{"id":11856,"date":"2021-05-08T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:31:52","slug":"javier-gomez-wants-challenge-triple-crown-plus-the-wts-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=11856","title":{"rendered":"Javier Gomez wants Challenge Triple Crown PLUS the WTS title"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a million dollars up for grabs, Spain\u2019s Javier Gomez has revealed that he wants to race all three races in the Challenge Triple Crown this year, in addition to defending his WTS title \u2013 but not the 70.3 Worlds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking to 220<\/em> from the Canary Islands where he\u2019s been training for this weekend\u2019s Challenge Dubai, Gomez said that he does plan to race the Bahrain and Oman instalments of the recently announced Triple Crown series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the idea. We\u2019ll see how the first one goes but\u2026 Yeah, I\u2019d like to do the three of them. I know it\u2019s gonna be a long year but I always like new challenges and to do different things, not only the ITU Series. I know next year I\u2019m going to be focused just on the Olympic Games and I won\u2019t have much time to do this kind of racing so yeah, I\u2019m just hoping to enjoy this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ITU plans<\/p>\n

Asked by 220<\/em> whether this means he\u2019s decided his schedule for this year\u2019s WTS races, he said that he will definitely do the first four \u2013 Abu Dhabi (7 March), Auckland (29 March), Gold Coast (11 April) and Cape Town (26 April) \u2013 and the last two, Edmonton and the Grand Final in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends on the results because I\u2019ll probably miss Yokohama and then do London but I\u2019m not sure. It depends how the first four go and then how I\u2019m doing but definitely the last two, Edmonton and the Grand Final [Chicago], but in between I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure about Yokohama and Stockholm. If everything goes well I might not do those two or else I\u2019ll do too many races this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t done anything in Ironman yet\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n

With such a busy calendar already decided \u2013 including the Olympic test event in Rio this August \u2013 it looks like 70.3 racers can breathe a sigh of relief, for now. Gomez tells us plans to skip the 70.3 Worlds in Austria this August, as he would need to race one more beforehand in order to qualify and validate his spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean that middle and long distance racing is off his radar: \u201cI just go step-by-step right now and focus more on Olympic distance, enjoying some middle distance races every now and then, and when I eventually decide to try Ironman I will do my best and see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite many of the sport\u2019s biggest names saying publicly that Gomez could be the next star of Ironman, he tells us that he\u2019s taking nothing for granted. \u201cI really appreciate the words of people who know a lot about the sport, like Greg [Welch] or Chris McCormack or some others, but I haven\u2019t done anything in Ironman yet, you know. So we need to race first and see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With a million dollars up for grabs, Spain\u2019s Javier Gomez has revealed that he wants to race all three races in the Challenge Triple Crown this year, in addition to defending his WTS title \u2013 but not the 70.3 Worlds.\u00a0 Advertisement Speaking to 220 from the Canary Islands where he\u2019s been training for this weekend\u2019s … <\/p>\n

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