50. Richard Varga
This week we marked the 50th episode of 'The TriNation Podcast'. We have managed to bring on some of the biggest names in triathlon and other surrounding sports and will continue to do so! On this week’s episode we got to speak to no doubt the most dominant swimmer in triathlon, Slovakian Richard Varga. Richard holds the record for the most lead out swims in the now known World Triathlon Championship Series circuit and it was great to hear his experience on competing in two Olympic games (London 2012 and Rio 2016), his move to Leeds to train alongside the Brownlee brothers and what the triathlon set up is like in Slovakia. We also touched on the subject which has been right at the forefront of the triathlon world in recent weeks on the issue of doping after the recent stiff sanctions which were imposed on the Russian Triathlon Federation. This is something that actually stopped Richard starting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics having only missed out taking to the start line by one slot and he shares his frustration on this topic.