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# Did you ever wanted? # Did you want it bad?

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# In my heart, in this cold heart # I believe if I'd just try

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# You believe in you. Good afternoon, everybody, and

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welcome to round four of the World Triathlon Series, or, as it is

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officially called, the Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon Leeds.

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We are set for what is going to be an epic day of racing. The city has

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been buzzing all weekend. It's only the second time it has hosted a

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World Series race. Just like in 2016, hordes of spectators have been

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making their way onto the streets of Leeds. We are expecting around

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80,000 people for the men's and women's races. You can expect every

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single one of them to make their voices heard. And you can expect the

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local fans to bring the noise as well. Certainly off the back of an

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England under 20s World Cup win. Incredible stuff just here on BBC

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Two. We have a line-up of athletes all hoping to impress here in Leeds

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this afternoon, including, say it quietly, the Brownlee brothers. They

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will be here for the first and only time in 2017. We also have a very

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impressive women's race coming up, including the world champion Flora

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Duffy. Down at the start, about five kilometres that way, is Louise

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Mitchell. Good morning to you. This is the pontoon they will be diving

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off shortly. With me here is Mark Jenkins, former Team GB triathlete.

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This is a really nervy moment. They are just arriving behind us. What is

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it like for them? This women can be the most important part of the race

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for many athletes. They are really nervous for the swim. The water is

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about 16.5 degrees, so our girls are used to the cold, so that's a good

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thing for them. Fingers crossed for them. You are here throughout the

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afternoon. Thank you. We will be hearing from Mrs Jenkins a little

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bit later in the programme in the commentary box. Leading the line for

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Great Britain in the women's race will be Non Stanford, who had a 2016

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Olympics to remember, but possibly for the wrong reasons. She was

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beaten to bronze by her then housemate and Team GB team-mate,

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Vicky Holland. She will be keen to be back on the podium here in Leeds.

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She spoke to Louise Mitchell. It is lovely to be here in your hometown.

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Where are we going? A few little hills. We ride around here quite a

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lot. This is part of our Monday leap. Let's go. I'm coming. This is

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a full-time job, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. The life of the

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triathlete is very quiet. If it isn't, you probably are not training

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enough. Do you ever question why you are doing this? Yes. Most races,

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there is a part that isn't fun. Aaron Royle, your boyfriend or

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partner? Boyfriend. Partner sounds a bit old. Initially he was a bit

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shocked at how wet it was here. He is very disappointed that his Aussie

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tan has faded. Vicky has moved away. Do you miss her a little bit? Miss

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her loads. The first few months especially. Hopefully she misses me.

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I'm sure she does! What are your aims for Leeds? To smash it? Always.

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You want to deliver in front of your home crowd and give the British man

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is a win. Non, thank you so much. Thank you for coming. Was very glad

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to show you around. Thank you. No doubt Non is going to go for it here

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in Leeds today. Somebody who knows exactly how and why is her former

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housemate and Team GB colleague, Vicky Holland. She is going to go

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blazing for this race. Absolutely. Leeds is her adopted city. She was

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disappointed with her race here last year, and she has had a little

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injury struggle and some illness recently, but I really feel she has

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the shape, form and class to pull something off today. And without

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Gwen Jorgensen, the biggest name in triathlon out of action, pregnant

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and expecting her first baby. This could be a chance. Yes, Non has been

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doing great. She has become very known for this swim- bike breakaway,

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and it has gone so well for her today in every race she does. I

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think she will do nothing different today. In the commentary box, Helen

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Jenkins, Andy Anderson and Matt Shilton.

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COMMENTATOR: Good afternoon everybody. The athletes are lined

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up, diving and swimming in Waterloo lake in Roundhay Park. They will

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complete 1500 metres. The bike stage is just short of 40 K and we will

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complete the race with a run. The water is a little cool, so it is a

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wet suit race, but conditions are pretty good, as we say good

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afternoon to former world duathlete on champion, any Anderson. Good

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afternoon. The field is a little smaller than we see usually. Just

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over 30 athletes. Cold water, but it doesn't look like it is affecting

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the athletes at the moment. They are used to racing in all conditions.

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Flora Duffy and Non Stanford, my two picks for the day, were very close

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on the pontoon. Non had a great swim in Yokohama, and she will be happy

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to be close to flora. A good choice for her. That is the voice of Helen

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Jenkins, the 2008 world triathlon champion, joining us in the

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commentary box in Leeds this weekend. They are on their way. A

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pretty decent pace. I think that is Jess leading there on the side. Key

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in the early stages of this race, particularly for Non Stanford, who

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didn't have a good swim here last year, is to make sure she gets

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herself on some fast feet. She had a great swim in Yokohama. One of the

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best we have seen. Unfortunately, crashed there, and put her chances

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of being on the podium behind her. She did finish in a strong sixth

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place at the end of the race. Really important for her to have a good

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swim. It is really important in Leeds, and this is a small field.

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Positives and negatives to having a small field. The negatives, there

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are a lot more gaps in a swim like this. The positives, if you struggle

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with the swim, there is more space. A 1500 metre swim, two clockwise

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gaps in Roundhay Park. The athletes head to the first transition area,

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known as T1, to collect their bikes to begin uphill, stage two. A ride

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of 38.6 kilometres, slightly shorter than the official Olympic distance

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of 40 kilometres. These are just taking us up to the total of 38.6

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kilometres, and not representative of the mileage covered. The first

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part of the bike leg takes them south-west, taking in the sights and

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sounds of the suburbs of Moortown, Headingley and Burnley, and into the

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historic city centre. Then through the centre of Leeds, through Park

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Square, Millennium Square, and then up and down the hedgerow. Part three

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begins in the second transition area, or T2. Situated in Millennium

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Square, where the triathletes will leave their bikes and begin the

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10,000 metre run, over four laps of 2.5 kilometres each. Expect total

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times of around one hour 50 minutes for the men and two hours for the

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women. 1.2 kilometres left in the water, so they are still in the

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opening lap. Jessica Learmonth leading the way for Great Britain.

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Following the injury suffered by Georgia Taylor-Brown, who we believe

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turned an ankle in training, the British women's contingent is down

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to three. Non Stanford, India Lee, and Jess Lee a month. Others to look

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out for our Kirsten Kasper. Flora Duffy, the reigning world champion,

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has number nine. 33 athletes in total making the turn here. You

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mentioned Georgia Taylor-Brown there. She was really ready to race.

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She was incredibly excited yesterday, and apparently she went

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over on her ankle on a little jog out last night, and it was the ankle

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she had surgery. Coming into this race on the back of a great win in

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Spain, so we were all very disappointed not to see her today.

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It's really disappointing that Georgia is not getting race today. A

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real talent for the future. She lives in Leeds and she loves it, but

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I have every faith that she will come back stronger than ever. This

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swim is interesting because a few big names are missing today. Of

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course, yourself, Helen, but also Vicky Holland, Gwen Jorgensen,

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pregnant as well, and Andrea Hewitt has decided not to come. Was that a

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tactical decision on her part? Probably. She will miss Edmonton and

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Leeds this year, and those are known as the colder races in the cold

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water, and Andrea struggles in them. You have to make tactical decisions

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when there's nine races in the year. 33 acres, a former quarry here. It

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was constructed by soldiers who had returned from the Napoleonic Wars,

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hence the name Waterloo Lake. There is a dam at the south end that used

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to be alive though. It is 18 metres deep in places, this late in the

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centre of Roundhay Park, which is 700 acres, one of the biggest public

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parks in Europe. The swim looks really strung out. Everyone is in a

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long line. What is interesting is this is a small field, but we are

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also missing some of the big swimmers, such as Carolyn rude today

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from Spain, who is often at the front of the swim. We are looking at

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a couple of strong swimmers, Flora Duffy and Jessica as well, and

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Kirsten Kasper from the USA. Are there any other swimmers we should

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be looking out for? One of the Japanese swimmers, Taca Sharkey,

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Takahashi -- Takahashi from Spain. Jess Lee a month pushing the pace

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here. This is a very local race for her. She comes from tad Caster,

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around 30 minutes from Leeds. She had a crash in Yokohama, Jess Lee a

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month. But she got back on hope bike and carried on. 890 metres to go.

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Being shadowed all the way here by the boats and the kayaks. There has

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been a bit of talk in recent weeks about swim behaviour. Not too much

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of an issue with a small field, but we talked about it with British

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triathlon last night. It has been an issue with people getting ducked and

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having their goggles removed, shenanigans at the turn. Well but

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happened today? Probably not with a smaller field. With a lot of that

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kind of thing, it's not intentional. There's a lot of roughness and

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physicality in the swim, and you just have to deal with it. But

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sometimes there is intent, and it is quite noticeable, so it's good they

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are going to start policing it more strongly. The idea is that they are

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going to have more eyes at these stages in the swim, when they turn

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around the boys. In the men's race, when the pace is fast and you might

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have 30 or 40 guys arriving at the turn at the same time, you do need

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eyes on the scene, making sure that nobody is playing dirty. So, the end

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of lap one, halfway through the swim. We should get a check on the

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runners and riders at this stage. Jess Learmonth from Great Britain is

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the first to emerge. Non Stanford, 18 seconds off the

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pace. We talked last night, we were sure Non needed a good swim to set

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up for a chance today. 18 seconds halfway, is that good, bad,

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indifferent? I noticed as they were coming out of the swim, there was

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one loner swimmer and it was Non. There's a big gap between her and

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the second pack but she is finding it hard to get back on now. It's

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going to be tough for Non, but she has clear water to her advantage and

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she's a strong swimmer. She has great endurance and has got to get

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her head down and focus on her feet and if she is in contact towards the

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end of the swim, she has good chance of staying in that front pack. 18

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seconds off the pace, Non Stanford. Jess Learmouth forcing the pace. As

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she takes out on the early stages of lap two, we can go to the pontoon.

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Absolutely. Fascinating to see them come out of here. I know they are

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trying to police the swimmer that more. They are trying to look at

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things. Yes, 60 athletes on the start line, a similar standard,

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every athlete wants to get to that first boy first and it's only 250

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metres away. 60 athletes coming together, it gets very physical and

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you don't want to impede someone's progress so they want to make sure

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there's no unfair play in that area. How would they police it? A video

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camera, look at the footage after it happened and make sure nobody has

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impeded anybody else's progress, punched another athlete. It is for

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everyone's safety and you want a fair race. It's difficult to do that

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because half of it is underwater. It's very difficult and sometimes

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athletes get held under and that's what you want to prevent. If they

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see something go wrong, they can penalised later, can they? Yes, if

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they see something happen, they could penalised the athlete in T1 or

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T2. It's good about going to police the swim. Thank you very much for

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the moment. We have got an arrowhead formed at the front, the front group

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and then there is a loner swimmer, maybe two together, it's difficult

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to tell from this angle. We think Non Stanford could be in that second

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small-group. That could be Non off the back and we are not going to

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know until they get out on the front and we can see exactly, but I'm

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hoping she has made the front. Eight minutes and 50 seconds, 750 metres,

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that's a pretty fast pace and it looks like Jess is pushing on the

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pace. That is not going to help Non, is it? Probably not but she doesn't

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have the information. She will just be swimming is faster she can. When

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she gets out of the water, she can assess and sea watches to do them.

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The last 440 metres in the swim. Just to remind you, stage two is the

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bike. Normally the Olympic distance is 40 kilometres but we are short of

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that in Leeds, 38.6, and we have a transition area, one in the Park,

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the athlete will collect their bikes, and one down in Millennium

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Square, where they will leave their bicycles before commencing the run.

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It is a split transition here in Leeds. The other feature of this

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course in Leeds that we are about to see is the stiff climb coming out of

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transition. Assumes they get on their bikes, they have to go

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straight uphill and that's unusual. It be very tough for the athletes.

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If you are pushing as hard as you can to come out of transition and go

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up a hill really tough. If you have been able to conserve energy, you

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could hit it with pressure but everybody will be hurting on that

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bike for the first two: it is. The athletes, I wonder if they've had a

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chance to have a session where they've taken on the climb after a

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swim because that could help prepare you ahead of this race? Mentally it

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would definitely help prepare you because you know what to expect, how

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hard it's going to be. If you prepare for it, it helps in the race

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but any kind of session where you have done swim to bike work to

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prepare for this event is going to help. A lot of athletes do the bike

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to run session but don't often train the swim to bike and, in this case

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in Leeds, it's quite important you have got your best game going out

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onto the bike. Yes, they are logistically harder but the girls

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were prepared for this the best they can and I sure they have been

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practising. Champion Flora Duffy from Bermuda, there will be a race

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in Bermuda in 2018, she is up with the leaders, Jess Learmouth. I'm not

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sure if Duffy has taken a position at the front of this race but the

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key thing is we have a decent working group of maybe a dozen

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athletes on the bike and it will be interesting to see if Duffy, one of

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the best bike is out there, tries to break away on that hill. Is that a

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tactic she could employ? I can expect her to go forward on the bike

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and it's going to be hard for these girls to hang with her on that first

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pillar. Flora's strength in the climbing and bike skills, we haven't

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seen anyone as strong as there for a long time so these girls have got to

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be repaired if they want to make the front group, they have got to stay

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with her on that part of the course. In the last 12 months, she has

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really mastered the art of swim to bike. The same as the Brownlee

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brothers, they work so hard into the first few calamitous and that is

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where the real damage is done in the race, isn't it? Yes, she's not

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scared of it and has ridden races and one races on her own so she's

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not scared of going for it whereas there is uncertainty if you've never

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done it before but Flora knows she can do it from a lot of different

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positions. Just looking at the swim now, it is totally strung out, not

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something we see very often in World Triathlon Series races. We often see

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a big group, a gap and a big group but here we have 11 athletes, a gap

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to Non, and then dribs and drabs, which will make it very hard for the

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second pack to come together. We don't see this in the women's race

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but more often in the men's, with the superfast swimmers. It's

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exciting to see the women are pushing the swim as well. It will be

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a tough day today starting off with such a fast swim. 120 metres to go.

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They are approaching the end of lap to now. The way the bike works,

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because they will be cycling down towards the city, beginning with

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that stiff climb out of the park, at 12.3 kilometre ride to the city

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centre, just over 12 K to get them from here in the north of the city

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from Roundhay Park into the city centre and following that, 3.76 laps

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in the centre of Leeds. It'll be quite intimate and loud when they

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make the sevens circuit in the city, but they have this long, looping

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right which sends them on the climb out of the park and then down to

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Headingley, Headingley Stadium, into the city to go first, so this trial

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form brings a lot of variety -- triathlon on and that's why the

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athletes like it so much. It looks like we've got a couple of breakaway

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swimmers. That is Jess Learmouth breaking away in the final moments

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of the swim, and nine swimmers on their feet as they head for the exit

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now. Just over 17.5 minutes so far. Jess Learmouth has held it together

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and will be one of the first out of the water for Great Britain. All the

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races involved will see their names and their times come up.

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Creston has made a bit of time. Hit team-mate has helped along with Juri

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Ide from Japan. We hope that Non Stanford might be one of the next

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out of the water. In fact, that wasn't Non. She is a little further

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back now. So, unfortunately for Non Stanford, she appears to have

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dropped backwards during the second lap and hopefully she will be with

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this group here. Gillian Backhouse. Still no sign of Non Stanford, the

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former world champion. Jess Learmouth in transition, has to get

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things right. Her wet suit has to go in the box. Helmet clipped up. Flora

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Duffy goes through the motions. This is all a well rehearsed routine.

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Duffy, the world champion. Non Stanford, just out of the water

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nearly a minute down. It's a shame for Maya Kingma and Non, they've

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lost time. She has to get herself back towards the front end of this

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race. Now they climb. Jess Learmouth is taking it on for Great Britain.

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Jess is a strong cyclist and if she can go for this, she could take the

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Flora Duffy route and go it alone. I think we'll find Barack Obama won't

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be to the Dutch athletes as well, we can

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see her coming out of the water, Non Stanford. Her time is pretty quick.

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They have had a really fast swim. It's not often we see Flora five

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seconds down. Jess Learmouth out on her own. She is taking this on and

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the crowds around in this part of the park are seeing the British

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cyclist coming through and they are delighted. Let's go to hear from

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Louise. It is so intense right here. We saw Non coming out. It is tough

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up there. It is a tough hill. Some of them are falling off their bikes

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because they are in the wrong gear so Non has got to chase hard to make

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the front part of the park. Gillian Backhouse is behind her. People are

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not being able to get their shoes on. What is going on here

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physically? Some of them are in a compromise position, not in the

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front part. They have got to work as hard as they can know to get

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themselves in the best position they can. It is so intense. You get that

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feeling they got to get this thing right and there's so much pressure.

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This is the make and break part of the race now. They could spend the

:27:05.:27:08.

whole race chasing Fulford if that front pack forms early, it could be

:27:09.:27:15.

race over. OK, thank you. What a start to the cycle for Jess

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Learmouth, powering up that hill. We were expecting Duffy to lead the

:27:22.:27:27.

charge but Jess Learmouth has established quite elite. There's

:27:28.:27:33.

another group of five who are nine or ten seconds behind. In fact, I

:27:34.:27:37.

think there are six athletes in that second group. I saw Jess get a good

:27:38.:27:43.

time check from one of our British coaches so it'll be interesting

:27:44.:27:46.

because the outcome for the race was we wanted a British woman on top of

:27:47.:27:51.

the podium and we know Non is the best chance of that so it'll be

:27:52.:27:54.

interesting to see now whether Jess Learmouth will try to get Non into

:27:55.:27:59.

the race or she will sit in the front group and not take any terms

:28:00.:28:04.

and contribute. Looking at the front pack, it's an interesting one. Quite

:28:05.:28:07.

a few new athletes in there, certainly be having seen a lot of

:28:08.:28:14.

Maya Kingma who was out of the water, Junior athlete and

:28:15.:28:18.

inexperienced at this level. Flora Duffy is a strong cyclist, on the

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tall may be, so has she got anyone to work with her today? It will be

:28:27.:28:31.

tough for Flora. No one is coming through with her. This is normal

:28:32.:28:37.

practice with Flora, she is used to riding as hard as she can,

:28:38.:28:41.

monitoring her wattage, her power, and she knows what she can run off

:28:42.:28:45.

certain power and we have seen Jess go backwards so I'm pretty sure

:28:46.:28:49.

she's going to be maybe holding on and trying to get Non to the front

:28:50.:28:54.

of the race. That will be good to see. She need a bit of help. Along

:28:55.:29:01.

with Ashleigh Gentle from Australia, they are the strongest in the pack.

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She came out of the water ahead of Ashleigh Gentle and she wants to

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stay there and stay away from Ashleigh Gentle because she was

:29:10.:29:16.

faster in Yokohama. I think that's true, she's been running really well

:29:17.:29:19.

and has been in great shape to Commonwealth Games, to get into the

:29:20.:29:28.

Commonwealth Games. Non also had a crash in that race. Yes, that's

:29:29.:29:35.

absolutely true. She managed to pick yourself back up. And then she ran

:29:36.:29:39.

through to finish in sixth position. A strong race, even though she fell

:29:40.:29:43.

off. Flora Duffy at the front, no surprise. Kirsten Kasper, a

:29:44.:29:49.

newcomer, she wears number one today, she's only been around for

:29:50.:29:53.

the last year so, great start of the season, finishing third in Yokohama

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and she got seventh as well. It's given her that number one spot

:30:00.:30:00.

today, so what she can do today? Kirsten is an improving athlete, and

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this season, she's had her best start to the season. Abu Dhabi

:30:13.:30:16.

wasn't as good, but she had some mechanical problems. I would say she

:30:17.:30:22.

would be more of a strong runner. Her bike strength might not be quite

:30:23.:30:26.

there yet, but it will be interesting to see what she can do.

:30:27.:30:34.

Working as a pack, this group will aim to close down Learmonth quite

:30:35.:30:40.

quickly. I think she has gone behind them now. I beg your pardon, she

:30:41.:30:46.

has. We haven't got Kirsten Kasper in that group. I think that Taylor

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Spivey and Betto. Those girls are strong athletes but not entirely

:30:53.:31:02.

well known on the world level,. It might be as much as they can do just

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to stay where they are. Going to be a frustrating day for Flora Duffy if

:31:09.:31:14.

she is on the front the entire way. Those seven loops of 3.76

:31:15.:31:20.

kilometres. By times it gets to the end of it, it will be tough for

:31:21.:31:26.

those at the front. Once they get into the town it is very technical.

:31:27.:31:32.

Seven laps of 3.76 kilometres with a lot of corners. You have to be very

:31:33.:31:37.

technical, and Flora is one of the best. It's going to be hard for

:31:38.:31:43.

these girls to stay with them. So a group of four, including the world

:31:44.:31:48.

champion. They have widened the gap significantly over the chasing

:31:49.:31:51.

group. We haven't seen anybody from the chasing group yet. This working

:31:52.:31:56.

group of four will head down through the various suburbs that take them

:31:57.:32:00.

to where the crowds are gathering in the city centre. People will be

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seven or eight deep on certain stretches, around Millennium Square.

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They will come through the transition area half a dozen times.

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The grandstands are packed down here now. The atmosphere is terrific. The

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sun has become the dominant weather factor, though we are expecting a

:32:20.:32:25.

shower or two. Hopefully, the roads will stay dry, because when they are

:32:26.:32:30.

on the tricky turns of the city centre, the last thing they will

:32:31.:32:34.

want is a wet road surface. After the weather in Yokohama and all the

:32:35.:32:39.

crashes, they will be very glad it is dry today. Fingers crossed. We

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had a lot of British athletes go down. Conditions in Yokohama were

:32:44.:32:49.

absolutely dreadful. The crowds here are great for the athletes. I was

:32:50.:32:54.

here spectating last year, and the atmosphere was incredible when they

:32:55.:32:58.

came through transition, especially for the home athletes. It really

:32:59.:33:02.

does make a difference. It does lift queue. Back with the front four.

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Flora Duffy on the front, looks like Alice Betto from Italy at the back

:33:10.:33:14.

of the pack. We haven't seen an awful lot from Alice Betto over the

:33:15.:33:19.

last few years. She had a not too bad season in 2015, but she has been

:33:20.:33:28.

very quiet the last couple of years. She had a nasty Achilles injury, so

:33:29.:33:34.

she had to miss Rio. She is on her way back up, and trying to make

:33:35.:33:38.

inroads into her running. She has always been a strong swimmer and

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relatively strong on the bikes, so probably more to come over the next

:33:44.:33:49.

two years or so. A good day for the other two athletes there, that is

:33:50.:33:55.

Maya Kingma from the Netherlands and Taylor Spivey from the US. They

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would not normally find themselves broken away from a World Triathlon

:34:00.:34:03.

Series race this early on the bike. It must be very exciting for these

:34:04.:34:08.

girls. It's not often you get to be in a small group at the head of a

:34:09.:34:12.

race. They will be buzzing and wanting to push on, and commit as

:34:13.:34:16.

much as they can. They will really be pushing it. The weather

:34:17.:34:21.

conditions are allowing the helicopter to fly to bring us these

:34:22.:34:26.

overhead shots. We didn't have any of that in Yokohama because the

:34:27.:34:29.

weather was so awful, the helicopter didn't get off the ground. 33

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kilometres left to right. They are still on the suburban stretch of

:34:36.:34:40.

this bike leg, which takes them 12 kilometres down to the city centre,

:34:41.:34:54.

and then seven laps of 3.76. We will hear shortly from Vicky Holland, who

:34:55.:35:00.

is down in the city centre at transition area. The Olympic runs

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medallist from Rio 2016. We will get her perspective on the way this race

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is unfolding, as the leading group of four have opened up an enormous

:35:12.:35:16.

lead. There is no one else on that shot. They have opened up a massive

:35:17.:35:21.

lead. It's interesting, because there were quite a few people near

:35:22.:35:27.

them on the swim. These four are working together. It will be really

:35:28.:35:31.

interesting to see who is forming into different groups behind when we

:35:32.:35:35.

get into the city centre. Hopefully when they do come into town, we will

:35:36.:35:42.

then get some time references and find out where that second pack is

:35:43.:35:47.

and what is going on behind this front four. Let's go down to the

:35:48.:35:54.

city centre to join or a Duboeuf. A really interesting race. Flora Duffy

:35:55.:36:03.

leading just like she did in 2016. A year ago, despite that commanding

:36:04.:36:07.

lead, she had to settle for silver. Can she put that right today? Flora,

:36:08.:36:15.

you had a fantastic 2016, becoming world champion. Does this you feel

:36:16.:36:22.

different? It does. Expectation attached to you, always getting

:36:23.:36:25.

introduced as the world champion. But I've had to get used to that and

:36:26.:36:30.

get used to be extra pressure. I'm really enjoying it. It's a special

:36:31.:36:37.

moment. A year ago in Leeds, you had that the brake on the bike with Jess

:36:38.:36:41.

and Lucy. How do you think the race might transpire this time? I have no

:36:42.:36:47.

idea. Last year was a big surprise, because of the team tactics. The

:36:48.:36:56.

British team thought the race would play out, but they didn't realise it

:36:57.:37:01.

would do in such a way. At the end of the race everyone was like, that

:37:02.:37:06.

was a bit awkward. But this year, a couple of the top British girls are

:37:07.:37:11.

not racing. Helen is pregnant and Vicki and Jodie are injured. But for

:37:12.:37:18.

me, my plan is the same. I am going to swim and by card. If I have

:37:19.:37:21.

people on the break, that's good, but if not, I have the confidence to

:37:22.:37:28.

just go for it. Why not? COMMENTATOR:, so the leading group,

:37:29.:37:39.

Flora Duffy, Maya Kingma, Alice Betto. We thought that Jess

:37:40.:37:43.

Learmonth might be in this pack. The first to come out of the swim and

:37:44.:37:46.

then she vanished. What happened there? We saw one of our coaches.

:37:47.:37:52.

She would have seen the time check back down to Non Stanford, and she

:37:53.:37:57.

probably decided to wait for Non and get her back into the race. This is

:37:58.:38:03.

a home race, so the aim is to get a British woman to the top of the

:38:04.:38:07.

podium. The girls decided between them that Non was the best transfer

:38:08.:38:13.

that, so they will be working to get Non back into the race. Non

:38:14.:38:17.

Stanford, the best run of the three. We were hoping for four, but with

:38:18.:38:22.

Taylor-Brown's withdrawal, we were left with three British athletes.

:38:23.:38:30.

Non Stanford now has company in the shape of Jess Learmonth, who will be

:38:31.:38:34.

working together to plug this gap. It is a big ask, because these four

:38:35.:38:38.

have steamed away from the chasing group. They also have India Lee back

:38:39.:38:44.

there, who is a really strong cyclist. I'm not sure where she

:38:45.:38:48.

finished coming out of the swim, but they have that positive of having

:38:49.:38:52.

her with them as well. I think she was around 20 seconds behind Non

:38:53.:38:58.

Stanford coming out of the water. It will be interesting to see what

:38:59.:39:02.

happens when these four, the leaders, get into town, because it

:39:03.:39:07.

gets a lot more technical there. I wonder if Flora will be better off

:39:08.:39:12.

on her own. How much these younger and less experienced athletes will

:39:13.:39:15.

be able to help when they get into town I don't know. The technical

:39:16.:39:21.

aspect of our sport is getting more important. There are more city

:39:22.:39:25.

centre races and small circuits, so it has to be part of the training

:39:26.:39:30.

now. You cannot just get away with being strong. Headingley Stadium,

:39:31.:39:34.

home of Yorkshire County Council Cricket club, Leeds Rhinos. A

:39:35.:39:42.

magnificent stadium, seen plenty of action over the years. And we'll see

:39:43.:39:50.

more this summer. The noise level is beginning to rise. Every Columbus

:39:51.:39:58.

that they put into this race, more and more spectators appear, as they

:39:59.:40:04.

get closer to the city centre. There is more noise building there. When

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they ride into the centre of Leeds for the first time, we expect the

:40:10.:40:13.

noise to be deafening. The crowds are being encouraged by the various

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announcers on the site. When they get past a Civic Hall, the

:40:18.:40:22.

grandstands are completely packed. Most are here to enjoy seeing the

:40:23.:40:27.

Brownlee brothers in their one and only appearance together on the

:40:28.:40:30.

World Triathlon Series, that they will be encouraging each of the

:40:31.:40:36.

triathletes today in the World Triathlon Series, which is round

:40:37.:40:41.

four of the series. Abu Dhabi in March, then the Gold Coast on

:40:42.:40:45.

Australia in early April, and then may in the rain-soaked event in

:40:46.:40:51.

Yokohama in Japan. Today marks the start of the European swing of the

:40:52.:40:57.

World Triathlon Series. We talked about the fact there is quite a

:40:58.:41:01.

small field in this race, particularly in the women's field.

:41:02.:41:05.

It could be because the athletes have raced quite hard. Some might

:41:06.:41:09.

have chosen just to have a bit of a break before the other European

:41:10.:41:15.

races begin. There is not a natural break in the season, so before the

:41:16.:41:19.

European races start, it is a chance for people to take that time and get

:41:20.:41:24.

some extra training in. We have a few people doing a few different

:41:25.:41:28.

races round the world. It's just a chance for a little pause in the

:41:29.:41:32.

season, which can be so refreshing to try and push on for the rest of

:41:33.:41:39.

the season. I wonder if some of the athletes were worried about the

:41:40.:41:42.

weather here in Leeds. But it's nice today. Around 22 degrees, and the

:41:43.:41:47.

sun is shining, so perfect conditions for racing. I think some

:41:48.:41:52.

were worried about the cold swim. The cold swim will affect some

:41:53.:41:57.

people, like Andrea Hewitt may have been worried about that. But the

:41:58.:42:03.

temperature is fine. Andrea Hewitt, the New Zealander, who had a

:42:04.:42:07.

fantastic start to the season, winning the first two races in Abu

:42:08.:42:11.

Dhabi and on the Gold Coast. But she is very affected by the cold, so no

:42:12.:42:15.

doubt she decided to sit this one out for that very reason. It's

:42:16.:42:21.

interesting that Flora is not taking all the terms here. She is letting

:42:22.:42:26.

the others take their turn and conserving that bit of energy, and

:42:27.:42:30.

making sure she is not going to get to the run having led the whole 38

:42:31.:42:35.

kilometres on the bike. It's a different style of biking. The first

:42:36.:42:41.

section is quite fast, almost like a time trial course. Fast, straight,

:42:42.:42:48.

wide roads. Then you hit the town, and the race completely changes. It

:42:49.:42:53.

does, so you need that Max Power out of the corners there, you need to be

:42:54.:42:57.

technically sound and sprinting out of the corners to put pressure in

:42:58.:43:03.

the others in your group. You have to train for both parts of the

:43:04.:43:07.

course. You need to train for the strong bit, the first 12 kilometres,

:43:08.:43:15.

and then the Max Power bit, the sort of criterium circuit. Seven laps of

:43:16.:43:20.

the city centre, three and three quarters kilometres for each lap.

:43:21.:43:28.

You can see the crowd beginning to grow. The numbers beginning to swell

:43:29.:43:32.

as they anticipate the arrival in the city centre. Looking down at

:43:33.:43:37.

Leeds town Hall, top right, and then they will go past the Leeds Civic

:43:38.:43:42.

Hall, just behind the main grandstand in Millennium Square.

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Flora Duffy of Bermuda, Alice Betto of Italy, Taylor Spire V of the

:43:51.:43:58.

United States of America, Maya Kingma of the Netherlands. -- Taylor

:43:59.:44:03.

Spivey. Now they hit the town centre for the first time. Here they will

:44:04.:44:09.

stay until the end of the race. They have seven laps to conclude on their

:44:10.:44:16.

bikes, and then the loops of the run to bring the full Olympic distance.

:44:17.:44:22.

It is the world champion, Flora Duffy of Bermuda, who leads the pack

:44:23.:44:26.

through to a rapturous welcome. They have come through the park to the

:44:27.:44:32.

city, and now the battle continues in downtown Leeds. Duffy, Spivey,

:44:33.:44:38.

Betto and Kingma. It will be interesting to see if these girls

:44:39.:44:42.

can stay with Flora through the technical section. The roads are

:44:43.:44:47.

dry, so that will help. I wonder if, before the start of this race, Flora

:44:48.:44:52.

Duffy played out a lot of different scenarios in her head of what could

:44:53.:44:56.

happen. She knows she is up there on the swim. She had an incredible

:44:57.:45:02.

bike. We can see her attacking. She said she wasn't sure what the

:45:03.:45:06.

British athletes would be out too. I do think she expected to find

:45:07.:45:10.

herself with three other relatively unknown athletes.

:45:11.:45:14.

It's properly not one of the scenario she went through. We are

:45:15.:45:20.

going to see the time check. That is Jessica at the front of a time group

:45:21.:45:25.

trying to minimise the gap. That is Non on her wheels, so that's great

:45:26.:45:30.

news. Pretty similar to what it was out of the swim. 65 seconds between

:45:31.:45:37.

the leaders and the chasers and the chasers include the former world

:45:38.:45:42.

champion Non Stanford and Jess Learmonth who was first out of the

:45:43.:45:45.

water and decided to help her team-mate and they will now go to

:45:46.:45:48.

work to try to reduce the lead that the Duffy group have. The athlete

:45:49.:45:55.

that's missing in that second chase pack for me is the Australian

:45:56.:45:58.

athlete Ashleigh Gentle to look to be just behind Non Stanford. She is

:45:59.:46:04.

the biggest threat on the run to Non but no sighting of Ashleigh Gentle

:46:05.:46:10.

who we saw coming out of the swim but is 30 seconds down on Non

:46:11.:46:13.

Stanford and we have yet to see her come through. That's pretty good.

:46:14.:46:19.

1.12 down. Definitely room to pull it down. I can't imagine they would

:46:20.:46:25.

get help from anybody else but they will try to close the gap. We saw

:46:26.:46:30.

Jess Learmonth one out of the water and spoke to her earlier in the

:46:31.:46:32.

week. What's it like for you racing in

:46:33.:46:41.

Leeds? Unbelievable. Last year was amazing. Best atmosphere you've ever

:46:42.:46:46.

variance? Of course, Leeds, definitely. I thought, if I don't

:46:47.:46:52.

ever race again, that's the biggest thing I'll ever do. So to be here

:46:53.:46:56.

again this year, I'm pretty sure the crowds are going to be bigger,

:46:57.:47:02.

hopefully and, yeah, it was just phenomenal. You change of Non

:47:03.:47:05.

Stanford. Has there been a discussion with her about helping

:47:06.:47:10.

her out on the bike? I train with Non. We're always to help each other

:47:11.:47:16.

out any race that we do. All of the World Series at the same so we try

:47:17.:47:19.

to communicate and make sure we do the best for one another so, yeah,

:47:20.:47:24.

all the British athletes are in it together. If I am with her I will

:47:25.:47:32.

definitely work with her. The key word there were "If I am with her"

:47:33.:47:37.

but you wasn't anywhere near. She did the generous thing and waited to

:47:38.:47:42.

help her along. We've had a lot of discussions within the richest team

:47:43.:47:47.

about these races and not everyone is going to be a race where we work

:47:48.:47:53.

together for the same goal because you don't want to stifle anybody's

:47:54.:47:57.

individual progression. But these big races, the home races, the

:47:58.:48:01.

championship races, it's worth communicating in working together as

:48:02.:48:04.

much as possible to get as many Brits on the podium. Great teamwork

:48:05.:48:13.

really from Jess to sit back and make sure Non was all right. She

:48:14.:48:16.

knows she is the strongest British runner in the so really important

:48:17.:48:22.

the whole team tried to get a British athlete on top of the

:48:23.:48:27.

podium. Jess has gone back to Non and she now finds herself one-minute

:48:28.:48:30.

down which, it's not looking too bad for her at the moment. It is not but

:48:31.:48:35.

they have to work hard to keep that gap the same or close it down a

:48:36.:48:38.

little bit but there are two there who know the city, they know each

:48:39.:48:44.

other, and it helps when you train with someone. They have a good shot

:48:45.:48:49.

at it, even if they minimise the gap it could help. You can see the

:48:50.:48:52.

numbers of terms they need to negotiate a. They will be doubly

:48:53.:48:57.

grateful it is dry because they have to do zigzag their way through the

:48:58.:49:03.

inner workings of Leeds city centre. Versus the chase group, which

:49:04.:49:10.

contains Non Stanford and Jess Learmonth including number one at

:49:11.:49:16.

the start, Kirsten Kasper, but they are more than one minute behind the

:49:17.:49:21.

leading quartet. It's as much fitness as it is technical skill now

:49:22.:49:25.

that will help them because actually there's not too many places on this

:49:26.:49:29.

course where they can get great speed, but it's how much time you

:49:30.:49:32.

can make up in a technical parts of the course. I think it's really

:49:33.:49:37.

conserving energy as well, because the better you are technically, you

:49:38.:49:40.

will conserve a bit more and you have someone at the back, Kirsten

:49:41.:49:45.

Kasper, technically not quite as good, but you time to work so much

:49:46.:49:48.

harder around every corner which will take a toll when it gets to the

:49:49.:49:54.

run. I'm quite surprised, we must be a lap into this city centre,

:49:55.:50:01.

criteria, seven loops we have of three kilometres and Flora has not

:50:02.:50:05.

dropped any of those three athletes. I'm slightly surprised by that,

:50:06.:50:10.

Helen? We don't know how she's feeling on the day. She may not be

:50:11.:50:14.

feeling brilliant. She could be thinking, my running is going well,

:50:15.:50:19.

why don't I tried to have the best run possible? She did well in

:50:20.:50:22.

Yokohama and had an injury over the winter, so I imagine she had a lot

:50:23.:50:28.

of confidence in her running. At the end of lap one, within the city

:50:29.:50:32.

itself, no change. We have the leading four. Taylor Spivey, Flora

:50:33.:50:42.

Duffy, Maya Kingma and Alice Betto and there are the Bermudan

:50:43.:50:46.

contingent who have made the journey to chair on the champion, half a

:50:47.:50:51.

dozen who've come from Bermuda to watch Flora Duffy race today. I

:50:52.:50:56.

think you are right about Flora's fun, going back to Stockholm last

:50:57.:51:01.

year, where she had a breakthrough race where she virtually raised from

:51:02.:51:06.

the front, took the lead, and led all the way. I remember you saying,

:51:07.:51:13.

she was 20 seconds up on you, Helen, and that was a breakthrough run, in

:51:14.:51:20.

Stockholm, last year, wasn't it? I think so, yes. It was a really

:51:21.:51:24.

impressive race by Flora to ride on her own and run it as a time trial.

:51:25.:51:30.

The only thing we have not seen her do is run a race. She comes off her

:51:31.:51:37.

bike, but no one has been able to get close enough to her off the bike

:51:38.:51:42.

to do that. Last time the chase group came through the transition

:51:43.:51:49.

area, they wear 1.05 behind the leading group. They are now 1.15

:51:50.:51:56.

behind but we expect those times to narrow as the city centre laps that

:51:57.:52:03.

closer. There was a near collision there as they made that right-hand

:52:04.:52:08.

turn. They've lost five or ten seconds which is a surprise.

:52:09.:52:13.

Sometimes a smaller pack works better at narrow twisty roads like

:52:14.:52:23.

these. Yes, they've also got Taylor there who was world champion last

:52:24.:52:26.

year and has has had a solid start to the season. Really impressive for

:52:27.:52:31.

her to be there. Her second World Series. They have 21.1 kilometres

:52:32.:52:38.

still to write. They climb once again towards the Millennium Square

:52:39.:52:47.

where the majority of the crowds convened to watch these races unfold

:52:48.:52:51.

this afternoon. Often the World Triathlon Series women's race is

:52:52.:52:58.

held on a but plenty of money for your buck with two races on the same

:52:59.:53:03.

day. We have heard that Gillian Sanders has pulled out. From South

:53:04.:53:08.

Africa. She's been forced to retire. We don't know why but we'll let you

:53:09.:53:12.

know as soon as we find out. The third pack coming through, led by

:53:13.:53:20.

India Lee. Trained in Basingstoke and looked after by Richard Stannard

:53:21.:53:28.

in the water. Although she's putting in a lot of work at the front of

:53:29.:53:31.

this third pack, they are two minutes and 30 seconds behind, and

:53:32.:53:37.

also that pack contains Ashleigh Gentle so the threat to Non Stanford

:53:38.:53:43.

gets less and less from the third pack. To put the task that faces

:53:44.:53:53.

Jess Learmonth and Non Stanford into context, only when Jorgensen has

:53:54.:53:55.

traded such a deficit to will travel on series race. At the moment it is

:53:56.:54:04.

and 15 seconds. Jorgensen has done it half a dozen times. It'll be very

:54:05.:54:12.

tough for Jess Learmonth and Non Stanford to replicate that. It will

:54:13.:54:15.

be tough but they have huge motivation to do it in front of

:54:16.:54:20.

their home crowd. They've got to minimise the gap as much as

:54:21.:54:23.

possible. You don't want it to get much bigger than 1.15. One of the

:54:24.:54:28.

front four has put down the hammer and this may be an effort to try and

:54:29.:54:34.

reduce that group of four down to three although nobody is a

:54:35.:54:36.

significant loss as we watch from the helicopter. They are maintaining

:54:37.:54:43.

contact and I think the group will reformat a quartet shortly. Yes,

:54:44.:54:49.

it's a little bit harder in some ways being technically strong, but

:54:50.:54:53.

with the stop start points on the course, it helps the athletes to get

:54:54.:55:00.

back on. We can see Jess Learmonth going back in the race, looking

:55:01.:55:03.

behind, waiting for her team-mate, Non Stanford. She's playing the

:55:04.:55:14.

tactical card. Brendan per cell, the performance director of British

:55:15.:55:16.

triathlon, he spoke about it yesterday, saying our main objective

:55:17.:55:20.

is to get a British triathlete on the podium. That is why Jess

:55:21.:55:28.

Learmonth has taken that course of action to wait for Non Stanford

:55:29.:55:37.

today. You can see Flora pushing it through the technical session. A

:55:38.:55:40.

smart racer. She knows where it will be to hurt the girls who are with

:55:41.:55:45.

her, so she will have analysed the course beforehand, gone through it

:55:46.:55:48.

on the recce, and will know where the best places to put down the

:55:49.:55:52.

power and put in the effort. You can't underestimate the work the

:55:53.:55:56.

athletes are doing behind her. Flora is riding very hard at it with one

:55:57.:56:03.

or two athletes, because there is 3Com they get dropped into a corner,

:56:04.:56:09.

they can go back up to Flora Duffy because she is out riding the girls

:56:10.:56:13.

but they are getting a draft a fact and managing to hang on to the wheel

:56:14.:56:17.

of the current world champion. Just to recap, it is Flora Duffy, from

:56:18.:56:24.

Bermuda, with her Fanclub in the bandstand, whether Alice Betto from

:56:25.:56:32.

Italy, Taylor Spivey from the USA, and Maya Kingma from the Netherlands

:56:33.:56:35.

for company as they complete the next lap. Five to go. Jodie Stimpson

:56:36.:56:40.

cheering them on, unable to race today. And Georgia Taylor-Brown was

:56:41.:56:45.

forced out with injury, as well, both of those reddish members forced

:56:46.:56:53.

to watch it. Everybody is here to see it -- British members. It's a

:56:54.:56:57.

tough thing to do was an athlete when you are injured. You don't want

:56:58.:57:00.

to go out and show your face. You want to stay at home and hide and

:57:01.:57:04.

almost ignore the triathlon for a bit but it's good they have come out

:57:05.:57:09.

and support. It's a real reflection of how strong you guys are that the

:57:10.:57:15.

supporter there is for each team member, the fact Jodie and Vicki are

:57:16.:57:19.

here is brilliant. It's hard sometimes to be in an event like

:57:20.:57:23.

this when you want to be racing and you can't. It's definitely one of

:57:24.:57:29.

the toughest things I've done is to watch races when I am injured. You

:57:30.:57:34.

have to put on a happy face that everything is fine, but inside you

:57:35.:57:37.

want to curl up and not talk about it. It's part of what we do is

:57:38.:57:44.

athletes. We are a professional athletes, and we have to be

:57:45.:57:46.

professional and support your team-mates. Versus the group which

:57:47.:57:54.

contains Jess Learmonth. Last time we checked, they were 1.15. That has

:57:55.:58:00.

gone way out now, closer to 1.45 by the time they stop the clock at the

:58:01.:58:08.

end of this most recent lap. 1.34. 1.35. No damage done to the Duffy

:58:09.:58:17.

group lead. I'm absolutely shocked. They have now put in Flora on her

:58:18.:58:23.

own, 30 seconds in two lapse of seven. That is pretty amazing

:58:24.:58:32.

riding. Yes, that is a big gap to bring back. There's a few runners in

:58:33.:58:35.

this group, who would probably be able to run through and rundown Maya

:58:36.:58:42.

Kingma and probably Alice Betto, but the gap is getting bigger if they

:58:43.:58:47.

want to reach Flora Duffy. The second pack appeared to be working,

:58:48.:58:51.

don't they? Yes, they are pushing it. They are showing the strength of

:58:52.:58:56.

this group who are working together, it's not Flora on her own. In the

:58:57.:59:02.

second group, it looks like it is predominantly the British girls the

:59:03.:59:14.

front. -- at the front. This is the group of India Lee, left of screen,

:59:15.:59:21.

number 21. The third of the British triathlete racing today. Her group

:59:22.:59:28.

is almost three seconds off the pace of the leading four which includes

:59:29.:59:33.

the world champion, Flora Duffy. They have lost a bit of time. I'm

:59:34.:59:38.

surprised to see that they have. They have got Ashleigh Gentle in

:59:39.:59:40.

there, renowned as one of the strongest on the circuit at the

:59:41.:59:45.

moment. It shows what this fastest swim, the hell out of transition has

:59:46.:59:49.

taken out of them. It seems like they've not be able to get their

:59:50.:59:55.

bike going. The men will be racing later. Will they have a chance to

:59:56.:59:59.

check up on this and maybe learn something from what happened in the

:00:00.:00:03.

women's race? It's interesting to raise second because the swimmer is

:00:04.:00:07.

an interesting point, which side of the pontoon went faster, and they

:00:08.:00:12.

will have been around the bike course, but you do end up watching

:00:13.:00:15.

the race before you go down and actually start yours, it's hard not

:00:16.:00:16.

to sometimes. Better to start second, in many

:00:17.:00:28.

ways? I would always rather get it over with first. But there are

:00:29.:00:33.

benefits to going second, definitely. Now they are in the city

:00:34.:00:40.

centre once again. This is the chase group which contains Juri Ide of

:00:41.:00:44.

Japan, and Melanie Santos of Portugal at the back. They are on a

:00:45.:00:49.

climb at the moment. A couple of close calls here in this group. At

:00:50.:00:55.

the front, Non Stanford and Jeff Learmonth. Learmonth is pushing the

:00:56.:01:00.

pace right now, with Stanford on her rear wheel. It can be frustrating if

:01:01.:01:07.

you are in a pack and there are people who just do not work. There

:01:08.:01:11.

are people sat at the back because... Who may not have taken

:01:12.:01:16.

their turn yet. It may be because they are unable, but I think if you

:01:17.:01:21.

are in the pack, you've got to take your turn. A lovely afternoon here

:01:22.:01:26.

in Leeds. Hope only the threat of the shower has gone. But there are

:01:27.:01:32.

some clouds. Maybe they will threaten the men's race rather than

:01:33.:01:36.

the women's. At the moment, bright sunshine. We still have these four

:01:37.:01:43.

athletes out in front. What an amazing job they are doing, because

:01:44.:01:47.

that chase pack finds themselves over one minute 30 seconds down.

:01:48.:01:52.

Flora Duffy will be getting some time references out the cause from

:01:53.:01:55.

the coaches and will know where she's at. She will know that with

:01:56.:02:03.

that one and a half minutes gap, this race is playing into her hands.

:02:04.:02:09.

Flora Duffy, an exceptional start to this season. Second

:02:10.:02:19.

leaves behind Gwen Jorgensen. -- second here in leaves behind Gwen

:02:20.:02:32.

Jorgensen. And sealing the title for 2016, as they approach the end of

:02:33.:02:36.

lap three. Flora Duffy of Bermuda who brings about the roar from the

:02:37.:02:41.

crowd, particularly from the supporters who have travelled from

:02:42.:02:45.

the island to watch a race today. She, King Ma, Eto'o and Spivey have

:02:46.:02:55.

a nap of one minute 34. It may have grown even more now. Looking back to

:02:56.:03:01.

the race of last year. Gwen Jorgensen stormed to victory, but

:03:02.:03:08.

she was behind on the bike, and rode down Flora Duffy at the end. This is

:03:09.:03:17.

not a particularly fast course. With the hill out of transition and all

:03:18.:03:21.

the corners, that stop start, it doesn't flow so it doesn't feel

:03:22.:03:26.

super fast. But they will definitely feel it in their legs when they get

:03:27.:03:32.

off the bike. They certainly will. Gwen Jorgensen is taking times out.

:03:33.:03:36.

Her baby is due in the next couple of months.

:03:37.:03:48.

Flora Duffy is working very hard to keep the pace up here in Leeds. What

:03:49.:03:59.

is interesting is that, with the British and American systems, some

:04:00.:04:01.

of the bigger countries, we have a lot of support in these races. Flora

:04:02.:04:07.

Duffy at all on her own. There is no Bermuda team. It is a very different

:04:08.:04:13.

way of racing, so it's impressive that she is able to have these

:04:14.:04:18.

results without that back-up. The gap has grown even more. It was a

:04:19.:04:23.

minute and 34 at the end of lap two. At the end of lap three, it will be

:04:24.:04:34.

pushing one minute 50. One. 48. Non Stanford's mum is there to cheer her

:04:35.:04:39.

daughter on. At the moment, Stanford is struggling to do any damage to

:04:40.:04:45.

the Duffy group's lead. One of the great things about racing in your

:04:46.:04:49.

home country is that you are able to get more friends and family up. Some

:04:50.:04:55.

of the best experiences I've had is when you finish the race and, good

:04:56.:04:59.

or bad, your friends and family are there. It really does help. Leeds

:05:00.:05:06.

hosting the third leg of the World Triathlon Series. Before that, it

:05:07.:05:11.

was set up in Hyde Park. Then they construct of the cycle superhighway

:05:12.:05:15.

through the Royal Parks, and Leeds gladly took on hosting the race.

:05:16.:05:20.

They are determined not to let it go. It is fitting it is in Leeds.

:05:21.:05:25.

Home of the Brownlee brothers, Vicky Holland training here. We've had so

:05:26.:05:31.

many Olympic medals and athletes. Non Stanford coming from this city

:05:32.:05:36.

centre. It is fitting that the race is in Leeds. And it is a great race.

:05:37.:05:41.

It has everything. It is technical, it has that brutal Hill straight out

:05:42.:05:46.

of the swim. It's a really difficult course. Some of the athletes it will

:05:47.:05:52.

really suit. This is the India Lee group coming through. Again, the

:05:53.:05:57.

crowds rising to their feet. A standing ovation for each athlete

:05:58.:06:01.

coming through. We don't see this anywhere else. They love their sport

:06:02.:06:06.

in Leeds, whether it's football, cricket, Rugby Union or Rugby

:06:07.:06:12.

League, and these days, triathlon as well, with the Brownlee brothers,

:06:13.:06:16.

doing great things for their sport. The physical education of youngsters

:06:17.:06:21.

as a whole as well. They really have become heroes of Leeds and the

:06:22.:06:25.

County of Yorkshire. The Brownlee 's deserve everything they've got out

:06:26.:06:29.

of the sport. We will see both of them race here later. It will be

:06:30.:06:36.

Alistair's first trip into Olympic distance racing this season. Johnny

:06:37.:06:41.

has been out. Alistair has been swimming and biking and running the

:06:42.:06:45.

longer distance with some success. How difficult will it be for him to

:06:46.:06:49.

make the transition back to Olympic? For some it may be difficult, but

:06:50.:06:53.

Alastair Brownlee doesn't seem to have a problem doing anything in

:06:54.:07:00.

triathlon. I imagine he will have done the same in training as before.

:07:01.:07:05.

The only thing he may have changed is spending more time on his time

:07:06.:07:09.

trial bike, maybe working more on those specifics. That I can't

:07:10.:07:17.

imagine he's changed much. Sometimes, you can cross over from

:07:18.:07:22.

Ironman to the shore to distance, but the middle distance can make

:07:23.:07:26.

your biking stronger. The difficulty can be with the swim, because at

:07:27.:07:31.

this distance, it is more dynamic and fast. He will have had a lot

:07:32.:07:35.

steadier swims and not had to push himself quite so hard in the water.

:07:36.:07:41.

But overall, you will see a pretty strong Alastair Brownlee here. And

:07:42.:07:46.

he has not written off returning for a third Olympics, or what will be a

:07:47.:07:52.

fourth Olympics, in 2020, and potentially going for his third gold

:07:53.:07:57.

medal. Now that the Olympic mixed relay has been given the green

:07:58.:08:01.

light, which happened last week, that provides further incentive for

:08:02.:08:05.

you and for the Brownlee brothers to return and have another go at an

:08:06.:08:16.

Olympic medal. Triathlon is such a good sport. I am biased, but I love

:08:17.:08:20.

the sport. We had to medals at the game. The chance that we have,

:08:21.:08:27.

another opportunity. The mixed racing is a really good format. We

:08:28.:08:33.

also have a new relay introduced to the British triathlon programme on

:08:34.:08:36.

the 2nd of September in Nottingham. It's called the British triathlon

:08:37.:08:42.

mixed relay cup. We will have live coverage across the BBC. So the

:08:43.:08:51.

leading group coming in. Alice Betto, Taylor Spivey, Maya Kingma,

:08:52.:08:57.

Flora Duffy. Listen to the roar. Amazing. I'm pleased to see these

:08:58.:09:02.

for working well together. I have to say sorry to the other girls,

:09:03.:09:05.

because I said that they were not really working. But they have really

:09:06.:09:10.

come together. I noticed a couple of moments ago they were taking on

:09:11.:09:15.

water and gels, and they are probably thinking ahead to the run.

:09:16.:09:21.

With three laps to go, just over ten kilometres, they will know they are

:09:22.:09:25.

in a good position. Duffy certainly is. What an opportunity for those

:09:26.:09:31.

three girls with her. I don't think they will have had an opportunity

:09:32.:09:38.

like that before. Spivey has probably been the closest. So far,

:09:39.:09:49.

their progress has been limited. The first three laps in the city centre

:09:50.:09:55.

have gone by. Back with the leaders now. We are used to seeing Betto at

:09:56.:10:02.

the back of the group. Today, she's been brought in to do some work. She

:10:03.:10:09.

has had a few injury problems so has definitely struggled over the last

:10:10.:10:14.

couple of years. In 2015, she had a couple of decent top five finishes

:10:15.:10:20.

on the world triathlon circuit. They have also had a new guy involved

:10:21.:10:24.

with the Italian team, which has been very positive for the Italian

:10:25.:10:28.

team. He trains a lot of the top athletes, including Mario Mola. That

:10:29.:10:35.

is rubbing off to Alice Betto. She is finding herself injury free this

:10:36.:10:40.

year, and finding some of that form she had in 2015. It's really good

:10:41.:10:44.

for Alice Betto to be up there competing. These are some athletes

:10:45.:10:51.

who are about to be lapped, so they are being told by the referees to

:10:52.:10:55.

move over and let this pack coming through now by. It is the leading

:10:56.:11:01.

pack. Unfortunately, the three athletes who are about to be lapped

:11:02.:11:06.

are going to be out of the race. It is tough when you are taken out of

:11:07.:11:10.

the race like that. You are doing your best and trying to get through

:11:11.:11:14.

it, and it is a really short lap. The opportunity to lack does come

:11:15.:11:18.

through. But it happens to the best of them. We did lapped Gwen

:11:19.:11:24.

Jorgensen once in Madrid. Being lapped does not mean you are a bad

:11:25.:11:29.

triathlete, just that you are maybe having a bad day. Alice Betto's

:11:30.:11:34.

fastest 10K time is 20 seconds quicker than Flora Duffy's. How will

:11:35.:11:40.

that play into this race? Obviously, Betto has been out. That could have

:11:41.:11:45.

been a time from five years ago, and we know Duffy is running well. But

:11:46.:11:51.

Betto may have a chance today. Realistically, Betto does not find

:11:52.:11:54.

herself in the best running form we have seen. Flora Duffy is a

:11:55.:11:58.

different athlete, and a course like this, I think she will come out on

:11:59.:12:05.

top. Taylor Spivey recently did well in Madrid, which is a really tough

:12:06.:12:13.

biking course, and she ran strongly of it. Georgia Taylor-Brown from

:12:14.:12:20.

Great Britain won that race. The lead group, with Betto out in front,

:12:21.:12:25.

on this little climb taking them back around to complete lap four of

:12:26.:12:31.

the seven that will unfold in the city centre. I think we can safely

:12:32.:12:41.

say that Leeds has thrown out a great race. A really interesting

:12:42.:12:46.

course. It's not a scenario that we had imagined this morning. Yes,

:12:47.:12:51.

Flora Duffy in the front pack, but the other athletes we have, the

:12:52.:12:56.

Dutch athlete, the American athlete and Alice Betto, we did not expect

:12:57.:13:01.

to see them away with Flora Duffy. I think that is the nature of the

:13:02.:13:08.

course. Jessica Learmonth took that swim out really fast. But thereon

:13:09.:13:13.

out, the whole pack was destroyed and broken down into little groups.

:13:14.:13:18.

The wind has got up significantly, and I think it is affecting the

:13:19.:13:23.

quality of our pictures from the motorcycle camera. That is partly to

:13:24.:13:28.

do with the breeze that is funneling around the roads of the city centre.

:13:29.:13:33.

The wind may affect them a little bit on the run. If they are in a

:13:34.:13:38.

group, it may be worth sitting in a little bit on those headwinds. It

:13:39.:13:45.

always happens in a city. You get those swirly wins. Well, Flora

:13:46.:13:54.

Duffy, what a year she has been having. She is such a complete

:13:55.:14:01.

athlete. We know she has been the champion on a course where the road

:14:02.:14:07.

bike is replaced by a mountain bike. She really is a multitalented

:14:08.:14:12.

athlete. She does do a lot of training on high mountain bike. She

:14:13.:14:17.

says she has to be a bit careful taking on anything really, really

:14:18.:14:21.

technical. Just wanting to avoid a crash at this time of year. That is

:14:22.:14:27.

one of the things that makes her stronger, especially this is an off

:14:28.:14:35.

powder. The mountain biking is a really good crossover for that.

:14:36.:14:43.

One hour, eight minutes and 44 seconds so far. Leeds Civic Hall

:14:44.:14:51.

overlooking the transition area, designed by a competition in 1926,

:14:52.:14:57.

won by Vincent Harris and the work began in 1931. King George V open

:14:58.:15:05.

the building in August 1933. Flora Duffy, she Leeds the pace. Delight

:15:06.:15:10.

from the fans and they are on their feet with generous support for the

:15:11.:15:17.

maul who've been in front since they've been at the top of the hill

:15:18.:15:22.

since leaving Roundhay Park and I have two lapse to go. With two lapse

:15:23.:15:30.

to go, it's time to start thinking a little bit about the run so only a

:15:31.:15:36.

few minutes, ten minutes or so left of racing and I think Flora Duffy

:15:37.:15:40.

will certainly be thinking ahead to the run, taking the lead now pushing

:15:41.:15:44.

up this last bit of help. Three athletes on her wheel, and will

:15:45.:15:48.

shortly get a chance to see where the second pack is but the last

:15:49.:15:53.

count was they were 1.45 seconds behind which will be difficult for

:15:54.:15:56.

Non Stanford to get onto the podium today. It will be tough and they

:15:57.:16:01.

want to keep that under two minutes if they can. Non is running well,

:16:02.:16:05.

and can definitely run down at least one of these girls but you don't

:16:06.:16:09.

want to start with over two minutes if you can avoid it. They need to

:16:10.:16:14.

push well and hopefully we'll get help from the other athletes because

:16:15.:16:17.

at the moment it looks like the British girls are working together.

:16:18.:16:25.

Maya Kingma, only in her second World Triathlon Series race, so

:16:26.:16:30.

she's doing so brilliantly for someone so it inexperienced at this

:16:31.:16:34.

level. It is the buzz being at the front, it's amazing, I had a race

:16:35.:16:39.

when I was younger, a World Cup back then, and I ended up in the front

:16:40.:16:42.

group with a lot of well-known athlete and managed to hang on in

:16:43.:16:46.

there and it was such a buzz, you want to keep staying in there and

:16:47.:16:52.

not get dropped. Made lap, the time check we got from the lead group to

:16:53.:17:00.

the Jess Learmonth group was 1.52, and now, with two lapse to go, it

:17:01.:17:06.

has stretched out, yawned two minutes, next time they cut the

:17:07.:17:14.

timing ribbon, as they cut the turn, they concede it's now a gap of 2.14.

:17:15.:17:24.

I think it's fair to say, bar mishaps on that front group, we are

:17:25.:17:28.

not likely to see a British triathlete on the podium today. I'm

:17:29.:17:33.

slightly scratching my head as to what the second pack could do

:17:34.:17:37.

because it looks like they have worked well. Jessica and Non have

:17:38.:17:41.

been pushing the pace, great riders, and on their own that they should

:17:42.:17:44.

perhaps be able to write better than they have. For Flora and the other

:17:45.:17:51.

three, to find themselves 2.15 in front, it's a huge gap. I think the

:17:52.:17:55.

front four have been working effectively together. The chasing

:17:56.:18:01.

pack have not got that group working efficiently yet, and, yeah, it's

:18:02.:18:08.

very hard. Sometimes if someone puts in a big surge, and sits in for a

:18:09.:18:13.

bit, it disrupts the rhythm whereas if you have four girls taking equal

:18:14.:18:21.

terms, it can work better. Flora Duffy, I wonder if she will make any

:18:22.:18:25.

plans to break away over the last few: it is? It's nice to be on your

:18:26.:18:29.

own going into transition, not that they have to worry about a lot of

:18:30.:18:35.

athletes behind them. After Missy 20 or 30 athletes coming into

:18:36.:18:38.

transition and a lot can go wrong but they won't have any problem in

:18:39.:18:42.

transition. I wonder if Flora fancies pushing on a little bit with

:18:43.:18:47.

just over five colleges to go? I think she will be trying to hurt the

:18:48.:18:53.

girls with her. They are taking the technical session strong every time.

:18:54.:18:58.

The other three are having to work to stay with her. It's a lot nicer

:18:59.:19:02.

to transition in a group of four than 40. Because otherwise you have

:19:03.:19:07.

to be so aware what's happening, crashes and all sorts of things can

:19:08.:19:10.

happen so it's much easier in a smaller group. Duffy comes into this

:19:11.:19:18.

lead fresh off the back of a win in Yokohama, 1.56, 18 seconds, her

:19:19.:19:27.

winning time, in the pouring rain of Japan and she is now out in front.

:19:28.:19:33.

The others have not been left. This is not a decisive break away from

:19:34.:19:37.

Flora Duffy but she has raised the pace with the last couple of laps

:19:38.:19:42.

unfolding. It's always good to see her ride, she takes corners pretty

:19:43.:19:46.

fast. She doesn't take risks as such, technically very strong, and

:19:47.:19:52.

can ride in and out of corners fast. The three athletes struggling to go

:19:53.:19:55.

with her, but when they head the straight bit of road, they are able

:19:56.:20:01.

to write back onto her wheel again. I imagine they will stay together

:20:02.:20:05.

coming into transition. What an opportunity for these three women

:20:06.:20:09.

with Flora to make a World Series podium. It's difficult to say

:20:10.:20:14.

because of course we are looking at the Dutch athlete Maya Kingma and it

:20:15.:20:21.

only her second World Triathlon Series race, so how can she perform

:20:22.:20:26.

over ten climate is? She's probably high as a kite at the moment because

:20:27.:20:30.

she can't believe she finds herself, 2.2 seconds up on the others in the

:20:31.:20:40.

sport -- 2.20. They will have tired legs. It will be tough to stay ahead

:20:41.:20:46.

of the group behind because some of these athletes don't run that fast,

:20:47.:20:50.

especially off a tough bike so you've just got to go for it. Try

:20:51.:20:57.

not to go too fast. Try and see what happens. It's an amazing opportunity

:20:58.:21:03.

and you got to go for it. I think Taylor Spivey could run the best out

:21:04.:21:12.

of these three. With Flora. In they come, one lap to go. 3.75, it is,

:21:13.:21:22.

the final loop of the city centre. Their advantage was two and a

:21:23.:21:29.

quarter minutes and I expected to grow further with Duffy having

:21:30.:21:33.

pushed the pace and raced a game on the penultimate lap and now thoughts

:21:34.:21:40.

will turn to T2, split transition, they collected their bikes in

:21:41.:21:43.

Roundhay Park and they will park bomb right in front of the Leeds

:21:44.:21:47.

Civic Hall and the packed grandstands and everybody would get

:21:48.:21:52.

the best of you of transition. What is easier, T1 or T2? Probably T2.

:21:53.:22:03.

The wet suit is always a drama. Lucan panic and it doesn't seem to

:22:04.:22:10.

go as smoothly as you planned -- you can panic. Taylor Spivey, Flora

:22:11.:22:14.

Duffy, Maya Kingma and Alice Betto tends to be faster. The noise when

:22:15.:22:17.

they come in for this transition will give them a left. There was the

:22:18.:22:22.

great crowd here, very noisy crowd. This is the Kirsten Kasper Non

:22:23.:22:29.

Stanford group who had a difficult time on the streets of Leeds this

:22:30.:22:34.

afternoon it's fair to say. It started with Non Stanford getting

:22:35.:22:37.

left behind in the water, and Jess Learmonth was first out of the water

:22:38.:22:42.

but then waited for her at the top of the climb to pick up Non Stanford

:22:43.:22:48.

and attempt to help her to climb up some places up through the race but

:22:49.:22:52.

it didn't work out as planned. Duffy forced a ridiculous pace out in

:22:53.:22:59.

front as they come passed in front of Leeds town Hall. Not to be

:23:00.:23:05.

confused with the Civic Hall. The location for the start of the Tour

:23:06.:23:13.

de France in 2014. A different type of cycling taking place this

:23:14.:23:17.

afternoon. The chase group come through to take the bal. Taylor

:23:18.:23:25.

Spivey, Flora Duffy, Maya Kingma and Alice Betto are on their way on

:23:26.:23:28.

their last lap on the streets of Leeds. They've lost a few athletes

:23:29.:23:33.

from this group, it looks like, so it'll be interesting to see what did

:23:34.:23:38.

happen, if there was a crash or incident or they couldn't handle the

:23:39.:23:43.

pace. I think they've lost one or two. On a positive note, we know Non

:23:44.:23:48.

Stanford at the second fastest run in Yokohama which took place a few

:23:49.:23:54.

weeks ago in Japan, running just over 34 minutes, a pretty decent

:23:55.:24:00.

time, only Ashleigh Gentle from Australia ran faster, and she's way

:24:01.:24:04.

back in the third pack. What do think the chances are these girls,

:24:05.:24:11.

Maya Kingma and Alice Betto and Taylor Spivey running about 36

:24:12.:24:15.

minutes, which would keep them ahead of Non Stanford? It is so hard to

:24:16.:24:22.

predict. I think Taylor Spivey has a chance. I'm not sure about the other

:24:23.:24:27.

two but it's hard to tell. We don't know as much about them. They could

:24:28.:24:32.

be coming into really good form, so it's hard, but we have got Kirsten

:24:33.:24:36.

Kasper with Non Stanford and she will have strong runners to run with

:24:37.:24:39.

and if they want to work their way back into the race, they could. That

:24:40.:24:45.

is the difference in distance. The lead group are down to their last

:24:46.:24:50.

1600 metres and the chasing group have almost double that still to

:24:51.:24:55.

ride. The yellow loop and the blue dot is the leader and the green.

:24:56.:25:00.

Still to do that out at the back at the opposite end of the track, a

:25:01.:25:05.

shorter lap to follow, four laps, 2.5 kilometres. They have a ten K

:25:06.:25:12.

run to come. It's great to see Alice Betto from Italy leading this race.

:25:13.:25:18.

Flora Duffy tucked in behind, a smart move, saving her legs just

:25:19.:25:23.

before she heads T1, parts of her trainers and takes on at ten, to

:25:24.:25:30.

run. Maya Kingma just came through. The Bell indicating one lap to go on

:25:31.:25:35.

the bike course. It can sometimes be a relief when you hear the bell. You

:25:36.:25:40.

think, thank God, one more lap to go. The run is dictated more at your

:25:41.:25:47.

pace but the bike is dictated often by others and you are just trying to

:25:48.:25:51.

hang on so it can be a relief sometimes if you're having a bad

:25:52.:25:58.

day. Flora Duffy just happy to sit in and that the other three athletes

:25:59.:26:03.

do the work and I've noticed they had taken on Walker. Flora took on a

:26:04.:26:07.

gel and have important is that just before the bike? They will end the

:26:08.:26:14.

bracing for two hours so it's important to take on some nutrition

:26:15.:26:17.

and it's been a tough day, so I would normally take one gel over an

:26:18.:26:25.

Olympic race but in a race there is tough, you could take two. It

:26:26.:26:28.

depends on everyone's nutritional plans. 2.28 the lap difference

:26:29.:26:35.

between them. Sometimes those times in the middle of the lap can be

:26:36.:26:39.

inaccurate, but we now go back to the front of this World Triathlon

:26:40.:26:47.

Series race and join Taylor Spivey, Flora Duffy, Maya Kingma and Alice

:26:48.:26:50.

Betto, who have been out in front since they reached the front of the

:26:51.:26:57.

climb, the tough climb, leaving Roundhay Park. There they have

:26:58.:27:02.

stayed and now they consider the arrival in transition. Those of you

:27:03.:27:05.

who follow triathlon regularly will be used to seeing this and those of

:27:06.:27:08.

you who don't, we'll see them reach down, remove their shoes, which

:27:09.:27:15.

remained attached to the pedals and hit the dismount liner on the blue

:27:16.:27:20.

carpet, and they have to get the dismount right. If they exceeded,

:27:21.:27:26.

there will be a penalty. That was tight for Alice Betto but the red

:27:27.:27:30.

flag stayed down. And now they make the run around the corner and into

:27:31.:27:37.

transition. The noise levels reaching a crescendo here. The four

:27:38.:27:42.

of them with a decent lead, coming in steadily to transition and they

:27:43.:27:46.

will hang up their bikes, look for their running shoes and sunglasses

:27:47.:27:49.

and make their way out of transition. Not forgetting to leave

:27:50.:27:54.

the helmet behind. The world champion Flora Duffy has nailed her

:27:55.:28:01.

transition and is first, followed by Alice Betto and Taylor Spivey and

:28:02.:28:11.

Maya Kingma the last to leave. These women will know how they are feeling

:28:12.:28:13.

within the first few calamitous of the race and you start the run and

:28:14.:28:19.

have hard legs and you will feel it in your quads or get into a rhythm

:28:20.:28:23.

and be able to push through it but you can see Flora Duffy already has

:28:24.:28:28.

taken time out of her competitors and looks to be getting into her

:28:29.:28:35.

rib. Flora missed the first two races, Abu Dhabi and the Gold Coast

:28:36.:28:39.

with injury and decided to set them out to make sure she was good for

:28:40.:28:45.

the rest of the season and then took Yokohama convincingly. When I spoke

:28:46.:28:48.

to her, she said I don't know where my form is. She has come back as

:28:49.:28:55.

strong as ever and only the second race into their 2017 season. She's

:28:56.:29:00.

come back really well from injury and I think that is one of the

:29:01.:29:04.

things, as you get an older athlete, and you put in years and years of

:29:05.:29:08.

training, having time off with injury doesn't take as much out of

:29:09.:29:12.

you as much as it would've done when you are a young athlete. Not that

:29:13.:29:17.

Flora is old, but more experienced. Yes, Flora Duffy, 30 is old, I

:29:18.:29:25.

think, this year, so she is in her prime, she had a slight

:29:26.:29:33.

disappointing course but she did not bring her race legs to the games and

:29:34.:29:37.

finished in eight place and she has got Tokyo on her mind.

:29:38.:29:43.

I would imagine that Tokyo is the aim for her, as with a lot of

:29:44.:29:49.

athletes on the course. That cycle does tend to come around quite

:29:50.:29:58.

quick. You she didn't have a great time in Rio. Flora Duffy, that is.

:29:59.:30:09.

Meanwhile, the British pair of Jeff Learmonth -- Jeff Learmonth and Non

:30:10.:30:19.

Stanford have arrived. Non Stanford will need to go to work now. She is

:30:20.:30:24.

about to move into her strongest phase of the triathlon. Let's see

:30:25.:30:27.

what damage she can do in stage three here.

:30:28.:30:34.

Kirsten Kasper from America, the athlete wearing number one today.

:30:35.:30:42.

Jeff Learmonth behind her. Non Stanford, not the fastest

:30:43.:30:49.

transition. Looked a little bit flustered from the commentary box

:30:50.:30:55.

there. I think Non will be trying to get into her running as quick as

:30:56.:30:59.

possible. There is always a lot of pressure to do that in your home

:31:00.:31:04.

race. This is a home race, so she will just want to get into it and

:31:05.:31:11.

get that best day out. Former world champion, Non Stanford, won the

:31:12.:31:17.

title in 2013. Helen Jenkins alongside me won her second. Your

:31:18.:31:23.

concern and won it twice, 14 and 15. And Flora Duffy claimed her first

:31:24.:31:32.

title in 2016. Here she is leading the Leeds World Triathlon Series

:31:33.:31:37.

race. Look at the advantage she's gained during the first half lap.

:31:38.:31:43.

What an effort from Flora Duffy. It certainly is. She's absolutely

:31:44.:31:47.

dropped the other athletes. They are miles down the road. That is good

:31:48.:31:51.

news for the British athletes behind. It just goes to show that

:31:52.:31:58.

that bike has affected the other athletes' legs. I think it will have

:31:59.:32:04.

affected their legs. They will have put everything into staying in that

:32:05.:32:09.

front pack. Flora is used to this. She's used to running on her own,

:32:10.:32:13.

setting her own pace, and pushing on. This is not unusual for her to

:32:14.:32:20.

be doing a solo time trial run. That is key. We've seen her time and time

:32:21.:32:25.

again over the last 12 months have a really tough bike and be able to

:32:26.:32:31.

run. Going back 18 months, people questioned whether Florey Duffy

:32:32.:32:41.

could run. She's improving and improving and getting stronger.

:32:42.:32:45.

Tough to beat this year. Sometimes someone comes into a sport and

:32:46.:32:51.

really changes it. Flora coming into it over the past year, putting down

:32:52.:32:55.

her mark, as made everyone else realise that we have to be good at

:32:56.:32:59.

the swim and be in the front pack, otherwise we are going to be out of

:33:00.:33:05.

this race. This is a bit further down the road, to Kearton Kasper,

:33:06.:33:13.

who was with the Non Stanford group. You can see Stanford and Learmonth

:33:14.:33:22.

just behind. Two minutes and 41 seconds behind Flora Duffy. She has

:33:23.:33:28.

Betto, Spivey and King Matt ahead of her. Kirsten Kasper there, broken

:33:29.:33:39.

away. I think sometimes you need the first 500 or 800 metres just to find

:33:40.:33:44.

your run legs. You normally know within a kilometre whether you are

:33:45.:33:49.

into the race or not. I think Non Stanford took a while to warm up.

:33:50.:33:54.

Kirsten Kasper doesn't look like the most effective runner to me, but

:33:55.:33:59.

she's dimming well. She's had some good results lately, Kirsten Kasper.

:34:00.:34:07.

She finished runner-up in Sardinia on June the 4th. Some good recent

:34:08.:34:12.

results under her belt. A really good start to the season. She may

:34:13.:34:18.

have an edge over Non Stanford due to the fact that she has been racing

:34:19.:34:23.

since Abu Dhabi in March. That is sometimes a positive. There is

:34:24.:34:26.

something to be said for running yourself fit. You can do all the

:34:27.:34:32.

training you like, but if you don't have the races, it can be tough. No

:34:33.:34:39.

matter how much training you've done over the winter, it can be a shock

:34:40.:34:45.

and take longer to come into it. Sometimes it can become really

:34:46.:34:48.

naturally. In the far right-hand side of our picture there, it looks

:34:49.:34:56.

like Jessica Learmonth with Non Stanford. This little hill is

:34:57.:35:01.

hurting their legs I think. It is a tough course. It is a break your

:35:02.:35:06.

legs bike course, because you are in and out of those corners, and it is

:35:07.:35:10.

very hard psychologically going out on the run with your legs like that.

:35:11.:35:16.

I think Kirsten Kasper stands in fifth position overall in this race.

:35:17.:35:23.

Jess Learmonth moving up into six. This is her race to lose now, the

:35:24.:35:28.

overall leader, Flora Duffy, the defending world champion. Swam well,

:35:29.:35:33.

rode beautifully and is running storm here. Expect the women's

:35:34.:35:42.

winning time to be around the two hour mark. Around 30 minutes left in

:35:43.:35:50.

this Leeds world triathlon race. Being led by Flora Duffy. Taylor

:35:51.:35:57.

Spivey holding second, but the gap is enormous. That is a large gap,

:35:58.:36:04.

that Taylor Spivey has had a great start to the season. A solid race

:36:05.:36:10.

for her, and that is really good for Alice Betto as well. Taylor Spivey,

:36:11.:36:19.

26 years of age. Runner-up in the Madrid World Cup race in the Spanish

:36:20.:36:26.

capital on May the 28th. 13th in the Gold Coast race. That was Sprint

:36:27.:36:32.

distance, at the beginning of April. Alice Betto now.

:36:33.:36:41.

Here we go. Just in front of the grandstand, we have Taylor Spivey

:36:42.:36:48.

coming through. Hopefully we will have some time checks on where she

:36:49.:36:53.

is. Alice Betto looking a little bit tired. That is Maya Kingma, the

:36:54.:36:58.

Dutch athlete. She has lost a lot of time to do Flora Duffy in this first

:36:59.:37:07.

lap. If Betto can get a place on the podium today, she will become the

:37:08.:37:11.

first Italian to stand on a World Triathlon Series podium. Plenty to

:37:12.:37:16.

win and lose for Alice Betto this afternoon. The Dutch have had some

:37:17.:37:21.

success in the past. Today, flying the flag for the Netherlands, is

:37:22.:37:27.

Maya Kingma. I think she looks like she is suffering a little bit. Three

:37:28.:37:33.

kilometres to go. She has lost a lot of time on Flora Duffy, and I think

:37:34.:37:38.

it will be a hard seven point five kilometres for Kingma.

:37:39.:37:49.

King Malcolm onto the blue carpet, a little soft underfoot. But she is

:37:50.:38:00.

clearly feeling this. It is only her second World Triathlon Series

:38:01.:38:04.

outing, holding forth position at the moment. Having come into

:38:05.:38:08.

transition level pegging with Flora Duffy, she now finds herself one

:38:09.:38:15.

minute and 34 seconds behind. Doing some maths there, with Spivey 45

:38:16.:38:21.

seconds down on Duffy, that is three minutes overall that she could lose.

:38:22.:38:29.

You would expect Non Stanford to run the same time roughly. But it is

:38:30.:38:38.

Jessica Learmonth who is ahead of Non Stanford. Non Stanford looks

:38:39.:38:42.

like she is struggling to me today. She hasn't really got into her

:38:43.:38:47.

running yet. This is great by Jess. She is looking strong and pushing

:38:48.:38:55.

on. It's not over yet for Non, but she's really got to try and find her

:38:56.:39:00.

legs and get into her rhythm. Learmonth is a local girl from

:39:01.:39:05.

nearby Tadcaster, remember. There are several hundred here from that

:39:06.:39:10.

small Yorkshire town cheering her on. Plus all of the Leeds faithful

:39:11.:39:15.

are getting behind her. Everyone is getting so much support. No

:39:16.:39:20.

allegiances, every athlete coming through is having the roof raised

:39:21.:39:27.

for them. Kirsten Kasper tries to stretch her lead over Jessica

:39:28.:39:33.

Learmonth. Learmonth is in sixth. Then a little gap to Gillian

:39:34.:39:39.

Backhouse, and on the right you can see Non Stanford alongside Natalie

:39:40.:39:45.

Van Coevorden. Juri Ide looks uncomfortable at the back of this

:39:46.:39:50.

group coming through transition. You can see what this swim and bike has

:39:51.:39:57.

done to them. Juri Ide was third before. You can see what the hills

:39:58.:40:04.

and the technical section on the bike takes out of these women.

:40:05.:40:10.

Looking at Juri Ide struggling through transition, and then looking

:40:11.:40:14.

at Flora Duffy at the front, easing her way to the top of this hill in

:40:15.:40:20.

the city of Leeds. Jess Learmonth in sixth position, currently the best

:40:21.:40:27.

of the British contingent so far. I have to say, it is difficult for

:40:28.:40:32.

Jess, because she did sit back and wait for Non. She must be

:40:33.:40:36.

questioning what would have happened if she had gone with Duffy. She

:40:37.:40:41.

waited for Non because she thought it was the right thing to do. Non is

:40:42.:40:46.

the strongest runner. But she hasn't been so well the last few months.

:40:47.:40:52.

Looking at her now, it is not the Non we know. It's not. I think Jess

:40:53.:40:58.

will be thinking that, but this was a team decision by the British

:40:59.:41:04.

women. The coaches are leading these conversations, but it's down to what

:41:05.:41:09.

they decide. It will have been a group decision to race for Non in

:41:10.:41:13.

this race, and you have to accept that. That's the thing about

:41:14.:41:19.

triathlon. No guarantees. That was Betto's bike. The front wheel just

:41:20.:41:24.

going over the line before she stepped off. Is she due a penalty? I

:41:25.:41:32.

think so. A penalty of 15 seconds. That is unfortunate because that is

:41:33.:41:36.

such an easy thing to do right. That is just a little bit of common sense

:41:37.:41:41.

when you are racing and just trying to be sensible. Now we have some

:41:42.:41:49.

shots of the brothers, Alastair Brownlee and Jonny Brownlee, the

:41:50.:41:53.

younger of the two. They have arrived at the park. Two superstars

:41:54.:42:02.

of this sport in their home city, preparing to race in the Leeds world

:42:03.:42:09.

Triathlon Series race. What a welcome they have received. Johnny

:42:10.:42:15.

can barely conceal his grin. At the start of the race in Roundhay Park.

:42:16.:42:20.

We will have full, uninterrupted coverage of the Brownlee brothers in

:42:21.:42:28.

action in Leeds later. Flora Duffy in complete control of this one now.

:42:29.:42:35.

She hasn't faltered since the moment she burst away from transition and

:42:36.:42:42.

immediately opened up a decent lead. Taylor Spivey currently holding

:42:43.:42:45.

second position. She looks reasonably comfortable. Betto

:42:46.:42:53.

bidding to become the first Italian to take a place in the world

:42:54.:42:58.

Triathlon Series podium. Taylor Spivey looks really good there. I

:42:59.:43:04.

don't think she will have expected to get on the podium. She has been

:43:05.:43:09.

close to a couple of podiums. She must be feeling amazing. She must be

:43:10.:43:16.

trying not to think about the results, just the process. She will

:43:17.:43:21.

be trying to get through this and not thinking too much about the

:43:22.:43:28.

podium. She looks so relaxed. Her running is so fantastic. The

:43:29.:43:33.

American team are so strong. In years gone by, they have had some

:43:34.:43:39.

fantastic athletes. Gwen Jorgensen as well. The team has grown in

:43:40.:43:45.

strength. We don't have Katie Zaferes here today. What is it about

:43:46.:43:50.

the Americans? They are incredibly strong. It is the strength and depth

:43:51.:43:56.

as well. It is the American women. They don't have the same strength

:43:57.:44:03.

and depth across the men. They have triathlon in the collegiate system

:44:04.:44:08.

in the US now, and that is why we are getting more and more strong

:44:09.:44:12.

athletes coming through. Flora Duffy is almost halfway through the run,

:44:13.:44:24.

five point two kilometres left. Two full laps left on the completion of

:44:25.:44:30.

this second lap. What a great position she finds herself in. She

:44:31.:44:34.

can take her foot off the gas and almost a joke. You cannot do that on

:44:35.:44:41.

the bike, but she could relax and enjoy this last five kilometres.

:44:42.:44:44.

It's not very often an athlete finds himself in that position in the

:44:45.:44:52.

World Triathlon Series. Five kilometres down. 5000 kilometres to

:44:53.:44:57.

go. The Leeds city Museum in the background. Flora Duffy has put on a

:44:58.:45:03.

real show here. Up near the leaders out of the water, and what a bike

:45:04.:45:09.

she had there. Dominating, dictating. The 40 kilometre bike was

:45:10.:45:13.

done very much on her terms. Then she left the other three behind and

:45:14.:45:19.

decided to run the first half of the ten kilometre run on her own. The

:45:20.:45:23.

next best is Taylor Spivey from the USA.

:45:24.:45:28.

She will be costing in second position. Closely followed by Alice

:45:29.:45:37.

Betto, little further down the road. And then Maya Kingma, she was in

:45:38.:45:40.

fourth position, but was weakening gradually. She did look like she was

:45:41.:45:47.

struggling on that flat coming through. She has got to hang on for

:45:48.:45:50.

as long as possible. It's a horrible feeling when you run down, but she's

:45:51.:45:56.

got to be happy with her performance. She swam really well,

:45:57.:46:00.

has ridden the race of her life, and has got to keep going and try to get

:46:01.:46:03.

the best out of this result and take a lot of confidence moving forward

:46:04.:46:07.

that she can swim and bike with the best in the world. There we have it.

:46:08.:46:19.

Taylor Spivey is one minute down. She lost 45 seconds in the first

:46:20.:46:25.

lap, just over 15 seconds. I think Alice Betto is running herself into

:46:26.:46:28.

this race because she is looking a bit more relaxed than she was after

:46:29.:46:33.

the first lap. The only thing of note, though she had to sit out a 15

:46:34.:46:38.

second penalty for going over the red line? I think she will have to

:46:39.:46:43.

take 15 seconds so it depends when she takes it. Yeah, obviously,

:46:44.:46:48.

hopefully before the end. We were focusing on the replay, focusing on

:46:49.:46:52.

her wheel going over the line, but I think another one may have come

:46:53.:46:56.

close as well. I don't think it was Duffy but I think it could have been

:46:57.:47:03.

Maya Kingma so she could be in trouble if she does have a penalty

:47:04.:47:06.

to take. She's really struggling now because she's only just turning up

:47:07.:47:11.

the long stretch before she turns onto the big part and finds herself

:47:12.:47:15.

a good few minutes down on Flora Duffy but what a race for the junior

:47:16.:47:20.

athlete from Holland. She rode and swam with a world champion and now

:47:21.:47:24.

we can see Kirsten Kasper of having the run of her life, throwing

:47:25.:47:28.

everything at it and it's just about to run herself into fourth position.

:47:29.:47:34.

It's a big year of course for Dutch triathlon because Rotterdam will be

:47:35.:47:43.

hosting the world finals. It was in Kosovo last, you will remember the

:47:44.:47:47.

Brownlee brothers. Rotterdam will host the finals between September

:47:48.:47:53.

the 14th - 17th. Live coverage, of course, across the BBC.

:47:54.:48:04.

She appears to be in trouble, Maya Kingma, and Kirsten Kasper can send

:48:05.:48:13.

that and will shortly move up into third position, surely? It's a big

:48:14.:48:19.

gap she will have to pull back but she running really strong and to get

:48:20.:48:24.

on the podium will still be a big ask, I think. She has got two laps

:48:25.:48:34.

to do it now. Jess Learmonth announced to the crowd here, local

:48:35.:48:38.

girl, they are screaming at her to try to find another gear. Gillian

:48:39.:48:44.

Backhouse in severance of the moment. Non Stanford turning onto

:48:45.:48:54.

the carpet, we were hoping for fireworks from there but so far she

:48:55.:48:58.

has not been able to produce but listen to the well, the 2013 world

:48:59.:49:01.

champion receives. CROWD CHEERS

:49:02.:49:06.

There's a view Welsh flags flying in that crowd and I'm sure friends and

:49:07.:49:11.

family will be supporting Non and she will do the best she can add

:49:12.:49:14.

their to get the highest position possible. We have Ai Uedai coming

:49:15.:49:21.

through, she's running really well. One of the most consistent

:49:22.:49:27.

triathletes on the tour. Well into her 30s now and loving the sport.

:49:28.:49:34.

She has come past her com patriot who never really settled, Juri Ide.

:49:35.:49:39.

And unmissable running style, you know it's her always. It's

:49:40.:49:43.

interesting, and it works for her because she runs very well, but no

:49:44.:49:47.

other person runs like that on the circuit. No, I have never seen

:49:48.:49:53.

anyone run like air but it seems effective and GZ World Series

:49:54.:49:56.

podiums, been too many Olympic Games, so if it works fair, that's

:49:57.:50:02.

great. Often people can be critical and say you don't look great running

:50:03.:50:06.

but as long as it is effective for you, everybody moves in different

:50:07.:50:13.

ways. Absolutely. Flora Duffy now, just over 3.5, tours until the

:50:14.:50:19.

finish line and it is perhaps fitting it won't be a British

:50:20.:50:23.

athlete but she worked so hard last year and had the two British

:50:24.:50:28.

athletes, who had instructions not to work too hard and wait for the

:50:29.:50:32.

other athletes and she found herself in a difficult spot and was run down

:50:33.:50:37.

by Gwen Jorgensen last year but that won't be the case today. She's way

:50:38.:50:47.

in front. Non Stanford is over 3.30 down and I think the closest athlete

:50:48.:50:54.

from that second pack, Kirsten Kasper, is 3.37 down. She's not only

:50:55.:50:58.

had the fastest bike and swim, she is also running the fastest as well.

:50:59.:51:04.

Poultry the fastest moving on the course is Ai Uedai but won't beat

:51:05.:51:08.

Flora Duffy now. -- probably the fastest moving. She will push to the

:51:09.:51:12.

finish line. You won't know until it's over. She can afford to keep

:51:13.:51:19.

her rib and does not have do push on too much. Just make sure she's got

:51:20.:51:21.

enough energy to get to the finish line as fast as possible. She looks

:51:22.:51:29.

very smooth. Overrunning style does not change. Other athletes, after a

:51:30.:51:37.

tough course, being affected on the run but Flora Duffy, it's all there,

:51:38.:51:42.

nothing is changed. She just looks consistently strong and, yes,

:51:43.:51:48.

comfortable. That's how you would describe her race today. Just a very

:51:49.:51:53.

well executed across all three disciplines.

:51:54.:52:00.

Taylor Spivey are still running really well. Covering the ground

:52:01.:52:05.

quickly. Holding onto second position. Our leader maintains her

:52:06.:52:12.

dominant form. Next time she crosses the line she will take the bell,

:52:13.:52:17.

signalling 2.5 kilometres, one lap to go before she will go on to win

:52:18.:52:22.

her second successive World Triathlon Series contest having

:52:23.:52:28.

triumphed in Yokohama. She attempts to win the world title for the

:52:29.:52:33.

second time. Following Leeds, the tour moves on the hamburger. Sprint

:52:34.:52:41.

races and a mixed relay in Hamburg and then Edmonton, the first two

:52:42.:52:46.

Canadian stops. After that, Montreal, Stockholm, Sweden at the

:52:47.:52:48.

end of August and then Rotterdam at the grand final in the middle of

:52:49.:52:58.

September. Kirsten Kasper could run herself into the World Series lead,

:52:59.:53:03.

and she's coming to this race ranked third overall. I'm not sure even if

:53:04.:53:07.

Flora wins, she can go above her, I'm not sure about the numbers, but

:53:08.:53:12.

that must be exciting for Kirsten Kasper. It must be lovely to be able

:53:13.:53:18.

to lead the series. We expect less than ten minutes to go from Flora

:53:19.:53:22.

Duffy, who still looks calm and composed and controlled. Has not

:53:23.:53:27.

allowed herself to be distracted by all the noise and excitement around

:53:28.:53:33.

her. The generosity of the fans, they love their sport and they know

:53:34.:53:36.

all about Flora Duffy. The reigning world champion, and a bit of light

:53:37.:53:42.

rain starting to fall which could make life interesting for the mens

:53:43.:53:45.

rea is, especially if it turns into a heavy downpour. -- the men's race.

:53:46.:53:55.

Duffy takes the Bell. I'm so excited. She has got the crowd

:53:56.:54:02.

behind her, a commanding lead. When you have got this crowd support,

:54:03.:54:05.

it's exciting for the athletes and it does not happen in every race. We

:54:06.:54:10.

are lucky to have such good crowd support in the UK. You are

:54:11.:54:14.

absolutely right. We commentate on many races around the world and

:54:15.:54:18.

there's no crowds like this, it is exceptional and wonderful. It always

:54:19.:54:22.

makes me smile, when I think about our little island stuck out in the

:54:23.:54:27.

sea with terrible weather and we produced so many fantastic athletes

:54:28.:54:32.

and races. Can we race here every week? I think a short commute to

:54:33.:54:38.

racing is always nice, nice to get into your car than get on a 24-hour

:54:39.:54:46.

flight to Australia! Second place, Taylor Spivey, USA, enjoying a good

:54:47.:54:51.

run of form. Flora Duffield ready well on her way on her final lap and

:54:52.:54:59.

Taylor Spivey makes the term. Second triathlete through, the American.

:55:00.:55:07.

1.12 off the pace. Quite a long way until we see the third, she's

:55:08.:55:12.

managed a smile as she heard her name gets announced. There is the

:55:13.:55:16.

Italian, Alice Betto. Third position right now. Taylor Spivey has run

:55:17.:55:22.

consistently. She lost a lot of time on the first lap but has since then,

:55:23.:55:26.

maintained it and it's carried her through. Alice Betto takes a

:55:27.:55:31.

penalty. We thought it was coming after her dismount line, 15 seconds,

:55:32.:55:37.

which will seem like a minute to her. They never pass quickly. Alice

:55:38.:55:46.

Betto is stopped and restarted and released back onto the course with a

:55:47.:55:52.

burst of acceleration. I have to do is say, she was very composed

:55:53.:55:57.

because you see athletes get incredibly frustrated. I won't

:55:58.:56:00.

mention any names but Alice Betto, very composed and almost gives

:56:01.:56:05.

herself a little break. She knows she's got her place. Is no one

:56:06.:56:09.

insight, and off she goes again and what a great race for the Italian

:56:10.:56:14.

because we haven't had an Italian athlete on the podium in the World

:56:15.:56:20.

Triathlon Series. She'll be a big-name overnight in Italy because

:56:21.:56:23.

triathlon has a big following over there. Of late, we haven't seen a

:56:24.:56:28.

lot of Italian athlete but over the years it's been incredibly popular

:56:29.:56:35.

in Apsley. -- Italy. To get on top of the podium, it is a big

:56:36.:56:40.

breakthrough for them. Traditionally, they've had stronger

:56:41.:56:43.

Italian men but the women are doing really well. They have a strong

:56:44.:56:46.

junior programme and the English juniors have done a lot with the

:56:47.:56:51.

Italian juniors, so it's nice there is a crossover. Still are best

:56:52.:57:01.

placed of the British triathletes, Jess Learmonth. Running with Gillian

:57:02.:57:04.

Backhouse, keeping yourself in front of the Australian. I think she's an

:57:05.:57:10.

outstanding race because she's had a little injury worry with her knee, a

:57:11.:57:14.

difficult time over the last three weeks but to come here and it looks

:57:15.:57:18.

to me like she's going to get her best place finish on a World

:57:19.:57:24.

Triathlon Series. It looks to me, she was eighth, and she has got Ai

:57:25.:57:28.

Uedai behind Herbert will make a top ten finish it today and Ai Uedai,

:57:29.:57:34.

always smiling and relaxed and the crowd love her and it was a shame

:57:35.:57:38.

she could not get her swim together. Yes, she doesn't have the best

:57:39.:57:41.

swimmer, and we saw that in Yokohama. She's had some amazing

:57:42.:57:46.

result and is always a happy person to be around and have on the circuit

:57:47.:57:53.

and I watch her do well and I love it. It looks to me like she's going

:57:54.:58:00.

to run down, flying around, smiling, very relaxed and these two athletes,

:58:01.:58:04.

in front, the look over their shoulders and they will be surprised

:58:05.:58:09.

to see Ai Uedai absolutely flying. She looked up to the big screen, saw

:58:10.:58:15.

her image and the timings below, smiled, enjoyed this, and it's a

:58:16.:58:20.

massive crowd and they don't get anything like this in Yokohama on

:58:21.:58:26.

the regular tour. We were there on the world triathlon series, and

:58:27.:58:28.

there's been a few hundred spectators there. So Duffy is well

:58:29.:58:37.

on her final lap, and it's between Duffy and Non Stanford, 4.5 minutes

:58:38.:58:42.

now. Maya Kingma has been overtaken by Natalie Van Coevorden. And

:58:43.:58:50.

running alongside is Juri Ide. She will feel at home here, from the

:58:51.:58:57.

West Coast of Scotland, Charlotte McShane, and is making a decent move

:58:58.:59:04.

through the course, up into 13th position, five-minute behind, Flora

:59:05.:59:07.

Duffy, who is well on her way to her second successive World Triathlon

:59:08.:59:14.

Series victory. These gaps are huge. You don't often see this. Massive

:59:15.:59:20.

gaps between first and tenth. We are coming up to over five minutes and

:59:21.:59:24.

normally, you can see how hard the course has been with these large

:59:25.:59:29.

gaps. Believes cause is not like any other. The swim is cold, the Hill is

:59:30.:59:35.

where it all begins, and the place where it all picks up. I think we

:59:36.:59:41.

don't see races like this. It is a smaller field but these huge gaps,

:59:42.:59:45.

you don't see it and I guess it's the nature of the course which

:59:46.:59:49.

separates the athletes? I think so, but it's great we have this variety

:59:50.:59:54.

in the series, because we don't want every race being similar, a flat

:59:55.:00:01.

bike armour we need to have variety, so it's exciting to see these kinds

:00:02.:00:04.

of athletes take on different styles of courses.

:00:05.:00:08.

Flora Duffy is demonstrating she is good on any course. We talked about

:00:09.:00:16.

her winning in Stockholm last year and Yokohama a few weeks ago, which

:00:17.:00:22.

was completely flat, and she is an all-round complete athlete now and

:00:23.:00:28.

in phenomenon form. This is a well-deserved win because everything

:00:29.:00:31.

has been executed perfectly and she couldn't ask for anything else

:00:32.:00:32.

during this race. So the last 500 metres or so for

:00:33.:00:47.

Flora Duffy, who has been the sharpest of them all here this

:00:48.:00:52.

afternoon. She has not put a foot wrong, she has dominated the

:00:53.:00:56.

storyline of this World Triathlon Series race in Leeds with a

:00:57.:01:02.

fantastic performance. The runner-up to Gwen Jorgensen a year ago will

:01:03.:01:08.

take victory, and it looks like Spivey will be on the World

:01:09.:01:14.

Triathlon Series podium for the first time to continue the American

:01:15.:01:19.

success story at this level. We can follow Duffy from the helicopter

:01:20.:01:26.

shot which will take on the last 300 metres or so, following the

:01:27.:01:32.

motorcycle towards victory in Leeds. And the sunshine has returned,

:01:33.:01:35.

fittingly, to illuminate her success. With only 300 metres to go,

:01:36.:01:42.

she can really try to soak up the crowd now. She will have time to

:01:43.:01:46.

high-5 the crowd and taking the support from the people who have

:01:47.:01:53.

travelled from Bermuda to watch her. 200 metres to go for Flora Duffy and

:01:54.:01:58.

a really worthy champion, I don't think anyone can dispute that. She

:01:59.:02:03.

has led pretty much from start to finish, she really stamped her mark

:02:04.:02:07.

on the bike course with the three other athletes there to support her

:02:08.:02:11.

but today it is all about Flora Duffy. Back-to-back wins, Yokohama

:02:12.:02:17.

she took a few weeks ago, and she's a few hundred metres away from

:02:18.:02:22.

taking her title in Leeds. She did miss the first two races of the year

:02:23.:02:26.

but she's got time to catch it up, and if she stays in this form it

:02:27.:02:29.

will be hard for anyone to challenge her.

:02:30.:02:35.

Duffy can start to enjoy it now. After all the hard work, the 1500

:02:36.:02:43.

metres swim, the 38 K bike which she dominated from start to finish, to

:02:44.:02:52.

Mac -- two extra trips to transition. What an atmosphere, a

:02:53.:02:58.

convivial enthusiastic atmosphere here in Leeds. She waves to her

:02:59.:03:04.

family, and Flora Duffy wins in Leeds and wins by some margin. A

:03:05.:03:11.

brilliant win for Duffy. Two in a row after having triumphed in

:03:12.:03:15.

Yokohama. She has now travelled to Yorkshire to take her second

:03:16.:03:21.

successive win. Her family and friends will feel now that this long

:03:22.:03:24.

journey was more than worth it. She wins in the time of one hour 57

:03:25.:03:29.

minutes and to microseconds. That is about three minutes quicker than

:03:30.:03:33.

Gwen Jorgensen's winning time, although it is a slightly different

:03:34.:03:39.

course from 12 months ago. She has time to sit and soak it up and wait

:03:40.:03:44.

for the next one, which will be delighted, I'm sure, Taylor Spivey.

:03:45.:03:50.

This is brilliant for Taylor Spivey, I don't think she imagined she would

:03:51.:03:55.

be coming second today. She swam well, she rode and she has not got

:03:56.:04:04.

too excited, just gone with it. Amazing to see another American on

:04:05.:04:10.

the podium. She certainly doesn't look out of place because she's

:04:11.:04:13.

finishing as strong pretty much as she started. For the first time ever

:04:14.:04:20.

on the World Triathlon Series she's on the podium. And this must feel

:04:21.:04:26.

fantastic, taking the congratulations from the spectators

:04:27.:04:32.

in the grandstand, and taking second place in the World Triathlon Series

:04:33.:04:38.

in Leeds. One minute 30 seconds behind Flora Duffy. Still an

:04:39.:04:39.

excellent time. I don't think she can quite believe

:04:40.:04:54.

it herself at the moment. It might take a while to sink in. And this

:04:55.:04:59.

will be a thoroughly deserved third place for Alice Betto, who has done

:05:00.:05:04.

it despite having misjudged her arrival at the dismount line at the

:05:05.:05:07.

end of the bike, she allowed her front wheel to go over, she was

:05:08.:05:13.

given a 15 second penalty which she took calmly, didn't get stressed out

:05:14.:05:17.

about it because she knew she had time in reserve. And she will cruise

:05:18.:05:23.

home for third place. The first Italian on a World Triathlon Series

:05:24.:05:28.

podium. Alice Betto will be third and she's got time to thoroughly

:05:29.:05:34.

enjoy it, and stroll home. Betto takes Bird, her first podium,

:05:35.:05:38.

brilliant performance from Alice Betto as she is going to be highly

:05:39.:05:43.

emotional after the injury problems she's hard. What a race, with the

:05:44.:05:51.

penalty as well. Two and a half minutes down. I think we can see the

:05:52.:05:59.

emotion on her face there. After a year of injury last year, not being

:06:00.:06:03.

able to go to the Olympic Games, it means so much to her. I love seeing

:06:04.:06:09.

that emotion, you know how much it means to the athletes, how much they

:06:10.:06:13.

put in and how hard this sport can be. Kirsten Kasper with some

:06:14.:06:19.

excellent results recently is going to miss the podium place, and will

:06:20.:06:28.

be the second place American. Fourth place... There are worse placed

:06:29.:06:35.

finishes but she will be pleased with the result. She didn't quite

:06:36.:06:41.

make the front pack so it was a lost opportunity but she will be happy

:06:42.:06:44.

with her consistency so far this year. She was met immediately by

:06:45.:06:50.

team-mate Taylor Spivey and now there is a race for the finish, as

:06:51.:06:59.

there is a race with an array is going on behind, as Jess attempts to

:07:00.:07:09.

overtake the Australian. The best of the British! Just ahead of Gillian

:07:10.:07:17.

Backhouse. The local girl with the brilliant finish to defeat Gillian

:07:18.:07:28.

Backhouse for six and seven. Ashleigh Gentle next home. She

:07:29.:07:36.

looking absolutely shattered. Yes, she looks like she has struggled.

:07:37.:07:43.

She had a solid run but I can't imagine her being too happy with

:07:44.:07:48.

that today. And I think it will be Charlotte MacShane next across the

:07:49.:07:49.

line, to be followed by Juri Ide and

:07:50.:08:11.

non-Stanford. Let's go down to the finish and join Ore. Obviously we

:08:12.:08:19.

are going to make sure non-Stanford is all right. We have got Taylor

:08:20.:08:26.

Spivey with us. Silver medallist, podium for the first time in a World

:08:27.:08:30.

Series race. You are smiling so broadly, what did it feel like to

:08:31.:08:36.

come over the finish line? It felt amazing, I worked really hard for

:08:37.:08:40.

that podium, especially on the bike trying to keep up with Flora. It was

:08:41.:08:48.

tough but it was worth it. I could see you having tentative high-fives,

:08:49.:08:51.

you took your time down the blue carpet and it must have been a

:08:52.:08:55.

relief to make sure your work paid off. Definitely, I have been working

:08:56.:09:00.

really hard and I'm so happy to see it come together today. What was it

:09:01.:09:05.

like in that lead group because you all worked really hard for each

:09:06.:09:11.

other. Yes, I wasn't sure I could catch the next group with the two

:09:12.:09:14.

minute gap because there are some fast runners and I'm so amazed I

:09:15.:09:19.

did. You have a moment on the podium coming up, take your time, Taylor.

:09:20.:09:27.

Congratulations, enjoy your moment up there. It's all right, you can

:09:28.:09:31.

take a walk. What about that for a result. We were watching it

:09:32.:09:38.

together, the an incredible race in the first time podium is a big deal.

:09:39.:09:43.

It's a massive deal. The thing about the athletes in the lead pack with

:09:44.:09:47.

Flora Duffy didn't expect that going out this morning, but they hung on

:09:48.:09:52.

and fair play to them as they Leave with the world champion wheel

:09:53.:09:59.

4-wheel. I love it when they put that much work in. They all

:10:00.:10:03.

contributed and worked really hard to stay in the pack and I loved to

:10:04.:10:07.

see them get the rewards for that with the podium finishes going to

:10:08.:10:12.

the three in that group. Both Taylor and Alice first time podium is. We

:10:13.:10:16.

are going to try to talk to Flora and is well to Alice Betto, who we

:10:17.:10:21.

can all see it meant so much to. We are going to talk to them before the

:10:22.:10:26.

medal presentation, but talk about Flora because it was an exemplary

:10:27.:10:32.

race. It is becoming trademark Flora, a phenomenal swimmer,

:10:33.:10:34.

incredible on the bike and now her run is the best out there as well so

:10:35.:10:40.

how do you beat someone performing that way? It is trademark now. And

:10:41.:10:46.

just the second time back this season, she's in great shape. Yes,

:10:47.:10:58.

she... Let's speak to the lady herself. The world champion is here!

:10:59.:11:03.

What was really nice, after she worked so hard, is having a lovely

:11:04.:11:09.

shower to make sure you were cooled down appropriately! Brilliant race,

:11:10.:11:15.

we were just talking about how exemplary that was. You lead the

:11:16.:11:20.

hallway on the bike. I didn't realise Jess had backed off until

:11:21.:11:25.

maybe five kilometres into the ride. I had a goal of going hard, and if

:11:26.:11:29.

there is nobody with you you will have to go for yourself. It was

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super hard today, the course is really tough. It was windy so I'm

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pretty glad I had some company on the bike to share the workload. The

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others were more inexperienced venue, did you feel like you had to

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make them work as hard as you? They seemed pretty keen to work and we

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worked well together. My fiance kept giving us split so I think that

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motivated them, each time the split would get higher and higher sale the

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minds they were thinking it was a podium opportunity. With that

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dangling in front of you it is major motivation. Back-to-back victories

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so where do you go from here? You want to get this feeling a number

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more times, I'm sure. Yes, Leeds was fantastic, I had goose bumps running

:12:26.:12:33.

down the streets. So many people saying, "Go, Flora! " now I'm going

:12:34.:12:40.

to fly to Bermuda and have a few days' relaxation and get ready for

:12:41.:12:44.

the back half of the season. We could see all of your Bermuda fans,

:12:45.:12:51.

waving over there! I think you are needed for a presentation so we will

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let you get off but congratulations again, well done.

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Off she goes, make your way through the cameras.

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I think you guys were saying in commentary as well, she's out on her

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own as far as a contingent, not like the British and American guys with

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the huge support teams, not least team-mates as well, she's a

:13:14.:13:18.

one-woman band and she rocked it. Yes, in some ways you need those

:13:19.:13:22.

people around you but in others it has made her stronger. She cannot

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look around to see who was helping her because she's on her own so she

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cracks on with it and she does a great job. And quicker than when

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Jorgensen last year. If she wants to challenge the best, she's putting

:13:41.:13:44.

down markers. Yes, Flora for the last year or so has done trademark

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Flora, and trademark Gwen and run through from behind but Flora is

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getting faster and faster on the run that makes it harder for Gwen to

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come back into the races. Let's discuss the British athletes because

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as it unfolded it was interesting because Jess coming out of the water

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first up, you thought perhaps she has got a chance but they had

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specific instructions, didn't they? Yes, looking at the race, you look

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at Non, you have got to support her. It was the right move, it was team

:14:27.:14:32.

tactics and they have spoken about it before. Unfortunately for Non,

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she wasn't feeling tiptop today. Unfortunately today it was more bust

:14:38.:14:44.

than all but the rationale behind doing it was the right thing to get

:14:45.:14:50.

a great British athletes on home territory. We can see the effort

:14:51.:14:55.

they put in, the way Non was taking her time on the finish line here. We

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can look at that moment that Jess had to take a minute back in the

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race. We won't, because we have another podium athlete in Alice

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Betto. Congratulations. So many people, Vicky Holland, so many other

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people, but to see you coming over the line you were overcome, what did

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it mean to you to have a podium? It is the first time on the podium

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for me. Last July was entered. I did the second surgery to my Achilles,

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and I started training, just six months ago. I do not believe this

:15:40.:15:52.

podium. -- last July I was injured. It was the perfect race. Not quite

:15:53.:15:58.

perfect because you did have a stop -- go penalty. Did you think you had

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in form was there some don't? I thought I had enough to do the

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penalty. After the third lap. I wanted to gain energy for the last

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lap. I was so tired. It was hard on the bike. It is nice that they could

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provide the rest for you. You have done everything you have needed to

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do. Time for you to collect your bronze medal. Thank you very much. I

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will Take That from you. Well done. Alice Betto is a history maker. She

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has taken my microphone from me. That is fine, she is a medallist.

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She's a history maker. Overnight she will be a big star. She has had it

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coming for a long time. She spoke about her Achilles and operations.

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She has proven what she can do. Having the bike, swim combination,

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that will be key to her success. I saw what she could do in Yokohama

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first-hand. She came out of the water close to me. She had a better

:17:06.:17:09.

swim today than she did there. She rode so hard on the first couple of

:17:10.:17:14.

laps. I said that if she was there out of the water, she could raid

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with Flora. She has reaped the rewards today. Six months after

:17:19.:17:24.

injury, she is back here, able to provide or deliver that kind of

:17:25.:17:28.

performance. We have a couple of British athletes standing by. We

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will bring them in. Coming, Jess, Non. We have another one coming in.

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Hold onto that. Step back so can see you. We saw you at the finish line.

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You are right? I am OK. Not my best time. I have had a rough few weeks

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since Yokohama. That was a struggle from start to finish. I gave it my

:17:52.:17:57.

all, but when I got on to the run, I had nothing left. It was a matter of

:17:58.:18:01.

getting round. The crowd got me around. I know it sounds like a

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cliche, but the support was fantastic. They lifted me, so thanks

:18:06.:18:16.

to everyone who supported. It's splintered in the swim. Did you feel

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that things got tricky at that point? Yes, I was off the bike of

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the front pack, going around. It pushed on and on the second lap.

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When I got out I was 60 seconds down. I heard the call that we had

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decided we were going to work as a team today and that Jess was going

:18:31.:18:35.

to wait. I did everything I could to get back to her. I tried to get us

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into a good position. I do not think I contributed much, unfortunately.

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You powered on through, you're making your way back. It was an

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admirable effort. Jess, let's come to you. Sixth place in our World

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Triathlon Series race. Is that a personal best? It is.

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Congratulations. At one point in the race, you were potentially the Queen

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maker. You had the power in your hands. Purpose through that moment,

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you will run the bike, you had the lead. You made the call to drop back

:19:12.:19:15.

and try and help your team-mates. Definitely. We had already spoken

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before we started. That was the tactics. I knew full well that is

:19:21.:19:24.

what we were going to do and that is what I wanted to do. I was more than

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happy to drop back and push on and help Non. It is something we need to

:19:30.:19:35.

practice. It is a great place to practice. We have all had problems,

:19:36.:19:39.

little illnesses before the race. We never knew how it was going to pan

:19:40.:19:44.

out and with triathlon, you never do. It was good. After the first lap

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on the bike, you were only one minute behind. Did you feel like

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there was a chance that you could deliver a podium, or did you feel

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quickly that the gap was getting bigger? To be honest, the gap was

:19:59.:20:03.

going out every lap. It was so windy. I find it very hard, to be

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honest. I do not think many were contributing to our group. There

:20:10.:20:12.

were a few of us on the front. I did not know how well the front group

:20:13.:20:22.

were working. Obviously they were doing well, because each lap, we

:20:23.:20:25.

were like, oh, it is going out. We were trying to get around the ten

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key M on the windy scores ever. You had the wind and rain and everything

:20:29.:20:32.

else and an incredible crowd. No one was going to take sixth place away

:20:33.:20:36.

from you. I know, I cannot believe it. I have been practising my

:20:37.:20:44.

sprint. Apologies. Yes, the crowd, I wonder if they would mind coming to

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every triathlon. It would get me round the ten k every time. It was

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amazing. Some of the guys have been talking about your development. You

:20:55.:21:01.

thought this race might have been your last. To make the leaps and

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bounds you have in the last 12 months, you must be personally

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please? Yes, I am delighted. I am old compared to some of the younger

:21:10.:21:16.

athletes. Apart from Non. She is quite old. I know I have the

:21:17.:21:21.

development, I have the fitness, that it is putting into practice and

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getting the run sorted. Why have you gone so far away from me. Come in.

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We are all family. You were impressed with how both of them did,

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but Jess in particular? Yes, these guys are my team-mates and friends.

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I know when they have had troubles and setbacks. I do not think there

:21:44.:21:47.

is a single person in the team who has had a smooth running. We have

:21:48.:21:53.

had last-minute dropouts and injuries. These two give it

:21:54.:21:56.

everything. There is no doubt what they put into the race. Jess, to

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lead out the swim, casually look around and see a little gap. You did

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a great job. I know you went back for Non and you put in what you

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could. The front group were working well. Flora motivated them and they

:22:11.:22:15.

were seeing the gap glide. It continued to go. They were motivated

:22:16.:22:21.

to chase the podium. Do you have any thoughts to offer. Jess and Non are

:22:22.:22:27.

recovering. It is so difficult. It is a tough course. It is tough and

:22:28.:22:31.

it worked well with that small, effective group. It was windy. Non

:22:32.:22:38.

has had a tough time. It is not easy to miss training. These guys are

:22:39.:22:42.

performing at their best. It is difficult to compete if you cannot

:22:43.:22:48.

bring your a game. Two top ten finishes, you cannot ask for more

:22:49.:22:52.

when you're not feeling great. Tell us about how things started. There

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was a moment, and it may have been inconspicuous, you were making your

:22:58.:23:00.

way down the pontoon. You were side-by-side? What happened? She

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wanted to go left and I wanted to go right. She thought she would not be

:23:08.:23:13.

able to get away from the other girls on the right-hand turn on the

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pontoon. We went with her. She went with me. Let's talk about the swim a

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little. Just like you did in 2016, like you have done so many times in

:23:30.:23:32.

the World Triathlon Series, leading the way. While you were on the swim,

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are you aware that you're pulling things away? It is such an important

:23:39.:23:46.

part of your race? I look back at each marker. I see if I can see. It

:23:47.:23:51.

is difficult to know if you have a gap, or when the gap happens. It is

:23:52.:23:56.

difficult but I have a sneaky look. Well done. From both of you,

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congratulations. Thank you for talking to us. We appreciated. Let's

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go to the medal presentation. Matt Jordan can talk this through podium

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athletes. Yes, and just the final step to be

:24:12.:24:18.

occupied by Flora Duffy. What a noise from the Bermudan contingent.

:24:19.:24:23.

Two in a row for the world champion. Ahead of Taylor Spivey, her first

:24:24.:24:27.

podium, and Alice Bechtel making Italian history. Kirsten Kasper

:24:28.:24:34.

finishing fourth today. She has moved to the top of the World

:24:35.:24:40.

Triathlon Series standings. But it is Duffy is all smiles, today's race

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winner. There will be a familiar and some for Flora Duffy.

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CHEERING The British crowd did not get to see

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a British victory, but they still heard the familiar national anthem.

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God Save The Queen for Bermuda. The gold medal goes to Flora Duffy from

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Bermuda. The silver medal to Taylor Spivey, the bronze medal to Alice

:25:53.:25:53.

Bechtel. -- Betto. So much to look forward to an Leeds

:25:54.:26:27.

this afternoon, not least until we build up to Brownlee against

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Brownlee. The two of them, Olympic gold and silver medallist back in

:26:33.:26:36.

Rio de Janeiro. This will be the first time we have seen them back in

:26:37.:26:40.

action since the World Triathlon Series final last year. Those images

:26:41.:26:45.

beamed around the world, the moment the Jonny Brownlee, looking to win

:26:46.:26:48.

the race in Mexico, it would have taken him to another world title,

:26:49.:26:55.

the dehydration, the heat stroke to Kim and he needed his brother,

:26:56.:26:58.

Alistair Brownlee, to give him the helping hand over the line. It was

:26:59.:27:04.

Henri Schoeman who took the victory. This was the defining image of 2016.

:27:05.:27:11.

The Brownlees, others in arms, making their way over the finish

:27:12.:27:15.

line, a perfect example of brotherly love. They will be hoping for a

:27:16.:27:20.

different result today. We have heard that the boys are making their

:27:21.:27:27.

way down to the start line in Leeds. Louise has been soaking up the calm

:27:28.:27:30.

before the storm. This is very much they can before

:27:31.:27:34.

the storm. We are in registration. This is Tom Bishop's bag. How will

:27:35.:27:39.

they be feeling, what do they have to do? -- bike. They are all pretty

:27:40.:27:47.

nervous. Even on the morning of the race, you start getting nervous.

:27:48.:27:50.

They go through the bike checks, they check their kick, they make

:27:51.:27:54.

sure everything is up the specifications. They make sure

:27:55.:27:57.

everything is safe. They get a detailed check. We are looking at

:27:58.:28:01.

the bikes, they are measuring everything? Yes, they make sure it

:28:02.:28:05.

is compliant with the rules. Everybody has to have the same

:28:06.:28:09.

specification bike. When you're waiting in this queue you can see a

:28:10.:28:25.

difference in the kind of athletes, how people are dealing with the

:28:26.:28:28.

nerves. Some people are chatty? There are different characters and

:28:29.:28:30.

different characters deal with stress in different ways. Some

:28:31.:28:32.

people like company. Others like to be left alone. As a coach, what

:28:33.:28:34.

recommendation would you say to people, that they do what they need

:28:35.:28:37.

to do? Exactly, be yourself. Nerves can add to your race. Go with them.

:28:38.:28:40.

Some of them are going to do the hill as well. Is that something you

:28:41.:28:44.

would be looking at? That is very smart. You want to know what will

:28:45.:28:49.

come. You want to check your dealing. In the girls' race, some of

:28:50.:28:59.

them were in the wrong yet -- in the wrong year, they could hardly pedal.

:29:00.:29:01.

Talking about the swim, some of the female athletes, we saw them getting

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in quite a time before the race. Would you recommend that? I would

:29:06.:29:10.

not. The swim is quake cold and some of these athletes are from hot

:29:11.:29:14.

environments. They are getting in 16 degrees water 40 minutes before the

:29:15.:29:19.

start. I cannot see how that will be a positive. But it is for each

:29:20.:29:26.

person to decide. If it works for you, thanks. We have 15 minutes

:29:27.:29:29.

before the men take to the water. We are beginning the countdown. We have

:29:30.:29:35.

a Commonwealth medallist alongside us alongside Vicky Holland. Jodie,

:29:36.:29:42.

what are your thoughts on that race. Flora Duffy was in brilliant form?

:29:43.:29:46.

She was amazing today. She shows why she is the current world champion. I

:29:47.:29:52.

think past the swim, dominating the bike. It was great to see her run

:29:53.:29:55.

your potential. non-Stanford there could have been

:29:56.:30:03.

up to nine British girls of online today. The likes of you, Helen

:30:04.:30:08.

Jenkins, Taylor-Brown was injured just before the race. The strength

:30:09.:30:13.

and breadth is incredible, seven guys in the British team taking to

:30:14.:30:16.

the line for the men's race coming up. It is phenomenal. We do have

:30:17.:30:23.

good strength and breadth in British triathlon, which sets us apart. We

:30:24.:30:27.

have it in both the male and female sites. It is fantastic for us,

:30:28.:30:34.

especially with the announcement the relay is going into the Olympics.

:30:35.:30:38.

What about that announcement because you may or may not have heard on

:30:39.:30:43.

Friday in the triathlon world the shocks were felt around the globe,

:30:44.:30:48.

that the IOC have decided there will be a mixed triathlon relay at

:30:49.:30:56.

Tokyo's 2020 games. It was huge news, wasn't it? Yes, going into the

:30:57.:31:02.

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow I definitely think I was more nervous

:31:03.:31:06.

for the relay, mainly because we were in the team with Alistair and

:31:07.:31:12.

Jonny, but it is such an exciting race. The smallest mistake makes a

:31:13.:31:18.

huge difference. It's great to go triathlon in this way and it's

:31:19.:31:23.

exciting to get triathlon into the Olympics twice. It's another medal

:31:24.:31:26.

opportunity for Great Britain as well because not only is it a good

:31:27.:31:30.

thing for the spectators, but also for Great Britain Commonwealth

:31:31.:31:40.

champions, and so much of the talent in there. Yes, it's fantastic that

:31:41.:31:47.

it's into the Olympics. As you said, a ridiculously good spectator event,

:31:48.:31:52.

the best one I think there is in triathlon, but on top of that we

:31:53.:31:55.

have a really good shot with the relay. We will be fighting for our

:31:56.:32:00.

places in the team. And a great way to showcase that would be in

:32:01.:32:05.

Nottingham in a couple of months, in September we will see that, both

:32:06.:32:17.

hoping to be there? Yes, no injuries, we will be there.

:32:18.:32:21.

Currently training in Loughborough, it is so close to Nottingham, it

:32:22.:32:27.

will be fantastic for Great Britain to get so many people there and

:32:28.:32:30.

hosting such a big event in Nottingham. It is fantastic. We have

:32:31.:32:36.

Leeds, what a great event this was, and Nottingham to have another one.

:32:37.:32:41.

And with that news from the IOC, we would expect more international

:32:42.:32:45.

teams to come through, we expect the USA to be there. Yes, last year

:32:46.:32:50.

because of the build-up to the Olympic Games we didn't have a

:32:51.:32:54.

strong team as we would often have because none of the Olympic athletes

:32:55.:32:59.

went to Hamburg. We will forgive the Americans for winning last year but

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weak won the year before that! We are hoping to give them a run for

:33:05.:33:09.

their money and we have such strong male and female teams I think we can

:33:10.:33:14.

do the business in Tokyo. We have a hamburger triathlon still to come in

:33:15.:33:17.

a month and the mixed triathlon cuts in Nottingham. So much to look

:33:18.:33:22.

forward to. Let's talk about what we saw yesterday because it has been a

:33:23.:33:27.

festival of triathlon weekend. Paratriathlon made its Olympic debut

:33:28.:33:33.

in Rio last year, and Annie has been finding out if we could see the next

:33:34.:33:41.

generation of Paralympic medallists. I am Claire Cashmore, and I made the

:33:42.:33:48.

switch after Rio into paratriathlon. I try to make it look like I know

:33:49.:33:54.

what I'm doing! Triathlon is a sport I always wanted to try, so what

:33:55.:33:58.

better way, my second race and I'm slightly nervous but it should be

:33:59.:34:04.

fine. How do you manage transitions? At the moment it is come in, through

:34:05.:34:10.

everything on and go. I am Sophie and I've been doing triathlon for

:34:11.:34:15.

about a year. My sister used to raise triathlon as well and she was

:34:16.:34:20.

the motivation I needed. Once I did it, I never looked back. It's my

:34:21.:34:28.

dad's job to take off my wet suit, get me onto the bike, get me into my

:34:29.:34:33.

chair. Because he's my dad he can throw me bit and it doesn't matter

:34:34.:34:38.

if we kick each other, although I am small so not too heavy to throw

:34:39.:34:40.

around! So they are off on the swim, it is

:34:41.:34:55.

400 metres, the water is a bit chilly at 16.5 degrees but hopefully

:34:56.:34:58.

they will have a chance to warm up before they get out on the bikes.

:34:59.:35:14.

Claire has had a really great bike, she's just got 2.2 kilometres on the

:35:15.:35:23.

run. Very shortly we will be seeing Sophie coming down the hill and

:35:24.:35:40.

entering T2. Go on, Sophie! Did you enjoy it, Sophie? Yes, I did, it was

:35:41.:35:45.

starting to hurt on the push coming to the finish but other than that I

:35:46.:35:49.

love being out racing, I love seeing what I can do. It was a good day, I

:35:50.:35:54.

enjoyed it. Claire, you were so speedy we missed you on the finish.

:35:55.:35:59.

We have seen you at full Paralympics as a slimmer, will we see you in

:36:00.:36:06.

Tokyo as a triathlete? Right now I am very much in the learning stages,

:36:07.:36:10.

but we will see what happens. Good luck, I've got a feeling you will

:36:11.:36:18.

enjoy it. Thank you. And so many people enjoying the sport of

:36:19.:36:21.

triathlon over the weekend. Early this morning hundreds took to the

:36:22.:36:26.

streets on this course, making their way up the blue carpet. You don't

:36:27.:36:30.

have to be a Brownlee to enjoy the feeling of going over the finish

:36:31.:36:34.

line. Louise has been catching up with some of those runners. It

:36:35.:36:38.

really is like a triathlon Festival. We have just seen the Brownlee

:36:39.:36:43.

Brothers, I saw Jonathan anyway having a quick swim. Who have you

:36:44.:36:54.

come to see? The Brownlees. So many people taking part of different age

:36:55.:36:57.

groups and triathlon is a growing sport. I love this sport, let's

:36:58.:37:03.

speak to some other people involved. Jane, Peter and Carolyn, you did

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your first triathlon yesterday, how do you feel? Massive sense of

:37:10.:37:13.

achievement, I loved it. You were nervous about the water, how was it?

:37:14.:37:19.

It was scary, I was terrified of everything you can think of but the

:37:20.:37:25.

support staff were fantastic and they got me around, shouting

:37:26.:37:30.

encouragement. Peter, you did it on your 60... 65th birthday so I was a

:37:31.:37:37.

pensioner. I have been meaning to do it a long time and I finally got

:37:38.:37:42.

round. I was a bit frightened about the swim. I was last out of the lake

:37:43.:37:47.

but I completed the circuit and I've not done any competitive cycling

:37:48.:37:51.

since I was delivering newspapers probably! But I was OK on the bike

:37:52.:37:58.

and knew I would be OK on the road. I can see how it is one of Britain's

:37:59.:38:01.

fastest-growing sports. Are you going to it again? Yes, quite

:38:02.:38:08.

addictive. I will definitely do it again, yes. Age is a good thing in

:38:09.:38:15.

triathlon, isn't it? You took up the sport just a few years ago. When I

:38:16.:38:23.

was 59. The Brownlees did a triathlon at Fountains Abbey and I

:38:24.:38:27.

thought I would have a go. I really liked it so I joined British

:38:28.:38:32.

triathlon, got involved, joined Harrogate triathlon club who taught

:38:33.:38:37.

me how to swim, badly, and it's been fantastic so I do quite a bit now

:38:38.:38:42.

really. You are really underselling yourself here. Fellow age-group, you

:38:43.:38:56.

are in Team GB. I am, yes. I do duathlon as well, which doesn't

:38:57.:39:01.

involve the swimming. I'm going in Canada in August to do that. You won

:39:02.:39:10.

the race today in your age-group? I won my age-group, yes. This is what

:39:11.:39:15.

I love about triathletes, so modest! We are looking forward to the race,

:39:16.:39:23.

and sweet? Yes, we are. The rallying cry! So many people

:39:24.:39:27.

have told me I have to get involved in the sport. I have been covering

:39:28.:39:31.

it for a couple of years, and to see the enjoyment on people's faces...

:39:32.:39:36.

It is between triathlon and dams and at the moment I am split. If you

:39:37.:39:41.

want to get involved, you can go the BBC website. Give it a go. From the

:39:42.:39:48.

grass roots of the best in the business, and as we continue the

:39:49.:39:51.

build-up to the men's race so many people will be looking forward to

:39:52.:39:55.

seeing the Brownlee brothers in action. They really are the poster

:39:56.:39:59.

boys of the sport, but someone we don't know so much about is the

:40:00.:40:05.

long-term coach Malcolm Brown. The man behind them is due to retire at

:40:06.:40:09.

the end of this year, and when he does it will be a really sad day

:40:10.:40:12.

because between the three of them they have so much history.

:40:13.:40:21.

# We have come a long, long way together

:40:22.:40:23.

# Through the hard times and the good

:40:24.:40:26.

# I have to celebrate... You need that wise owl on your

:40:27.:40:36.

shoulder. There will be times I would turn up and it would be cold

:40:37.:40:40.

and wet and Leeds United would be playing on the Tuesday night and I

:40:41.:40:45.

would much rather be there. Sometimes was a devout holding them

:40:46.:40:52.

back as much as pushing them? -- it about holding them back? It was very

:40:53.:40:58.

much about that. They are used to challenging themselves in training.

:40:59.:41:06.

On a weekly basis. First of the collapses! I remember feeling really

:41:07.:41:12.

rough the whole race, then everything went blank. Jonny, this

:41:13.:41:17.

is a big day for you, then Alistair Nix all the attention! I crossed the

:41:18.:41:22.

finishing line and I was happiest I have been in my career so far but no

:41:23.:41:27.

one really cared, it was all about how is Alistair. It's interesting,

:41:28.:41:30.

he didn't try to carry you across the line! Yes, I have pointed this

:41:31.:41:38.

out on numerous occasions! He comes out with varying excuses. It makes

:41:39.:41:42.

me feel like the better human being really. Jonny was in that position

:41:43.:41:46.

and he didn't take that action, and I did! By the time I arrived, I was

:41:47.:41:55.

in the best possible shape I could be in. I could stand on that start

:41:56.:41:59.

line and go, someone is going to have to do something a lot better

:42:00.:42:03.

than they've ever done before to beat me. In the race, Gomez probably

:42:04.:42:10.

have the best race of his career as well. Alistair Brownlee is the

:42:11.:42:15.

Olympic triathlon champion. When I crossed the line, I knew I was

:42:16.:42:21.

third. That's the most honest time, when you cross the finish line, and

:42:22.:42:29.

I'm happy. Did you watch it? No, I didn't, Jonny spoil that! Jonny

:42:30.:42:36.

heads for the penalty box... I had to go into the bowels of the stadium

:42:37.:42:40.

and asked the technical guides to see a replay of Jonny's alleged foul

:42:41.:42:45.

and I spent the rest of the race underneath the stand watching on a

:42:46.:42:50.

monitor that was this big! But my main feeling was these guys have

:42:51.:42:55.

done everything possible they deserved on the day to get what they

:42:56.:42:59.

got, and if they did that, they would get medals and that's exactly

:43:00.:43:06.

what happened. About halfway through the bike, I was thinking this is

:43:07.:43:11.

going absolutely perfect for us, then I made a big mistake and said

:43:12.:43:17.

to Alistair, just relax. He decided to drop me, I forgot how ruthless he

:43:18.:43:26.

can be. Sometimes people compete and don't get what they deserve for some

:43:27.:43:30.

reason, these guys got what they deserve on the day and I'm just

:43:31.:43:38.

happy for them. We have got to talk about this, sorry Jonny!

:43:39.:43:47.

COMMENTATOR: This is a horrible sight, and Alistair will carry Jonny

:43:48.:43:54.

home. I watched it live, turned my television and phone on. I didn't

:43:55.:43:57.

realise this was going to be a massive incident in not only

:43:58.:44:06.

triathlon but in sport. For all this stuff about Alistair looking after

:44:07.:44:10.

you, when he gets you to the line he doesn't lay you over it, he shoves

:44:11.:44:18.

you over it! He had done his bit, I think it was annoyed with me really!

:44:19.:44:22.

At the same time I was upset because it's not the way you want to finish

:44:23.:44:28.

the season or the race. Brownlee centre. It's definitely one of the

:44:29.:44:39.

major legacies. At some point when the racing is done, I will sit down

:44:40.:44:45.

and think about this thing and think that is incredible. Malcolm, how

:44:46.:44:49.

much will you miss these two? It's been a privilege to be part of team

:44:50.:44:54.

Brownlee and hopefully they have learned some things from me as well.

:44:55.:44:59.

If it were anywhere else apart from Yorkshire, I would expect you to be

:45:00.:45:06.

hugging... We will go for fish and chips!

:45:07.:45:11.

There will not be a dry eye in the house when those three break-up.

:45:12.:45:18.

Let's go to transition on and the start. Louise is with the guys as

:45:19.:45:21.

they get ready. We are in transition. This is Tom

:45:22.:45:26.

Bishop's bike. The Brownlees would normally be up here, but they are

:45:27.:45:32.

not today. They are used to being on an two. We're leaving it behind. How

:45:33.:45:35.

will it affect them? They're going to be in the middle of transition.

:45:36.:45:38.

They will grab their bikes and run out when there is a flaw of bikes

:45:39.:45:52.

coming towards them. They will not be used to that. We have made it.

:45:53.:45:56.

Hi, Jonny, how are you doing? I am nervous but looking forward to it. I

:45:57.:45:59.

saw you practising the hill. What do you think? It went well in practice,

:46:00.:46:01.

but in the race, the adrenaline is going. Hopefully it will go well. It

:46:02.:46:06.

could be useful to you two? Hopefully. What are you doing? And

:46:07.:46:10.

making sure the elastic bands on my shoes. You jump on and they should

:46:11.:46:15.

stay flat. You make sure the helmet is here, you come out of the swim

:46:16.:46:20.

and put it on straightaway. Are you doing, Alistair? I do not want to

:46:21.:46:25.

disturb you too much. I am OK. I am nervous about getting my bike

:46:26.:46:32.

cleanly. Are you going to practice? No. I love the confidence. What is

:46:33.:46:36.

it like, racing in your hometown? It is always brilliant race in Leeds.

:46:37.:46:41.

It was fantastic last year. I am looking forward to seeing the people

:46:42.:46:46.

on the side of the course. You will not be waving? I will be

:46:47.:46:49.

concentrating and focused. You have so many fans. I know they can do

:46:50.:46:54.

something special for you. What will it be like on the streets of Leeds,

:46:55.:46:56.

everybody? CHEERING

:46:57.:47:00.

Have a great race. Thank you. I do not know crowds, but

:47:01.:47:05.

I think that sounds like they are looking forward to it. We have the

:47:06.:47:09.

performance director of British triathlon with us, and a two-time

:47:10.:47:13.

world champion as well. Before we talk about the Brownlee Brothers,

:47:14.:47:16.

how much we're looking forward to this and what they did last year,

:47:17.:47:19.

let's talk about the influence of Malcolm Brown. He has been the

:47:20.:47:24.

driving force for those two from such a young age. It is hard to

:47:25.:47:28.

quantify how much of a driving force. He has been there the whole

:47:29.:47:33.

journey. It is immense. He has been on the journey and we are much

:47:34.:47:37.

better for having him with us. You do not want to take all the credit,

:47:38.:47:42.

but you convinced him to come full-time to British triathlon. When

:47:43.:47:46.

I started in 2013, he was part-time with us, coaching with the boys and

:47:47.:47:51.

doing some facilitation. I thought we needed him full-time. His

:47:52.:47:55.

knowledge, his experience and wisdom in endurance sport. It is second to

:47:56.:48:02.

none. I wanted more of that. We can see the influence. The World

:48:03.:48:06.

Championships, the Olympic titles, they are all part of the

:48:07.:48:11.

achievements. Looking at the guys and their legacy, the triathlon

:48:12.:48:15.

centre, the ?5 million centre, that is part of his legacy as well?

:48:16.:48:21.

Something he will relish when he does hang up his boots and see the

:48:22.:48:27.

young, new Brownlees coming in. Yes, one of the things I want to do in

:48:28.:48:31.

the performance programme is keep that knowledge alive. We would not

:48:32.:48:34.

be where we are without the influence of Malcolm. From the

:48:35.:48:40.

top-down, Malcolm has an influence. Not just for the boys, but British

:48:41.:48:45.

triathlon as well. He has been around for years. It is lovely to

:48:46.:48:49.

have him there. He is a mentor to many of the athletes and Leeds. I am

:48:50.:48:55.

not based on Leeds but he has attained word for everyone, and I

:48:56.:48:59.

know could go to him with a problem. He would help. He will be a loss to

:49:00.:49:04.

British triathlon. He is not really going to go, is the? He has the

:49:05.:49:08.

running track in his bedroom. That is where he lives and breathes. I

:49:09.:49:13.

will want to come here and have my copy with him. I always learn

:49:14.:49:18.

something, I am challenged to do it better. He gives me advice. He

:49:19.:49:21.

always has knowledge somewhere up his sleeve. Let's talk about the

:49:22.:49:28.

Brownlee brothers. It is the first time and the only time for Alistair

:49:29.:49:34.

in our World Series triathlon race. He has been concentrating on the

:49:35.:49:39.

middle distance? It is his first Olympic distance race in the Olympic

:49:40.:49:43.

Games last year. He is enjoying a different race format. But he loves

:49:44.:49:47.

the head-to-head. He's looking forward that. What about Jonny? He

:49:48.:49:52.

has not beaten his brother too many times but he has experience of a

:49:53.:49:57.

race in the series already. Yokohama did not go as he would have liked a

:49:58.:50:01.

couple of weeks ago. With this atmosphere, against his brother, the

:50:02.:50:06.

rivalry is setup? It is setup and Jonny will have fire after the crash

:50:07.:50:11.

in Yokohama. I'm sure that beating Alistair would be a good point to

:50:12.:50:15.

prove. They are making their way down to the water. Let's look at the

:50:16.:50:21.

standings. Some of the top men are not here. Two Spaniards. Fernando

:50:22.:50:27.

Alarza has a chance to take over the title in this series rankings. He

:50:28.:50:31.

has had a fourth, third and second place. Could it be first day? The

:50:32.:50:35.

Brownlee brothers will have something to say about that. Tom

:50:36.:50:40.

Bishop is the only British competitor with a podium, he got

:50:41.:50:48.

that in Abu Dhabi. Lots of talent on the start line. Magilton will talk

:50:49.:50:54.

us through this one. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

:50:55.:51:00.

back to Roundhay Park. The Waterloo Lake is kalamansi reign as the final

:51:01.:51:08.

countdown gets under way. -- calm and serene. 47 of the world's top

:51:09.:51:16.

triathletes lined up and diving into the water in Roundhay Park. 37

:51:17.:51:21.

acres, one of the largest city parks in Europe. We had a smaller field

:51:22.:51:27.

for the women. A much larger group of triathletes taking part. It will

:51:28.:51:31.

be key for the British triathletes, who all want to do well, not just

:51:32.:51:36.

the Brownlee brothers. Tom Bishop, Grant Sheldon, they all want to

:51:37.:51:45.

perform well. They will all be jostling for position. Gordon

:51:46.:51:53.

Benson. Watching this race are the gold and silver medallists, the

:51:54.:51:58.

medallist from the Olympic competition in Rio de Janeiro, it is

:51:59.:52:03.

time to say hello to Vicky Holland. Good afternoon. It is nice to be

:52:04.:52:06.

here and be my favourite hobby, talking about triathlon. Good to

:52:07.:52:12.

have you here. Annie Emmerson is back as well. We have a couple of

:52:13.:52:17.

distinct groups forming. It is going to be a strong swim. We have got a

:52:18.:52:24.

very interesting field. Not massive, but in terms of great swimmers in

:52:25.:52:29.

the sport, we have the likes of the Brownlee brothers, Henri Schoeman

:52:30.:52:32.

from South Africa and the French are back in force. We have not seen them

:52:33.:52:37.

racing so far this season in any of the three World Series races that

:52:38.:52:42.

have taken place. Aurelien Raphael is back. He had a fantastic race

:52:43.:52:49.

last year when he took off with the Brownlee brothers. And we have Royle

:52:50.:52:54.

from Australia. And we have Richard Varga. In the past, the Brownlee

:52:55.:52:58.

brothers have trained with Varga. He used to train in Leeds. I expect to

:52:59.:53:04.

see a breakaway something like that happening. I cannot believe we will

:53:05.:53:08.

not seeking tactics. Although richer does not leave -- does not live in

:53:09.:53:15.

Leeds any more, he is close to Alistair and Jonny. This is his

:53:16.:53:19.

second home. He stays with friends. He has a really nice setup. He wants

:53:20.:53:25.

to push for a strong result today. He did a 70.3 back at home last

:53:26.:53:30.

weekend. He did a long race last weekend but speaking to him in the

:53:31.:53:33.

last couple of days, he says he has recovered well. He thinks that a

:53:34.:53:39.

course like the course in Leeds, with the start list that there is,

:53:40.:53:45.

Alistair and Jonny, other strong athletes in the swim and on the

:53:46.:53:49.

bike, it is a transfer him to have a strong result. Interesting that he

:53:50.:53:54.

chose to the long-distance race last weekend. It is a short amount of

:53:55.:53:59.

time. Eight days to recover. It was one of his first times racing the

:54:00.:54:03.

middle distance race. I wonder how he will do in the middle distance

:54:04.:54:08.

course. Lots of women suffer today. This course is deceptive. There are

:54:09.:54:13.

no great hills, but you have the difficult hell out of the swim. It

:54:14.:54:18.

sorts them out from the word go. You have the flat bit rolling into

:54:19.:54:23.

thyme, and the criterium style course, coming into thyme. Seven

:54:24.:54:30.

loops of 3.6 km. Last June I felt it was the hardest course I to do. On

:54:31.:54:37.

paper, I could not work out what the reason for that was. Alistair and

:54:38.:54:41.

Jonny helped to design the course we should not be surprised it is

:54:42.:54:46.

difficult. They dragged out of the wine is deceptive. The loop in the

:54:47.:54:51.

town centre is not only technical, but there are hills involved. There

:54:52.:54:55.

is a long drag the transition. Even the transition is on a hill. There

:54:56.:55:01.

is no time when you can recover. You always have to work. Going back to

:55:02.:55:07.

how Richard will do, he says he feels recovered, he says he feels

:55:08.:55:11.

good, but I do not think he will know until he gets out there on the

:55:12.:55:16.

bike, when the run. That will be key. Absolutely. Looking at the swim

:55:17.:55:21.

at the moment, they are taking it hard. They are pretty much together

:55:22.:55:27.

but this is the early stages. We will be able to see the leak -- the

:55:28.:55:34.

red swimmer in a moment. Vigurs Richard Varga. It is indeed. It is

:55:35.:55:42.

not. I think it is Raoul Shaw. He is a very strong swimmer. He has not

:55:43.:55:46.

done much of the World Series. Richard Varga is in second. Number

:55:47.:55:53.

14. Yes, Raoul Shaw, he has done lots of racing in France. He is

:55:54.:55:58.

always a lead outswinger. I am not sure if this is his first World

:55:59.:56:01.

Series. He has not done a massive amount. I am not surprised to see

:56:02.:56:08.

him up there. He is phenomenal. They have redesigned the swim caps to

:56:09.:56:13.

make them easier to spot for the spectators and the media. They have

:56:14.:56:16.

giant numbers on them. It does not solve the problem but it is better

:56:17.:56:21.

than it was. We can usually guess that Richard Varga will be near the

:56:22.:56:25.

front and so years. And Raoul Shaw, he is there. I Aurelien Raphael

:56:26.:56:30.

wears number 30. You should not be far away. We also expect Henri

:56:31.:56:36.

Schoeman to be near the front of the field. Yes, he is a strong swimmer,

:56:37.:56:42.

always there or thereabouts. Leading it out. He has raced hard, winning

:56:43.:56:47.

number two. He was second in a World Cup race a few weeks ago. He has had

:56:48.:56:54.

a solid start to the year. He won the bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro.

:56:55.:56:57.

He won the infamous race, the grand final. He was on the top of the

:56:58.:57:03.

podium there, but he would like a World Series podium in Leeds. He was

:57:04.:57:11.

fourth in Yokohama, second in Cagliari, and eighth in Cape Town on

:57:12.:57:19.

the Gold Coast, eighth in the Gold Coast and second in Cape Town. He

:57:20.:57:22.

would like to be on the podium today. He had the bronze medal in

:57:23.:57:27.

Rio de Janeiro. For many people he was a surprise medallist. At that

:57:28.:57:31.

time, he had not had a World Series podium at all. He had a strong

:57:32.:57:36.

performer with lots of top fives and top tens, but he had no big

:57:37.:57:41.

performances. To have your first-ever podium at the Olympics is

:57:42.:57:44.

special. Definitely the place to do it. Since then, he had the great

:57:45.:57:50.

performance in the grand final, where perversely he benefited from

:57:51.:57:54.

the downfall of Alistair and Jonny. Since then, it has been his only

:57:55.:57:59.

World Series podium. He would like to do it in circumstances where he

:58:00.:58:02.

is not benefiting from the failure of anywhere else. Numbers to look

:58:03.:58:08.

for, Jonathan Brownlee, 26, he is near the front, older brother

:58:09.:58:13.

Alistair has 28. If you're watching in high definition on a 40 inch flat

:58:14.:58:18.

screen at home, you might get a better view than we do. The Brownlee

:58:19.:58:21.

brothers, certainly half of the Brownlee brothers, near the front.

:58:22.:58:26.

Jonny making the better start, but Raoul Shaw, 44, has clear water

:58:27.:58:34.

ahead. He has an effortless looking stroke. They have two laps to swim.

:58:35.:58:41.

They will exit the water at the end of the first lap. The ramp will take

:58:42.:58:45.

them back onto the pontoon and they will dive back into start the second

:58:46.:58:50.

lap. We will get a full check on the runners at that stage. Look at the

:58:51.:58:55.

crowds in Roundhay Park. Hundreds enjoying this one. The population of

:58:56.:59:00.

Leeds is half a million. With the numbers we have in the park and the

:59:01.:59:04.

city, half of them are watching the race today. We approach the end of

:59:05.:59:10.

the first lap. It will be the Frenchman Raoul Shaw, 44, first to

:59:11.:59:14.

claim the ramp. Richard Varga will not be far behind. Jonathan Brownlee

:59:15.:59:20.

is with the leaders as well. We will get the full check.

:59:21.:59:25.

Pierre Le Corre is a good swimmer. Then Drew Box. Peter Denteneer from

:59:26.:59:34.

Belgium. Alistair Brownlee is eight seconds away from the frontrunners.

:59:35.:59:40.

David Luis of Portugal. Henri Schoeman is further behind than he

:59:41.:59:45.

might have liked. Mark Austin in 17th position. Tom Bishop within 15

:59:46.:59:52.

seconds of the lead. That just about accounts for most, if not all of the

:59:53.:59:56.

British entrants. Gordon Benson coming through in 20 seconds -- 20

:59:57.:59:59.

seconds off the pace. The group hasn't really split that

:00:00.:00:11.

much. It has got to be a career-best swim for Adam Bowden coming out in

:00:12.:00:15.

front of Alistair, and only about seven seconds down on the lead so if

:00:16.:00:26.

he can hold together for the second lap it really sets up his race. He's

:00:27.:00:29.

had some really good results in the World Series and his often

:00:30.:00:33.

overlooked when the -- with the other superstars in the team, but it

:00:34.:00:38.

will be a great result for him if he can stay in that pack and run from

:00:39.:00:46.

there. Adam Bowden has had about eight or nine top ten performances,

:00:47.:00:50.

and a career-best finish last year when he finished ninth overall in

:00:51.:00:56.

the series. He's in his twilight years but when he's strong, he's

:00:57.:01:02.

really strong. He had a fifth... No seventh place finish last year in

:01:03.:01:07.

Leeds. He likes racing here, he knows the area well and I expect a

:01:08.:01:12.

good performance from him. Henri Schoeman a bit down, he was about 15

:01:13.:01:17.

seconds down, but this is a tough swim here today, isn't it? Yes, and

:01:18.:01:23.

a little bit mixed up almost. You wouldn't have expected some of the

:01:24.:01:27.

people to come out the water so high to do so. We will see some of the

:01:28.:01:33.

stronger swimmers like Henri Schoeman, who hasn't had such a good

:01:34.:01:37.

first lap, I wouldn't be surprised to see him make up some ground on

:01:38.:01:41.

the second lap because in his own head he will back himself. I

:01:42.:01:45.

wouldn't be surprised to see someone like that move their way through the

:01:46.:01:50.

field. From a British perspective, I hope we see those guys having solid

:01:51.:01:54.

swims at the moment hold back together on the second lap and put

:01:55.:01:57.

themselves in a strong position for the rest of the race. 500 metres to

:01:58.:02:05.

swim before they will pick up their bikes and immediately negotiate one

:02:06.:02:09.

of the toughest starts to triathlon bike event we have seen, straight

:02:10.:02:18.

uphill and out of the pack. It is a 12.3 kilometre ride down, up into

:02:19.:02:34.

Roundhay, then they will ride 7 3.76 kilometre loops around the city

:02:35.:02:41.

before concluding with a ten K run. We had both the Brownlee brothers up

:02:42.:02:46.

near the leaders, and Adam Bowden is right up there as well. None of the

:02:47.:02:52.

British seven - we have seven British men starting the race today

:02:53.:02:57.

and they have all made a positive start to this World Triathlon Series

:02:58.:03:01.

race. I think the thing to be said about this swim is it doesn't really

:03:02.:03:06.

end with the swim because there is almost like an extra part when you

:03:07.:03:11.

get to the top of the hill. We saw in the women's race it was broken up

:03:12.:03:15.

really on coming out of the swim, then going up the hill, but looking

:03:16.:03:20.

back to last year we had the same thing happen. The Brownlee brothers

:03:21.:03:24.

broke away really early. I think these guys are bit more wise to

:03:25.:03:28.

that, they will have been practising the transition which is really

:03:29.:03:33.

crucial in this race. This course almost has four phases it is swim,

:03:34.:03:39.

end of the swim through T1, up the hill and out of Roundhay Park, then

:03:40.:03:49.

the run. It is make or break, and last year it proved vital in both

:03:50.:03:55.

races. It definitely caught me out last year, I didn't have a good

:03:56.:04:02.

transition and lost the front of the pack. I think they will be a lot of

:04:03.:04:07.

people with that in mind. If they will have been people with any sense

:04:08.:04:12.

they will have been checking out this year, looking at what they will

:04:13.:04:20.

have to do. But the flip side is if you have someone like an Alistair or

:04:21.:04:25.

Jonny, if they go for it up the hill, what can you do? If you are

:04:26.:04:30.

not strong enough, it could be a problem. For people who haven't seen

:04:31.:04:37.

the transition, the hill literally comes as you step foot out of the

:04:38.:04:42.

transition. You don't get chance to get your breath back, it is straight

:04:43.:04:46.

up the hill. Let's go down Waterside.

:04:47.:04:54.

I'm standing here with Mark and I want to ask, how are the Brownlee

:04:55.:04:58.

brothers so good at the swimming? They just always deliver on race

:04:59.:05:03.

day. They have a skill, they improve the level when it comes to the

:05:04.:05:07.

important part and they always manage to find each other. We saw

:05:08.:05:12.

Jonny come out in second, but Alistair has some work to do today

:05:13.:05:16.

which we don't normally see. How do they find each other? I don't know,

:05:17.:05:24.

they must love each other so much, I have no idea how they do it but they

:05:25.:05:31.

are incredibly skilled at the race craft. And this is a fantastic

:05:32.:05:38.

setting. Yes, a beautiful setting. This second part has really made an

:05:39.:05:43.

impact on the race. OK, thank you. 150 metres to go and

:05:44.:05:50.

Richard Varga has surged to the front of the field. A regular

:05:51.:05:54.

training partner of the Brownlee brothers. He has based himself back

:05:55.:05:59.

in his home country of Slovakia and he likes to return and the Brownlee

:06:00.:06:03.

brothers will be happy to have him along in the first stage of the

:06:04.:06:08.

triathlon. They certainly will, let's hope Alistair is up there as

:06:09.:06:13.

well. He has turned his hand to the slightly long-distance racing.

:06:14.:06:17.

Unfortunately last week he wasn't feeling so great and dropped out but

:06:18.:06:21.

that might work in his favour because he might find himself a bit

:06:22.:06:25.

fresher coming into this race and he will need some good bike legs on

:06:26.:06:32.

him. Yes, it will be interesting to see how he pulls up from last week.

:06:33.:06:37.

He was racing in the same middle distance race Richard Varga was

:06:38.:06:40.

doing in Slovakia and was actually in the lead, no surprise there, and

:06:41.:06:47.

as he came off the bike he seemed to lose his legs. He really struggled

:06:48.:06:52.

in the first part of the run. But Alistair, we are used to seeing him

:06:53.:06:57.

run fluidly and fast and looking in control, and he just wasn't. He did

:06:58.:07:04.

pull out of the race midway through, what was a half marathon at the end

:07:05.:07:08.

of it. So hopefully he has reserved himself a little bit and might be

:07:09.:07:12.

feeling fresher than he would otherwise have been for today.

:07:13.:07:16.

Something obviously happened to him in that race, it wasn't the Alistair

:07:17.:07:22.

Brownlee we all know so well. He said he felt terrible from the first

:07:23.:07:27.

stroke, his legs just went as soon as he got off the bike so from a

:07:28.:07:32.

British perspective we are all hoping to see the Alistair Brownlee

:07:33.:07:36.

that can deliver spectacular performances. Here they come, stage

:07:37.:07:41.

one complete. Richard Varga first to make his way towards the bikes,

:07:42.:07:46.

closely followed by his former training partner Jonny Brownlee.

:07:47.:07:58.

Then Shaw, Le Corre. Schumann is there or thereabouts. Then there is

:07:59.:08:09.

a gap, the first group of 21 which includes Tom Bishop, separated by

:08:10.:08:12.

about 20 seconds, then a further break. So we have lots of British

:08:13.:08:17.

interest. We could have a decent sized group, but it will all unfold

:08:18.:08:27.

shortly. Who will be able to make a decisive break early on? Jonny

:08:28.:08:32.

Brownlee arrives at his allotted space, multitasking as he steps out

:08:33.:08:37.

of his wet suit and puts on his bike helmet. His older brother alongside,

:08:38.:08:43.

just a fraction behind. Picks up his bike, and there is a stumble from

:08:44.:08:52.

Adam Bowden. Le Corre, first to get on board, and away they go. This is

:08:53.:08:58.

looking a much larger group than it was this time last year, but

:08:59.:09:03.

straightaway look at them go. Look at the speed they are putting in up

:09:04.:09:07.

the hill. It's interesting, they are choosing to put their feet in

:09:08.:09:12.

because none of the girls did that but Jonny has put his feet in and

:09:13.:09:15.

now he's really going up this hill and splitting the pack. It's so

:09:16.:09:23.

exciting this part of the race, because it is like the fourth

:09:24.:09:27.

section of the race. Normally you see them coming out altogether,

:09:28.:09:30.

hundreds together, but we have the four athletes together. We have Le

:09:31.:09:49.

Corre and Raphael. This could be a serious working quartet. Absolutely,

:09:50.:09:53.

great start from the Brownlee brothers. If anyone questioned

:09:54.:09:56.

whether Alistair would bring his swim arms, he has proved today it

:09:57.:10:03.

was a few seconds down on the first lap, he came out of the water

:10:04.:10:09.

virtually in a top five position. He knows this position, it's like a

:10:10.:10:15.

touch of deja vu because they found themselves in the same place last

:10:16.:10:27.

year. Raphael And the Brownlee brothers away there, and that is

:10:28.:10:32.

what they did last year. The only substitute is that we have Le Corre

:10:33.:10:46.

in that group instead of Royle, as we had last year. So to recap we

:10:47.:10:54.

have Alistair Brownlee, Jonny Brownlee, Aurelien Raphael... At the

:10:55.:11:04.

front we have four Pierre Le Corre... These two have got out of

:11:05.:11:11.

the park and they are continuing their descent, the 12 K ride back

:11:12.:11:21.

down to the city centre. Together they can do some serious damage. A

:11:22.:11:33.

group of four opened up... These guys have got to be very brave. They

:11:34.:11:38.

have got to work incredibly hard with the Brownlee brothers. Probably

:11:39.:11:42.

quite daunting to be with the Brownlee brothers because they have

:11:43.:11:46.

so much riding on them, the Brownlee brothers, and I think they are

:11:47.:11:49.

absolutely hammering now. They have Pierre Le Corre, a former under 23

:11:50.:11:57.

world champion. He's been in the sport for a roundabout seven years

:11:58.:12:03.

now so Pierre Le Corre is a very strong athlete as well. This is a

:12:04.:12:08.

very good quartet. He is also a strong runner so somebody they

:12:09.:12:11.

wouldn't necessarily have wanted in the group because he poses a threat

:12:12.:12:16.

when it comes to the run. That said he is not necessarily the same

:12:17.:12:19.

standard Jonny and Alistair have been when at the best so it will be

:12:20.:12:25.

interesting to see how Alistair and Jonny perform when they get to the

:12:26.:12:29.

run but we have a long time before that happens. It seems like a

:12:30.:12:33.

massive gap has opened up straightaway, there is no one else

:12:34.:12:39.

in sight. This is very familiar. This is exactly what we saw in the

:12:40.:12:43.

women's competition with each Duffy group steaming away as they went out

:12:44.:12:48.

of the suburb of Roundhay before making their way to the city centre.

:12:49.:12:53.

They have done some serious damage, the Brownlee brothers and the two

:12:54.:12:58.

French riders, and away they go. How long can they keep this up? This is

:12:59.:13:04.

the chasing group, Henri Schoeman out in front. Is that Kristian

:13:05.:13:08.

Blummenfelt? The Norwegian, he's a good triathlete. They are only just

:13:09.:13:17.

coming past that parade of shops that the Brownlee group passed

:13:18.:13:23.

around 30 seconds ago. I'm eagerly awaiting our first time check to see

:13:24.:13:30.

how much time they have put in. That aerial info was good because it

:13:31.:13:33.

showed how far back they were. But you always want to see the figures,

:13:34.:13:39.

see what the time check is, who is in the groups, and I think we all

:13:40.:13:42.

expected Alistair and Jonny would try to put some kind of break in as

:13:43.:13:47.

they have done but to see it go so dramatically, so quickly, I'm not

:13:48.:13:52.

sure anyone expected to see it go that fast. That is Luis of Portugal.

:13:53.:14:11.

Vincent Luis races for France. Tom Bishop, who is enjoying a cracking

:14:12.:14:16.

season, second in Abu Dhabi, a regular here in Leeds, trains with

:14:17.:14:22.

his university compatriots in this city. Went head-to-head with Gordon

:14:23.:14:29.

Benson to join the Brownlee brothers in Rio last August. Gordon Benson we

:14:30.:14:33.

haven't seen yet, but Tom Bishop is in this group. Great to see Tom

:14:34.:14:43.

Bishop in there. Fernando Alarza is in there too. I think the Brownlee

:14:44.:14:47.

brothers would like to stay away from him. In Abu Dhabi he actually

:14:48.:14:55.

had the fastest run, he lost 15 seconds to Mulder although he

:14:56.:15:02.

actually out run mauler. -- Mario Mola. He is in the second part. We

:15:03.:15:07.

will have to wait until about 28 kilometres to get a time check I

:15:08.:15:15.

believe, when they go over the time mats. Fernando has sought to become

:15:16.:15:23.

Mr consistent, when you take out the Olympics he's been inside the top

:15:24.:15:28.

ten in every race in nearly two years in the World Series so his a

:15:29.:15:34.

lot of podiums and that's why he's become number one in the world

:15:35.:15:39.

because he so consistent. Yes, incredible season so far. Got on the

:15:40.:15:43.

podium in the Australian race on the Gold Coast, he is the number one

:15:44.:15:48.

ranked triathlete the world. They have Alarza and Visentin. They

:15:49.:16:06.

could go on and get a couple of podiums. I would say that the

:16:07.:16:10.

Spanish are the strongest nation in the world, along with Great Britain.

:16:11.:16:13.

I was talking about the inclusion of the relay in the Olympics. Great

:16:14.:16:18.

Britain has the strongest combined team of males and females in the

:16:19.:16:23.

world. The women have the American side, the males have the Spanish,

:16:24.:16:37.

but we have strength in depth. Alistair is winning the Green camp.

:16:38.:16:41.

He is at the back of this four. Jonny Brownlee takes it up and

:16:42.:16:46.

glances around. They are keeping a close eye on Pierre Le Corre and

:16:47.:16:50.

Aurelien Raphael, who they have had for companies since they left the

:16:51.:17:00.

park. We got the time graphic a few moments ago that suggested that the

:17:01.:17:04.

chase was just 26 -- 23 seconds behind. That is not massive. It may

:17:05.:17:10.

not be accurate but these guys have to keep working. Absolutely. I am

:17:11.:17:13.

not sure how recent the time gap was, but the boys will be trying to

:17:14.:17:19.

hold the gap until they get into the inner city circuit in town. It is

:17:20.:17:24.

twisty and Turney, it favours a small group much more than a large

:17:25.:17:29.

group. It will be so much harder for the big group to reel them in. If

:17:30.:17:33.

they can hold onto the gap, when they get into the town, it will be

:17:34.:17:36.

increasingly hard for anyone to bring them back. We saw that in the

:17:37.:17:42.

women's race. That little group of four, even with the inexperience, it

:17:43.:17:46.

worked more effectively than the chase pack. On the big streets, the

:17:47.:17:53.

wider roads, long downhill sections, that favours a big group. The

:17:54.:17:57.

velocity you can get, the mass speed of the group is so much greater if

:17:58.:18:02.

you are with a big pack than a small group. However, that flips on its

:18:03.:18:09.

head when you get in the town, and you're going round sharp corners.

:18:10.:18:11.

Alistair was flying around that corner. He was trying to get a gap

:18:12.:18:15.

on his brother and the others in the pack. When they come in the town,

:18:16.:18:20.

with tight corners, things like that happen. The group spreads out and

:18:21.:18:25.

then it concertinas back together. The bigger the group, the bigger the

:18:26.:18:29.

effect. A small group is what you want going through the streets of

:18:30.:18:34.

the town. The chase pack has some incredible athletes, the likes of

:18:35.:18:40.

Alarza, the likes of Vincent Luis. They will not be giving up at this

:18:41.:18:45.

point in the race. If they can get into the town before the big group

:18:46.:18:49.

catches them, that will be significant. It will make it

:18:50.:18:53.

tougher. Lots of the girls said the wind made it pretty tough. The girls

:18:54.:18:57.

all said it was windy on the course. Once you're in the town, you're more

:18:58.:19:03.

protected. They will want to get in the town before the big group

:19:04.:19:07.

catches them. There are some big names in that big group as well.

:19:08.:19:13.

They will be thinking, if we can hold the gap to 30 seconds for the

:19:14.:19:18.

entire rides. They will get the chance of catching them and getting

:19:19.:19:24.

into the top positions. Alistair Brownlee is saying to Pierre Le

:19:25.:19:31.

Corre, what are you doing? These format -- these four are in trouble

:19:32.:19:36.

in terms of their position. It is tough, a big group hammering down

:19:37.:19:40.

the open roads. They will always make inroads when you have committed

:19:41.:19:44.

athletes. You absolutely had in the second pack. They will not want to

:19:45.:19:48.

let them go. Last year was an example of how not to do it. They

:19:49.:19:53.

let them go, the gap got massive. This year there are motivated to

:19:54.:19:57.

keep them inside. They want to get to them before it comes into the

:19:58.:20:03.

town and it becomes harder. It is Fernando Alarza, the world number

:20:04.:20:06.

one, who is leading the assault on the front group. He is pushing hard

:20:07.:20:13.

and out of the saddle. The leading group of four are slowly but surely

:20:14.:20:17.

being caught. I think they might be caught. The gap is about seven or

:20:18.:20:26.

eight seconds. They are just over halfway into the city. Yes, they are

:20:27.:20:31.

going to run out of real estate. Yes, they have a couple of

:20:32.:20:36.

kilometres, just over two before they hit the town centre. It may be

:20:37.:20:41.

in the interest to hold up and wait for them rather than burn any more

:20:42.:20:46.

energy. Alistair on the front, still looking word -- very determined. The

:20:47.:20:53.

chase pack is not massive, so it may not be the biggest group that we see

:20:54.:20:57.

going through the town. Alistair and Jonny Motherwell want to join the

:20:58.:21:01.

masses. They will want to press their advantage. Even if they only

:21:02.:21:05.

have a few seconds, they will feel that when they go through town... We

:21:06.:21:10.

are seeing a breakaway. They want to stay away from that group. The

:21:11.:21:15.

Brownlee brothers have woken up. They cannot rely on Pierre Le Corre

:21:16.:21:20.

and Aurelien Raphael. They have taken it on themselves. The brothers

:21:21.:21:26.

working confidently together. They saw the danger approaching led by

:21:27.:21:28.

Fernando Alarza, leading the chase group. Alistair said, enough of

:21:29.:21:35.

that, and away they went. The Brownlee brothers have taken it on.

:21:36.:21:40.

The problem is the French athletes. They just could not do it. They did

:21:41.:21:45.

not have the legs to ride with the brothers. Pierre Le Corre and

:21:46.:21:49.

Aurelien Raphael, they came into the race without race fitness. They were

:21:50.:21:53.

unable to go with the brothers. When it is the Brownlee brothers,

:21:54.:21:57.

anything can happen. We will see. They have lots of good talent trying

:21:58.:22:02.

to chase them down. I wonder if they were caught napping. They were

:22:03.:22:06.

probably looking around, checking that the group was coming, realising

:22:07.:22:11.

how close they were. At that point, Alistair and Jonny May domain. You

:22:12.:22:16.

cannot turn your back on a Brownlee, because they will attack. I love to

:22:17.:22:20.

watch their bravery. They do not give up. So many athletes would have

:22:21.:22:24.

looked around, you know what, they are going to catch us, let's wait.

:22:25.:22:32.

But they are not giving in. All of a sudden, the chase group are nowhere

:22:33.:22:36.

to be seen. It is like the Brownlee brothers collectively moved into

:22:37.:22:41.

overdrive. They are sharing the workload at the front, great

:22:42.:22:43.

communication. They had an extra line S. They're getting to the more

:22:44.:22:49.

populated parts of Leeds. Great crowds. These people are seeing what

:22:50.:22:55.

they wanted. The brothers leading the Leeds World Triathlon Series as

:22:56.:23:01.

they approach the city centre. We wanted entertainment and we're

:23:02.:23:04.

getting that, but I have my heart in my mouth because I do not know if

:23:05.:23:09.

they can stay away. We are chuckling to ourselves. This is the Brownlee

:23:10.:23:15.

show. There are thousands of people lining the streets, especially when

:23:16.:23:20.

you get into the city centre, who have come specifically to see

:23:21.:23:23.

Alistair and Jonny in the hope they will repeat what they did here last

:23:24.:23:28.

year, at the Olympics last year, and time and time again. We are seeing

:23:29.:23:32.

them take it by the scruff of the neck. They have not got a massive

:23:33.:23:38.

gap, but it has gone out again. Ten seconds, counting with the naked

:23:39.:23:44.

eye. They have got to hang on. It is a few hundred metres before they hit

:23:45.:23:49.

the town. For viewers out there, when you're riding these open roads,

:23:50.:23:53.

it is easier for the big, fat chasing pack. You have 56 committed

:23:54.:23:59.

athletes, each taking their turn. With Jonathan and Alistair, it is a

:24:00.:24:05.

lot tougher. We have heard how windy it is. In the chase pack, when

:24:06.:24:11.

Alarza, sorry, when Pierre Le Corre and Aurelien Raphael came back into

:24:12.:24:15.

the main pack, they would have taken a couple of seconds to reorganise

:24:16.:24:18.

and realise Alistair and Jonny had gone. You have got to keep pushing.

:24:19.:24:24.

Now they are chasing them down. It is so interesting to see whether

:24:25.:24:29.

they will hold an before they get to the town circuit. The crowds will be

:24:30.:24:34.

looking at the big screens. They will be hoping that the Brownlee

:24:35.:24:38.

brothers can make it into town by themselves. They are being hunted

:24:39.:24:44.

down. The Olympic gold medallist leads the Olympic silver medallist

:24:45.:24:47.

as they approach Leeds city centre, their hometown. Back in the chase

:24:48.:24:54.

group, you can see that the first athlete out of the water, Shaw,

:24:55.:25:02.

Henri Schoeman, they are forcing the pace. They are trying to force the

:25:03.:25:06.

gap on the brothers. 11 seconds the last time we got the count. We will

:25:07.:25:12.

get an official check when they cross the blue carpet to complete

:25:13.:25:16.

this first unique lap. After that there will be seven laps around the

:25:17.:25:21.

city centre, each of them just under four kilometres. 3.7 TM long. If

:25:22.:25:30.

nothing else, the athletes in the second pack are having the legs

:25:31.:25:33.

ridding of them. They have been hammering it. Some further back will

:25:34.:25:39.

be getting an easier ride, but there are lots of committed riders in the

:25:40.:25:44.

second pack trying to chase the Brownlee brothers down. They are

:25:45.:25:47.

within striking distance of the city centre. They are agonisingly close.

:25:48.:25:55.

A few more metres until they hit the first hill. The air at the bottom

:25:56.:25:59.

now, past transition. About 300 metres to go. Those people in the

:26:00.:26:05.

main pack are working hard and that is what Alistair and Jonny want. The

:26:06.:26:11.

first lap is called the bike into. The brothers are about to complete

:26:12.:26:16.

it. A cacophony of noise awaits them. Alistair out of the saddle,

:26:17.:26:21.

putting on a show for the Leeds triathlon fans. We will get an

:26:22.:26:33.

official time check, six seconds to Kristian Blummenfelt, the first to

:26:34.:26:36.

cross the line. This is where the crunch happens, the first lap

:26:37.:26:40.

through the town, and the big pack against the two. Will it stay at six

:26:41.:26:46.

seconds, or will it go out? It will be so interesting to see. 21

:26:47.:26:52.

athletes in the chase pack. The Brownlee brothers, numbers one and

:26:53.:26:58.

two at the moment. This is where the race gets exciting. The roads get

:26:59.:27:03.

narrower and caution is needed, and great technical skill. Absolutely,

:27:04.:27:07.

having read in this course last year, it is challenging an almost

:27:08.:27:11.

every level, physically, the technical ability you have, the

:27:12.:27:15.

tactics you employ. They are speeding down to the U-turn. It will

:27:16.:27:20.

be interesting to see how the chase pack candles that. There are 19

:27:21.:27:25.

athletes in the chase pack with two upfront. If you number 19 going

:27:26.:27:29.

around the U-turn, you're pretty much single file. It is tough to get

:27:30.:27:34.

yourself back in the mix before you get to the next corner, which is why

:27:35.:27:38.

the big group is not favoured in this course. You would rather be in

:27:39.:27:44.

appear than in a big group. Yes, now they are in the city centre, it is

:27:45.:27:48.

definitely an advantage. I would not be surprised to see the group behind

:27:49.:27:56.

splinter as well. Yes, very tight on the U-turn, particularly coming out

:27:57.:27:59.

of it. If too many of you are coming in, you have nowhere to go. Problems

:28:00.:28:04.

will definitely occur. It is also downhill, so it is hard, you are

:28:05.:28:10.

carrying in lots of speed, it is a tight exit. You have got to turn

:28:11.:28:13.

tightly with so much speed, you have to prepare yourself for the exit. It

:28:14.:28:18.

takes a bit of getting used to. They have seven laps, they will be OK. I

:28:19.:28:21.

make about eight seconds, counting with

:28:22.:28:38.

the naked eye, it was six when they cross the finish line a few moments

:28:39.:28:40.

ago. There are little climb. The gap is owed to eight seconds, so a

:28:41.:28:43.

couple of seconds added by the brothers. This chase group are

:28:44.:28:45.

definitely learn the lessons of 2016. They are not willing to let

:28:46.:28:47.

them disappeared into the distance as they did last year. I am

:28:48.:28:50.

fascinated to see whether it comes back or whether they are now in the

:28:51.:29:00.

town, it will stay, and they will be able to get away. You want a bit of

:29:01.:29:05.

a race as well, but as fans of the brothers, you want them to stay

:29:06.:29:14.

away. A few of the athletes, Shaw, he did work to bring back the

:29:15.:29:18.

brothers, but he is sitting at the back of the pack. This pack is

:29:19.:29:22.

loaded with some decent runners. Yes, both of the boys, Alistair and

:29:23.:29:26.

Jonny will want to be away from these people. More than anything,

:29:27.:29:32.

they love racing in this manner and taking the race to the opposition,

:29:33.:29:37.

saying, here we are. You will have to ride better than you have ridden

:29:38.:29:41.

before. You will have to run better than you have before if you want to

:29:42.:29:46.

beat us. Yes, they are the poster boys of this contest. When you look

:29:47.:29:52.

around the square where we are situated, actually, there are are

:29:53.:29:56.

some posters argue, but there are lots of posters of the brothers,

:29:57.:30:01.

individual posters of Alistair and Jonathan, posters of them together.

:30:02.:30:07.

They are the most famous sons of Leeds. They are giving the crowd

:30:08.:30:10.

what they have come to see. I think they have stretched that lead. Tight

:30:11.:30:16.

turns to navigate, and easier in Ojo than in a group. -- easier in a

:30:17.:30:30.

pair. I think you are right. It is starting to go out. It would be easy

:30:31.:30:34.

for them to say, let's go back to the pack, let's save our legs, but

:30:35.:30:38.

they are not doing that. They are pressing on. They know the first

:30:39.:30:45.

laps in the town are crucial for getting the gap out. I do not know

:30:46.:30:48.

what is going through their mind, the pressure of wanting to perform

:30:49.:30:52.

for the fans that have come out, it must be massive. They may not be

:30:53.:30:56.

thinking of that. What does it do to an athlete, you know the people of

:30:57.:31:00.

Leeds, what does it do to you in terms of how you feel in a race?

:31:01.:31:04.

Last year I had to manage my emotions. I was excited. Really

:31:05.:31:10.

excited to race in a city that I lived in at the time. I wanted to

:31:11.:31:13.

perform for my friends and family who were coming to watch, the people

:31:14.:31:19.

I knew. People who were racing, people who were not. It adds an

:31:20.:31:23.

extra element of desire to really want to perform. Not just for

:31:24.:31:28.

yourself, but for other people. I was delighted I got a medal last

:31:29.:31:33.

year. I did not have the best race, I was put under pressure at times. I

:31:34.:31:38.

found it hard but I manage the podium. These boys, I am not sure

:31:39.:31:42.

they feel pressure, especially Alistair. He is made of something

:31:43.:31:45.

else and he revels in this. Is looking over his shoulder and all

:31:46.:31:56.

he can see is screaming fans and tarmac, no chase pack in view.

:31:57.:32:02.

Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee together. It is climbing, it was six

:32:03.:32:08.

seconds by the time they descended from the park. That gap has almost

:32:09.:32:17.

doubled. So a good job so far by the brothers. The athlete for me doing

:32:18.:32:22.

all the work in the front park is Kristian Blummenfelt. You will need

:32:23.:32:28.

the others to help as well if they are going to pull back the time. The

:32:29.:32:34.

Brownlees are not clear by any stretch of the imagination. We know

:32:35.:32:39.

that Kristian Blummenfelt is an incredible athlete. He finished

:32:40.:32:44.

third in Yokohama, great race for him and over the last 12 months he

:32:45.:32:49.

has come of age. Still young but he's been on the podium several

:32:50.:32:53.

times now. Yes last year at the beginning of the season he had a

:32:54.:32:59.

podium, in the European cup I think, then the next week won a race, then

:33:00.:33:09.

got another podium the week after. He is someone Alistair and Jonathan

:33:10.:33:15.

know quite well, and it's not really a surprise for me to see him on the

:33:16.:33:23.

front of the bike park. In Yokohama who looked like he was dead and

:33:24.:33:33.

buried and look -- and brought it back and made his way onto the

:33:34.:33:38.

podium. He is not a classic triathlon shape, he has a Burrell --

:33:39.:33:54.

barrel chest. We will see this second pack gradually segment and

:33:55.:33:59.

athletes are going to segment. I think 19 was too many coming into

:34:00.:34:04.

the city centre loop, especially when you have Alistair and Jonny

:34:05.:34:07.

pushing the race harder and harder, then you have the likes of Alarza

:34:08.:34:16.

and Schoeman, someone has to be at the back of the pack.

:34:17.:34:26.

Vicky, we know you wanted to be here racing, how are things progressing?

:34:27.:34:34.

We are getting there. I have had four weeks since Yokohama, haven't

:34:35.:34:37.

done any running since then, just started riding again this week. I

:34:38.:34:43.

was in an immobilising boot which came off earlier this week so I can

:34:44.:34:48.

walk around normally now but for me realistic I'm looking at probably

:34:49.:34:52.

racing in Stockholm. We are keeping an eye on that tentatively, see how

:34:53.:34:58.

the rehab goes. If you cannot be out there, you are in the next best

:34:59.:35:06.

place watching the drama unfold. The Brownlee brothers have extended

:35:07.:35:13.

their lead to 18 seconds mid lap, doing some serious damage now. They

:35:14.:35:19.

really are. I panic and think, are they hurting the legs, but they have

:35:20.:35:27.

said on more than one occasion they like that before they go out on a

:35:28.:35:31.

romp. They will run relatively similarly, whether they have done a

:35:32.:35:36.

hard bike or and easy bike, not that I've ever known them to do an easy

:35:37.:35:40.

bike, but bikes when there have been a bigger four. There will be a fair

:35:41.:35:50.

amount of communication going on, but they know each other so well,

:35:51.:35:56.

what happens if Jonny is going, my legs are hurting, do you think

:35:57.:36:01.

Alistair will say he will give him a bit of a ride? I don't know if

:36:02.:36:05.

Alistair would ever do that. He's quite a tough task master, isn't he?

:36:06.:36:18.

He is so rare, he is unique in the way he will dig that little bit

:36:19.:36:24.

deeper. He has always got that little bit extra. He can perform

:36:25.:36:28.

that bit better than you expect him to, even when you know where his

:36:29.:36:32.

fitness is apt, he will still deliver on the day. It is something

:36:33.:36:38.

he may be aware of for this race. I don't know, I'm speculating but he

:36:39.:36:43.

has been training more for the long-distance races whereas Jonny

:36:44.:36:47.

has been training just for this. He still firmly on the ITU circuit. It

:36:48.:36:54.

is worth emphasising this is Alistair's first race on this

:36:55.:36:57.

distance since Cozumel when he didn't really complete the race

:36:58.:37:01.

because he had to carry his brother home. He has gone to the middle

:37:02.:37:06.

distance, but you wouldn't know it because he's making it look like he

:37:07.:37:11.

has been doing it all year. Now they come into the city centre again,

:37:12.:37:16.

with the noise levels increasing ever more because the crowd can see

:37:17.:37:22.

that the gaps they have over the next group is significant. It was

:37:23.:37:27.

six seconds after they came down from the park. 11 seconds, as they

:37:28.:37:33.

make the right turn and hit the blue carpet, the noise levels rise again.

:37:34.:37:41.

The clock ticks on, the Leeds crowd start to get excited as they sense

:37:42.:37:44.

it could be another one of those days where the Brownlee brothers

:37:45.:37:47.

dominate the sporting story of this city today. 16, 17, 18, 19, still

:37:48.:37:59.

continues to climb. It will be closer to 26 seconds. 24 seconds...

:38:00.:38:05.

What a second a lap that was, they have doubled their advantage. And I

:38:06.:38:10.

wouldn't be surprised if we start to see them balloon out. It was easy

:38:11.:38:15.

for the Chase pack to want to reel them in, they can see them at the

:38:16.:38:21.

other end of the blue carpet but now they are out of sight and discourse

:38:22.:38:24.

has so many turns they will rarely get to see them on the course and

:38:25.:38:28.

that's when Alistair and Jonny can get away. Just noticing Henri

:38:29.:38:34.

Schoeman from South Africa and Kristian Blummenfelt from Norway

:38:35.:38:38.

having a chat, asking what's going on because it looks like they have

:38:39.:38:43.

done all the work. As you said, there is a motivation, they can see

:38:44.:38:47.

them, then suddenly they slightly lost the plot. Then they are

:38:48.:38:52.

slightly demoralised, then before you know it there is 20 seconds,

:38:53.:38:57.

heading up to 30 seconds, but Schoeman sensing the real danger

:38:58.:38:59.

that if they don't do something special in the next few laps, the

:39:00.:39:07.

Brownlees are gone. They will have to do something special now, and the

:39:08.:39:11.

carrot dangled in front of them has gone and they have got to pick up

:39:12.:39:15.

the pace. We have seen Schoeman on the front a lot, Bloom and felt on

:39:16.:39:20.

the front a lot, and are they thinking hang on, why am I doing all

:39:21.:39:26.

of the work? So the doubts start to creep in, especially if they are not

:39:27.:39:33.

holding the gap as they want to. That was Vincent Luis from France.

:39:34.:39:43.

He didn't race very much last year at all. I think Rio was one of the

:39:44.:39:48.

few races he chose to race, and I thought a few years ago he would be

:39:49.:39:53.

a big threat to the Brownlees, and I think he is, but he still has some

:39:54.:40:02.

work to do. Let's check on the chasing group, Adam Bowden is in

:40:03.:40:06.

there. Mark Austin is in the chase group. Raphael, the strong swimmer,

:40:07.:40:19.

Richard Varga, Pierre Le Corre, all now part of this large chase group.

:40:20.:40:31.

Going back to Vincent Luis, you are right, when he's on form he is a

:40:32.:40:36.

genuine competitor. Him and Jonny have had a lot of battles as they

:40:37.:40:41.

come through the ranks. Unfortunately he is injury prone and

:40:42.:40:44.

he has lost out a lot of racing because of the injuries he has hard,

:40:45.:40:50.

and last year his first distance race of the year was at the Olympic

:40:51.:40:54.

Games and with hindsight that basically cost him. The ten

:40:55.:40:58.

kilometres he hadn't done, when it came to it on the run. When you look

:40:59.:41:08.

at it, on paper you think Vincent Luis could get the bronze medal, and

:41:09.:41:12.

afterwards he said he had made a mistake. We have lost Pereira of

:41:13.:41:27.

Portugal. Meanwhile the Brownlee brothers are maintaining this

:41:28.:41:31.

intensity. Last time we checked the margin was 24 seconds, I have just

:41:32.:41:36.

seen a clock that suggested they have added another for microseconds.

:41:37.:41:40.

In that case I wouldn't be surprised if it was 30 seconds by the time

:41:41.:41:43.

they crossed the line next time around. They have 16.5 kilometres

:41:44.:41:49.

still to ride before they will hang up the bikes and begin the 10,000

:41:50.:41:54.

metre run. I got a feeling they will start possibly enjoying this because

:41:55.:41:57.

there was a couple of laps when they were looking back and can see the

:41:58.:42:01.

chase pack. The pressure is still on. At this point in the race they

:42:02.:42:09.

can start enjoying it. As we saw, they were away at the beginning,

:42:10.:42:13.

then it came back very close. Seven seconds it was down to, that gap was

:42:14.:42:19.

nothing, then they lost the two Frenchman, and they went for it. 11

:42:20.:42:25.

seconds when they came through at the beginning of the second lap.

:42:26.:42:29.

They worked for that advantage for a good ten kilometres, and now they

:42:30.:42:33.

can probably start to relax and enjoy it a little more. Just noticed

:42:34.:42:38.

Alistair notched his elbow, to suggest he wants his brother to come

:42:39.:42:42.

through and take his turn but Jonny is the kilometres click down now, 16

:42:43.:42:50.

to go. We don't want to talk too soon. 16 kilometres is still a long

:42:51.:42:56.

way to go. More than anything we want to see that gap ballooned now.

:42:57.:43:03.

You want to see that they have made themselves pretty secure when it

:43:04.:43:09.

comes to the run. So here we go again. The music is on, the volume

:43:10.:43:14.

goes up and they are on their feet to watch the Brownlee brothers

:43:15.:43:19.

sailing past them through transition at breakneck speed. The last time we

:43:20.:43:25.

checked at this point, 24 seconds was the advantage. We are expecting

:43:26.:43:31.

it to be around the 30 second mark, possibly even greater than that by

:43:32.:43:37.

the time the Henri Schoeman group come through. They are still on the

:43:38.:43:43.

tarmac and 28, 29 seconds has gone. It will be more like 40 seconds by

:43:44.:43:49.

the time these guys stop the clock. Again, on lap three this time by the

:43:50.:43:55.

Brownlee brothers, 37 seconds. 11, then 24, then 37. This race is

:43:56.:44:02.

heading in one direction only, excellent triathlon so far. What do

:44:03.:44:06.

you do when you have Alistair and Jonny decide they are going, what is

:44:07.:44:12.

your response going to be? You had some strong cyclists in the chase

:44:13.:44:16.

group who put that work in. They got them down to six seconds, they were

:44:17.:44:20.

tantalisingly close, then Alistair and Jonny went into another gear.

:44:21.:44:25.

They used the technical advantage and the fact there is just two of

:44:26.:44:31.

them, they pressed on and the gap is now ballooning. The crucial part was

:44:32.:44:35.

staying away from the big groups coming into the town, and of course

:44:36.:44:39.

they timed it to perfection. I thought that chase pack had them. It

:44:40.:44:43.

is the Brownlee brothers and anything is possible, and what they

:44:44.:44:52.

are doing now is stunning. Ruthless. It is pretty ruthless. They weren't

:44:53.:44:57.

willing to let anyone back into the game. This is the territory and they

:44:58.:45:01.

let everyone know it, and today they are letting everyone know in the

:45:02.:45:03.

best possible way. Alistair is doing much of their work

:45:04.:45:12.

at the moment. Jonny is happy to draft behind. There are little

:45:13.:45:19.

climb. 13.7 km left on two wheels. Lots of appreciative applause in

:45:20.:45:25.

this part of the city as the Brownlee brothers come past. What is

:45:26.:45:31.

so wonderful to watch is the mental strength of the Brownlee brothers.

:45:32.:45:36.

They do not give in. As you said earlier, Alistair goes into a

:45:37.:45:40.

different mode when he goes out to race. Looking back to 2010, I do not

:45:41.:45:45.

want to be negative, but he had the disaster in London. He was out in

:45:46.:45:50.

front. Javier Perez there. He was running for the finish and the

:45:51.:45:55.

collapsed. When he woke up, he said, what do you mean I've finished in

:45:56.:46:00.

tenth? He could not remember what happened. Very few athletes are able

:46:01.:46:05.

to go to those depths to achieve. Most people'sbody will not let them.

:46:06.:46:09.

You have a mechanism in your brain that stops you from going to those

:46:10.:46:13.

levels. There are some people, and there seemed to be a few of them in

:46:14.:46:18.

our sport, they can go to somewhere different. Alistair and Jonny both

:46:19.:46:23.

have that. Other athletes have the same situation. It is a bit scary.

:46:24.:46:28.

It certainly is. Both former world champions, Alistair on the world

:46:29.:46:33.

title for the first time in 2009. He added the title in 2011. Jonny was

:46:34.:46:39.

champion in 2012 and very nearly added another last year until the

:46:40.:46:45.

famous finish in Cozumel were Mario Mola eventually pipped him for the

:46:46.:46:51.

world title in 2016. Jonny Brownlee had the disaster in Cozumel that we

:46:52.:46:56.

will not talk about. We all know what happened there. You will be

:46:57.:47:02.

chasing points. He knows he has run himself short. You had that crash

:47:03.:47:06.

which was no fault of his own in Yokohama. He did not race in Abu

:47:07.:47:10.

Dhabi or the Gold Coast. He picked up a little injury and be decided,

:47:11.:47:15.

the British triathlon team, that you should sit out. He did not get a

:47:16.:47:19.

good finish in Yokohama silly did not get the points he needed. He

:47:20.:47:25.

needs a good finish if he is going to get the point is

:47:26.:47:45.

to contest the camping trip. Yes, you needs points in every race left

:47:46.:47:48.

in the series. Yokohama would have given him a buffer. Before Yokohama,

:47:49.:47:50.

Jonny had plenty of races. Now he is getting close to the wire. He needs

:47:51.:47:53.

a result in every single race. The way he is racing, you would not

:47:54.:47:56.

think that is such a hard thing to do, but you have to remember, he

:47:57.:47:59.

will not have Alistair with him for any other race this season. This is

:48:00.:48:02.

the only race that Alistair has committed to doing. He may do

:48:03.:48:04.

another one, but for the moment, this is it. Jonny will have to

:48:05.:48:07.

perform without Alistair in every other race. We are hoping they will

:48:08.:48:13.

team up for the relay in Nottingham, the new British triathlon mixed

:48:14.:48:17.

relay cup which has been announced. That is key with the news this week

:48:18.:48:21.

that the mixed relay will be included in the Olympic programme in

:48:22.:48:27.

Tokyo in 2020. The race in Nottingham takes an extra

:48:28.:48:31.

significance. Maybe the Brownlee brothers will be in action together

:48:32.:48:35.

on that day. They come into the most densely populated part of the city.

:48:36.:48:40.

Look at the numbers. I am reminded of the Olympic triathlon in Hyde

:48:41.:48:45.

Park in 2012. They were saving deep at the time. They are crammed in,

:48:46.:48:51.

making as much noise as they can. The Brownlees are about to complete

:48:52.:48:56.

lap four, which means they have three circuits of the city, past the

:48:57.:49:02.

Civic call, into Millennium Square. The advantage seems to be swelling

:49:03.:49:08.

further. At the end development on, it was 11 seconds. They doubled it

:49:09.:49:14.

to 24. On lap ago, the advantage had increased to 37 seconds. It may well

:49:15.:49:19.

stretch out to somewhere near the minute mark. We still have no sign

:49:20.:49:26.

of the chase group. They are miles behind. They are coming into view

:49:27.:49:30.

now. They are setting a pedestrian pace compared to the Brownlee

:49:31.:49:36.

brothers ahead of them. I would not be surprised if it is more than a

:49:37.:49:39.

minute. I saw this happening with the group ballooning out. I thought

:49:40.:49:43.

there would be a lap would it really went. People sat up. It is

:49:44.:49:48.

approaching a minute and they have not yet come into transition. The

:49:49.:49:55.

laps remaining on the cycle stage of today's race. It is one minute and

:49:56.:50:00.

four seconds. What a lap. An extraordinary amount of time added

:50:01.:50:03.

in the favour of the Brownlee brothers. From 37 seconds to 64

:50:04.:50:12.

seconds. Absolutely brilliant. Looking at the second pack, let's

:50:13.:50:17.

not call anything too soon. Who are the runners, we are looking at

:50:18.:50:21.

Alarza, but who else? There are some great riders and runners. You have

:50:22.:50:27.

Alarza, Schoeman and Blummenfelt. They are all in contention for the

:50:28.:50:33.

podium in Yokohama. Vincent Luis, on form, he is fantastic. You also have

:50:34.:50:39.

to mention Tom Bishop, who had his career-high with the second place in

:50:40.:50:42.

Abu Dhabi at the start of the season. From a British point of

:50:43.:50:47.

view, we have Adam Bowden and Mark Austin. Mark is the up-and-coming

:50:48.:50:51.

athlete, but Adam Bowden is so consistent. He is often forgotten

:50:52.:50:57.

because he is not the superstar that Alistair and Jonny are. He is one of

:50:58.:51:01.

our most consistent performers and anti-finish top names in the World

:51:02.:51:05.

Series last year. Tom Bishop is the athlete I want to see do well. He is

:51:06.:51:09.

still young but he has been around for years. He promised so much. He

:51:10.:51:13.

had a problem with nerves and dealing with the expectations and

:51:14.:51:18.

pressure of racing. Abu Dhabi was special for him. He ran side-by-side

:51:19.:51:25.

with Javier Gomes until near the end of the race. That was no flick. It

:51:26.:51:30.

was exciting to watch. I have known him for a long time, I have trained

:51:31.:51:35.

with him and Leeds. He is a nice guy and we thought he had the potential

:51:36.:51:40.

to put in those performances. He had not been able to deliver. While it

:51:41.:51:46.

was a jump from what he had done before, it was not surprising. The

:51:47.:51:49.

thing going forward from Abu Dhabi, he was unlucky in Yokohama, he

:51:50.:51:54.

crashed and had to chase back. He spent two laps dangling off the back

:51:55.:51:59.

of the pack. Once he closed those ten seconds, he was spent and it

:52:00.:52:04.

showed in the run. Hopefully the day, being in the main pack will

:52:05.:52:09.

mean we can see a run more like the one he had in Abu Dhabi. The

:52:10.:52:13.

brothers have extended their lead even more, one minute and 18

:52:14.:52:19.

seconds. We got a look at Tom Bishop and Mark Austin in the chase group.

:52:20.:52:22.

Back to the front of the race are they going into the narrow section

:52:23.:52:29.

of the course. Into the city centre streets. Some places are heavily

:52:30.:52:33.

populated. It is deserted and others. There are definite vantage

:52:34.:52:38.

points were the crowd enjoyed gathering to make as much noise as

:52:39.:52:42.

possible. They have the zigzag through the streets of Leeds, just

:52:43.:52:48.

to be a little more careful. They are riding close together. They do

:52:49.:52:53.

that every day, something they are used to, but they will want no

:52:54.:52:58.

contact between the two of them. They are technically good athletes.

:52:59.:53:02.

It is often said that Alistair and Jonny do not have weaknesses. They

:53:03.:53:08.

really do not. The swim well, they bike well, and the run well. They

:53:09.:53:14.

are tactically astute. Can we not talk too soon. I do not want to

:53:15.:53:20.

curse them. It is nerve-racking, but at the moment, they are riding away

:53:21.:53:26.

from the chase pack, about one minute and 20 seconds. After 12

:53:27.:53:29.

kilometres, from the long ride from the lake, they only had six seconds.

:53:30.:53:34.

At one point, it looked like they lost it. But they took it up another

:53:35.:53:40.

gear. They rode away. Lots of frustration in the second pack.

:53:41.:54:05.

We see Blummenfelt and Schoeman having little chats. This course is

:54:06.:54:08.

not conducive to a group of that size. A group of 16 athletes does

:54:09.:54:11.

not work on a course like this. Absolutely not. They're big

:54:12.:54:13.

opportunity was only way to the city centre course. If they were going to

:54:14.:54:16.

catch them, it had happen then. They got agonisingly close, but it did

:54:17.:54:18.

not happen. I saw Alistair's frontwheel and Jonny's rear wheel

:54:19.:54:21.

within two inches of each other. I was a bit nervous. They know what

:54:22.:54:23.

they are doing. They are preparing to complete lap five of seven. It

:54:24.:54:27.

remains to be seen not if but by how much their lead has grown. This has

:54:28.:54:32.

been a demonstration of power cycling at the front of the

:54:33.:54:37.

triathlon, an astonishing race for the brothers. The clock starts

:54:38.:54:42.

ticking. We wait as Alistair Brownlee, the Olympic champion,

:54:43.:54:46.

Jonathan Brownlee, the Olympic silver medallist, they come through

:54:47.:54:51.

and leave transition to set off on lap six. We may be waiting for a

:54:52.:54:55.

minute and a half, something of that nature, before the chase group,

:54:56.:55:00.

which contains the more British athletes, arrives in transition and

:55:01.:55:06.

stopped the clock. In lots of ways, the chase group will be kicking

:55:07.:55:10.

themselves. They were so close. They seem to look around at each other at

:55:11.:55:15.

the point when they caught the two French athletes. Alistair and Jonny

:55:16.:55:20.

chose their moment and take Don. They got so close to catching them

:55:21.:55:23.

again, but they could not get there and as soon as they hit the city

:55:24.:55:27.

centre web, that was it, they were gone. We have not seen Tom Bishop at

:55:28.:55:34.

the front. That is tactical. He knows they are of the front, Yaz

:55:35.:55:39.

good running legs. He will not want to chase down his team-mates. That

:55:40.:55:43.

will be yet, he will not want to chase them down. They are coming

:55:44.:55:49.

onto the blue carpet. It is one minute and 13 seconds. That is

:55:50.:55:55.

another ten seconds added for the Brownlee brothers during lap five.

:55:56.:56:00.

They are deep into lap six as the chase group make their way clear of

:56:01.:56:08.

transition. They are beginning their sixth lap of seven. You do not think

:56:09.:56:12.

that the brothers need a cushion going into the run, but Alistair is

:56:13.:56:17.

in slightly different territory. He has not raced standard distance, he

:56:18.:56:20.

has been doing half distance, half marathon. It is a different pace.

:56:21.:56:27.

The word from British Triathlon is that Alistair has been throwing in

:56:28.:56:32.

those workouts that he needs. Jonny has been doing his usual workouts

:56:33.:56:36.

and has been training for standard distance. It will be interesting to

:56:37.:56:41.

see how Alistair does run. I am fascinated to see how the changes in

:56:42.:56:47.

his training will affect him. We will not know if the changes in the

:56:48.:56:51.

way that Alistair runs are to do with the way that the has changed

:56:52.:56:56.

training or because he raced a half Ironman last weekend and he did not

:56:57.:57:02.

feel himself. He bonked on the bike. His legs were not there on the run.

:57:03.:57:08.

He might run as he always does and we could see him going off the

:57:09.:57:12.

front. When the athlete hits the wall, bonked. There is nothing left

:57:13.:57:18.

in the legs. Yes, the word out on the course last week in Slovakia. He

:57:19.:57:23.

was saying, my legs have done. I do not know what has happened. We would

:57:24.:57:28.

say that he has bonked. I do not know who came up with that word. It

:57:29.:57:32.

used to mean something very different. In your day. Jonathan

:57:33.:57:39.

Brownlee, the younger of the two, 27, Alistair two years older, 29.

:57:40.:57:46.

They have possibly three or four years of top-level triathlon,

:57:47.:57:48.

depending on which path they wish to follow. Alistair has not ruled out

:57:49.:57:54.

returning to the Olympic fold in Tokyo, going for his third

:57:55.:57:59.

successive Olympic gold medal. He won in London in 2012, he won in Rio

:58:00.:58:04.

last year, and he competed in Beijing in 2008. He was

:58:05.:58:11.

inexperienced and the paid the price for an early break away behind the

:58:12.:58:15.

bike. He learned his lesson and was the winner in London. He added the

:58:16.:58:20.

Rio gold medal. Jonathan took the bronze medal in London, the silver

:58:21.:58:26.

in Rio. He might fancy going to Tokyo in search of the gold medal.

:58:27.:58:31.

There will be two chances for Jonathan, with the mixed relay added

:58:32.:58:37.

to the programme. Tom Bishop moving up to the front. He is a great

:58:38.:58:43.

athlete. They are all in there. Apart from Grant Sheldon, who has

:58:44.:58:46.

not had a great day. He has had a difficult year. Injuries and other

:58:47.:58:51.

things going on. All the British athletes are in the chase pack, with

:58:52.:58:59.

Alistair and Jonny down the road. It is good news. Yes, but we are

:59:00.:59:03.

missing Gordon Benson from the group as well. He missed the split in the

:59:04.:59:09.

swim. He can pick out phenomenal performances. He was second out of

:59:10.:59:15.

the water in your Gassama in 2016. That performance and timber place on

:59:16.:59:20.

the Olympic team. We know he can swim, but he did not have it today.

:59:21.:59:26.

But the guys that are there, we have these two away at the front. Then we

:59:27.:59:30.

have Marc Austin, Tom Bishop and Adam Bowden. They are all in the

:59:31.:59:35.

chase group, tucked in. They are doing the right thing. They will not

:59:36.:59:39.

want to be chasing down their team-mates. There will not be

:59:40.:59:42.

specific instructions on that but it is an unwritten rule that you do not

:59:43.:59:47.

chase down your team-mates. They will be allowing them to do their

:59:48.:59:51.

thing, hopefully looking after themselves, being near the front of

:59:52.:59:55.

the group, but not on the front of the group, that is ideal on a course

:59:56.:59:59.

like this. Hopefully they have looked after themselves, hydrated

:00:00.:00:05.

well, so we can see strong runs from all of the British athletes. They

:00:06.:00:09.

have come past the town hall, they will head for the Civic Colin

:00:10.:00:15.

Millennium Square. It has been a masterclass in synchronised,

:00:16.:00:17.

sustained speed from the Brownlee brothers. They complete lap six.

:00:18.:00:25.

They will take the bell. One more to go. We will get a check on the time

:00:26.:00:30.

difference on wartime. One minute 13 last we looked.

:00:31.:00:36.

We will expect it to be up to a minute and a half, which gives them

:00:37.:00:46.

a serious chance of getting the one two. Just explain what Jonny was

:00:47.:00:55.

doing there, biting off the top of the gel, the packet. Now he will

:00:56.:01:01.

wait for another moment when he can take it on. Yes, he will be fuelling

:01:02.:01:07.

now. He has a hard ten kilometres coming up and he will be wanting to

:01:08.:01:13.

get all of the calories in he can now. And the chase group come past

:01:14.:01:19.

Leeds town hall and approached transition, where they will take the

:01:20.:01:24.

bell. There is more urgency about the group now. This has been lacking

:01:25.:01:28.

for the last 20 minutes but there is more pace. There has been no change

:01:29.:01:36.

between the end of lap five and lap six which means, I imagine, the

:01:37.:01:42.

chase group have ridden faster rather than the Brownlee is turning

:01:43.:01:53.

this screw. They have got themselves working more efficiently again and

:01:54.:01:57.

they are trying to keep the gap down as small as they can. But then

:01:58.:02:00.

sometimes what happens at this point in the race as well, with the clock

:02:01.:02:06.

down to around a kilometre to go, those people take their foot off the

:02:07.:02:10.

gas again because they start thinking about the position in the

:02:11.:02:15.

pack and taking their shoes off. Where is the Brownlees haven't got

:02:16.:02:21.

the worry of looking at the other athletes around them. Yes, Schoeman

:02:22.:02:27.

has been on the front a lot, Blummenfelt, they will be checking

:02:28.:02:32.

each other now and going, actually we are going for a run in a few

:02:33.:02:41.

minutes so going to go easy. Another look at Jonny and his gel which was

:02:42.:02:47.

attached to the handlebars of the bike, identical kit for the brothers

:02:48.:02:52.

today as they start to negotiate the final lap on two wheels. Thoughts

:02:53.:02:58.

will naturally turn towards transition and the 10,000 metre run

:02:59.:03:03.

that awaits. You cannot call it too soon on a course like this, anything

:03:04.:03:10.

can happen. As Fernando Alarza been hurt too much? At the moment he's

:03:11.:03:16.

running phenomenally. He ran as fast as Imola in Yokohama. I think

:03:17.:03:20.

Alistair would like a caution, and Jonny, why not. -- he ran as fast as

:03:21.:03:25.

Mario Mola. Barring any disasters, I think one

:03:26.:03:40.

minute is plenty for them. It will always be hard to know. Jonny has

:03:41.:03:44.

not done a huge amount of racing this year, unfortunately an injury

:03:45.:03:49.

put him out of the races, then he had a setback in Yokohama when he

:03:50.:03:53.

was having to carry his bike after it broke in the crash so he hasn't

:03:54.:03:58.

really got the runs specific fitness either. Alistair again is an unknown

:03:59.:04:05.

quantity right now in the Olympic distance. I don't think his training

:04:06.:04:10.

has changed enough to see massive drop-off in his performance, but I

:04:11.:04:14.

would be interesting to see how they both do. I just don't think one

:04:15.:04:18.

minute 15, if the gap stays at his ears, I don't see anyone from this

:04:19.:04:25.

group running them down. They looked for a moment like they were starting

:04:26.:04:31.

to look around, as I predicted, everyone is going, OK, nearly there.

:04:32.:04:42.

I saw Pierre Le Corre nudging his elbow, but nobody came through. What

:04:43.:04:53.

a performance from the Brownlee brothers since the moment they left

:04:54.:04:56.

the water in Waterloo lake in Roundhay Park. They picked up their

:04:57.:05:00.

bikes and set about controlling their home city race. By the time

:05:01.:05:09.

they got out of the park, they had some French athletes for company,

:05:10.:05:14.

but those two, Aurelien Raphael and Pierre Le Corre couldn't keep up the

:05:15.:05:21.

pace. When the brothers sensed the danger approaching from the chase

:05:22.:05:24.

group behind, they just put their foot to the floor and by the time

:05:25.:05:28.

they got to transition they were six seconds in front. They doubled the

:05:29.:05:34.

lead by the end of the first lap and continued to add thyme, 24 seconds

:05:35.:05:38.

by the end of the second lap, one minute 13 by the end of the

:05:39.:05:42.

penultimate lap, and now the crowd awaits the arrival as they come past

:05:43.:05:48.

the town Hall and head towards the Civic Hall and Millennium Square.

:05:49.:05:58.

They prepare for the arrival in transition. We saw Alice Betto

:05:59.:06:02.

commit the offence at the dismount line and pick-up and infringements,

:06:03.:06:07.

the brothers got it right, bang on the money, and now they arrive.

:06:08.:06:14.

Alistair holds out his hand and says in you go first. They don't want a

:06:15.:06:19.

collision. They have similar positions, and Alistair knew that

:06:20.:06:23.

Jonny's point was further north up the blue carpet so allowed his

:06:24.:06:31.

brother to go in. Right on the money again, a synchronised arrival, and

:06:32.:06:38.

they depart separated by a couple of feet. On they go. First lap of four,

:06:39.:06:45.

10,000 metres between the Brownlee brothers and victory for one of them

:06:46.:06:50.

in Leeds. Let's keep our fingers crossed. We are yet to see how

:06:51.:06:55.

Alistair run over ten kilometres, we have only seen him run over a half

:06:56.:07:00.

marathon, and of course here we have the chase pack with Kristian

:07:01.:07:04.

Blummenfelt at the front as we have seen so often on this chase pack.

:07:05.:07:09.

Alistair looked a lot better last week so that is a good start for his

:07:10.:07:16.

10K. This is just incredible, those two

:07:17.:07:22.

brothers on the way, Mark. They have work to do but it's incredible, how

:07:23.:07:27.

have they kept up the pace? They have gone so hard they have broken

:07:28.:07:32.

the group. They have managed to break away from a group of great

:07:33.:07:40.

athletes. What now? It is a Brownlee on Brownlee race now. Alistair when

:07:41.:07:45.

he comes out of transition sometimes doesn't look too good, he looked

:07:46.:07:57.

fantastic today. Jonny looks good but Alistair does too. They are such

:07:58.:08:01.

a long way behind, this pack, is there any chance they will get close

:08:02.:08:06.

to them? The Brownlee brothers don't need any time, when they have got

:08:07.:08:11.

one minute 15, I think it is a one two. And this is the home city, how

:08:12.:08:17.

much does this crowd mean to them do you think? Nobody else will win a

:08:18.:08:24.

Leeds triathlon. Thank you for the moment.

:08:25.:08:30.

Chase group away, that contains Tom Bishop, Adam Bowden and Marc Austin,

:08:31.:08:37.

they are all in that group. Actually Adam Bowden has moved into third.

:08:38.:08:42.

Right now it's a great Britain clean sweep the way things stand. A long

:08:43.:08:47.

way to go of course because the brothers are out in front and at the

:08:48.:08:55.

end of transition two it is Alistair and Jonny together. The next union

:08:56.:09:01.

flag alongside the name of Adam Bowden, and Tom Bishop in that group

:09:02.:09:09.

as well. Watch out for Vincent Luis, he can do some damage over this 10K

:09:10.:09:17.

run as well. Alarza tends to go out of transition a little bit slower,

:09:18.:09:21.

we normally see him run through the pack. They have a downhill section

:09:22.:09:25.

now so it gives the chance to lower the heart rate. Let's hope Alarza

:09:26.:09:33.

has the confidence from his second-place finish in Abu Dhabi.

:09:34.:09:44.

He had a nasty injury in January, then his first race was back in

:09:45.:09:57.

Dunkirk where he got a puncture so his race was interrupted with that

:09:58.:10:04.

so it will be interesting to see how he does. He lives here now with Non

:10:05.:10:12.

so he has a real affinity with Leeds and will want to put on a show.

:10:13.:10:20.

Meanwhile four guys, including two British athletes, Adam Bowden and

:10:21.:10:25.

Tom Bishop, have broken clear of the rest of the chase group. This will

:10:26.:10:30.

sort itself out and there will be further changes. The dynamic of this

:10:31.:10:35.

chase group will change significantly as the stronger

:10:36.:10:38.

runners start to assert their authority. But we have seen Tom

:10:39.:10:43.

Bishop go head-to-head with another Spaniard, Gomez, in the Abu Dhabi

:10:44.:10:48.

race, just missing out, ending up in second. Bishop seems happy to take

:10:49.:10:53.

on Fernando Alarza, and Adam Bowden is holding his own as well. Adam

:10:54.:11:02.

Bowden was a steeplechase runner, he is one of the older guys in the

:11:03.:11:07.

field, but he's incredibly consistent. At 35 years of age,

:11:08.:11:13.

great to see him running for a podium position. Adam Bowden

:11:14.:11:19.

originally from Watford, holds the record at his club for 10,000

:11:20.:11:24.

metres, and for 3000 metres steeplechase. Switched to triathlon

:11:25.:11:29.

in 2008. He knows his way around the sport now. This is refreshing to

:11:30.:11:41.

see. These two guys are such team players, nice guys. They have been

:11:42.:11:45.

around for a while, both phenomenal athletes. If we could see a British

:11:46.:11:49.

clean sweep in the men's race today, how good would that be on home soil

:11:50.:11:54.

to have that kind of performance? There's a long way to go yet, you

:11:55.:12:01.

can never count out Fernando Alarza, but both Tom and Adam look

:12:02.:12:05.

fantastic. Tom Bishop originally from Derby, now a resident of Leeds,

:12:06.:12:10.

history graduate from the University of Leeds. At the moment we have

:12:11.:12:16.

British triathletes first, second, third and fourth, with Alarza in

:12:17.:12:22.

fifth. No gap between the brothers, everything to play for. During the

:12:23.:12:29.

bike, I had this slight fear, you know, aren't they invincible? Can

:12:30.:12:35.

they be broken? But looking at them at this early stage in the run, we

:12:36.:12:40.

are now heading towards two kilometres, they looks full of

:12:41.:12:47.

running to me. Yes, no slowing down. That is so low 40 K on the bike

:12:48.:12:51.

doesn't seem to have had too much of fact and it's nice to see they are

:12:52.:12:56.

feeling good and running well. Fernando Alarza is having a go at

:12:57.:13:01.

Bishop and Bowden, not a decisive move but he's given himself a

:13:02.:13:06.

fraction of daylight. Fernando Alarza, currently leading the World

:13:07.:13:12.

Triathlon Series standings for 2017. We saw him do this in Yokohama, he

:13:13.:13:17.

made a few surges before he managed to break into second position. The

:13:18.:13:22.

fact he's glancing over his shoulder, he wants to do something

:13:23.:13:26.

significant here. It is early to break, it would be better to sit in,

:13:27.:13:34.

but it is early to be making surges and suggests he's feeling good. That

:13:35.:13:38.

glanced over the shoulder, you go why is he looking back now? I think

:13:39.:13:45.

he's doing it to break the two Brits behind him. He knows the crowd will

:13:46.:13:50.

be urging them on so much more than him. Everybody here wants to see a

:13:51.:13:59.

British one, to, three. He wants to break the mentally almost, make them

:14:00.:14:03.

feel like they are running for fourth and fifth rather than a

:14:04.:14:12.

podium. Alistair's timer year ago was one hour and 50 minutes. The

:14:13.:14:20.

brothers conclude that one of four. Jonny for me always looks like the

:14:21.:14:26.

slightly easier runner. Alistair has an interesting running form with his

:14:27.:14:32.

knees really out front. They are both very upright, I think it is a

:14:33.:14:36.

feature of a lot of the runners in the British team. I am not bright

:14:37.:14:43.

runner, Non is too. I don't know what they do to us here! -- I am an

:14:44.:14:58.

upright runner. Christian Blum and felt, the Norwegian, what an athlete

:14:59.:15:02.

he is, he's had some excellent results so far this season. So

:15:03.:15:09.

further down the road there is a gap to Royle. Back with the chase group,

:15:10.:15:15.

the Brownlee brothers out in front, then Bowden, Bishop and Alarza.

:15:16.:15:22.

They have pulled back a few seconds, around five seconds. I do not think

:15:23.:15:29.

that is significant, as long as they keep the pace going. It is virtually

:15:30.:15:34.

impossible to pull back a minute. I am asking you because I want

:15:35.:15:38.

confirmation they will be OK. We are watching two different races, we are

:15:39.:15:42.

watching a race for gold and silver and the race for the bronze medal. I

:15:43.:15:47.

would be amazed if anything happened otherwise, but we all remember

:15:48.:15:56.

Cozumel. It is a very different day here today. I do not expect to see

:15:57.:15:59.

the same. It would be rare. Mark Austin is running with Vincent Luis.

:16:00.:16:03.

He does not seem to be able to make an impact this afternoon. Marc

:16:04.:16:07.

Austin, with the Frenchman, coming through transition. The leaders have

:16:08.:16:15.

6.7 km are still to run. Mark Austin is a great athlete. We remember him

:16:16.:16:19.

from the Commonwealth Games, with that fantastic performance when he

:16:20.:16:23.

rode away with the Brownlee brothers, slightly out of his depth.

:16:24.:16:29.

He stayed with them. You won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth

:16:30.:16:32.

Games in Glasgow. What a fantastic day. Mark Austin, great

:16:33.:16:37.

up-and-coming athlete, he got fourth in the Madrid World Cup. He was

:16:38.:16:42.

seventh in Cape Town. He won silver in the world under 23 and landing.

:16:43.:16:47.

Although he is not in the frame today in the run, he is a great

:16:48.:16:52.

athlete. Yes, he is one of the Scottish athletes who is based in

:16:53.:16:56.

Stirling. He has done well over the years. He has had lots of podiums in

:16:57.:17:01.

the junior and under 23 ranks. He's only 23 now. He is in his final year

:17:02.:17:08.

to race under 23 races if he wants to. That is still very young. It is

:17:09.:17:13.

great to see him in the main pack, hopefully putting in a solid

:17:14.:17:16.

performance. We saw Tom Bishop in third with the brothers in first and

:17:17.:17:22.

second. In the World Triathlon Series, since its inception in 2012,

:17:23.:17:27.

there has never been a clean sweep for a nation in the men's. The women

:17:28.:17:32.

have done it, the Americans, a couple of times. And the Aussies.

:17:33.:17:36.

The men have never done it. Maybe the day. That is the gap. The

:17:37.:17:52.

leading Brownlees, and the two British athletes, Bishop and Bowden,

:17:53.:17:54.

and the Spaniard, Alarza. Heading in different directions. If they were

:17:55.:17:58.

to achieve the clean sweep today, it would be a first. When the boys come

:17:59.:18:04.

round for the end of the second lap, there are four, that is a big part.

:18:05.:18:08.

You get to the Midway part of the race, and it is like you're going

:18:09.:18:14.

downhill. You hit midway, you are going downhill, I have got less to

:18:15.:18:19.

run. It is a double-edged sword. You're closer to the finish, but

:18:20.:18:25.

you're in more pain. The last two laps are difficult. It looks like

:18:26.:18:29.

Bowden has been distanced. Let's see if he can close the gap and get back

:18:30.:18:35.

on the shoulder of Tom Bishop. Alarza is pitting the hammer down.

:18:36.:18:39.

He is desperate to break them. The brothers are heading to the halfway

:18:40.:18:45.

point. Tom Bishop is not giving up, neither is Adam Bowden. Tom looks

:18:46.:18:50.

very smooth. Add legs good as well. You can see it on the face of

:18:51.:18:57.

Alarza. -- Adam Bowden Lewis Kidd as well. He does not want to be in the

:18:58.:19:04.

battle for a British clean sweep. You can see what he is trying to do.

:19:05.:19:10.

He is a gritty competitor, Fernando Alarza. His facial expression is

:19:11.:19:16.

hidden behind the sunglasses. He is running comfortably with Tom Bishop

:19:17.:19:20.

on his shoulder, and Adam Bowden is big indeed, desperately trying to

:19:21.:19:25.

stay with them. In fact, Bowden might be able to take the lead. He

:19:26.:19:30.

is right on the shoulder of Alarza. It is not a flat course. There is

:19:31.:19:35.

lots of up and down. That is tough. At this point in the race, you just

:19:36.:19:41.

want to run on flat ground. This is undulating the hallway. That is even

:19:42.:19:46.

harder. This course is so deceptively tower. The bike course,

:19:47.:19:50.

there is the long section into town that is windy and exposed. In town,

:19:51.:19:57.

it is technical, there are corners, up and down. Everything. You get

:19:58.:20:02.

onto the run, you want time to get into a rhythm. The course does not

:20:03.:20:08.

allow that. You turn 90 degrees, you go into a U-turn, you turn another

:20:09.:20:14.

90 degrees. There is no respite. So many runners like to run on rhythm.

:20:15.:20:18.

There is no time for that on this course. Bishop is very much still

:20:19.:20:27.

there, as is Bowden. Alarza is desperate to break the British guys.

:20:28.:20:32.

Back to Alistair. He is looking over his shoulder. Jonny is taking on a

:20:33.:20:40.

gel. That is sensible. He has around 15 minutes to go. We want to see

:20:41.:20:45.

Jonny drinking and eating. Someone go down there with the sign. We do

:20:46.:20:49.

not want a repeat of Cozumel Rudy was pouring it over his head but not

:20:50.:20:54.

down his throat. That came back to back him. We have to draw the

:20:55.:20:58.

differences between Cozumel and tear. It was hot and humid. We are

:20:59.:21:05.

around 20 degrees here, it is a nice Yorkshire Day. It is not the 30 plus

:21:06.:21:11.

with humidity we faced in Cozumel. Those conditions took many victims.

:21:12.:21:14.

Unfortunately for us, Jonny was one of them. What is interesting is the

:21:15.:21:20.

way that Alistair is dominating this part of the run. He has nothing to

:21:21.:21:25.

prove. He knows how many times he has beaten his brother. Even though

:21:26.:21:29.

he has moved over to middle distance racing, and he is still trying to

:21:30.:21:32.

show that they can win these World Series races. Alistair will never

:21:33.:21:38.

put himself in a race if he does not think he has a chance of winning. It

:21:39.:21:44.

is through the is and what he does. On the bike, it is a different

:21:45.:21:48.

story, having his brother there, it is team tactics. At the moment, it

:21:49.:21:53.

does not matter who is running, whether it is Jonny or any other

:21:54.:21:57.

athlete. The run is very different to the bike. Absolutely. Lap two

:21:58.:22:04.

completed for the brothers, Alistair and Jonny, shoulder to shoulder.

:22:05.:22:11.

Look at the reception they get in Millennium Square. Absolutely

:22:12.:22:14.

fantastic. Away they go for the third lap of four. Lots of running

:22:15.:22:20.

still to do. They are halfway through the run stage in their home

:22:21.:22:29.

city. Behind them, further down the road, Fernando Alarza leads Tom

:22:30.:22:33.

Bishop and Adam Bowden. Nothing to choose between these three. They are

:22:34.:22:40.

approaching the halfway stage. It looks as if one of these three will

:22:41.:22:45.

be joining the Brownlee brothers on the World Triathlon Series podium

:22:46.:22:49.

this afternoon. Alarza is the first to arrive on the carpet. He has a

:22:50.:22:56.

little kick away. Bishop is able to react. Bowden is all right. He has

:22:57.:23:04.

taken a different path. He has taking the straightest line. The

:23:05.:23:08.

others seemed to drift to the left. He was hugging the right side of

:23:09.:23:13.

transition. He has come out at the front. The camera angle was

:23:14.:23:18.

deceptive but he is fine. Bowden is still in contention as the Norwegian

:23:19.:23:22.

Kristian Blummenfelt makes his way out of transition. He completes his

:23:23.:23:30.

second lap. Two down, two to go. The last 16 seconds in the first five k

:23:31.:23:35.

M. Bearing in mind that they have done a two up, 40 kilometre time

:23:36.:23:40.

trial, it is fair to say that they are running well. The pack behind,

:23:41.:23:48.

with Bishop and Alarza, they have something to fight for. These guys

:23:49.:23:52.

have something to fight for, but those guys are battling for the last

:23:53.:23:56.

place on the podium. It depends on the tactics in each group. Alistair

:23:57.:24:01.

and Jonny seemed content to run together. At some point, one of them

:24:02.:24:08.

will have a go. We are seeing Alarza putting in another attack. It will

:24:09.:24:12.

be interesting to see if he can hold an audit this is another research,

:24:13.:24:16.

and he will have to back off the pace. If the British athletes are

:24:17.:24:20.

running smoothly, hopefully they can bring the gap down again. Alarza has

:24:21.:24:26.

broken away from the British pair, Bishop and Bowden. The gap is not

:24:27.:24:33.

decisive, a couple of seconds. Bishop and Bowden might get that

:24:34.:24:37.

extra 5% from the fans at the side of the road in Leeds. It will help

:24:38.:24:41.

them close the gap that Alarza is opened up. Bishop's head is going

:24:42.:24:48.

backwards. That is a tell-tale sign that an athlete is starting to feel

:24:49.:24:53.

it. Perhaps Bishop and Bowden can work together to hang on. Is this

:24:54.:25:00.

decisive from Alistair. He has opened up a lead of half a second on

:25:01.:25:06.

his younger brother. He kicks away from the U-turn. Jonny tries to

:25:07.:25:10.

respond. He is in familiar territory, seeing the slight gap

:25:11.:25:14.

that his older brother has opened up. Will this be a decisive move

:25:15.:25:19.

from Alistair? Jonny trying desperately to respond. We want to

:25:20.:25:23.

see Jonny hanging on to Alistair as long as he can, until the finish. He

:25:24.:25:27.

does not want to get dropped at this stage in the race. Alarza on the

:25:28.:25:33.

other side, ruling working hard to pull away. Still looking over his

:25:34.:25:38.

shoulder. -- really working hard. You can see the turnover of his

:25:39.:25:44.

legs. He's putting in massive surge. I am interested to see whether he

:25:45.:25:49.

can hold that pace. He has set his stall out. He still has four

:25:50.:25:54.

kilometres to go. The gap is not yet decisive. Jonathan has managed to

:25:55.:26:01.

reel in his older brother. He did not let Alistair getaway. He kept

:26:02.:26:07.

them at arm's length. Alarza digs deep and tries to force an extra

:26:08.:26:12.

kick out on the climb. He has moved into outright third position. That

:26:13.:26:17.

is the gap to four. He has gone early, he is working hard up this

:26:18.:26:22.

little stretch. When he gets to the top, he will have a chance to relax

:26:23.:26:27.

and let his heart rate go down. He wanted to break these guys early. He

:26:28.:26:31.

is doing a good job. As much as anything, this is a mental gap

:26:32.:26:37.

rather than a physical one. If he has ten seconds on those guys, they

:26:38.:26:41.

will start to think he is gone. They cannot see what his face looks like,

:26:42.:26:44.

they cannot see the effort he is putting in. They just see him

:26:45.:26:49.

running away up the road and they see the podium this appealing. If

:26:50.:26:54.

they can keep him within range and he settles down into a more

:26:55.:26:57.

manageable range, the race for the podium is still on. Absolutely, Tom

:26:58.:27:04.

Bishop and Adam Bowden dropping off the pace slightly. At least they can

:27:05.:27:12.

work with one another. That is crucial. Still no change at the

:27:13.:27:17.

front of the race. One of the lap triathletes in the background.

:27:18.:27:23.

Alistair has another go. He gets a couple of yards on his younger

:27:24.:27:29.

brother. Jonny is able to respond once again. At the moment, Alistair

:27:30.:27:42.

is being pretty brittle. -- brutal. I do not think he senses any danger,

:27:43.:27:47.

but for him, it is all about winning. Nothing really counts. The

:27:48.:27:52.

gap is starting to go out. Alistair is putting in a move, and Jonny has

:27:53.:27:55.

not been able to respond straightaway. Alistair is

:27:56.:28:01.

brutal-mac. It does not matter it is Jonny, it could be anyone. Jonny

:28:02.:28:08.

will hold on for second, Alistair will be confident of that, even if

:28:09.:28:12.

you break them. Alistair is starting to believe that he will win. He has

:28:13.:28:19.

opened up a gap. A couple of white lines on one of the streets in

:28:20.:28:24.

Leeds. He moves away from his younger brother, looking to

:28:25.:28:27.

successfully defend the World Series triathlon title that he claimed the

:28:28.:28:32.

12 months ago. Brownlee has made his move. The Olympic champion is clear

:28:33.:28:37.

and of the Olympic silver medallist. We spoke earlier about the fact that

:28:38.:28:42.

Jonny has not had a chance to race. You cannot count Yokohama. He did

:28:43.:28:47.

not get the chance to have the heart run. He had to run the last

:28:48.:28:50.

kilometre with his bike on his shoulder. We know he's capable of

:28:51.:29:01.

running the ten key faster. After having run two have marathon races,

:29:02.:29:06.

90 kilometres on the bike, this will feel easy. It will feel easy and

:29:07.:29:11.

familiar. This is what he does, and he is dammed good at it. They just

:29:12.:29:18.

came past the giant poster and picture of Alistair. Leeds prepared

:29:19.:29:26.

to be inspired. He is inspiring them in spades. What a performance. The

:29:27.:29:31.

brothers are out there again. It is Alistair leaves them through as they

:29:32.:29:36.

approach the end of a lap three. Is this a winning escape from Alistair,

:29:37.:29:41.

or has Jonny got more to offer? They will make the right turn onto the

:29:42.:29:47.

blue carpet shortly. The crowds have seen it on the big screens. Now they

:29:48.:29:51.

will see it in real-time. Alistair comes with Jonny separated by three

:29:52.:29:54.

or four seconds. Alistair will take the bell, Jonny

:29:55.:30:07.

will follow. The other triathlete is a lapped athlete. Alistair leads

:30:08.:30:17.

Jonny, a familiar scene. I think he looked over his shoulder and thought

:30:18.:30:21.

he had company! Without realising it was a lapped athlete. Adam Bowden

:30:22.:30:33.

and Tom Bishop Battle it out for fourth position. Alistair Brownlee

:30:34.:30:39.

will have been able to see how big the gap is. There's a large screen

:30:40.:30:44.

and he would have been able to see the gap he had created back to

:30:45.:30:52.

Jonny. Bowden and Bishop coming through, taking the applause of the

:30:53.:30:58.

Leeds spectators. Absolutely deafening, fantastic noise here. 12

:30:59.:31:06.

seconds now between Fernando Alarza in third place and Adam Bowden and

:31:07.:31:13.

Tom Bishop in fourth and fifth, so that gap is decisive. We can see the

:31:14.:31:16.

pain written all over his face but he has made a decisive gap, and more

:31:17.:31:22.

than anything that will be mentally destroying for both of those boys

:31:23.:31:25.

behind. I think it will take something immense now for them to

:31:26.:31:31.

get themselves in third position. Alistair making his way down the

:31:32.:31:36.

slightly easier part of the course, downhill. Jonny in the background

:31:37.:31:41.

hasn't dropped off too much, around about ten seconds separates him.

:31:42.:31:46.

Part of me feels for Tom Bishop and Adam Bowden, but what a wonderful

:31:47.:31:51.

job. There's only one Spaniard that separates Adam Bowden and Tom Bishop

:31:52.:31:55.

from the Brownlee brothers, and that's great racing from Adam

:31:56.:32:01.

Bowden, and Tom Bishop has really come of age this year. But we are

:32:02.:32:06.

all excited because we want to see a British sweep of the podium. That's

:32:07.:32:10.

what we got excited about in the last half-hour, but we may well end

:32:11.:32:23.

up with a one, two, four, five. Meanwhile Alistair continues to

:32:24.:32:26.

strengthen his lead over his younger brother. One and three quarters

:32:27.:32:31.

kilometres left to run. He made a decisive break away four or five

:32:32.:32:36.

minutes ago and he's holding on to what will be his second successive

:32:37.:32:46.

double UTS win in Leeds. The only race he intends to compete in in

:32:47.:33:03.

2017 -- WTS win in Leeds. We will pan down the road to pick out

:33:04.:33:10.

Fernando Alarza, he will be on the right. There he is, there is Alarza

:33:11.:33:16.

on one carriageway with Alistair on the other. For the Brownlee brothers

:33:17.:33:22.

having watched Alarza's race, they will be glad they didn't get off the

:33:23.:33:28.

bike with him. Alarza did work on the bike but he certainly had an

:33:29.:33:33.

easy ride. The Brownlee brothers have done a time trial on their own,

:33:34.:33:40.

whereas Alarza had a lot of people helping him. The Brownlee brothers

:33:41.:33:43.

will be glad not to get off the bike with him. I would agree, it's also

:33:44.:33:48.

important to remember this is a triathlon. We get caught up with who

:33:49.:33:53.

has run the fastest split, and actually if Alarza had been with

:33:54.:33:57.

them maybe he would have out from them. What we have to remember is

:33:58.:34:02.

this is triathlon, swimming, biking and running, and whoever gets to the

:34:03.:34:09.

finish first is the winner. It's all about who crosses the line first and

:34:10.:34:12.

Alistair and Jonny looked like they will finish first and second. So

:34:13.:34:19.

far, the triathlon today has been exceptional. A fine women's race won

:34:20.:34:25.

by Flora Duffy of Bermuda, and are quite startling men's competition,

:34:26.:34:33.

which may well be won by Alistair Brownlee for the second year in

:34:34.:34:37.

succession, and Jonny Brownlee is still in the silver medal position

:34:38.:34:42.

here in Leeds. It's been a master class really from Alistair, showing

:34:43.:34:48.

the way in triathlon. Absolute precision in transition, he wasn't

:34:49.:34:53.

far off the pace when he came out of the water. He dominated the bike

:34:54.:34:58.

section and made his escape from his younger brother, designed it to

:34:59.:35:03.

perfection out on the run. Jonny Brownlee has worked incredibly hard,

:35:04.:35:07.

it's starting to show on his face. He looks hot, there is sweat on his

:35:08.:35:12.

brow, because even though it is not hard it is kind of warm out there

:35:13.:35:20.

for Leeds! It is definitely, and going back a week or so it looks

:35:21.:35:23.

like it would be a really hot day, but the forecast has changed a bit.

:35:24.:35:28.

The water temperature cooled down a lot making it the wet suit swim, but

:35:29.:35:34.

for a June day in Leeds it is really nice. Nice to be watching, maybe not

:35:35.:35:42.

to be out on the course! The final kilometre now for Alistair Brownlee

:35:43.:35:46.

who was involved for a while with a bit of hand-to-hand combat with his

:35:47.:35:52.

brother. They raise shoulder to shoulder for two thirds of this

:35:53.:35:56.

final leg, then Alistair broke away and yet again Jonny didn't have the

:35:57.:36:01.

resources to respond. I remember chatting with Alistair at Rio, and I

:36:02.:36:08.

said is it the mental battle, he said I don't believe in that. But

:36:09.:36:12.

then he always talks about how Jonny was much stronger in training and he

:36:13.:36:18.

is not as strong in training. For me he wins the mental battle every

:36:19.:36:23.

time. He has the ability to push himself further than any athlete.

:36:24.:36:27.

There's a lot of different athlete in the world in the way they operate

:36:28.:36:31.

and for me I've always found I'm someone who performs better in races

:36:32.:36:35.

than I would appear to be training and I think Alistair is one of those

:36:36.:36:40.

people as well. His performance jumps from what he may be able to do

:36:41.:36:45.

on a training session to a race, better than Jonny. Alistair just has

:36:46.:36:55.

this X factor, this ability to go deeper. He might not think it is

:36:56.:36:59.

mental toughness but I don't know what you would call it. He has this

:37:00.:37:03.

racing brain, this ability to push deep and we will see him win yet

:37:04.:37:10.

again. Absolutely amazing, what an incredible feeling it must be for

:37:11.:37:13.

Alistair Brownlee. There was a moment of doubt when we thought they

:37:14.:37:18.

would be swallowed up by the huge pack but never write off the

:37:19.:37:23.

Brownlee brothers. What an incredible sensational race Alistair

:37:24.:37:28.

Brownlee has hard. Just look at these scenes now. Excitement levels

:37:29.:37:36.

have peaked. They have got what they have come to see. In many ways it's

:37:37.:37:46.

a triumph for the homecoming champion. He returns to his home

:37:47.:37:51.

city to deliver a win of the very highest quality. Now he can slow,

:37:52.:37:57.

now he can soak up the moment and win in Leeds again for the second

:37:58.:38:03.

year in a row. Alistair Brownlee wins the Leeds triathlon series race

:38:04.:38:08.

with his younger brother, Jonny, celebrating second position. Not a

:38:09.:38:14.

single person in the grandstand is on the seat, everybody is standing

:38:15.:38:18.

up. The place has gone bananas for the arrival of the Brownlees. They

:38:19.:38:25.

have delivered, after all the hype of the last couple of weeks as they

:38:26.:38:30.

built the course, put up the posters and laid the carpet. It has laid up

:38:31.:38:36.

to expectations and some. Fernando Alarza, the world number one, comes

:38:37.:38:41.

home for third position. Outclassed by both the Brownlee brothers today

:38:42.:38:47.

who will now watch as Adam Bowden comes home to claim fourth for Great

:38:48.:38:54.

Britain. Brilliant performance from Bowden, and Tom Bishop makes it

:38:55.:39:03.

three out of five... Four out of five British triathlete. Christian

:39:04.:39:07.

Blum will be next home. That has got to be some kind of record for our

:39:08.:39:13.

statistics. The first, second, fourth and fifth, phenomenal racing

:39:14.:39:20.

and a great job from all of them. Well, Bowden ran his heart out

:39:21.:39:28.

taking on the younger man, Bishop, and his athletic pedigree came in to

:39:29.:39:34.

help him through. He won't be on the podium, but fourth place, I guess

:39:35.:39:38.

Adam Bowden will see that as... It is an all time best for him on home

:39:39.:39:44.

soil, just absolutely wonderful. There is the one, two, three.

:39:45.:39:53.

Alistair Brownlee, Jonny Brownlee, and Fernando Alarza. Pierre Le Corre

:39:54.:40:01.

of France was in the early breakaway on the bike and he's battling with

:40:02.:40:16.

Silva. Seventh and eighth but given the same time. Vincent Luis never

:40:17.:40:24.

quite found his running legs. Then Richard Varga, returning to Leeds,

:40:25.:40:28.

finishing in 11th position. And once again today it was all about the

:40:29.:40:35.

Brownlee brothers. It was all about the Brownlee

:40:36.:40:39.

brothers but we have witnessed not only an epic race but an historic

:40:40.:40:45.

race because for the first time in World Triathlon Series history, we

:40:46.:40:49.

have seen four athletes from the same nation finishing in the top

:40:50.:40:54.

five and they were all British. Alan Jenkins alongside me watching it,

:40:55.:41:00.

and to see those guys coming over in succession, that was such a special

:41:01.:41:05.

thing. It's amazing for British triathlon, and for Tom Bishop and

:41:06.:41:08.

Adam Bowden they had a great swim, they didn't quite make it on the

:41:09.:41:13.

bike but they showed the depth we have in British triathlon. We were

:41:14.:41:18.

hoping for a moment before Alarza spoiled the party that there might

:41:19.:41:21.

have been a top three. It didn't happen today but those guys have

:41:22.:41:25.

shown potential that they are all medal potential. It is really

:41:26.:41:32.

exciting. We have seen these guys breaking through to almost on the

:41:33.:41:36.

podium. Tom has his podium this year but it shows how strong they are at

:41:37.:41:41.

the moment. We are hoping to speak to our podium people, our medal

:41:42.:41:45.

winners in a moment, but let's go down to Louise Minchin who has been

:41:46.:41:50.

watching from ground level. It has been an amazing atmosphere,

:41:51.:41:54.

totally incredible. I want to speak to someone who has been watching

:41:55.:41:59.

intensely, we all have, but shall we speak to the mother? How are you

:42:00.:42:05.

feeling? Your two boys, fantastic. Totally relieved it's all over and

:42:06.:42:10.

they have made Leeds proud. What is it like watching for you? Is it very

:42:11.:42:17.

tense? It is always tends really because you are worried they will

:42:18.:42:21.

have an accident on the bike and the distance came down to a small

:42:22.:42:27.

amount. Just an amazing race really. Congratulations to them and you,

:42:28.:42:29.

let's go straight to them. Jonny, your mother was speaking

:42:30.:42:39.

there, she said she was glad it was all over, are you? Yes, it's an

:42:40.:42:45.

amazing feeling coming to Leeds town centre, but it was a hard way of

:42:46.:42:51.

doing that race. Basically the two of us from the end of the swim. If I

:42:52.:42:55.

wanted to beat Alistair that wasn't the way to do it, I turned it into a

:42:56.:43:02.

long-distance hard man's race and he is harder than me. You collectively

:43:03.:43:05.

had to make a call to drop the French guys at the beginning of the

:43:06.:43:09.

bike. We didn't want to drop them but they weren't strong enough. We

:43:10.:43:15.

had a gap, maybe the course helped a bit with those hills, then I thought

:43:16.:43:21.

it's just us two, it will be a long day. I have had injuries and missed

:43:22.:43:26.

training this year and maybe that hurt me towards the end but that

:43:27.:43:30.

kind of racing, Alistair will always win. Even though it was the two of

:43:31.:43:39.

you, you gave these guys plenty to worry about. You have a medal to

:43:40.:43:44.

collect. Take your towel and your liquids. Annie Emerson has joined

:43:45.:43:53.

us. Just supreme, what can you say? I'm exhausted, one of the best races

:43:54.:43:58.

I have ever seen. Coming into town and staying away from the chase pack

:43:59.:44:04.

which was ten bike lengths behind, it was amazing. And the way you

:44:05.:44:07.

describe it as well, because it could have gone so many different

:44:08.:44:11.

ways. They had to drop those French at the start and it became the

:44:12.:44:16.

Brownlee show as you called it. Yes, and for the guys who came out here

:44:17.:44:23.

today, they made it special and that is what is important for Leeds and

:44:24.:44:26.

the fans but Alistair has shown he is the best that there is. We have

:44:27.:44:30.

talked about going up the distances and what Alistair has done, going

:44:31.:44:36.

into the middle distances... Come on, he's here, let's talk to him

:44:37.:44:42.

about it. Congratulations! Alistair Brownlee in the house. Give them a

:44:43.:44:46.

wave because they have come to see you. Your mum has been speaking, she

:44:47.:44:54.

said she's glad it's over and she's very proud of you. Just describe

:44:55.:44:58.

once again what it was like coming down the blue carpet in your home

:44:59.:45:00.

city and soaking it up? comes with Jonny separated by three

:45:01.:45:04.

or four seconds. It was really special. You can never

:45:05.:45:09.

expect to win a race, you never know what will happen, but today I

:45:10.:45:14.

definitely did not know. I have been involved in this race from the

:45:15.:45:19.

start. The course planning, the organisation, and to get people out

:45:20.:45:23.

on the course, it was magical. The last few hundred metres and the lead

:45:24.:45:27.

up to Millennium Square was amazing. Some of the best crowds, an

:45:28.:45:31.

experience I will remember for the rest of my career. You have been

:45:32.:45:34.

through so many different kinds of races. This is one that you could

:45:35.:45:38.

not have plotted. You had this world-class field, but as Jonny was

:45:39.:45:43.

saying, quickly into the bike, it became about you two. You had to go

:45:44.:45:48.

it alone? It got really close. I thought it was going to come back

:45:49.:45:52.

together. Jonny said we should set up but I said, keep working. They

:45:53.:45:55.

will have to go hard to catch us. People

:45:56.:46:08.

start not wanting to take their turn. We kept working and we were

:46:09.:46:11.

riding really hard. For the first three laps of the circuit, that is

:46:12.:46:14.

as hard as we have ridden. It took it out of bars on the run. I know

:46:15.:46:17.

you have a gold medal to prolong for the umpteenth time. Tell us about

:46:18.:46:20.

your plans for the year. These people have enjoyed seeing you in

:46:21.:46:23.

the World Series races. We know there is the triathlon cup to come

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in Nottingham. Will we see you there are? Am not sure. My season plan was

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about qualifying for the half distance world champs. Then this

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race. Two Biggles. I have done that now. I only thought to this point. I

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need to go away and decide what I want do for the rest of the year.

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Now the mixed relay is in the Olympics, that is a big incentive to

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get back for Tokyo. I want to support it in this country. Then

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there is a grand final in September. We will see you in Tokyo? Maybe.

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Ducking out of the answer. We will try to bring you back not just for

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the programme but for the mixed relay. Congratulations. Alistair

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will get is gold medal for the second time in Leeds in a row. If we

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have time we will speak to him at the end of the programme. He does

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have this X factor. You cannot train it. He has this steel in him that

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puts him leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. Yes, it is hard to

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bet against Alistair in a race. He has this ability to turn himself

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inside out and get the wind. That performance was inspiring. For any

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young triathlete in the country, that is how you raise, you swim

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hard, you bike heart, and you run card. Two other guys did superbly

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today, Adam Bowden and Tom Bishop. Come on in, boys. Congratulations on

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what was a sensational race. I will give you that microphone. I am not

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sure if you know, but your history makers today? Not ever in World

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Series racing have there been four athletes from one nation in the top

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five. How about that? What do you have to say? Incredible. The crowd

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are phenomenal. You come out of the water and you can hear it coming

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into the city, getting louder and louder. During the monkey-like, it

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was unbelievable. The adrenaline, the extra energy. -- during the bike

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leg. Having British athletes so high up, it is brilliant. I am choked, I

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do not know what to say. It took it out of you. You pulled through, but

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what about the fact that you're part of this group that is making waves

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on the world stage? It is not just about Brownlees. We went into Leeds

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wanting to dominate. We knew we had the strongest team we have ever put

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out in World Series. We wanted to nail the race. Jonny and Alistair

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had their tactics. We knew what they were going to do and we wanted to

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either go with it or if the plan did not work for them, we would

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consolidate and try and run through. We tried our best to make it a clean

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sweep, but Fernando is a classy runner. He is a serial medallist. In

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the commentary, you were talking about the challenge that they had

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with Fernando Alarza. On his face, he was struggling, but these two did

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not necessarily know that they could have closed the gap with a little

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extra. He is a serial surgery. He is a tough competitor. He had the

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fastest run split in Yokohama. He is one of the best runners on the

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circuit. You guys stayed with him for a good amount of time. He is

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flying at the moment. He had a dodgy second transition in Yokohama. He

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came past me like I was standing still. Today, he used the hill to

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his advantage. He kept pushing. On lap three, the elastic went. Bowden

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was behind me. The tactic worked for him in the end. The top four is a

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personal best. Tell us about your personal development. For Tom

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Bishop, it has been a breakthrough year. In training your felt good but

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it has not come out on race days? I have had some bad luck, crashing in

:50:40.:50:42.

Yokohama. That was a big disappointment. In my mind, I was

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not far of wanting to quit the sport. There was lots of emotion.

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Today was about running with emotion, strength and power,

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believing in myself. I can be close to the podium, one day when the

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podium. I am getting a little bit, but I am still one of those people

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that can break through. Hopefully I will do the same as Tom Bishop. When

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he got the silver medal, I was so happy for him. We train together. I

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have been pushing him in training, he has been pushing me. I am really

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proud of Adam. Today was his best race. We will work hard during the

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summer in a training camp. We will continue pushing through. You have

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shown how you're making waves for British triathlon. I know you had a

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podium in Abu Dhabi, but you're showing that there is no age on this

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guy. You're anything but passed it. Congratulations to both of you.

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Let's go to the medal ceremony. Talk us through it. Thank you,

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familiar faces on the podium in Leeds. Alistair Brownlee will step

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up to collect his 35th major gold medal in World Series racing. First

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of all, it will be the Spaniard, Fernando Alarza. Third place today.

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He consolidates his lead at the top of the World Triathlon Series

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standings. He came in with the number one on his arm and he will

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continue to wear the number one in the next race in Hamburg. , the

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sprint and the team mixed relay. In second place, representing Great

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Britain, Jonathan Brownlee. Jonny Brownlee, beaten by his big brother

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again. He does not seem to mind. They have that unique relationship

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where as long as one of them wins, that will do. Second today. And all

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the family and the Brownlee connections here in their home city

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to watch it unfolds. -- unfold. In first place, representing Great

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Britain, Alistair Brownlee. What a moment for Alistair. When he

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returned from London with a gold medal, when he returned from Rio

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with the Olympic gold medal, celebrations were massive in this

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city. Since then, he has been part of designing and running this

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course, this race in Leeds. And he has definitely made his mark. It is

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only -- it is his only World Triathlon Series outing this season

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and he has finished in total control. Ladies and gentlemen,

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please rise for the playing of the national anthem of Great Britain.

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CHEERING Well, prepare to be inspired was the

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slogan that they used to promote this race in Leeds this weekend.

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Alistair inspired tens of thousands this afternoon and millions more

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watching around the world, with that extraordinary performance.

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Fernando Alarza strengthens his lead at the top of the series standings

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for 2017. Spanish flags all the way, first, second and third, with Tom

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Bishop in fourth. Limited participation. That keeps the

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Brownlees of the top of the leaderboard, but Jonny may well

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appear if he continues to race in the series for the remainder of the

:55:53.:55:53.

year. Thank you very much. Before we go,

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let's fill you in on what else is to, on BBC Sport in the coming

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weeks. The Canadian Grand Prix is under way

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very soon. Lewis Hamilton on the podium. And there is football this

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evening. That is a World Cup qualifier. In Leeds, we have to

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summarise what has been an exemplary day. The GB performance director is

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with me. They did not have to live, those boys? They are amazing. They

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love a challenge, and they got up the top of that hill and they were

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getting the time gaps, and the two French boys dropped away and they

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went for it. We are in them lots of the time. Amazing. They like to

:57:04.:57:09.

raise hard, but they had to day. They should every day, the crowd

:57:10.:57:13.

that paid for their tickets to come, they showed how talented they are,

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that they can beat a field for two Hall legs of a race. If they can get

:57:20.:57:28.

a gap, and get into the technical sections, they can get away. They

:57:29.:57:32.

know each other inside out. When they got into town, the ability to

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keep away on the technical section worked in their favour. Let's get a

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quick word before we say goodbye today. Incredible entertainment.

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That is triathlon at its best. I hope that lots of people who have

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not seen it before watching today, because what the Brownlees did today

:57:50.:57:55.

was sensational. It is the kind of day that your baby and waiting will

:57:56.:58:00.

Get Inspired by. You can feel it in the atmosphere today? It was amazing

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today. What a day to have it. The British crowd lifted the athletes.

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We had great performances. It has been a pleasure to enjoy it with

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you. Thank you for being part of the programme. I am sure that every

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single one of you watching the last few hours will have enjoyed it. We

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had Brownlee masterclass. I think I can speak for everyone in Leeds,

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thank you, Alistair and Jonny and everyone from British triathlon. We

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will see you next time. Goodbye. For the first time, the Science

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