Est-ce que Yvonne Van Vlerken fait ses courses seule ?? (Cozumel report)

UPDATE : On est des mauvaises langues… pour une fois Yvonne et Thomas n’ont pas fait la course ensemble… il y avait 20 minutes entre les vagues. Disons qu’elle a un précédent qui n’aide pas…

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Je n’aime pas tirer des « conclusions hâtives » mais …

Une rapide analyse de ses splits nous montre qu’ils sont extrêmement similaires a ceux de son partenaire THOMAS J VONACH .

Alors font-ils les courses ensembles ou pas ?
Mon petit doigt me dit aussi que ce n’est pas la 1ere fois que cela arrive ….
Juste une question … ?

Voici :

THOMAS J VONACH .

BIB    AGE    STATE/COUNTRY    PROFESSION
1700    38    AUSTRIA
SWIM    BIKE    RUN    OVERALL    RANK    DIV.POS.
53:28    4:57:30    3:14:26    9:10:47    29    1

LEG    DISTANCE    PACE    RANK    DIV.POS.
TOTAL SWIM    2.4 mi. (53:28)    1:24/100m    55    11

BIKE SPLIT 1: 32.5 mi    32.5 mi. (1:26:15)    22.61 mph
BIKE SPLIT 2: 72 mi    39.5 mi. (1:43:17)    22.95 mph
BIKE SPLIT 3: 111.5 mi    39.5 mi. (1:46:44)    22.20 mph
TOTAL BIKE    112 mi. (4:57:30)    22.59 mph    40    6

RUN SPLIT 1: 4.4 mi    4.4 mi. (31:11)    7:05/mile
RUN SPLIT 2: 13.1 mi    8.7 mi. (1:04:13)    7:22/mile
RUN SPLIT 3: 21.8 mi    8.7 mi. (1:06:59)    7:41/mile
RUN SPLIT 4: 26.2 mi    4.4 mi. (32:03)    7:17/mile
TOTAL RUN    26.2 mi. (3:14:26)    7:25/mile    29    1

TRANSITION    TIME
T1: SWIM-TO-BIKE    3:04
T2: BIKE-TO-RUN    2:19

YVONNE VLERKEN VAN

BIB    AGE    STATE/COUNTRY    PROFESSION
2    32    NEDERLAND
SWIM    BIKE    RUN    OVERALL    RANK    DIV.POS.
56:59    4:51:56    3:13:39    9:07:08    26    1

LEG    DISTANCE    PACE    RANK    DIV.POS.
TOTAL SWIM    2.4 mi. (56:59)    1:29/100m    110    5

BIKE SPLIT 1: 32.5 mi    32.5 mi. (1:26:59)    22.42 mph
BIKE SPLIT 2: 72 mi    39.5 mi. (1:41:36)    23.33 mph
BIKE SPLIT 3: 111.5 mi    39.5 mi. (1:42:03)    23.22 mph
TOTAL BIKE    112 mi. (4:51:56)    23.02 mph    33    2

RUN SPLIT 1: 4.4 mi    4.4 mi. (30:25)    6:54/mile
RUN SPLIT 2: 13.1 mi    8.7 mi. (1:02:57)    7:14/mile
RUN SPLIT 3: 21.8 mi    8.7 mi. (1:06:47)    7:40/mile
RUN SPLIT 4: 26.2 mi    4.4 mi. (33:30)    7:36/mile
TOTAL RUN    26.2 mi. (3:13:39)    7:23/mile    26    1

TRANSITION    TIME
T1: SWIM-TO-BIKE    2:38
T2: BIKE-TO-RUN    1:56

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Il n’y a pas de fumé sans feu.

You recently raced at the Geelong 70.3, where you placed second, but unfortunately there was some controversy surrounding your performance on the bike. Rumors were flying, alleging that you were drafting on the bike and pacing off of your boyfriend, Thomas Vonach. What’s your response to these allegations?

I don´t need anybody’s help on the bike, I can guarantee that. I have my own rhythm of pacing on the bike during a race. Thomas started 5 minutes behind me, overtook me on the bike and put 1 minute on me until T2. He was racing to prepare for Ironman Malaysia and he wanted to be on the podium in his age-group in Ironman 70.3 Geelong. He had extremely tough competition. He will never wait or look out for me while racing!

What happened after the race was pretty interesting. Sam Warriner wrote on her website that all the girls drafted except her. The next day Rebekah Keat and Lisbeth Kristensen wrote that I had drafted off Thomas. I had a referee with me all the time and this person commented later that there was never any single situation where he could have handed me a warning or a penalty. Most of the time I was riding at the front if there were others with me at all. Sam Warriner gave an interview to a well known web-platform pointing to the fact that I might have had some help on the bike. That interview was just the platform to start an internet trial on me in the website´s forum later, none of them had a single thing to prove their accusations and had not been at the race-site. Later one Australian forum-member started another thread about my donation of the Geelong prize-money to the victims of the bush-fires in Victoria. The editor mentioned in the thread that I had done that as a marketing step because I felt guilty and I was not honorable for my donation as I wanted to cover my cheating with that. That shocked many people we know and also us as it was beyond every humanity to even think in this way, not to speak of writing it down in a forum-post as a journalist. What happened a day before we raced in Geelong only a few kilometers away was so extremely tragic and it touched all who had been there for the race. If I feel guilty for something it´s the fact that we only worried about our fitness for the race while other people lost their lives, their homes and loved ones just a few kilometers away. We trained in Australia for four weeks and the great people in Victoria made us feel at home.