundred meters while some of these guys push on it's gonna be interesting to see where mario moller is here just the back of the group he was the one hanging off had five meter gap for most of that bike ride so i would have expected to see that probably hurt him a little bit i mean does it to someone of his age i mean he's come off a junior world title just last weekend does he does he go into this thinking you know what i've got nothing to lose maybe he's not even overthinking it yeah i think everyone's got to think a bit like that you know i think you've got to get in a race and and make the decisions on the fly and not worry about it too much beforehand and yeah of course he's got to see how he goes he's a big lad you know he's kind of short richard murray right there as well so that's a good recovery from the defending champion after um an average from i guess you'd say yeah what johnny will be trying to do here um with the next event coming up is he'll just be trying to expose people so he knows that if he can get this one group down to two or three there when it starts on the um the pursuit format next time there's still only two or three of them and then he gets only two or three on the bike and he's on the swing of only two or three then you know you can get people out and take people out of the race well this is bold from richard murray on to the front now from brownlee and bloom and fell yeah these guys are pushing on richard murray's pushing on with bloom and felt they're in third and i just saw um on that last corner we saw mario mullet back in about 10th place probably the best part 10 seconds down so it's going to be interesting to see if he can recover it on this run and then the next one because we basically have four players indeed and just to remind everyone the next stage is going to be run bike swim we mix the order around and i think what the important part here is that what we haven't seen is that the way these guys start and i think this is what allison was probably really trying to explain is exposing the weaknesses of these other athletes it's drawing them out because they are going to have some parts of this next two races where they could be on their own you know they're starting out on their own there's there's no such thing as sitting on it at someone's you know wheel as soon as you get onto the bike or sitting on someone's hip on the swim so you know there there's so much going on within this racing and um i i think this is just absolutely brilliant yeah the tactics are fascinating you know we could uh hypothesize about the tactics literally all day and we're never quite gonna know what's going through their minds but yeah i do know definitely that johnny will just be trying to break up and expose athletes weaknesses he knows that if richard murray is on a swim on his own you know he could put 10 seconds into him and that could at the end of the day small small margins could uh be the big result well these four have got themselves a little gap it's richard murray from brownlee blue midfield and schumann i'm gonna get back to the chases we'll see the exact time as they come past here this is the first lap of two so they've got themselves about a seven or eight second advantage at the moment yeah richmond is really pushing on there and uh you know just starting to get a bit of a gap to those other guys we see uh henry schuman's definitely lost those front three as well and the race is completely split up already you know 20 seconds between the first 15 that's fantastic racing and great to see who was right up there on the bike just finding the place a bit too hot or on the run that's a young ben dykstra from great britain a huge up-and-coming talent yeah ben's a fantastic talent uh really really clash runner english schools champion many times over which is you know a big deal in britain and a great swim biker too he's just got a great racing attitude he loves it you can see him out on the race course [Music] [Applause] and you can see the gap back mario mode are just about coming into shot here yeah this race is actually blown apart already completely blown apart a lot more than i was already expecting yeah it's been aggressive racing we didn't actually see hamilton island be that aggressive i mean it felt aggressive for me but it wasn't when you saw the fact that 20 guys were coming off the bike together whereas this you know split straight up very very aggressive um and these guys know that uh you know they can they can make the difference in the early stages of this race well anyone who thought it was going to be kg and tactical on the run has been proved completely wrong because this leading trio have gone away now from schumann and the rest and those at the back are potentially in big trouble here yeah big big gaps and i think to be honest murray um looks like a man possessed here and is pushing hard but they'll all all know that effectively like i said this is a 2k run 10 minute break 2k run so they they don't want to absolutely go flat out here because you know you can do a lot of damage in 2k they need to recover and they need to be ready for that next 2k and yeah but we're still two big names burt whistle and muller back here already you know it's gonna be tough for them to make that up yeah rapalje is also something i don't think too many expected the likes of burgers have to be this far off the pace we've seen how well he's run this year but murray [Applause] be interesting to see if any of them push it on over these last few hundred meters just to see if they can get a second advantage right maybe that first few hundred meters at the next one a little bit easier um but now i think we're all pretty close just taking a slightly different line around the corner there um sometimes it's a bit tough running on this kind of surface the brick surface um but obviously they're all managing fine and i think these guys will just be just be towing that line now trying to not push too much but you know make sure they're maintaining and growing that so they're gap approaching the finish line then murray with a little look back and he'll see blumenthal right there on his heels he does a lot of looking back as well he has been doing a little looking back i'm not entirely sure what he's looking for because he wants to [Applause] trying to make sure they finish as close to each other as possible there's obviously no advantage in winning this stage at all but you don't want to give anyone even a two second uh a two second lead so yeah there you go murray's done exactly the right thing there eased off and let someone else um win the battle but maybe lose the war we'll see okay well we will do very shortly schumann uh comes in fourth we'll just check exactly what that gap is 11 seconds a bit of a sprint on for mario motors got him within 15 but still significant along with jake burt whistle uh matt hauser 18 seconds a drift aaron royal similarly and you go further down you can just see how this field has been ripped apart brian bailey is a pretty tiny runner in his own right it's nearly half a minute adrift yeah absolutely been ripped apart and i think that was all down to uh the aggressive racing of the guys uh at the start at the start of the bike there that's that's all that happened so um fantastic to see that this is what we want to see in triathlon we want to see people race over the swim bike [Music] and now you've got to remember that they're starting another 2k run which gives a chance to absolutely blow apart again in only 10 minutes time yeah it's going to be intriguing isn't it to see what happens at the start of that run whether the same trio can keep laying it down to the opposition you think they're going to certainly try graham is uh coming in these guys really suffering and ben shaw there yeah i'm not sure how far they're back now but i know there is a 90 seconds exclusion limit so if you go over 90 seconds in any of the races you you're effectively um to make sure that there's there's no laughing going on because obviously you can't have laughing on such a short course glendon systems is 48 seconds back dimitri polyansky similar richard vargas 55 seconds back in igor polyansky nearly a minute yeah um so i think uh it's going to be tough for some of those guys to make it through this next second stage to be honest i'm going back to what you're saying about what do they do on this next run now i i think they've got to run just one percent um uh dan hawks that's just crossing the line there from jersey some great great local support i think they've got to run just under one percent under the red line you know they they've got to push they don't want to uh give any time away to those guys behind them but then they've got to know that there's a bike and a swim that they're going to take you know pretty hard in the next two disciplines and they can keep spreading it out so this is the start of their 10 minute recovery period all that kind of different ideas the best way to use it some will take some fluid on board some will maybe have one of those uh energy supplements that they take yeah well i think a lot of they were worried about how cold they'd and coming out the cold water and then i mean it's an absolutely beautiful day here in jersey but you know not necessarily as warm as some people might like it but i get a feeling they're not looking that cold right now a lot of them have their suits down and are trying to get air to the bodies they're just going through the transition checks again because obviously you know your bike has to be in the right gear you want your shoes in the right place so you're not going to knock your shoes off your pedals that's that could cost you 30 seconds at least and that's pretty critical and just getting getting a bit of hydration in hydration and nutrition is reasonably important in this kind of event but not critical um three 20 minute races an hour of racing over the period of an hour and 20 minutes um yeah nutrition and hydration is is not probably going to be the thing that makes you win or lose here but just important to keep on top of it with the with the knowledge that you've got another race coming tomorrow that you want to recover from as well as possible okay well let's go in here now from the reigning world champion mario motors 14 seconds adrift after that first stage he's down with vicky [Applause] [Music] um [Laughter] [Music] that didn't sound to me the most confident mario motor i've ever seen no definitely not i mean he didn't look his best there i have to admit and yeah that's going to be pretty tough for him that time gap now he knows uh that the race is spread out he knows that uh you could end up isolated and on your own at the back end of the room on the bike uh and that is a tough place for him to come back from let's just check those results then bloom and felt brownie and murray nothing between them and there's nearly a quarter of a minute back to mola and the rest a fascinating first stage [Music] yes give it up for him come on round number two this is where it starts to get very very interesting so we start off with the run on the position depending on where they finished then um thank you trevor emma and ali what a call and what a race we didn't expect there to be this much carnage early on there were some very broken faces uh in the recovery zone we're about to do it all again johnny brownlee you picked him he pushed the pace from the beginning and you see how important the swim is he got out very very early as alistair said in the commentary set himself up that run-up transition an early break on the bike very very aggressive and it was so strung out it was so strung out on the second stage as ali mentioned i mean we've got a 90 second uh elimination cut off we're going to see some people fall foul of that certainly christian bloomfield how strong is he he he bridged that gap he brought that second group up to the first group in the in the ride he looked very very strong he's run spectacular be interesting to see how he goes with the swim now ending this uh second stage of the triple mix mario mola a renowned runner of course the world champion and he was uh he was panicking you could see the panic on his face as he needed to make that back uh that gap up on the run he did manage to do that but he still finds himself 15 seconds or so back he really struggled on that bike ride he was always at the back every single corner he seemed to struggle with those two right handers at the far end of the bike course and he paid for it on the run he was definitely the fastest runner on course he made a lot of ground up but those three boys off the front were very very conservative in the saving for the business end of this race quick thought on murray he looked brilliant he looked brilliant he's been playing a poker face all week he looked very very good today all right there's going to be some serious uh pain in the second stage of the triple mix it won't be long until we'll find about about all of that all right we are about to see the start list for stage two of the triple mix and i'm sure there's a few athletes who will be wishing that there was no stage two of the triple mix because they left it all out there already and it won't be long until we do see that list but um there is some guys that look excellent and some guys that look like they weren't quite ready for this we had that second group on the run if you had a look there was there was jacob burt whistle who seemed to be struggling a little bit i was expecting a lot more from him if you remember hamilton island he was very very good at this at this format he didn't look red hot today aaron royal who's just coming back to form but that's australian group joined by schilling and now moeller will be interesting to see how they go with schumann sort of in no man's land between that front and second group yeah it wasn't it makes it a lot harder when you're racing a little bit on your own and seeing people disappear in front of you let's have a look at the start list as it stands uh for round two of course we go in order of how it finished with blumenfeld so strong holding off richard murray who's very smart and tactical jonathan brownlee then uh 10 seconds henry schumann will have to wait and then 14 for mario mola burt whistle schilling hauser royal fabian will all go off uh very close to each other which will be uh handy for them as they try and track down the leaders a little bit further back we might uh well there's a whole bunch of a whole bunch of people there who are stuck and a few people all the way out the back but we're going to go back to our commentary right now trevor harris alongside uh emma snowsall and ali brownlee [Music] will positions further down the field richard varga i wouldn't imagine he'd have expected to be a minute back alley no i mean i think it's a tough one for him we saw from the dive after 10 strokes you'd normally expect him to see him at a body length clear and we didn't see that so i think from those early early strokes maybe he's felt a bit off and a bit of a struggle like we've said it's a tough time of year you know it's a long season starting all the way back in hamilton island and come seeing all the w2s series races finishing last week in rotterdam and then to be here so you know some of these guys it might be a bit unpredictable if you're having a good or a bad day so what do you think the tactics are going to be now from blumenfeld murray and your little brother what are they going to try and do first off on the run well i keep saying that these good guys are just going to want to exclude people from the race and that's evidently what they're going to do how hard they take this run is going to be interesting um i think we saw murray go pretty deep there and the others have to go pretty deep to hang on to him so whether he's going to run this on that red line or just below it um it's going to be interesting to see whether they finish the three of them uh you know finish the run together is going to be interesting i think if it was me just to be safe if you pushed on in the last kilometer so you could jump on the bike with even a couple of seconds have the guys with you in the red and push it on put them under pressure of those first uk that would be the ideal scenario so we'll see if any of them try to get a jump over the last kilometer of the run but we've got to remember they finished with a swim and um you know swimming on their own uh after after 15 minutes of flat out racing you could lose 15 or 20 seconds in only 300 meters well that's what i was going to suggest to you that in johnny's head is he thinking okay if i can stay with murray and bloomer fell on the run on the bike you've got a fancy on all known form he could outswim both of them over 300 meters yeah i would expect johnny to outswim both of them comfortably in the last 300 meters um christine blumenfelt is a pretty good swimmer richard murray is swimming's okay but you know he'd be the first one to say it's definitely his weakness so yeah johnny in his johnny's head he'll be going if i'm there at the end of the bike i can steal 10 seconds here and that would be fantastic that said you know uh he's going to want to push it on as well he's going to want to push it on the back yesterday they've just started but a bit of confusion at the start but they were virtually together over the finish line let me put you in the running shoes of either [Music] already all they want to do is just keep tightening that screw and try to extend it even further and um look everybody's got fatigue everybody's got lactic acid running through their body right now and um it's just a matter of you know who can who can try and talk the body getting rid of it as quickly as possible i think uh richard murray just answered our questions there we just saw him fly past the commentary box looking like a man possessed and going as hard as he could so he's taking this on you know he might even he might be thinking i want to maximize the time to the guys behind or you might be thinking you know what i fancy five seconds on these guys going onto the bike well that'd be interesting if that is the case we know how well murray rides a bike and just looking further back [Applause] starting there's our leading three nothing between them really murray blumenthal brownlee around the roundabout yeah murray's definitely pushing it there that that meter gap from murray back to blooming felt is probably a bit more than you'd like to see it if you were in that group so i think he's pushing it on and hurting them um and we'll just see over these next couple okay here they're going hard definitely no doubt about it they're not far off the red line at all and they're going to be putting time into the guys behind them all or it's going to stay parity that's what i was going to ask you i mean what sort of pace you know for the people the die hard runners out there you know what what pace is your brother running at i would estimate somewhere around 250k pace um you know evidently if he was running a 2k on the track fresh it would be a fair bit faster but we've got to count in fact there's some pretty sharp corners here cambers on the road ups and downs and it's a triathlon you know they've done two events before the run before and they've got two events after this and so that'll just take the edge off the running i mean if they were running 2k as it was they're all capable of running quick i would have thought you know 230k pace no problem 1500 meter 345 kind of face so that's what you're kind of looking at but you have to remember they've got a they're going to jump on the bike for the best part of 10 minutes and then they've got to jump into the water with lactate everywhere in the body how tough is it for schumann racing there on his own in fourth because the kind of course it is with so many corners he's half in to judge whether he's getting any closer or getting further away from that leading trio yeah it's really hard to judge uh until he gets back to the pit where we're on the start finish line transition area where it's straight and um he's an interesting tactical position actually because um you know he's got those guys not very far behind him who are probably gonna catch him by the end of the run you know does he wait for him did he not um be interesting to know what's going through his mind in my mind i probably i'd probably look at waiting for them over the 2k so i just would run you know two or three seconds of kilometer uh off normally that would mean they'll catch me uh and then you've got a group to work with going onto the bike [Applause] there looks to me to the naked eye at least we've made up a little bit of ground on the likes of screaming jake but we're sort of just racing behind mario there yeah this is mario mala's strength so running at the start of a race those first 2k is an absolutely class clash runner over these kind of distances uh and this is definitely his strength so he'll be trying to use that to the mass make up that time before he gets on the bike and then on to the swim where um he's not quite as strong but again we're seeing it spread right out even more i think athletes are spread top 20 spread over the best part of a minute now um and massive gaps that's a that's a 200 meter gap from uh even more 200 meters from the leaders back to van gaal there dark star just going through with [Applause] even though he's uh just approaching 30 he probably won't thank me for reminding him a little bit further back richard varga seeing these guys come through now i mean you said they're spread out but i mean at least that group with muller there was some sort of group that could possibly form on the bike and work together i mean these these guys end up becoming you know they're struggling um by the time they get onto the bike and probably never really some of them maybe not used to even having to ride on their own yeah definitely you know there's people in triathlon in this race who will literally have never raced at the front of a race with no one in front of them in their careers so they don't want to be in that position and they know it's dangerous to be that position and like i said they don't want to be exposed especially after running a max out 2k where the legs are already lactated up and you can't just rely upon spinning your legs being technically good you have to rely on having a great pedal stroke you have to rely on your power um and soon they're going into the swim whereas normally you can just rely on a bit of freshness and spinning your legs so these guys don't want to be exposed and in that position they'll be looking around them which is exactly why we were just talking about what's an interesting call that schumer's gonna make does he wait for those guys or not ben shaw has been eliminated more than 90 seconds behind yeah not not a great day for him but yeah i was pretty much there in hamilton island so i kind of know what he's going through as well it's not a fun place to be is it no we we saw the guys taking on water on that room which is interesting over only over 2k but i think that means that they know it's hard they know it's they're pushing it on and they're just thinking of this as an hour of racing rather than just a 20 minute races um which is the right thing to do and shows that they're not absolutely on the unit so richard shows that we all know that if you're running as hard as you can you don't have you can't get the oxygen and water in at the same time so it shows he's got a bit of spare capacity there i'm interested in both of your views on how difficult or not difficult it's going to be for these guys to adapt to this to an order they're not used to so now we're going to run onto the bike and then we're the feeling of running off the black alone is very unusual and certainly takes some getting used to but you know these guys never experience this in any racing they do other than this so again you know at least the blood is in the legs that's one thing that's different than them going and diving into the water so um you know but yes carbs quads now um you know all those predominant muscle groups are having to shift and shunt the blood around and um it just it just elevates the lactic acid in the whole of your body even that much more i think this could be the interest most interesting part of the race one is this first couple of minutes um coming off that run like you said it's not gonna be fun for any of them there's gonna be a lot of lactate floating around and you've suddenly gotta jump on and ride a bike and use a slightly different set of muscles um and we're seeing these gaps get massive it was 22 seconds back to schumann and mario coming into that transition so that gap has actually gone out of those first 2k to both of them and you know johnny and christian blumenthal and richard murray are the probably the three bestest best cyclists strongest technically best cyclists over this kind of course a better transition than either johnny brownie or uh liverpool but it looks like they are still pretty much together as a trio yeah i think murray um did have a good condition he's technically uh very very clinical a lot of the time so he might have just got a bit of a run on him there but yeah i expect three of them here to to work hard and push and race well together let's have a little bit of a history richard murray of maybe not being the tidiest in transition he's had a few time penalties the other years i think most of us have over the years if you're racing someone's got to go wrong at some point hasn't it the one that cost him big time in hamburg a few years ago but no problems today yeah one of the nice things about super league actually is just that slightly more relaxed approach to it you know okay if something isn't quite in your box um as long as it's not impeding other people it doesn't matter too much which is really refreshing because you know okay if you're in transition and you get off and you throw your helmet another athlete or you put it in their way fair enough you should be penalized for it but if your wetsuit's half out of the box i'm not convinced that that's a bad thing are you how tired were you ever i i i was certainly in the era where those rules didn't exist um and i totally agree i think you know there's there's heat of racing there's things that you know um you're not thinking about that the corner of your wetsuit is tucked in um but again you know i think all within fair limits and this sort of racing i mean yeah you have to you have to be quick you have to be methodical in your transitions and and i think the sort of people that have come to from itu you know somewhat do benefit in those sort of circumstances but there has to be that fine line between you know what's in the heat at the moment for the racing or what's actually deliberate yeah we actually just saw that gap go out even further there so from 22 28 seconds and laps six seconds and just over a k of cycling so it shows us firstly that these guys are pushing and going secondly that the run has taken more out of the guys behind and they're not going as fast so we can expect this gap to probably go out and grow over the next few laps these guys are working well together we saw uh richard murray take most of the first lap christian bloomfield on the second lap um tactically i don't know whether johnny will be thinking here yeah energy conserve i can answer from these guys and put 10 seconds in on the last bit or whether he's thinking yeah actually no i'll have a rest because i'm tired we'll see well we will in the next few moments but yeah i mean it's starting to become what it has become already a really significant gap back nearly half a minute and brilliant as the likes of mario mola jake burt whistle are to you expecting to make up 30 seconds on the last stage is a massive and probably very very unlikely answer yeah i think there's about four or five people who are going to get lapped out here if you just looked on the shot there as these guys are coming into transition and the guy's going the other way there's a there's a couple of guys that are really close to getting lapped out and whether the 90-second rule comes in and takes them out beforehand or not i don't know the gap to the the guys behind we can tell has gone off even further you know these guys have cleared the entire transition area before they've come through again so um it seems you have 31 seconds not as much but it is going up this guy these guys are a bit more organized now they're organized the chase you see alexander fabian there a great rider and burt whistle obviously working together they've seen the danger and they're covering it they know to stay in this competition um they can't start losing the best part of a minute to the guys in front well not a good stage so far for henry schumann either he started 10 seconds behind that leading trio and he's now more than 30 seconds back so it's taking its toll it is but you've got to remember that at the end of the day um the time splits aren't important it goes to points so actually you know placing for him is more important so he's gone i'm gonna wait for those guys and uh energy wise that's the best thing to do because if i go this alone i'm not gonna make up those 10 seconds on the guys in front i'm not going to catch them i could absolutely kill myself and try to catch them but i'm not going to do it and so all it's going to do is cost me and the guys behind are probably going to catch me because they're in a group anyway and i've just wasted some energy so he didn't really have a choice yeah no i think um like you said before there's just so many tactics that are coming into play that we've never had to see before and and we've we've never seen this in men's racing let's be honest we have never seen a men's field broken up like this no i think it's fantastic racing and we're seeing it broken up for a few reasons we're seeing they've broken up because of how the um how aggressive the athletes are uh racing and just on cue we saw richard murray's face there and you know absolute determination his eyes are quite scary aren't they when he's in focus mode they're quite scary when he just sits and has breakfast with you on a bike but also it's the course and this technical nature of it um makes it and it's just fantastic to see because i think this is what all fans of triathlon want to see we want to see exciting uh fast racing where the whole part of the swim bike and run count and this is exactly what super league is about yeah there is absolutely nothing in super league we're just trying to post along the back of the bike it will [Applause] a good day or a good few days to have yeah have my sick massive race i'm very i'm ill very very rarely and yeah that was not a good time to choose to be i probably would get away with it on the most kind of world series type racing news of someone who hasn't got away with it another casualty placenta grijales is out on the 92nd rule yeah like i said i think we could see a few people get eliminated on the ninth second and i'll be honest i didn't think i would expect would have expected to see that in the men's field at all would you agree yeah he's a he's a good athlete he uh you know known for his running but um like we've been talking about people's weaknesses get shown here because they get exposed and uh again it is swimming his bike aren't great you know you wouldn't normally see him working really hard in a wts tight race um so i think he's struggling and also you know the the season effect it's the end of a tough season different type of racing and um you never know how you're going to get up and feel on a day like this yeah i mean think for graham as he would prefer if it was like 38 degrees rather than 20. but he is the 2015 pan am games champion i mean he's a top-class graphic in his own right but today says in this format he hasn't been able to live with the pace that these kind of guys are showing at the front it's getting really tactical between these guys now i think they're still working hard but they're not working at max i just saw johnny swing off and not look like he was going quite as hard as he could these guys they're not got any more time on the guys behind him and so i'm pretty sure they're starting to think well we're together 30 seconds behind those guys are actually out this race for the win now let's look at each other and start thinking who's going to put time into each other on the swim depending on how hard we work on the bike would you say this type of racing really gets i mean there's always this argument you know what's the best triathlete who's the best you know um you know i mean it's typical banter isn't it you know who who and what is the best triathlete in the world and i think this is the like you keep reminding us you know it's just exposing athletes in different ways yes we have fatigue on the side of end of season but um you know i think this is the sort of racing everybody has wanted to see isn't it that you know just to see these athletes going absolutely full throttle at a sport that we you know we really get to enjoy yeah definitely i think we could sit here and argue all day about what type of triathlon allowed us to see what the best triathlete is and it doesn't actually matter at the end of the day does it we just want to see fast exciting racing and that's what we're seeing um personally i think it would be great to see in the future um consistent swim bike run whether it wasn't actually the 10 minute rest in between i think we start to have a bit more of the endurance element come in there and okay so just just keep going yeah i think straight through that would have made it really interesting the last data i have richard varga and the yorick mannequin both right on the cusp they're a minute 25 back so we'll just see him here i think richard will be hoping he can get to the end of the bike here and you'll be able to get a few seconds at least back on the swim injured some guys here have chosen to go with goggles around the neck and other guys haven't um so christian for example he's got cordless around his neck in the hope that that would mean that he didn't have to pick them up from the box but he still had to pick a swimming hat up so i mean once you're down there you might as well pick both things up i'm not convinced that's uh saved any time at all and johnny will be absolutely using this next 30 seconds and then three and a half minutes into the swim to hope that he's hurt people on the bike and he can now get some time on this swim he knows this is his chance to just steal 10 seconds well he had a really good transition just news that joe pereira is another who's out he's one of those athletes could be great on his day but he can be inconsistent and he hasn't been able to live with it today either so they're falling like flies here and we're only on stage too yeah it's brutal it's being raised aggressively and that's why it's spreading out these athletes are kind of getting shown up and it's tough them and yeah johnny he would have liked just i would have thought that those guys didn't just jump straight in on his feet he would have wanted just a couple of seconds to stretch out but that said he's going to be trying to get a bit of time here and it's going to be interesting to see and yeah so he's in a good position here he's the one getting clear water and calling the shots and the two guys behind him are on each other's hips actually slowing each other down and making it harder for the boat to stay with johnny but someone like richard who's who of the three is not the strongest swimmer i mean would he tactically be looking at that and saying you know what i've got to fight for every stroke every piece of water to stay with these guys as much as it's detrimental to somewhat both of them but in some way for him he kind of is getting dragged probably along a little faster than maybe what he would be on his own yeah yes and no um because if richard sits on christian's hips um he's actually having a massive drag effect on christian slowing him right down and it makes it less likely that christine gets on johnny's feet and they could both lose a bit of time the sensible thing to do which is what has actually happened now christian's gone there's no point fighting for the feet i'm gonna hope that richard managed to get on the feet and i'm just gonna swim in third place on the feet which is actually quite a big energy saving by the time he back there you know probably five seconds easier for 100 meters and he's open he can he can just hang on and and john will be doing everything he can just to try and to try and split up and just get if he gets two or three meters of water that could grow very quickly to 10 and then 15 meters and that's a bit of time i'm not sure these guys have read the script because tomorrow is supposed to be the eliminator and already just looking down the times here currently in 14th place is igor koliansky he's a minute 25 back and we could potentially have lost 10 people in around about a minute minute and a half's time and no one would ever have imagined that yeah i think uh one of the things that struck me from hamilton island is it was obviously tough and it was great for my racing but i didn't feel it was race very aggressively and we're seeing uh johnny fit johnny in the race here racing aggressively and that's why we're seeing people eliminated it it'll be really interesting actually in only um well just less than two hours time now to see what the women's like because you know they could erase this course completely different and then we know it's the the aggressiveness of the race as opposed to um the actual course well but how it's raised yeah just a reminder we'll of course bring you live coverage of the first ever women's super league track and after this men's event is concluded this is stage two of three today for the men the round is completed tomorrow with the eliminator but how many are going to be in that is anyone's guess at the moment because johnny brownlee setting a fearsome taste looks like he's going to win this stage richard murray has gone ahead of bloom and felt in the water so decent swim for murray and these three even with one whole stage to go um you suspect they're going to be fighting out for the points a bit later yeah i think the first thing is i'm pretty sure you can start tomorrow even if you get eliminated today that's correct you can start you can start the race i mean obviously you're not going to win the overall because you're not going to get the points um but yeah i think you know johnny is using this chance to try and get a few seconds on people he knows he's going to start the next one uh with a bike leg if you can have a few seconds maybe you can hold on and extend that gap maybe not and the other two guys are just trying to trying to stay in it they've actually got a pretty tough run um at this swim you know they've got to get out the swim uh run 50 meters off a really uh steep slope and then back round through transition probably the best part of 200 meters so that's another chance for a bit of time to be uh to be gained up to before we saw a few of them having problems coming out the water in stage one but uh no such issues for johnny brownlee who is away closely pursued by richard murray and christian blumenfeld and as he was mentioning up that steep ramp with uh runs on one side but that won't be a problem when you go single file might be an issue for those behind if there are a couple close together yeah writing to your brother yeah i think we are in jersey but it you know a lot of people here associate and obviously british so hopefully he's getting a bit of home support as it were and yeah we saw him get out the wall there and really push i think he he's seen this as a bit of a chance to get a bit of time he knows everyone will be hurting and he knows you can get a bit of time there whereas these are the guys richard has actually got afterward a bit of a slower turnover and that's where he's just got a few seconds i mean i'm not convinced now whether what effect it's going to have because they're going to start on the bike three seconds apart and i think it's gonna it's actually gonna come together i mean i know johnny's gonna try and take it on but uh i can't see these threes staying apart for the 7k that were that 7k bike we're about to start with so stage two johnny brownlee will go out first on stage three blumenfelt and murray across the line together second and third the order doesn't really make any difference and all that work all that effort for three seconds absolutely and this is a good effort by we've got the likes of schilling and uh molar and schumer must have had a great time there great swimming he's caught the best part of 15 seconds up on that swim so he's done really well obviously use the clear water and swam well to get that time and uh we just see mario moloka come over the line in fifth i think that's probably about 30 seconds down here yeah good work from aaron royal as well who's clawed back sometime fabian and matt hauser and jake burt whistle 37 seconds of drift they're that's a good effort from him he's starting the worst possible place from slot 25 yeah we're just going to wait and see now whether all these guys are going to make it in for the 90 seconds okay i think we can go down we will go down shortly and speak to johnny brown if you watch the rest of the men come in and they are some way back and the uh time officials are going to be working overtime let's go down to vicky she's got johnny brownie with it [Applause] well tell me was that racing was that purely tactical in this stage that was very tactical that way um i'll try to save much energy i could on the on the run on the back to leave it for the trimming i thought i could make a big gap in the swim but hang on all tight you're only satisfied i'm gonna i thought my stroke would help me out but it didn't really have only a few seconds ahead but oh it's got fun i'm enjoying it so two stages down i mean do you think it's taking anything out for the third oh yeah definitely caught us we're lying if i said i'm not tired now but it's all about being less tired than the the other person we race again so hoping i'll perform when you have time so hopefully i'm still less tired anymore why are you putting on a fantastic show for us thank you thank you see emma's so quick i didn't even see us out the box and get down there to talk to johnny sounds pretty relaxed and pretty confident ally yeah i mean it was interesting what he was saying though about how tactical it was because watching it we thought it was pretty full-on so um it's interesting that maybe he thought it was tactical and the others didn't we'll have to wait and see and he's absolutely right though you know triathlon is about being basically using less energy than everyone else until it counts and i think this format of triathlon super league is even more about that than any other because yeah it's going to be come down to tiny margins and you know these are all these guys are all going to be fatigued going into this last round and it's about giving the spectators a real experience at the event as well you can see them there six or seven deep and beautiful weather here in jersey as we can check the results after stage two where johnny has a three second advantage over blooming fountain murray we reckon those three will come together on the bike in the final stage today for them uh henry schumann 17 seconds back and then it's more than half a minute for the likes of royal moeller the youngster matt hauser jake bert whissel who was so competitive on hamilton island and andrea sitting there just sneaking into the top ten as well but plenty of casualties who've been uh thoughted by the 90-second rule [Music] bit further down ryan fisher a minute plus um richard varga just about okay a minute and 16 back uh igor polyansky a minute and 31. wow that means he's out believe so under the uh 90-second rule [Music] now we can go back down to vicky see you she's got with her this time no we haven't got anyone they've all gone okay okay well we'll we'll go back to vicki when she does have some company look at mario bowler there and aaron royal it is only a 10 minute rest you know you don't want to waste even 10 seconds of that 10 minute rest having to do anything you don't want to do you know in this in this period you want to probably get a bit of water and a bit of nutrition get your breath back okay well while we let vicky find someone i think emma has got someone to talk to all yourself this doesn't look good not looking good it's a big step ahead for uh for us here so we have uh the best the women best men and uh even corporate teams uh today and tomorrow uh and uh we also got a great uh support and hospitality from the jersey so i hope we'll be back next year well i think the event is turning out to be bigger and better than we all expected so we're excited to see the third stage for today yes thank you um yeah i think that uh the third stage will be very dramatic because we have three guys who are leading and they it's it's not clear who will win today and that's great great to have you here thank you yeah make sure that you keep the microphone okay fascinating to hear though this event is clearly taking the sport by storm when it's not over yet what a glorious backdrop is here in jersey i've never actually been here and i don't live that far away on the mainland i don't think you've been here either have you ever no me neither and i'm uh possibly the greatest opponent that we should explore where we live and close you know close to where we are i love being exploring different parts of yorkshire and the late trip to northern england scotland and yeah but that said i've never been to jersey and what look what i've been missing out on population around about 100 000 here and it feels like most of them are lining the course on different parts of it it's only 46 square miles uh the island of jersey but you can trace the history back about a thousand years and i think the history of triathlon without question has been altered by what super league has done not just here also on hamilton island as well yeah definitely i think for a few reasons you know one of one of the bigger reasons is this type and format of triathlon is really designed to provide entertainment and for the spectator both the spectators stood here on the side the course the fantastic jersey residents and the people who have come to watch but also the people who are watching all over the world on tv and uh you know like we've been finally watching it it's just action-packed it's great to watch and and the second big thing is it's just different for the athletes to race um something different different tactics and it's within still an endurance sport so i think they're all really enjoying it it's certainly an experience and uh johnny brownlee is within one stage of getting huge points just a reminder on how the system works towards the point where it's going to be really important 25 for the winner 21 points per second 18 16 14 12 down to 10 for seventh place it goes down in fact it's 15th fernando we've already had us mention several casualties i can tell you your clan two minutes and 12 seconds off the pace so even if we had a two-minute rule he yeah i am we didn't see uh this many casualties in hamilton island and 90 seconds over 20 minutes of race 40 minutes of racing now isn't a long time at all but then the other side of it like we we keep saying that this has been really aggressive racing and um i think that's hurt people it's hurt people like yuri van gaaden for example who who would say his swim isn't his strength and you know he's been caught on that been left isolated and lost that time just looking at the current positions with one stage to go is it possible can you see anyone a schumann a royal mole or whoever getting competitive with that leading three or of those three got it between them those three uh pretty much dead on i would have said i've got it between them um they're gonna go out and they're gonna ride hard and they're gonna ride hard to push each other on and to make sure no one else gets in the race i think johnny's probably gonna try and steal a bit of a jump on them but it's probably not gonna work it's gonna come back together but it's not going to leave much chance for the guys to get back in the race we started with 24 we have 17 left so seven the full one by the way so just to reiterate well i also said a moment ago they won't be at a race obviously in stage three but they will be able to race tomorrow in the eliminator and everyone is back in the mix but clearly you're not gonna win the whole thing if you don't get any serious points today and they're all gonna get i think one point if that absolutely not we're just seeing now a lot of them are standing in groups kind of chatting to each other whether it's just pleasantries saying how nice the weather is and what they're going to have for dinner tonight or whether they're talking tactics and you know should i wait for you if i work wait for you are we going to work together on this bit on the bike would be interesting to know maybe someone emma can ask them afterwards well i don't know if there's anything to go after the slot drawer between the men and the women i have to say the women were probably a little more unpleasant to each other than the men were so who knows but uh only you were allowed to say that we wouldn't to say that oh no i'll be the first to admit that the you know what goes on the water in the women's racing is far worse than what goes on in the men's so you know i think i think these boys are probably looking at each other and really really talking about how actually tired they are the tides here are amazing where you just saw those guys standing behind them was was the sea earlier on and now it's just a seabed these guys don't have much time though to enjoy the scenery just 30 seconds to go until we'll be off and running for the final stage of this race 25 points to the winner brownie wants the points murray wants the points bloomington wants the points only one of them can get them yeah this uh i believe they're doing a running start onto the bike here so yeah they're effectively doing a transition with you know with no nothing before it straight onto the bike so it's slightly unique never seen this before so away goes johnny and there'll be a few second wait for blue midfield and for murray as you say they've got to put helmet on i've got to get onto the bike not before the line obviously what did he do sorry what this does do though is it just allows for little gaps you know for example if that three second gap to johnny goes to five seconds or if it comes back to one second it just makes it that more difficult or easier to close or or you know if bloom felt there messes up getting his shoes on that could literally cost in the race so just add a little bit extra complexity into it yeah there was an issue for bloomberg he had by far the worst of it at the leading three spooner had a a slight issue with his uh helmet strap but he's on and aboard and there's aaron royal just pursued by mario mola yeah it's certainly strange seeing them all standing there with no shoes on a dead start running to their bikes and getting on the bike i mean even for me that seeing this board it's somewhat you know a little confusing but like you said i mean there's just so much that the the little mistakes and the little bit of tactics that might be coming into play andrea schilling had a real problem getting on his bike there you might have seen yeah we actually just saw there was um about a three or four second gap back to bloomberg as he came back past us and went and headed out on the course and there will be interesting to see whether he can get back on uh how hard the two guys johnny and richard murray are going to push it at the front whether they don't allow him to get back into the race now or whether they have no choice and poor henry schuman is in exactly the same place as he was before uh he doesn't know he's gonna be he's on his own does he wait for the guys behind him or not i think this time he shouldn't he's got a ride he's a great swimmer so i think he's got to ride limited his losses and try and swim as well as he can so [Music] do you think it's quite possible in these short turnarounds that the guys haven't even thought about maybe even changing the gearing yeah quite possibly i did actually see them do that at the end of the first race they went back in you know changed the gearing obviously when you're jumping on your bike you don't want to be in too big or too little here you want to get moving as quick as you can but yeah like i said they've not got a lot of room to maneuver here they're tired they're probably not thinking straight and definitely they can make mistakes we saw in that replay we just showed you problems can occur just getting onto your bike but uh it looks as though blumenfeld has caught on to murray and brownie so they're together again these three as they have been pretty much for the entire afternoon yeah it's been close been fantastic racing both hard tough aggressive racing and tactical at times between these three and uh yeah we'll see now it didn't look like they were pushing as hard as they could there to me it looked like um they were just biting the time a bit they they know richard will know he doesn't want to go that hard into the swim and johnny will know if he can save a bit of energy you know maybe you can get a bit of time so this is all going through the mines at the same time as going well i don't want to let any of those guys behind me catch me up [Music] and how much is today going to have taken out of them uh alastair ahead of tomorrow because for these three it's not just about winning the race it's about winning the round as well you don't want to be going in tomorrow any more fatigue than you absolutely have to be i don't think any of them are thinking about tomorrow at this point i think they'll be uh going absolutely hard they can trying to win this race um and i mean i don't actually think you'll have that much effect on tomorrow it's only an hour of racing all split up it's not like they're running a tough 10k all in one which is the kind of thing which normally tends to batter your legs and you get the muscle damage and don's that cost you a few days afterwards uh yeah i think they'll be tired tonight they'll obviously be lots of anaerobic racing going here lots of lactic acid in the muscles and that's hurting them but that goes pretty quick and you you recover from it and i think they'll be they'll be able to race hard again tomorrow yeah if anything i think if the racing was you know in two or three days time they'd feel a lot worse you know when the body is trying to catch up and recover but um you know the short chart racing is it certainly causes um some severe muscle fatigue and sauna so i i think in some way you know these athletes are experienced and and they'd prefer to be uh to be racing straight up in the morning but you know the fact that you know that it's such short racing that they are so on the red line i mean even heading into the third race most of them their eyes are just looking like really i'd be quite happy if we'd just done two today it looks like those uh chasing skooma are likely to catch on fairly shortly he's had a couple of kind of slightly nervous looks behind him yeah i think like we were talking about schumer was in a difficult position there and he wasn't sure whether to wait but i think we saw him looking behind him and he was waiting uh tactically it's the best thing to do maybe he's gonna try and sit in and have a little rest for a couple of laps now and hope that uh he can cause some damage on the swim i mean scuban really is a fantastic swimmer so he made a lot of time off actually on that last leg we didn't talk too much about it i think probably swan the best part of 15 seconds into johnny i think johnny will be disappointed with that swim and schumer's had an absolutely flying swim there that's which has kept him in the hunt for a top place well the swim remember is next on this stage after the bike and then they finish with the run and we could be in for a classic because all these three guys we know at the top of their form can run brilliantly bloom and felt had a fabulous season tony grant we saw in stockholm recently and of course richard murray's running needs no introduction either so hard to call that too even at this stage yeah impossible to call it and i'm not even going to try it it's a completely unique format and it's difficult i think we're seeing skilling schilling uh struggling a bit there aren't we um he had that terrible transition um and a bad bike mount and uh maybe he's tired already and uh he's making mistakes or maybe that's boston we'll wait and see i mean is it just me but you do get those days where you feel like you're peddling squares is this going to be one of those places where where they just feel like the bike just just does not have round wheels anymore yeah i mean everyone knows what it's like to have a bad day in whatever walk of life you're in and on this kind of stage in this event anything bad you know gets magnified and has massive consequences so yeah you could well be having a bad day and and that's hurting him um maybe we've talked a lot about maybe that or maybe it's the format of the racing you know jumping on your bike um straight off or after running or after the races that's already been going on um with lactic loads of lactic in your legs can be really really tough well it's about half a minute plus now to those behind the leading trio and as we expected skooman now riding alongside the likes of matt hauser mario mona aaron royal uh fabulous there as well along with jake whistle and andreas schilling after that uh awkward uh a few moments ago but these three surely now have it between them yeah almost certainly and we're seeing um just the slight nuance of the tactics here and how they're riding johnny is riding a a very clinically clean race he's not over risking around corn he's riding quick he's making sure he's really close to the wheel in front of him when he's behind saving all the energy he can but still putting people under a bit of pressure richard corners really well and really quickly quicker than johnny and he's using that to put the other guys under pressure he corners quick and really pushes out of it christian isn't as skillful as the other two you can see that he drops off the wheel on almost every corner and has to chase that little bit back on that cuddle could not cost him in the next few events so it's quite interesting just to watch um how different they are and how different they're trying to push it on there's no half measures with christian bloomberg are there emma it's it's absolutely everything every time with him he does say that you know he does race all out there and and sometimes to the detriment he he did say it points that it is bordering on stupid but um i think you know as an athlete we've obviously seen and heard his name now a little bit more this year and and i guess that you know he's just somebody who is willing to test his boundaries in whatever capacity and look if you got the likes of those two athletes around you all you can do is live and learn just heard that igor polyansky is the latest casualty so yet another big name is out more than 90 seconds yeah this is a great racing we're seeing and i think the number of people that have been taken out is is testament to that and we've still got two legs to go these guys have got to dive into the water now after a really hard 10 minutes on the bike and swim and yeah we'll see again whether that gives any chance for just a bit of daylight to develop between them well johnny did mention after that round that he you know that he thought that he stroked would feel better you know that that would account for something in the water that that would take over so even as someone who who feels as confident in the in the wood as he does for him to say that you know he really struggled uh in this instance yeah um i know very well johnny puts a lot of stock in your swimming stroke he's always telling me how good it is uh yeah i'm absolutely testament to that um but does he get that modesty from do you think i don't know well he thinks it's better than mine anyway so yeah i'll probably agree with him so here they come food transition and off the bikes and this swim could be absolutely pivotal deciding who's going to get the maximum 25 points one of them's going to get 25 one's going to get 21. and one of them is going to get 18 and that seven point gap first to third could potentially be critical come tomorrow afternoon yeah absolutely critical i mean there is only two races um and that is just ben dykstra there on the side of the course i don't know whether he's been eliminated or been taken out or crashed i'm not sure but he's definitely out of this race just pulled out aleister again more than 90 seconds behind yes uh more and more more more people going out yep this swim is gonna be crucial um any little moment here a gap on the swim or a bad transition could have massive consequences in the whole not just today's race but the whole picture in terms of the the combination of the races tomorrow definitely blue midfield brownlee and murray in that order as they head towards the marina yeah we we're going to see blumenfelt dive in here first and take it on i would expect johnny just to either try and sit on a little bit and rest or take it on and richard murray just needs to go straight for the first feat he can find and conserve energy around here i think if he knows if he comes out with these guys and conserves energy then he's in a great position to um you know to to beat these guys over on a 2k run but it's going to be interesting to see her it's been tactical especially on this this last leg it's been tactical i'm pretty sure johnny's been conserving energy a little bit um and richard to an extent as well what kind of a deficit do you think richard murray would accept the sense of okay maybe 10 seconds i reckon i can maybe get the better of johnny and christian over that with that much of a disadvantage or 15 or five no i think uh if he knows there's much more than five seconds he's going to struggle to be honest i would have thought over 2k i mean they're fairly evenly matched running anyway we saw last week where johnny actually beat richard at over 10k fair enough but um yeah i think they're fairly evenly matched i think if they all come out together the three of them i think it's going to be interesting to see whatever so if there's any gap there it's going to be even more interesting and we see i mean they said johnny there is leading you know turning his arms over christian's in second place on his feet really turning over quick and choppy doing all he can to stay on johnny's feet and whether that's going to cost him in the next 200 meters of the swim or going on to run it's going to be interesting to see richard just dropped him back onto the feet any energy conservation and holding in there that's definitely the best tactic for him i reckon the moment is about five seconds from uh back to richard murray we'll get obviously the official title they come out with water in the next couple of minutes yeah it's interesting that um it's not splitting as much as we might have thought on these swim legs um i think to be honest when it's just a pure straight line like that and you're just swimming on each other's feet it's you know the advantage you get from being behind someone is massive and you know it's quite easy to stay there the reason we see it split up more in bigger itu races when we um in the world series when people go around boys and they're in big groups is that people kind of hold each other back and that allows gaps gaps to happen and not get filled we see henry uh schumann having another great swim there trying to swim across the gap he sort of keeps going from no man's land back back to the group and now to no man's land the water brings him back into context every time doesn't it yeah he's having uh he's having the tough days now he's definitely using his strengths to the maximum and you've got to do in this kind of racing you can see the gap there it is around about half a minute from murray in third his fellow south african in fourth and it's pretty spread after that as well i'll tell you that currently at the back of the field looks like uh fernando is gonna be pulled out as well yeah um johnny just eased off his turn over there i think he's decided i'm not gonna drop them at this point in the race and if i do uh if i get a gap for a hundred meters the best i can do is two or three seconds and it's not worth it so i think he's just eased off the gaps and he's known that that's gonna conserve just a little bit of energy coming onto the run and let's not forget just getting out of the water back up to transition i mean uh you know richard someone like richard really maximizes those sorts of places doesn't he you know the the small areas within the race and i just think yeah you're right he's he's tactically he's just reassessing every every few seconds within this race okay well mentioned that ben dykstra is out in the race as the leading trio come out the water there's critical vicky who's got van with him thank you guys yeah so ben i can see you're stood here you've got scrapes covering your body um not what you were hoping for tell us what happened i mean we were just still pushing it and uh i think i just went a bit too hard around one of the corners and that's the thing when you're absolutely on the limit you've got to try and find that extra percent and if you overshoot it by one percent then yeah things like this happen and that's just part of racing it's a shame that it happened to me but yeah i'm looking forward to watching these guys come through the finish because it's it's get up tomorrow and do it all again and hopefully stay on my bike this time yeah we wish you all the best of tomorrow and hope you heal up overnight thank you very much thank you well we like the attitude he wants to get right back into the swim of things tomorrow meanwhile we have just got the run leg to go to decide who's going to win this challenge it's really important i think john has just lost a bit of time there he struggled to get his shoe on and that couple of seconds could be absolutely critical and but yeah you can see the tires there's not a really quick turnover you'd expect going out on the start of the run that we saw in the in the first two uh in the first two rounds and i think this has really really hurt them so it's going to be interesting to see what happens over this next 2k run well it's aaron royal who's trying to chase down henry schuman currently uh in fourth place but skinner's got a nice little advantage so he looks pretty much guaranteed to come forth and that carries with it 16 points and there's something goes dramatically wrong but yeah as you were saying it looked like johnny uh didn't get it completely right in transition he's given both luminescent and murray maybe about 10 15 meters yeah we're not seeing it on the uh on from the camera here but we just saw him run past and there was a 10 meter gap there and he didn't look like he was moving that well be honest so i think he's going to be he's going to struggle to get back on terms over this 2k run and i think uh it's probably going to be between blumenfeld and murray here well this is a real statement of intent isn't it from bloomin for help he just knows only one way to compete doesn't matter whether it's in the water on the bike or on the run and he's trying to throw it down to richard murray he hasn't dropped the south african but he's got himself a little bit of an advantage with johnny brownie further adrift now back in third no that's definitely daylight there he's got an advantage murray would be right on that shoulder if he possibly could be and uh that just shows bloomfield's pushing it on johnny's actually lost a fair bit of time here the best part of ten seconds over that time so he must have taken it out of him and he's struggling whether he goes hard here and i hope he can catch murray or not it's going to be interesting to see he might suspect his fashion could be the better part of valor because whether he finishes like a second behind him or 30 seconds behind the same points assuming obviously schumann doesn't catch him which looks unlikely in any case over 2k murray getting closer to bloomington this is going to be good yeah fantastic i think um you know blumenfeld is just going absolutely mapped here and he knows 2k he just thought well it can break murray early doors maybe i can get a gap and hold on to it whereas murray's gone no i'm gonna it's a 2k race i'm gonna pace up to him keep it a bit more even paced and i think that's what he's done now he's got back on terms with him he's just behind him and uh he'll just sit there now until he until he feels like he can make a move he has the norwegian in his sights blumenthal is so strong even if murray does go past him expecting to try and fight back we've seen it before so many times there's johnny yeah bloomfield's running really quick around the corner as well which is one of the interesting things his turnover is really really high isn't it i mean as much as we know we've seen richard and um and the way he can well accelerate and in and out of corners too but you're you're right about christian there he it's really surprising and and they both look like they're really trying to continue to put the pressure on each other i mean i think he felt that um murray come up on him and thought you know i'm going to try for another gear so whether whether or not this gear lasts or not it's going to be very exciting well the sweet sound of the bell for christian blumenfeld and richard murray they just have a thousand kilometers to go meters meters [Applause] yeah i mean he has to really race clever here to make sure he doesn't get caught because you know once he's at four and the points that i've cost him going into the overall that could be really quite terminal for him so yeah interesting that it's obviously really hurt him and he's struggling this battle between murray and blumenfeld is still going on that exactly the same as it was last time they came past five meters and we'll see over this last um the closing parts of the race now uh what goes on blumenfeld the way he runs and we've seen it before he's not gonna just allow murray to sit on the shoulder and then he thinks he's going to just ease past him with 100 meters to go that's not the way he does things and he's got himself another gap and this one could potentially be the difference between 25 points and 21. blumen had a magnificent season and we may not have seen the end of it yet because murray is struggling to get back on terms with the norwegian there you see the gap yeah that's a significant gap now a very significant cap but murray's still running well he's still got his head up you can tell he hasn't given up on it quite yet um but blue and felt he just pushes around every corner and out every corner and that's what's caused the gap um and i think i mean that 10 meters over this last five or six hundred and going out i think that's gonna be really hard for me to close but um you never know a separate battle going on with johnny barely trying to hold off henry schumann it's the battle for third and fourth but we are with the leader christian blumenthal you can see murray back he's not really being able to close in the last uh minute or so knows he's not far away now from starting this uh second ever super league triathlon event with maximum points for the saturday yeah i think he's he's won it now i can't see uh richard murray being able to close that gap blumenthal is on a high he's running well um he looks like i mean obviously not comfortable but he's no signs of slowing up at all and yeah that gap's going right out 20 30 meters at least which is not gonna get caught the interesting thing now is uh johnny is probably going to get caught by uh henry schumann and whether he then he's waiting to to try and get him in the sprint or not or whether he's just so tired he can't do anything about it we're going to see in this next minute so richard barry has to settle for second and he'll conserve energy from here no danger of him being caught for that position and probably if he'd offered him second today at the start he would have taken it but he's in great position to defend that title yeah to be honest i think for anyone who isn't one of these first two uh it's going to be quite hard um not to win this because of the big points discrepancies and you know i think you know foreign again in well worse than what they did so four or four fifth um and i'm not sure we're going to see that happen so yeah i think we're seeing probably the guys in in the first um who are going to call him first and second overall here he's enjoying the moment yeah he is he's conducting the crowd as well but he's conducted this race absolutely brilliant consistency he swung well he's bike to run really bravely he looks behind there's no danger and he is going to win this race blumenfeld takes 25 points puts himself in pole position for tomorrow's eliminator and to take the overall title but this man who's the defending champion he'll have to rip it out of his grasp he is going to take big points too he's such a character he finished his second in the race and johnny brownlee with schumann trying to get the sprints on but brownie has held him off and brownlee will finish third and that keeps him in good shape as well with the south african schooling back and forth yeah i think um like i said johnny were really disappointed with that or struggle you know he knows it's going to be struggle going into the next round what's going on but what a fantastic great race for christine bloomfield i mean we talked so much about how they were racing uh tactically and technically trying to save energy for for this race and out of the three of them we wouldn't have thought that christian blumenthal was saving the most energy um to use it on that run so he's done really well there raced well and you know obviously he's super fit um and ran well and we've seen it good on him fantastic fantastic racing mario mola finishing in fifth let's hear now from our winner of this race because christian blumenthal is down with that well christian blumenthal winner of triple mix today please tell me how you are feeling uh it feels super good like i knew that especially murray he seemed to be really strong on the run so i wasn't really sure how to where to get him but yeah super pleased i mean has anything about today's three races being tactical i mean it seems like you guys worked so well together but for yourself personally is it just a matter of staying there i think uh the fact that we are like heavy we are starting the next race with a gap that we built up on the run before that played a huge uh in today because like today we just tried to go hard on the first one and kept it going so yeah it worked together well together well do you think the experience of hamilton island you've had a great season this year does that all come into play in helping you in this sort of environment well my plan was actually to stay a little bit more calm on the first round but it's too hard you know with so many people around cheering on you and so yeah i think i didn't plan to go that hard in the beginning but yeah certainly played out well well it doesn't certainly it certainly doesn't seem like that's in your nature of racing so we wish you all the quickest recovery and all the best for tomorrow thanks well he's such a modest guy christian blumenthals we checked the results here his winning margin over richard murray 13 seconds in the end similar distance back to johnny brownlee who held off the charging henry skimmer with mario mode of the world champ back in fifth matt hauser some 50 seconds of drift you can see how this strung out jake bert whistle and i mean who would have thought he would finish a minute plus behind the win yeah we would have never predicted that after he looked so good in the first round of this in hamilton island but yeah we haven't seen an awful lot of great racing from him this year so maybe you know the form he struggled with a little bit maybe who knows there could be a bit of an injury going on or again towards the back end of the year but yeah you can see there that both ryan fisher and ben canoe eliminated both 30 plus behind so in the end only 10 finishers which i don't think anyone would have forecast at the start of the day such was the pace of racing in this super league triathlon i don't think if you were if you were asked at the start of the day alistair how many do you think would be eliminated i'd have said maybe i'd know two or three um in the end 14. yeah no i don't think anyone would have predicted that um and really interesting to see and it was definitely nothing like that in hamilton island and i think like we've said before it's just to do with how aggressive they went out on that first leg like christine blumenfeld said he's he said my plan was to keep it easy on that first leg but basically i got carried away and all our questions about whether it was technical um or kind of tactical racing i think have been answered there because it wasn't i think that they the guys those three took it on and you know the other guys they just had to go with it around it and um and they just went for it which made for really really great watching okay let's get down and hear from the defending champion the man who was second in the triple mix and richard murray is downstairs with vicki hi richard so you looked really comfortable today out there i mean second place but you were orchestrating the crowd the whole way through that final stage and you look supremely confident and yeah it was definitely you know the plan was to guard really hard because i knew it was a 4k run with a break in between um and i think that was the biggest moment we could get a bit of a gap going uh it's the first time i've ever been in a breakaway in my career so i was like man we really have to work hard on this bike and uh yeah geez it was pretty hot out there i'm not gonna lie it wasn't easy so you feeling good going into tomorrow yeah yeah i think so i definitely started to feel uh at the end of the race on the bike i started to feel okay the legs are legs are getting a bit sore here and a bit tired but uh yeah definitely i'm feeling good going into tomorrow and uh save a little bit in the tank for more tomorrow so uh we'll see how it goes good luck nice yes thank you very much and thanks to please it's wonderful well that is the absolute key to it as he said keep something in the tank for tomorrow interesting that richard murray during his interview aston was talking about not used to being in a lead pack on the bike well maybe you know his swimming has been his achilles heel we know down the years but if he improved that a little bit we've seen how well he bikes now when he runs um you have to think maybe he'd have more success yeah definitely i mean but that is the million dollar question about triathlon as a whole isn't it if uh if you improve on discipline you got more likely uh to win overall but yeah i think you know like you said he knows that something is his weakness i'm sure he's worked on it very very hard and that's uh that's shown with probably a little bit of improvement but it's a hard thing to do you know a lot of people talk about swimming and having to do it from a young age to learn the stroke and the technique and and having that ability in the water and there's not an awful lot of people out there who i've seen who've managed to really transform their swimming ability around that said it's not impossible either well that is your top 10 and they are the only 10 that finished officially because everyone else was more than 90 seconds behind at some point 14 different triathletes and these are the world's best remember these and also rams have been eliminated blumenfeld wins maximum points murray second brownly third uh mario mona still giving himself a little bit of a squeak tomorrow having finished in fifth place overall and that will get the world champion 14 points okay let's go down and enjoy the podium presentations we're down there on the podium ladies and gentlemen it's time to present the trophies to the male superstars of super league triathlon following today's triple mix race [Music] presenting the triple mix trophies today is local jersey junior triathlete joe bideau presenting the champagne is senator lyndon farnham [Music] in third place for the triple mix at super league jersey 2017 [Music] everyone can hear me [Music] ladies and gentlemen it's time to present the trophies to the male superstars of super league triathlon following today's triple mix race presenting the triple mix trophies today is local jersey triathlete joe bideaux presenting the champagne is senator lyndon farnham [Music] in third place for the triple mix at super league jersey 2017 from great britain let's hear it for jonathan brownlee [Applause] in second place for the male triple mix at super league jersey 2017 wearing number seven from south africa richard murray [Applause] and today's winner at the men's triple mix at super jersey let's turn it up for our winner number two christian blumenfeld [Applause] ladies and gentlemen please give it up for our men's podium finishes at super league jersey triple mix [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] well it's not just up close and personal with the athletes up close and personal and quite wetly champagne by the look of it the way they were spraying it around um what are your reflections on that uh alice the you know johnny on the podium but maybe a bit surprised with the way that bloomfield in particular really took the race on in the latter stages yeah definitely i don't think um either of us would have predicted that uh that bloomfield would really better push on on that last run and get such a significant time gap i think we thought it would have been close and we would thought those three guys would be fairly evenly matched but i think it just shows how much the other stages have taken out of uh the athletes obviously i took it out for the start from the first swim out first out of the water the first swim and it was full on the whole way round and uh i was trying to save as much as i could but it was really hard work and then i made a mistake my second transition at the end and that cost me the race but yeah these two incredible uh they ran really fast that last run uh but yeah i'm really tired and i gotta do it all again tomorrow do you think that these two having race in hamilton island played a little bit of an advantage or you just think you're all going out there going as hard as you could uh maybe a little bit advantage uh i was a bit confused at times what was next you know what i picked my happiness my goggles up and things like that but i had the the advantage of the home crowd so that's a big big advantage and it's great to see lots of jersey people come out and support me so thank you and yeah let's bring on tomorrow well richard we saw you excel in hamilton island today talk about the race yeah it was uh definitely looked at it beforehand and i realized it was a four kilometer run uh kind of on the trot and uh yeah i decided uh that was the moment to try and go for it today and uh luckily i had uh obviously there's two men next to me come you know come with and uh yeah it was definitely a really hard day it's my first breakaway ever and the crowd was amazing and yeah it's very hard to be in a breakaway so yeah kudos to the guys that do it every race i mean the three of you certainly seem to play a tactical game out there once you got that advantage was that something you really kept thinking about or was it a matter of conserving until well the final run yeah well i definitely thought oh no now we actually have to keep going at this one so i only realized that only after the first one i thought wow this is going to be pretty hard today but yeah it was great fun the guys worked really well and yeah bloom and fault managed to get the better of me today but uh yeah great great from the two guys and from the supporters and everyone that came out you know cheers and thanks to super league for making it happen well our winner christian i mean you've got the two amazing athletes by your side but you managed to to get over the top of them today i mean that must be an amazing feeling in itself yeah it's fantastic to be in a breakaway with like brownlee and murray so yeah i enjoyed it you've often said that you know you don't often race the smartest you just go out there and it does it is a little detrimental at times but today it certainly seemed to have paid off yeah i think i had to pay hard for that hamilton ireland so yeah luckily i played a bit different here today so yeah i'm happy well we wish you all a very speedy recovery and we're looking forward to seeing you doing it all again tomorrow yeah thank you so much really popular christian bloom and found that he goes in tomorrow with maximum points of course but richard murray hot on his heels and johnny brownie will come in third overall well the 25 guys have had well at least they had some experience of what they were going to be in for today because they raced on hamilton island but coming up next 25 of the best women in the world and the first time they will ever have competed at this format you do not want to miss it coming up shortly [Music] [Applause] [Music] up here in the studio maca and i feel like we've been through uh i don't know what we've been through was quite an emotional thing wasn't it uh to watch christian blumenfeld after three second places in a row in wts and you know how much he hated finishing second in that rotterdam race last weekend to finally do it and to do it in front of two guys who were so accomplished what a huge moment and you saw how important that first race was he was very very aggressive he had a great start in the swim um brownlee set that up with a great you know leading out that first win but that first race set it up for him on that last run like i thought he's going to turn himself inside out he looked remarkable hung on i actually picked richard to run over the top of him yeah well he certainly looked that way he looked like he was comfortable there but then christian bloomfield found what ninth gear or maybe tenth gear and managed to run away from him and the other thing that really stood out and obviously we've talked about it a lot is the stretch between the athletes which was huge we only had 10 people finished that race it was a 60-second rule back in hamilton island we made it 90 seconds we probably could have made it three minutes if we wanted to lose one or two and it started all the way back in the first stage when people started slipping coming out of the water and it just started to create these gaps i mean after these guys have put everything into this swim you saw jake burtwhistle there have a big slip we see christian bloomfield have a slip later on these guys were having trouble getting up there and that's when the stretch began well christian blumenthal with his poor swim here you watched him in race one set up that whole race for him in the entire day by being very very aggressive on that on that bike course also uh there was some trouble uh coming off the bike as well if you guys had uh a few problems johnny brownlee had a terrible transition andrea schilling had a tough transition as well and we see that right here because these guys have got huge lactic coming in and this is not usually the way they do things and they get the wobbles yeah well they taste like us yeah well the takeaway is little gaps matter and and they extend very much so henry schumann are a real star of today's race i thought let's talk about uh the guys that are eliminated because there are 14 of them they've got to back it up tomorrow in the eliminator which is designed to hurt people as well but it's hard to back up and a guy like ben shaw who had a tough time in hamilton island was the first to go well the takeaway you wonder if the guys who were eliminated today are going to be a lot fresher for tomorrow's race those boys up front were very very hard benny sure we saw in hamilton island i'm keen to talk to him tonight to see what his what his tactics are for tomorrow because the eliminator is a special event i'm not keen to talk to him at all i think i'll give him a wide berth i think everyone anyone who knows ben shaw he's he wears his passion on his sleeve and he's uh he's going to be really bummed with himself it's been great racing uh congratulations on coming together with this one because uh we saw obviously ali brownlee talking about how good it was well done thank you very much uh we were i guess we're all surprised by the results can't wait for tomorrow all right there is plenty to come we're gonna have the women's race that's in about an hour's time and tomorrow we're going to see the men and the women once again it's been huge triple mix first of four races we'll be back very very soon [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] after the brutal heat of hamilton island australia super league triathlon has crossed the globe to just off the coast of france and we've doubled in size our men are back they know what's coming and they have scores to settle and here we'll crown our new queen with 25 of the best women in the world taking on super league for the very first time four races 50 athletes olympic medalists world champions iron men and women it doesn't get much better than this this is jersey this is super league we're back what is super league painful tactical action packed this is super league hello one will mccloy and alongside me two of the greats of triathlon emma snowstell and chris mccormack and makka super league hamilton island was great this is a bigger and better challenge well i think we all agree super league hamilton island exceeded all our expectations and now here on jersey it's going to be absolutely marvelous an epic course to have a look at twice as much talent emma we've got 25 of the best women in the world as well it's a deep field strongest women's field we've seen assembled since rio these women are going to put on a true show for us as well so very exciting to see what they can produce and we get to stand on top of a castle that's not too bad either let's find out a little bit now about what super league is all about jersey marks the debut of the women in super league triathlon and if the men have taught us anything it's that no reputation is safe 2013 world champ non-stanford and commonwealth games gold medalist jody stimson are sure to be in the mix it's awesome to be here i remember watching it when it was in hamilton island with the men and i was just jealous it's the total unknown in one way you need the endurance to get through all the events but then you still need the speed to get to that point so it's going to be a total mixture throw in current world jewishland champ in pallant and young sophie caldwell and the british contingent is strong it kind of feels like a home event like loads of us brits coming over to do it and we're such good friends off the course as well so i think hopefully we can maybe work together and try and uh overthrow the americans the rivalries run deep and the american challenge will be headed by katy zafirus second in the recent world series grand final alongside californian lifeguard taylor spivey i think this format suits the well-rounded triathlete um you can't be strong at one discipline i think you have to be a smart racer it's such a balance just between make sure you're conserving the energy to last over the two days and the multiple races but also being fast enough to make it to the last day and make it into the final rounds so i'm just going to try and find that sweet spot europe boasts some real class as well watch out for sprint specialist claire michelle former junior world champion emmy shararon and dutch favorite rachel clammer i used to be pretty bad in short distances but i've showed the last couple of years that i'm actually getting better at that too because i mean my first wts medal and my only one wasn't short the distance it's unique it will be my first time to change the order of the triathlon so i will say everyone has a chance here but if you make a little mistake you're gone the course may be short but the challenge will be intense probably the toughest part is diving back in the water when your legs are completely stuffed already because we're not used to that normally we dive in the water and we feel good we feel fresh so that'll be the biggest challenge i think away from sport life can present some other challenges too just ask 2012 olympic champion nicholas spurick four months ago i gave birth to my second child malaya and i was lucky i could start training again very soon after giving birth i think i'm still having a chance this is one of the strongest women's fields ever assembled and they're about to take on one of triathlon's greatest tests you don't know who's good at this format and you don't know who's going to do well and everybody's a threat i'm going to be realistic and hope for a top five the whole concept's amazing like loads of sports going to be here and yeah i'm really excited everyone is so excited for the race and talking about it and yeah i'm looking forward to it as we tend to do here at super league triathlon we're breaking new ground once again 25 very excited after having watched the men's race probably slightly stressed women about to take on the triple mix alongside me chris mccormack and three olympic medals if you don't mind sitting here too vicky holland and alastair brownlee and we're going to break it down right now michael will start with you i know that uh at hamilton island lots of people are saying where's the women here they are and they'll be here for every round from now on they're very excited and what a field we're going to see it's it's going to be amazing racing to watch we're all talking about the the americans versus the brits but the whole entire european contingent australian contingent here it's going to be wonderful yeah we're covering pretty much the whole globe so you just put you just stayed right on the fence there let's uh let's ask for some more insightful comments from you too let's start with you vicki exciting to have the women here who do you pick in this format it's a really tough one we haven't got anything to go on they've not done this before i think someone you can never overlook is nicola spirig she's just been around in this sport for so long she's got two olympic medals just strong across the board and tactically very astute too yeah and four months after having a child she has a eight pack on her on her stomach i saw it yesterday i was very impressed uh ali we saw a huge spread in the men's field are we expecting the same here do you think it's gonna be interesting to see uh obviously it's exactly the same course exactly the same format but how the athletes take it on is gonna be very different my my gut feeling is it's probably gonna be a little bit less aggressive so the spread isn't gonna be quite as much that said the feel could spread out you know in terms of the difference in the abilities i'd like to go a bit more out there obviously stay with the brits i think it's going to be great to see non and jody race well but a bit of a dark horse in terms of sophie caldwell she's great over the short distances normally technically great at the swim bike transitions pushing on early doors so i think we could expect to see her race aggressively and take it on so three brick tips from the british yeah yeah that's very exciting what about you quick name laura linderman katie safaris all right there you go we've covered a few bases there let's have a look now uh at the afternoon's schedule and what a schedule it is going to be up next uh the women's triple mix as we said it's going to be very if you're watching the men it's going to be tough it's going to be painful and we might get rid of a few people uh before the end of it and then tomorrow we flip the order the women will take on the eliminator which is another uh very very stressful format and then the men uh round out the whole thing it's going to be exciting racing this afternoon i can't believe it it's it's finally here we've seen a lot of the girls warming up they're watching the men's race that take away from that men's race is how important race uh stage one is of this of this triple mix all right we saw the men attack it with all the gusto in the world uh earlier on in the day and now the women will start to swim 130 meters out to the first boy a hard turn left and then another one and we saw the field maybe not break up as much on the swim as we did in the other two legs yeah and and from that takeaway from the men sophie caldwell could be really really quick out so look for her to be right up near the front the run up to that bike transition was very very critical and super slippery too you've got to be careful you don't slip we saw a lot of the men lose a bit of time coming out of the water onto that sort of a plastic ramp which is very steep on the bike it looks easy um in terms of the elevation changes but it is anything from easy it's those turns that made that racing very very tough and we saw that especially this right-hand turn here and back onto the marina area where a lot of gaps were opened up mario mola was exposed in the men's race aggressive riding will uh will open this course right up for the front runners yeah we saw a couple of guys yell pereira and ben dykstra leave a little bit of skin on the cobblestones and the pavement there the run exactly the same course um and it's possible as we saw to gap people well this 90-second rule comes into play we saw in the men's race more than half the fuel were eliminated so in the women's race let's see the aggressive racing whether they can eliminate athletes early and the run courses where you can do that all right it's uh it's a tough one it's more technical than we thought it was going to be it's more difficult than we thought it was going to be less than half the field finished in the men's race we'll see what happens uh but let's get a more or in-depth look if you will at the course with vicki out of the swim straight up this ramp it's long it's narrow there's only maybe two athletes wide that can fit up here and on top of that we've got rungs on the left hand side this could also get really slippy when it's wet [Music] this is the first swim turn we're 130 meters from the start pontoon and the athletes will arrive at this point within one minute and 30 seconds of the start they'll then have to negotiate a sharper than 90 degree turn and they will be jostling for positions here expect it to get messy [Music] so not only is this the swim exit ramp it also acts as the entry ramp on two stages of the triple mix the gradient is going to really play a factor here it's so steep the athletes are going to come flying down here and they're going to have to show some caution [Music] this is the first corner of the bike course where the athletes will come to when they're carrying any kind of speed at all the angle of this corner is greater than 90 degrees they're going to be changing road surfaces and have to be very mindful of the fact that athletes may be coming in the other direction so they can't go over the midsection of the road this is potentially the most dangerous corner on the bike course the athletes will come down this downhill gradient round this sharp 90 degree corner they'll have to negotiate a change of road surface even though this bollard won't be here on the day this drain cover will and drama could happen right here i'm surprised that you uh as the founder just didn't leave that bollard up well we tried but the athletes complained about it let's complain about it there's already uh there's plenty of things to worry about out there in terms of the course we've seen the carnage already but the format itself well that lends itself to a lot of carnage let's have a quick run through of how the triple mix actually works it's three stages with alternating sequences swim bike run run bike swim bike swim run 10 minutes in between stages the first athlete crosses the line every athlete behind them pays the time that they lost in the second stage pursuit style and in the third stage again and then the first man across the line is the winner of stage 3 and the winner of the triple mix we didn't think the 92nd rule would come into effect the way it did but 14 men fell foul of it and we will wonder whether that will happen uh in this one but let's look at you know people who we think might be at the front of it and a lot of people have said well at least when i've been talking to the women they they point out katie's the ferris who's been incredibly consistent over the course of this season well consistency's been the key to the success of this season she's really improved the tech technical skills on the bike which has been a floor a floor of her in the past and she's paid with uh second in the world at the moment we mentioned non-stanford uh 2012 under 23 world champ and then 2013 world champ the first person to step up and do it in consecutive years home crowd as well what do you think and she's had a soft season she's coming here relatively fit she's got something to prove none has proved in the big event she tends to rise to the occasion and and just looking at her in at the hotel she looks ready to race laura linderman uh from germany is flying the german flag on both sides we don't have anyone from germany on the men's side and uh she is well she she didn't even do triathlon at the london olympics watched it went to rio yeah she was a junior world champion under 23 world champion was shown in super league racing speed kills she's one of the fastest athletes in the field she's starting right next to katie safiri's on the in the start position in the swim she can sit off that hip and set that race up for herself yeah just 21 years of age as well we think maybe this course favors uh the younger with a little bit more fast twitch but uh it's going to be very very interesting indeed it's coming up very very soon we are back and uh we're just seeing them mill around a little bit down there on the pontoon they will have watched the men's race and seen what happened and i feel like there'd be more than a few butterflies going on this is when you start to get really really anxious we saw in the in the draw um for the for the start positions where these athletes were set we saw at the men's race that inside line was a big advantage it split a little bit at the start of that swim too and uh people obviously going in there knowing they've got to go full tilt and maybe not looking up when they need to look up yeah yeah but what aleister said in the men's race was quite interesting indeed and you saw the right hand the worst position number 25 start slot it gave you a little bit of free water you did swim the furthest way around but you notice those athletes got out and ran up the up the ramp a lot quicker than the others certainly now where they start on the pontoon is due to the slot draw that we had uh yesterday here which is very interesting everyone choosing each other's uh slots so whether they were nice or whether they weren't well it was very interesting they were a bit rude to each other let's uh see how it all played out [Music] [Music] oh [Music] it was very interesting to see how some of them uh just gave whoever their competitor was at the worst possible position and some of them took it easy yeah that's been an interesting dynamic on both the men's eminence i think if anything the women were more cruel to their competitors than the men were yeah absolutely uh it finds out that taylor spivey actually gave them a jeffcoat number one spot she'll start in the best spot but uh anything could happen here let's have a look now at the start list uh for stage one at least emma jeff code as i said she's in the number one position alongside uh jewel olympic pool swimmer samira alvatar of bahrain jody stimpson we've seen agnes kazik desiree ryden are only 18 years of age she's fantastic on the run look for her emmy shararon emma pallant second at the 70.3 worlds a couple of weeks ago sophie colwell another local talent nicholas spirig uh four months after giving birth amazing melanie santos of portugal uh carolina routier who's also renowned for her swim alongside rachel klammer charlotte machaine laura linderman we've mentioned already alongside katie zafira so look for those two in the middle of the pack uh there's a little u.s connection there some are cool kirsten casper barbara riveros non-stanford and lucy hall um it's going to be a there's a lot of interesting match-ups there claire michelle anastasia abrasive over it just worked out that the russians happened to take all the wide spots yeah they did and the americans are all grouped together in the center of the start position that'll be very very interesting and the russians all on the outside all right uh let's have a look uh well let's actually throw down now to uh vicky who's down i think on the pontoon it was fantastic to get that access in the men's race where are you vic yeah i'm here down on the pontoon all of the crowd has stayed to watch the women's race which is absolutely fantastic we've got amazing crowds all over the marina right now all the girls are on the start line we've got an interesting slot draw again some of the girls are a little bit more tactical potentially a little bit more brutal in their decision making of where they placed other athletes we've got some of the stronger athletes right over on this far right hand side we've got taylor spivey at slot 23 she was given that slot won't be the slot she was hoping for we've also got the three americans a trifecta of americans at slots 14 15 and 16 with summer cook katie zafires and also kirsten casper said that's going to be an area to watch out for we've also got emma jeffco at slot one she's got the inside line there's plenty of tactics set to come into play on this one it's going to be a hugely important swim we'll head down now to our commentary team ali brownlee emma snosel and trevor harris thanks very much indeed will you we're just seconds away from the first ever super league triathlon event for women interesting some were portraying it as this usa versus gb but we've got a couple of aussies jeffco and mcshane of course rachel farmer as well to say nothing of nicola spirick who has two olympic medals stand by then for the start 300 meters to swim it looked pretty clean alistair brownlee and emma snowsil have rejoined me here in the commentary box so interesting everyone seems to have a different view emma is who potentially might win this but i have a few fancy certainly in the water i think santos might go well rude show we've mentioned uh sophie corbin and lucy hall as well we know it's renowned for hustling yeah there's some fantastic swimmers in the field and i think you know the conditions are as good as they can get in jersey um it's certainly dry outside isn't it and um but the water is cool and obviously you know it's a short swim but these girls um i think there's enough adrenaline pumping through them for them not to feel it basically what you were saying in the studio yet had a feeling it might not be quite so full-on in the women's race as it was in the midst why do you think that yeah it's always tough to know but i think we saw that race lit up like we did because of basically only three people being very aggressive from that first leg and i just get a feeling we might not see that although saying that you know we're returning to the action straight out the blocks there's three of them there with a bit of a gap back to the rest of the field and then two people swimming really well at flugel's doing really well at the front so it's going to be interesting to see it and like we talked about before and the men's when people should be next to each other like we see loads than now we can see lucy hall there just two in on the camera shop normally a good swimmer but already a good 10 meters down and when all of them swim next to each other they're just slowing each other down so one of those girls could actually get on the feet of the person the person in third but they can't because someone's or two people are actually on the hips it's literally like being dragged back in the water and that's why that gap happened well i have to say that um i have spoken to a number of the men that race and i i have heard that the men are brutal but not quite as brutal as women and certainly not the things i've encountered in the in the water at times and um you know as much as you say you know these girls um would be better off but you can see a lot of them hitting each other over the head i've had my my tongs pulled down i've been pulled under water i've been swum over the top off so um there's something about about the way the girls race in the water that they really really somewhat even like to attack each other if you could say go as far as saying that yeah and that that turnboy they've gone round is really really uh sharp as well just jody there jody simpson trying hard as she can to get on the leading three currently in fourth place and trying to get to the front and i think i'm pretty sure that's sophie caldwell here on the outside and yeah she she's a bit of a dark quarter like i saying earlier great over the shorter distances really good kind of dynamic racer um good swimmer will really push on the first part of the bike probably so um it's good to see her at the front and yeah we're gonna see who goes whether she's normally pretty quick through transition yeah sophie got a bronze at the under 23 world championship in rotterdam just last weekend so we know she's informed this is the kind of course that could suit her both in the style of it and the duration of those she's very good over short distances i think these young athletes have an advantage you know we sort of saw that with matt hauser um you know in hamilton island where they're not really even overthinking it you know they're happy to be here they feel privileged to be racing alongside the likes of someone like nicola spirig and and if anything i think you know this sort of racing um it sort of lends itself to these young athletes as well it's it's a perfect breeding ground and and i think you know rather than thinking too much about tactics maybe we could just see them going out there and giving everything they can what do you think about nicolas berg's chance this year because not only we've mentioned she's just given birth to a second child she's fully five years older than anyone else in the field too yeah i'm really interested to see what nicholas berry does i think she's a she's an absolute star the fact that she's done so well at the last two olympics with hardly anything in between i think just shows her and her coach will brilliant getting it right when it counts which is fantastic i think she might struggle a bit here today you know she hasn't raced that much this year after just having a child so i think that's not going to be good but we'll see i think she's she's a fantastic racer getting out of the water now and routier has ended up um caroline routier from spain and dublin leading that swim at the end there and obviously a great swimmer leads most of the world series and this is where it splits like we saw in the men straight out of the water up that ramp and let's see uh let's see how aggressively they get after it on the bike especially with a couple of them slitting and sliding towards the rear of the field and they're already under pressure those are in there you can see the split first to last and it is significant already but corbin will be delighted with that swim yeah it's nice to see an australian up there no i think um like you said aleister i think you know maybe the girls and we did i i did tend to think we did see that in hamilton island particularly in the first race that uh the girls might not be so aggressive just finding their way finding how you know how this whole thing works so um yeah obviously it can go either way but uh far more bunch than uh than what we saw in the men's first race yeah pretty closely packed with pretty much all the girls always like jamie sharian still am a palette ever talent good swim you know 20 20 seconds down in 20th place less than that and so the whole field compact in within 22 seconds so it's close um and we're just seeing them head out on the in the bike effectively in one long line now that doesn't mean anything on this course you know it can still split up because of the technical nature of it if people go hard around the first few laps and put people under pressure they can spill it up all right let's go down to transition we can hear now from vicky yeah the girls have just come flying past me through t1 really good swims there from sophie caldwell emma jeff coat carolina routine as well a little bit off the pace i thought for katie zafires and summer cook and nicholas spirit's got a lot of work to do but then we've seen her come from this position many times yeah we have indeed vicky the other thing samira al-bitar of course is swamped for bahrain at two olympic games in athens and beijing she was actually plumb last out in the water so it just goes to show nothing is predictable in this form of triathlon but we are riding up front now yeah as we expected sophie coldwell being aggressive here on the early part of the bike she had a good swim was right up there out second and now she knows this is her chance to put people under pressure and she's driving on at this point all she can do is commit to the race and she can't even look at the people behind her for any help i think for a couple of that she's just got to stick her head down back herself not take risks around corner but corners but go hard and see where that ends up in it if you came i think with her she's got jodie simpson it's a great swim from her and obviously jody's a a great bike runner so that's a good position for routier and the young lindemann from german for germany who's a fantastic up-and-coming athlete i think 2014 world's world champion and european champion in the juniors so it's great to see her competing uh competing on the world stage we had lucy hall there and nicolas spirig together so interesting whether these two you know gather themselves together and um you know make you know whether they communicate and and decide to really try and you know well there's obviously a gap at this point but a few girls in front of them too and um nicholas certainly known for taking charge on the bike and and uh and leading packs the whole 40 kilometer ride so i think you know once she finds her her feet so to speak in um at this point in the race you know she could also drag a lot of the girls or even bring that whole group back together and she's only 10 or 11 seconds a drift i reckon on stanford will be pretty satisfied with her swimming bikes so far she's about 10 seconds off the place and of course none has been injured for much of this season we haven't seen too much of her i guess you can look at that two ways ellie one she might not be race fit but on the other hand she's coming in fresh yeah nuns had a tough yeah you know similar to johnny up and down injuries illnesses and just problems and you know you have those years in your career but i think it's fantastic for her to be racing here and hopefully she can get a good result as we look at the race you know these five girls at the front now are racing well that they're working well together that's uh jeff jeffco just taking the the lead to help caldwell out a little bit uh so i think these guys are gonna be tough to catch this they're pulling the field apart and um i think probably within the women's field you've got to look at asparagus probably the only kind of person who's got the firepower to start pulling this back yeah you'd probably say well maybe flora duffy's probably the only woman out who's you could say is equal to spirig on the bike because spirig's reputation has been based largely on that of course the gold medal that she won in london so dramatically in that sprint finish and then a silver last year well caldwell taking it on still you know she's done 90 of the time on the front here and good honor she's uh really really taking on rachel klarma just going through there not in a good position with spirit spirit coming through the field just riding through people we're seeing you know she came out the water with a few of the girls we're seeing now and she's just ridden straight through the field you know riding brilliantly there's lucy hall who you know was with spirit going alapago and is now 15 seconds behind yeah nicholas certainly always been very dominant on the bike no matter where she gets out of the water i mean she just focuses on on getting to the front of the race and no matter what it takes and in the years of racing her she she would always just continue to work even if it took her the whole 40 kilometers um you know to bridge a gap uh she would she would just continue to um to show her skills um on the cycle leg and i don't think we're going to see anything different this is all coming together well the front 10 i'm pretty sure within the next half lap there's gonna be a group of at least 10 girls at the front as uh those girls like spirik and the the three americans in that group that have brought it all back non-stamford also in that group so um you know bodes really well for her obviously known as been a a great runner so all those people who those girls who haven't had to you know work too hard to get back up the front are in a great position now yeah so already this is looking like maybe having a slightly different complexion to the men's race where we saw three get away three or four fairly quickly and this as you say appears to be ten of them within i know just a few seconds of each other yeah and you can just see it i mean it's just they're not quite being quite as aggressive around the corners and really going for it oh there's jody simpson on the front now as i said that she's been aggressive and attacking this race and she's a she's a great athlete she races with a heart on a sleeve and races hard and is you know very often aggressive and makes interesting watching so yeah she's going for that with um with sophie caldwell right on a wheel as well they're trading partners training together racing together so i'm sure they're talking and deciding to push this on for both advantages and we know that jody likes this kind of format um she was part of the same commonwealth games team as you that won the the spring gold medal in the relay yeah jody's uh she's a great athlete but she she likes the shorter stuff i think particularly and she's she's good at it let's see now whether this group of girls which is now the second pack managed to get uh get back on terms with the front pack but yeah i think it's probably going to be tough for them once some of these girls catch up with that that lead group i i think well goes one of two ways in those scenarios doesn't it either they all sit up and it slows right down or um someone else takes it on and uh really pulls it apart so we'll see well the other name to be wary of there i reckon is summer cook we know how well she runs and she's in that leading group too we've hardly mentioned her but she's in great position look i think this is what's so great about you know this is the first race all these girls are getting a feel for it we want to see what they can do too and especially these distances i mean yes we we know many of them are great over the short 2k how does that play out in the next round and the next stage and and and and how does the fatigue affect them so um yeah i think at some point we're going to see you know the the strengths of the athletes um you know come through but i i i just love to see that the the girls are out there racing on the same course that we've seen the men do 18 seconds currently between the first 18 out on the course that tells you how close and congested it is i think we see actually what the athlete's weaknesses are as much as anything in this scenario you know we we see both weaknesses in terms of individual events but also getting tired and making mistakes we didn't talk about it too much in the men's race because we didn't actually see it but how many people actually got eliminated from crashing or so you know you see people put under pressure make dodgy decisions and end up crashing into barriers and that's the race over which is part of it really you know being able to keep cool under pressure make good decisions at the right times and you know keep it all under control see i think we've seen them sitting up now to be honest it seems to slow down a bit and these uh these girls at the back i mean they're not having to gain themselves at those corners in a in a technical race like this um traditionally you'd say you don't want to be too new at the back of a group because it makes it much harder so the first person goes around at their speed the next person leaves a one meter gap and so on by the time you get to the last person there's lots of gaps and they have to spin back on but at this place it doesn't make that much of a difference because they're not really attacking it as such and they're all set on each other's wheels so i think like spirit for example is probably getting a reasonably easy ride i was saying a moment ago that samira albatar was last out the water she's actually fallen 90 seconds behind so she's going to be the first casualty of this women's super league triathlon which means she'll play no further part this afternoon and this second group led by taylor spivey i think she's been on the front the entire time we've seen her on that group so she's obviously working as hard as she can to get back involved lucy hall just there gone past who's obviously having a bad day and he's gone straight back through all the groups and these girls must be a little bit back as well so i think they're gonna they might struggle uh with the with a the time rule nine second rule as well as we've seen those stages where on i mean it might not be just quite in this stage but it certainly becomes more apparent with these rolling starts and um that those time deficits you know that you that you lose in this first uh first event that you really can um it just starts stretching further and further out yeah and i think jody simpson is actually really taking on now she's decided uh you know probably with sophie to commit and you just see those gaps starting to open up you know the back two or three athletes i'm not sure if it was americans so maybe as severe as maybe summer cook um just starting to have a couple of meters off the back they're probably going to get back on again but you know that sprinting back on is going to cost them and how much is it going to cost them on this next 2k run in the next three races well i think it's good tactics from jody you know she doesn't want to if she doesn't have to have someone like summer cook racing for against her with a level start at least put five 10 seconds into her from stimson's point of view cook obviously will want to try and stay close because we know how good her run is yeah the last two on the packers we just see them come along the side of the waterfront there it's actually summer cooker and stanford who've both been distanced by about five meters each so they're obviously finding it hard they probably have to work quite hard to get back on terms of these girls and uh you know it's just taking its toll all coming off in a big group and the last one i'm pretty sure that last one is summer cook so she's gonna have about a five second deficit to run into like jodie stimson who's come up first in the early part of the run so stimson first into the shoes but you can see he had to kind of go wide to avoid the other bikes coming in it's a narrow transition yeah they go summer cook seven seconds down on the entrance of transition so you know just been from the front of the back of that pack it's cost in seven seconds over you know two kilometers is a big deal it's really tough well that's right rachel claimer klemmer just leading out now and um yeah she sort of was not really doing a whole lot on the bike as she was up the front but she's um she's certainly trying to take charge maybe maybe richard has been giving her a few tips yeah maybe and yeah we saw summer cookers actually just went around that corner there is running well so i think she's gonna do all she can obviously to get back involved in the race um it's gonna be tough though even emma fallon coming at 45 seconds down you know if she was another outsider i think you could have done well a good bite runner and but 44 seconds down at this stage i think she's going to struggle to get back on terms yeah that was amy shariah just going out before her just going back to rachel climate you mentioned i've thought over the last 12 months maybe that she's starting to show some signs of real consistency so she's always had one or two good races in her but this year particularly she's come more to the four i think she's also gaining confidence in herself you know a lot of these athletes you know her may have been around a lot and and uh you know may not have been on the podium but they they're consistently there and they're consistently trying to improve and and all those little things just add to their confidence i mean rachel is certainly um you know particularly racing a lot in europe too is also great on a bike and and very technically savvy and um and i think also are used to racing this aggressively here we are nicholas spirick taking on we're wrong to uh even though she only had a child four months ago we're wrong to bed against her and doing what she knows best she's on the run now she's got clear ground in front of her and she's just gonna drill this and go as hard as he can to stretch it out which is what we're seeing behind it's kt sofia's going going with her and not too far back um followed by rachel klammer and jody stimpson and they're doing all they can to stay on stay on terms i think but yeah i mean this is good aggressive races now and it's going to spread it out to go into the second leg no surprise at all to see katie's a theory as prominent she's one of those women that just never seems to have a bad race i think the only thing i could think when she came off the bike recently in stockholm but that apart she's always top five top six she has a fair share of podiums she she came onto the scene fairly late and and i think the one thing she really has honed is her technical skills i mean she's obviously a fantastic endurance athlete and and has had that but she has been able to make those improvements through you know particularly on the bike and and just realizing that she's truly capable i think she's just taken on uh that ability and her strength of what she can do and just continue to hone and and look where it's it's helped her finish up in the in the world this year yeah definitely i think she's obviously got a natural endurance engine and she's just built on that to give her a good skill base which is now she's racing so much better and we're seeing again you know nicolas stir spirits still on the front pushing it along just what a natural ratio brilliant she knows what to do and when to do it she's running around the corners faster than the rest of them like every time she goes around the corner she seems to speed up just that little bit to try and put them under pressure um great to see emma jeff we just got a glimpse of it was first down the water but now starting to struggle on the run remember just two laps of one kilometer each and then they'll have the ten minute rest period the next stage will be run bike swim so still nicolas fury this is a phenomenal performance from the swiss it really is so fun yeah three fairly clear here with spirig uh zafires and uh mikhail from belgium um and the the remaining girls trying to we're trying to not lose too much time now um of course you know they're looking is there's the trade-off between going too hard here and you know getting back in terms of these girls and not being able to run later and uh and losing time though that the group behind led by two rich coldwell and jody stimson and they're just you know obviously running together they're training partners and they'll be egging each other on and trying not to lose too much time claire michelle is an interesting one she was lapped in the olympics her mum was a former olympic swimmer and she's put herself in a prominent position here and i think not a name that too many would have expected to be up front but certainly she started well yeah but that's what we keep saying isn't it this format we're not quite sure what's going to happen um and people that you wouldn't necessarily expect and might not race so well at the the standard form at triathlon do really well but she looks comfortable here let's go down to vicky i think you can add something to the clay michelle story vicky yeah claire michelle's been on the scene a little while but has had a real mix of results especially this year she started off really well with a couple of world cup podiums early on but she sort of struggled in the middle part of the year to really back that up and what we know of claire michelle is that even though her background has been in swimming and steeplechase running her swimming's not been as good in the last sort of few rounds of the world series but today she's put herself in the mix and she looks super comfortable there just tacking onto the back of those really established runners in both katie zafira's and nicola spirig yeah she's in the rarefied area isn't she ever of those two established name spirigan zafires that's uh summer cook just moving through the field um i think she's in fourth place now so she's done quite well coming off the bike seven seconds down she's had to run some good time into those girls in front you know just shows if she's probably three or four seconds down there if she'd come off the bike near the front she should be in front now and have a bit of a lead that shows how important just positioning the bike can be i think zafira's is actually trying to move on a bit here she looks like she's starting to put spirit under a bit of pressure and she looks really comfortable too so i think katie's become very good at controlling even her face and emotions is she she really looks calm and collected doesn't she don't play poker with her yeah definitely not moving on and there's a literally been they're in the last 500 meters now and i think that these three are playing the game a bit they they know they uh they if they go hard they can get more time on the people behind them but if they go too hard they've only got 10 minutes rest until that next two kilometer run so yeah it's quite interesting tactically balanced and i think summer cook's actually gonna catch them and and finish with them by the time she gets to the finish line yeah she's on five meters she'll she'll have caught them uh probably by the next corner i would have thought and i think that was the danger that's what i was saying with you know triathletes like jody and not just jody others as well they didn't push the bike maybe hard enough or as hard as they wanted to and that plays into the hands of of exactly those like summer cook who can run so well yeah well we saw summer cook just starting to hurt at the end of that bike and you know bungeeing off the back and so it was costing out in terms of time and energy had that bike been just a little bit harder or had it been a bit longer you know it could have been a bit of a different story to her but it wasn't and so she's here now she's she's managed to run her run herself back off on terms of them and uh you know she's going to start the the next race um in the front four and and claire mckell pushing it now she's she's really going in this last 200 meters now and and trying to get all the time she possibly can yeah so michelle with spirit safires and cook that is your leading cortex this must be the track runner in michelle here you know pushing it on and and knows the finish lines in sight and she's actually managed to uh have a distance there on sofias and summer cook again who's obviously had to run so hard to get back on terms and and she's actually yeah she's actually sprinting for the finish so she really wants those time every second she possibly can get well impressive very impressive from the belgian also nikki spirit's going to finish a second down zafires right behind and then summer cook and then a little gap but you can see how strung out they are behind i think that's jody stinson about to come across the line now well as well yeah they've done most the race pretty much shoulder to shoulder and and 13 seconds down that's that's quite a long time gap but still um you know still in contention and yeah casper coming in there carolyn routier yeah she's done all right not always uh known for running strength so uh 25 seconds down i think that's not too bad going back to barbara rivieros here um and taylor spider there from the usa coming across the line so um yeah i think it's it's still all to play for really well let's go and hear from the winner of that first stage then because clay michelle is with him clay michelle you just out sprinted an olympic champion in the first round of super league you know i think she's a very wise athlete so she's um i'm sure she's got a long-term plan in place this one is not the one you need to win you need to win the last one so a tactical move from you for the next two stages you know for me i just as much of an advantage i can give myself the better uh and uh you know we'll go from there we still got two more rounds to go i'm gonna recover go recover look forward to seeing you complete the rest of the afternoon well she's clearly a smart athlete well her aunt nicolas fury because it didn't appear as though she was struggling particularly i don't think she extended herself to the absolute maximum but she won it uh across the line together with spiri a couple of seconds away as if here is that won't be a problem for the next stage summer cook very close as well and then clamor and the two brits coldwell and stimson on the premises along with kirsten casper who we've hardly mentioned alistair but she's a pretty consistent athlete too yeah very consistent athlete and she's a pretty solid all-rounder as well so it's great to see her up there um like it's gonna be really fascinating to see how fast they go at the blocks here our um is michelle and spirit are they gonna absolutely take it out and think we're gonna hit this first k as hard as we can get a gap and see what happens or are those first four going to come back together on stanford uh way back some 54 seconds and you can see there that lucy hall and maria suretz have both been eliminated they've both fallen a minute 30 plus behind so maybe not as many casualties yet as on the men's side but you cannot afford to coast in this fall absolutely not well it's standing room only they're six or seven deep in places every possible vantage point taken it's an absolutely glorious day temperatures just above 20 degrees um wouldn't mind seeing a few more events on jersey allister yeah absolutely lovely like we were saying before first time i've ever been but you know i really regret never been before and it's just such a great venue for a triathlon um you know this uh marina is beautiful set up perfectly the the crowds lining the edge of the marina and the course just uh seemed to be absolutely loving it and creating a great atmosphere okay let's go down and speak to jodie stimson she's with him jody first leg done first stage of the triple mix done how did you find that you mean i gotta go again you gotta go again let's see it gotta go not finished two more two more times it's bloody tough hey it's like like i didn't think i'd say but like i'm one of the older ones in the field for these like rapido ones they're like good chipping at the hills i was like just trying to level up with sophie my training partner so it's good fun solid first outing but got some more in the legs i'd love to hope so thanks for talking to us thank you you've got to admire jody stimpson's honesty and she's 28 years old okay there are a few younger than her but she's really not that old jody simpson some 13 seconds off the pace that that might not be terminal potentially for her no i don't think it is and um this next one's going to be really interesting like we said are those first two and four really going to push it on and take it on on the first run um will they leave jodie with a chance to get back in you know does she run fresh 2k is she going to run better than she did off the bike where she had worked hard and she you know she did the majority of the work with sophie caldwell on that bike so be interesting to see uh straight out the blocks how quickly she can run i expect jodie will go out quick and how well she holds on for 2k we'll see yeah and she'll have a training partner right with her sophie called well too which could be an advantage interesting interviews out there look i i think um i know she's an interesting athlete one to watch and i think if you come from a steeple chase track background i think you are you have to know your tactics you have to know how to race and and um and as she said you know nicola knows what she's doing out there so uh yeah she nicola might have a shadow out there all day yeah she was great on that run stat where she needs a third position probably you're saving yourself a little bit of energy for most of it and then with two or three hundred meters to go popped out and came round you know classic track running tactics and a good honor i was going to ask you alastair and obviously we don't want to heart back to the the illness that you had in on hamilton island but in in more of a general sense how much of this kind of an event is in the head as opposed to the legs well there's a it depends on the person and obviously there's a lot of both involved at the end of the day if if you've got the physiology and you haven't got the mind you've got no chance and vice versa a glorious backdrop and stage two coming up blue sky a huge number of spectators lining the course and perfectly set up for stage two of this inaugural women's super league triathlon when the triple mix clear michelle with uh an inspired performance in that first stage uh nicholas very just keeps turning back the clock katie's a fear is ever consistent summer cook we know how well she runs klamath also was always one of those who would like you to be in the mix and then the two brits colville and stimson and uh are the rest too far behind him if you like casper 24 seconds or not i think this is yeah we're gonna we're going to see it first off we're going to see it right now on the run i think that's where it's going to become apparent and uh look if we saw it in the men i think it's highly likely we are going to see it in the females as well and uh the front runners who you know the ones who are taking charge of this race already uh certainly also know how to run and i think that's just going to continue to extend through well let's let's the rev the reverse triathlon let's call it yeah i don't want to state the obvious here but you know if you've come in the top few in the in the first race you're obviously the fastest few and you're probably going to go fastest in the second one i know the order's different and i know it's a slightly different kind of stimulus and a slightly different feeling but yeah i think those those girls obviously ran significantly faster than everyone else in the field and the likelihood is they're going to again well katie zafires was one of the real favorites before the event fancied by so many people she was great in that first age she's down as you can see with vicki katie we're just about to go for phase two of today's triple mix good start there you look really solid really comfortable how are you feeling i'm feeling good i was a little worried right after the race i felt like my tummy was a little upset but thankfully right now it seems settled so i hope it just stays that way for the next like however long it takes us 20 minutes or so have you got any specific tactics you want to play out in this second leg i think hanging with those two would be a good a good strategy at least for the to bike with someone i mean i know nicolas strong on the bike so hopefully i can stick with her good company to be in and you're looking in great shape thank you thank you very much we wish you all the best for the for the second and third phases thank you yeah so safire is fully aware of nicholas berry's strength on a bike i think everyone in the triathlon world is will it be any kind of a test for claire michelle has to try and stay with those two or not well let's see she managed to do it in the first race uh you know quite convincingly and i i think she ran that race and was fairly comfortable and we could see that at the end so i've got no doubt that she's going to be there on the run i think she's going gonna be fine on the bike um and then let's see on the swim at the end uh well we've heard that the swim is is probably her weakness and uh swimming at the end of a triathlon uh should just kind of exacerbate that so we'll see um and that's the fantastic thing about this we never quite know well if anyone's used to this sort of start she is isn't she you know from the get-go uh with the run shoes but um it'd be interesting to see where jody she's she's you know had a frustrating few years i mean in her own words she's she said this and and we've certainly seen her at the top of her game but i i just wonder how she's going to continue to claw back because i i think she really wants to take her frustration out in racing at the moment and you know these sorts of events and and races like this is where you know we could see a little bit more changing whether she's like you know i need to be back up there i need to be up with those three girls i know i'm capable um you know where some of these uh the strengths of them the mental the mental game starts coming in now jody's a fighter so she possibly can back get back up there she's gonna and she's got the benefit of being able to set off just with her training mate she's having a kind of very nice chat with now so i think she's going to set off hard i think they're going to work together and if they're together even if they don't lose much time on the run and she's got the chance to work together with sophie on the bike i think that could be their chance to get back on terms with the leading three yeah that could be a real distinct advantage i echo completely what aleister was saying and we're about a clear michelle when you spoke to her it didn't strike me that she'd gone absolutely full throttle i think she was talking about the tactics of spirit i think she had some of her own standby then we're just about set for stage two run bike swim this is and the three main protagonists from that first stage michelle spirig and safire is away so they look like they're staying off um fairly comfortably here um michelle's just well she doesn't look like she's going too hard either that she's got a very relaxed face on it but yeah let's see i i would expect spirit to take it out hard if she possibly can um i think it's the only way she she knows how to race must be a frustrating weight that when you're held on the start like just watching your rivals going further and further away it would have to be the worst part i think of these events here exactly like you said just seeing your rivals go off and uh yeah it can either uh crush you or uh you know inspire you to to go that little bit harder so interesting to see how it's going to play into the hands of some of those athletes you see katie zafira is there has just got straight back on the back and summer cooks not far off so those two first four are pretty much together i think that means that the first two have not taken out really really hard and they're all back together so i expect to see that group of four probably run round the rest of the run together and be onto the bike um which i think will probably make it a bit slower and it might give rachel clammer jodie simpson and sophie caldwell a chance to get back in this race i'd have to agree with you there i think the same i mean they certainly didn't look like they um had turned the pressure up straight away whereas as katie singh get more tactical i need to get back with those two um and i need to stick together and that well now it's a group of four of them up front so nicola again i think this she just loves to race at the end of the day she she she's been doing it for so long i think i think maybe she just prefers to race and do as much training these days she uh she thrives in this environment yeah good honor um obviously we all train to race so why not get all the racing out you can and she obviously loves races and thrives on it and at the moment she's pushing it on doing what she does best and we've got player michelle um chilling at the back you know taking it a bit easier saving energy and maybe that's the track running inner you know she knows where it's best to run to save that even if it's only one percent half a percent it's worth it i think it was inevitable almost from birth that nicholas spirit was going to be involved in sport both the parents were pe teachers she organizes these triathlon days in switzerland trying to get the youngsters into the sport she's a just a great ambassador for triathlon she truly is i mean she's been around long before i entered the sport and and was someone that uh you know i looked to and and watched and and tried to emulate and and always knew of nicola i mean she you would just be prepared and every time you could see her on on the course on the bike you know where was she she was up the front of the chase group and um and it was just a matter of time you know that she would work her way through but she has been around consistent racer and and then just speaking to her she said she she does she loves racing of course she um she loves the training too but you know when you've got that many years behind you i think you can get out there you know the body's got a blueprint for for being able to just you know get that adrenaline and excitement for racing out and um and this is where she just shines i think we've got katie sofia's on the front now making a bit of a move it looked like it was just stretching out around that corner and uh probably michelle on the back just hanging on a little bit but it come back together again behind them we saw um caldwell and stimpson have caught up clamor and those three are running together now and i'd expect those three to work together for the rest of this race to try and catch up yeah because you kind of think from those leading four's point of view now if you don't work really hard you've almost kind of wasted to a degree all the effort you've put in up to this point yeah definitely and if we listen to the interviews that uh the guys did before christine bloomfield said yeah you know we've already got that gap there's no point losing it now we might as well keep pushing and and uh increase our chances of doing well and of course that's what triathlon sports all about this is uh sophie caldwell on the front really pushing hard so you know she's dragging these other two girls behind and not always known for running in terms of traditional triathlon formats but i think over the short distance it really suits them you know we're seeing that she's she's pushing it on and you know i think making making a good move here kirsten casper there as consistent as ever just in behind and you can see they're almost kind of little separate groups now with 30 40 meter gaps in between yeah i think we're really seeing it spread out and i wouldn't be surprised at all if we see quite a good uh few of these uh eliminated at the end of this round so this is uh coming through transition then to complete the first lap of two charlotte mcshane there [Applause] he's had a few excellent results this season [Applause] stage two of the women's triple mix then it's the gang of four up front clay michelle nicholas fury katie zafires and summer cook and remember after this run they'll be onto the bikes and this time they'll finish with the swim which emma carries its own challenges not something they used to certainly a very unfamiliar feeling to be getting in uh into the water after completing two of the other triathlon legs and uh you know i don't know how much training you can possibly do to to counter that uh we're accustomed to feeling you know fairly ordinary sometimes uh you know from the the bike to run but when when all the blood has been in your legs for those two disciplines and you know to try and shunt it all back into your arms i mean you can sometimes be the greatest swimmer feel amazing in the water and get in thinking oh i don't think i've ever done this before yeah is there anything you could do alistair to try and kind of help help get used to something that you're plainly not used to especially bearing in mind you know these women along with the men a lot of them were running in rotterdam in us in a standard triathlon a week ago you can travel obviously and we actually saw uh some of the men in a short term kind of way on the run in the in the men's race swinging their arms before they started uh starting to swim so after transition i'm not sure if that'd make any difference maybe they've tried it maybe it does uh but we'll see we're actually seeing sofia is still on the front trying to push this along and to be honest if i was summer cook here and i knew that my maybe my biking and the cornering as we've just seen i'd struggle with a bit i'd want him to get to the front of this group get a little four or five second gap and that would just give me that buffer to get around the first have a more relaxed transition and uh and there she is taking notes come on cue yeah maybe she hurt moshi is a burning and i think it looks like they could have extended their lead a bit to these three girls behind who joey simpson's still pushing really really hard on on the front of this group and let's see uh how much it's taken out of these girls when they get on the bike because i think that'll have cost them a little bit and um how much these girls are going to push uh we'll see if if if they've got any chance of putting back together but some of us cook has got a bit of a gap there so she she's definitely uh doing the right thing here to give herself a bit of an advantage going into the start of the bike yeah so two americans a swiss and a belgian remember summer cook a shock winner of uh a big race in edmonton a couple of years ago nicholas birrigan to transition yeah spirits transitions will be good you know she's good solid athlete just does things clinically and well so you won't expect to mess up and summer cook who had a couple of seconds advantage going in transition now is getting on the bike uh well she actually gonna leave transition in fourth place uh behind so that's exactly why she should have tried to get into into transition with a bit of a gap and we'll see if she can hang on to those bills and run the start of the bike similarly clamor as well she's lost jody and sophie caldwell so and these they're both great bikers and technically pretty good and the transition's pretty good you know clean getting on the bike jump straight on the bike we see some girls that take a bit of time we're weaving all over the course and putting one foot over and that's really slow you know you leave five seconds doing that so um that they're straight out and that that could cost you this in this kind of race that could cost you the entire race yeah you could see cook's transition not as good as either simpsons or coal but as we thought the latter two yeah we're seeing uh 18 the young canadian ryder now is a great runner apparently a canadian three thousand meter record holder down woman at eight so and that's only 18th and so it's 15 with charlotte mcshane so i won't be surprised if there's there's quite a lot of eliminations after these rounds so these girls really need to push this bike they've only got 20 seconds to lose over a 7k bike a 400 meter swim that doesn't give you much of a cushion does it well talking of great runners i think vicky's got something for us down in transition i think i've seen that was a fantastic transition from nicholas spirig also katie's affair is the two of them got out so fast that claire michelle barely got on the back of them summer cook unfortunately once again seems to be a bit of a victim of her transitions and is off the back of that pack now and it could just be the three of them going away nicholas berg's got gap here she's uh she took two of those corners really well whoever was the wheel behind her didn't get a chance to see uh let a gap open up and now this is a really dangerous scenario for the three behind you you do not want to give nicholas berg any kind of gap on this kind of course and let's see this is the only straight flat bit of the course for them really to get back on turn so if they don't do it with uh claire michelle there on the front pulling hard to try and get back on terms that if they don't do it by this top corner i think this could be a spirit getting away to be honest well she is without question still one of the best bikers in women's triathlon and you let her go at your peril as you say the only thing is you suspect depends obviously what the gap is i mean she won't be faced by riding on her own for 5k is not a problem but then you'd say sophia she's probably going to outswim her so she clawed back some of that it's it's kind of so much in their head here but you've got to admire the the bold tactics of the swiss a lot of kind of mouth isn't it i think you know not only is she you know looking to extend her gap but even the girls what we talked of that 90 seconds uh you know she's happy to probably take and eliminate as many of them as she can too but again yeah katie is fantastic in the water and that's what she's got to be really aware of here off the front motorbike getting in the way there you know it's just cost nicholas spirit a couple of seconds going around that corner and gave the chance for a couple to get on the back i think um that's clear michelle oh no one of the americans probably is the fairest uh working hard to get back on terms spirig's really pushing as hard as you can here um using the motorbike till it's full advantage but that's what she's doing and yeah spreading it out even if even if they get back on terms she's hurting them no doubt about it and it's spread out look completely spread out there's deferes on her own michelle back there um also being dropped and summer cook just doing all she can to hang on obviously isn't the most comfortable round corners uh too big a gear there coming out that corner no doubt about that struggle to turn it over whereas spirit just looks comfortable on a bike she's just got a lovely position um nice nice corners smoothly not taking any risks and pedals well so here's my question to you emma do you think she had this in mind all the time as a plan or do you think she was just a an opportunist move to break away now oh absolutely nicola she she knows the strength she has on the bike uh she utilizes it all the time and uh and knowing that the other three girls are not as great um you know in the corners the dead turns she knows you know how to conserve energy how to expend you know others and definitely tactical she she is just such a methodical racer and um and she goes out there with that in mind you know just just to make the most of her strength and and we clearly see it on the bike and and i mean we we know she can run as well so she's always always been a force to be reckoned with she doesn't turn up just to take part we saw in the grand final she'd hardly appeared at all in fact she hadn't appeared on the wts tour finished a very creditable 13th as alistair mentioned earlier she didn't do much between the two olympics still got a silver and no disgrace coming second to glen jorgensen and here today again at a format that you wouldn't maybe necessarily think would suit her and she's making a statement of intent to the whole of the field including all the youngsters here she's done a lot of damage there we just saw the gap go up from sophie and uh to sophie and jody from 16 17 seconds in one lap up to 22 seconds so that gap's gone right up that said you know katie zafires isn't far off she's hanging in hard there so you know i think nicola will want a gap like you said nicola will know that katie will swim a bit of time into her and she'll want that time gap going into the swim so she's doing well riding technically really well to stay on terms of it i just heard sorry i'm just going to say just heard that non-stanford is right on the cusp of elimination so she could be out shortly yeah she's with four or five of her girls as well so i think we're going to see quite a bit of elimination in this next uh this next 10 minutes of racing yes barry's still on our own driving and i think sofia's is just you know once you're about 10 meters behind someone even a bit a bit further you're just getting that direct advantage so it's that little bit easier if that goes out to 20 30 meters you know you're both pushing the same amount of air away from each other if that gap is less than that and it is at the moment you've got that advantage so you expect the catch to be made that said summer cook and michelle there have fallen even further behind 10-12 seconds so they're losing quite a bit of time and riding really hard so what spirit's doing is just blowing the race apart here so fantastic racing well non-stanford has just been eliminated and she's down with vicki no not the day you will have wanted i know but it's been a hell of a season for you there's been so many ups and downs i guess just being here is kind of part of it yeah definitely to get myself from the start line last week i was really poorly and i've actually been really ill all morning so i just thought i'd get myself out there give it a good crack and i'm so surprised to get this far around and the girls are actually smashing out there that first round was really tough so yeah happy to be here and i've given it a crack but that's life well we hope we see you tomorrow morning and feeling a bit fresher and hopefully over a bit of illness yeah hopefully fingers crossed thanks nan thank you so non uh gone um we wish her better elena danilova of russia also eliminated not been a good week for her she was lapped in rotterdam in the grand final and zafires has actually caught spirit so we can just see the aerial shot there the two of them together and uh yeah here we see so she's done really well to ride back up to spirit technically and obviously it's strength wise and good on it i think that's something we talked of earlier she's got an engine she really does and she's just honed her skills and and to to get back on to to the likes of someone like nicolas berry you've got to be writing very well yeah she's she looks a bit more tentative around the corners when you look at asparagus as a classically better bite rider lower better lower center of gravity which is what you need to get around corners fast it just looks comfortable but you know as the fears has put time into one quarter so you know whatever works and um that that's that's good to see let's see how much time the two of them have put into the girls behind them now because that gap's opening up yeah i think she deserves immense credit she had that nasty crash in stockholm and then she got up and she raced and rode with floral duffy um going around corners for leather and now she's doing it here with another one of the greatest bikers in the sport yeah and you see the two girls behind them who are in summer cook and clay michelle who are i'm absolutely sure they are riding as hard if not harder and quite possibly putting down a similar kind of wattage but they've they've lost a lot of time around the corners you can just see the more tentative um quite often in the wrong gear so much slower coming out having to put so much more effort to get back up to speed and so this is where the kind of technicality into it comes so much and zephyrus has actually gone in front of a spirit here and is taking it on we look at the gap back and these two you would say now have the have the points between them 25 remember for winning 21 for coming second so you know those two of absolute prime position you would imagine zafires would out swim uh nicolas spirick but stranger things have happened well i was going to say there's a lot of things we've imagined already before the race and they're not necessarily playing out but uh yeah katie's strength is is being in the water that we've that we have known but again you know her other two disciplines are proving to be just as incredible i would expect to see spirit try to get a bit of a run on a free transition here you know a really good clinical transition and and nail it down to the swim start they've probably got i don't know 30 seconds of running probably you know she might get a few seconds there and then obviously it takes a few seconds to get past someone in the water and make the pass so she'll be trying to neutralize that as much as she can and then you've got to run out the water she really really good clever and there you go you know she knows she can get just those few seconds and make katie have to swim around it that means she can get on a hip get the advantage then get on her feet and by the time she's done that they're 100 meters into the swim she's limiting her losses um yeah there might be even more so she's uh doing absolutely the right thing she's got he she's gone for the goggles down the front probably uh we didn't see that too much in the men and uh at goggles and hat so she didn't have to get down to pick anything up so the absolute fastest type of transition she's methodical she really is in in every part of racing and and transition and she just knows what works for her and her transition is always clean always smooth she just she never she never rushes to the point where she makes a mistake um and like you said i think with aleister you you said she just she just uses and utilizes every little part of the race all the time i remember a race early this year where she actually she actually dropped her sunglasses on the run and she actually went back and picked them up and i said to her afterwards i don't think he'd been penalized and she's like no covering all bases gonna can't risk it and that's that's what she does and she has been rewarded here by being in the leading two with spirig and they've got a sizeable advantage remember this is stage two of three stages on this first day of the triple mix and there you see a commanding lead over the rest of the field for that duo that is not what shiloh wanted though like we're just talking about if she'd hit the water first her chances of staying with her superiors would have been that much more and she's hit the water second there or actually straight on the feet and she's having to swim 10 or 20 percent easier being on the feet but if she could just have hit the water first it would have really helped her out well she may become frustrated at something because she ended up throwing her goggles just before she dived in so whether or not she was just fiddling around too much and just thought you know what i'm losing time you've got to cut your losses at some point don't you but look i think um you know if she does lose a little bit of time i i don't think it's going to really significantly hurt her chances for the rest of the afternoon summer cook was actually the big loser that last i don't know what happened during the last lap of the bike but all of a sudden she came into transition with a really really slow dismount behind jody and sophie caldwell and rachel klama and then uh by the time she's out of transition she was a few seconds behind them still so she's lost a bit of time there in the last lap of the swim and that that's going to cost her we're actually seeing a gap be created here so zafirus is going to put time into nicholas spirit nicholas berg isn't well she should be swimming directly behind her as much as she can to get every every uh bit of advantage she can but you can just see i mean nicholas beard the great athlete she is isn't known for her swimming swing absolutely short arm stroke there with pretty much zero catch through the water when you and when you look at how severe is this swimming um beautiful long stroke really good catch probably doing three strokes to every two spirigs and still moving so much better so yeah and that that's what you see with a swimmer someone who's got a really good swimming stroke which i could swim like that you don't do badly the the americans are certainly you know they're renowned in their college swimming aren't they for just honing you know the skills in the water and yeah when you see a swimmer swimmer in the water i mean honestly i don't think there's any triathlete in the world that can look as good as somebody that's done that for you know for their olympic um career now the collegiate system in the states certainly as far as triathlon is concerned has worked absolutely wonders for their program on the women's side not so much the men's but certainly on the ladies side yeah and we've seen the group behind have really concertina back together actually one two four six eight eight of them back together you know i don't think we would have predicted that on the last few laps of the bike so that's a really interesting dynamic that they're all back together so you is going to get an advantage of one of the others coming out the water spirit's hanging on pretty well actually after that initial gap went out you know that that could have been curtains there she could have lost loads of time but she's hanging in there and she'll be absolutely just trying to limit her losses here now that's the the right thing to do doing a classic boy turn around there going onto a back for one stroke to try and get around faster i spent my whole career trying to work out if that is a faster way to get around the boy or not i don't know we could we could argue that forever but we're here to uh watch the racing so zafira is still swimming beautifully well and extending that gap yeah it's currently probably about what six or seven meters and remember the next stage is bike swim run so you know if that ends up being the deficit fairly easy to imagine that nikki spirit would catch the fears of the biking together against you would have thought so but you know nicola had a gap probably a five or six second gap on that bike and sofia's got back on terms with us so yeah we're not quite sure um i think uh if that had been this very good a few years ago it might be a bit different but who knows as it is at the moment and that gap i don't know let's see how much you can catch up on the running but i think there's going to be probably at least five or six seconds it might be a bit more yeah certainly increasing and just to the naked eye it appears that the group uh that are behind nicholas maybe just making some inroads on the swiss as well albeit there's still a significant margin behind but it's going to be a real battle for for times behind these leading two so katie zafires is out and away nicolas spirit behind her she's got a 200 meter run now she they've got to get out along back along the pontoon up the ramp and all the way back through transition so you know there's definitely a few seconds to be had there um have you whether you've got the lungs and the arms and the legs to do it and here we are zafires has made it up the ramp and it is on the flat uh and you know nicholas berg is yeah just back on the flat as well so there's actually not that much time there maybe three or four seconds loads of them coming out the water together now that whole group has got right back together and that's jody stimson at the back of the group so she she was pretty much mid group going into the swim and has lost a few places throughout that swim but held on still so uh looking for the points overall she's in a good position to in that group going into the last event yeah so this might be i don't know 10 seconds or so by the time we do the official timings whether it'll be enough for zafirious to get away solo on the bike if that's what she wants to do remains to be seen and those in behind spirit the likes of kirk and caldwell stimson uh casper lindemann potentially so safires is first across the line [Applause] and we'll just wait and see spirit comb yeah i think spirit was pretty happy with that you know going to the swim she knows she could lose a bit of time six seconds is not too bad i think she'll be confident she can have a really good go uh catching that up and uh yeah she's walked straight through um haven't had to do the interview and and you know reduce arrest straight through okay so as that group come over the line we can cross down to emma i believe she's got kate interferes with well katie you're riding with the olympic champion out there but you're actually giving her a run for her money tell me is this all part of a tactical move oh it's great to have nicola because i know she's uh she knows what she's doing and she's done this for a lot longer and is much more qualified so i just try and stay with her at one point i thought it had a flat on the bike which made me lose her wheel then once i figured out i was just being paranoid i went and got her so we're wondering what happened whether it was a tactical move that you know that you worked really hard on the bike together but obviously you knew you may have had that advantage going into the swim yeah i was hoping like i could get in the swimming a little bit ahead so she couldn't get right on my feet so i kind of went hard down the ramp and that was kind of the tactic are you willing to share any tactical move for this last last stage uh i mean to be honest like i'd like to ride with nikola again i think that worked out well and we still have a whole nother day so even though i'd love to win this whole stage i also would like to set myself up just good for tomorrow well go and recover and we look forward to seeing you that was interesting have you ever been paranoid about a puncture yeah i have actually uh normally when you're getting a bit scared about going around corners and you go you know you lose your bike a bit you go oh it's a puncture um and it very rarely is it's normally just your mind telling to punch you but yeah it's happened to me it's happened to me a lot um and uh yeah she did the right thing at least she recovered from it and it can be hard sometimes when that goes on in your head so just a six second advantage for zafira is over this period we just heard her say she wants to ride with the swiss anyway so that won't matter 25 seconds back to cook then caldwell casper michelle and stinson lindemann klama and routier a huge group in behind the leading two but zafires and spirig appear to have it between them and only 13 standing we've had a load more eliminations taylor spivey just avoided it 124. let's go in here then from uh nicholas birya who's down with vicky so nicola is here already setting up again for the next leg two incredible legs four months post birth you're having a fantastic day this is going to plan surely yeah i know it's amazing i'm really happy i hope the third leg goes as well as the last two the last two and it'll be a group of two beginning really at the start of this bike are you feeling confident that you'll catch katie and work together i don't know she's really strong so we have to see well we wish you the best see that's what happens when you're a mom you have to be at a multi-task you can talk to vicky sort your bike out probably do a couple other things as well at the same time as we look at elizabeth castle which has defended jersey for close on 400 years what do you think is the best way of utilizing this 10 minute rest period well definitely not by doing interviews but obviously we want to see them being interviewed because we want to get the insight about what's going on so i'm pretty sure they don't want to do the interview but it's great for all the viewers i think um yeah you've got to set up you know you want to you don't want to mess up your transition so you want your bike to be ready you want your shoes to be strapped back on if your shoes aren't uh strap flat somehow they can get knocked on if it knocked off if a shoe gets knocked off that's 30 seconds and that could put you out this kind of race and then bit of nutrition in make sure the body temperature cools down just a little bit and get your breath back you don't have time for much else [Music] so they're just sorting the bike sound i think we can go down i'm here i'm here from vicky who's got sophie caldwell with them so i've got yet another athlete setting up ready to go again how did round two go yeah it was all right we managed to pull up a bit on the bike on the group that got away but uh yeah there's still light spearing spirits ahead now so now it's one group of two athletes ahead and then a big pack behind do you think that's going to benefit you in this second leg final leg sorry well i think me jody and rachel are together again and we worked well on that one so hopefully we can work together again on this one all right good luck she kind of speaks with a maturity way beyond her years sophie cool but i thought that when i spoke to her a couple of days ago she's only 22 but she's acquitting herself really well and she knows that she could be on the way to some very useful points this afternoon so cool in that little group as she was mentioning along with uh rachel plummer and jody stimpson um how do you see this stage three going because it's surely between the top two isn't it i have to think that um that that katie and nicola i mean they've certainly got some experience now and and and katie is um i think being fairly modest well nicola as well but you know i think that the two of them showed that they can work so well together they'd be you know crazy not to to utilize that strength that they can now and um but look you know going into this final stage where we've we've seen this that you know the fatigue sets in and um but i i do believe it's going to come down to both these two still alistair what have you made as some of the other um performances so we've talked about not obviously not feeling well rachel plummer we thought she'd be around about and she is and you know the likes of clamor stimson casper could still pick up useful points yeah i think they're all absolutely as we expected them to be not quite at the sharp end of the field but in the middle so uh yeah i think that's as we expected her i think non-stanford's an interesting one i mean obviously i know her training leads and she's just had a really tough year and especially to a few months with injuries i've had my fair share of eclipse injuries and they're a nightmare so i feel sorry for her and i think like she said she's she's happy to be here and it's tough tough day for her but at least she was here and never mind it won't it won't affect her too much i think now this last leg's all all about it's gonna be those top two i think it's gonna be spirit trying to get on terms uh with sofia's and then yeah let's see what happens in that swim because i think zafirus is going to have to put some time into her again the ever smiling jodie stimpson having a joke there with the training partner sophie caldwell and they'll be starting together on the third stage in just a moment some very valuable votes sitting on the marina there and we've got a field of massively talented triathletes safires and spirig two of the best around look to have this between him but behind him you can see how congested it is and anyone from well third through the tenth at the moment because it's just what five or six seconds separating those could claim third place and third place is worth having it's 18 points so it puts you in a pretty decent position emma for tomorrow so it's absolutely critical those behind the leading two look i mean we saw claire michelle win in that first stage and now she's dropped back to six at 29 seconds so you know there's so much going on within these races and really at this point i think um that the engines we're seeing in nicola and uh and katie are really uh the two that are paying up to their strength okay let's get in here from summer cook she's with vicky summer a solid start to today you've just got to finish her off with the third round how are you feeling about this i'm feeling pretty good i had a mechanical on the bike on that last round my handlebars went down but they got it fixed so we wondered what had happened you were in that pack and it seemed that everything went on the final lap yeah they it was actually two and a half laps i was just trying to corner completely with my weight and like not do anything with the handle for us at all so it's all fixed for the final round yeah okay no more mechanicals and best of luck for this final one yeah so there we go we i said summer cook was struggling around the corners and that's why i handlebars and she was only having to lean around corners and couldn't steer so yeah that's why she was struggling so much it'd be really interesting to have someone actually um i don't know someone who could read people's faces i don't know whether that's a psychologist or something in with them now because it's just so interesting watching some of them i encourage you to fear is like you said earlier would be great poker player she just looks so happy about it and you know she's giving nothing away she doesn't look like she's tired she doesn't look like she's too nervous she's just kind of focused and happy about it and whereas some more you know i think some more of them look a bit more tired and like they're they're not quite ready to throw themselves absolutely headlong into this next race yeah i think nikki spirit can look fairly composed you never quite know what's going on in that extremely bright mind of hers yeah she's a i think a good poker player as well i don't know whether you call it swiss sternus or something but yeah she she definitely knows what she wants and uh doesn't give too much away but yeah i think again like we saw in the men there's little groups of athletes having a little chat you know if we run together are you going to help me out are we going to work together on the bike how that's going to work out and these dynamics of this kind of racing are the fascinating thing i think you know there's so much going on and there's so many different tactics and technical points that you could literally talk all day about it well you know caldwell and stimson will help each other out i think laura lindemann might be one who's interesting it could well be in the shake up for third or fourth and get some big points just quite hard to know how much gas is left in the tank of the women just in behind uh spirig and zafires i mean the same might be well it will be true of taylor spivey as well well here we go we're all going to find out in this next k are they going to take it out and go for it on the bike is the transition going to cost them so away we go for the third and final stage of this women's triple mix the first ever of super league triathlon for the women spirit off behind the fear isn't after you've heard cake's interview we know those two are gonna ride together pretty shortly and then in behind them it's a real old battle as we said for the men's as well i i wasn't convinced about this format of starting the bike running first and going through transition but it definitely does just probably provide a little bit of more complication just allowing for a bit more splitting off with a bit more action so i think it it's a good thing and it'll be interesting to see now when the furious and spirit come past you know spirit made any time up uh great bank bike mounter and you know has that allowed us to just creep up on them a little bit or not this big group of six people together i think they're going to be together now for most of this race to be honest summer cook on the right just uh getting onto her bike she's got one of the fellow americans for company i guess uh yeah i'm not sure i think she's she is coming up at down so um we've well seen clamors at the back of that group isn't she just gone around the dead turn there coming out and probably a little bit too bigger gear but it did appear that way didn't she uh she seemed to be moving fairly slowly and like that that she had had her uh gearing wrong so we have one of those little things you just got to try and remember and be prepared for and also take into account the fatigue that's in your leg yeah sure you may normally out of a swim have um you know your gearing set up that way but maybe it's these you know these races where you've got to look at well maybe i have to make it you know that one or two easier just just to get my body going again and here comes spirit we've seen her you know make up that gap and she's pretty much straight back on zafira's now with only a small a small gap back to five meters or so and uh let's see if she can get back on terms around these next few corners but yeah good quality by series they're using the whole road on a corner like that you know the more of the road you can use um literally even if you hit the barrier then just nudge off it the faster you can get around that corner and the safer it is uh which is lit she's literally on on severus's wheel now isn't remember they've got five laps of one kilometer each and then they're gonna be uh into the water so they finish up with the run and if it's close that could be absolutely fascinating against fury yeah i'd love to see spirit just sit there now um just take about 30 seconds to a minute on the wheel recover and then just try and make an effort to get away and get a gap i mean you you would think that lindaman's in trouble lindemann clearly has an issue there yeah i think she's crashed she was she was trying to straighten a wheel and handle bars back up which does look like on that left elbow doesn't she normally means you've crashed this is sophie caldwell really pushing hard i think at the front of that second group now with everyone spread out uh really spread out behind her so she's uh kirsten casper and summer cook are spread out so i think she's obviously pushing hard and really hurting everyone here's the lindemann incident yeah she just used a bit too much of the road there literally went straight into the barrier but she was trying you know sometimes you've got to take risks in uh in events like this to get to get back on terms and that's what she tried to do but yeah she doesn't look like she's hurt herself too much she's stood straight back up which is good to see hopefully she'll be able to start tomorrow yeah there was a grimace and it was almost a semi smile of resignation there but let's hope she's okay looked much worse than i think it was so uh hopefully it will be good there meanwhile sofia as a spirit continue their merry way up front then the group behind him absolutely shattered i think that's two at the front uh definitely caldwell on the front and i'm not sure who was with her i think it was casper but i'm not sure it wasn't stimson was it no i don't think so i think she's a bit further back spirit taking a drink um yeah maybe she is just having a little drink and she's biting her time and as soon as she gets a chance probably a few hundred meters before a technical section have a have a go and take a risk around the corner and see if she can get a bit of a gap um but let's see you would have to think that nicola would probably have in the back of her mind that this this format this way around that would probably suit katie that little bit more you know going back into the swim they obviously ran well together but in the middle of this race that katie is is able to make her advantage and therefore able to probably keep it so i i think you know sitting at the back would be the smartest tactical move by nicola just to try and regain some energy and try and conserve anything she possibly could you know trying to make that up on the run of what she could possibly lose in the swim yeah i think we can fairly confidently say she's probably going to lose something around the 10 second mark in the swim that that's what happened last time so she's got two options she either sits on and goes well i'm not going to do any work with you because you're going to make it hard for me in the swim or she goes i'm gonna sit on you and attack you and try and get that bit of a gap um so yeah who knows what's going through her mind and of course she's got the run after that to think about as well i mean she could literally say i'm gonna sit on you on the bike sit on you through the swim and back myself to beat you on the run um that doesn't necessarily sound like uh the way she'd race but maybe maybe that is what she's doing and we're definitely seeing you know these girls are riding hard and they're riding well because it's really splitting up the group behind them and to be honest i think severus is riding well she's riding technically well she's riding hard and you see when nicola comes out a corner like that for to get back in she swings straight back onto the wheel and she's peddling harder i'm not sure she's got a lot of option here um to really move it on i think zafirus is doing a good job at keeping it hard and honest if anything she's looking smoother and better as as this third races come on than she has in the first two so um you know her and nicola i think in the beginning you could certainly see a difference between their skill but just seeing her come out of that roundabout then she she definitely looked as smooth and as low and as and as confident as nicola well we said at the start i mean are there better swimmers than katie yes a few other better bikers yes a few better runners yes but she's so good at all three an absolute complete triathlete and so far she hasn't put a foot wrong this afternoon with the course thing as well you know you never really get a chance to ride a course with all the barriers up i mean you can ride around the roads but you might as well ride around a shopping supermarket car park somewhere because it's completely different when the barriers are there so you get a bit more confident as you go around the course it's definitely on as the laps go on you get a chance to uh to just be a bit more risky and learn what the corners are like and that might be happening you know we should uh zaffira's might just be gained confidence as she's gone on and she knows the corners and knows what the limits are we see caldwell working really well with castle but jerry simpson is with using all the grit she's got just pulling them back in the in the game here um and there's not going to be a big time gap between all of these uh six or seven uh ladies i think as they go into the swim although i think claire mckell is uh she's just struggling a little bit there that gap you know that's that shows us that it's tough for her and uh you know michelle's struggling there i think if summer cook can stay vaguely competitive in the water i think she's got to have a serious chance of third place here in huge points on the run i i have to agree i mean she um she has been there and and like we figured it in in the previous um and in the previous stage that she she must have had a technical so that she wasn't you know coming undone so to speak and um yeah i think you know she's an athlete that says seemingly being fairly quiet and probably not someone we really talked that much about before the race but you know i i think i think you're 100 right that there could be a chance of her coming in on that podium yeah we're seeing coldwell and casper here um in third and fourth place behind the leading two and doing a really good job of working together actually you know they look like they've shed the work on the front fairly evenly and and then given the other one a chance to have a bit of a rest on the on the back and but that's all they can do i mean it's the absolute obvious thing to do and they're doing the right thing showing the work to limit the time losses to these two and try and get in front of the girls behind but even though it is the obvious thing to do that that's not all always what happens in sport and especially triathlon as people have you know different motives and different ideas well as they come through with a lap to go obviously because of that crash lindemann's now fallen more than 90 seconds behind there are other casualties too brosimova is right on the cusp we'll keep you updated with exactly who's out still who's left in there's a 90-second rule remember if you fall 90 seconds behind at any stage you are eliminated so bell lap on the bike and caldwell currently heading a group over here and casper actually got himself a little gap in uh in third and four yeah like we're talking about those two on their own and uh they've been showing the work quite nicely claire michelle they're still off the back 10 meters off the back that's a hard way to ride 7k she's got no benefit from the girls in front of it at all in in contrast to um what jody stimpson jody simpson's having to work hard i think she's done that entire race on the front on her own trying to trying to catch a trading partner in front of her nicholas taking on the front for the first time maybe um but again i think zafires just has a bit more seems to have a bit more firepower out those corners or or spirits playing a very uh tactical game who knows well seems to me sofia's is adopting a thou shalt not pass kind of attitude because i think spirit was interested there for a minute and zafira has just shut the door on her on this final lap [Music] [Applause] so round the roundabout for the final time on the bikes remember a two kilometer run will follow this and then we'll find out who'll get the points on this first ever super league triathlon women's triple mix so you saw michelle there uh clay michelle from belgium uh pretty much on every straight bit of road she gets back on terms of that group within a few meters gets in the draft zone the right place to be every time she goes around the corner goes off and has to sprint back on again so it's costing us so much more energy than the people a few people in front of her spirit gets around her for transition you know exactly where she wants to be exactly like we talked about before she can get in that swim first even if it is just a body length in front her chances of staying with zephyr as on her feet as she comes out just so much better so a 300 meter swim now and they're together as they have been for well probably about half an hour caldwell racing really well just in behind about 20 seconds of drift so he certainly does race with more maturity like you said she spoke with far more maturity uh than what her age is and she does race like that as well i think she's got a an extremely bright future ahead of her yeah she just got a bit caught up in transition there you know as people are crossing over each other it's really really easy to do and um yeah that that's going gonna cost a couple of seconds but uh this group are all together and i think uh we're probably gonna expect a few probably to constantina back together on the swim spirig is gonna make it into the water first i think which you know should help her as as affairs has to swim past her miss beer could just get that advantage uh jump on the hip slowly move back behind the hips and then jump on the feet she won't really have to do any hard swimming for the first hundred meters yeah so spirit does have that slight advantage although sofia is trying to get on terms with her early they've got about 130 meters until they hit that first boy and then make a sharp left so they're swimming wide there you're swimming too wide to get the advantage if you're within that meter uh kind of lateral gap you're definitely getting advantages the closer you are the better and you're slowing down the person next to you that wide she's not getting any advantage from the series i think katie's very aware of it isn't she in uh and playing you know some of the the strategic moves that nicola would employ and um is well aware that you know knowing where nicola needs to be and just trying to make sure that you know if she um she isn't in contention that she she doesn't you know take that advantage yeah here we are again zapier is on the front gray swimming straight pushing it on and nicola behind doing everything she can to hold on and not lose too much time you can you can hear a stroke rate even compared to the beautiful uh long long stroke of katie so yeah i think katie's looking tired though she's definitely not got the recovery she had before her arms aren't lifting us quite as high out the water so you know it's well as you'd expect of course you would it's gonna these races are gonna take its toll aren't they well no points and no dollars for aesthetic beauty in the water it's all about what works and if spirit can keep it relatively close when they come out she'll give herself a chance on what could be an absolutely fascinating run this is already a one two two meter gap back off zapier as to spirit gear so again i think we are probably going to see a gap around the 10 second mark going into the run for spirit to try close down which yeah over over 2k at the end of this who i think is going to be tough for a but you never know like we keep saying fantastic competitor gone going around the turn boy there with the one stroke on her back again um yeah whether that seems any time or not i don't know but yes it's obviously what her and her coach have decided is the best way to go about it the group behind someone's out in front um has actually got a bit of a gap there i'm not not sure who it is could well be safer called well you know she's a she's a great swimmer so i won't be surprised if she's making up for a bit of time on this swim especially now she's in in clear water and just able to swim as as well as she can well if you can see the number on her it's 25 she is sophie i'm pretty sure that's jody we're looking straight down on there in the middle with a with a oh no they're both there on each other's feet so uh i think that is jody and sophie right in the group so i'm not sure who that person out in front is we're back on looking at sofia's now looking at a leg kick we could maybe we could critique that i don't know i don't kick my leg so i'm definitely not want to talk about this it's not a it's not a prescribed method is it for triathletes to do that much with their feet in the water is it i think it's horses for causes it really is again you know it's an age-old debate and and we'll talk about this as well whether you're better kicking or not should you kick near the end of the swim does that save your legs for later on i just think it's so independent you know what swimming stroke have you grown up with are you a quick turnover swimmer or not um do you rely on your leg kick or not and i think there's so many different vote you know for example i swim with a high turnover and javier gomez swims with a decent leg kick and a low turnover and we normally end up in a fairly similar position just saying the last group of four which is spivey riveros linda who actually still is in at the moment and have brought some over there right on the cusp of being 90 seconds down so we might lose all four of them and then we'll leave even fewer men left and so even fewer women left and we had we had men about an hour and a half ago yeah i think this uh elimination format is is great but it's uh tough on the athletes i think we should probably explain the the reason for it is a safety one you know you can't have people laughing each other on the bike so uh with about uh just over a kilometer lap on the bike 1.2 k 90 seconds you they're probably getting rounded in about 140 150. i don't think we've actually timed it yet so if you don't eliminate them you could get left athletes in the way which is uh dangerous and i think really bad for spectating as well yeah it's not done to shame them it's purely for safety reasons so the leading two are out we'll get you that time differential momentarily but here are the chases and as you can see it's all to play for for third fourth and fifth by the look of it and there's a huge difference in points yeah casper and summer cook right up there so some of cook's in a good position here to use a run strength um not only on the run but getting up this hill we keep talking about it and all the way through transition so i'd expect to see her make a bit of a move um but the big question is whether spirit can catch the theories up nice click fairly clean conditions for zafires transition she's out and going i think it's the first sign of fatigue i've seen in both of their faces it's maybe the first first glimpse i i've possibly seen between nicola or katie so you know we talked that nicola may have been more tactical and um on the bike and just sat on katie to try and conserve did katie spend too much and someone like summer you know how fast is she running and and you know is is her ability you know capable of actually tacking onto the back of these two well you said 10 seconds out of so it's actually 11. so if you could try to be a bit more accurate in the future i'll try my best i'll try my best as we saw in the men's as well i mean these guys uh these girls are running nowhere near as quick as they did in the in the early events the fatigue and the lack take from the swim uh within the wrong place whatever you want to call it is really taking its toll and this this group of six seven girls who are together has spread right out and that's coming out the swim the fatigue taking its toll and going through transition making mistakes when you're tired well it's sephiroth's race to lose from here she's got a very handy advantage over has nicolas similar distance back to the chasers uh summer cook is amongst those and also sophie caldwell too yeah looking at this first united meter as i can't see spirit catchings are furious from here um they just she didn't look like she was moving that well and yeah very rightly so she might go actually the effort and the likelihood is is i'm not going to get back on terms of the let's settle for second and save my energy for another day number of times kirsten castro goes under the radar we've hardly seen her we've hardly mentioned her and she could come third or fourth there very easily yeah definitely yeah yeah she's saying shares a name with the ghost maybe that's a good analogy never see her until she gets to the finish line well we've all seen katie zafire as we've seen plenty over in this event we've seen plenty over this season she's predominantly up the front in every race in which she competes and she's put herself in pole position here to get maximum points and win the women's triple mix nicola spirick gamely battling on in second yeah spheres is running well there i mean quite interestingly she doesn't look like she's running that fact but she obviously is and i think she just just has a fantastic endurance physiology there that's driving her ability to do these sports whereas if you look at nicholas spirig she just looks like you know she's moving running a bit better but evidently i think she zephiris is actually putting a bit of time into it to be honest i don't think nicola has has caught her at all so it's just interesting looking uh how the different uh kind of techniques and abilities to do it exactly like we're talking about swimming and kicking it's horses for courses there's no one way to do it yeah relatively you know relaxed shoulders hand carriage is still actually quite low compared to nicola you know her shoulders are quite high as well as her hands and and and a you know quite a quick turnover you know her strides not long and um like you said you know it's often deceiving when people have a run um a running style like that that they're they're moving a lot faster than what you imagine and i mean nicholas is also a fantastic runner but but katie katie's somewhat making it look very relaxed even though she is moving extremely well she is that poker face yeah you want to thought she this is a third third race in the last hour or so with you so she's doing a great job and i think this is yeah this is her race now we're just getting the aerial shot of how far they actually apart and that i'd say is at least 11 seconds if not a little bit more now so that i can't see that being caught over the next 1200 meters and um yeah i think uh i think this is definitely i want to be interesting see what happens behind though we saw uh casper and summer cook running together um closely followed by some of those so yeah third place is all to play for it is indeed as safires and spirit will hear the bell and the last we look back it was an all-american battle for third place and it still is between summer cook and kirsten casper and they appear to have a little bit in hand of clay michelle and others so um uh zafirus has actually been five seconds faster over that first lapping spirit so like i was saying just she is actually moving it better and putting time into a i think summer cooker's made the move here on casper and i think she's probably going to come third i can't see her catching spirit i think that gap 40 seconds is too big i think she just looks like she's moving better and she's got that gap on casper and i think that's going to be enough for third place for it yeah absolutely i think as soon as it became apparent that this race wasn't going to be similar to the men's a small little breaker at the top i think cook was always right in the mix for big points and that looks like the way of it yeah interesting to see that sophie caldwell is uh first time all day that sophie caldwell and um simpson haven't been almost shoulder to shoulder and there's a 10 second gap between them that's happened um early on in the run so i think again jody's had a tough season with a bit of injury and stuff and i think that could well be showing now big massive gap here for um for uh zafires and yeah larry said i think she's running away this it's completely energy preservation now she there's no point of winning this race by any more than a few seconds she might as well just take as easy as she can get across the line and start thinking about tomorrow already having a good little look there at that roundabout just seeing how far she's got and she is making ground so all these have been eliminated by the way they're just interested spectators now like us they're excited for the sport too and uh you know i'm sure they wish they were out there still in that position yeah at least they haven't uh just disappeared upset you know they're still here enjoying enjoying the day which is which is great to see yeah they haven't taken the baton ball home no but katie zafir is marches uh inexorably towards uh this triple mixed title but huge credit to nicolas beric who's still looking strong enough as you say to almost certainly hold off summer cook and maintain second place which is worth much gold 21 points per second yeah i think uh uh cook's actually coming after nicholas big pretty hard there we just saw an aerial shot and the gap from zafires to spirit is much bigger than it is from spurring back to cook so i don't think i think she's going to run out of road and i don't think she's going to get caught and even if she did get caught i think spirit girl will put on a good last 100 or 200 sprint to make sure she gets that second place but yeah summer cooks had a great last run and we'll see the next time we get a shot if uh if this gap's got any closer meanwhile has got well clear there um i think the the time gap probably got even bigger and she her face just looks a little bit more relaxed so maybe she is starting to think about tomorrow now well the gap between spirig and cook when they came through to take the bell was 14 seconds so we'll see exactly what that's reduced to but uh as you say there is no danger whatsoever for the american who got on the overall podium for the wts this year which she never has before just goes to show the level of consistency uh through the season she's got time to high five the crowd she knows the triple mix title is hers now and she can start to enjoy it as you say just wind down a little bit because there's no benefit you don't get any extra points for winning by a certain distance or a certain number of seconds and a crowd that's stayed all day they were here early to get prime position for the men's race none of them have gone home and they're giving katie zafiri's uh a huge ovation here as she comes towards the finishing line she was a lot of people's favorites for this title obviously she's got to reproduce this kind of form tomorrow but she's made a statement of intent to the field she's done absolutely nothing wrong solid swim solid bike a really excellent run she's run away from the uh double olympic medalist nicholas spirig over this last two thousand meters and katie zafire is the inaugural winner of the super league triathlon women's triple mix and she's done it in the grand manner you see behind no danger either the spirit uh in second and it's going to be summer cook behind her for third i'm not sure spirit thought she'd do anywhere near as well as this analyst i think you could tell from her body language yeah i think she's really happy with it and good honor you know four only uh four months ago giving birth the site for me the fact that as affairs was celebrating that early on two or three meets from the finish line showed me that she'd already switched off and i think about tomorrow which is great to see look at this the sprint's on and casper is gonna get there for fourth place and that's uh two more points and you get for fifth just outruns claire michelle yeah we're seeing sophie caldwell uh coming here for sixth place i think she'll be happy with that as well to be honest you know that's a that's a good performance though and routier as well i don't think um you know i'm not sure how many people have backed her to run this well on the last run but she's done well jd stimpson battling behind her so you know she's going to be i think they're in eighth place uh just behind routier but great you know it's been great racing for those three races for for all of them and um it's been great they've been in the mix we couldn't have called it uh because there's those these eight girls from third um back to ninth place have have been basically swapping places all day yeah absolutely it's been really exciting it's a great seventh place as you say for routine um and stimson i think just searching to find those run legs she she's not had a season where he's been blessed to be injury-free yeah thomas is hard you know triathlon running uh is you've got to be in great running shape but you've got to be in great swim bike shape as well and anything that cost you you know it shows well let's go and hear from our winner now because katie's affair is he's down with emma katie severus the winner of the inaugural super league triple mix tell me how it feels yeah it feels really good i when i first got on the bike i was a little off technically with the corners and i was like oh no i was at the back but i got more comfortable and moved up and was happy with how the race progressed as it got on you say you get better as the racing goes on the harder the racing gets did you just feel that this this type of format suits you down to the ground yeah i wasn't sure like i feel like that and then after i said it i was like but what if it doesn't happen like i was kind of nervous and especially having just raced last weekend but i felt good the swim feels as horrible as all the boys told us it did so at least i was prepared for that and didn't panic you've had a stellar season so far i mean the best of your career coming away with the first ever women's super league i mean you've got one more tomorrow do you really consider yourself a chance or do you just put that to the back your mind and approach it like a new race again tomorrow i really hope to approach it just like i did today and hope the same result comes away from it but i also know day two like it gets significantly harder so i'll go for it for sure though well we wish you all the best of luck and cannot wait to see you out there again all right thank you so much well sofia is understandably very happy and why wouldn't she be she'd be really proud of herself as we just double checked the results uh in the end a 19-second advantage she had over nicolas spirick summer cook got within seven seconds of the swiss casper outsprinted claire michelle to finish fourth caldwell really good run for the youngster she finishes in sixth place routier as alistair said earlier that's a bit of a shock seventh for the spaniard jody stimpson in eighth uh rachel clermont consistent again with the top ten um and uh throws him so we've only got 13 finishes is that with the 14 in the men's yes so i don't think we would have we would have would have predicted that would we well it just shows what a tough event this has been still a bit breezy here but we've had some magnificent racing a few thrills and spills as well and a very worthy winner at the end of it well we've got plenty more action for you to come tomorrow but worth reflecting on katie zafira's performance there interesting what we heard is saying that interview aleister about you know she was a bit unsure on the bike early on it took a while to get that confidence and it certainly showed later i think that is one of the uh the key things about really good athletes is obviously things aren't going to go your way all the time and when anyone's having a good day you physically feel good and everything's in your control it's easy to have a good race the times the times when it's not uh great and you know you're worrying about something and you're under pressure but you recover it especially in such a short race i think that's a really good positive sign well talking of good races claire michelle certainly had a good race today and she's downstairs talking to us claire i'm sat with you here you've just finished the triple mix brutal day out you won the first round finished fifth overall are you happy with that you know it's i'm glad i stood in it after watching the boys from my hotel room and seeing people the 92nd i was thinking oh gosh you know one mistake and you know one bad swim or something from the get-go and you're chasing the rest of the day um and so i mean obviously winning the first one is is good but you want to win the last one but i was just thinking try to get as much of an advantage as i can give myself definitely well you held a really good account yourself today tomorrow as you just pointed out to me you've got less recovery so you've really got to go and get recovered now everyone says women are tougher so i guess we'll just deal with it absolutely thanks for talking to us i think yeah i think she was preaching to the converted there women are tougher but we've seen some tough women this afternoon just to reiterate uh that katie zafiroz has taken the maximum points which is 25 and it puts her in pole position for the eliminator tomorrow well it's been a magnificent day of racing ali and we've seen again that you know those who are prepared to take risks are the ones that get the rewards the fear is and spirit in particular yeah i think although we've talked about the top three a lot there fantastic uh risk taking taking on brilliant i think it's worth mentioning uh young lindemann from germany she crashed and still made it in uh and it is still in 12th place still in finished fantastic to see you know to get back up after crashing and cope with the the issues with that and and she's done all right so good on her and let's hope she's not too sore that she can get out tomorrow and race well so that's your top 13 in the women's triple mix remember even those who were eliminated will be back tomorrow uh for the eliminator and talking of tomorrow uh at one o'clock that's british standard time or british summer time i should say so adapt it to wherever you are is the women's eliminator and then at four o'clock bst uh it's the men's eliminator two champions will be crowned tomorrow watch it live with us in the meantime let's go and enjoy the presentations ladies and gentlemen it's time to present the trophies to the female superstars of super league triathlon following today's triple mix race presenting the triple mix trophies today is local jersey junior triathletes eva scott and joe bideaux presenting the champagne is mr keith beecham chief executive officer of visit jersey in third place for the women's triple mix at super league jersey 2007 17 number 99 from the usa give it up for summer cook [Applause] in second place for the women's triple mix at super league jersey 2017 wearing number 18 from switzerland needs no introduction let's hear it for nicolas spirig and today's winner the first ever female winner of the triple mix at super league triathlon history let's turn it up for number 16 from the usa is katie severus [Applause] let's give it up for our women's podium finishes of the super league jersey triple mix triathlon [Music] [Applause] okay so while they get ready to spray some champagne about some very well deserved champagne as well not quite as aggressive as the men were with those bottles a little earlier on i think we can go down here from someone else who had an excellent day today none of the americans kirsten casper [Applause] well we'll try and get to kirsten a little later on all smiles from summer cook and katie zafires have mentioned the phenomenal american women's team and they just keep on winning titles doesn't matter what format they are always competitive and they've been split by the double olympic medalist nicolas spirig who's put herself into a really good position going into tomorrow just to confirm obviously you add the points from the eliminator tomorrow to the points that women have earned uh today and you get the overall champion let's go down and catch emma's interviews with our top three well start with you summer cook you're in some distinguished company how do you feel about coming away with the third place at the inaugural super league i'm feeling really good about today i wasn't really sure what to expect coming in i felt like it could go either way i was really proud of myself to just go out there and compete and not be afraid to put myself close to the front and just race my hardest so coming into tomorrow do you think about it being a completely different race do you conserve what are your tactics you know knowing that you've got to chase down these two girls if you want to take the overall ah i haven't really thought about tactics going into tomorrow yet i was kind of just trying to stay in the moment today and focus on what i needed to do so i guess i'll have some thinking about strategy to do tonight well we wish you a good recovery and the best of luck for tomorrow nicola i think you're the new wonder woman of the modern era is it really possible i mean you just really showed us that you love to race and you know how to race yeah thank you very much for the support from all of you it has been great being here i was just it was amazing i had good fun and i i hope i'm a bit of an inspiration for all the moms and thank you very much well we're very excited to see you go head-to-head with someone that's had a stellar season number three in the world this year on the world series what can we expect from you tomorrow you're just going to continue to get better i sure hope so that's the plan um i just want to like kind of like summer said stay in the moment and not think too far ahead especially tomorrow i mean it's this all over again so you never know what will happen well we've seen some amazing racing it's wonderful to see girls out there and we cannot wait for you so go and recover and enjoy the evening thank you very much emma that was uh fantastic interviews and great to see some emotion on the faces of the women who've really put it all out there today katie's a fierce we talked about nicolas spirig how good was that oh that was so enjoyable to see nicholas spirit come back and do that after before the the rio olympics are saying what's going to happen with nicholas bruce she comes and gets a silver medal and then she comes to super league four months after a baby and boom she's killed it let's uh talk about laura lindeman's crash because uh we kind of glossed over a little bit of the telecast but up here in the in the studio we uh we were a little stressed when we saw that but she got up okay she did and she crossed the finish line which was a real credit to her that's the fastest part of the fastest part of the course so she hit that pretty hard you can see she got beaten up she's got a couple of badges of honor there yeah back on the bike and straight to it would have stunned a little bit in the salt water after she got off that one uh let's talk more about nicolas berg of course we've harped on about um obviously becoming a mother for the second time but uh just to show the younger ones exactly why she's considered one of the best in the world and has d has done for the last 17 or 18 years well she won her first world title in 2001. she was racing back when emma snowshoe was on our commentary team hadn't even won her first world championship so she's been around for so long she just keeps getting better and better and it was just marvelous to see her at the front of a triathlon again emma started and ended her career during nicola's career and she's still getting up there on the podium it's just marvelous and him as a gold medalist so you know exactly how good she is you're looking forward to tomorrow can't wait i think the takeaway from today is that tactics count look for young laura lindemann to come up again tomorrow i think she was great today and uh she'll be one to shine tomorrow we flip the script uh tomorrow we've got the women first and then the men so there's plenty to look forward to the eliminator is another brutal format we've seen them leave it all out there it's time to go back and the athletes to recover we're gonna recover as well and we'll see you all tomorrow for the second day of super league jersey [Music] you

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