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  #128 BEAUGRAND HITS TOP SPOT AND VILAÇA TAKES CONTROL AFTER WTCS WEIHAI 04.09.2026 53мин

  It was quite the weekend of racing at the World Triathlon Championship Series Weihai to close out August and lead us into an almighty September that will decide our 2026 World Champions. Cassandre Beaugrand hit the perfect score with a fourth straight gold, Matt Hauser hit the deck and finished 10th, and the men's world title is now firmly in Vasco Vilaça's hands. TriathlonLive's crack commentary duo Will McCloy and Belinda Granger join Doug Gray to pick through the racing and look ahead to WTCS Karlovy Vary on 13 September. Watch it all unfold on TriathlonLive.io from 10am local time. And for anyone who doesn't value their ears, here's the link to an amateur butchering a DJ mix 12 years ago, as digressed to halfway through a discussion about Chinese names...
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  #127 ON THE MOVE: ALBERTO 'SPEEDY' GONZALEZ 24.08.2026 46мин

  Dialling in this week from an August altitude camp in Font Romeu is Alberto Gonzalez. One of the few men who has been able to push Matt Hauser and Vasco Vilaça all the way so far in 2026, a late penalty robbed the Spaniard of a big finish and potential medal at WTCS London. Fifth place was still a huge result for the 28-year-old as he builds the best season of his career, and the man known as Speedy Gonzalez heads to Weihai still gunning for that first WTCS podium, plus a real chance to help his training partner Vilaça slow Hauser's charge up the rankings with a massive race in China! You can watch all the action from WTCS Weihai on 29 August on TriathlonLive.io
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  #126 HAUSER & BEAUGRAND ON THE HUNT: WTCS WEIHAI PREVIEW 20.08.2026 53мин

  The penultimate stop of the regular 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series heads to Weihai, China on 29 September, with two very high profile names chasing the wins that would give them the perfect 4000 points score going into the decisive Pontevedra Championship Finals. So will it be mission accomplished for Matt Hauser and Cassandre Beaugrand or can Beth Potter and Lisa Tertsch, Alberto Gonzalez and Csongor Lehmann slow their rivals' seemingly unstoppable progress? The build up begins here in the company of our very own WTCS commentary duo Will McCloy and Belinda Granger!
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  #125 WTCS Hamburg and Mixed Relay Worlds recap: Will McCloy & Belinda Granger 16.07.2026 1ч 18мин

  The WTCS Hamburg weekend cooked up plenty of thrills and spills across the Championship Series, Para Series and Mixed Relay World Championships action. In this episode we go back into the mix, from pre-race penalties to unexplained pull-outs, transition crashes to super-sprint thrashes, as well as previewing the WTCS London on 25 July and saluting an all-time great as Flora Duffy announces her retirement.
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  #124 WTCS HAMBURG PREVIEW: WILL McCLOY & KRIS GEMMELL 07.07.2026 1ч 14мин

  With this weekend marking 25 years of top-tier triathlon action in Hamburg, the podcast welcomes back Will McCloy and World Triathlon's Kris Gemmell - themselves no strangers to the dangers of the infamous swim tunnel of despair - to preview the fifth stop of the 2026 Series and Mixed Team Relay World Championships. Unique insight, attempts at foresight, and a little friendly bite, it's the one-stop-shop for all your Hamburg preview needs before the action gets underway from 1.15pm CET on 11 July on TriathlonLive!
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  #123 WTCS QUIBERON DEBRIEF 24.06.2026 1ч 7мин

  We take a spin through all the action from the WTCS Quiberon weekend, where Dorian Coninx's win couldn't stop Vasco Vilaça's stranglehold on the Series getting a little tighter and Cassandre Beaugrand made it four from four on home soil before the Mixed Relay took charge in fine style on the Sunday. From course question marks to the moto drafting drama and what is next for Alex Yee, the return of Tilda Mansson, rise and rise of Jolien Vermeylen and much more, it's all here on the World Triathlon Podcast as we continue the march through the 2026 Championship Series and look ahead to Tiszy!
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  #122 - HUATULCO WC + EURO CHAMPS + WTCS QUIBERON PREVIEW 15.06.2026 47мин

  We recap an action-packed weekend of Huatulco World Cup and European Championship Tarragona racing, and look ahead to the fourth stop of the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series in Quiberon, where Cassandre Beaugrand headlines a home race, Alex Yee tries to reel in men's leader Vasco Vilaça, and the first Serie Mixed Team Relay takes over on Sunday.You can watch all the WTCS Quiberon action with a Race Pass on TriathlonLive.tv
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  #121 - CHAOS & COMEBACKS IN ALGHERO 03.06.2026 54мин

  Ahh Sardinia. Home of some high triathlon drama over the years, and the third stop of the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series lived up to that reputation every which way at the end of May. Will McCloy and Belinda Granger join Doug Gray to pour through the racing and what impact it all has on the world title chase, with some big guns like Matt Hauser and Alex Yee mis-firing and Cassandre Beaugrand sending out a chilling message to her title rivals!Watch all the action back on TriathlonLive.tv
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  #120 YOKOHAMA REWIND + ALGHERO PREVIEW SHOW 22.05.2026 44мин

  After another yahoo in Yokohama, the team sets its sights on WTCS Alghero, where the mouthwatering prospect of Matt Hauser, Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde, Vasco Vilaça and countless others will go toe-to-toe for the first time this year. Series commentator Belinda Granger and World Triathlon's Kris Gemmell give their reflections on the brilliance and guts of young Tilda Mansson's sprint finish against Beth Potter, and the rise of Australia and the art of the breakaway. Tune in to TriathlonLive.tv for guaranteed fireworks in Alghero from 11am CEST on 30 May!
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  #119 The Vasco Golden bonus episode 06.05.2026 37мин

  After 9 podiums, we get the run down on the first Series gold of his career from the man himself, Vasco Vilaça, as the 'Little Man' demands a showdown with commentator Will McCloy...
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  #118 WTCS SAMARKAND RECAP SHOW 28.04.2026 58мин

  The World Triathlon Championship Series was back with a bang at the weekend with two firing WTCS Samarkand races that saw Vasco Vilaça scoop a gritty first Series gold and Beth Potter back to her best with a consummate 10km off a hot and hard 40km bike. Will McCloy and Belinda Granger are also back to give their view from the commentary booth, Marton Kropko dials in to tell all about his triple breakaway and injury blow up, and we talk bottle flips and Vuckets at the T100 Singapore...Watch all the action back over on TriathlonLive.tv
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  #51 Lotte Miller 12.11.2021 1ч 26мин

  Fresh from her first international gold at the Europe Triathlon Cup Quarteira, Lotte Miller shares her unique insights to the Team Norway set up, from the intimidating early days with Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden to the cusp of an Olympic Mixed Relay slot, the emotional rollercoaster of 2021 and how the 25-year-old has already learned the hard way how to spot the danger signs of burn out.
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  #52 Ian O'Brien 03.12.2021 1ч 30мин

  Former USAT coach and the man behind Origin Performance, Ian O'Brien joins us on the latest episode, revealing how to achieve a winning mindset and why it is important to become 'comfortable in being uncomfortable' on the journey to the very top of the international sport. We go inside the tactics and hear the tales of what it takes to train the best in the world.
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  #44 Olympic Champion Flora Duffy 29.07.2021 38мин

  It needed the complete race to deliver Flora Duffy's Olympic destiny, typhoon-affected and coming at the end of a long, difficult road to Tokyo 2020. Hear how she handled the pressures of going for Bermuda's first ever Olympic gold and ended up receiving congratulations from Hollywood superstars.
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  #46 Jetze Plat 24.08.2021 31мин

  Netherlands' para triathlon legend Jetze Plat has dominated the PTWC class for the past five years and now heads to Tokyo to defend the Paralympic title he won when the sport debuted at Rio 2016. We caught up with him in February this year at a training camp in Namibia, where he had been invited to join the Dutch Triathlon's Olympic squad preparations for a huge 2021 for the sport. Listen as Plat reveals how he has used his disability to drive his remarkable competitive edge since the age of five.
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  #33 Kenji Nener 02.04.2021 44мин

  After completing the switch from Team Australia to representing Japan in 2018, Kenji Nener has begun the next chapter in a career that has already seen him training with some of the best in the sport and coping with the disappointment of missing out on what could have been the race of his life. He reveals how he bounced back from that crash in Karlovy Vary and is setting his sights on Olympic qualification and the prospect of a home Games in Tokyo.
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  #32 Leo Bergere 26.03.2021 38мин

  After two world titles with the Mixed Relay squad, France's Leo Bergere also landed World Championship bronze in 2020, his first Series podium. He tells us how he is looking forward to the battle for Olympic berths between the deeply talented French set up, why the Grand Prix circuit has powered the current national success and how learning to take risks has improved his racing.
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  #29 Najla al Jeraiwi & Basmla Elsalamoney 05.03.2021 52мин

  Kuwait's Najla al Jeraiwi and Egypt's Basmla Elsalamoney join us for an International Women's Day double episode, sharing the stories of their pioneering journeys towards representing their countries on the World Triathlon stage.
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  #86 BREAKTHROUGHS OF '23: MARTA KROPKO 29.11.2023 42мин

  We continue our look back at some of the names breaking out in 2023 and with ambitions set fully on Paris in the company of Hungary’s exciting talent Marta Kropko.Still only 20 years old, this season saw Marta cement her place in the Hungarian Mixed Relay squad after what was a tough debut in Leeds in 2022, this time helping the team to 5th place at the World Championships in Hamburg, 3rd at the European Games Krakow and now suddenly eyeing an Olympic qualification spot that would guarantee two men and two women on the Paris start lines.The U23 Aquathlon World Champion after winning in Ibiza, Marta scored a first World Cup top 10 in Weihai in August and is now hunting a first WTCS start in 2024, all fitting around an Economics degree in which she is in her third year at Budapest University.
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  #112 - BETH POTTER: What Went Wrong in Wollongong? 19.12.2025 32мин

  She went into the 2025 Championship Finals as the Series leader, knowing that victory would bring her a second world title in just three years and establish herself as an all-time great of British triathlon.What transpired in Wollongong was hard to believe.From the flying form of two wins in two leading to the Grand Final, to facing down an injury she knew was serious enough that her team might even advise her not to race, the story of those torrid four weeks in September and October 2025 is told by one of the toughest in the business.