abstract:The Ironman World Championship has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978, with an additional race in 1982. It is owned and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation.
Triathlon is so poorly followed a sport that even its premier event next month's IronmanWorld Championship receives no live coverage outside of being streamed onto Ironman's own website.
With his already strong swim improving dramatically, Ironman analysts figured that Armstrong could have won the IronmanWorldChampionship with a marathon time of 2 hours, 55 minutes.