Withdrawal from Javier Gómez Noya: "It was hard to make the decision to stop, but it was not good and I was not going to score points"

Yesterday Javi had to retire in Stockholm due to stomach problems.

 

 

The decision to dispute the penultimate appointment of the World Series has not had good results since Javier Gómez Noya has chosen the retired in the running phase when I was running past the 10 position.

 

Given his sensational season, with 4 victories in the previous 6 races, he was only worth the 1ª, 2ª or 3ª squares to discard his worst result, the 4º in Hamburg. But Javier was not well since the day before, with stomach pains. What together with the cold (14º in the water, 16 in the environment) and the rain that made the cycling tour very dangerous, motivated that since the swimming was far from the head.

 

By bike I can get into the main platoon of 25 that chased the Brownlee brothers. But in the third phase his engine did not carburize and very reluctantly chose not to cross the finish line, something that did not happen since March of 2010 in an Australian event of the World Cup: "It was hard to make the decision to stop, but it was not good and I was not going to score points. To finish retarded would not have served at all. I hope the stomachache disappears soon and it will be fine to get to Edmonton. "

 

The victory was for Jonathan Brownlee, protagonist of an exhibition with his older brother Alistair. They swam in tip and took the rest in the first pedaled by the twisted 4km circuit that had to give 5 laps.

 

They reached the second transition with almost a minute of advantage, and, even without needing them on foot, their time was one of the best. As was logical, the little one crossed the finish line first, given that the oldest, although he had won the Hamburg event, is further behind in the general classification.

 

With this Jonathan Brownlee achieved his first victory in the 2014 World Series and cuts points in the general to Gómez Noya. Mario Mola4th in the finish line, he also cut points from Javi. 

 

It will be these three who play the title in Edmonton on Sunday 7 of September. As it is the general one, to Javier it would be enough to him to be 4º if it won Jonathan Brownlee and 5º if it won Mario Mola.

 

The Olympic distance comes much better to Galician than Sprint -has won the 4 2014 quotations on the Olympian- hence it remains the top favorite and it is the others who have to try to unseat him.

 

Results: http://www.triathlon.org/results/result/2014_itu_world_triathlon_stockholm/264438

General ranking: http://www.triathlon.org/rankings/itu_world_triathlon_series/male

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