She Who Laughs Last…
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Outside magazine, February 1996
She Who Laughs Last… Two days before the short-course triathlon world championships in Cancún, Mexico, last November, newly crowned Ironman champion Karen Smyers was neither training nor relaxing nor touring Mayan ruins. Instead Smyers was embroiled in a rancorous meeting in which she attempted to stop the sport’s organizing body, the International Triathlon Union, from implementing a |