關於 the amazing race 35 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【PTO Championship@Daytona 完整版】

有人昨晚熬夜看PTO嗎？
沒有沒關係，給你完整版影片，但不知連結何時會下架....！

今早大概抽空快轉看了一下男子組的，原本預期男子組冠軍會是Vincent Luis，沒辦法，這兩年他在51.5k內的距離根本毫無對手，以這場比賽時間3小時左右（最後冠軍3h05m，Gustav Iden），我認為勝算是最高的....

但是，被罰時了2分鐘，退出競爭行列（影片6:17:50處，可以看到他被罰完了，Javier Gomez才跑出T2，而且為了戴錶，跑步還卡了一下，挺有趣的鏡頭，以後應該推出彈性錶帶，一套上就好了）。

補充一下，這場比賽規定的『嚴禁跟車距離是20公尺』，一般IRONMAN規定是『12公尺』。但在這賽車道上，單車一圈是4公里，要騎上20圈。

以游泳僅2km，並且單車賽道平到不行來看，時速都是29-30出頭mile在跑（46-50km/h），要拉開距離很難，要超過前面的人更費體力，真的很容易一不小心就踩20公尺的罰時紅線。

而且，全平路開80km，幾乎都單一姿勢，有多Aero都給我來一份，但也因此，肌肉很容易就僵硬掉，於是就又出現犧牲者，單車一直在前段的Alistair Brownlee，跑步時小腿抽筋，又退出競爭行列（Jonny Brownlee表示：大哥沒有輸、大哥沒有輸～嗚嗚～～）。

Gustav Iden則是騎完車後還排在16名，但其實跟第一名也只差74秒（單車結束時，前9名的差距都在1分內）。那就看誰剛剛單車開過頭，現在就付出代價了，路跑不到一半距離後，Gustav Iden全抓回來，並一路領先到終點，又幫順澤宮拿了個冠軍，並進帳10萬美金。

比較了不起的是Lionel Sanders，從影片來看，游完泳落後4分，幾乎全場沒鏡頭，但單車騎完就追到只差1分了，最後也是以差1分結束.....（教練～我想練游泳～～）。

另一位跟LS型態很像的Sebastian Kienle，小腿受傷，但應有下場，因報ㄉㄠ是DNF而非DNS!

此外，Rudi VON BERG 的跑步姿勢很漂亮，有興趣可多看他。

男子前五名：
Gustav IDEN (NOR) 3:05:06
Matthew HANSON (USA) 3:05:57 (+0:51)
George GOODWIN (UK) 3:06:09 (+1:03)
Lionel SANDERS (CAN) 3:06:19 (+1:10)
Rudi VON BERG (USA) 3:06:41 (+1:35)

女子部份，我原預期是Anne Haug最高機率能奪冠。

But, 這位真的是黑馬了：Paula Findlay。

簡單介紹一下這個有點像演員Amy Adams（艾美亞當斯）的Paula，她的黃金年代是在2009-2011年間，ITU好幾度冠軍，但隨後就是渾身傷，還有被『缺鐵血貧血』症狀所困擾，僅管2012年仍代表加拿大參加奧運，但實力已走下坡。一直到2018-2019年才轉戰戰場到IRONMAN 70.3，也慢慢拿了些名次闖出一點成績來。而她今年也不過31歲而已，雖不知她怎麼治好貧血的，而且很可能用的藥很容易就踩到禁藥的地雷，但她今日真的是最佳女主角，不只老天厚愛，自己也努力。

Paula Findlay在單車第5圈後，就一路領先，偶有Lisa Nodern追過去（話說，我很喜歡Lisa這套黑底配桃紅與黃色三鐵衣配上Scott Plasma的感覺），但可能也開過頭了，一出T2就被Paula海放了，後面甚至只能用走的（影片2:48:33，與2:50:28直接跟裁判聊天了），可惜了。

另一個單車原本也是保持在前三的Lucy Hall，可能也是開過頭，跑步跟最近的雨一樣，直直落。就這樣讓Paula Findlay毫無懸念的獨跑完18km，笑納冠軍與進帳10萬美金....。

第二名的Anne Haug游完泳還輸40秒左右，單車輸到差4分，而且又被判罰時2分（影片2:34:43處），本來以為沒救了，在罰時帳看起來還有點不高興，轉轉頭，抓抓跨下（嗯？女生也有這困擾？），接著從第7名開始追，2圈後就追到變第2，包括刷掉去年2019 IRONMAN 70.3世錦賽第二名與2016 IRONMAN 70.3世錦賽冠軍的Holly Lawrence，最後也是第二名結束。

我覺得最可惜的還是被罰時這段，沒加這2分的話，女子組比賽會更好看，但Anne Haug賽後採訪的這段，講得蠻好的。

當被問到關於被罰時的看法時，她回應如下（J式簡譯法）：罰就罰了，等老娘放出去，你們前面那群X子就完蛋了！ Errrrr.....除了那個Paula例外.....

“I’m going to run as fast as possible now. It would have been easier if I had 21 kilometres left instead of 18, but I’m trying. I’ve nothing to lose.”

Haug kept promise and started to push the run, heading towards the second spot very soon. “I was even more motivated after the penalty. Paula had an amazing race, there was no chance to beat her today. I wanted to win here and everything you can cope for is putting your best performance out during the day and I really did.”

來源：https://reurl.cc/r8WdKE

前五名：
Paula FINDLAY (CAN) 3:24:55
Anne HAUG (GER) 3:27:32 (+2:36)
Laura PHILIPP (GER) 3:30:00 (+5:05)
Holly Lawrence (UK) 3:31:09 (+6:14)
Amelia WATKINSON (NZ) 3:31:50 (+6:54)

https://youtu.be/4v96piy6JDI

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First Day of Eid al-Adha @ IIUM

I started the very first day of Eid al-Adha at IIUM Mosque. Immediately, after the Eid prayer, everyone had the great occssion to wish everyone Eid Mubarak. As for me, I got an opportunity to meet with old friends amongst International staff who are still serving IIUM.

On the way to have the breakfast with International students at Kullyyah of Economics and Management Cafe, Br Rector and I stopped at Yemenis breakfast corner at the cafe of Kulliyyah of Education. We enjoyed the Yemenis flavour of breakfast. There were about 400 participants. Amazing.

We quickly excused ourselves to join the main breakfast session at KENM. I took the opportunity to go around the entire cafe to greet everyone and to have a little chat about Eid and their hometown and their study. Everyone was excited. I hope to sustain and to bring this environment to the next level. Diversity - which is God-made - was never a liability. The failure to engage with diversity is a liability which is man-made.

The last stop was at slaugthering area. The enviroment was so amazing. The students and staff are working together to manage this great ibadah event. The IIUM Mosque and one NGO from Germany (Hecene or Hasanah) have collectively contributed more than 30 cows. I was impressed with the whole environment that IIUM has been able to create for the last many years. Internationalisation core thrust of IIUM is working very well though there is room for improvement.

While walking with Tan Sri Rector from one place to another, we managed to talk about great ideas and insights. Amongst others, we feel that IIUM needs to create and promote social currency to complement the commercial side of volunterism work. We also mooted the idea to set up centre of excelllence to look into a few bottle- neck issues such as distribution of qurban meet to all (without any limitation of race and religion) and in looking at zakat as sosial transformative tool instead of religious-charitable work.

Wishing everyone Eid Mubarak...may Allah the Almighty accept our good deeds in the entire days of Eid al-Adha and Tashriq.

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