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Andrew Messick - Ironman CEO: The Episode Everyone is Talking About.

The Triathlon Hour

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Ironman World Championships - Should Only Be for People Who Can Do the Race Under 12 Hours

I really don't think that the gaps have to be quite as big as what you're suggesting, Andrew. If the pro men go off at 6.25 am when the sun first goes up, then the older age groups don't have to be leaving at 10 am like you've sort of suggested there. And I'm not sure how many people are finishing the Ironman World Championships in, let's say, over like 15 hours,. But if the community of Kona is so upset by the volume of people and it's led to something so drastic as the race moving from a place where it's had like 40 years of history...then it just seems to me that it's something we

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