Tra: Snowsill leads strong Australian team

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2008
Tra: Snowsill leads strong Australian team

Three-time world champion EMMA SNOWSILL will lead a strong Australian team in today's
Olympic triathlon race.

ERIN DENSHAM and EMMA MOFFATT are also racing .. as the Australians try to win their
first gold medal in the event since it joined the Games program eight years ago.

MICHELLIE JONES won a silver medal in Sydney .. and LORETTA HARROP fell just short
in Athens .. while the men are yet to finish on the podium.

Expatriate KATE ALLEN sprinted past HARROP for the gold medal four years ago .. and
will again race for Austria.

The event consists of a one-and-a-half kilometre swim .. 40 kilometre cycle .. and
10 kilometre run .. and will be held at the Ming Tombs Reservoir .. about 30 kilometres
north-west of Beijing.



SNOWSILL and Portuguese star VANESSA FERNANDES are the two main race favourites ..

but FERNANDES beat the Australian last year for her first world title and the two have
a friendly rivalry.

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