‘I just s*** myself’ – Olympic triathlete wins World Championship despite mid-race poo incident

Olympic athlete Taylor Knibb stormed to the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Title – but not aft she suffered an unfortunate mid-race incident.

Knibb has established herself arsenic 1 of the world’s champion triathletes having won golden successful the women’s Ironman 70.3 World Championship successful 2022 and 2023.

The 26-year-old besides won metallic successful the mixed relay astatine the Tokyo Olympics and claimed another metallic successful Paris this summertime aft a thrilling finish which saw Team GB narrowly forced to settee for bronze.

The American has continued her awesome signifier into the second fractional of the year, winning 4 consecutive races – including past weekend’s Grand Final successful Dubai – to assertion the first-ever T100 rubric and the $210,000 currency bonus.

However, the brutal upwind conditions successful the United Arab Emirates evidently took their toll connected Knibb aft she had pulled wide of her contention with small implicit 2 kilometres to go.

With the cameras approaching to movie her last moments, the American revealed that she had soiled herself midway done the race.

‘I conscionable s*** myself. So tin you not get my a**?’ she asked the camera relation who rapidly obliged earlier adjusting the shot.

Despite that, Knibb remained focused and stormed to the enactment successful archetypal place, finishing the contention astir 2 minutes up of metallic medallist Julie Derron.

Speaking afterwards she revealed that the contention – a operation of a 2 km open-water swim, an 80 km motorcycle ride, and an 18 km tally – had proved hard from commencement to finish.

‘I woke up and messaged my manager that I conscionable consciousness rough, and I’m like, “Oh, this is going to beryllium a atrocious day,’ Knibb admitted.

‘So, I was benignant of shocked! It lone came unneurotic successful the past 3km erstwhile everyone other fell apart, but it was precise step-by-step. That was brutal retired there.’

Knibb lone needed to decorativeness 2nd connected the time to warrant her satellite rubric but remained connected task contempt the pre-race nerves from those astir her.

‘I deliberation my dada was much tense contiguous than me… I was like, “Oh wow, you’re truly nervous, similar it’s benignant of spreading”,’ she added.

‘But I person a fantastic squad of individuals and past I person a batch of sponsors and truthful it’s conscionable a immense squad effort and I’m precise grateful for everyone who supports maine and believes successful me.’

Australia’s Ashleigh Gentle, meanwhile, who finished 3rd successful Dubai and 2nd successful the end-of-season standings, lauded the quality of Knibb aft her stunning triumph.

‘Taylor has conscionable been dominating and erstwhile you’re racing an jock similar that, it is sometimes truly hard to genuinely judge that you tin bushed them,’ she said.

‘But I had this small occurrence successful my belly… I person nary crushed to judge that I tin bushed her, but I’m connected the commencement enactment and that means I person got a chance, truthful I conscionable had to judge that.

‘I didn’t bushed her but consciousness similar I was a measurement person contiguous and did everything I could to effort and get there.’

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