29 avr. 2014

Triathlon and Cape Town World Cup



Readers of this blog come from all over the world, and Russians are in the top ten as well as Ukrainians.  For the last month we have not had readers from Russia.  My hunch is that we have been censured (we need help from Snowden).  Putin has been stopped without military threat, it happened just with economic sanctions.  He is not a man of this century, he knows little about economics and effects. We will point out economics and effects in triathlon analyzing Cape Town Triathlon to show you how it works:
"Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century,” Putin said in an address to the Russian people. “As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself."
This speech shows that nearly a decade ago, Putin was planting the seeds of his current actions in Ukraine by referencing Russians who he claims are stranded in former Soviet bloc states. Since the invasion of Ukraine, he has repeatedly said that he would protect the interest of Russians and Russians speaking people outside of the Soviet Union.

In Cape Town most of the athletes worked together to their best of their cycling ability in the first pack.  Thanks to Brownlee, Gómez and his team mate Schoeman, who made sure everybody worked to their best of their cycling ability. Mola and Murray tried their best to make others work for them, but they stayed behind for more than a minute and fifteen seconds.  They played with the economy of the triathletes and at the end whoever had the best strategy won.   Because of the effort in the first pack just three were able to run and the rest fated to be passed by Mola and Murray.  Mola and Murray saved energy on the bike and Brownlee, Gómez and Shoeman made sure the members of the first pack used their energy according to their cycling ability. It was a fair share of the economic burden by the first pack members.  This is the first time I have seen it. 
16 sept. 2013
Triathlon has become more strategic than previous years after the Brownslees.  Simon Lessing started to lose after the new format of racing –drafting- started in the year 1999.  He was one of the best riding the bicycle but lost all his advantage when drafting format started.  His running form and ability was not at the level of continuing winning.  The game becomes what is called, A WET RUN.  In the peloton most of the riders on the second pack just want to reach the first one and everybody dies after reaching the first pack where the Brownlees and the Gomez are, except the ones that stayed sitting in the pack waiting for the wet run.  That was the case in this race.

Outside pressure is also playing a role to make triathletes work on the bike.  GOOD! This is the only way to improve triathlete’s performance.  In London (2012, circuit final), Allister Brownlee tried hard to make triathletes work on the bike, but he failed.  It seems that the triathletes have been educating themselves.  ECONOMIC SANCTIONS WORK IN THIS GLOBALIZED WORLD.  By the way, the NBA will be losing sponsors if they do not make Sterling sell the Clippers.  Guess what it would happen.
On April 25, 2014, TMZ Sports released what it said is an April 9, 2014, audio recording of a conversation between Sterling and V. Stiviano.[27][28] According to TMZ, Sterling and Stiviano argued in regards to a photo Stiviano posted on Instagram in which she posed with Magic Johnson.[28]
Donald Tokowitz Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz; April 26, 1934)[2] is an American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of 2014, the team is valued at $575 million by Forbes magazine,[3]
The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) cancelled its plans for the following month to award Sterling for a second time with its lifetime achievement award.[31] President Barack Obama characterized the recording attributed to Sterling as "incredibly offensive racist statements". Obama then stated, “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”[32] Chumash Casino, the Clippers' most visible sponsor the prior four seasons, ended their relationship with the team, as did sponsors CarMax and Virgin America. Other sponsors and advertisers suspended their relationship with the Clippers while continuing to monitor the situation.[33]

I will keep you posted and will relate this matter to triathlon.

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