Sarah True just qualified for her second U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team in Rio by finishing fourth in the test race. During our conversation Sarah shared what she learned from the injury that laid her up for nearly a year back in 2010 and from finishing in fourth place only ten seconds off the podium at…
It was the ultimate good news/ bad news scenario. U.S. steeplechaser Evan Jager was in Paris about to win the steeple at the Diamond League event. The good news? He set a new American record with his 8:00.45. The bad news? He tumbled over the very last hurdle and ended up in second. The 2012…
Christoph Sauser took a bronze medal home to Switzerland from the 2000 Olympics in mountain biking, has won the legendary Cape Epic Stage Race a record five times, and for the past three years has taken second at the Blueprint for Athletes Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race. Last year he finished only 18 seconds…
Jan Frodeno is the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, and in his first two full Ironman events in 2014 he took third at Ironman Frankfurt and third at the Ironman World Championship. This weekend he returns to Frankfurt to try and knock off, among others, the last two Ironman world Champions, Frederik Van Lierde and Sebastian…
Helle Frederiksen from Denmark was coming off the biggest win in her career at the 2014 Hy-Vee Triathlon where she took home a first place check of $100,000. The following weekend, 57 kilometers into the Ironman 70.3 World Championship at Mont-Tremblant, she received a drafting penalty, lost four minutes, and eventually dropped out of the…
Classics Interview Series: Javier Gomez at Tri Club of San Diego, April 2013 Javier Gomez joined me at a Tri Club of San Diego meeting the week before the ITU WTS San Diego race for a Q&A interview. We talked about the Brownlee brothers, career highlights, and his future plans in the sport. Enjoy the audio from our interview. …
Classics Interview Series: Alistair Brownlee at Tri Club of San Diego, April 2013 The day after winning the ITU race in San Diego, the Olympic gold medalist – and the best triathlete in the world – Alistair Brownlee and I sat down for a Q&A in front of a huge Tri Club of San Diego…
2004 Olympian Barb Lindquist is the MVP of USA Triathlon. Her job is to scout the high school and college scene and identify potentially great triathletes. She discovered the woman who is now the very best in the world, Gwen Jorgensen, and Gwen is just the first of many. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes …
A special Q&A with Meb Keflezighi was filmed at the Tri Club of San Diego meeting on May 5th. Here is the audio. We call last evening Cinco de Meb & Bob since we were both born on May 5th. Meb takes us through his amazing journey from growing up without running water in Eritrea to…
Nicola Spirig from Switzerland was born on February 7, 1982, one day after the classic race in Kona where Kathleen McCartney won the Ironman while Julie Moss crawled to the finish and immortality. Obviously destined to be a triathlete, Nicola started in the sport at the age of 10 and made her first Olympic Team…