It doesn't seem to have been put on the BTA's website but in the information sent to race organisers there's a list of events that have ITU Triathlon World Championship qualifier status so I guess that's it's official now. The chosen events are: Shropshire (Jun-9), Windsor (Jun-16), Bournemouth (Jul-7) and Gullane (Aug-17). This, pretty much, satisfies the requirements of an event per month over the summer period and includes the National Championships so removing the ridiculous anomoly of the National Champion not necessarily being a qualifier for the Worlds.

The qualifiers for the ITU Duathlon World Championship and the long distance events have not been set, nor have the conditions for qualification -- we can now take up to 18 per age group compared to 12 in previous years.

One interesting side effect of the HIMUK announcement yesterday is that the plans that were being mooted for changing The Longest Day into a Nice-distance event may now be put back and, hopefully, scrapped altogether. There's never been anything official but the rumours were there. TLD is a successful event in its own right and I could never see the reasons for changing it.