![]() Jonny collapsed to the floor immediately after crossing the line and required urgent medical attention. ![]() Pushing his younger sibling over the line first, Alistair recorded a third-place finish but Jonny’s second place wasn’t enough for him to clinch the title, losing out on the overall crown to Spaniard Mario Mola, who finished fifth in Mexico, by four points. Upon spotting this, Alistair grabbed hold. ![]() I raced the conditions, I took the water on, made myself cool and I was all right.” You already know the story, but just to recap, younger brother Jonny Brownlee was in a very bad way during the final stages of a triathlon in Mexico. “He could have jogged that last two kilometers and won the race. “I wish the flipping idiot had just paced it right and won the race,” Alistair joked with reporters after the race. Read: From crazy golf battles to Olympic triathlon gloryĪt the point of collapse, double Olympic champion Alistair arrived on the scene to give his brother a helping hand, putting an arm around his shoulders and hauling him over the line. Thanks your loyalty is incredible /6uG4QiIgfS- Jonathan Brownlee September 19, 2016īut with temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius on the Caribbean island of Cozumel, exhaustion rapidly set in. ![]() Not how I wanted to end the season, but gave it everything. Younger brother Jonny, Olympic silver medalist from Rio, was leading the field coming into the final straight and looked set to clinch his second world title. On Sunday, the British athletes finished second and third at the World Triathlon Championships in Mexico after a touching moment at the finish line. Italy had a home athlete to cheer with Verena Steinhauser claiming a second successive bronze on this course, and goes into the Leeds event next weekend feeling confident with her form.Jonny and Alistair Brownlee give a whole new meaning to the phrase “brothers in arms.” I hope today is a big step for being selected for Tokyo.” "Most of my training squad will be there as well. To keep the disease at bay, Luna had undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. "It will be a dream of mine (to be selected for the Tokyo team)," she said in her post-race interview. Jony and Alistair chose to forgo tradition to stand in solidarity with Jony’s mom, Luna Macapagal, who was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer in 2018. Switzerland's Julie Derron had no hesitation in espousing her Olympic credentials to her nation's selectors following her second-place finish. The 28-year-old had flown straight from her German Olympic trials on Wednesday (26 May) in which she came 4th, and very much enjoyed what she described afterwards as a “perfect race”. A perfect raceĮarlier in the day, the women’s event saw a brilliant run from Germany’s Marlene Gomez-Islinger, which saw her win her first-ever World Cup event – her previous best was a ninth-place finish. Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt, the form triathlete of the first three races, couldn’t make it a fourth win in a row in the World Cup series but came in a creditable seventh and looking good ahead of Tokyo. ![]() There is currently one position available on the British team for the men, with former training partner, Alex Yee – who came fourth in the first World Cup of the season at Yokohama in mid May – currently well positioned in second in the British rankings.Ī third position for GB men could potentially become available if Tom Bishop can gain enough points in the next two races, including today's in Italy, to rate high enough in World Triathlon's rankings to gain an extra place at Tokyo 2020 for Team GB.īishop however, fell off his bike, and both he and Alistair found themselves in an unusual situation in which Alistair stopped to help Bishop get back on his bike and carry on, in order to gain as many points as possible toward that extra place for Team GB – even though Alistair may be selected ahead of Bishop.īishop finished 40th with Alistair opting not to finish in order to save his legs for next week’s big point scorer towards Tokyo, in the Brownlees’ home town of Leeds. Defending Olympic champion and older brother, Alistair, finds himself in a precarious position in terms of qualifying for the Summer Games. ![]()
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