WTC purchase North American sports

So just so I get it straight.

WTC licensed the rights to the Ironman brand for some races to NASports, and now is buying NASports and bringing the management team with them to WTC?

Odd.

Hmmm.  Not so sure.  My initial thoughts are that this is a business and I have seen mergers and buyouts and they never go smooth.  It might end up costing us more money in entry fees.

And never having done a WTC event, I heard they were great, but NAS does an awesome job in Wisconsin.  I hope Mike Reilly is still the man at the end

Reading the article sounded like the usual "blowing of smoke" of keeping all the current staff and making a stronger Ironman brand but something just worries me. Not sure how it will effect the athletes but the "smell" test makes me wonder if entry fees will increase since they will now have no comptetion for races offering Kona slots

KEJ - 2009-01-06 5:59 PM I think they should've just sold it to me Alas, the $1,000 I offered didn't get it done.....

You should have offered them $1000 and foam antlers for everyone on the board.

 Is this good? We'll see. The owners of the newly consolidated mDot organization are known for buying, building and selling. Usually within the space of a few years. There are principals in the company however, who are Ironman athletes. Is this an investment or a vanity buy? A combination of both?

Maybe those principals had the same experience JeepFleeb had and decided they wanted the NAS races brought up to the level of the WTC ones.

The real question is "How do they plan to build"? Expanded races? Ironman Intl. Distance series?