Day 2, 2025 World Triathlon Championships Wollongong

Competitors and local cafes talk about the vibes and atmosphere on day two of the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals in Wollongong

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00:00Lots of people coming in before or after their race, lots of spectators, it's been great.

00:09I mean road closures, always a little bit annoying, always a new normal to get used to,

00:13but lots of people around, lots of people coming into businesses, like exponentially better I would say.

00:19Definitely positive in the last week or so since Wednesday we definitely saw an increase in sales.

00:25People from all around the world, we had the whole team, the USA team here on Thursday with us for breakfast, for coffees.

00:32I think there were about 30, 35 of them.

00:34Lots of different countries, lots from the UK, the US, Canada, France, it's awesome.

00:40This morning we had USA, we had Ireland, we had Abu Dhabi, we had Canada yesterday.

00:45We met a lot of customers from around the world, they said they'd be back.

00:49So yeah, it's been nice.

00:51Is it fun to get people who speak maybe different languages as well?

00:54That's great.

00:55There's been some miscommunications about what's full cream milk, what's whole milk, but it's all good, it's great.

01:00Yes, it's so nice to see everybody from all around the world coming in and having a coffee together,

01:04making friends in this cafe, that's enough.

01:07We've seen them come in yesterday as acquaintances and they leave as friends.

01:11Amazing local race, really exciting to be here and racing the best in the world, it's awesome.

01:17It's a big celebration of three athletes with all the athletes in the world and we are proud to represent Canada.

01:26And to compete here is Special Independent Australia.

01:30We can travel too far away from home.

01:33You know our city's homeland.

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01:41just for us?

01:43No pants.

01:44Man Rafael is in Canada!

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01:50well then they'll have shirts, wasn't they?