Lets just have one World Championships
November 12th, 2009 by Will
Probably get a bit nailed for this post…
One think that really annoys me about Triathlon is the amount of World Championships there are about and in-fact, the amount of races there are in the World. Â It’s crazy how many top level races there are kicking about.
I would love to see one World Championships and the guy who wins it, is THE World Triathlon Champion!  I think its got way too carried away to the point now where we have, Ironman World Championships, ITU World Championships, Aquathlon World Championships, Biathlon World Championships, 70.3 World Championships, Long Course World Championships, Team World Championships (Isn’t that basically 70.3? Why is it slap bang in between Hawaii and Clearwater?) Shall we include Duathlon World Championships and Winter Triathlon World Champs?
How many Triathlon World Champions do you want?
Triathlon has become so spread out and diluted, to the point of who really cares who is the World Champion! Â In one year, how many people can claim to be the World Champion? Lots!
What motivates me is being the best Triathlete in the World, what happens when/if you get there? I don’t know ask Alistair, my guess is not as much respect/attention as he should probably deserve…he’s surely going to struggle at Sports Personality of the year, probably partly because his status has been diluted down by all the other Triathlon World Championships and Champions around him, if he was the only World Champion then he would be so much more in the eye of the public.
We constantly have Craig Alexander pissing on Alistair Brownlee’s bonfire, Crissie Wellington pissing on Helen Jenkins’ Bonfire, you can go on like this all day!…Who is the best Triathlete out there? There will be constant arguments! There seems to be an event to suit anyone everyone and no matter how great you are you certainly can’t do them all, and some of them are within two weeks!
I don’t think it helps the credibility of the sport, I personally to be honest wouldn’t care which distance stays and which goes, maybe Ironman is the best as its the original distance? Although if you want the best guys in the world going head to head it should be in the Olympics and the IOC won’t be wanting a 8-10hr event, there certainly won’t be many exciting sprint finishes!
Imagine what an incredible event Worlds would be if there was just one of them.
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November 12th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
Andy Warhol
November 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
They shouldn’t be!
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
why not have one swimming world champion? one boxing world champion?
whats with the 100metre sprint in athletics? 5km ?3km steeple chase?biathlon is totally different class of sport.
shouldnt there be one world champion in all sports then?
im quite sure that the answer is no. you cant please all the people all the time.
ok ,have ironman world champs,olympic distance triathlon world champs, and if the world champs in each event want to have a race off at 1.5mile swim,50mile bike,10mile run ,no drafting.
but that aint gonna happen.
its the same sport,different event ,period. ie 100m to marathon in athletics.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I have to have the last word:
If we are not allowed 15 mins of fame there would be no triathlon.
There would only be cricket.
Just as there is a need for diversification within triathlon, triathlon itself is a form of diversification within sports, and sports is a form of diversification within “what shall we do when we already got enough food”.
Multiplication of options is inevitable.