On social media after the women’s individual triathlon in Tokyo we read several rumors claiming that the competition was heavily conditioned by the starting position from the pontoon. A thesis that tried to use an analysis to support its own, basically a heat map built by comparing the time of each athlete in the Olympic test with the average gap from the first leg in the two previous World Triathlon Series races. This analysis, strongly biased, is methodologically weak for several reasons, and by itself does not provide any proof of the validity of the aforementioned thesis. Let’s see why.