Remember to set those videos and PVRs for the London Triathlon's showing on Grandstand this weekend -- you'll want to be paying close attention to the mens race. If the reports that we have been getting are true you'll see Stuart Hayes sitting in the lead group of three and not taking his turn at the front during the bike. Now, in most races this would cause sharp words to be spoken but it seems as though Stu was prepared to pledge a decent percentage of his winnings to the other two to get him round and set him up for a clear run. Now there's nothing against this in the rules but it's a bizarre situation where the winner ends up taking home less prize money than Craig Walton who came second -- Craig picked up his cheque plus a big chunk of Hayes' and the bonus for winning the pairs race with Snowshill.

There's been a lot of talk about this idea of getting a team to pull together to put a contender in with a chance at a major title such as the Olympics or World Champs but this is the first time that we have known it happen quite so blatantly for a cash prize race. Given that Richard Stannard is going out to the Worlds as, essentially, the GB domestique we wonder whether we might have witnessed the start of a whole new phase in the game that is triathlon.

Oh, and their website is still falling over so try this page for the full results...