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A safe place to share, celebrate and unpack life's journeys.
Join us and special guests to discuss all things close to our hearts.
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Speaker 1
She goes in front would help the younger.
00;00;09;18 - 00;00;11;05
Speaker 2
Beyonce have courage.
00;00;11;08 - 00;00;14;16
Speaker 1
Unbelievable. There's nothing but.
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Speaker 2
Racer, man.
00;00;15;26 - 00;00;20;07
Speaker 1
World championship title.
00;00;20;09 - 00;00;40;23
Speaker 3
All righty. Welcome back boy. It is good to be back. I think both of us have very much miss this, haven't we? We have. It's it's a bit foreign. We'll be a bit rusty. Yeah, but we'll be, we'll be, we'll be good at the end. We'll come good in the end. We will. And that is. I don't know what episode it is, but we're.
00;00;40;24 - 00;00;58;13
Speaker 3
We're back. I feel as if we say it every, like two months. Yeah, yeah, we have a little podcast, but we are back. The unfunded podcast. For those of you that don't know, I'm Lachlan Jones, your host here with my good friend Leighton Wall. And, yeah, you're back in the country. Back in the country. Just back in the podcast studio.
00;00;58;14 - 00;01;21;08
Speaker 3
You're back in the country. We did one while I was overseas. We're a bit ambitious, maybe. Yeah, a little bit. But that's what happens. Yeah. A lot's been going on. We are. We are athletes first. Our podcast host. Second. Yes, I think I think we had, ambitions to get more podcasts out. Yeah, we did, but I think shit kind of hit the fan for you back in Australia.
00;01;21;09 - 00;01;40;17
Speaker 3
Yeah, I think we both kind of had our own struggles, you know, on other sides of the world. And we had we have a very limited time frame on, you know, what we can actually do. Yeah. We couldn't make it work. We couldn't make it work. So we apologize. Yeah. But we're back for the last round of the year, the grand final.
00;01;40;19 - 00;02;01;18
Speaker 3
There's just a week. There's a buzz in the air, isn't it? Yep. Exactly. It's. It's final season as the pro tri news guys like to say, championship season. And it's our down Mecca this weekend. Yeah. World championships Pontevedra. This is our jam. So it's good to be back. We'll get this one up before the start of the racing week.
00;02;01;20 - 00;02;21;21
Speaker 3
Yep. And hopefully our predictions are right and we inform you on what the hell is going on. Yeah, exactly. First off, give me give me a little bit of an update. How you doing? I'm good. Back from Europe. Got back on Thursday. So being back for, like, four days, I haven't suffered too bad from jet lag.
00;02;21;23 - 00;02;41;27
Speaker 3
Yeah. Coming back this way, it's been like a three day hangover, though. Yeah. The first two days were good, and it hit me on the third. Did you not just have a hangover? No, I didn't I. Well, actually I had a couple beers in. Nice. Yeah. Ended up going to nice after racing in Africa. But I couldn't actually really because I had to belly.
00;02;42;00 - 00;03;05;07
Speaker 3
Oh, I'm still kind of struggling with it. Yeah, right. Which isn't the best. That is a big fear. Yeah. So that's always the risk going to Africa. Yeah. But yeah. Other than that, it was a good time. Started to feel as if I was racing well again. Yeah. So positive signs? Yeah. Positive signs. Went to some unique places of the world.
00;03;05;08 - 00;03;27;21
Speaker 3
Yeah. Places that I probably wouldn't go usually. Yeah. One being dairy. Yeah. You can search up the history of Derry or Londonderry. Depends on what side of Ireland you're from. Yeah, right. So that's where they had all the troubles. If you know much about Irish history, don't. Anyway, you can search that up yourself. We might get political.
00;03;27;24 - 00;03;45;17
Speaker 3
And then went to Tunisia after being in front. Remote. That was the last time we checked out. Yeah, it was remote. You were on your way to Tunisia? Yes. I was so stopped off in Ireland for the week. Went to the Guinness factory. Actually. That's it. That was pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Yeah. So split the G there.
00;03;45;22 - 00;03;53;17
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Try it. Or did you actually do it? No, I did it for sips to the G. No.
00;03;53;19 - 00;04;15;08
Speaker 3
No. Yeah. Split the G and then went to Tunisia. Race there. Saw like. Yeah. The Tunisia thing. Whatever goes on there. We're in and out for like 48 hours. Oh, that's a place you want to get in and out of. And then we figured out that there was a flight out of Tunisia, this place in Tunisia, into nice.
00;04;15;10 - 00;04;35;03
Speaker 3
That night after the race. So we're like, you know what? Who'd you go with? Jack Latham. Oh, yeah. Off the pod. Heard it from the pod. Yeah. So you got to thank the pod for something. Yeah. And, had a little travel buddy. He heard before I was going and said, oh, what are you doing, RA ra? So he organized it for the two weeks.
00;04;35;06 - 00;04;59;05
Speaker 3
From lunch. From Ireland to Tunisia, then. Nice. Yeah. Watch 70.3 World's Watch. Yelling and then kicked it in. Nice for the last couple of days. And Monaco. I mean, that's. So that was a good way to end. That's pretty epic. I mean, you're seeing some dodgy sites trying to race in the middle of nowhere and to, to finish it off in nice watching probably one of the most stacked world championship fields ever seen.
00;04;59;08 - 00;05;16;17
Speaker 3
Some of the craziest results there and then just kicking it up in Monaco. Exactly. So yeah, it was cool living that bougie life. Yeah, I know it was. It's a pretty cool place. Monaco. Yeah. Have you been. No I've not. It's a fucking awesome place. Yeah, it's bloody Monaco. Yeah. Yeah. I went window shopping for my boat. Yeah, yeah.
00;05;16;21 - 00;05;36;08
Speaker 3
Window. Oh. Oh, I like the price tag on that one. Maybe not a bit of a jump scare that maybe. My my bloody tinny that sits in the port Marina. It's got nothing on these bloody big old sailboats. But no, it was good. It was a good way to wrap it up. But back in Oz and straight back into it.
00;05;36;12 - 00;05;54;23
Speaker 3
That's the reality. Lovely, mate. That sounds awful. All of that sounds terrible. Yeah I know. Yeah. Such a way to cap it off, wasn't it? Yeah, but I have been. Yes. Shooting myself from Tunisia for, like, the last week. You know, it's worth it, mate. It was worth it. It is worth it. Yeah, it's worth the memories. Yeah.
00;05;54;25 - 00;06;17;16
Speaker 3
Nice. Well, that's way better than what I've been doing. Yeah, it was so much better. We've had a little update with Locky. What is it? Yeah, yeah, I've just broken myself again. Basically. Just got five months into my rehab. Everything going really well. And, you know, I even had a bit of time to like, you know, get off socials, just reconnect, touch some grass, do some, like, soul searching.
00;06;17;19 - 00;06;41;25
Speaker 3
Yeah. Do some grounding. And then. Yeah, just decided that I wanted to give myself a bit more, more grounding time and, came off the bike, you know, going pretty quick downhill and just wanted to want to test sort of that shoulder strength on the, on the tarmac. And yeah, it's, it's not up to scratch. So basically ruptured every, every joint in my shoulder, just displace the collarbone and shoulder.
00;06;41;28 - 00;07;00;10
Speaker 3
I had surgery last Thursday and in a, in a bloody plaster in a sling for the next three months, so. Oh, maybe three months, probably, like probably a two months and then. Yeah, try to get some mobility back after that. But, yeah, I just didn't really like racing this season. Anyway, just a bit of a hiatus coming up next year.
00;07;00;11 - 00;07;13;29
Speaker 3
Bit of a home bug this year. I was I was starting to get a bit homesick. You know, all the traveling I was doing, your. It was kind of, you know, it was getting a bit boring over there. So I thought, Yeah, I'll give that a break this year. And. Yeah, it just felt like staying home for a little bit, so just thought.
00;07;13;29 - 00;07;32;08
Speaker 3
I just thought the Gold Coast needed me here for a little bit longer. So that's why I'm here. So I'm here, but, Yeah. No, I've only had a couple, and they had a couple, you know, shower tears. The last few words say quite jovially, you you're crash. It's obviously not the best, is it, though?
00;07;32;09 - 00;07;52;05
Speaker 3
Yeah. No, if I'm being serious, I mean, I think I'm, I am actually in, like, good, good spirits. Like, I'm not. I think I was really struggling, with the stress fracture, and I, I kind of like, thought I was doing well and and I wasn't, I wasn't actually in a good headspace there, really struggled there. But I think because I pulled myself out of that, got into a good headspace.
00;07;52;06 - 00;08;11;10
Speaker 3
You know, obviously when you're coming back training and I've now just now that this has, this has happened, it was a bit of a freak accident and I, I there was it was, you know, just one of those things that happened. I've tried to bring those sort of, I guess, good, lessons that I learned from the last injury.
00;08;11;11 - 00;08;28;07
Speaker 3
Just bringing those good habits, good systems, keeping them in place and just trying to keep myself in a good headspace. But, I'm actually I'm actually doing well, like, as much as it sucks. Like I was only going to get two races in the back end of this year anyway, I was hoping for two World Cups, but man, it is what it is.
00;08;28;09 - 00;08;54;18
Speaker 3
Yeah, like shit happens. Like, I don't want to. I don't want to be that athlete that thinks, you know, the world's against him. Well, with me, like, this stuff happens. It's happened athletes before. It's going to happen to athletes again in the future. I'd like to try and set a good example and just think, all right, I actually put a story up on my, on my Instagram the other day who was basically trying to change the narrative of immersing yourself and wrapping your whole identity in the sport of triathlon.
00;08;54;19 - 00;09;09;20
Speaker 3
You know, like I mentioned, there's so many cool things. This podcast being one of them, my coaching, company that I have with another one of my best mates, there's so many cool things that I get to do. It's not just triathlon, it's not just me competing at a high level. Exactly. That's the thing I love the most.
00;09;09;20 - 00;09;28;11
Speaker 3
Like, don't get me wrong. Like, I want to do that more than anything, but it's not just that's not the only thing. I think we've touched on that a fair bit on this podcast. We've always said, you know, you need something else. Like, you can't just wrap yourself up in being a track and that's all that you have because it can be taken away.
00;09;28;13 - 00;09;50;24
Speaker 3
Inevitably, shit will hit the fan some stage in your career or whether it be like, unfortunately for some people, like career ending injuries. Yeah, you need something after that. You can't just be in a whole, yeah, you know, your whole life while moping about, oh, I can't do the thing that I love. Yes, I could have been. You know, I never want to be that athlete that's saying, like, you know, I could have been.
00;09;50;24 - 00;10;05;26
Speaker 3
I could have been this. I could have been that, like, realistically, if this was a career ending injury, I've done some pretty cool things. You know, I've traveled the world, I've represented my country, I've traveled the world, got to see multiple cool places, live lives on the other side of the world for six months of the year, did that for four years straight.
00;10;05;26 - 00;10;24;22
Speaker 3
Like I've done some pretty cool things of one medals, lost, races, DNF, you know, done it. Yeah, I've not done it all. You know, I've not been a world champion, but I've done I've done more than you know. When I was young, all I wanted was like the odd suit. And then like, I got the odd suit and all I wanted was to race a Cup race and Connie cups.
00;10;24;22 - 00;10;51;12
Speaker 3
Easy now and then. You wanted a podium there, I got that. I wanted to race the World Cup. Got that like, yeah, I've already done more than what I originally wanted to do in the sport. So I think there's more than just the sport. Yeah. And I think like the big thing that I think we probably talk about is like leveraging your time in the sport is like, although it's good, but like there's a lot more opportunities that the sport brings outside of life.
00;10;51;13 - 00;11;09;14
Speaker 3
Man, being an athlete and having the title athlete next to your name like, you know, I'm Lucky Jones, triathlete late in all the Triple-A. How can you leverage that into doing some cooler things, cooler things later on in life? Because it opens doors. Being an athlete opens doors. Yeah, it doesn't really matter how, although a very successful career is great.
00;11;09;16 - 00;11;36;02
Speaker 3
Yeah, people aren't really judging you on how successful your career is. They're judging you on how you are as a person. Yeah. And cool. You have those attributes as an athlete like that discipline, that grit. Ra ra ra that you've dedicated your life to. But then how does that transfer people like that, especially more in the business kind of space, like when you get out in the actual world, I think is more important than like what medal you want.
00;11;36;03 - 00;12;00;27
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Because realistically we have I think a lot of people know this. We have such a limited time in this sport, such a limited time in a late level sport, realistically, you know, might go to 35. That's pushing it. 35 is pushing it. That's if you go long course like that's pushing it. But that's ten years away for, for me like yeah that's, that's going to go pretty quick.
00;12;01;00 - 00;12;20;00
Speaker 3
They will go pretty quick in 35. I don't even know if I want to go to 35. You know, I'm quite happy to end up at 3132. So yeah, it's it's like I and that's why I'm quite comfortable now. And I'm not in a bad headspace now because I don't see it as wasting time. You know, my, my, my time will come and I'll end my career when my when my career is ending.
00;12;20;00 - 00;12;35;29
Speaker 3
I don't know when it's I know it's not now. So it's like I'm not in a bad headspace now. Don't feel like I'm wasting years. Whatever happens, happens. This isn't going to be the reason that I ever quit. I'm never going to go. I've been injured x amount of times. I'm just going to quit. Like, that's never going to be the reason it's going to be because I physically can't do it anymore.
00;12;36;01 - 00;12;46;03
Speaker 3
Yeah. Or fall out of love. Yeah. Fall out of love with the sport. And I admire something else. I want to go do something else. So, But no, honestly, I think.
00;12;46;05 - 00;13;01;03
Speaker 3
Yeah, I always thought I was much better at it until I actually got injured and I realized, no, I did wrap myself up a bit too much in it. But I've taken those lessons now and I'm doing well. That's good. Doing well. It's good to hear. Yeah. Just excited. Just excited to watch all the boys go around this weekend.
00;13;01;03 - 00;13;19;01
Speaker 3
All the girls go around this weekend. Yeah. Watch everyone smash it. And, you know, I'll be on the sidelines this year, but I have no intention of being on the sidelines next year. So there you are. See you in Hamburg. Hamburg? Yeah, yeah. 20 years of Daniel Unger. 20 years of Daniel Unger. Unger. Berg. Unger. Very cool.
00;13;19;04 - 00;13;38;06
Speaker 3
But. Yeah. So that's. That's us. Where the hell have we been? For those that don't know, Leighton did get us deactivated. So. Yeah, we have been. We have been absent for about, I think, three. Probably close to a month now off Instagram. Purely just because I think Leighton was, you know, here, there and everywhere.
00;13;38;06 - 00;13;55;25
Speaker 3
And his phone sort of thought he was a robot that thought that I was a bot. Yeah. So unfortunately, we lost access to Instagram for for a month. Don't we have it back? Top five things that we missed in this last month. Let's do a quick fire round. Top, top five things. We missed this one. This month I'm going to say number one.
00;13;55;28 - 00;14;18;27
Speaker 3
Christian Blumenfeld incredible half marathon run off the back. Miss it. I was there, you were there with it. How was that? He was charging, mate. Insane. You know who I thought? Actually. Little 70.3 recap. I thought that yellow was going to charge and beat Hayden. He was charging just as quick as. Yeah. Like 10-K for 10-K. Yeah. I saw him turn that U-turn.
00;14;18;28 - 00;14;37;18
Speaker 3
I was like, well, I did as well because everyone wrote him off. He even got written off on his own podcast by Jack Kelley. Did you see that? No. It's like you kind of can't do that to the bloke on his own podcast. Yeah. That's crazy. Go. Oh, mate, you can't win. Yeah. That's crazy. Jack Kelly's got no idea what he's talking about.
00;14;37;20 - 00;15;01;24
Speaker 3
Just, Anyway, I, I, I thought that as well, but I was also very much like. Nah, it's it's very early. It's very early. I, I was a bit suss on it. But when I saw Christian come party yellow, I started believing then because I thought, if one dog is going to do this. Yeah. It's him. If there's one dog that's gonna hunt him down, it's Christmas.
00;15;01;24 - 00;15;21;22
Speaker 3
Christian. And my God, was he. He just suffers, doesn't he? Oh, he loves it. He loves it. And honestly, I think he proved that. 100 and 102 Max. Yeah. Correct, correct. Yeah. What do you run? 305 off a off a hard bike? Yeah, that kind of bike. Incredible. This is not turning into a quick, quick fire round.
00;15;21;24 - 00;15;40;26
Speaker 3
Number two, 70.3 World's Taylor Ned Payton. While just the complete triathletes on the day. Yep. That would complete triathletes on the day Hayden Wilde didn't win a single leg. Didn't have the fastest leg overall, but he was the fastest on the day. Let's try flight. Yep. Taylor Knibb an incredible bike ride. Jason. Absolute machine. Monster. She also just came 13th at Time Trial world champs.
00;15;40;28 - 00;16;02;10
Speaker 3
Yeah, which just chose translation. Number three way high. World Triathlon Championship series. Two massive plays there. We had Cassandra Grant hitting the perfect. Home and away season. Yep. It's kind of cool that way. Season 4000 points. She goes into the grand final. Houser going from being the hunted last year in the grand final to now the Hunter.
00;16;02;16 - 00;16;18;04
Speaker 3
Drop some valuable points. I think it was a risky play. They put all their eggs in one basket and I think they dropped the ball a little bit. But season's on over. Yeah, he's still still in second place in for a sniff. He's in for a sniff and that's all he needs. Super League's return? Yes. Stacked field.
00;16;18;04 - 00;16;36;27
Speaker 3
Bigger field than what we've seen in a very long time there. And an insane amount of prize money. Yes, I think 800,000 for the whole day. That's just nuts. So much money. So I understand why Houser decided not to go to college, and. Fair enough. Yes, we were debating that when we go for money. Yeah. Fair enough.
00;16;36;28 - 00;17;01;18
Speaker 3
100 k boy wants to eat. Yeah, it's got mortgage to pay. Also, that was a week before 7.3 worlds. And Hayden just went and showed that he's back in short course racing again. Yeah. That's going to give him some confidence. And then number five we had a couple suspensions. Yes. Naughty boys Joe skipper suspended for not turning up to his doping control, which is just like as an elite athlete.
00;17;01;19 - 00;17;18;12
Speaker 3
Come on. Just a bit dumb. Bare minimum. I mean, look, I've been given a couple of warnings because I submit my stuff a little bit late sometimes. But just not turning up to one is completely different. Yeah. Like, if you've got your allocated slot, you've got your slot. I still don't think that he is a diaper. You're really you're on the train of.
00;17;18;13 - 00;17;33;07
Speaker 3
Yeah. No, he wouldn't because there were a lot of comments injecting his bum. Yeah, there was a lot of people I saw that were like, if anybody knows him, you'd know that he's just unorganized, which is fair enough, but no excuse. There was no excuse. As a professional athlete. Rules are rules. You just got to do it.
00;17;33;11 - 00;17;54;01
Speaker 3
And the other one is to update it. Yeah. You can, Thomas Rodriguez, the, the eggs and chicken master. He missed another one or. No, there was, he's not fully tampered. He tampered with. Which is fucking crazy. How does he do that? What if you're tampering? He's just not be any more suspicious. Give him ten years.
00;17;54;02 - 00;18;19;12
Speaker 3
Yeah, just get him out of the sport. He's done. Yeah. And that's our recap. Last one on that one. Oh, yeah. Asking the most money any triathletes made in three weeks. Hayden. Wild. Holy shit. Yeah. Made 200 USD 200,000 USD in three weekends. Wow, what a monthly. And that is purely prize money. That's purely like this. The Red Bull Canyon Asics.
00;18;19;14 - 00;18;44;28
Speaker 3
That's just the three big ones. Yeah. There. Oh my God! Bonuses on top. No wonder around. Yeah, he's got the Lambo next week. Yeah. My God is going to have a car garage soon. That's epic. Good on him. Yeah, I mean good on him. He is. Just how far out? I mean, talk about robust. Yeah. Super sprint 100 K and 7.3.
00;18;45;05 - 00;19;08;16
Speaker 3
My God. God. And then this weekend, let's get into it. We have. You're excited. World champs. Pontevedra, Spain. Oh, yeah. V Gomez. It is the home of Abijah Gomez, one of the goats of the sport. I would probably say one of the go to the sport regardless of never winning an Olympic gold medal. Still wanted the goats?
00;19;08;17 - 00;19;28;03
Speaker 3
Yeah, he had a rough trot going in, though. He had a rough Olympic. I mean, you had to literally. You had a rough trot in. He missed Rio because he broke his missed Rio, which is probably the one that he could have done it in. London I mean also rough trot just happened to go up against the greatest short course athlete of all time.
00;19;28;05 - 00;19;56;13
Speaker 3
Brownlee's the Brownlee's. You had that like fuck I'm on. You couldn't have had an hard era. No. There you have two goats like are just incredible anyway. Home of Javier Gomez, Pontevedra. We flash back to 2023. World champs was the last time we were in Pontevedra. Massive. Some massive results. I think you had Alex going into that, grand final, a clear favorite.
00;19;56;13 - 00;20;17;25
Speaker 3
And then I'm pretty sure he got, like, a outside the top 15. And you had a Dorian Konex, Dorian Koenig's, Tim Hellwig, Pierre Larco, Leo Berger four way sprint finish to completely mess up the think. Alex doesn't have very good memories of Pontevedra. No he does. I think he had a massive crash there. Was it? I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in Spain.
00;20;17;28 - 00;20;40;25
Speaker 3
Might have been Madrid or close maybe. But don't think he likes racing in Spain. No, he's a bit nervous. He's a bit nervy. It's a bit like, Where does Cassandra always crash? She just crashes in the wet Yokohama. Yeah, she always comes down. Yeah. But, no. Love this course. I've raced there. My first under 23 world chances there.
00;20;40;28 - 00;21;02;01
Speaker 3
A tough, tough course like this is gonna. This is going to separate the the boys from the men and the girls from the women. Like this is going to be. It's a it's a tough swim. Two lap swim. Really technical Healey. Tough by course. And then pretty much the same on the run. Lots of hills, tight, narrow sections through the Spanish roads.
00;21;02;03 - 00;21;27;07
Speaker 3
I think they go through the old town. Yeah, there goes the old town. In addition, this year we went through the old town last year. I think the bike course is a little different, but relatively in the same, relatively same. Yeah. Like it's still on the same track. We rode around on the track when we did it. We ran up through the old town like there was when we were running through like the narrow streets as people sitting down having dinner, you were getting like clouds of smoke blown in the face.
00;21;27;07 - 00;21;53;02
Speaker 3
Just real European style racing. So, look, I'm really looking forward to this week. We start racing on the Thursday. Just a quick recap of the itinerary for this week. We've got junior men and women on the Thursday 24th under 23, men and women on the 25th, a women on the 26th, and the elite men and the under 23 mixed team relay on the Sunday 27th.
00;21;53;05 - 00;22;14;01
Speaker 3
There you are. Four big days of racing. Four massive days of racing. So world champs are different, aren't they? They are different. I mean, we've only covered them in this kind of space. Yeah, for the last two years. Yeah. But last year the hype was big. I know we're not over there. Yeah, but I think the hype I, I feel it building now.
00;22;14;04 - 00;22;46;17
Speaker 3
Only now I think especially and again just if it's anything like it was in 2023. Unfortunately I don't think us in Australia can match the hype of a European, of a European, especially a Spanish world champs. Maybe the maybe the Brits, maybe the French, a Hamburg, a Hamburg potentially. But I think that's about it. Yeah. We can't. Like I remember I was obviously a 23 year old athlete watching the men we raced in the morning.
00;22;46;18 - 00;23;11;06
Speaker 3
I think it was a Saturday morning. The elite men were racing that afternoon. Maddie Houser, Alex Ye, Dorian Königs, you know, the Spanish athletes trying to get them from the athlete lounge to the start line. It was insane. It was like it was crowded. It was prime. Justin Bieber trying to get to the stage from his limo like everyone was asking for everything.
00;23;11;06 - 00;23;30;14
Speaker 3
I remember Emma Jeffcoat. People were asking for her like, drink bottles. And she was like, oh, I would you want that? Like good disgusting comics. I've been sucking out of it. Why would you want that? Like, they just want, like, anything that's yours. Anything they want photo. They. It was crowded like mad. Incredible. Like we don't have that, unfortunately.
00;23;30;17 - 00;23;49;10
Speaker 3
That passion for the sport. Every single part of the the bike course, every single part of the run course full like five people deep. It was incredible. It really is. The atmosphere is insane. So if you're over there, a man versus it's going to be a great weekend and enjoy yourself. Okay. Let's start off with day one.
00;23;49;12 - 00;24;18;21
Speaker 3
The juniors. Yeah. Relatively unknown, all of the juniors. However, there are a few big juniors lining up, especially in the junior women. Yes. The one to lose, I think. Fanny Salai from Hungary. She won Tizzy World Cup this year. She came second last year at Junior World. So I think she just wants that junior world title. Yeah. She came top ten at WTC s you know what?
00;24;18;21 - 00;24;36;09
Speaker 3
Since she could be racing the elite world, it's insane that she's still a junior. Yeah. I've been hearing about it for four years. I saw her on the start list when I was doing the research yesterday. I go, what is she doing? How are you still there? That has to be a typo. Yeah, she was racing Super League when she was 12.
00;24;36;14 - 00;25;05;11
Speaker 3
Yeah, like I remember seeing her on Super League. How young were you there? Like I know I've been hearing about. Yeah. The the definition of a child prodigy. Yeah. So I think this is her last year I really hope for the rest of the junior females. Yeah. Because I personally think she'll swim off the front, right off the front and run to win and then probably go race down to 23 the next day and then late women's next day because she can she could, she could, she very well could.
00;25;05;13 - 00;25;30;11
Speaker 3
So there you are, that finish line. She's the big name. Yeah. In the junior women, everybody. You probably racing for second. Sorry, sorry to say, we have a nuke. Dana. She got a win at Wells. Yeah, and then Charlotte Bullock, she's from Germany. She came fifth at the last world champs. Yeah, well, so there's a few good junior women there.
00;25;30;13 - 00;26;00;09
Speaker 3
The juniors, they're relatively unknown. They're still under 19. They haven't really gone outside of their home nation to race. You can have you know ranked athlete 65th and they'll go in it. Yeah. Exactly right. So the big name there is probably Fanny Sly's big Aussie contingency, great Aussie. They do look good for a medal though. However I honestly I think we got I'm going to say two I just because I don't know enough about the whole team.
00;26;00;09 - 00;26;25;03
Speaker 3
But there are two athletes that just absolutely stand out. Adi horsley she won Tizzy Junior World Cup in 2025. So last year, one, Junior World Cup, sorry, Junior Connie Cup in Tizzy and came third at Halton this year as well. Right. So great great athlete. Auto qualified one junior Australian champs on the day. Piper Anderson just an absolute I mean Aspen Anderson's sister.
00;26;25;03 - 00;26;48;06
Speaker 3
So that that says it all right there. Yeah. Just another child prodigy coming up. Not done a lot of triumph on racing in her time, but is just an absolute monster on that run. Like, we'll just run you down from nowhere, like, oh, yeah, I think she's going to be such. And she's just been training more and more obviously since qualifying for worlds.
00;26;48;07 - 00;27;09;22
Speaker 3
I think she almost accidentally qualified for worlds. I think she raced, world cross country as well this year. Yeah. So well, there goes the pedigree, you know. Exactly. World cross country racing. Yeah. And then Hannah Pollock. Yeah. Yeah. So they were one, two, three at Oceania Champs. Yeah. Great, great. Continue. All three girls gonna do really well.
00;27;09;22 - 00;27;33;03
Speaker 3
The best in the region. I think they're on for a good one. Yeah, like it's very unknown. Of course. Like the the genius. So that's our little wrap. The ones to watch our Aussie girls racing. So good luck to them into the junior men. The junior men probably get outside a little bit more, but it's still relatively unknown for you to watch.
00;27;33;05 - 00;28;02;06
Speaker 3
Caleb Wagner, he came third at under 23. No. What did he come? Third of the Soccer Conti Cup. He did two. So he. That's a late, an elite Conti. And then he also won Derry the other day, the Junior Cup. He wiped the floor. Yeah. Wow. With the juniors. Like he didn't even like he exited the swim first off the bike first and, like, just ran away from everyone.
00;28;02;08 - 00;28;27;17
Speaker 3
Yeah, well great form. So he's looking quite good. Caleb Wagner. And then you have Thomas Francesco Perez. He won in America. Came third in American Cup. Elite American Cup, I believe so, yeah. Wow. And then Roby Rockne also won the same American Cup. Yeah. Okay. Well so they're on, you know, a podiums. Yeah. Which is quite impressive.
00;28;27;18 - 00;28;48;29
Speaker 3
If you were doing that as a junior then. Incredible. I think those few American Cups were a bit weaker. And it's also tricky. However a European you're competing against, you know, a late guys for those same European Cups. So it's like a lot of those junior Europeans that at this age, you know, they're racing local races. Yeah. They could be so ready for these races.
00;28;48;29 - 00;29;10;21
Speaker 3
But they're not racing. So and it's like some of the French in here, they're unknown. They've just been racing French GPS. They've probably come in top 15 at these D1 French GP, which is probably just as good as he wins World Series level at this point. Yeah. So take these names with a pinch of salt. Obviously these are just the results in the World Triathlon.
00;29;10;21 - 00;29;34;24
Speaker 3
But like we said junior men and women are just so hard to pick. There's contingency Zan spies he raced last year as well. He's the Junior Oceania champ, 1501 off the bike rapid. Davenport this year off a tough course as well. Kyle Mason got his spot on the team at Ocean Champs as well when second ran into second.
00;29;34;25 - 00;29;59;01
Speaker 3
Yep, Caleb Wagner was third at this race and then Jack Woodbury was fourth. Off the back of an injury. So yeah, Jack's also got that winning rapid a few he raised. He won the same, Junior Conti Cup that he could slip one last year. In tizzy. So. Yeah, I mean, Jack's I think this is also Jack's.
00;29;59;04 - 00;30;18;01
Speaker 3
This is Jack's third junior Australian team that he's been picked for. So he was picked in 2020 for Toro Molina's race there. He was picked 2025. For Wollongong. Couldn't race because he was injured, but he was still picked for the team. And then now 2026 he's picked for this. So this is his third. And he's a junior next year as well.
00;30;18;02 - 00;30;39;22
Speaker 3
Yeah that's crazy number one. That's almost. Yeah. Another like Fanny's ally sort of just protege that was coming up insane. I think this is on second as well. Yeah. I think on race last year with Zan has another year as well. He might do. Yeah, maybe. Which is, I think another one on Jack. He ran an incredible sort of just coming back, getting fit again.
00;30;39;23 - 00;31;01;28
Speaker 3
We didn't get to see Jack at his full fitness potential. I guess at the start of the domestic season when we were all racing, he was still kind of coming back from an injury, but he ran the Gold Coast five K road race and ran 1434 for 1434 road like, which is just so fast just for an elite athlete.
00;31;01;29 - 00;31;20;11
Speaker 3
Zan also has another year. Yeah. Which is so like our junior man is looking and so does Kyle Mason. Yeah, right. So they've got two more years those guys okay. Which is quite impressive. So this is just a training run for these boys. Yeah. They've got another year to really cement. Wow. You know a win. Well okay. The under 23 women.
00;31;20;12 - 00;31;38;28
Speaker 3
Yeah. Things are starting to get a bit more serious now. Yeah. So we know a few athletes that will you know they've got some good runs on the boards in like a light racing. And it looks like a French show today. Yeah. Looking at these names I remember all of these names from last year. So Leah who Art, she's formerly a junior world champion.
00;31;38;28 - 00;32;12;15
Speaker 3
She came second at three Europeans, third at European sprint champs in the Late Forefoot Houlton and sixth at Calorie Karoly. Is that the. That's the Italian World Series. Oh yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. So. And then you have another Frenchie, Iona Woodman. She's France. Yeah. Another junior world champion. Well, she came third at the other day at the Portuguese World Cup, so she's in good form.
00;32;12;15 - 00;32;33;15
Speaker 3
And then 10th at Chengdu. Wow. I think the, the World Cup level. Usually they say World Cup standard is equivalent to an under 23 standard. Yeah. So, you know, if you come and top tens and if you're, I mean, to be, a European Under 23 champion, that's, you know, majority of the field right there, isn't it.
00;32;33;16 - 00;32;59;22
Speaker 3
So you pretty much have the whole UN 23 European podium here. So you got ambergris. She's the same she podium at €23 champs and Eva what a car from GB. She also podium. So it's an impressive start list 23 women take your pick with these women. Like you could have a French. You could have a French. 123123.
00;32;59;23 - 00;33;18;29
Speaker 3
You. I mean we obviously know the pedigree we got in the Australian side and Aspen Anderson you got here eighth in Chengdu third and Wells and then she's just started racing at the World Triathlon Championship Series. So she's experienced racing at a even higher level now. So she's obviously going to bring that experience into here. How's that going to play out.
00;33;19;06 - 00;33;38;12
Speaker 3
And then we also have lining up for her debut for Australia Brianna mo. Yeah. And she's had two countries this year. Yeah. So she's really found some form which is yeah very impressive. And she's got herself on the UN 23 team. Really consistent. I over the last few years. So just tucking away. And she's got her chance at the big leagues.
00;33;38;13 - 00;34;06;15
Speaker 3
Yeah I'm 23 men now. This is actually stacked. Yeah, I, I, I remember talking about this with somebody. I think we were asking about the Aussie boys, obviously. How do we think they're going to go. And I just remember thinking, oh my goodness, I just know how many people are going to be on this start list. How many good athletes are out there right now winning World Cups, you know, racing podium and World Cups, racing at the World Series, thinking these boys are still under 23.
00;34;06;16 - 00;34;29;20
Speaker 3
Yeah. Like it's going to be an absolute field. Ultra impressive. This is like you could make up a World Cup from this field. Yeah. Some of these guys are racing WTS and racing. Well I think the headliner here is Niels Threat. What's his last name? I'm going to say Niels. I think you've missed an iron there, but I say.
00;34;29;22 - 00;34;51;07
Speaker 3
Niels. Sale. Niels Sia. You know, he's the Frenchie. You know him? He came second at tendu. Massive sprint. Finish fourth at Hamburg. Yeah, well, which was big, was huge. Yeah, that was a massive result. I think that was his debut World Series as well. Yeah. And I also think Chengdu. Well, Chang do I might actually be lying here.
00;34;51;10 - 00;35;15;08
Speaker 3
Was that a Olympic distance race? Oh I'm unsure. Pretty sure he had a really good race on his very first Olympic ever. Yeah. So he looks like the favorite to me. Yeah. I think he's also one of those athletes that doesn't really have a weakness. Like he's a really strong swim bike run across the board. I mean if you're running against Luke Wilson and, Tyler missed the truck and coming out ahead of him.
00;35;15;10 - 00;35;44;26
Speaker 3
Come on. Like. And you were going to make a front pack with that kind of run form, like. Yeah, exactly. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you losing there we have from the Brit Michael GA. Yeah. 18th at London. Second that Euro champs. And he goes string of World Cup podiums back into last year. Honestly I think Michael and Soul Solomon the two Brits soul has had an incredible little run last little run leading into this world champ.
00;35;44;27 - 00;36;02;20
Speaker 3
So I think like Michael just gotten better and better, especially from last year to this year. More experience on the World Series circuit. Soul has just had an insane last couple of races. He got the win in Edmonton. I think that was one of his first, World Cups. You got an eighth in on his debut in way.
00;36;02;22 - 00;36;23;13
Speaker 3
Hi, hi. Like what? An incredible an Olympic man can run. Like, watch this. Watch this guy run. He's rapid. So if that comes down to a run race, honestly, soul could be contending for a win there. Yeah. Aysén. Ido. I think he's Spanish. He came 14th at high. Well, so I think like a top 15 at WTC s isn't until 23.
00;36;23;16 - 00;36;49;00
Speaker 3
Yeah. You're in the contention. You're in the contention for a podium there. Yeah for sure we missed one Blake Bullard like Bullard the American. So we saw him in Yokohama. He was in that breakaway with Maddie Hauser. Miguel Hidalgo Luke Willie and Staple Braden Mercer in that breakaway. He did get dropped on the bike though. But then we obviously saw him in a breakaway with, the boys in was at Rio.
00;36;49;02 - 00;37;11;04
Speaker 3
Yeah, I think he ended up sixth at Rio. Yeah. And a couple at a podium at some point. Yeah. It might have won it actually a World Cup. He was on a podium where he won. Might have to double check that. But Blake Bullard has definitely made a name for himself in these again, sort of from that Yokohama where he had that really good, sort of swim.
00;37;11;06 - 00;37;30;16
Speaker 3
Got a little bit of camera time in the World Series there. And, you know, he's been able to back it up with some pretty solid, World Cup results in these last more, let's say three months. Four months. He ended up oh. Was I lying? Was he? No. No, he hasn't paid him to a World Cup yet, but he's always.
00;37;30;19 - 00;37;50;18
Speaker 3
He's at the front quite regularly. Yeah. Okay. Great. Was great. Yes, yes, I think he's relatively new to triathlon. Well, and then Toby Powers. Yeah. He's got to be in contention with his World Cup podium the other day. Crazy that Paraguay. Crazy that he was also, like a ring in he wasn't actually picked on the team originally.
00;37;50;18 - 00;38;08;08
Speaker 3
Yeah. Crazy. He was was he. He was picked in the team because Braden Mercer pulled out. Oh, yeah. Because Mercy's injured. Yeah. Braden Mercer obviously having a season ending injury. But crazy. He might not be picked. Yeah I know, yeah. He might not have been picked. So I think that's happened to Toby a couple of times. Yeah, actually.
00;38;08;10 - 00;38;31;15
Speaker 3
Well, I mean, you're kind of like leaving your your really good run of podiums. Too late. Yeah, it's actually for selection, I don't know. Yeah. It's tough when you have to watch an error. Is that. Yeah. All those selections and then. Yeah. Discretionary selections. But with that, only Australia got two this year. I mean, there's also plenty of time where, you know, you could have rolled you you still could.
00;38;31;16 - 00;38;46;03
Speaker 3
We still could like, you know, that you can roll a third on all the way up until the start of the race. So, you know, if we, if you have an athlete there and say that you're ranked, your number one on the wait list, say someone might get sick there, not before the race and not be able to come down.
00;38;46;04 - 00;39;06;19
Speaker 3
If you're there waiting with your bike, you're on your own. Yeah. So? So, Toby. Yeah. He looks like a contender as well with those those kind of guys. Then we have our other Australian Oscar Wooten. He won on 23. I think he should. I think he came out and just surprised everybody this year. Yeah I think we've just been knocking away quietly.
00;39;06;23 - 00;39;24;04
Speaker 3
We train with Oscar and you know he's obviously quite impressive. And he had a he had an eighth place at Junior Worlds last year. So you know, he did well last year and kind of got got his name out there a little bit, but just came out and was just the better Aussie and nearly every, every race and converted it to that Olympic distance.
00;39;24;04 - 00;39;43;05
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Which I think quite impressive from a junior to yeah. On might have almost surprised himself a little bit and just took that auto spot as a first year under 23. You know straight off the bat. Yeah exactly. So Oscar should be in for a good one as well. Especially with his swim. Like he's looking to be at that front pack and move that away.
00;39;43;07 - 00;40;05;08
Speaker 3
So it'd be interesting to see how that goes. So that's our Aussie I guess junior team and the ones to watch. Yeah we'll get well because they wrap them up. So we got the junior women Addie Horsley, Piper Anderson, Hannah Pollock. That's our junior women racing on the Thursday. Junior men's on spires, Kyle Mason, Jack Woodbury. Those junior men are also racing on the Thursday.
00;40;05;11 - 00;40;30;02
Speaker 3
Then we get down to and then we're over to the under 23 women. We have Aspen Anderson, Brianna moe on the Friday, and then Toby Powers, Oscar Wooten on the Friday as well. Just want to give them a wrap. Obviously Aussies supporting Aussies. There we are. Good luck. Rip in, rip in elite women. Okay. The title into the title fight for the elite championships.
00;40;30;03 - 00;40;54;13
Speaker 3
Here we go. Whole season comes down to this. But God, we love it. And I mean, it's kind of been the Cassandra show. It has it. It looks very unlikely for anyone to beat Cassandra, although it happened last year. What happens when someone's been so dominant? Cassandra's on 4000 points. It does leave those second and third placings, which are a lot of points open.
00;40;54;14 - 00;41;21;01
Speaker 3
Has she slipped it all this year? No. She hasn't lost races entered. Wow. She's won Super League. She's won the four WTC. She's like had three French national records. Has she started. Has she just figured it out maybe. And clearly she looks like she has like she just figured out how to one. She's got that winning. She's got that winning.
00;41;21;03 - 00;41;36;02
Speaker 3
You know boy she knows how to do it. And it's like, well, the only person that is going to stop me from winning this race is me. Yeah, herself. None of you can do anything about it. It's just if I mess up or if I decide I'm not winning today. Exactly. That's on me. You guys can't do a thing about it.
00;41;36;03 - 00;41;52;23
Speaker 3
She's at the front like we've talked about so, so many times. She's at the front of the swim, she rides well, and you look at her run like she's the best runner by far. Yeah, she doesn't win by much, but she she doesn't have to. She just she wins by the the amount she needs. Yeah I mean six seconds.
00;41;52;23 - 00;42;24;15
Speaker 3
So you need. Yeah. Yeah. No. Just as long as you're in front like. Yeah. He's. Yeah. Honestly I, I don't, I do not see how she loses this but I still, I still just after last year say that within the back of my mind. Yeah I think with it's a bit more technical. It is a tough old town type of there might be a couple of the Brits, I'm thinking like Georgia Taylor Brown, just Pflueger trying to pump that bike play to their strength.
00;42;24;17 - 00;42;49;24
Speaker 3
Yeah. Although they can't win the series those two girls, are they going to help a team mate. It can it can alter Kate WAF as well. She'll be there won't have a crack and like break up that bike probably. So things can happen in that women's race. Yeah. It is Cass's to lose. She looks very good. I don't see anyone beating her, to be honest.
00;42;49;27 - 00;43;11;03
Speaker 3
Besides her own fault. Yeah, she beats herself on the day she beats herself. I agree, well, I mean, yeah, they they could be working together for Beth, as you said, because do you want to go ahead and say the the possibility. Okay. The possibilities. So Cassandra Grant, it's in her hands. She needs to go third or better and she wins the world title.
00;43;11;05 - 00;43;31;01
Speaker 3
Doesn't matter what happens. Anyone could beat her, but she has to be third or better. I think Hauser was in this spot last year. Yeah. Just needed to be on the podium. Just need to be on the podium. Yeah. Beth Potter for Beth to win, Beth has to win the race in Cassandra in fourth. Yeah. So there has to be a three place gap.
00;43;31;03 - 00;43;55;22
Speaker 3
Yeah. Two dimension. She's another contender. She has to win and Cassandra to be sixth or lower. And also needs Beth to be third or lower. Okay, there we are. Lisa, the reigning world champion. This is what happened last year. This is it was the fight between Beth and Cassandra. Like looking at it? It could happen. It could happen.
00;43;55;24 - 00;44;21;29
Speaker 3
It's crazy. I think that's because Cassandra is being so dominant. It's opened up the bottom. Yeah, yeah. There hasn't been a random person win like a I don't know, Naomi Ruff I don't know. That was just the first person that popped in my head. Like picking on Naomi Ralph. No, but she she hasn't like some random hasn't won a World Series to take away thousand points from everyone else.
00;44;22;02 - 00;44;48;21
Speaker 3
And the Americans borrow some random holy. Picked an American Lisa for the win. Cassandra. Seventh or lower? Yeah. And then Beth Potter fourth or lower. Okay. Peril to win. Cassandra 10th or lower. And yeah, this is where it gets really tricky now because you're kind of getting like Perry to win. She needs Cassandra tent the lower Potter six or lower Manson fourth or lower and then third or lower.
00;44;48;21 - 00;45;06;09
Speaker 3
So it looks a bit unlikely. It's starting to look and quiet. Yeah, it's looking likely from Lisa Turk on. It's a bit hard for anyone else to win. Yeah, like it's very dependent I think. Like there's even a chance where you know, and Emma Lombardy in ninth can win, but you need boat grant to basically fail to score any points.
00;45;06;12 - 00;45;30;28
Speaker 3
Yeah. So like she needs a crash out basically. So it's like it's possible, but everyone needs have a shit day. Yeah. Yeah. You're relying on a lot. Yeah. That's a lot of, luck. I'm almost. I'm almost inclined to say maybe at most Lee only Perry out. She could potentially do it because, you know, you could you could have, like a you could have a Jean le here.
00;45;31;04 - 00;45;52;16
Speaker 3
Jump in for second there. Leona Perry wins. It bumps back into third or lower. And then you know that's a lot of people that are then fourth, fifth, sixth like yeah. But even that's a massive one. I'm thinking Tilda, Beth, Beth and Cassandra, they're they're the ones that are fighting for. There's four for the title. That's and I mean, this was kind of the same situation last year.
00;45;52;18 - 00;46;13;17
Speaker 3
Turkey was in third. Yeah, it looked pretty unlikely. It was between Beth and Cassandra. And they just kind of capitulated last year. So it's the it's the kind of course record happen again. Exactly. I think like I feel as if the women's over the last two years have probably been soul siding. Yeah. They've been more exciting than the men's.
00;46;13;18 - 00;46;30;00
Speaker 3
Well, last year we kind of knew halfway through the bike of that Houser had it. Yeah, I think we kind of knew. Yeah. So in the eight man breakaway and yeah. And none of them were the contenders. Yeah. So I think we kind of knew. But the women were so exciting. It was one of those ones where we were looking at these, these result sheets going, oh my God.
00;46;30;00 - 00;46;46;06
Speaker 3
Figuring out the points. Who's done it? Who's done it. Like, that's exciting. That's so exciting. And I think this is this is the kind of racing where we have these scenarios with the women. This is what it's all about. I believe I still believe, and we said it last year, this is better than the one day world champ.
00;46;46;07 - 00;47;01;29
Speaker 3
We have a one day champion. That's the Olympics. This is the series. Yeah. You got to be consistent. Yeah. You know, Cassandra could have sat out all year and just come and won this. Yeah, exactly. Which is kind of fits purpose in my show you that the you're the best in the world for the year. Yeah, I, I don't believe so.
00;47;02;00 - 00;47;29;08
Speaker 3
Yeah. So it's exciting. Can't wait for the women. Hear me? Who do you who do you got to win the title. Yeah, I've got Sandra. Yeah. Then I've got, have you got a winning on the day and winning on the title different. Well, I've got Sandra winning on the day there for the title. Okay. And then I've got Beth.
00;47;29;10 - 00;47;49;00
Speaker 3
I don't think Beth I think Beth's going to be like a third. I think she's going to be a second on the day. Okay. I could see that too. I, I see a bit of a, I see a bit of a change in the positions purely on. I think I'm the same. I just don't think Cassandra and Beth are going to make the same mistake that they did last year.
00;47;49;00 - 00;48;06;02
Speaker 3
I don't see it happening two years in a row. I think it's going to be Sandra Beth. And then I think, I don't think we're going to see Tilda in that front pack breakaway. I don't think we're seeing till to have a a great, great racist time. I think you're then going to see a come in third, and it could potentially bump her up to third in the series.
00;48;06;03 - 00;48;29;25
Speaker 3
Yeah. There we are. So same but still Cassandra Beth show Cassandra show the encore. Just not as and then not quite there. Yeah. She's the Oh. What is it when you when you're played before the main act? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Harsh. But anyway, that's it. That's the women. It's exciting. It's going to be massive.
00;48;29;25 - 00;48;46;05
Speaker 3
It's a tough course. We're going to see. You know, I even think of Taylor Spivey is going to be up there. Emma Lombardo, she's back on the podium. Yeah. She wasn't a fourth. She wasn't for no more fourth, which is awesome. So, I think they're going to have something to say about it. You know, obviously when have Georgia Taylor Brown she's definitely going to have something to say.
00;48;46;08 - 00;49;05;27
Speaker 3
It's going to be exciting. Yeah, it's definitely going to be exciting. The late man oh boy oh boy. The elite men I, I am worried, I am worried we had our bold predictions at the start of the year. We said he was going to do the double, but boy I'm worried. I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know.
00;49;05;28 - 00;49;27;26
Speaker 3
I'm a bit worried because there is like if Vasco was in this position, I don't think Vasco could do it. But if there is one person that can do it. He's the only person of his ass. He's the only person on this start list that could do it. Yeah. The only other one that on the day could have done it was Christian, Christian or Vince Louis back in the day.
00;49;27;28 - 00;49;44;22
Speaker 3
Yeah, but I think like in this era, in this person that can do it is a Matt Hauser. I mean, because like in this position last year, you had Miguel Hidalgo and Vasco Vilas in this position to beat Hauser, and they were never going to do it, never did it. And we're never going to do it in. They were never going to do it in Australia.
00;49;44;25 - 00;50;11;09
Speaker 3
No, they were always going to miles off and he just played with them. Yeah man could he do it I I'm like it's going to be tough. Asked I'm not I'm not you know it's it's not in a distant world where you see Matty Hauser coming out of the water, third behind a cross Jani and a mark of a and and then you've got a Henry Graf and then you've got my God, great call.
00;50;11;12 - 00;50;27;23
Speaker 3
So it loses a bit of firepower at that front. Lose a bit of firepower. You still got plenty there. You're going to have a mac staple. Lukey Williams going to be there. You know, Chase McQueen will probably be there. Yeah. You're still going to have there's probably going to be another German just to step up. And like Tim, hell might take the place.
00;50;27;23 - 00;50;50;15
Speaker 3
You've got Konex back to back like, yeah, I think there would be a good front pack. I think just is. Is Vasco and Miguel going to be there? Yes, that's going to be huge. They need to break it up and get Vasco away. Because honestly, if I see a ten person group up the road and then all of a sudden I see a plus 45 next to Vasco name.
00;50;50;18 - 00;51;13;04
Speaker 3
Yeah. Houses in first fucking. And that's all he needs. Yeah. Exactly. Right. So for Matt Hauser to win the world championship, he needs to win the race. Yeah. And he needs Vasco to come sixth or lower. Yeah. Which is huge. That is. I'm sorry. That is, it's looking. Vasco has not been off the podium. Oh yeah. All year.
00;51;13;06 - 00;51;38;04
Speaker 3
And last year it was Vasco needed to win and Matt Hauser be just off the podium. This is even worse. This is worse. This is. It's. It's tough. Vasco just needs a top five, which is easier. Easier than what he's done. But it's a world championships again. We don't know. We don't know. I'm. I wouldn't look at the end of the day, I, I don't think I want.
00;51;38;08 - 00;52;05;28
Speaker 3
How is it a win or is he like picked him at the start of the year which is rather him win. Vasco also wouldn't mind if I wouldn't hate it if one know he's been very Uber consistent this year and he's just that nice guy. Yeah, just that nice guy to move a bit of a cutie when I squeeze his cheeks like he's just like that one that's always been knocking on the door being really good, but just kind of like being stuck behind the Matt Hauser kind of curtain, like waiting to get out.
00;52;06;00 - 00;52;29;17
Speaker 3
And he's finally come out and shown it. So one for the good guys. It could be one for the good guys, but obviously we'd still like Matty Hauser. Yeah. Oh, it's just so tough like it. I think it was probably it. And we said it on the last podcast. I think a tactical decision to like miss one of the races somewhat like a tactical floor.
00;52;29;19 - 00;52;47;17
Speaker 3
So one of the races. So my, my only thing and like my only thing is that when we saw Hauser go and his absolute streak last year, he dropped the ball on one. So he dropped the ball in Karlovy Vary last year that was his one that he dropped the ball on. I reckon that gave him that. Okay, I'm beatable.
00;52;47;20 - 00;53;07;23
Speaker 3
Let's go back and let's go back to the drawing board here. Put a really good block. Go to Wollongong. Unbeatable again. He did that. Vasco hasn't dropped the ball at all this year. Not once. No. Not even looked like he's close to dropping the ball. Yeah, he's had all eyes on the world Championship. Is this the one where he drops the ball though?
00;53;07;26 - 00;53;26;22
Speaker 3
I don't know I, I, I can't see it. I don't see it, I don't see it I see in this race I think Hauser will win. I think House is going to win the grand final. Perfect. But I don't think that Vasco is going to be outside that toxic. You're going to see Houser win the world with the grand final.
00;53;26;23 - 00;53;41;12
Speaker 3
But then Vasco come down in third spot. You know celebrating the world title win. Yeah. Exactly right. And I think that's I'm also not you know she's like I'm not I don't completely agree with you so I.
00;53;41;14 - 00;53;58;05
Speaker 3
I want Houser to win again I want Houser to win. But this isn't going to be as easy as what it was in in Wollongong last year. We don't have a beef start. It's not 100m to the first can. You're not going to have everybody, you know, bashing each other while houses just, you know, enjoying a free ride, cruising off the front.
00;53;58;11 - 00;54;15;25
Speaker 3
You're not going to have that Aussie exit which splits it up. You're not going to have the home crowd. It's it's a two lap swim. It's still two lap swim. Yeah, but it's not going out on a pontoon. You get out on a pontoon type. It's a lot smaller run. You don't have that again. Beach start back in which Aussies, especially Matt Hauser, is so good at.
00;54;15;27 - 00;54;34;19
Speaker 3
I think this bike course is much more challenging, think it's much more challenging, and I think this run course is much more challenging. Yeah, it's very, very hilly. Yes, it was hilly last year and I would historically say that house is not the greatest at Olympic distance, but you can't really say that anymore. After his Wollongong race last year, I think that's kind of null and void.
00;54;34;19 - 00;55;00;29
Speaker 3
That's a null and void point. He ran one of the fastest ever 10-K splits we've ever seen in a world champs. But I'm just not fully convinced that I would love him to not fully convinced that he can get done, that he can get it done. Yeah. It's tough. I'd love I'd I still think he's, See oh, so hard, I yeah, I just don't see Vasco outside of the top five.
00;55;01;01 - 00;55;19;25
Speaker 3
I think that's the biggest. I think that's that's the biggest kick out here. Yeah. For. It's not, it's not gonna win fan or like. Yeah. Yeah I feel like after that I think yes Houser could win in the house at camp. Houser could win 100%. Vasco could win. You know buddy Miguel Hidalgo could go and win. I just don't.
00;55;19;27 - 00;55;38;12
Speaker 3
Yeah, like you said, don't see Vasco not being in the top five. I hate how it's out of, Matt's hands. He can do everything on the day. All he can do is win. You can't better a win. So sometimes, if he can get any more points by putting more time into Vasco, it's. It's all up to Vasco.
00;55;38;13 - 00;55;57;15
Speaker 3
Yeah. Whether your race is still in the hands of somebody else. Well, and it's in the hands of four other dudes between you and Vasco. Yeah, like I would be like pulling Luke William to the finish with me. Yeah. Being like, I need to win this. You need. You need to be here. I need to bring another two mates like Cao Cao.
00;55;57;19 - 00;56;18;27
Speaker 3
Cao, you get running, boy like. And then we need to, like, do something else. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be again one of those ones where if, if, if you go to Houser and Houser looks back and he sees this eight boys and Ricardo and Vasco is not one of them, you are holding us, holding us to get out of there like you want.
00;56;18;28 - 00;56;35;10
Speaker 3
You want a two minute lead. So then all eight boys are in front of us. Go! Yeah, exactly. It's insane. Anyway, we'll keep going down the list. We got Ricardo Petty star stealing with a sniff again. This is where I think it's almost like the chance to get really, really shy. Or straight away from the top two boys.
00;56;35;12 - 00;56;56;03
Speaker 3
We've they've just separated themselves quite significantly. It's nothing like the women. So, you know, we've got Ricardo Petty star. If he wins it, it'd be his first ever win. And Hauser needs to finish seventh or lower, and Vasco needs to finish 14th or lower. Already stretching it thin here. Miguel Hidalgo needs to win. How's us? Seventh or lower?
00;56;56;05 - 00;57;20;03
Speaker 3
Vasco? 15th or lower? Same again. Dorian Konex needs to win. Houser eighth or lower Vasco 16th or lower. So again, very unlikely. Big, big blow ups from these two still could happen. It could happen, it could happen. But realistically, I think we're in for a ding dong battle between House Hauser and Vasco. Yeah, yeah. All right, hit me.
00;57;20;05 - 00;57;39;21
Speaker 3
I think it's tough. Hit me. What do you got? How's the one? Because he's great on the day. Like he does show up for those big days. How's it going to take title? Yeah. Not not the word title. No, I'm talking title here. Who's gonna win the world title? Yeah, Vasco. I'm just going to go just to be different.
00;57;39;21 - 00;58;04;22
Speaker 3
I'm going to say Hauser. I'm gonna say, I'd love to see it. I'm going to say something happens. I. I'd be out of my seat. I've literally got I've got two visuals in my head here. I've got two visuals where I just do not. I see Vasco running down in third spot celebrating the world title, and then I've got Vasco coming out of the water with plus 45 seconds next to his name, 38th, you know, 38 out of water.
00;58;04;23 - 00;58;25;24
Speaker 3
Yeah. For some reason, somehow has a bad start. Whatever first can bad. Just one of those days where today's is off day. How's the second Riley's ten troops? They're off. But I'm going to go with that second one purely just because I love to see it. How's it comes in, takes the title, takes the win and then oh my God, he's won it.
00;58;25;25 - 00;58;41;19
Speaker 3
He's won at the fucking nowhere out of nowhere. And we look like idiots going why haven't you raised Kalabari. Yeah. Well no, I mean, I guess because we picked him at the start of the season. Yes, yes, yes. So we actually look like bloody gods. But we knew we would do it. We knew it. We never doubted him.
00;58;41;21 - 00;58;59;28
Speaker 3
We just worried a little bit. Just worried. Okay. Awesome. I think that's I don't think I don't think it's see as much different. You know, I'm, I'm going to say Maddie Houser wins it. Vasco second and then a Ricardo British. So he'll he'll he'll claim third. Yeah. I don't think it changes much. Cool. God, it's exciting though.
00;59;00;02 - 00;59;20;22
Speaker 3
It is exciting. That's how wrap of the world Championships. Yeah. We'll quickly go over the. So obviously got the Aussie men. We got Maddie Hauser, Lukey Willy and Kamikaze. Kamikaze has been absolutely flying at the back end of this year. He's shown some massive improvement especially at this level. Luke will another one that is just a contender all the time.
00;59;20;22 - 00;59;38;10
Speaker 3
He's always at the front. And then in the women Sophie Muller wiki. Just a freak runner as well. So watch her in the dying stages. Yeah. Where are we watching this? It's at, like, 2 a.m.. Yeah. Okay. Let's not go to each other's house.
00;59;38;13 - 00;59;55;17
Speaker 3
Like we would have. I think it would have been great. 100% to 2 a.m.. Oh, that's going to be a Monday morning. Oh, no. I'm gonna have to watch that. Two, three, four. Oh, I was about to say got coaching but no I don't because I'm broken. So I don't go riding anymore. That's awesome actually I'll just do that and go straight back to bed.
00;59;55;20 - 01;00;13;23
Speaker 3
Oh that's alright for you. Yeah. For train. So yeah. Fair enough. Sucks for you guys. Oh yeah. Well it's going to be exciting. It will be exciting I can't wait. I'm not hyped. I'm getting a headache thinking about the weekend. Actually, I don't know about you. I don't know if it's the bloody end down that I've the five end smash.
01;00;13;23 - 01;00;28;27
Speaker 3
Smashing. But I can't feel anything. He's in my head now, but, it's gonna it's going to be unreal. It's going to be unreal. I can't wait. We'll keep you up to date. We've got a now that we've got our Instagram back and, you know, Leighton's verified that he's not a robot. We are back on Instagram.
01;00;28;27 - 01;00;47;02
Speaker 3
We'll be keeping you updated. We'll be, you know, doing the same content that we did last year. And we're looking forward to being back, giving our opinions, and watching the racing alongside you. We'll recap next week. Recap next week. God it's exciting. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you for tuning in. Once again, this is the unfunded podcast episode.
01;00;47;05 - 01;00;52;23
Speaker 3
Can't remember. That is your recap of world championships. See you next week. All right.