Aussie Legends vs German Greats: Who Wins Kona? | Unfunded S2 EP25 (EP60)

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Lockie and Lleyton celebrate episode 60 and kick off World Championship week, starting with Lockie's belated birthday bash and why he was the first one to go home from his own party.

With the IRONMAN World Championship back in Kona and the men and women racing on the same weekend for the first time since 2019, the boys debate whether Kona is the biggest race in triathlon, share their first triathlon memories and look at how the media built the Kona legend, from Chris McCormack and Lionel Sanders' vlogs to Pro Tri News. They revisit Jan Frodeno's trifecta and Australia's run of Kona wins from 2007 to 2012, and settle a three-versus-three between Chris McCormack, Craig Alexander and Pete Jacobs and Germany's Sebastian Kienle, Jan Frodeno and Patrick Lange. Then it's a start list stacked with Olympians moving up to long course, from Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden to Marten Van Riel and Julie Derron, and the boys' podium predictions and dark horses for the men's and women's races.

They wrap up with the Rome World Cup, where Alex Yee dominated the men's race, Diana Isakova, Tilda Månsson and Taylor Spivey made the women's podium, and Great Britain brought their A team to the mixed team relay.