Welcome to Episode #376 of the 303 Endurance Podcast. We're your hosts Coach Rich Soares and 303 Chief Editor, Bill Plock. Thanks for joining us for another week of endurance interviews and discussion.

 

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In Today's Show

• Endurance News - PTO's Recent Changes: Who Do They Benefit?
• What's new in the 303 - Bicycle Colorado Declares 2023 as Year of the eBike
• Video of the Week - Descent Disciples ||Vol 13|| Tom Pidcock vs. The Fish

 

Endurance News:

PTO's Recent Changes: Who Do They Benefit?

 AMANDA WENDORFFWed Feb 22 2023

 

On Monday, the Professional Triathletes Organization (PTO) issued a press release announcing a new event - the European Open, to take place in Ibiza at the same time as the ITU Long Course World Championships on May 6, 2023. Further down in that announcement, however, were some quieter announcements that immediately ruffled the feathers of many professional triathletes.

 

Specifically, the PTO announced that in 2023, the starting fields at the PTO Tour events (the European Open, the U.S. Open and the Asian Open) will be tightened up, with only 30 athletes per gender on the start line for the European and U.S. Opens, and 20 athletes per gender at the Asian Open, down from 40 starters for the Opens in 2022, for the purported reason of needing to “establish[] a more regular consistency of ‘world championship level’ events.” At those same events, the overall prize purses are being lowered from $1 million to $600,000. The winning prize of $100K remains, a