The British triathlete, Aistair brownlee, Olympic champion in London 2012 and Rio 2016, had planned to leave the short distance to focus on IRONMAN after the Tokyo games
Brownlee is one of the best triathletes in the world, with two gold medals in the Olympic games and two triathlon world championships.
In addition, he is an all-rounder, as he demonstrated in 2019, winning in all the distances he competed, sprint, Olympic, medium distance and Ironman, where he got his Slot for Kona 2020
The postponement of the Games of Tokyo 2020 In 2021, he has made him rethink everything and will bet on getting his third Olympic gold.
"Tokyo 2020 would have been 100% safe my last Olympic distance race, but now I will have to start preparing for another yearBrownlee told the PA agency.
With that decision, Alistair leaves open the possibility of winning a third consecutive Olympic gold.
Now it remains to be seen if the British bet on him IRONMAN World Championship, test in which he is classified after achieving victory in the IRONMAN WESTERN Australia last year.
This was his second distance victory in his third participation
Remember that in Kona 2019, he was 21st in his debut, so he will surely want to improve this position.
The two stars of the triathlon are qualified for Kona 2020 and we will have to wait to see if we see an expected duel in Hawaii, fighting with the best of the specialty
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