The men's triathlon at the Paris Olympics that was due to take place this afternoon, Australian time, has been postponed because pollution levels in the River Seine remain too high.
As an amateur triathlete, cutting the swimming is my dream! My best Olympic-distance triathlon* was the time they announced the night before that due to rough waves (in the beach swim), they would be cutting the swim from 1,500 m to 750 m, and adding a 1.5 km beach run before T1. Also, as an added bonus, despite the weather the night before being really rough, it was smooth as glass the morning of the race.
But that’s an amateur race. Certainly, at the professional level, if they have to make it a duathlon, that’ll be very unfortunate for the competition. It’s not the event they were training for, and it’s so different at an elite level.
* technically not my fastest. I had one faster, but that was with a swim that was over 300 m short and downstream in a river, and the run was 400 m short according to my GPS, with no added distance like the above-mentioned beach run
As an amateur triathlete, cutting the swimming is my dream! My best Olympic-distance triathlon* was the time they announced the night before that due to rough waves (in the beach swim), they would be cutting the swim from 1,500 m to 750 m, and adding a 1.5 km beach run before T1. Also, as an added bonus, despite the weather the night before being really rough, it was smooth as glass the morning of the race.
But that’s an amateur race. Certainly, at the professional level, if they have to make it a duathlon, that’ll be very unfortunate for the competition. It’s not the event they were training for, and it’s so different at an elite level.
* technically not my fastest. I had one faster, but that was with a swim that was over 300 m short and downstream in a river, and the run was 400 m short according to my GPS, with no added distance like the above-mentioned beach run