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Triathlon: Team or Individual Sport?

Recently, a tiff began between Lance Armstrong and someone doing an Olympic triathlon on Twitter. In this case, I agree with Lance. Triathlon should be, and always should be, an individual sport. Here is the article and my response:

From http://www.examiner.com/article/triathlete-lance-amstrong-twitter-tiff-with-olympian-simon-whitfield:

Twitter by newly-minted pro triathlete Lance  Armstrong has stirred up a hornets nest of controversy in the world of triathlon.

When Lance twitters about anything it never fails to create interest considering he has almost 3.5 million followers.

According to an article in the National Post Friday 27, 2012 publication Lance Armstrong was dismissing the Olympic-distance triathlon-Simon Whitfield’s triathlon-as “a shampoo, blow dry and 10k foot race.”

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