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Where triathlon meets real talk. Hosted by two seasoned triathletes and one Sarah, this podcast takes a deep dive into the controversies, challenges, and triumphs of the triathlete world.
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Lockie
All righty. Welcome, welcome. This is episode number 22, of the unfunded podcast. We are over the moon to have you listening to us. Wherever you're listening to us, we're just happy that you are. This is, who am I? I'm local Jones, professional triathlete, my very good friend over here. And, well, also I. That's it. The unfunded podcast.
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Lockie
Yeah, baby. Proudly sponsored by official big guy. Yeah. Log off. Get it. And then he could be yourself. Going back to a few days. A few weeks ago, didn't we? Yeah, a full back didn't last very long. There's a couple full packs. We got a couple of gifts. Just just as they started releasing them and,
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Lockie
Yeah, they didn't. They didn't make. They didn't make it out. It's the perfect. It's getting warm. It's getting home. It was toasty. It's scary. That's not even our own. Oh, I was really hoping you were going to bring that up. Usually I would never wear a wife beater. I'm. I don't really care about how I dress sometimes. Like you know, I'll put the podcast.
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Lockie
I'll be a little bit unique. You know, I'll wear some stuff that people, most triathletes especially, you know, triathletes can be very safe in what they wear. Yeah. Like maybe boring. I like to be a little bit, you know, it's something different. Yeah, sure, we can call it that. But, never for the part. I was never going to wear a wife beater photo was a black t shirt, grabbed it, was shirtless at the time, obviously.
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Lockie
Throw it on now. I look like a dickhead. That's all right. You got to be in the choices. Oh, yeah. We're back to in the, back doing the bits. That's exciting. We haven't done that. It is a huge weekend. We'll get into that later. Anyway, it, ends. It has been a while. Yeah, it has been a while.
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Lockie
We recorded our old 21st episode a little while ago. We then recorded 22, but we thought it's a bit outdated. So we go back and we're going to get back on this. Yeah. For anybody that listened to what was released last week, episode 21. Yes, like Light and said that was released. That was recorded. Sorry, quite a few weeks, probably three weeks before it was actually released.
00:02:07:15 - 00:02:31:13
Lockie
Had a few teething issues that we're just trying to sort out, obviously. We, we took we took a little break. We revamped a little bit. We we obviously made a few changes. So, yes, we are figuring some things out. Roll from the weekly update, your latest travel news and gossip. Our opinions. Yeah. We'll give them to you straight.
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Lockie
Because it has been a while. What's been going on with you, my good friend? Not a whole lot, really, since the last one. Just been getting back into the swing is writing. Yeah, which is very good news. Squad. Yeah. We're training partners now. Yeah, yeah. Not just. Well, not not just podcast buddies. We I tried, I can't remember if we said that on the last episode.
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Lockie
I, I don't think we did, but. Yes. Light in the air now, not just, hosting a podcast. We are training partners, that is. Other than that, not a whole lot. Just. Yeah, the day to day. That's good. Yeah. Haven't been too exciting, to be honest. Oh, no, actually. Oh, here we go. The last one I went down unseen.
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Lockie
Watch the hours. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was quite fun. That was good. Get, That wasn't a disorder, though, was it? No. It wasn't. Yeah. All of these ones so tight that. Yeah. So. Yeah, that's kind of what I've been up to. That was something exciting, mate. You've got to have that bit of excitement every now and then.
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Lockie
You got to spice it up. God, it's a god. It's an early off season for you. What do you off season in. What do we in August? Yeah I'm running for up to about. So you've had a two month off season a it's cool how you go to have it, mate. Yes I did, I, booked a trip to Bali.
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Lockie
Yeah, we did just about. I had a couple bin tangs. Unfortunately, I did not get my hands on a bean time singlet was spewing. The missus wouldn't let me. The missus wouldn't let me. She said, if you basically said. If I said you were in a bean tank singlet, I'm no longer you missus. So I thought nobody would take that chance.
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Lockie
And, I left it, left it to the straights. But I was so much fun. First time in God knows how long that I've been anywhere without a bike. I didn't have to go. Oh, I woke up Wednesday morning. Didn't even know it was Wednesday morning. Had no idea what day I didn't know what day it was. I was like, oh, this is beautiful.
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Lockie
But, I am sorry. Since coming back, I thought the Gold Coast was your fitness influence. Like capital? Yeah. Is it Bali? Oh, my. Bali. Everyone to end to Bali. This is. This is the. This is the three things you need. Oh, I nearly didn't get let in. You need influence. You need to have 10,000 followers or more.
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Lockie
You need to have a following. Cross me. You need to have an online business of some sort. You need to sell courses. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I coach a couple triathletes online. I think one half, half one. And you need to own a tripod. Okay. I don't know, a tripod, I don't know, drop one. So, yeah, we were I was lucky to sneak in, but honestly, tripods everywhere.
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Lockie
Sexy people everywhere. And all they do is go to the gym in the morning, take photos of themselves, drink their matcha lattes and open their laptops. And they just do this all day. Tip tap typing. So it's the influencer gym junkie fitness guru world. Yeah you all Alex. I've never got it. Other. Other than that. Yeah. You got none of those things.
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Lockie
But other than that, it was unreal. So much fun. So much fun. So yeah, it was it was lovely. It was lovely. So I basically had my, like five week building blocks since coming back from Europe, I think I was I had a little bit of head loss. I had a little bit I had lost, so I didn't really deal with the races.
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Lockie
I guess that happened over in Europe properly. Yeah, I feel like most athletes have that. Sometimes I have a little back. Yeah. And I just went straight back to training. I thought I had like half a week off and just went, fuck that. Yeah. Just went straight back into it. And I kind of got three weeks in and I think it all caught up to me.
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Lockie
And we'd already had this holiday booked, so it wasn't really like it was a spontaneous thing. We'd already had it booked, but it was the perfect time because I started. Yeah, I really started to struggle. And I just thought like, yeah, yeah, exactly. So yeah, it was nice. Now we're back. Had a little crazy week back into it.
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Lockie
Yeah. You probably feel better. I, I do believe so a lot of things. So in the long run anyway. Good. So straight back into So other than el boring slash exciting lives, some boring, some exciting, the draw on world. Oh, it is, it's gone. My God, it's just a shit ton is going on. We told you about a few things in the other podcast and we didn't release it, but I think the big thing was, are we going straight?
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Lockie
Well, let's just go head to head first. First, the world means to you. 100 London did we write him off? I can't remember, we did. We said he won't be fit enough. He's broken five ribs. It was impressive. It was impressive that he came back. But I did not pick him to win. No way. No way. Like could prophesy.
00:07:33:17 - 00:07:56:10
Lockie
We told you about the cyclist. We said they can somehow magically rebuild themselves. And he did that as a truck. I didn't think it could happen. I, I there's, it's obviously possible as a cyclist because they don't have the swimming. It's the swimming like the movement in the like the shoulders and the like. Oh because what he broke his scapula.
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Lockie
Yeah. Like how are you. How are you swimming. How are you getting any mileage in the swim there. Even the pounding of the pavement. You've got ribs five broken ribs and you're running. You pain in the pavement like you can't tell me that you would just straight back into that. Oh, no. He's a freak. Hey, wild is just.
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Lockie
He's a freak. I mean, it's tough because I don't know who's story I do. Alex and Matt has a oh, Alex's back as well. Say, this is where she's getting Matt. That last five. The Toronto. We didn't even know that we didn't get. Did you watch it? Oh, I didn't, neither did I. I chose challenge, so I can sort it.
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Lockie
I probably because, like, we still knew a fair few people racing safely. Yeah. Well a couple Aussies run well Brady Mercer. Yeah. Emma, Jessica was 6 a.m., wasn't it. Wasn't a great time. It was Sunday morning. Yeah. I didn't even watch the race neither. I'm a bit also like. I'm sorry if you're listening. You're not, but, like, I'm a bit off.
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Lockie
Yeah, well, I just. Oh, it is, and I don't, I don't want, I don't want it to sound like, I'm ripping on anyone here, especially the athletes. Because like I said it last time, like, if a contract was put in front of me, you know, I'm taking it home. But like I said, do I believe I should be there?
00:09:22:05 - 00:09:39:06
Lockie
No. Do I believe like some of the these other athletes should be there? No, unfortunately I don't like there was no Hayden while there was no Alex. Yeah. There was no Matt Houser. There was no model Hidalgo. There was no Vasco Villa's our song a Lehmann. Like we could rattle off names all day. These people weren't there. And they're the best in the world and the best in the world to be racing this league.
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Lockie
And like we talked about this weekend coming up, you've got all the big names there. It's huge. I'm not going to miss it. I'll watch the four races. Yeah. All weekend. That's great. Yeah. I didn't have anything for me to even catch my eye. No I the unfortunate. Yeah. I mean, the only reason I probably would have watched it is because our mates, I would have watched Emma Jeffcoat and I would have watched Brady Mercer.
00:10:03:19 - 00:10:27:03
Lockie
Yeah. The other than those two didn't really care. Yep. Yep. Oh, those two again almost wouldn't have cared. But anyway, I don't know. So back to that. Like we said, Hayden Wilde takes out to 100. We gotta shut up from now on to not write him off, because I think we've done that a couple times and he just embarrasses the shit out of us.
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Lockie
So sorry, Hayden, we should have done that. Like we said, Alex won Super League in Toronto. Could both of them come and just just turn the series on the head? Oh, I think well, I peaked, Alex, for the and he hasn't done a single race. And that June, if he comes in that fuck off. You do not think that the whole series.
00:10:51:29 - 00:11:09:28
Lockie
Oh no, not the, I mean, there is enough time for him to come win the series. If he does French Riviera, if he does Karlovy Vary, and if he does, way high, that's if he wins all three. He's got a perfect goal and he wins Wollongong. He's done it. Well I don't again, we don't know their schedules and we don't know.
00:11:09:28 - 00:11:41:19
Lockie
So it is it is a complete guessing game. But it is possible for Hayden and Alex. Imagine that he just started it will when's this. Is it going to be September. It'll be September. Yeah. They just comes back and wins the series. It's fucking hell yeah. Two months of dominance. And then guys I mean again with without so without us knowing what Alex and Hayden's schedule is and what their race plans are, theoretically they can still do it.
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Lockie
It if they were to go and do all the race, the last four races, is there any other race? French Riviera, Karlovy Vary, why high? Is there any other one? I think that's it. I think that's it. And then Wollongong. So theoretically they can do it if they go win all three or if they go somehow they can.
00:11:58:13 - 00:12:16:18
Lockie
So it's not over. I still because I said horse is going to win it. I still think he is going to win it. He's going to put on a show in Wollongong. He's going to take those double points. He's nearly got a perfect score already. He's over the two. I just think we're seeing a different Houser at this year.
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Lockie
I think it's brave that he's going over. Yeah, it's kind of gone. I'm not scared. Yeah I think it's brave guys coming. He could have stayed here and listen to the father last night. It was.
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Lockie
No, actually actually got to go. I actually, no, he thought he was going to go to French Riviera, but we didn't think he was going to Karlovy Vary. And apparently he is, so I, I said that to him. We bumped into each other on the ride and I said, oh, what's your schedule? And he told me I was like, oh, I was so close as I thought.
00:12:46:19 - 00:13:06:20
Lockie
I told the podcast, you do French Riviera and, that that's it. But, yeah. So we know that's what Maddie House is doing. We don't know what the others are doing. But either way. Oh, this could get exciting. Yeah, this would get really exciting. Well, that's what I want. Next up, we see Charles last night, 100 go.
00:13:06:23 - 00:13:25:25
Lockie
She got. She just dominated that, didn't she? I think I'll have to like the whole like Kate Wolf came out in Singapore and just did what she did. I think everyone thought she was just going to do that again. But no, look, she's still right. Well, which come right, I'm pretty sure I saw at the podium, I think she was like, oh, I am disappointed.
00:13:25:28 - 00:13:50:15
Lockie
Lucy's a freak. Yeah, Lucy's a freak. She did. She she did short course. She raced a couple times. Kind of tried to transfer over her boss. Yeah. Very much a straight line rider. Yeah. She. Tyler. Tyler. Nip saw it. She was. Oh, no. Talent of talent. Can call. Just not just not pass. She's just going to embarrass.
00:13:50:18 - 00:14:11:20
Lockie
What can we give her the benefit of the doubt. There actually is a bit of a viral video of Tyler. Have you seen it on where she falls on the dismount line on that I it popped up on my feet. I can five times where she's obviously just hit the front brake too hard as she's coming into the dismount line and it just like she just flips over the front.
00:14:11:20 - 00:14:34:14
Lockie
Obviously very sad. She she didn't look hurt. She went and did the run. But just this out of $30,000 just smack in the ground like the carbon edges. Yeah. She was on the Taytay bike coming up. Yeah. Coming. And you hear everyone cheer like, go, Taylor. Oh, like 180 K on the bike. And then you coming off and you again benefit of the doubt.
00:14:34:16 - 00:14:59:09
Lockie
It's Tyler name for God sake. Like incredible. One of the best at it. Sam Laidlaw. Yeah. He's he I'm what you say. I'm starting to get around. I'm starting to get her. Like we said at the start, when we first started doing this, I was never really a long coast guy. Guys like Nick Thomson, Jamie Riddle, Sam White, like, oh, those three training together right now.
00:14:59:14 - 00:15:20:14
Lockie
But like, yeah, I saw, I don't know where they are exactly. But those three training together like I think having someone to I think having someone to back he's got me into it. I'm back in Jamie like you know he's he's our age. He's young, he's Thomson. Nick Thomson. Aussie bloke our age. Like giving it a crack. Like those boys are starting to get me into long course.
00:15:20:17 - 00:15:45:16
Lockie
And I was never a long Coast guy off. You're like, oh, yeah, I don't, for the card. I might well do one of those when I. Oh, yeah. He's been converted, I reckon. I think that's a win for the podcast. Well, I actually stood. You said no, I'm never doing one horse in my life. I don't like it.
00:15:45:16 - 00:16:08:25
Lockie
I don't like anyone in it. Yeah, and then so I actually that local stuff sounds pretty good doesn't it. Is. There's a bit of cash, but it's sponsored. I actually thought I could be doing one this year, and I actually still think I could be doing one this year. I was talking because there's a couple this year. I didn't get picked for, this World Series race coming up.
00:16:08:25 - 00:16:28:27
Lockie
And I thought, fuck it, I'm doing a 7.3. I'm gonna go do a cash grab somewhere, just like volume in. But yeah, that I was. I might chill out a little bit before I commit to that. And but yeah, I'll do that. But anyway, those boys, they're starting to really think the young youngins I think, are getting more young people in there.
00:16:29:02 - 00:16:49:01
Lockie
Yeah. And on the pathway to the short course, which is cool. And I guess not being afraid of that distance at a young age. Yeah. I mean, I think same like was 20. Yeah, I can't remember. But he's not old. It's a distance that you used to have to you do short course career. You'd finish up a short course career and then you go to long 30.
00:16:49:03 - 00:17:09:26
Lockie
Yeah. You're in your 30s where like Nick and Jamie, 23, 24. And they're killing it too. So good on them. Back to what we were trying to say originally. We before we got real waylaid, Sam laid low, sick at the start of the year. I'm not 100% sure what he had. If it was. Yeah, I think that was the big thing.
00:17:09:28 - 00:17:36:10
Lockie
Chronic fatigue. That's what he. Yeah, he was putting it. He was putting it up on Instagram. And social was sort of saying like he just couldn't get training right. Like training. He was just suffering all the time. So since then he's come out Ironman Leeds one Ironman Leeds challenge Roth probably the other than Ironman Kona. You'd almost say it's it's the next big thing.
00:17:36:13 - 00:18:07:02
Lockie
€30,000 or USD coruba huge payday. And he just is really putting together a great laid up into this world campaign. And it's over in nice. Yeah. Hometown. Is he still French? Yeah, he's still French. It's nice. Like. Yeah, but you're a home. Home country. Yeah. So I reckon he is. He's born in the mountains, not born in the mountains, but, you know, he's from that area, I think especially that funny that he said who he's training with.
00:18:07:03 - 00:18:29:11
Lockie
He's often the allies in the Well Jamie, Nick's not Nick costume. Nick Johnson for shit that can ride up. Oh, I actually saw a funny video today where Jamie, though it was a video of Sam, and then Jamie was there. Like, I've been paid $30,000 to help. Help, Sam swim, bike away, and then Nick's there. Like, I don't know why I'm here.
00:18:29:12 - 00:18:42:03
Lockie
I'm just. I'm just here to, like, you know, boost the mood every now and then. Yeah. Because he's like, he's. I'm not soon with. Yeah, right. Those boys are good. They're good fun. Know which is what you want.
00:18:42:03 - 00:18:46:24
Lockie
The Aussie junior and the 23 team has been announced. I spoke to Brad Course about this the other day.
00:18:46:24 - 00:19:04:00
Lockie
I don't think any other country and it has announced it. Like I even tried to have a look at. So I and again, I could be wrong, but I even tried to have a look at some of them, but I couldn't find anything. You think, any other countries? Social media? I mean, it's a home world champs, so I think they've pumped it out.
00:19:04:00 - 00:19:25:20
Lockie
Really. We do. I think we do pretty well. I mean, the only one that I would say is probably the Americans, but they also got that like that cool kind of. They just make a lot of reels. And I've got a lot of video. I mean, it looks pretty cool. Yeah. It's like I look at somebody like, oh yeah, yeah, pretty cool stuff.
00:19:25:22 - 00:19:43:21
Lockie
What is the genius? Do you have them up? I'm getting them up. Right. So I threes we have Ryder Mercer and Brad Coles in men's. Yep. Then we have Rochelle Hill and Tarzan right. And I go to the junior team here. So in the junior team Jack Caldwell Aspen Anderson Zane Spires that kid can run a race.
00:19:43:21 - 00:20:05:26
Lockie
Haven't run my, race start of the year. Claire. Oh. So sorry. Claire. Claire. Speed final. Jack Woodbury and Addie. Addie who slipped? Heaslip. Yeah, though. So, Jack. Random pulls for you guys. You guys really well, in my hometown? No, to that TV. Congratulations first. Well, same for some of you. That's really. That's really cool. Yeah.
00:20:05:29 - 00:20:31:00
Lockie
Is they both won that. Yeah. And both. I've never seen Addie before. I think she's like 15 or 16, very young. She came into the swim session with our squad a couple weeks ago. Oh my gosh, you can swim. Yeah, she can swim. She right off the front didn't she. She had. No. Not in dizzy. No. One of those she.
00:20:31:02 - 00:20:48:18
Lockie
Shit. Yeah. That was it was that I was there. It was definitely dizzy. But no, she didn't go. She ran off the front. Jack had a good sprint finish. Jack had a really cool spring finish, but I did. He ran off front. So he is, he is he's he's, He loves it. He's one of those boys. He just fucking loves to train.
00:20:48:21 - 00:21:09:10
Lockie
Yeah. No, I real good. Yeah. We promised if you want to. Come on. Do we. Did I, I didn't go for you just throwing around promises. Yeah, well, you know, you know what? Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, we can get it. That any any of those guys you imagine? I don't know, all of them, but it we just got to.
00:21:09:12 - 00:21:28:09
Lockie
We just got a roomful. It's like. Whoa, guys, we don't have enough mikes for you all now. I'm just I'm I'm excited for it. I think I, I honestly think that the we've got like you said, Australia is coming back. I, I, I think we've got you know we had Matty has a leading the charge for a while Luke Williams there.
00:21:28:09 - 00:21:48:21
Lockie
You know he's always a safe bet. We had the relay team coming out. We've had Brighton Mercer. He's an on the 23 athlete. Have a big win or big second place in Napier at the start of the year. We just spoke about adding Jack wood Brian Tizi. You know that's a European World Cup is God knows how many top tens in World Cups that that guys had.
00:21:48:21 - 00:22:12:12
Lockie
So, Aspen Anderson, we've spoken about her. God knows how many times Jack Caldwell's had. I think he won everything. He just won everything this year. So Australia's coming back. We've got some talent to start. So some of the comments. Yeah, Australia and I really pumping up on what's Australia doing instead of converting that second. Right. Oh we're in Oceania.
00:22:12:15 - 00:22:36:08
Lockie
Very strongly do everything. Good athletes. You've got a good place to yeah. Literally we've got the best place in the world to train, the best place in the world. It is is your one. I didn't say this until you say this one. Say we remember we, we said we were going to stay stick well clear of anything.
00:22:36:08 - 00:22:58:23
Lockie
Politics. I'm not a politician. You're not a politician. I don't really give a fuck if I'm being honest. I don't really care that much. But when it's when it's, a political controversy in our sport, you talk, you sort of tend to take notice. So what happened? I'll just read the statement. So I got this. I got this off, espn.com.
00:22:58:23 - 00:23:27:18
Lockie
So, you know, always believe what you read on the internet. So this happened in July. In July of 2025, the Court of Arbitration of, for sports has ruled that Libba Garcia, a World Triathlon executive board member and president of the America's Triathlon Federation, violated the organization's anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies during the lead up to the 2024 presidential election.
00:23:27:20 - 00:23:58:02
Lockie
Evidence centered on WhatsApp messages between Garcia and Michelle Cooper, the president of Triathlon Australia who had began campaigning for presidency. Garcia effectively suggested that she withdrew her candid, candid candidacy in exchange for a guaranteed spot on the executive board. Described as a favorites list agreement among continents. So he's basically tried to bribe his way? Yeah, to say I no one else go against me.
00:23:58:02 - 00:24:20:06
Lockie
I want to make the world. Yeah, essentially. So I'm like, I don't know if you've seen a photo of this bloke. He has never watched a triathlon in his life, I guarantee it. He, I mean, look, and this is not me trying to, you know, shame anybody. But this guy doesn't know what triathlon is like, and.
00:24:20:09 - 00:24:41:06
Lockie
He's a businessman. He's a businessman. And we're just throwing allegations out here because we're just. We're athletes in the sport. Yeah, but we obviously take pride in the sport. What's going on in the sport at all levels. You know, where we're at the elite level and we take pride in what's going on. So we obviously want to make sure it's reputable.
00:24:41:09 - 00:25:02:09
Lockie
Exactly. That won't be tainted by the sport of soccer. Yeah. Back with the drug kind of allegations and the corruption. Yeah. People always like Lance Armstrong. Yeah. People always have their suspicions. Like you're never going to be able to look at the cycling world again and go like there's always an asterisk on the end, the, on every athlete there.
00:25:02:09 - 00:25:26:12
Lockie
Unfortunately, it's just like that. So yeah, essentially he was at first he was handed a 12 month suspension. It. Yeah, yeah. You get you get four years for doping. Yeah. Which but then the next part for me, it's like 12 months suspension. Conditionally on completing an ethics course. What the fuck is him doing? Ethics. He was going to do.
00:25:26:12 - 00:25:48:29
Lockie
Like, if he's done it, he's obviously his ethics are fucked. Him, not him. Just doing the courses. He's going to go. Yeah, I'm really going to go. You know what? You know what? My moral compass is shifted. You know, I've got more compassion for these people. No you don't. No you don't. Garcia, $10,000. Yeah, yeah. Like sit down, Garcia, you don't know what you're doing.
00:25:49:01 - 00:26:10:21
Lockie
Anyway, he appealed, and the the CEO was upheld. The accusation. So basically they still said, like. No, like they I think they believe that he still did what he did. But they found the suspension harsh given the context, as he wasn't aggressive about it. So in the end. So you. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You guys, I really haven't done this.
00:26:10:26 - 00:26:34:29
Lockie
Yeah. That would never been my moral compass. Yeah, just just let me still be probably in the board of, USA. No, no, I'd say he's still on the board of World Triathlon. Oh. What? Yeah. Yeah. So not so literally they all they did was give him a formal warning. Okay. Yeah. No. So this guy's still. This guy's still, like, not nothing like they upheld the accusations, but they just removed the penalty basically.
00:26:35:01 - 00:26:56:15
Lockie
Yeah. Which is wild them off for that one. Yeah I know I know it's and it's scary to think like that. Those kind of people are the ones that they're the the frontiers of our sport. Yeah. Yeah I mean they're so far away from where they are. Yeah. In the office at World Triathlon. Who making the decisions.
00:26:56:22 - 00:27:26:15
Lockie
They're not. They're not saying it. Yeah. Sport. All the way down to, you know, your local Milo trial. And I wonder if they say that because like obviously like we're, we're never going to be shy on throne, our opinions on our opinions out there. And like we said like you look at some of the boardroom decisions that are getting made and we you can't you can't really you can't really help but think are you guys in this just because you're the fat cats trying to get your pockets full?
00:27:26:19 - 00:27:50:06
Lockie
Yeah. Or are you actually trying to be, like I said, the frontiers in the pioneers. Yeah. Be be real activist for the change of the sport. You know, change with the times. Like how we gonna make this bigger and better? Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So again, we don't wanna get into that too deeply because, you know, we could just go down a rabbit hole a little bit, involve our.
00:27:50:11 - 00:28:18:26
Lockie
It's above our peg red. It's above our peg. Right. But, you know what? We're we're still gonna have an opinion. That's weird. Yeah. It is. Yeah. You say after, I'll say fucked. Huge weekend. God, this is exciting. That ain't France. Gotta love France. The French Riviera, the French Riviera. Baby. Have you been there? Never. I said what?
00:28:18:26 - 00:28:46:02
Lockie
Has never been there, but I reckon would be great. The photos that I've seen. Yeah. Oh, my God, I wish I was there. The first of a double header. Sorry. I feel like this is going to be the first of many. Yeah, but I said he is the prelude to. Yeah, World Series and T100 mixed together. And I think you're going to say is it possible because we'll go into it, is it possible to be able to do both?
00:28:46:07 - 00:29:05:23
Lockie
Yeah, I will go into that. Obviously with a couple athletes. I don't know what we know. Or is it more age group? Is I going to go see the team 100. But then I don't, I don't I don't think people I don't if I just go in for a triathlon spectacle because France love it if you had to.
00:29:05:23 - 00:29:33:00
Lockie
I mean, obviously you're going to both their boat there on the same weekend. Okay, go. It's on the Gold Coast, the Saturday state 100, the Sunday is World Series. You can only go to one. Which one are you going to? You've seen you've seen the line up. Which one are you going to? Hawaii. Going to the world yes I am, I'm going World series like I mean I obviously I'm going to the world Series, but I like the dynamics of the short course so fast.
00:29:33:02 - 00:29:51:13
Lockie
You know, some, they're all still great guys in the team. Yeah, very exciting race as well. But I don't really want to say 20 bikes on the Gold Coast, whole identity bars. And realistically, what are they doing, like 2 or 3 laps? You're probably not saying that much where like when those were when those World Series boys are coming three times.
00:29:51:13 - 00:30:19:10
Lockie
Yeah. At 240 K pace. I do more than that. Has a run on. Yeah. That's exact and you just unfortunately you don't really get that. No. That's true but huge weekend. Yeah. The double header. And as I said before it, it'll be interesting to see how many more in the five, five days because the athletes are more toeing the line five days as to is it just Morgan and Hayden?
00:30:19:17 - 00:30:41:27
Lockie
Hayden doing both sides. So they're racing the two 100 on the first day. Yeah. And then they go into the World Series. Then it's it's almost it's it's like just over 24 hours apart I think. Yeah probably that they race. No not 100. So that's what it is. So sad I think I say it's a Saturday. Sunday it's not.
00:30:41:29 - 00:31:01:12
Lockie
So you're racing 100 K cars the first day. Then you go into a sprint. Two very different out of the one guy that can tell me all this on top. I think we both know that if there's one person that's going to do it, it's high them on. Do not. Logan person has to be able to back up.
00:31:01:14 - 00:31:27:01
Lockie
He does on a day off two 100 into a well I think he's going to I think he writes well maybe. Well it's a bit like him anyway. He's rock. So Darren's race well on the 2100 or not. And if he doesn't he'll pull out of the one he very well could pull out. I wouldn't be surprised. And it would just be, you know, I have a feeling he'll be missed in both of them.
00:31:27:04 - 00:31:48:00
Lockie
Just be like, I don't think two 100 suits him. I think it's arrogant to kind of do both. Yeah. I mean, we say that with Hayden while to go winning both. Yeah. I don't know if he will. Arrogance. Yeah I, I don't know if 100 suits Morgan to the best at times anyway. Like like we said he's rock the diamonds and I think he's weakness is clearly the bike.
00:31:48:07 - 00:32:13:15
Lockie
And we've seen where that long course is headed. So strong. Like their blocking is insane. Like it is so incredible. So, yeah, I look I think I think Morgan's definitely bitten off more than they can chew with the, with the with the double up. Hayden will be interesting. I think it will be a battle. I think going that team 120 men, whether you've got the yell off.
00:32:13:17 - 00:32:14:27
Lockie
Who else have you got on the line?
00:32:14:27 - 00:32:40:08
Lockie
Okay, so lining up a mental. You have no against Ray, Guy Bogan, Hayden Ward, Carl Smith, Leo Burger. He's not doing the double. Well, who else? Sam Wong, though she, Harry Palma, Sam Dickinson. Oh, yeah. Good. And that's so young. There's a couple young boys, like, it's not going to be easy for Hayden.
00:32:40:11 - 00:33:03:10
Lockie
It's not because we've seen we've seen the World Series list on the Sunday stacked. Probably, probably. It's the most stacked one of the year because you've obviously got Hayden and Alex back among a heap of other dogs. But the table 100 is still not going to be easy for him to win. I don't know if someone is not thinking about a race on the next no, but I don't think I would do that.
00:33:03:12 - 00:33:27:03
Lockie
All right. Do you want to do you want to pick Hayden's results? Pick Titans results because he's the only one that I think. Oh let let's not go. 123 in the table 100. Let's just do what you think Hayden is going to go. I think Hayden's going to go. I think would go balls to the wall and win in the day 100.
00:33:27:04 - 00:33:46:12
Lockie
I think he wins 100 as well. But then I think it's going to shoot him in the foot for the World Series and then he'll get a top ten. Yeah I think he's going to get top ten. I think he's using about a fifth. I'm thinking somewhere between fifth and 10th. Yeah. Win to 105th 10th World Series purely because he saw.
00:33:46:20 - 00:34:11:28
Lockie
Yeah purely because he's raised 100 K against some of the best guys in the world. And then Morgan Pearson may net. God you hate him I don't hate him. You hate him. You commented on that world trial. Not that kidding. That was you might spark up Morgan Vargo. He's a tough guy that would listen to this and react to it.
00:34:11:28 - 00:34:29:12
Lockie
So might is good thing. Just this is clout chasing. I also don't like talking about Hayden too much because he loves commenting on our videos, loves DMing us, but hates to follow us. So fuck off if you're not going to follow, just get it. I don't want you commenting. Yeah, you're not that cool. Yeah, I kind of go.
00:34:29:12 - 00:34:31:14
Lockie
I mean, you did do some pretty cool stuff. Anyway,
00:34:31:14 - 00:34:55:02
Lockie
we'll start with the women. So we got there Sunday. Are they both races? Are they both Sunday. So we're just going to do the World Triathlon Championship Series because we kind of too many results. We don't want to give out too many, you know, favorites in this. And when we are a bit of fans of the short course stuff, like we said, being in that so it is.
00:34:55:02 - 00:35:21:04
Lockie
So we start with the women. Yeah. 123. Give me a one. Oh, it's so good. Really. I'm going Cassandra at home in France. I think she's going to just draw that energy from the French. She's while we're not Olympic champion too good. Yeah. Okay. Next I'm going. John, the hair. Oh, wow. Win. Last time she won Hamburg.
00:35:21:06 - 00:35:50:01
Lockie
Yeah, she did a sprint distance. And then I'm going back the hog. Count her out. Just absolute. Yeah. She's such good runner. So the girls we've been writing on about the men. But this girl field, this is the best women. So I should say it's probably the best, I think, this year as well, because out for this late season, everyone's making a last minute dash because, like, you're looking at the top, like the top ranked people are all incredible runners.
00:35:50:06 - 00:36:08:23
Lockie
But then as as you kind of go down you go, you're making mistakes. You got your Emma Jeffcoat, you've got your Liv. Matthias is like, great, Jess, full girl, you've got your incredible swim bike, is there. So it's not like those girls don't want it to just come down to run. Race like those girls want to put pedal to the metal and they want to go hard.
00:36:08:23 - 00:36:25:21
Lockie
So, Yeah, this is gonna be stacked. This is gonna be so exciting. Both men and women, I can't wait. I'll definitely watch watching both. I tell you, 100 to 100. In this. Yeah. We should have an unfunded watch party. Watch alone? That would be. I don't think anybody's gonna watch, but that's all right. We'll say maybe.
00:36:25:21 - 00:36:46:24
Lockie
Anyway, my number one, Cassandra Bergeron. You can't go past a. I think she's going to win the series. Like I said, the only peril. I just think she's such a dark horse. She's such a gun. Run off Frenchie as well. Frenchie. One. Two. 123. Who's the other one, is there? No, I don't know, but I'm not. I'm going.
00:36:46:27 - 00:37:09:06
Lockie
And then I'm going to go laser touch. She's again, just so I, I I'm tough. It's tough. Notable. Beth Porter on their struggle. No. Put Beth Potter on there. I can do, the course probably for it's. I think it's just flat and fast, which is just Beth. Beth Potter. But now I'm. I'm going to do it.
00:37:09:06 - 00:37:37:20
Lockie
I stick by my guns. Cassandra by Grant. Leona. Parallel Beth Potter. Boom. The men. I'll start. I've got Alex. I've got my boy Alex. He's going to win the series from here. Oh! Whoa. All righty. And then I've got. I've got Heather in second. Yeah. And then I have. Henry, drop a bit of a bit of a Rogue One.
00:37:37:20 - 00:38:02:06
Lockie
Like, a lot to do. Okay. I think can I definitely. I definitely see him getting a top ten, but I again, your picks, man like that every year. But no, what you've done is you're not thinking about, like, the race tactics here. Alex has just been training for a marathon. He's probably done a lot less swim biking than what he has in previous years.
00:38:02:13 - 00:38:22:28
Lockie
So based off Henry graph. Yeah. Henry graph. That's a breakaway artist right there. But then other than you picked Alex who's not a breakaway artist. So he's it coming together or is breaking away. Oh what's what's going on here. Coming together. Yes. Okay. And then if it's a run race Henry Grass not doing that. I feel as if with the dynamic of Aiden and Alex.
00:38:23:00 - 00:38:41:26
Lockie
I don't think it's going to get away. I feel as if sometimes the front pack does. Then why did you pick then? Why did you pick Henry? He's not running it. He's not out running all them. He's a top ten guy, but he's not out running. Okay? You know, it's. That's good for me. I'm going to go.
00:38:41:28 - 00:39:00:19
Lockie
I got a back in, but I'm knee. Makes me nervous now that these other guys going back, he has a guy. He, Just. I think you feed him every single, I mean, he's he's he's nearly. He's nearly done it. What do you mean? He's got a first, first and a second. Like he's nearly done it.
00:39:00:21 - 00:39:24:24
Lockie
I just think, again, a flat fast. He's a powerful boy. Yeah. Go ahead. Maddie, how's, And I'm picking it to not come together. Miguel Hidalgo, great swimmer, great cyclist. I'm going to go him in second. Yeah. And then I'm going to go.
00:39:24:26 - 00:39:42:19
Lockie
I'm going to go, Alex. To run up to the fit. He won't be I don't I think there will be a bit of a split 20s 30s probably 15 to 20 and then he'll run out. Okay. There we are. Yeah, that's my pick. Yeah, I guess we'll say.
00:39:42:22 - 00:39:46:07
Lockie
God, that suck.
00:39:46:07 - 00:40:05:28
Lockie
All righty. We got our predictions. Predictions are in. God is going to be such an exciting weekend. You got any plans for it or any any plans this weekend? Watching the trial say so? Annoying. Because I've got my. Do you have friends? Well, I've got good mates. Is actually down to the them. Yeah.
00:40:06:00 - 00:40:28:29
Lockie
Love you mate. Do not. Well, I mean, I've also got my sister's baby shower before that and then, my, my, my girlfriend's brother is having his 30th before that. And then I've got a guy send you off to the mines. That of that night. So big Saturday, big Sunday, big Saturday. And then I'm just getting the popcorn cracking open AJ lager.
00:40:29:04 - 00:40:49:06
Lockie
I'm probably I probably have about 50 of them on the Saturday. And then I might have just one, you know, just to knock the heads off and then, cracking open the popcorn and just watching some good entertainment. God, that's exciting, that's exciting. Anyway, guys, that is a wrap. Episode 22. As. Oh, can you stop playing with the thing?
00:40:52:12 - 00:41:13:08
Lockie
Yeah, yeah. Hang in there. Yeah. With that, the, funded pot on Instagram. You can also email us at the unfunded podcast at gmail.com. I've taken these I yeah. You have. If you have any questions, send us a DM. Yeah. If you have any opinions or we might be, Right on. We love hearing from you.
00:41:13:11 - 00:41:29:07
Lockie
We've had a few. We've had a few. What was so nice? A couple people saying, I'm so happy you're back. When are you guys back? Because again, like, all I just think it's my mum listening. So like, when, not when people, random people messaged you didn't go like, I'm so happy you guys are back. I'm like, that's awesome.
00:41:29:13 - 00:41:50:12
Lockie
Thank you so much. When trying to say I can yeah, I've got a little bit of a cloud going away now. So we're into it. Hopefully regular content and a bit of a spice up with a couple of gas. Yeah. Might have some gas, might have some responses. We might have some people taking over our socials. So there's there's big things coming for us or I, we're in this for the long run.
00:41:50:14 - 00:41:58:19
Lockie
We're in of a long run. We love you. And we hope you love us, too. And. Yeah. Thanks. All righty. That's a wrap. See you later. Woo!