WTC sold Ironman to Chinese Dalian Wanda

I was JUST about to post the news too!

http://www.asiatri.com/2015/08/ironman-brand-sold-to-chinas-wanda-g...

so the new tattoo will be ?

(insert chinese characters for ironman here)

Edited by metafizx 2015-08-26 11:24 PM

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Edited by Dutchcrush 2015-08-27 6:00 AM

Tierén = Ironman
Actually that would be kind of a cool tat....if I ever do a full IM.

Just so they don't start to serve Jianlibao on the course. OMG Wanda doesn't make that, do they??

This will probably only make sense to people who've lived in China.......Chinese "sports drink". That stuff is nasty. We used to call it "Orange Death".
ETA Sadly this site does not seem to support Chinese characters. Might have to change.........

Edited by Hot Runner 2015-08-27 6:16 AM

I assume this will change soon....

" Ironman China has been discontinued

World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) announced today that the 2011 IRONMAN China and Ironman 70.3 China races, set to take place on May 29 in Jixian, Tianjin, have been cancelled. After the cancellation of the swim portion of the race earlier in the week and the resulting change to a bike-run format, WTC was informed that Tianjin Sports Bureau (TSB) could not obtain the required sanctions from the China Triathlon Sports Association (CTSA) to conduct the event.

"Events in China require an appropriate sports body to act as the co-organizer," said Murphy Reinschreiber, managing director of the Asia Pacific region for WTC. "While we have had nothing but positive experiences in working with China’s sports authorities in the past, TSB simply failed to provide all of the documentation necessary for CTSA to process the sanction."

"We were shocked by the news today that Ironman China and IRONMAN 70.3 China would need to be cancelled, especially since we were unaware that this might be the result when we decided to cancel the swim earlier this week," said Steve Meckfessel, chief operations officer for WTC. "We want all athletes who committed the time and training to participate in these events to still get their chance to compete later this season."
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