20 avr. 2015

Triathlon New World



Reading after the ITU last publication regarding Gold Coast where Jonny Brownlee and Gwen Jorgensen showed what is needed to be a real champion, it made us come back to our great teacher Jorge Luis Borges. Borges is the soft, smart, unique product of the Americas who “wrote everything.” The product of the human race created after the Europeans encounter with this continent.  The pinnacle of our thoughts in this New World; the evolution of Nietzsche, Einstein, Wittgenstein.
Ragnarök :: J. L. Borges
July 28, 2008 by Sineokov
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx ; we dream a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel. If this is so, how could a mere chronicle of its forms transmit the stupor, the exaltation, the alarm, the menace and the jubilance which made up the fabric of that dream that night? I shall attempt such a chronicle, however; perhaps the fact that the dream was composed of one single scene may remove or mitigate this essential difficulty.
The place was the School of Philosophy and Letters; the time, toward sundown. Everything (as usually happens in dreams) was somehow different; a slight magnification altered things. We were electing officials: I was talking with Pedro Henríquez Ureña, who in the world of waking reality died many years ago. Suddenly we were stunned by the clamor of a demonstration or disturbance. Human and animal cries came from the Bajo. A voice shouted “Here they come!” and then “The Gods! The Gods!” Four or five individuals emerged from the mob and occupied the platform of the main lecture hall. We all applauded, tearfully; these were the Gods returning from a centuries-long exile. Made larger by the platform, their heads thrown back and their chests thrust forward, they arrogantly received our homage. One held a branch which no doubt conformed to the simple botany of dreams; another, in a broad gesture, extended his hand which was a claw; one of the faces of Janus looked with distrust at the curved beak of Thoth. Perhaps aroused by our applause, one of them — I know longer know which — erupted in a victorious clatter, unbelievably harsh, with something of a gargle and of a whistle. From that moment, things changed.
It all began with the suspicion (perhaps exaggerated) that the Gods did not know how to talk. Centuries of fell and fugitive life had atrophied the human element in them; the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome had been implacable with these outlaws. Very low foreheads, yellow teeth, stringy mulatto or Chinese mustaches and thick bestial lips showed the degeneracy of the Olympian lineage. Their clothing corresponded not to a decorous poverty but rather to the sinister luxury of the gambling houses and brothels of the Bajo. A carnation bled crimson on a lapel and the bulge of a knife was outlined beneath a close-fitting jacket. Suddenly we sensed that they were playing their last card, that they were cunning, ignorant and cruel like old beasts of prey and that, if we let ourselves be overcome by fear or pity, they would finally destroy us.
We took out our heavy revolvers (all of a sudden there were revolvers in the dream) and joyfully killed the Gods.
Translated by J. E. I.

The Gods always come back and we should be ready to answer before being killed by them:
What we learned from #WTSGoldCoast
·  2. American women are taking over
·  The USA have claimed seven of the nine total podium positions in the last three WTS races. Gwen Jorgensen tallies three gold medals, Katie Zaferes has two silvers and a bronze and Sarah True earned her first medal of the season with the silver in Gold Coast. With their 1,2,3 sweep on the Australian course, plus the addition of Lindsey Jerdonek and Kaitlin Donner coming in in the Top-20 Columbia Threadneedle Rankings, the USA is the country to beat this season.
·  3. Back-to-back Brownlee
·  The younger Brownlee brother is staking claims on the 2015 season, first with a victory in Auckland and then in Gold Coast. But what is impressive with the past two performances of Jonathan Brownlee is not the two consecutive victories alone, but rather the way he has earned his titles. It seems that the British athlete is keen on domination, proving through all three disciplines that he has no weaknesses and his leadership on the course is untouchable. While he is taking a break from the competition in Cape Town to allow his older brother Alistair to open up his own WTS season, there is a lot left in Jonny this year, and it is going to be an exciting experience to follow to see what he does next.
·  5. Was Gold Coast too technical?
·  The very technical 40km bike course in Gold Coast proved to be tough on the execution. The bike course varied from the path that was laid out in 2009 when the Queensland city hosted the Grand Final. But this year's bike was surprisingly tough with it's quick hills and tight turns. Jonny even dubbed it one of the harder courses he had competed on.
How to make the sport of triathlon more even?  Let’s not listening to the Gods.  Triathlon is a team sport and Brownlee has been fighting a “bunch of imbeciles,” as Armstrong mentioned ones, regarding the cycling European circuit.
16 févr. 2012
In 2007, Armstrong was interviewed by Ciclismo a fondo.  267: 46.  He said: “The reason why Johan and I were able to win was because we competed against a bunch of imbeciles.  We had a modern planning…There were a bunch of ranchers running around us…still the same situation in cycling.”  I would say that he approached triathlon the same way and thinks the same way.  Not to blame him for such thing, most likely he´s still correct.
Jonny Brownlee did not have teammates in the first ITU competitions of this year.  There is no brain in many competitors working for nothing or for no cause who were just riding the bike to catch the first peloton, knowing that they were not going to run.  Just remember what Borges’ short story says: “The Gods already lost their humanness after climbing stairs to be part of ITU and the “save” is not going to come from them.”  Triathlon should be organized as cycling teams (but in a better way).  We should have triathlon teams; not relays teams.  Most of the American females know this way of working and they will continue winning without problems until somebody want to be important; something that has always happened (remember Athens Olympics where they lost the gold).

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