Olympic triathlete asks cameraman NOT to film her from behind, admitting 'I've just s*** myself', moments before winning £245k at World Championship

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  • Taylor Knibb produced a ascendant show to triumph the inaugural satellite title
  • The 100km people saw athletes implicit a 2km swim, 80km rhythm and 18km run
  • Knibb earned £166,191 for winning the contention and £245,330 successful full successful the series 

By DOMINIC HOGAN

Published: 03:54 EST, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 07:34 EST, 18 November 2024

A triathlon runner made the shocking admittance that she had soiled herself connected the mode to winning the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Championship crown. 

Taylor Knibb enactment unneurotic the cleanable contention with flawless swimming, cycling and moving legs successful Dubai to marque it 4 wins from 4 contention starts and pouch astir £245,330 successful prize money. 

Knibb dominated the remainder of the people successful the series, and took £166,191 for winning the competition, adding to the £79,139 she earned for wins successful each of the 4 races astatine San Francisco, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and Dubai. 

The people sees runners instrumentality connected a immense 100km - 2km swim, 80km rhythm and 18km tally to decorativeness disconnected - nether the baking vigor of the Dubai sun, and is not for the faint-hearted which lone goes to further amplify conscionable however awesome Knibb's dominance has been. 

But the triumph came astatine a cost, arsenic Knibb admitted towards the extremity to securing her stunning cleanable expanse successful Dubai, finishing astir 2 minutes wide of 2nd place. 

WARNING: Below clip contains explicit language 

World champion triathlete Taylor Knibb revealed to cameras that she had 's*** herself' during the race

As she approached the decorativeness enactment connected the moving signifier with conscionable 2.3km to go, Knibb - who won a 2nd Olympic metallic medal successful Paris successful the mixed lawsuit - turned to 1 of the cameras filming the contention to marque the astonishment admission. 

'I conscionable s*** myself,' she told the cameras, 'so tin you not get my a**?'

Knibb practically flew done the course, finishing the gruelling 100km ordeal successful 3:29.17, with second-place Julie Derron crossing the enactment successful 3:31.08 down the American. 

Knibb came into the contention with Swiss jock Derron and Australian Ashleigh Gentle arsenic her biggest rivals, and the 2 chasers remained wrong striking region adjacent the caput of the battalion during the swimming leg. 

The American successful information dropped down a fewer places successful the changeover from aquatics to bike, but was soon up and moving successful typically ascendant form, and stretched the lead, and by the 65km constituent she had 1min 37s connected her rivals. 

By the extremity of the cycling constituent Knibb was arsenic overmuch arsenic 2min 46sec ahead, which was unthinkable her narrowest starring borderline astatine this constituent successful immoderate of the 4 races of the series. 

Gentle impressively someway began to reel successful Knibb but began to deed the partition and aft closing the spread to 50s she slowed up and was reportedly forced to a locomotion and held her stomach. 

As Knibb's closest rival began to dilatory it paved the mode for Knibb to unafraid her 4th stunning triumph from 4 successful unthinkable form, and her daze admittance anterior to crossing the enactment highlights conscionable however overmuch of a carnal toll the 100km contention took connected her body. 

Knibb was portion of the USA squad that doubly won metallic successful the mixed triathlon astatine the Olympics

Prior to the contention adjacent opening though, Knibb was feeling acold from 100 per cent, arsenic she revealed having secured archetypal spot and the inaugural satellite title title. 

'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," said Knibb.

'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, truthful person amusive men! [who raced the pursuing day]'

The American added: '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…" 

'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.'

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