agreed with wellington by a lot

I'm rooting for Macca...to legitimize last years since Norman and others went down with the illness. Should be a lot of people with a shot here though.
Also would like to see Lieto in the lead late again...that'd be sweet

Awe that's right, I forgot about Potts. That guy is amazing at the 70.3 distance... I have high hopes for him!

Macca is looking strong, but I would like to see Chris Lieto move up and take it.
(tribro, make sure he is wearing some trifuel logos)
Chrissie Wellington looks stong too.

OH CANADA! i'll take sam mcglone in a shocker.

and i want potts to win

Thought I heard McGlone was out

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
i always pick the injured people in fantasy football (ie; tom brady), why should this be any different.

Is there any race that Chrissie hasn't won this year at either 140.6 or 70.3? Seriously, the woman is a machine. I'll take Chrissie on the Women's side and to make it more interesting, I think she will break the course record.

The men's side looks real tough this year. If all of the usual suspects show up to Kona and race this year, it will be a barn burner. I would like to see the championship come back to the US and in particular on the shoulders of Chris Leito, but if I had to lay money down right now I would go with Macca. I haven't heard much out of the Germans, which could be a scary thing in just under two weeks!!

If Sultan shows up with the patented bikini and the new compression socks, all bets are off!

He will not win, but Steve Larsen will possibly make it interesting. He will finish top 10. Macca will probably win and Wellington will dominate. Something about training with Brett Sutton.....

No kidding. Mr. Sutton, you apparently are a jedi master. How much does it cost to;
a) move to wherever he and his crew lives
b) get in on his training and win every race thereafter?

I may be horribly out of the loop but where will the race be broadcast? TV, Internet? Totally looking forward to watching both if possible. Couch and some beers just for the irony of it.:)

Alexander and Wellington - Gold
McCormack and Major - Silver
Llanos and Granger - Bronze

Some huge names out of the womens race: McGlone, Jones, Badmann (?)

I'm going with Macca (passing Normie the last 1K of the marathon) and Wellington

I usually pull up ironmanlive.com and have it streaming all day if I'm around the house. Last year the weather was bad so I set up my laptop next to my bike trainer and rode for about 2hrs. Their coverage isn't always hugely exciting -- lots of just Paula N-F and Greg Welch talking, oftentimes with a microphone that is WAY too loud. They're great, don't get me wrong, but commentating an event for 18 hours (they start live before the race begins), you do run out of meaningful things to say so it does get a bit old. It'd be great if they had more cameras out on the road doing live coverage of the race. The NBC show is always far too short and filled with "feel good" stories, but they at least have good footage of cycling and running.