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…
Julie Dibens came from England to the U.S. to swim at LSU. Her early triathlons included racing the Danskin and the USTS Series. In her career she made two Olympic teams, raced in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, won three XTERRA World Championship titles and the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. In 2010 she was…
Sarah Haskins is a 2008 U.S. Olympian, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, and a three-time winner of the Race to the Toyota Cup. During our conversation we talked about how she quickly went from doing her first triathlon in 2003 to turning pro a year later and then not only making the Olympic team…
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…
Katie Hursey Zaferes loved running the steeplechase at Syracuse and her first pro season as a triathlete wasn’t until 2013. She is obviously a quick learner. She is now ranked second in the world and in her first four ITU races in 2015 she has finished second three times and third once. Subscribe to…
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…