Triatlon boss: 'We are not going with the begging bowl, we want to deliver something'

Chris Kitchen will finish up as CEO of Triatlon Ireland in the coming months after eight hugely successful years. He tells Brendan O'Brien about the many ups as well as the recent downs brought on by the Covid-19 crisis and what's next

Fri, 03 Jul, 2020 - 10:18

What was the moment you realised that this was a challenge on an entirely different scale?

It was mid-March. I hadn't had a holiday for two years so my wife and I went over to St Lucia. Much to her annoyance I take my laptop with me so I'm not coming back to loads of emails. I was having a chat with our operations director and suddenly realised that we would have to shut the office down. We knew then that this would be a huge problem for TI even if we didn't realise it would go on so long.