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Plants Duffy and Alex Yee drop out of WTCS Yokohama
WTCS Yokohama has misplaced two extensive names after Plants Duffy and Alex Yee pulled out of next month’s iconic skedaddle in Japan.
Bermuda epic Duffy used to be poised to skedaddle for the first time this season, nonetheless her return from a knee damage sustained final one year has been pushed help.
The Olympic gold medallist will now turn her consideration to the final 5 World Triathlon Championship Collection (WTCS) races sooner than the final in Pontevedra in September.
Duffy used to be furthermore absent from WTCS Abu Dhabi final month amid her damage rehabilitation, whereas Britain’s Yee produced an glorious poke end to grab victory earlier than Vasco Vilaca (POR) and Manoel Messias (BRA).
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Playing procure-up
The next likelihood for Duffy to kick off her WTCS season and for Yee so as to add to his Abu Dhabi points haul is at Cagliari a fortnight after Yokohama.
The Italy skedaddle is the one other final Olympic distance skedaddle sooner than the final and sees further points on offer when put next to subsequent occasions in Montreal, Hamburg and Sunderland.
Taylor Knibb (USA) is now the leading contender in the ladies folk’s skedaddle at WTCS Yokohama, with Abu Dhabi winner Beth Potter (GBR) furthermore no longer racing.
Within the intervening time, Yee’s omission leaves the likes Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR), who is making his first WTCS begin of the one year, and Jonny Brownlee (GBR) with a clearer bustle at the boys’s fetch.
Stepping in
Duffy has been changed by compatriot Erica Hawley at Yokohama, whose WTCS profession is burgeoning after three appearances to this point.
She used to be inner the tip 50 in Abu Dhabi final month, a feat she furthermore achieved in Edmonton in 2018, as neatly used to be selecting up several prime-15 finishes at World Cup stage.
Jack Willis has stepped in for his fellow countryman Yee, and he is one other desirous to reach WTCS trip having debuted in Abu Dhabi in November.
He’s 52nd in the individual Olympic rankings and and might per chance presumably unruffled be aiming to interrupt inner the tip 30 to originate a collection of living at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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Olly currently graduated with a stage in Sports activities Journalism from Liverpool John Moores College. When he’s no longer crying about the original hiss of Man Utd that you just might get him writing about a fluctuate of sports activities – from curling to football and trot working to rugby.
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