Daniela Ryf

Um, we've had others.

Natascha Badmann comes to mind, and of course Daniela Ryf, but I think she's, again, there's another level untapped there.

So, um, but yeah, Lucy went with, went with Taylor, and then, yeah, what? Ten miles in, she was already wobbling through aid stations, so...

And Lucy went out hot, don't get me wrong.

it was an epic race but then also I don't think Alistair Brownlee was quite at his peak and perhaps even Javier Gomez was at his peak there but it was certainly an epic race.

It was also Daniela Ryf was absolutely in some of her best form because after that she went on to win Kona with the Jellyfish Sting year where she lost so much time and then bike back down the queen k at the speed of light so i've been told uh both races lucy charles bartley versus daniel danny reef on the in south africa that year so yeah two two great races that yeah definitely lifted it

lucy going off the front in that swim it's like my husband still is like the biggest fan of her because she just like went for it right and like you know so anyway i think that helped create a world championship right that we had actually the best in the world racing um And then since then, like we kind of mentioned, you know, pre-pandemic, the last 70.3 Worlds pre-pandemic, it was 5,800 people, which was, I'm trying, like it was, it was, indeed, 5,800 people.

And it was about 3,600 men and like 2,000-ish women.

But to see the other ladies balance in between the two and Taylor now winning her fourth 70.3 world title is pretty ridiculous and puts her up there in the conversations with a lot of other past champions.

And Daniela Ryf was here to watch it and would love to get her take on that.

And maybe we will get her on one day soon because we had some good conversations with her this week as well.

And, and I think just the access we got to, like we, we talk about the lows and the highs and, and when Jen and I were sitting in the finish shoot, when the ladies were finishing, somebody would finish like seventh and be elated.

It's so impressive how good of a biker and runner he is and also how good he swims.

He's just there where he needs to be, so I want to... say that and then actually a funny thing maybe I was doing my warm up run like part of it with Gustav and he was saying like do you know that if you or me win today we'll be the the guys who have won 70.3 world champs the most because it's apparently only two people only only ever someone has won it two times with the girls it's a lot more Daniela Ryf has won it four Taylor Nip now four sorry Daniela Ryf five Taylor Nip four and And then after the rave, I said, Ty, we'll need to wait another year for him

in doping control.

You went close.

just say this.

Daniela Ryf has made the most money from this sport.

Yeah.

Well, the triple crown is, did she do it twice? She definitely did it once.

Both of them could pull off and it wouldn't surprise anyone.

Because no one's won a 70.3 world title outside of them two since 2019, right? And why do they care? Like, what is another 70.3 world title going to do for either of them? You know what I mean? Like, what would a 70.3 world title do for Taylor? What, a fourth one? You're still, I guess you're like one step closer to Daniela Ryf, five time, all time.

So,

yeah, I don't know.

No, no. There's, um, there's...

I can't remember who, who it was, but I think it was someone like Daniela Ryf who always used to, like, purposely try and, like, gain, like, like two kilos over the winter.

And she's like-

Mm