With the leading tier 2024 brief course season done and cleaned following the WTCS ending in Torremolinos and the supertri Grand Final in Neom, attention now changes to next year.
In regards to WTCS racing it will be interesting to see how the year turns out provided it's the very first of the brand-new Olympic cycle– and there's the temptation of T100 riches available for those who choose to go up.
We've currently seen Taylor Knibb and Marten Van Riel put themselves in lead because arena in current months, with others most likely to follow.
And it's clear that a person thing which hasn't done WTCS any favours in the last number of seasons is the nature of a number of the courses. Many races have come down to run fights after stalemates on the bike– however could that will alter?
For one noteworthy exception this year was the last routine WTCS race in Weihai, China.
In our race sneak peek we had actually stated: “The eight-loop bike course varies from current World Cups in Weihai as it heads into the hills above Halfmoon Bay which might make things more fascinating than much of the bike courses we've seen this season.”
Which showed to be quite the case, leading to far more vibrant races which were enjoyed by audiences and professional athletes alike, consisting of Team GB trio Alex Yee, Beth Potter and Georgia Taylor-Brown.
All 3 took a seat with TRI247 to provide their views on the significance of a mix naturally on the WTCS calendar– and remained in complete arrangement that what we saw there Weihai was a welcome advance this season.
And Weihai's roll of honour at World Cup level is interesting too– lots of future triathlon super stars have actually tended to win there.
Yee who won in Weihai with a masterclass of a screen and after that included a very first world title to his Olympic crown in Torremolinos, states he feels the WTCS series need to “really show the most total triathlete throughout a year.”
Offered which he included: “I believe we must have difficult bike courses and technical ones that ask various concerns so you get the real reflection of the professional athletes.
“And I believe for us that Weihai was interesting, I truly enjoyed it. The exact same for individuals seeing, despite the fact that it was insane o'clock in the early morning in Europe.
“I believe it ought to be here to remain due to the fact that it was an actually, truly great course. And done actually well. It had actually been entirely resurfaced and they clearly put a great deal of effort into the race. And the Weihai [World Cup] triathlon before that has rather a history.”
Britain's Alex Yee rollicks to an incredible success at WTCS Weihai (Photo– World Triathlon). ‘Bored of riding around parking lot'
Potter, world champ in 2015, echoed that by stating: “Yeah,
