XXXIV World Triathlon Congress

Virtual

Athletes

Committee Report

Zoom Multilingual

• There will be translation channels available within Zoom.
• Translations will be provided in English, Spanish and French.
• Translator will be at 80% volume with original audio at 20% volume in order to hear speaker’s tone.

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How to ask questions

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2. World Triathlon Moderators will follow this, if necessary, hosts will also notify
3. The host can give you the floor.
4. Click Unmute to Speak.

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Participant identification in Zoom

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• Zoom webinar does not allow attendees view the attendee list. A roll call of attendees will be read by the Credentials Committee.

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Welcome

Marisol Casado

World Triathlon President

Committees/Commissions meetings’ minutes

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• Following the 2020 Virtual Congress, the minutes from all the meetings of the committees and commissions are available online.
• You can access them on the page dedicated to each of the committees/ commissions at

https://triathlon.org/about/committees

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Contents

01 New challenges

02 Key achievements and progress

03 Vision and missions for the future

04 Questions

05 Thanks

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New challenges

2021 was again a very difficult year in many ways.

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• The uncertainty around the Olympic Games

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• Different Countries/Continents different restrictions

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• Pressure from the NOCs-Athletes-Coaches

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• Difficulties to get the vaccinations in some countries

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Key Achievements and progress in 2020-2021

Created the fairest and safest possible restart of the Olympic Qualifications.

2 Athlete representative for the 2022-2025 Strategic planning

Supporting all athletes to have a chance of racing the individual in Tokyo

Monthly calls with the IOC Athletes Committee

Strengthening the relation, more frequent calls with WADA

Finalized the swim behaviour document.

Helping the officials and keep a more fair field of play

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Vision, Safety, Conditions

Fine-tune the prize money structure in the WTCS

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Fine-tune the Olympic Qualifications for Paris

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Help to create a new medal event for Los Angeles

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Continue water quality testing-improvements

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Develop on site recovery and preparation facilities

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Set a higher standard for the athletes lounge

size, chairs, food, climatization

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Para triathlon

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Inclusion

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Mental health & awareness

Follow and support the athletes through their career and after.

�Organise events where we could talk about the athletes mental health.����

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Anti-Doping

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Promote Anti-Doping culture within the elite athlete environment.��Continue the good work on helping our sport to be a Clean Sport.

Questions?

Thank You!