The World Triathlon Podcast

After another yahoo in Yokohama, the team sets its sights on WTCS Alghero, where the mouthwatering prospect of Matt Hauser, Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde, Vasco Vilaça and countless others will go toe-to-toe for the first time this year. Series commentator Belinda Granger and World Triathlon's Kris Gemmell give their reflections on the brilliance and guts of young Tilda Mansson's sprint finish against Beth Potter, and the rise of Australia and the art of the breakaway. Tune in to TriathlonLive.tv for guaranteed fireworks in Alghero from 11am CEST on 30 May!

The World Triathlon Championship Series was back with a bang at the weekend with two firing WTCS Samarkand races that saw Vasco Vilaça scoop a gritty first Series gold and Beth Potter back to her best with a consummate 10km off a hot and hard 40km bike. Will McCloy and Belinda Granger are also back to give their view from the commentary booth, Marton Kropko dials in to tell all about his triple breakaway and injury blow up, and we talk bottle flips and Vuckets at the T100 Singapore...Watch all the action back over on TriathlonLive.tv

Fresh from his mammoth debut World Triathlon Championship Series win in Karlovy Vary, Germany's latest triathlon talent Henry Graf joins Doug Gray and Tommy Zaferes for a full run-down of the latest and greatest Battle of Bohemia!📈 Being nearly two metres tall in an era of smaller, faster triathletes🍿 Winning your debut the same day as Ironman short-distancers light up Nice – shouts to Casper Stornes, Gustav Iden, Kristian Blummenfelt and friend Jonas Schomburg💪 Taylor Spivey’s mega bike effort to catch onto Maya Kingma’s mega bike effort🐠 Oliver Conway’s impressive debut with 4th place new talent coming off the GB production line💥 Beth Potter back on top of the podium and Jeanne Lehair bouncing back from bashing the barrier🦿 Hitting the KV roads hard with breakaway boys Tjebbe Kaindl and Mark Devay✍️ Hayden Wilde’s pre-race car incident, Swim behaviour penalties, John Reed clocking the rapid runs, prospects for a Series podium and his chances of taking Csongor Lehmann’s crown in Tiszy

The newly crowned European Sprint Triathlon Champion, Belgium's Jolien Vermeylen is one of the sport's great characters, and heads to Istanbul at the end of August chasing a huge continental double with the Olympic Distance title.On episode 105, the 31-year-old opens up about having her post-Paris 2024 words twisted and the pain of a resulting social media pile-on, putting her 70.3 ambitions on hold to chase a career-best Series ranking in 2025 and soaking in the arc of taking up the sport after reading the Brownlee book on holiday in Corfu and then winning supertri gold for Brownlee Racing in Toronto a decade later."You can read subtitles on my face. If I like something I show it and if I don’t you’ll know it. But maybe for racing I need it!"

In recovery after suffering a bad bike crash at WTCS Hamburg in mid-July, Roksana Slupek is our guest this week, and the Poland number one shares her reflections on the highs and lows of her journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic start line.From attacks of self doubt and depression to ultimately qualifying for her life’s dream, and the harsh realities of racing on – and crashing out of – the world’s biggest triathlon series, the 26-year-old shares an eye-opening hour of life as an elite athlete, and how recent events have made her re-evaluate her attitude towards her fellow competitors on the World Triathlon Championships Series.