# Episode 278: Solving the Moto Problem

An episode of [Professional Triathlon News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1559781865), 22 Jun 2026, 1 h 26 min.

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WTCS Quiberon delivers a stacked, sprint-finish men's race and a statement win from the reigning Olympic champ, while Mark recaps Kat Matthews grinding out a win in Denmark on tired legs ahead of Roth. We dig into the moto problem plaguing both World Triathlon and IRONMAN races and call for a real enforcement standard, then preview a loaded IRONMAN Frankfurt with Stornes, Ditlev, Iden and others all in the mix. Plus: the 70.3 World Championship venue for 2027 and ending with them Hot Takes. 🎙️ Intro (0:00–5:50) 🏖️WTCS Quiberon (6:00-19:00) 🇩🇰 70.3 Elsinore (19:05-31:05) 🏍️Topic of the Week: Motos (31:10–40:55 ) 🏁 Race Previews — IRONMAN FRANKFURT (41:00–57:30) 🔥 Hot Takes (1:05:00–1:26:00) New Website: https://protrinews.com/ 🙌 Massive Thanks To Our Partners 🎨 WYN Republic – Gear up. 15% off with link below https://wynrepublic.com/pages/protrinews 🥩 Good Ranchers- American Meat Delivered. Use code IRON for a special discount. https://www.goodranchers.com/ ⛽️ Plan your next race's nutrition and race with what's on course- Code PTN15 https://visit.pfandh.com/protrinews ❤️🩹 Recover better, and faster. PTN15 https://pillarperformance.us/ 👨🏻🔧 Race on the best saddle! Visit Wove https://wovebike.com/ 🏦 Open a Waterfall Bank Account https://www.waterfallbank.com/

## Transcript

Kyle Glass: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Pro Tri News. I'm your host, Kyle Glass, joined by Mark Matthews and Talbot Cox for what was an exciting weekend of racing. Mark, you got back home from ⁓ from Denmark alright? Yeah, first things. This feels weird doing this without dad. I know. It's like kids are off the leash. Kids are off the leash. We could get cancelled for this show easily. ⁓ Yeah, yeah, just got home from Denmark. ⁓ easy travel, so nice racing in like a close European country. And my my I'll talk about the race later, but my review on Denmark, and I've said it before when I've been there, they're just better than us guys. Like the UK, America, like lots of other places. It's clean, it's efficient, ev like everything's nice. It's just an excellent people are nice. It's an excellent country. And to give perspective, i when you get baggage claim, you like the baggage claim hall, there's like cafes and stuff in there, but there's also a giant hot dog stand in the in the baggage claim hall. where you can get a cup and then you pour yourself a beer from a beer tab and get a hot dog while you wait for your bags. In America and the UK it's like a desolate hall, isn't it, of like aluminium and like nothing. They there's like coffee shops. It's just an amazing country. Anyway, Talbot's been further than I have. ⁓ yeah, I went all the way to the Hyrux World Championship. And I gotta say, I'm quite surprised I wasn't like walking around in like a pro tri new shirt. And do you know how many triathletes came up to me and said they loved the show. So shout out to everyone who came up. Some guy w came up and talked to him for about fifteen minutes. There was a guy a f gentleman from Denmark who massive fan of the show, massive fan of Lionel, and then he I said, ⁓ well, so your favorite so your your favorite athlete is Magnus Ditlev and he like, Yeah, ⁓ yeah, I love Magnus, but ⁓ Christian Hoganhog is my favorite Denmark athlete and I was like, Wow So really,

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