Officials announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement that will keep the triathlon in Augusta for three additional years,
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Tri for a Cure raises nearly $2 million
Despite the rain, more than 1,000 athletes swam and ran during the 16th annual Tri for a Cure at the Southern Maine Community College campus Sunday morning. With a tornado watch looming, the biking portion was called off.
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Gold-medal triathlete Gwen Jorgensen running Beach to Beacon as part of shift to marathons
Gwen Jorgensen, center, runs during the women’s 10,000-meter run at the U.S. Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, in June. (AP file photo) The Beach to Beacon 10K race brings elite runners to Cape Elizabeth every year, and 2018 is no different with Olympian Molly Huddle and former winner Ben True running Saturday. This year’s race […]
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Sisters-in-law tackling Tri for a Cure together
Jamie Watson left, Beth Watson Favreau, middle, and Johanne Watson, right, will be competing in Sunday’s Tri for a Cure. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Beth Favreau needed some support. She got it from her two sisters-in-law. Favreau completed the Tri for a Cure individually last year, accomplishing a goal she had set for herself, but to […]
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Maine Sports Hall of Fame: Angela Bancroft tried something, and succeeded
Angela Bancroft competes in a triathlon. Many of the best athletes to ever come out of Maine started training in their respective sports when they were a kid. Angela Bancroft, who will lay claim to being one of those best athletes to ever come out of the state on Sunday when she is enshrined in […]
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Maine State Triathlon coming to Bethel on Aug. 10
BETHEL — More than 200 athletes will compete in the 23rd annual Maine State Triathlon, starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, at the Bethel Inn Resort’s Lakehouse on Songo Pond in Albany Township, race director Julia Reuter said Wednesday. Those participating in the triathlon will begin at Songo Pond with a 750-meter swim, followed […]