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Thursday, July 9, 2009
ITU Family Newsletter

Watch Kitzbühel Live Online!!
Watch this weekend's Kitzbühel Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series races live and in high resolution with the ITU's live coverage player via www.triathlon.org/tv . The men's race is on Saturday at 2:20pm with the women on Sundayat 4pm.
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Kitzbühel Race Previews
The women's race brings together an interesting match up between world number one Emma Moffatt and Portugal's Vanessa Fernandes with Alistair Brownlee looking for his third straight series win in the men's race.
Read the race preview

Date Set For Edinburgh Duathlon 2010
The British Triathlon Federation is pleased to announce that the 2010 Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships will take place in the historic city from 3 to 5 September, 2010. The duathlon event consists of a 10km run, 40km cycle and 5km run and is expected to attract hundreds of elite and age group competitors from around the world.
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Hungary Seek Performance Director
The Hungarian Triathlon Union is seeking a Performance Director to work within the Hungarian National Team programme.
Commencement date: September 15, 2009 (3-year fix-term contract)
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S. Africa Look For High Perf Manager
The main purpose of this position is the provision of managerial, administrative and logistical support for the National Coaches and High Performance teams in the achievement of the High Performance Programme vision and performance goals - the primary goal being a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.
Read the job advert here

Paratriathlon: Amy Dodson (GBR)
In this week's paratriathlon article we will interview one of the most remarkable female athletes. Amy Dodson was second last year at the 2008 Vancouver ITU Triathlon World Championship in the TRI5 category and is one of the top contenders in the TRI5 category that includes below knee amputees.
Read the interview here

Anti-doping: Final Survey Results
Recently, ITU elite athletes had an opportunity to take part in an Anti-doping Survey. Over the past few weeks, we revealed the perception of athletes with regards to whether or not triathlon is a clean sport. This week we will show how the athletes answered about what they would like to see ITU do to combat drug use. There were 132 responses. This is the final question of the survey.

If you have any questions about ITU's Anti-doping program, please contact Leslie Buchanan .

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