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The Athlete's Eye-View: In conversation with Ollie Turner

Triathlon doesn't build character, it reveals it
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 Tomorrow is the final race of the Super League Triathlon 2018-19, and I recently caught up with one of its competitors... 


  Triathlon is known as one of the most testing sports out there, pushing its competitors through an endurance of swimming, cycling and running back to back. One of the sports most coveted races is the Super League Triathlon, a world-class event featuring the best 50 triathletes in the world. 

  I was fortunate enough to film the even with ITV Channel TV when it was held in Jersey in 2017. I learnt so much about how such huge, large scale events are covered: from cameramen balancing on moving motorbikes, to leaning out a helicopter window. There was event a ballot to decide which athlete in each race had to wear a GoPro to give the live viewing audience the best possible experience of the action.

My Super League Triathlon experience with ITV (Source: own photos)

  My good friend and previous training partner, Ollie Turner, is a 20 year old elite triathlete currently racing at U23 elite level for Jersey and Great Britain. Ollie competed in the league in 2017 in the Coroporate relay. However since then he has gone onto represent Jersey in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and is today is competing in the 2018-19 Super League Triathlon meet in Singapore.
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Ollie Turner in action in the Super League Triathlon 2018 (Source: Instagram, @ollie_turner98)
                       
On returning from a training camp in Villa Mora, Portugal, I caught up with Ollie to get an athlete's perspective on what goes into filming such an extravagant event...




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