The Shame of Volunteering for Ironman
I first volunteered for Ironman UK in 2001 at the Llanberis race. I still have the shirt. I'd been racing triathlons for a few years by then. I knew how shambolic races could be behind ....
Category: Ironman
WSG Time to sell
Follow the tweets. YOU MUST SELL any Wanda Sports Group ASD's by January 29th, or tender them back to Wanda for $2.55. My fun ride with Wanda cost me $93 as a loss on the ....
Phelps – Err, no.
https://twitter.com/News4Tri/status/1344505725670760452?s=20 Err, I fell for it. I read this late in the evening, my assumption was maybe, just maybe the Europeans had got a head start on the US. Kevin MacKinnon rained on mine, and ....
Wanda Sports Q1 Results – A Nothing Burger?
Wanda Sports held their 1Q2020 quarterly results announcement on Tuesday (6/9) and the market has been less than impressed. They moved Ironman Group, aka the WTC, off the main part of their books and re-did ....
Ironman Class action over refunds
As expected and hinted at yesterday, Ironman is now subject to a class action lawsuit over not offering refunds to it's events cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19. A suit filed in the Middle District ....
Ironman Control Room
One of the more interesting expenditures Ironman/WSG made in 2019 was to build out a new broadcast control room. I've not taken part, nor do I plan to take part in the virtual races series ....
WSG Heads to AGM
I've made a minor update to last week's post to add a link to the WSG 4Q/Year End earnings call transcript provided by Seeking Alpha. Also last week I voted in the Wanda Sports Group ....
Wanda Sports Group 4Q/YE results
[Disclaimer: I'm not an analyst, nothing here should be construed as information to support a buy or sell of WSG stock. I own around $1,000 of WSG stock. I've been a casual observer and commentator ....
Ironman Dubai and Livestreaming
Well that never worked out. Since I've not read an announcement through investor relations, or any other source, I don't know what the streaming plan is for Ironman races this year. Nature abhors a vacuum ....
New Year, New Season, New streaming for Ironman?
Tonight, at least here in the Denver/Mountain timezone, athletes will be starting Ironman 70.3 Dubai at 8pm for the male pro's and then the female pro race. It's actual start time is 07:00a.m. Gulf Standard ....