What Hard Work Is All About

This illustrates allot of hard work, First off Tich your the man, Colin my roommate of many years, i am proud buddy. This is going to be a crazy Olympics, my old room mate Colin, and then Jarrod married Alicia, another room mate. Crazy stuff, i will be getting the pop corn ready to cheer on the boys.


Canadian men’s triathlon team set for Olympic Games June 9, 2008
Vancouver (TC) – Two-time Olympian and 2000 gold medallist Simon Whitfield of Victoria will be joined in Beijing by first-time Olympians Paul Tichelaar of Edmonton, and Colin Jenkins of Hamilton, Ont., for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Whitfield qualified for the team based on 2007 results of a top-8 finish at both a World Cup event and the World Championships, while Tichelaar and Jenkins were nominated to the team for submission to the Canadian Olympic Committee late Sunday night by Triathlon Canada’s selection committee.
“Our men’s team in Beijing will be among the strongest of any country,” said Triathlon Canada’s Executive Director Alan Trivett. “The addition of Jenkins and Tichelaar adds the opportunity to race as a team with Whitfield; however Tichelaar has been very consistent on the World Cup Circuit over the past year and is equally capable of producing a top result for Canada on his own.”
Whitfield, the No.3 Canadian at No.12 in the World Cup rankings, won the gold medal at the Ishigaki BG Triathlon World Cup in 2008 – the only World Cup race he has competed in this year. At age 33, the veteran completed eight World Cup races in 2007 and ended the year ranked second in the World Cup rankings. With his heart set on a second gold medal after his well known gold medal performance at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Whitfield finished 11th at the 2004 Athens Olympics. At the World Championships in Hamburg last year, he finished fourth, following that up with a sixth place finish in Vancouver yesterday.
Tichelaar, 25, is the top Canadian male on the World Cup rankings, sitting at an impressive No.6 thanks to top-8 performances at Mooloolaba, New Plymouth and Tongyeong BG Triathlon World Cup Events. He proved yet again that he can compete with the best of them when he came in ninth at the World Championships in Vancouver this past weekend. His breakthrough year came in 2006 when he notched his first World Cup top-8 finish (in Edmonton) and came in eighth at the Commonwealth Games. Tichelaar didn’t slow down in 2007, posting three top-8 World Cup performances including a silver medal in Cancun.
Jenkins, also 25, had four top-20 World Cup finishes in 2007, including in Vancouver where he finished in seventh place. Ranked 47th in the World Cup rankings after the 2007 season, Jenkins is an incredibly strong swimmer and cyclist and has been named to the team to help Whitfield’s efforts to the podium.
The Women’s Olympic Triathlon Team will be named within the next two weeks.