Good morning, Motivators, over the last few years on this YouTube channel and other podcasts

and magazines and the general triathlon culture, there's been a lot of talk about whether

or not Iron Man is operating in the best interest of the sport.

Iron Man has been owned by private equity companies, by large conglomerates, and the talk

is generally that all the money

that they're making is really just going back to make rich people richer and not necessarily

going into the sport in any sort of way that is conducive to a healthy sport.

Now over the last month, we have separately seen Jan Fredino announced that he isn't going

to be racing in St. George

in one Iron Man World Championship and Sam Long announced that he won't be racing Iron Man

Kona. We have another I won't be going to an Iron Man World Championship announcement

to make here. And this all just gets me thinking, has Iron Man finally gone too far?

And we're going to start seeing cracks in the foundation and that is what we are going to discuss.

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