Tricks of the trade

[Deleted User]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/triathlon/4816288.stm

"Sit in someones slipstream, they can do the work"

So the good old beeb is telling newbies to draft! W*nkers.

Gyraffe

There's a nice list of sabotage suggestions towards the end too

debbo

and talcum powder inside your wetsuit? 

fat buddha

talc for the wettie - helps get it on (think latex gloves) - it unfortunately doesn't help get the frigging wetsuit OFF

AndrewSmith

Actually the article is talking about pros and their 'golden hopes' and drafting is quite legal in their races.

[Deleted User]

Is it from pro point of view?

Never picked up on a talc mark pointing to a bike. The goggle is the only "Pro" thing I could see and I know few that do that in age group races.

Kryten

"Even if it makes you look like a German pole-dancer in the very seediest of Hamburg clubs."

They got that bit right though! 

[Deleted User]

Pole dancer?

More fecking daffyd but never mind. at least im thinner than barlos

FerrousFerret

Mr Fordyce do actually know whereof he speaks, he posted a very respectable 01:07:05 at last years Crystal Palace Tri.

[Deleted User]

The talk marking is illegal and I take great pleasure in removing carriers, rubbing out arrows, taking down flags and all the other rubbish that clutters transition areas in races I ref.  It's not that hard to remember where you racked your bike, especially when it's numbered racking (something I try to encourage organisers to provide). 

[Deleted User]

He can race no doubt but he is no article writer.

Lewis hamliton is fast in an F1 car, can he write a haynes mannual?

[Deleted User]

Tom Fordyce is a journalist that happens to have done a tri though.  He was covering the Rubgy World cup with Ben Dirs, and also does the live blogs for the BBC sport website for various sports.

Gyraffe

I think the empahsis here is on the olympics - are they allowed to draft on the bike and spray talc around.........?

Gyraffe

come to think of it spraying talc around while on the bike could reduce the risk of drafting

Gyraffe

I gather kittenkat uses powerade for that purpose!

The Trickster

Would it be churlish to point out this was written 2 years ago?

candy ollier

yeah, they can draft in the olympics.  it's just a 10k race really, as the swim and the bike are a group warm up.

[Deleted User]

Would it be churlish to point out this was written 2 years ago?Bizzalry the guy has just emailed me! Nice chap.

[Deleted User]

He was covering the Rubgy World cup with Ben Dirs

Again eddie butler is an ex player and now covers rugby matchs some of the stuff he comes up  with

[Deleted User]

Is it only me who finds the name 'Ben Dirs' quite amusing?

Dr Nic Twinks

I'm more offended by "fair do's". Step away from the apostrophe!

[Deleted User]

Dr Nic - if you think that's bad, check out the reference to 'germ magnate' in this article. I knew babies tended to attract germs, but didn't know they ran the germ industry.

Dr Nic Twinks

LOL - brill!

[Deleted User]

The wonders of spell-checkers that don't understand context.

Dr Nic Twinks

Sub-editors should, though!

[Deleted User]

Would a pimp be a babe-magnate?

[Deleted User]

Hey leave ben alone!