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stops on the World Triathlon Series calendar, the German city of | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Hamburg, with the reputation or having the largest and loudest | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
crowds. This is the oldest triathlon in the WTS calendar. Last year, they | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
turned it into our fast and furious sprint race. The shorter distances | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
back and Hamburg is also hosting the Mixed Relay World Championships. And | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
this weekend will be the first time the Brownlee Brothers go head to | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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course looks like this. Off a pontoon in the Alster artificial | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
lake, the athletes must dive in and complete a 750 metre swim. The bike | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
section takes place on the main shopping streets. It consists of | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
four 5km laps on a technically demanding course that includes eight | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
sharp turns. Once the bike has been completed and transition two | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
negotiated, the athletes will finally run two 2.5km laps on a flat | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
course around the lake, finishing at the entrance to Hamburg City Hall. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
The amateurs are racing at the moment and the crowds have been | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
roaring them on. One person to expect the most support is home | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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favourite and current leader Annie Hogg -- Anne Haug. I grew up in a | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
teachers family, so I got lots of sport from early on, trying every | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
kind of sport, then deciding on the triathlon at the age of 20. But I | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
could not swim, so I had to train first. I then it was -- I then | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
decided to do the triathlon, nearly got third, and I stayed in the | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
sport, and I am really happy with that. The last World Series race of | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
2012 goes the way of Germany's Anne Haug. You won your first race at the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
end of last year in the Grand Final, and now you are World Series | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
leader, and people are ready speaking about you being one of the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
favourites to take over from the current world champion and take that | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
title? Are you feeling that expectation? I'll macro from zero to | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
100 last year, it was quite amazing. I have to get used to the pressure | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
and staff, but tried to keep it away from me, not put too much pressure | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
on myself. I race to win, obviously, but if you can win the title or not, | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
I just try to give my best every time, and I would be glad for a | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
medal. I did not have a really good race, playing the safeguard, because | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
of expectations and not willing to risk anything, but you cannot win | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
without risking. Now I have the races that count for this series, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
and I can risk a little more, and get back into fighting mode and | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
fighting to win. I do not want to be frightened of disappointing anyone. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Quite a rivalry developing between you and Jodie Stimpson, in second | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
place, winning in Kitzbuhel, of course. What is it like training | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
together? Can you beat friends and rivals? I think it is possible. We | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
benefit each other in training, she is an great athlete, and we can | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
learn from each other, pushing each other to our limits, maybe the | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
reason why we are in front. After the race, we are friends again full | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
is top what kind of race are you expecting here? | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
It is just a sprint, and it will be hard, but I will fight for the end, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
and hope the gap is not too big and I can close it. I expect a fast one. | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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It is always special to race in Handsworth. It is amazing since I | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
started. -- in Hamburg. The crowd pushes you. Sometimes you forget you | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
are in pain. We look forward to seeing how that | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
rivalry plays out here in Hamburg. After five of the eight World Series | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
races, it is all looking pretty tight at the top of the women's | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
rankings. Anne Haug returned to number one after have a place in | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Kitzbuhel. Jodie Stimpson's win saw her go into second. The Austrian | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
mountain course was a one off, but Jodie Stimpson wants to prove her | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
win will not be. It was such a fantastic feeling. I really want to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
try and get another win. But they are so hard to come by. With that | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
great women on the start line, it will be our fast race. I would love | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
to get on top of the podium again, but who knows? Great Britain's Non | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
Stanford has moved up to fourth, even though struggling on the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Kitzbuheler Horn, finishing 16th. The flat course in Germany should | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
suit her better. Tens of thousands of spectators have lined the streets | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
ready to see these elite women in action. I shall hand you over to | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
commentators Matt Chilton and Steve Trew. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
We start right in front of the Rathaus, and here is the start | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
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representatives. That includes Michael Wright, who is in ninth. -- | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
includes McIlroy. We have 68 in total scheduled to race. And we are | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
Eddie for Brown says -- and we are ready for round six. In front of a | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
massive crowd. A beautiful day, a little breeze, warm water. And the | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
elite women are lined up ready to dive into the water, to get this | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
race underway. A spectacular start, beautiful weather. In the past, it | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
has been bitterly cold and wet here in Hamburg, but it is going to be | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
fine all weekend and a really fast and UDS start. The shorter distance, | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
just 750 metres, before exiting at a different point to begin the 20 acre | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
longer-term hike, grinding off with attends llamas are run. -- the 10K | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
run. Gwen Jorgensen doing well, but not managing completely. I do not | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
know what happened, very tight on the start. Just trying to watch go | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
out there with Non Stanford, who made a huge coming out. She is | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
absolutely pushing it. 15 swimmers out in front, including the eye | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
right leader, who is having a lovely time. She will have no one for | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
company. Just a slight kink to the right here. And keeping clear of the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
kayak, which is the offer guidance. Now getting more tasty at the back | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
of the field. I am not sure that kayak should be positioned there, | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
not helping anyone, that is a hard surface, they are bumping into it. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
They should be able to get up to the soft and turning very, and I do not | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
know what was in mind of the partner there. I am very surprised at that. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
The Leeds swimmers could look up to site to get round easily, but this | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
huge and shut the back at a huge disadvantage. The partner went on | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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the wrong side. Not a good start. And what was that person doing in | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
that kayak? They should not have been in the thick of the field. No | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
wonder some were pushing them out of the way. I am sure he got some abuse | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
as they went around. What a nonsense. And here is the start | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
again. Always a spectacular view from the helicopter shot. The crowd | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
is here in force, able to cool off by dipping feet and ankles into the | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
water. And watching the swimmers coming to the end of this first leg | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
of the WTS sprint event in Hamburg. And the leader looking up to see | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
what is coming ahead. That is her position in transition as her bike | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
awaits. That early lead closing down now. It looks quite difficult | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
conditions on the swimmers, coming into this long stretch. Going | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
underneath the bridge and into the finish and, with the wind really | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
hitting into the swimmers. You can see the destruction on the surface, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
and that long lead has closed, and it will be interesting to see what | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Jodie Stimpson and Non Stanford of Great Britain are. Stanford was | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
excited going into this, saying she learned a lot about herself a couple | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
of weeks ago in Kitzbuhel, and interesting to see where she will go | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
on this different, very flat race. And coming up to the exit, just in | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
front of the Hamburg City Hall. The leader just coming out into the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
light at the far side of the bridge. Some of them are still entering that | :11:11. | :11:21. | |
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dark area. Just going under that bridge. And not -- and number 35 | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
from Spain, coming up on the leader, shoulder to shoulder. It looks like | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
a working group now. They are moving away from the main body of the | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
swimmers. Shall we have any British athletes in this leads six? A | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
technical course of four coulomb tours, with seven turns on each, but | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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it could be interesting to have that mean cushion. -- four kilometres. | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
What an actors -- atmosphere. We have not seen crowds like this since | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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Hyde Park last August. 67 exiting the swim, after a 9.5 minutes. A | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
little break of about seven or eight seconds before the next group. Jodie | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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Stimpson comes out in 10th. We are still looking out for Non Stanford. | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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She is through now, in 19th. They give Holland is coming out on 27th | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
positions, all the British competitors within the top 30. -- | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
Vicky Holland. This transition, a long run through, will be vitally | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
important, as that gap of six or seven seconds, cannot be closed? | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Anne Haug is a bit down on the swim, and will have to work so hard to put | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
herself in a medal winning position. We join the leaders out on the roads | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
of Hamburg now, beginning the first of their 54 kilometre laps. Dick | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
swimmers coming out together. -- five km laps. | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
They are looking around, you can see what's being exchanged, and not too | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
many seconds behind with the chase group. Anne Haug is just a little | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
work to do to close right up to the leaders. She has company. And these | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
team-mates already exchanging words, discussing tactics for the | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
next two kilometres on two wheels. Anne Haug has been taken back, by | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
workers and helpers, into that main pack. She is sitting behind now, | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
taking as much drafting as she possibly can. And the Australian | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
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taking it up at this stage. Pushing hard, number 27, and she is joined | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
by number 15 and number 14. It will not be long before this front group | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
of about eight or nine grows significantly as the chasers come | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
together. You can see how narrow some of these streets are, really | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
putting them through their paces here, no massive group able to form | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
wide across the road, because the width is just four metres in places. | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
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have Non Stanford in that lead group lead group as well. Again, you have | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
to say what a great job the pacemaker has done for her. Look how | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
many are with her. They include Non Stanford, officially in 17th | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
position. Right up there in the thick of the action and Jodie | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
Stimpson and Vicky Holland is there as well. We have three of the four | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
British contestants in the lead group. Vanessa Raw is only six | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
seconds back with a chance to close the gap. Jodie Stimpson's turn. | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
She's happy to share the workload. This front group now numbers 20 or | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
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more. Possibly even approaching 30 in this front group. The longest | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
straight section on this bike is just around one kilometre. Everybody | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
will be looking to try to move as far to the front as they can. On the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
turns, that is when accidents are likely to occur. It is a question of | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
staying as near to the front as possible, but not doing all the work | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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front of the field. The two Germans have cruised through to lead the | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Hamburg WTS Sprint. Bazlen has guided Anne Haug, currently number | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
one in the world standings, right to the front of the field. Now, the | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
German supporters are lining the roads of Hamburg. They are | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
acknowledging the fact that they have chances. They have positions | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
one and two as they approach the end of the second lap on the bike. | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
Bazlen and Haug. Good work so far from the German pair. Very good | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
tactically. Are we going to see a maintenance of that with Anne Haug | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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They are becoming ones and twos through this very narrow course. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
Into transition at the end of the second lap. Bazlen and Haug lead the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
way for Germany. Non Stanford in fifth with Jodie Stimpson two back. | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
All these riders in contention. You have to think that with her running | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
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skills, Non Stanford is very well Holland in 23rd position there for | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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are deep into the third of four laps in this women's sprint. Simic is | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
keen to open the throttle a little further. They get to the more tricky | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
section of the bike laps presently and the pace will slow, almost to a | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
snail's pace, as they come round some of these hairpins in the old | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
part of the city. I don't think Sarah Groff has been too far off the | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
lead of this bike section right from the swim. Jodie Stimpson bridging | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
that ten-second gap very quickly. She's managed to establish herself | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
at the front. Going around the corner, people squeezing in and then | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
it comes out into the single line again. Yeah. In the middle of that | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
front group, one or two close calls as they came through that left | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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handed hairpin. Wheels a little this race. She's taken it up again | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
to put the Germans in first and second position. They have obviously | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
got some team tactics working here. The chase group coming to this | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
left-handed hairpin. Last time we got a check on the clock, they had a | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
41-second deficit. That group does include Gwen Jorgensen from the | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
United States of America. motorcycle camera speeds from the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
last to first within the chase group. The chase group currently led | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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by Gwen Jorgensen. Twice a winner third position in this chase pack. | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Jodie Stimpson is tucked in behind. Ashleigh Gentle is also there. They | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
complete lap three of five. Non Stanford officially ninth at that | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
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the spotlight. She will be reeled in Brazilian, Oliveira, and the main | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
lead group. Plenty in there, tucked away, keeping out of trouble, not | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
doing any work at the front of the field, conserving energy. On a hot | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
day, that's probably not such a bad tactic. I think Pamela has gone from | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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the front to see if she can tempt six-second gap just by making that | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
attack. If people are reluctant to chase, and she can get out of sight, | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
she be in a commanding situation. As we say that, there seems to be more | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
effort now to try to close the gap with her to bring her back into the | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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lead pack rather than in front of others, returning towards the front | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
of the field and it's Bazlen leading Haug, Haug takes it up. Ever present | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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is Jodie Stimpson and with four is Non Stanford. Razarenova is looking | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
for a spare wheel - no, she is saying she is done, her race is run. | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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This is shaping up to be a pulsating finish in round six of the World | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
Triathlon Series for 2013. Bazlen is first. The same time as Haug. | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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Stimpson and Stanford the same time to round off this sprint distance | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
event here in Hamburg. Bazlen's running is OK. Whether or not she | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
will be able to keep with Stimpson and Stanford and Haug remains to be | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
seen. There are one or two Australians who might fancy their | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
chances as well. Lots in contention. No real opportunity to be making any | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
ground on the narrow section, so the early preparation work done there. | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
Even very, very early to be unclipping the shoes, just making | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
sure the tyre tyres - already, we can see the feet on top of the | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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shoes, still clipped into the pedals. -- sure the tyres - already, | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
we can see the feet on top of the shoes, still clipped into the | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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plenty in contention. They head for the bike stands for the final time. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
There's a bit of a problem here for Anne Haug. She didn't make the | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
quickest entry and exit to transition. She is OK. Away that go. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
It's a five kilometre run to complete this sprint distance. Two | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
British athletes, Non Stanford and Jodie Stimpson, in company with Anne | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
Haug of Germany, who leads the WTS standings for 2013. They have all | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
tasted success this season. And now nervous moments for the German crowd | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
as they watch Haug do battle with Stanford and Stimpson in the early | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
stages of this five kilometre run. Beginning to open that gap in the | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
early stages of the run, perhaps ten seconds already, and you wonder is | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
it possible that Non Stanford has misjudged and gone out too fast? I | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
don't think so. Jodie Stimpson, with lots of experience now, as indeed | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
does Haug, content to let Non Stanford lead it through just to sit | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
behind and see how the race develops. We know Non Stanford has a | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
sprint finish. She demonstrated that in the San Diego race when she was | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
involved with a battle for second place with Emma Moffatt, which she | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
Stimpson is fresh off the back of a win, she is full of confidence | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
following her triumph in the Austrian Alps. Haug is the home town | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
hero at the age of 30. She must be approaching the end of her top-level | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
career. She past the water bottle over to Stimpson there. That was a | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
good move from Anne Haug. Stimpson might have missed her own feed so | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
decided to share Anne Haug's water. We saw Non Stanford just miss her | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
first water bottle and was able to get the second one. I think that is | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
fantastic, to do that, two of the greatest athletes in the triathlon | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
world, making sure that neither one is at a disadvantage. Jorgensen | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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tries to claw her bah way back into contention. -- claw her way back | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
into contention. Her run is supreme in the right conditions. Surely it | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
is too much to ask that Jorgensen can get into contention again today. | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
She is giving it a good go. The announcer getting the crowd to chant | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
Anne Haug's name. Gentle and Hewitt in fourth and fifth as they hit the | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
end of lap one. Stanford, Stimpson and Haug, followed by Hewitt and | :28:22. | :28:31. | |
Gentle. 2.5 kilometres to go in this WTS sprint distance in Hamburg. | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
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Setting up for a grandstand finish will just tuck in and turn three | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
into four. We have a leading quartet now. Hewitt fancies her chances. | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
Hewitt, Haug, Stanford and Stimpson. They form the front group with | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
around two kilometres to race here in Hamburg. All eyes locally on Anne | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
Haug in the middle of the pack. She looks pretty comfortable. We know | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
all about Non Stanford's sprinting prowess. Hewitt's a great runner. | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Stimpson has proved herself at the highest level already this season | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
with that victory in Kitzbuehel and the third place in Japan and Madrid. | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
Fifth in San Diego as well. A stunning season for Stimpson and | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
Stanford. A big performance by Ashleigh Gentle, who has managed to | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
claw her way back on to this lead group, making it five now. They seem | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
to have gone away from Emma Jackson. In fact, they have gone away from | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
Emma Jackson. She did look to be closing. We now have that three, | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
that became four, and has now become five. Five chasing three places on | :29:53. | :30:03. | |
:30:03. | :30:05. | ||
the podium. The sprint title for 2013 upper grabs, two British, a | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
German, kiwi and an Australian. Five abreast, look at that. Fantastic | :30:11. | :30:21. | |
:30:21. | :30:22. | ||
racing here. And they are down to the last 1800, coming down to a 1500 | :30:22. | :30:30. | |
metre foot race to decide it today. Ashleigh Gentle comes through. | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
Letting the others now she is not to be taken lightly in this situation. | :30:34. | :30:44. | |
:30:44. | :30:52. | ||
Number two is Stimpson, Stanford is finish? Or perhaps Haug making her | :30:52. | :31:02. | |
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move, perhaps 1000 metres out? You have to think Non Stanford would be | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
favoured if it comes down to a sprint. Perhaps we might see Anne | :31:06. | :31:16. | |
:31:16. | :31:17. | ||
Haug looking to make her mark 800 metres out. So the noise levels have | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
just dropped off slightly as they are on the extreme far reaches of | :31:20. | :31:27. | |
the Rhine course? -- of the wrong course. We'll Anne Haug Winford | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
Germany? Stanford, Stenson, Hewitt and Gentle all going to be fighting | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
have every step of the way. There is an injection of pace at the front | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
from Haug, just a little kick from the German, but the two British | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
triathletes went with her. Possibly a step too far for Hewitt, who | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
appears to be going backwards. Gentle struggling to stay with them. | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
Jodie Stimpson had moved to the left, able to see any changes in | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
speed whatsoever. As soon as Anne Haug went for that, Stimpson was on | :32:07. | :32:17. | |
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her shoulders, also making sure that Stanford is also in with a chance. | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
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Haug objects and other bit of pace. Now, she is going for victory in | :32:34. | :32:41. | |
Hamburg. It looks like it is a good break from Anne Haug. Stimpson and | :32:41. | :32:51. | |
:32:51. | :32:51. | ||
Stanford struggling to match the German's pace. When she went away, | :32:51. | :32:58. | |
Stanford first to react, Stimpson a little slower. Will this bring have | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
a home win in Hamburg? It looks like it might be decisive from Anne | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
Haug. A brave effort from Haug to do that so early. Can she maintain | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
that? We know she is a strength runner. That looks to be happening. | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
I commend this performance. Looks like less than 800 metres to go and | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
I cannot read that gap being closed by the two British athletes. | :33:25. | :33:33. | |
looks like Stanford and Stimpson will fight it out for second as Anne | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
Haug's timing is perfect this afternoon. Full of running still, | :33:37. | :33:45. | |
the noise levels rising, the result they wanted to see. As Anne Haug, | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
the World Triathlon Series leader for 2013, has left the British duo | :33:49. | :33:58. | |
behind her. Haug takes the applause, heading towards the finish for | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
transition for the final time. What a burst of speed, keeping plenty in | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
reserve, tactically superb, aided by Bazlen's excellent work on the | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
bike. She was able to drafting behind, take it easy, and look at | :34:15. | :34:23. | |
her running up to the finish. Plenty more to give. Stanford and Stimpson | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
still battling for second, but it looks like Haug's victory in Hamburg | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
this afternoon. Anne Haug of Germany within sight of her second victory | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
of the year. She won in Auckland at the opener. This is then, I classed | :34:42. | :34:52. | |
in Madrid by Stanford and in San Diego by Jorgensen and Stanford. Now | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
she knows victory is ours for the taking. And it is the blue carpet. | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
Anne Haug soaking it all up here in Hamburg, the 30-year-old from Munich | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
coming in with a classy finish to win the WTS sprint title for 2013. | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
Anne Haug wins in a time of 57 minutes and 21 seconds. Stanford's | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
Sprint keep seven second, Stimpson the winner in Kitzbuhel finishes in | :35:26. | :35:35. | |
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third. Andrea Hewitt in fourth, Ashleigh Gentle instead. The Germans | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
:35:46. | :35:46. | ||
wanted to see victory in Hamburg or Haug. -- for Haug. And she really | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
had to work for it. She judged that run to absolute perfection. | :35:51. | :36:01. | |
:36:01. | :36:27. | ||
An unforgettable home victory in overall standings for 2013. | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
Huge congratulations. How does it feel to have won a race on home soil | :36:31. | :36:41. | |
:36:41. | :36:42. | ||
believe it. You torture yourself to the limit and to be in the middle of | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
the podium is a dream come true and amazing. There were three of you | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
girls so tight on the run, we wondered who would kick burst, then | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
about 800 metres to go, I huge burst of energy from you. We did that come | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
from? I felt very good on the run, and planned to attack on the hill | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
with one kilometre from the finish line, then decided now or never, and | :37:07. | :37:14. | |
Winford Gold and I did it. Representing Great Britain, Non | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
Stanford. Congratulations, silver in Hamburg. How are you feeling? | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
Absolutely delighted. I got my hand stuck at one point, working really | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
hard to get back into the bike group, trying to make the run hard | :37:32. | :37:39. | |
from the start, but when Anne Haug went, she had some speed. What was | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
going on at the beginning of that run? The dot in the first lap, that | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
was the podium, then Andrea Hewitt came up from behind. It was crazy. I | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
think I must have slowed down quite a lot and let them back into the | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
race. But it was a good race, exciting, I did not know what would | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
happen. To share the podium again with Jodie Stimpson is fantastic. | :38:05. | :38:12. | |
Once you stole Anne Haug kick on, was it just about second, then? | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
dug in and I am pleased with second. Well done, another podium, | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
congratulations. Thank you. How does it feel to back your win at | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
in Kitzbuhel? Fantastic. It was fast, or in from the word go, and | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
great to finish on the podium. were the crowds like? It was | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
awesome, but everyone was shouting for Anne Haug. | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
What a race, with two British women on the podium again and Anne Haug | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
making sure no one else won on her home turf. Coming up, the Brownlee | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
brothers lead in the men's sprint rates, then extended highlights of | :38:59. | :39:05. | |
the Mixed Relay World Championships. Now it is finally here, after it | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
injury, illness, late withdrawals, the battle we have all been waiting | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
for. All three male Olympic medallists on the start line for the | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
first time since London 2012. Prepare yourself for Brownlee | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
against Gomez against Brownlee. Started off very well in Auckland. I | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
won the first race of this year. Unfortunately, I had an ankle | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
injury, so I had to miss the first race. By season started in San | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
Diego. That went great for me. I1-macro. The first three or four | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
days in San Diego, I did not feel good. That did not make me very | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
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happy. Then my first race of the year, I won that one. Jonny was very | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
strong, and I was very happy with winning that race. In Madrid, that | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
was a few weeks later, again I was first. I planned to raise in | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
Madrid, but I was just not right and had to pull out of Madrid. I knew I | :40:22. | :40:30. | |
was tight for running fast and would not beat Jonathan. But it was good. | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
Kitzbuhel was new and exciting, uphill was different. I was feeling | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
very excited for the first time, but got ill 24 hours before the race, | :40:40. | :40:48. | |
could not get out of -- had to pull out and I was gifted. Kitzbuhel gave | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
me the chance to race without being fit running wise. It was all decided | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
on the bike, and it was decided then. Unfortunately, I crashed five | :40:58. | :41:08. | |
days before the race. Nothing too serious, but hurt a lot of kin. -- | :41:08. | :41:16. | |
skin. But no Hamburg. Not only the first | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
time you are facing Alistair since London 2012, but the whole Olympic | :41:20. | :41:28. | |
podium, you guys just missing each other this season? We have. Some bad | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
luck as well, injuries, illnesses, but also last year, the Olympic | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
year, took a lot out of everyone. When you aim for a something for so | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
long, training so hard, the year after, it has to take something out | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
of you. Having some bad luck, but last year was hard. It is true | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
racers are different when the Brownlees racing. It will be fast | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
from the beginning and they do not look back. The push as hard as they | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
can on the bikes. We love to raise the best one in the world. With | :42:04. | :42:12. | |
those two, it will be a fast race. I like running with massive margins, I | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
am very competitive. The races I remembered are those that are | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
hard-fought. I think, deep down, I appreciate strong competition. | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
Alistair has an incredible record, being very good when he turns up. | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
With the spring, the Brownlees out there, the course is very fast, lots | :42:34. | :42:44. | |
:42:44. | :42:56. | ||
of crowds. If I was a betting man, I leader appears to be in a commanding | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
position, but he has competed in all five races so far this year and | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
peered to the Brownlees with two apiece. They cannot afford to miss | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
any more races, making this weekend crucial. | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
With nine of the top ten men in the world lining up here in Germany, | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
this race should be another brother, now to hand you back to Matt Chilton | :43:24. | :43:34. | |
and Steve Trew. There is Jonny Brownlee, he missed | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
Kitzbuhel where his brother triumphed with a dominant display of | :43:38. | :43:45. | |
uphill climbing. And there is Alistair. The Olympic champion. Both | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
Brownlee brothers being warmly welcomed onto the start pontoon. And | :43:50. | :44:00. | |
:44:00. | :44:09. | ||
to go. Javier Gomez closest to us, number one, coming up against both | :44:09. | :44:19. | |
:44:19. | :44:20. | ||
Brownlee brothers here today. And in the goal for the sprint | :44:20. | :44:26. | |
distance 750 metres in the relatively warm waters. Gomez has | :44:26. | :44:33. | |
made a good start, easy to spot in the red suit. You can be sure that | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee will be hot on his heels, not letting him | :44:37. | :44:44. | |
get too far away. Alistair fresh off the back of a win in Kitzbuhel, | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
Jonathan winning the two previous rounds. Gomez won the opener in | :44:50. | :44:59. | |
Auckland. It is the first time all three Olympic medallists have raced | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
together so far this season. The first time Alistair and Jonathan | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
Brownlee will do battle since the Olympic games in Hyde Park in August | :45:09. | :45:19. | |
:45:19. | :45:31. | ||
fourth. That could well will be Richard Murray of South Africa. | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
Richard Varga leads through. Looking to see the position of that safety | :45:34. | :45:41. | |
canoe. The kayak was in the way for the women's swim. Thankfully, it's | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
kept clear of danger this time. This is always a worrying time. There was | :45:45. | :45:51. | |
a bit of ducking and diving there and a bit of afters as well between | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
two swimmers. One got ducked, and then he returned the compliment. | :45:58. | :46:07. | |
They need to be separated. That was Adam Bowden who took the brunt of | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
:46:17. | :46:19. | ||
the punishment there. Richard Varga leading them through. He has one of | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
the Brownlees behind him. Richard Murray won this triathlon 12 months | :46:23. | :46:33. | |
:46:33. | :46:36. | ||
ago, a good all-rounder. 66 having a little go there is Max Schwetz of | :46:36. | :46:46. | |
:46:46. | :46:53. | ||
Schwetz. I wonder if we are going to see a repeat of the situation we saw | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
in the women's race earlier. Anne Haug has to be challenged in the | :46:57. | :47:06. | |
swim, she had a pacemaker working for her. I wonder if that is the | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
situation that Max Schwetz has put in. They disappear from view now | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
under this wide road bridge which crosses the river. It brings them | :47:18. | :47:26. | |
back into daylight in a moment. They will exit on to the main road before | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
trotting into transition and picking Unionist their bikes for five | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
four-kilometre laps around the streets of Hamburg. We kex pect an | :47:37. | :47:44. | |
early front group of ten or 12 to form. They are back into daylight. | :47:44. | :47:54. | |
:47:54. | :47:54. | ||
Varga is spotted by the crowd. The crowd are 15-deep in places. They | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
have already tasted success today, the Germans, with victory for Anne | :47:59. | :48:09. | |
Haug. They will all be keeping a close eye on the position of Jan | :48:09. | :48:17. | |
Frodeno. We are sure that is Alistair Brownlee in third place. | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
Johnny was a couple of positions down when we saw him. No reason to | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
doubt he is not going to be up in the top ten coming out of the swim. | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
We will see if the brothers will be working together. Lots of noise to | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
greet the swimmers as they approach the end of stage one of this sprint | :48:36. | :48:46. | |
:48:46. | :48:50. | ||
distance. Varga is on his feet and out of the water. Closely followed | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
by Schoeman. Alistair, the first of the Brownlee brothers, Jonathan hot | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
on his heels. The important names, as far as British triathlon is | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
concerned, is Brownlee. They are coming in in third and fourth | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
respectively. They will be in the thick of things as they head out of | :49:13. | :49:23. | |
:49:23. | :49:36. | ||
transition on two wheels. We could have Adam Bowden, Aaron Harris | :49:36. | :49:43. | |
taking part in this sprint distance this afternoon. This was Brownlee on | :49:43. | :49:53. | |
:49:53. | :50:02. | ||
his way up the ramp, Alistair Frodeno yet. They are on the road, | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
just getting their feet into the shoes. Schoeman looks over his | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
shoulder and that white bike helmet worn by Alistair, with Jonathan in | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
fifth position at this stage. So the bike course takes them away from the | :50:21. | :50:31. | |
:50:31. | :50:41. | ||
including one very sharp out and back hairpin, a left-hander. | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
strong possibility of a group getting away from here and certainly | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
Jonny Brownlee has gone to the front, he's looked behind and said, | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
"Come on, let's go for this!" Both the Brownlee boys love putting | :50:56. | :51:03. | |
themselves on the line. Very, very aware that their running strengths | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
are so good and we do seem to have a big effort on this group trying to | :51:06. | :51:16. | |
:51:16. | :51:27. | ||
and the chasers. It's getting on for ten seconds, possibly more. And | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
there's Frodeno, second of the chasing group. Frodeno therefore in | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
13th position at this stage, the former Olympic Champion, in his | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
farewell race. Schwetz behind Frodeno, so I wonder if we will see | :51:43. | :51:53. | |
:51:53. | :51:58. | ||
him moving to the front to try and going in at the front. Schoeman is | :51:58. | :52:08. | |
:52:08. | :52:14. | ||
having to work really hard to stay with Javier Gomez. The other one I | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
spotted early on was Aaron Royle of Australia. He is in this group. That | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
is the left-handed tight hairpin, which needs to be handled with care. | :52:26. | :52:33. | |
Very, very close to going through the barrier. Perhaps an indication | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
of how hard these cyclists are working at the front. Alistair and | :52:36. | :52:46. | |
:52:46. | :52:57. | ||
Johnny, they have both talked about shortened slightly. We have gone | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
down to nine. Two have been struggling to keep with the pace. | :53:01. | :53:11. | |
:53:11. | :53:16. | ||
The Brownlee boys, we have also got Luis of France, Vincent Luis, who | :53:16. | :53:22. | |
was a strong contender - he will be hoping he can keep with them. Fabian | :53:22. | :53:30. | |
is in there, Ryan Sissons, Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico, Frodeno and | :53:30. | :53:40. | |
:53:40. | :54:02. | ||
Varga to complete the front group -- penalty. He still managed to stand | :54:02. | :54:12. | |
:54:12. | :54:18. | ||
still for 15 seconds. He still took the bronze medal. Gomez split them. | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
Long shadows across the streets of Hamburg. A terrific shot from the | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
helicopter. The brunt of the work is being taken by Alistair, Johnny and | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
Javier Gomez. Our remaining six athletes, are they content to be | :54:34. | :54:44. | |
:54:44. | :54:56. | ||
in there. And there is Frodeno. can't see it happening if we | :54:56. | :55:04. | |
maintain the pace at the front here. Every time we see it, one of the | :55:04. | :55:14. | |
:55:14. | :55:28. | ||
Brownlee, Gomez, Sissons, Fabian, Luis and Raphael. They have formed a | :55:28. | :55:31. | |
breakaway group and they look unlikely to be caught. A British | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
flag is being waved furiously. Slightly outnumbered today, the | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
British supporters. They like what they have seen so far with two | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
athletes already on the podium. We could have two more today with | :55:46. | :55:55. | |
Jonathan and Alistair. The chasing group, with Mola doing much of the | :55:55. | :56:05. | |
:56:05. | :56:11. | ||
work alongside Jan Frodeno. Tony Moulai. There's Mola. Second in the | :56:11. | :56:21. | |
:56:21. | :56:30. | ||
seeing if the other brother is coming through. Now there's that | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
encouragement - "Come on, guys, if you want to stay with us, you have | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
to be prepared to work!" They don't hold back - they will be dishing | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
their commands out. There are two who have just sat back and eased it | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
up at the back of the leading group as we take a look at the chase | :56:48. | :56:53. | |
group. They were 20-plus seconds behind at the end of lap two. We | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
will get a check shortly on whether that has stretched or shrunk at the | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
end of lap three. We saw the women's race earlier where Vicky Holland | :57:03. | :57:12. | |
finished 19th on her comeback. Vicky is now alongside Sonali. | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
How does it feel to be back racing? It is great to be back here. On a | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
course like this, you can hear the atmosphere, you can see how many | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
people come to watch it. It is great to be back. On a race like today, it | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
shows you that you have to be at your best otherwise you won't be | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
able to compete. The women's race was a thrill to watch. Two of your | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
team-mates on the podium and Anne Haug, what a tactical race from her? | :57:38. | :57:48. | |
Absolutely. The Germans employed a pacemaker tactic and they showcased | :57:48. | :57:54. | |
how to do it today using Bazlen to drag Anne Haug around and then she | :57:54. | :58:03. | |
flew off the front. Now, here they come! The men are around halfway | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
through the bike course. You have raced on this course already today. | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
What are you expecting from them? You know, I think these boys will | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
not get caught. This course is tight and technical, very, very fast. | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
There are a lot of turns towards the second half of the course. Those | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
boys in a smaller group have the advantage when it comes technical. | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
Here is the chase group. I don't think they will get caught now. | :58:31. | :58:37. | |
are about 20-plus seconds down. About 20 seconds, yes. Thank you.No | :58:37. | :58:47. | |
:58:47. | :58:49. | ||
problem. Aurelien Raphael, the Frenchman. | :58:49. | :58:58. | |
Gomez with Luis, who has decided to have a little time at the front. | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
Alistair can't resist it. He doesn't like the lack of pace. He decides to | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
race. The speed of this bike leg, they are deep into lap four of five | :59:07. | :59:13. | |
now. They are having to work so hard to stay there. It looked like Javier | :59:13. | :59:22. | |
Gomez was wondering at the intensity of this. Schoeman is thinking, "Are | :59:22. | :59:32. | |
:59:32. | :59:45. | ||
couple of bike lengths. With the chasers, we have the Brazilian with | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
a mini break. That will not last long. | :59:50. | :00:00. | |
:00:00. | :00:11. | ||
himself I've run by his compatriot -- out run by his compatriot, | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
perhaps feeling he should get to the front and perhaps squeeze of one or | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
two of the members of this lead group. After that last few seconds, | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
when he was leading the group, he went back into third. Jonathan | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
seemed to say something, shake his head, and Jonathan unimpressed with | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
:00:44. | :00:59. | ||
Brownlee brothers Aaron a sensational position, first and | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
:01:09. | :01:21. | ||
kilometres on two wheels and excellent work by this group of | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
nine, but really only by Gomez and the Brownlee brothers and occasional | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
output from Fabian and Royle. Heading under and passed the central | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
:01:44. | :01:45. | ||
railway station. Ultimately, it will be offered raise between Javier | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
Gomez and Alistair and has an Brownlee. -- will be a foot race. I | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
repeat of the Olympic triathlon last August. But it is a shorter | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
distance, just five kilometres to run, rather than the Olympic ten. | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
:02:16. | :02:19. | ||
1800 metres left to ride. Luis of France into third position, wanting | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
:02:29. | :02:32. | ||
a good position to get involved when they enter to park up the bikes. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
This really is so fast. If they are running anywhere near we have seen | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
them do before, they will have a finishing time of around 50 minutes | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
for this sprint distance event, really quite stunning. They are | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
taking it to a new level, these guys. Can anybody go with the big | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
three question mac nine in this group. We know the capabilities of | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
the Brownlees and Gomez, what about the other sex? Now it is time to | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
:03:13. | :03:13. | ||
think about arriving in transition. -- other six? Preparing for the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
arrival and this mind. Jonny Brownlee learned his lesson at the | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
Olympics, with the penalty for at this might malfunction. There is | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
Alistair's spot in the transition area. And it is Fabian, the Italian, | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
sneaking alongside, to get himself a nudge towards his position in | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
transition. Feet on the floor, Jonathan nice and early, everyone | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
hitting it on the mark, and the nine leaders arriving together in | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
transition. Whether they will leave together is a different matter. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Alistair is there a fast, shoe is going on, Jonathan on the other side | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
from his brother, helmet off, sunglasses in hand, but not | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
bothering. And nine in, and nine out. Gomez kicking away to give | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
himself an early advantage. I think we will see this absolutely flat out | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
:04:26. | :04:27. | ||
from the first place. Frodeno comes in, the Swiss is there as well. And | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
there goes the former Olympic champion, Frodeno out of transition | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
with a lot of work to do. I confront, it is the Brownlees and | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Schoeman and Gomez. The other five at the moment not keeping with them. | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
This was Alistair coming into transition. Good work. A group of | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
four, Jonathan Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Henri Schoeman and Javier | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
:05:12. | :05:13. | ||
Gomez. The French triathletes and Royle so far unable to match the | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
running pace of the front four. Alistair seems content at the moment | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
just to follow his brother through and Schoeman, after that initial | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
fast pace, back in fourth place. This will be the big question for | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
him. Frodeno leading the trailing pack. Schoeman struggling to keep | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
pace with Gomez and the brothers. He has been dropped not by much, but a | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
significant gap of three or four metres. Schoeman will feel that | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
psychologically. And an issue here with the German in transition. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Stopping to have a conversation, not quite sure what that was about. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
wonder if that was a time penalty for an printer and we did not see. | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Schoeman working hard, but not able to to get in front. Alistair | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
Brownlee seems happy to be chasing through now. Jonny Brownlee keeping | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
nice and cool. And Alistair takes a shower. The three Olympic medallists | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
from London 2012 out in front in this WTS sprint in Hamburg. The | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
bronze medallist leading the silver medallist, with a gold medallist | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
:06:56. | :06:57. | ||
currently in third. It is almost a replay of one old fire on the | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
standings, these three so dominant at the Olympic games. -- almost a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
replay of World Triathlon Series standings. These three have moved | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
away from the rest of the world. Gomez taking his place at the front. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
The Brownlees sat this event out in preparation for the Olympic Games. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
Gomez took part in a race that was won by Richard Murray. Gomez the | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
winner of this race in 2010, and the winner of the opener of this year's | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
WTS in Auckland. 30 years of age, born in Switzerland, and running for | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
Spain. The Olympic silver medallist. It seemed like Javier | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Gomez was looking to increase the pace, but not wanting to leave this | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
to a sprint finish, but after that couple of hundred metres at the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
front, they are back together. Alistair Brownlee seems to be happy | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
to keep in third place, monitoring what Gomez is doing, what his | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
brother Jonathan is doing. And a big gap now between the front three and | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
the next best. A gap of 20 seconds, possibly more. That is the injection | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
of pace that these three, the best in the world, have brought to the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
final stage of this race. Approaching the end of the first | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
lap, just 2.5 kilometres of running to go. Jonny looks over his | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
shoulder. He was beckoning Gomez through there. He kind of step aside | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
and gave him that gap, but Gomez not accepting, happy to be the meat in | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
the Brownlee Sandridge at this stage. Nobody has made a move yet. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
-- Brownlee sandwich. Nobody has made a move yet, they know each | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
other well, these three, and terrific races over the years | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
between the Spaniard and the two Yorkshiremen. The gaps in the next | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
:09:19. | :09:38. | ||
best, which is Schoeman, is 20 12th. | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
2.5 kilometres to go, we have seen the winner upfront? Is someone | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
unusual would have to happen. They are the usual suspects, the most | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
frequent for the guys, Olympic medallists as well, and it will have | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
to come from those three. The question will be who will take it. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
At the moment, Jonny looks the best, setting the pace. Gomez looks | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
comfortable and you have to say that Alistair does not look his usual | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
dominant self. Whispers that perhaps he is not feeling 100% today, but | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Alistair Brownlee's 100% is not a normal person's 100%, do not write | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
him off, I think it will come down to the wire. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
I do not think Gomez can afford it to go to a sprint finish. Increase | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
the pace to run any speed out of the Brownlees' legs. Gomez in front, no | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
:10:53. | :10:55. | ||
distance between these three. Deep into the final lap. Nothing | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
between Javier Gomez, Jonathan Brownlee and Alistair Brownlee, the | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
three Olympic medallist battling for superiority here in Hamburg. I think | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Gomez tried to increase the pace then, stretching away by a couple of | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
metres, immediately covered, and if anything Alistair Brownlee | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
lengthened his stride, indicating he is feeling very comfortable. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Schoeman now beginning to pay the price for that early pace trying to | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
:11:39. | :11:40. | ||
go with these three. Just over 1600 metres to run. And the Spaniard, | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Javier Gomez, has a little glance. He can sense they are they are. And | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
here comes Jonathan, easing alongside Gomez, and taking first | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
:12:01. | :12:06. | ||
position, whilst Alistair is happy to loiter in third at this stage. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
And Vidal has finished his race prematurely. That is most unusual.I | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
hope he is all right. Annexed a modicum of pace here. And the sudden | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
left and right turns, you can see one of the athletes making a break, | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
:12:32. | :12:39. | ||
but all responding, all aware. And throughout, going off so fast, | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
Schoeman trying to stay with them, was able to for about 800 metres, | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
maybe one kilometre, but just found it too much. But these three have | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
maintained, watching each other, Alistair particularly the hunter in | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
this scenario. And you just wonder, is Gomez going to go? If he is going | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
to make that escape comment he cannot afford to leave it too long. | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
The younger Brownlee, Jonathan. Gomez, the Spaniard, and the Olympic | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
champion, Alistair, in third. We thought Alistair might look the more | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
comfortable, but right now, maybe it is Jonny looking the more | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
comfortable of the two Brownlees. And you can never really judge with | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Gomez, because he has always got something in reserve. We saw on the | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
women's race, the two Brits in the leading free, almost as sure of a | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
podium position, then I've run in the last 1000 metres, and you wonder | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
if that could happen again. -- then out run. Gomez dropping to third for | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
the moment. Are the Brownlees beginning to turn the screw on | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
:14:12. | :14:16. | ||
Gomez? And here is the hairpin, will one of them kick? Jonathan tried to | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
edge away, Gomez and Alistair had it covered. The gap is a fraction | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
longer than it was. Gomez, can he fight back? He is having to stand | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
and stare and watch as the gap lengthens. Gomez kicks and tries to | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
:14:41. | :14:42. | ||
close the gap. I think he just succeeded. Back there, working hard. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
You can sense they are watching each other, knowing that one of them is | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
going to go. And if they are prepared to put everything on the | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
line, still with the two Brownlees in front, Gomez covering, and not | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
over by any means at the moment. kilometres per hour across the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
streets of hamburg, for the Brownlee brothers and Gomez as they start to | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
wind it up towards the finish of this sprint distance race, which has | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
been as thrilling as expected. Another kick from Jonathan. Is Gomez | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
broken this time? Tries to respond. The two brothers are beginning to | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
make a dent in Gomez's armour, he cannot reply this time, as Jonathan | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Glanz is behind to see his older brother breathing down his neck and | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
:15:46. | :15:50. | ||
four or five metres on Gomez. Now, Alistair Brownlee goes for it. It is | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
brother against brother as Alistair Brownlee takes the lead for the | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
first time on the run. Johnny trying to cover him back. Gomez cannot | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
match this. Alistair looks behind, "Have I got it this time?" Then | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
comes Jonny Brownlee again. Jonathan has responded. Jonathan wants this | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
one. Alistair is trying to come back at him. It's Jonathan's win! | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
:16:25. | :16:27. | ||
Alistair takes second. 51:05. Third place goes to Javier Gomez. At last, | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
younger brother Jonathan gets one over on his big brother. He had to | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
respond. He had to watch Alistair go past and find something to reply. It | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
will be a great finish again for Richard Murray. He was the winner 12 | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
:16:54. | :17:03. | ||
months ago. He's come back to take fifth. Sven Riederer next, Raphael, | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
and the roar goes up for Jan Frodeno. No final victory for the | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
former Olympic Champion. Frodeno ends his IT U career in tenth | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
position. -- in ITU career in tenth position. That has to be one of the | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
best races I have ever seen. Brownlee brothers, Jonathan glancing | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
to his left, Alistair eyes shut, he knew it was a lost cause. Beaten by | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
:17:45. | :17:47. | ||
his younger brother. So confirmation of Jonathan Brownlee's third WTS | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
:17:57. | :18:22. | ||
is just 565 points behind now. A sprint finish here in Hamburg | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
against your brother and you won? Finally I have beaten him! I knew if | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
I didn't beat him today, I would probably never beat him. He's had | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
problems throughout the whole year. I have done probably 15 more track | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
:18:44. | :18:44. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :18:44. | :19:26. | |
had to give it all. I am absolutely delighted with second. Good to be on | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
the podium again. It was really fast again. I worked hard on the bike, | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
did not feel good on the run. I even tried in the second lap, but they | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
were faster. But I am happy. It was quite good. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
We keep going on about it being your first time racing together? What did | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
it feel like? Definitely, the races change when they are together. Very | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
fast from the beginning, no break, no rest, pushing hard. Three wins | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
out of three races, high confident do you feel defending your World | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
Championship title? Very confident. Two races left, I cannot afford | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
anything going wrong. I know that Alistair and Gomez will be better in | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Stockholm. Pretty confident, but two more races to go. Well done, what a | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
finish. Thank you.Still one more race to go, the dynamic and popular | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Mixed Relay World Championships. You were part of the victorious British | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
team last year. I will do race work? It is a fantastic race, high octane, | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
really fast, with two males, two females. This win is really short, | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
only 300 metres. This win X it is behind me, . The exit for the | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
swimming is behind me. They finish on the run with handing over to the | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
next member of the team. So one mini really each, then attack team? | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
flying down the ramp here, and off they go. It is fast to watch and | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
super exciting. How disappointing where you to hear the International | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Olympic Committee's decision last week not to include the Mixed Relay | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
format as part of Rio 2016? It was disappointing, quite a shock, made | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
earlier than we originally thought. Today was supposed to be the | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
showcase for the committee to see how fantastic the event is, for the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
athletes and spectators, a great event to watch, so a shame it will | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
not be part of the programme in 2016. But it will take place at the | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year. And possibly it could come | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
back to the Olympics in 2020. hope so. Thank you. The Brits know | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
how to win this format, having been Mixed Relay champions for the past | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
two years. But how well do the members know each other? I am Non | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
Stanford, the 2012 next relay champion. Water her parents names? I | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
have never met them. I shall go for Welsh names. Jill and John. I am | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Alistair Brownlee, the 2011 Mixed Relay champion. What are his parents | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
names? I do not have a clue. I am Jonny Brownlee, Mixed Relay | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
champion. What are his parents names? Keith and calf. What is Non | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
Stanford's most treasured possession? She absolutely loves her | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
:23:17. | :23:32. | ||
I use my laptop the most. Maybe his Olympic bronze medal? What is | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Alistair's most treasured possession? His bike. My most | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
treasured possession is my Olympic medal. When is her birthday? Early | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
January. 8th January. I will give you that. April, May. 8th February. | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
The 30th April. The 30th April, 1990. It is the same day as my Dad. | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
December? 23rd April, 1988? What does Non Stanford wear to bed, | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
Jonathan Brownlee? It's hard work with girls, this. I'm going to go | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
that she wears just a pair of undies. A smile! I'm always happy to | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
be there. That is a good one! Boxers. Pyjamas. I think Jonny | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
Brownlee wears a flat cap to bed! Nothing else! LAUGHTER Normally | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
boxers and a T-shirt! Nothing exciting. He lies! No idea, I have | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
never seen her in bed! Nothing special. Who does Non think your | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
biggest rivals this weekend are? think she will have said the German | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
team. They are strong all round and she races Anne Haug so the German | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
team. Maybe New Zealand, they are pretty strong and they have some big | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
athletes. Fair enough! Not as good as Alistair. Who did Alistair say | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
are your biggest rivals for the Mixed Relay World Championships? | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
German team. Germany. You are correct. That is one out of five. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
She said Germany. You will say the German team. Two out of five for | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
you. Great. I know her well. Maybe he said Germany as we are in | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Hamburg. The French will be good. You scored two out of five. That is | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
quite good. Yes, it might be better to let their bodies do the talking | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
to see if the British team can prove you don't need to know each other's | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
mums and dads to make it a Mixed Relay World Championship hat-trick. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
Let's get back to Matt and Steve. There are is the start list. There | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
are 21 teams involved. It is hard to see Great Britain getting challenged | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
:26:09. | :26:15. | ||
The best they can hope for is second or third because the outright | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
favourites are the British team. Here is the course for the mixed | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
:26:31. | :26:46. | ||
relay today. The swim very short. No the bike. Two laps of 3.3 kilometres | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
to give us a total of 6.6. The run is a mile. 850 metres followed by | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
750 metres, then the handover from athlete to athlete. We are ready to | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
race in Hamburg. The mixed relay about to unfold. What a beautiful | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
:27:21. | :27:26. | ||
day. Just a bit of breeze, warm lap. No wonder it is a fast and | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
furious start as we follow them from the helicopter shot above. Jodie | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
Stimpson opening things up for Great Britain, who are wearing number one. | :27:36. | :27:45. | |
They are team number one. Steve true is alongside. -- Steve Trew is | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
alongside. Britain will be tough to beat today? Yes. We have been | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
looking down the teams here. We cannot see - and I hope we are not | :27:55. | :28:05. | |
:28:05. | :28:05. | ||
doing this with the kiss of - we cannot see there is the deputy th | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
that other teams have. What we did yesterday was how critical the | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
changeovers and the first part of each new discipline was. If Gwen | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
Jorgensen - she had the same time as Anne Haug and then at the beginning | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
of the bike, it went. Just because of that, she put herself out of a | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
very good chance of getting on the podium there. She had a tremendous | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
run, 30 seconds faster than anybody else. It will be interesting to see | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
what they do today. We are hoping and expecting that Jodie Stimpson is | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
in among this leading group. It is difficult to spot who is where. We | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
will get a look on the computer timing as they come out of the | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
water. Jodie had a good swim yesterday and there is no reason to | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
doubt she should be up and fighting hard at the start of this. It has | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
stretched out just on that short distance here. USA out first, Great | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
Britain in third. I this I the timing system missed the Japanese | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
swimmer coming out. The USA are second there. Great Britain right up | :29:09. | :29:19. | |
:29:19. | :29:19. | ||
there. Stimpson in the darker GB Team strip today, just behind | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
Switzerland. Stimpson heading for her bike. Helmet on. And now they | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
make their way out of transition. A few Union Jacks present today. | :29:29. | :29:39. | |
:29:39. | :29:47. | ||
Obviously, the dominant flag is the Jodie Stimpson in this group as | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
well. And the French player not Barbie line. They can afford to push | :29:54. | :30:04. | |
:30:04. | :30:04. | ||
on. -- not far behind. Just a short bike to negotiate. The pace seems | :30:04. | :30:13. | |
relatively slow at this stage. The Japanese takes it up. France up | :30:13. | :30:20. | |
alongside. Just behind those Jodie Stimpson for Great Britain. I am | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
wondering if one of the tactics may be to keep with the leading pack on | :30:24. | :30:32. | |
the bike, then trying to break on the run. It would be really | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
difficult to get away on such a short distance, but the run brings | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
different tactics, so perhaps Jodie Stimpson's tactics, the British | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
team's tactics, is to keep with the bike at the front, then make a move | :30:47. | :30:56. | |
on the first of the four runs. Sarah Groff of the USA alongside | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
Jodie Stimpson of Great Britain. Emma Moffat preparing her shoes for | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
the ride in transition. Everyone reaching down for the starts, | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
loosening of this shoe attachments before arriving at the transition | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
:31:21. | :31:23. | ||
area. Just 520 metres to write. ride. It looks like Jodie Stimpson | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
once a clear gap in transition, alongside Emma Moffat in front, just | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
a couple of meat -- just a couple of 100 metres to go. We shall expect | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
them to rush out of transition. minutes before hitting the run. And | :31:44. | :31:54. | |
:31:54. | :31:57. | ||
it is a mile, 1.6 Colombo tours, to two laps. -- 1.6 kilometres. | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
Stimpson had a problem losing some control of her bike coming in, but | :32:02. | :32:10. | |
no damage done, hanging it up, and with a running shoes, eager to exit | :32:10. | :32:19. | |
transition. Terrific changeover from Emma Moffat, and Jodie Stimpson has | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
a few yards to cover now. Andrea Hewitt desperately trying to hold | :32:25. | :32:32. | |
onto the lead group. And the Netherlands are up there, up into | :32:32. | :32:42. | |
:32:42. | :32:45. | ||
fourth position. The men are waiting to receive the handover. Sarah | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
Groff, the 31-year-old American, and her results so far this season, but | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
being overtaken towards the changeover by Jodie Stimpson, | :32:54. | :33:01. | |
desperate to make up or two mistakes in transition, wanting to set | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
Alistair Brownlee of on a leading position, but Groff is having none | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
of it, only a short distance, and recovering the lead. And away the | :33:14. | :33:23. | |
men go. About ten metres ahead of the next best. Spectacular start | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
from the men. Absolutely superb, I love this event. This is where the | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
action really starts evolving. We had a two team breakaway there, | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
we're it will develop now, and that huge split on the final run | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
discipline for the first athletes in each team, and this is where those | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
splits will stretch and stretch. What an indication of the effort. | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
You work so hard to stay in that league Park, tremendous performance. | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
Alistair Brownlee was challenging at the start of the swim, coming around | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
the turn around already. It will be under 3.5 minutes for the swim | :34:08. | :34:17. | |
discipline, I am sure. They are already tearing it up here. Frodeno | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
with a good swim, right in contention here, the 2008 Olympic | :34:22. | :34:32. | |
:34:32. | :34:33. | ||
champion, Jan Frodeno, not far away from Alistair Brownlee. Getting a | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
full check on who is we're once they come out of the water in the next | :34:38. | :34:45. | |
few seconds. It is the Americans first, Ben Kanute holding onto that | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
first position. Burst into the water, followed by Alistair | :34:49. | :34:59. | |
:34:59. | :35:12. | ||
Brownlee, Switzerland outset then pack and the next ones out of water. | :35:12. | :35:22. | |
:35:22. | :35:23. | ||
Seven men, 17 is, about two ride for this bike ride. -- seven men, seven | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
teams. Expect Alistair Brownlee to force the pace at the front of the | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
field, looking around already, checking what the opposition is up | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
:35:44. | :35:45. | ||
to. And there he is, out in front, head down, making opponents work. | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
And Javier Gomez, miles behind. Goodness me, the Olympic silver | :35:50. | :36:00. | |
medallist with a mountain to climb, way off the pace. And move from | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
Alistair, who has decided as transition gets near, she wants | :36:04. | :36:13. | |
clean space, does not want to take of getting Impey did. -- he wants. I | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
am looking forward to seeing Alistair Brownlee run the one-mile | :36:16. | :36:26. | |
:36:26. | :36:26. | ||
discipline. The fastest runner, that there is doubt, and he might just do | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
enough in his 1600 metre run to effectively win the race for Great | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
Britain if he explodes out of transition and sprints out of the | :36:35. | :36:42. | |
two laps. He raced only yesterday, but it was a sprint yesterday, and | :36:42. | :36:49. | |
has had 24 hours or so to recover. If he runs like we know he can, he | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
might give Non Stanford and unassailable lead. Down to the | :36:54. | :37:04. | |
:37:04. | :37:13. | ||
leading free at the front, including smoothly as he would have liked, not | :37:13. | :37:22. | |
that it should matter, he should be first or second out of transition. | :37:22. | :37:28. | |
Kanute first, followed by Brownlee. Looks like a split at the front of | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
the run, and Alistair Brownlee forging ahead of Aaron Royle, just | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
online number one of the lab section, giving a significant lead | :37:37. | :37:45. | |
to Non Stanford, going off as the third athlete for Great Britain. | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
Kanute was first to lead, but dropping to 30 from transition. | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
Frodeno roared through every step. Gomez has a lot of work to do, miles | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
behind, not in contention at this stage, it is all about Alistair. | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
Getting quicker, everything is being left out on the roads here for | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
Alistair, his last race for a little while, as he cleanly hands over to | :38:15. | :38:22. | |
Non Stanford, who sprints towards the water. Add a good entry, good | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
dive. What was it like out there? That | :38:29. | :38:38. | |
hurt like L. Even if it is short, it still hurts. And your assessment, GB | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
:38:48. | :38:51. | ||
already doing well all. Perfect planning. Non Stanford is doing | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
well, in the perfect position. If Non Stanford can maintain this | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
lead on the swim, there could be a time trial on the bike. Six of the | :39:05. | :39:11. | |
men coming down and down as Alistair put the hammer down. This creates | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
different situations, different concentration, because Stanford will | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
be out on her own, barely aware that if Gwen Jorgensen can close on her | :39:21. | :39:30. | |
bike, it puts her in a personal situation. Stanford almost done with | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
the water. She should start to think about her run to the transition | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
area. Perhaps collecting her bike and heading out on two wheels for | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
the 6.6 hello metre bike ride, meanwhile Gwen Jorgensen from the US | :39:46. | :39:54. | |
with that ungainly swims Roque owing well -- swim stroke going well. But | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
quite a gap. Non Stanford way in front, arriving at transition, on | :39:59. | :40:07. | |
her bike and away as the others get set to begin. It is conceivable the | :40:07. | :40:15. | |
second group can close down on Non Stanford. It is possible to do it in | :40:15. | :40:25. | |
:40:25. | :40:26. | ||
the distance they have. Non Stanford has tasted such success this | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
season. She kicked off the season in second place in San Diego, beaten by | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
Gwen Jorgensen there, had her first WTS win in Madrid, then backing it | :40:39. | :40:47. | |
up with a second place in the sprint in Hamburg 24 hours ago. It has been | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
the breakthrough season for Non Stanford, but one of the main rivals | :40:50. | :40:56. | |
has been Gwen Jorgensen, of the USA, and McIlroy of New Zealand | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
attempting to close the gap on Non Stanford now. News of a ten second | :41:02. | :41:11. | |
:41:12. | :41:12. | ||
penalty. Non Stanford has to take a ten second standing penalty, because | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
of an infringement, not by hard, but by Alistair Brownlee, I'd miss you | :41:17. | :41:26. | |
with his dismount. -- and issue with his dismount. That has fallen to Non | :41:26. | :41:33. | |
Stanford, taking Brownlee's punishment. That is going to throw | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
out all sorts of things, with Gwen Jorgensen, around 15 seconds down, | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
down to five immediately, and she is the strongest runner at the moment. | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
We have a bite down, and a law enforcement officer in the street. | :41:52. | :42:02. | |
:42:02. | :42:02. | ||
-- bike down. Coming towards the end of the bicycle leg. Getting ready to | :42:02. | :42:10. | |
dismount. No sign of the penalty, no visual of that penalty taken by Non | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
Stanford, but we assume she has taken it, because she is not | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
figuring, and Germany credited with first position. We shall try and | :42:19. | :42:27. | |
figure out what has happened. McIlroy almost colliding with Haug. | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
:42:38. | :42:39. | ||
Jorgensen on her way. Germany leading the way. We are is Stanford? | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
-- where is. We saw that crash there, but I am hoping nothing has | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
happened. Unusual to get news of the race leader. We did see up by sick | :42:54. | :43:04. | |
:43:04. | :43:07. | ||
on the deck, we did see some action to retrieve it. -- bike on the deck. | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
:43:17. | :43:18. | ||
Was that Non Stanford? There was a body on the left. That looked like | :43:18. | :43:27. | |
Non. That was a British uniform. It is all over for Britain. We know | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
that Non Stanford has crashed, do not know if she is all right, what | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
are you hearing? The coverage has not really sure on what has | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
happened, we are yet to see the crash. The farce be new is when the | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
chase back came into transition. -- the first we knew about it is when | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
the chase came back. Unfortunately, she is probably at the furthest | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
point of the bike course. We wanted to win this, but the biggest thing | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
is to make sure Non Stanford is OK and she can continue later in the | :44:03. | :44:09. | |
year. Fingers crossed she is OK, thank you. | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
This is the battle for first, second and third, Anne Haug and Gwen | :44:14. | :44:20. | |
Jorgensen. Drama in Hamburg this afternoon. Engels crossed that Non | :44:20. | :44:30. | |
:44:30. | :44:31. | ||
Stanford is OK. No newsreader yet -- no news yet on her position. | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
Jorgensen coming from behind to run through the field, did it to win in | :44:35. | :44:42. | |
San Diego, again in Yokohama, sixth in the individual sprint yesterday, | :44:42. | :44:50. | |
leaving Anne Haug, yesterday's winner, behind her. Haug will haul | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
from a decent performance from Loschke, already in pursuit of | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
Cameron Dye, who is in the water already full is up the last | :44:59. | :45:07. | |
triathletes for Germany with a great dive. What a great performance by | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
Anne Haug there, working so hard on the bike, and getting in the pack in | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
front, straight to the front, knowing that Gwen Jorgensen would be | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
in a commanding situation into the run, and yet she did not give an | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
inch, working and working, and put Germany back in contention. You can | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
:45:39. | :46:06. | ||
hear that crowd's appreciation hitting the water. Cameron Dye is | :46:06. | :46:13. | |
coming out. Next out of the water will be the German, Franz Loschke. | :46:13. | :46:23. | |
:46:23. | :46:43. | ||
Sissons of New Zealand. Dye has his He will have Sissons for company. | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
Sissons not sure where his bike is. He has lost his bike. Loschke | :46:50. | :46:58. | |
looking a little heavy with his running steps. Out on the roads of | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
Hamburg with Cameron Dye of the United States of America. He had an | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
11-second lead at the time on the swim. He now has most of his 6.6 | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
kilometres still to ride. His feet are in the shoes. He is comfortable. | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
He is in the lead on this bike. Surely nothing can go wrong. Of | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
course, it all went wrong for Non Stanford, out in front, no company, | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
we still don't know what happened. Whether it was a mechanical problem, | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
or whether she made contact with one of the barriers a t the side of the | :47:34. | :47:44. | |
:47:44. | :47:46. | ||
road, or something worse. We still don't know. -- at the side of the | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
road, or something worse. We still don't know. It doesn't appear that | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
Dye is making... That is Non Stanford, Steve, being stretchered | :47:54. | :48:02. | |
off the course. That is where we have just past. So Stanford is | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
clearly receiving medical attention at the side of the course. That was | :48:05. | :48:13. | |
the scene of the earlier crash. We saw the aftermath of it. Sissons of | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
New Zealand, Loschke of Germany, coming off the cobbles. Loschke is | :48:18. | :48:28. | |
:48:28. | :48:33. | ||
and a mile to run. The Germans sensing potentially another victory. | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
Anne Haug winning the women's sprint yesterday, but they want more. Here | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
is our leader, Cameron Dye. He is starting to prepare for transition, | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
physically prepare now. He is moving that shoe. He doesn't want to make | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
any sudden movements. He wants to get the dismount spot on as well. | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
And his timing needs to be sweet as he comes into transition. He doesn't | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
want to slow down too much because he has to - the two riders behind | :49:00. | :49:08. | |
him are closing the gap. Loschke - dl they are - Loschke and Sissons. | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
The gap just closing a couple of seconds, but certainly they will be | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
in transition together. Out of the saddle again, just chasing down as | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
we come through. Dye might have been too cautious with his preparations | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
for transition because the other two have kept up the pace as they hit | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
the cobblestones. Loschke and Sissons, they haven't taken their | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
feet out of the peddleals, they maintain their pace. Dye comes into | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
transition. Two feet on the carpet. His bike station is right there. | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Sissons and Loschke go past him in transition. They could exit with a | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
smooth turnover just ahead of the American. The American has missed | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
his target with his helmet. Goodness me! That could cost him the chance. | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
He's on his way. But he will be joined pretty quickly by Loschke and | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
Sissons. Right on his tail. Loschke got that right. Sissons left a | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
little behind. Now it is a foot race for the gold and Loschke goes past | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
Cameron Dye. Explodes out of transition, roared on by the German | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
crowd and his team-mates. Sweet timing for Franz Loschke, who missed | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
the medal a year ago. He was in the team that finished fourth in | :50:21. | :50:30. | |
Stockholm. He is now in gold medal position here. Haug and Frodeno and | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
the rest of the German contingent can barely watch. Loschke grinds it | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
out here in Hamburg. We hear so much about how a home crowd can lift an | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
athlete. That is certainly happening here. Loschke has gone for it early | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
on, as you say. He's not - he doesn't look smooth. He's an | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
ungainly runner. He is working so hard for it. Ryan Sissons is in hot | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
pursuit. They have both gone past Dye very early on. You almost hope | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
that the home athlete can maintain this pace and keep the pressure | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
right the way through the run. Sissons is looming. Sissons is in | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
second position for New Zealand. Dye has been dropped to third. It's a | :51:14. | :51:24. | |
short run. It's a sprint relay. An 850 metre lap and then a 750. The | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
850 is done for Loschke. He is on his way for the second half. He is | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
more than halfway through. Roared through transition by the Hamburg | :51:31. | :51:39. | |
supporters. Just a couple of minutes running only to go. 750 metres to | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
go. That's our leader from Germany at the moment. He is very aware that | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
Ryan Sissons is working hard to close on him. Forget about the | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
Brazilian and the Italian - they are on their first lap. Loschke is on | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
his second and digging very deep now. Nine seconds is the gap. It is | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
significant. Loschke getting lifted by this Hamburg crowd, flying | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
through the streets. There's the man in second, Ryan Sissons, of New | :52:11. | :52:17. | |
Zealand. Loschke does look faster. It looks like Ryan Sissons has | :52:17. | :52:22. | |
worked so hard, he is almost struggling to maintain that pace. I | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
think Loschke has increased the lead and no doubt - he is working so | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
hard, but you have to give everything to the crowd. They have | :52:29. | :52:38. | |
lifted him so much. Jan Frodeno is delighted. Jan Frodeno on his final | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
weekend, he made the top ten in the individual race. He could be able to | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
end his career on a high note with a gold medal in the relay if Loschke | :52:48. | :52:55. | |
can keep this going. With 300 metres to run, he shows no signs of letting | :52:55. | :53:03. | |
up. Franz Loschke of Germany, who has been backed up superbly here | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
this afternoon by a terrific start from Anne Haug, then Jan Frodeno | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
went well. It wasn't a race without mistakes, but he did enough before | :53:13. | :53:21. | |
Anne Haug just about kept tabs with Gwen Jorgensen, Cameron Dye down in | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
third position for the USA and Loschke is starting to soak it all | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
up. He knows that this is his win! He is starting to celebrate. | :53:30. | :53:40. | |
:53:40. | :53:43. | ||
Germany's second gold of the weekend: -- weekend. Loschke's work | :53:43. | :53:50. | |
is done. The gold medal is his. Let's take nothing away from | :53:50. | :53:59. | |
Germany, who win the mixed relay and Loschke is lifted aloft by Haug, by | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
Frodeno and Knapp. They are the champions. It will be the silver to | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
Sissons and the rest of the New Zealand contenders. A good run from | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
Ryan Sissons. He will be joined on the podium by Kate McIlroy, Tony | :54:15. | :54:22. | |
Dodds and Andrea Hewitt. Cameron Dye finishes in third to take the bronze | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
alongside Sarah Groff, Ben Kanute and Gwen Jorgensen. | :54:26. | :54:36. | |
:54:36. | :54:44. | ||
Confirmation of the final results of our home town. Yeah. It is amazing. | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
Yet, it was a fight till the end and all you could do was watch? Yeah, it | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
was really a great race. It was really hard. Yeah. Great. You have | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
been on the podium already this weekend. Then you did it again for | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
the home crowds? Yeah, in front of the home crowd, it is very special | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
for the Germans. It was like a fairytale weekend for me. Yeah. | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
Congratulations to everyone. We did a great job. A perfect ending for | :55:16. | :55:22. | |
you as well, Jan? It is your last weekend of WTS racing? Yes, quite | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
possibly the last weekend and with the mixed relay comes mixed | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
emotions. There's so many ups and downs, and favourites and all the | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
medals that were dealt out before already. But it's like in track and | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
field, you have to bring a relay to the end and yeah, I am glad my | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
team-mates carried me today and we had a wonderful race at home. | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
Brendan, thanks for talking to us. Update us on Non Stanford's | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
condition? I have spoken to her physio, who is with her at the | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
hospital. She was treated at the scene by the medics. She was put on | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
a spinal board as a precaution and arm in a sling, but she's not | :55:57. | :56:03. | |
showing great signs of pain or distress. She's conscious. She's | :56:03. | :56:10. | |
talking about things and she's displaying more signs of jut set. | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
you know ma happened? We haven't been able to get that information. | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
-- Do you know what happened?We haven't been able to get that | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
information. 20 seconds up, the group came back in and she wasn't | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
there. We have no idea. I do know, as a team, the athletes got together | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
this morning, that he were talking about how they were going to fight | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
for every second as a lead because they wanted to do it. Johnny, you | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
never got out there. But I am sure, like everyone else, is happy to hear | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
Non is doing OK? Yeah. That is the most important thing. At the end of | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
the day, it is only racing! Obviously, I wanted to race. We had | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
a strong team. As we keep saying, so much can go wrong and when there's | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
four people involved, there's four times the chance of crashing and | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
that's what happened. Alistair, things started off so well. Yes, we | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
were doing alright. Jody had us in the perfect position. I was trying | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
to get rid of as many people as I can. Handing over to Non in the | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
perfect position. She had to keep herself in the race and these things | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
happen. We are hearing from the hospital that Non is coherent, but | :57:25. | :57:33. | |
really upset, she feels she has let you down? She is like that. I didn't | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
see she her come round so I knew it must have been serious. She would | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
never pull out and let the team down. Like I say, the fact that she | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
is up and talking is the most important thing. Congratulations to | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
the Germans on their very first mixed relay World Championship | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
title. It wasn't of course the ending the Brits were hoping for, | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
but as we have been hearing, thankfully Non Stanford is doing OK. | :57:57. | :58:02. | |
Let's not forget, despite all the drama, that was British triathlon's | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
most successful weekend of racing ever. That just about wraps things | :58:05. | :58:11. | |
up here in Hamburg. We are back at the end of August for stage seven of | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
the World Triathlon Series in Stockholm. You will be able to see | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
live coverage of the women's race on Saturday 24th August on the BBC | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
Sport website. We will also have extended highlights of the women's | :58:24. | :58:34. | |
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