From the Editor
SHOWCASING THE SPIRIT OF SPORTSMANSHIP
ITU Worlds. “It’s one of those moments of how sports brings people together. People always say it means a lot more when you are doing it for someone else, and I learned that this time,” Verzbicas told Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune. Verzbicas, and countless others, have showed that triathlon isn’t
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such an individual sport after all. At the London World Championship Series race, the first U.S. Olympic qualifier, we witnessed another example of sportsmanship.
Zachary Wang
People say triathlon is an individual sport. That’s mostly true. Sure, each athlete completes the swim, bike and run, but it’s the moments before and after — and sometimes during — where triathlon becomes a team sport.
Kevin McDowell very likely would have won the ITU Junior World Championship this year, but cancer didn’t really care that he was the top returning junior athlete and that he’d started his pro career and 2011 season with an impressive showing at the USA Triathlon Elite Race Series event in Clermont, Fla. You know McDowell’s story by now. We wrote about it in our Summer 2011 issue (“Win One for Kevin,” page 52), plus it’s been all over the national media since his Multisport Madness teammate Lukas Verzbicas, the top high school distance running recruit in the country, delivered on his promise to win the gold medal for Kevin at
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Laura Bennett, a favorite to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team after placing fourth at the Beijing Games in 2008, had an off race. Bennett, who placed 24th behind qualifiers Gwen Jorgensen (2nd place) and Sarah Groff (7th place) was the consummate professional, supporting Jorgensen during the race as the up-and-comer passed the veteran early in the run. “Everyone was encouraging,” Jorgensen said of teammates Sarah Haskins and Bennett. “Laura said, ‘go get ’em girl!’ We’ve been getting to know one another as individuals and they are all very talented and hopefully I can learn from them.” Our sport needs more stories like these two. Have you witnessed an exemplary display of sportsmanship? Share it with us at
communications@usatriathlon.org or post on our Facebook page at
facebook.com/usatriathlon.
Jayme Ramson is the editor-in-chief of USA Triathlon Magazine. Contact her at
jayme.ramson@usatriathlon.org.
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Just a comment on the article [“Jetsetting: The Art of Multisport
Travel” page 72] in the Summer 2011 issue: When traveling (flying) to a race, take what gear you can in your carry-on bag. Essentials to carry on for me are my running shoes and favorite goggles, as well as my race kit. Bike shoes, nutrition and wetsuit get carried on if I have room. (Gels can be placed in your 1-quart baggie required
by TSA). These items are the things I feel are less easily replaceable if my luggage gets lost on the way to an event. If you need special gear such as orthotics, of course, those should be carried on. It sure reduces the stress of having the airline lose or delay a bag if you don’t have to replace everything at the race site. — Betsy Tieman
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