Chelsea Sodaro

You know, if it's swimming, go and work with a swim specialist coach.

You know, Chelsea Sodaro did that.

You know, she didn't take the year out, but she went and worked with a swim specialist coach in order to do this.

But a year is not very long.

There's heaps of them that have done it.

Like, oh, who is it? Uh, Chelsea Sodaro.

Yeah.

So, like, she's won Kona once.

So I think we saw the sea change there, so we'll remember that, so that's right up there.

And then that women's race that Chelsea Sodaro won in 2022, I think that was quite big, particularly from a US standpoint.

So I think a- actually it ranks highly.

I think the men's race was so chaotic this year that we're, we're gonna get confused [chuckles] when we look back on it, and we're gonna go, "I know a lot of stuff happened, but actually who won that? Who, who, who won that race?" Which is-

But we'll hit our panel right now for the next 15 minutes or so to talk about the men's race from every single angle.

Some late news, though, that we've just heard concerning the women's race is that Chelsea Sodaro is out.

She pulled out early this morning.

She's got influenza, so we won't be seeing the former world champion out there today, which is obviously, I mean, let's go with you, Rinny, on this one.

Uh, but the start list as it currently stands, uh, then I'm gonna pick the, the names that I think are real of interest here.

Solveig Lovseth, Kat Matthews, Laura Philipp, Hannah Berry, Lisa Perter, Lucy Charles Barclay, Chelsea Sodaro, Taylor Knibb, Sarah Svensk, Daisy Davies, uh, Julie Derron, Katrina Christiansen, Grace Thek, Tamra Jewett, Jacqui Hering, Kate Curran, Marjolaine Pierre, Daniela Lewis, India Lee, Charlotte McShane, Rana Hughes, Regan Holyoak, Imogen Simmonds, Skye Wallace, Pamela, Pamela d'Oliveira.

Is that short course Brazilian Pamela s- swimmer?

It is, yeah.

Yeah

... that are gonna...

I mean, we're not talking about Chelsea Sodaro for Christ's sake.

She won this thing not that long ago.

I think she was over six minutes, and I thought her day was done when I saw that number.

So it's like how close is she gonna be? You got, you know, the other, Chelsea Sodaro, Julie Derron.

Like how, how much of a gap are they gonna have? And how quickly can make- they make it through transition, and who's gonna choose to work their way up? And who's gonna, you know, work their way through the field? And who's gonna choose to kinda lead off the front and see what kind of gap they need? Because they know they're gonna need a gap, right? Which is the analysis they've all done in training and they're gonna do in their head is like, what kind of gap do I need on so-and-so behind me? And then that's gonna dictate what they do on the bike.

Yeah.