Triathlon

What's up you reader? In case any one apart from teachers is reading this blog. I don't think so... Let's get some sport knowledge.

Triathlon came up as a bet between athletes to see which of them was the best one: a swimmer, a biker or a runner. Some people say it was originally created in France, where they called it Les Trois Sports (The three sports).

Triathlon is a sport made up of 3 different ones. In its most popular version, those sports are swimming, cycling and running.  In this events, different athletes have to compete between them to see who is the fastest and better one. They start with swimming, continue with cycling and finish up with running. There are so many different competitions, but the most popular ones are:

• Hawaii Ironman World Championship. Kona, Hawaii.
• Nice Triathlon. Nice, France.
• Enduroman Arch to Arc. From Marble Arch, London to the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
• St. Anthony's. St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
• Escape from Alcatraz. San Francisco, California, USA.
• Wildflower. Lake San Antonio, Northern California, USA.
• Norseman Extreme Triathlon, Hardangerfjord, Norway.
• Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Henderson, Nevada, USA.

Triathlon is an Olympic sport since the Sydney Games in 2000. The spanish representatives in triathlon for the London Games are Javier Gómez Noya, Mario Mola, José Miguel Pérez, Ainhoa Murua, Zuriñe Rodríguez and Marina Damlaimcourt.


I'm sure they'll win all the gold medals. See ya!