![]() ![]() I am a French speaker, so France is easy for me and getting to Nice from Eastern Canada is waaay faster than getting to Kona. The people make the actual race, not as much the venue. I've done the 70.3 WC 7x and find the rotation aspect to be fantastic. If I was racing full IM's I would be totally jacked up about racing in Nice compared to Kona. By far, IM Nice was my favourite venue (maybe Tremblant a close second, Kona third, South Africa 4th, Placid 5th). I am pretty sure my full IM days are done (last full IM in 2015), but as an athlete, in 2010, I qualified for Kona at the full IM in Nice. , wrote:From purely a fan perspective, I'm way more excited to see this race in Nice unfold on this awesome course, than having the same old same old Hawaii race.įrom an age-grouper participant point of view, I think the mystique of Hawaii will still last for a while, but will level off when Nice builds its own reputation and legends (not it doesn't already have it for the older triathletes like me who followed the battles between Mark Allen, Ives Cordier, Simon Lessing, Luc VanLierde, etc, in Nice in the 80's and 90's).Īs a fan I am far more excited for the race in Nice than in Kona. Improve biomechanics, improve performance. Technique will always last longer then energy production. kona is my goal, nice will keeps my wife happy attending. each year the race will build and kona may become a lesser option for most. The hype and race make the build up not the location. You can hit nice then go somewhere else pretty easy from NA and in Europe a lot of people can drive. I think it is possible that in 5-7 years more people focus on nice then kona.Ĭrowds on the course and city, will make a better atmosphere and race environment.įlight plans for Europe and north America. What's the feeling on the ground? Anything else? So if this is a cash grab, it failed compared to last year, right? Numbers so far seem like a flop? 3400 male finishers last year (so more started) and Nice advertising 2200 males. I can see a chunk of athletes in the coming 11 months who see what a cracking venue for an IMWC Nice is, choosing to wait till the IMWC is back in Nice in 2025 rather than trekking to the other side of the world (Hawaii time zone is 12 hours behind continental Europe (CEST)) for a hot and humid fest without a city, with rather few spectators and exorbitant accommodation costs.ĭifferent course, it's err, nice, to have a unique talking point other than heat, Hawi, and energy lab over and over. So if this is a cash grab, it failed compared to last year, right?The number of finishers last October was driven by huge numbers qualified for the cancelled IMWC Kona 2020 and a proportion of those qualified for the postponed IMWC Kona 2021 who could choose to defer to Kona (Oct 2022) (rather than racing at St George in May 2022).Ģ200 on Sunday is close to capacity (?2500?) and may be the more manageable norm. Lurker4 wrote:Curious if people want to put the differences they see going into race day between the two for good or bad. ![]()
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