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31 March '04

ITU News Update - March 31, 2004

2004 ITU Duathlon Series

Clive Faine, Chair of the ITU Duathlon Committee has announced the the 2004 World Duathlon Series will consists of the following events:

It is also hoped that an event in Melbourne Australia on the 3rd October will be added to the series.

Four out of five (or six) events to count for the Duathlon World Rankings.

The awards presentation for the 2003 World Duathlon series will take place in Geel Belgium over the weekend of 2004 World Championship".

A special thank you to Clive for putting the 2004 Duathlon World Series together for the athletes..

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News from the Regions - Europe

New ETU Website
(Information Courtesy ETU)
As the result of the continuous excellent cooperation between ITU and ETU a new ETU website has been developed:

The major improvements were done by Riceworks (ETU Media partner) - Ed Rice and Brian Mahoney. In addition to the formal changes we will continue to provide you with more and more information from the region! Enjoy your stay on www.etu-triathlon.org !


World Cup Series T-shirts available here

Announcement from the ETU Treasurer, Graeme Kempson - All Athlete Prize Money has now been Settled (Information Courtesy ETU)

In early 2002 a new ETU Executive Board was elected at an Extraordinary Congress in Paris. They inherited many problems, including financial ones that they were determined to resolve.

The first imperative was to ensure the settlement of all prize monies for which the ETU was directly responsible, owing to athletes from the old administration as quickly as was possible. Other necessities for running ETU that required cash were deferred where possible, with one exception - the unexpected support for the 2003 Triathlon Championships.

In this 2 year period ETU have now managed to settle all these old debts created by the previous management of ETU, to athletes which amounted to some €120,000, and have still managed a viable and successful organisation in the interim. This has been achieved because of the excellent cooperation with the International Triathlon Union lead by President Les McDonald and the volunteer based work within the Executive Board have partly financed the running of the ETU both personally, and with the support of their National Federation and/or Government.

The ETU regret that athletes have had to wait such a long time for their prize money, but it is with satisfaction that ETU can state they have now met their obligations to the most important asset of Triathlon – the athletes!

This is a significant but small step by ETU. Work goes on. There is still much to do...

News from Malta
(Information courtesy Malta Triathlon Association)

The most recent edition of the Newsletter for the Malta Triathlon Association is now available on www.maltatriathlon.org

Important Deadline Reminder for all NF's

An important reminder that today is the final deadline for you to return your NF Survey and receive a free copy of the new ITU Youth Triathlon training video!

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