Holland admits Collins Cup could motivate triathlon return post-pregnancy

Olympic bronze medallist Vicky Holland admitted the lure of competing at the Collins Cup could be enough to see her return to triathlon after giving birth. Gloucester's Holland, 36, became the first British woman to make the Olympic triathlon podium with bronze at Rio 2016 and, after finishing 13th at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, fell pregnant earlier this year. Ad Holland confessed her future is up in the air but speaking in Samorin ahead of Saturday's Collins Cup — triathlon's answer to golf's Ryder Cup — said the progressive Professional Triathletes Organisation's (PTO) policies and prize money could drag her outside her short-distance specialism after becoming a mother.

TriathlonTriathlon rivalry erupts at Collins Cup as Long storms off after Laidlow clash21 HOURS AGO «I'm not retired. I'm keeping things very open,» explained Holland, who will commentate on the $1.5million event which pits defending champions Team Europe against Team International and Team USA. «I knew at the end of 2021 I was pretty burnt-out physically and emotionally from a five-year cycle and all that threw at us.

»I came home and took a little while to process that. At the beginning of this year, I knew that no matter what we wanted to have a family and after that I'd assess whether I came back or not. «Only in the last couple of months since I've been pregnant have I thought 'maybe I would like to have a go'.

For the first time ever it is this stuff, the PTO and middle distance, that I'm thinking of. »I don't want to pigeonhole myself and make claims that may or may not happen but I'd be interested. What they are doing at PTO is exciting, even the prize money is so tempting to come into.