The article is pretty terrible all around. You have to get to the last sentence before they throw in the detail that it's not actually an Ironman race -- it's a half-iron. I wouldn't mind it so much in a general-interest source, but ESPN writers of all people should know the difference and should sweat even the immaterial details. A "so-called" half-iron? No that's actually what it is. No need for the "so-called".
Yeah, that is kind of insulting.
Guess people don't realize there are many lengths of triathlons.
Fulls and Halfs are typically done together with an extra lap or leg added in for the Full.
Not sure I understand the insult. The article mentioned the distances and called it half ironman (Ironman 70.3 might be more correct, but I think everybody calls that half anyway).
Adding the word to the title doesn't make a huge difference to me "Two men die in Half Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"
