Tony T
01-25-2019, 01:43 PM
Interesting read.
NYT: The Enduring Fight Over the First Ironman Triathlon (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/sports/ironman-original-lawsuit.html)
HAIKU, Hawaii — On an October night in 1979, a Navy man named John Collins rode his Triumph motorcycle over to the offices of a Honolulu health club. He brought nothing but a box of paperwork.
Collins, credited with starting a quirky competition called the Hawaiian Iron Man Triathlon, had just been reassigned to the mainland. He desperately needed someone to run the third edition of the event. The first two had 15 competitors each.
He handed the box to Hank Grundman and his wife, Valerie Silk.
Inside that box was what now might be considered a billion-dollar idea.
NYT: The Enduring Fight Over the First Ironman Triathlon (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/sports/ironman-original-lawsuit.html)
HAIKU, Hawaii — On an October night in 1979, a Navy man named John Collins rode his Triumph motorcycle over to the offices of a Honolulu health club. He brought nothing but a box of paperwork.
Collins, credited with starting a quirky competition called the Hawaiian Iron Man Triathlon, had just been reassigned to the mainland. He desperately needed someone to run the third edition of the event. The first two had 15 competitors each.
He handed the box to Hank Grundman and his wife, Valerie Silk.
Inside that box was what now might be considered a billion-dollar idea.