Talking Triathlon

Hyrox is chasing Olympic recognition, and with World Triathlon now backing the format under the name Hyathlon, the dream of a 2032 Brisbane debut is more credible than it once seemed. We ask what that would mean for the sport and whether it is a good thing.
Courtney Dauwalter turned up at Kona as a Salomon guest and left people talking. She has gone on record saying there is a hundred percent chance she will do an Ironman, with 2027 looking increasingly likely. Salomon also happens to be taking over as title partner of the Ironman World Championship that year.
Henri Schoeman broke his silence this week on a decade of online abuse that followed his 2016 World Triathlon Grand Final win in Cozumel. He revealed death threats against him and his family, stemming from a result that some sections of the public never accepted. Ten years is a long time to carry that.
Three races on the horizon. Noosa Triathlon is this Sunday, one of the most iconic short-course events on the calendar. Ironman Florida follows the week after as one of the last Kona qualifying opportunities of the year, with Alanis Siffert, Chelsea Sodaro and Magnus Ditlev among those on the start list. Dubai T100 is two weeks out, the penultimate stop on the T100 World Tour, with Hayden Wilde targeting a sixth win from six races.
The final story from Kona. Solveig Løvseth's collapse in the final mile of the women's race cost her around $1 million according to her manager. The numbers behind what she lost make an already heartbreaking moment even harder to comprehend.
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James sits down with Vincent Luis fresh off his victory in Kona, in what was both his first and last Ironman World Championship. They talk through what it means to be world champion, the journey that brought him to the Big Island, and how he is processing a result that few saw coming. Luis takes James through the race itself, from the marathon charge that brought down Magnus Ditlev in the closing miles to the moment he crossed the finish line knowing he had done it. A wide-ranging conversation with one of triathlon's most compelling figures at the peak of his career.
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This week there is only one event we are talking about, Kona!
Taylor Knibb wins the women's Ironman World Championship in the most dramatic of circumstances. Solveig Løvseth led going into the final mile before collapsing on the road. Knibb went past her to take the title, Løvseth got back to her feet and walked across the line in eighth. Lucy Charles-Barclay led out of the swim but withdrew on the run. Laura Philipp took second, Julie Derron third. Knibb becomes just the third woman ever to hold both the 70.3 and full-distance world titles in the same year.
Vincent Luis wins the men's race on his Kona debut, a race he had said publicly would also be his last. He started the marathon over five minutes down on Magnus Ditlev and ran him down in the closing miles to take one of the great Kona victories. Gustav Iden charged hard and finished second, with Sam Laidlow and Kristian Blummenfelt both falling away in the heat.
Despite finishing second in Kona, Iden's consistency across the season was enough to win the overall Ironman Pro Series title. On the women's side, Laura Philipp takes the series crown.
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Andy Horsfall-Turner joins to give an update on his season and share his thoughts on the Pro Series as a professional athlete living inside the system. We talk about what it actually looks like from the inside, whether the series is working, and what needs to change.
Kona is here. The Ironman World Championship returns to the Big Island with both the men's and women's races on the same day for the first time since 2019, and the fields are stacked. We go through who we think can win, who the conditions will suit, and what a race without defending champion Casper Stornes means for the men's title.
The women's race features defending champion Solveig Løvseth, Lucy Charles-Barclay, Chelsea Sodaro, Laura Philipp, Kat Matthews and Taylor Knibb among others. We break down the contenders and pick our winners.
The men's line-up brings together Gustav Iden, Kristian Blummenfelt, Patrick Lange and Sam Laidlow, with Stornes absent after his training crash on the island last week. We run through the field and ask who steps up to fill the void.
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Jan Frodeno took on the Berlin Marathon and ran 2:23:33, beating his target of 2:25 with a faster second half. We talk about what it means for Frodo to still be pushing himself in new ways post-retirement from triathlon.
Reigning Ironman World Champion Casper Stornes is out of Kona after a training crash on the Big Island. A gust of wind caught his front wheel and sent him over the handlebars, leaving him with a broken collarbone and a fracture to his L3. A devastating blow just days out from a title defence on the very island he came to conquer.
Kona is on October 10 and the start lists are stacked. Seven former world champions are heading to the Big Island, with both the men's and women's races wide open following Stornes' withdrawal. We run through who looks dangerous and who the race suits.
Cassandre Beaugrand was in a class of her own at the WTCS Grand Final in Pontevedra, winning the race and completing five wins from five series starts in 2026 to claim a second world title. Georgia Taylor-Brown was second and Kate Waugh third.
The men's race went down to the wire. Matthew Hauser took the win in a sprint finish, with Vasco Vilaca crossing the line second and in doing so claiming the overall world title. Alex Yee finished third, just four seconds off the winner.
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