{"id":36510,"date":"2025-04-20T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36510\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:36:08","slug":"ironman-world-champion-sam-laidlow-gets-grim-reality-check-as-full-health-and-fitness-still-seems-far-away-elite-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36510\/","title":{"rendered":"IRONMAN World Champion Sam Laidlow gets grim reality check as &#8216;full health and fitness&#8217; still seems far away &#8211; Elite News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a challenging start to 2025 for France\u2019s <strong>Sam Laidlow<\/strong> and it sounds like triathlon fans are going to have to wait a while longer before we see him in race action.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/ironman-world-championship-2023-results-report-pro-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brilliant winner of the 2023 IRONMAN World Championship<\/a> in Nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/ironman-kona-2024-world-championship-sam-laidlow-reaction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ended up in a dark place<\/a> a year later when trying to defend his title in Kona. Since then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/sam-laidlow-triathlete-worrying-health-update-2025-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it sounds like it\u2019s been a difficult journey<\/a> to get anywhere near back to full fitness.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been very open about that, and his latest update underlines the task which faces him \u2013 but also that he\u2019s ready to take it on.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Laidlow health update<\/p>\n<p>Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIos3lqtvdT\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Instagram<\/a>, he said: \u201cAfter 10 days of feeling grateful and excited to be able to train, thinking I\u2019d \u201cflipped\u201d a switch, reality sunk in yesterday.. realising quite how far away I am from full health and fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a big challenge to get back into full swing in time for this season, but I\u2019m ready to give it my best f**king shot! I owe this to everyone who supports this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Sam Laidlow wins T100 London 2024 photo credit PTO\" class=\"wp-image-84746 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sam-Laidlow-wins-t100-london-2024.jpg\"  data-\/>Sam Laidlow wins T100 London [Photo credit: PTO]<\/p>\n<p>Race against time<\/p>\n<p>Laidlow travelled out to the Middle East recently for Challenge Sir Bani Yas but didn\u2019t race.<\/p>\n<p>His big target date is Sunday September 14 for the IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, where he triumphed two years ago. That is exactly 21 weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in a stop-start season the undoubted highlight was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/t100-triathlon-world-tour-london-2024-results-report-pro-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a brilliant win at T100 London<\/a>. That was followed by a close second at T100 Ibiza to Marten Van Riel, who became a dominant figure as he was crowned the men\u2019s T100 World Champion.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a challenging start to 2025 for France\u2019s Sam Laidlow and it sounds like triathlon fans are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,105,16006,20986,20987,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-36510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ironman","11":"tag-ironman-world-championship","12":"tag-sam-laidlow","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114372214085802848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}