One of the toughest sports events in the world, the triathlon, in the women's category, takes place this Saturday with a British one as the great favorite to swell the English medal table and continue with the Olympic rush of the hosts at the London 2012 Games.
Helen Jenkins of 28 years and second in the world triathlon ranking is the favorite to raid gold, with the permission of the Australian Erin Desham, who hopes to give the surprise after recovering from her serious heart disease.
Nor should we rule out his fellow Aussies, Andrea Hewitt and Emma Moffatt, first and third of the world respectively.
The test opens at 10 in the morning with the 1.500 swimming meters in Hyde Park, which will follow a route of 40 kilometers by bicycle, to finish in a race of 10 kilometers that will be the judge of the medals.
The Australian Desham hopes to stop the British euphoria in a test, It smells like a new medal for the hosts, despite having undergone cardiac surgery at 2009 for a fatal coronary heart disease.
Desham has shown his best form before reaching the Games with his victory in the scoring round for the World Championship in Hamburg, just 10 days ago, where he defeated Moffat, former world champion and bronze in the last games of Beijing.
Swimming can begin to mark the differences in the fight for the final victory, since the bike ride does not represent great difficulties, being almost flat, so no big differences are expected. Those who take their heads in the water can come with an advantage in order to face the last stretch of the 10 kilometers on foot.
Spain's medal options go through the veteran Guipuzcoan Ainhoa Murua, of 34 years, which is ninth in the world ranking of triathlon.
For the Spanish it will be her third Olympic Games and she hopes to do a good job, in what could be her last attempt to win a medal at the Games.
But Murua will not be alone, by her side and completing the Spanish triathlon team will be Zurine Rodríguez and Marina Damlaimcourt, which occupy the 32 and 36 positions of the world respectively.
On Sunday, it will be the turn for the men's triathlon, where the Spanish Javier Gómez Noya starts as one of the favorites to win gold in London, if luck is with him and he does not go out of his way as it happened four years ago in Beijing, where stayed at the gates of the medals, after being fourth after being surpassed by Jan Frodeno, Simon Whitfield and Bevan Docherty in the final sprint.
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