At the ITU African Regional Championships today...
http://www.triathlon.org/?call=TVRBMg==&nwsid=1855
"In the men’s field, all eyes were on defending champion Hendrik DeVilliers. He emerged from the water first but did not own much of a lead with Kent Horner and Italian Emilio D’Aquino right behind him. On the 40-kilometer bike course, Frenchman Toumy Degham rode back into contention with the fastest bike split of the day. It came down to a dual on the run course between DeVilliers and his compatriot Erhard Wolfaardt. Despite hammering out the fastest run among the men, Wolfaardt didn’t have enough to overtake DeVilliers who broke the tape for his second straight African title. Wolfaardt took the silver just ten seconds behind while Degham came across third. However, as a non-African athlete, Degham was not eligible for a spot on the podium. Horner was the bronze medalist as the third African athlete across the line.
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" Like the women, South Africa is assured at least one men’s Olympic spot. However, as no individual is allowed to earn their country more than one Olympic spot, DeVilliers’ win may raise some questions as he is almost certain to earn South Africa a spot anyway purely based on his own Olympic ranking. Nevertheless, DeVilliers earns a big win as the BG Triathlon World Cup series kicks off later this month in Australia."
Yeah... like what country would want two spots at the Beijing Games when you could have only one! Duh :-)
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