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Olympic champion triathlete Simon Whitfield is entering a new stage in his life, but says hes not done racing. cheap nfl jerseys china . Whitfield declined to join the Canadian team for the first time in 17 years, saying racing longer distances such as Ironman will allow him to train close to home and his family in Victoria. "My life needs to be much more balanced around our family," Whitfield said from Victoria this week. Preparation for his fourth Olympic Games this summer took him away from wife Jennie and daughters Pippa and Evelyn for weeks of training and racing. "With Pippa in kindergarten, I dont want to be absentee," Whitfield said. "I was absent this year. Thats the commitment Jennie and I made. "It was with the knowledge that was the last time wed make that kind of commitment to being away that much." Triathlon Canada says Whitfield is welcome to return to the national team, but wont reserve a spot for the Olympic gold and silver medallist. If the 37-year-old wants to race for Canada again in World Cups, world championships or Olympic Games, hell have to earn it racing full time. Whitfield believes thats the way it should be. "Theyve said the door is always open, but if youre going to be on the national team, youve got to really be on the national team and I think thats the way to do it," Whitfield said. "Ive been calling for this for years and its great that theyre doing this. Its TriCan making that shift to a full commitment of being all-in." Whitfield was highly critical of the handling of Olympic teammate Paula Findlay at the Summer Olympics in London. He felt she was failed by her coach and support staff during her preparation He says that has nothing to do with his decision to step away from representing Triathlon Canada on the international stage in 2013. Whitfield appreciates how gracious the organization has been in his decision. "Triathlon Canada has been part of my life since 1995," he said. "I have a lot of friends there." Whitfields life is in transition. Hes planning to host a multi-event endurance festival of running and paddling in Barrie, Ont., next June. He has projects in mind to make triathlon less expensive and more accessible. Whitfield says hed love to do mass-start running events like the Vancouver Sun Run or the Toronto Sporting Life 10k, but there will also be cutthroat racing in his future. "There will be something highly competitive in there because I cant operate otherwise," Whitfield said. An Olympic-distance triathlon is a 1.5-kilometre swim, 40-kilometre bike and 10k run. Whitfield won gold in 2000 when the sport made its Olympic debut and silver in 2008. The Kingston, Ont., athlete says the Ironman and its 3.8 kilometre swim, 180-kilometre bike and marathon appeals to him. Whitfield is considering racing one of three Ironman-distance events in Canada in 2013, which will be in Whistler and Penticton, B.C., and Mont-Tremblant, Que. Triathletes often switch from one triathlon distance to the other, but Whitfield knows the Ironman requires completely different training and race strategy than Olympic distance. "I might have said 10 years ago I could just jump right across," Whitfield said. "Now, Im going to do it with the utmost respect and caution. "I was suited to Olympic distance and shorter distances. Well see if I can handle the distance training, the solo training, the discipline you have to have training solo." The long, solitary hours of Ironman training are now a better fit in his life than Olympic distance, which required him to be part of a fast group of athletes pushing each other to achieve higher speeds. The groups schedule once dictated his life. "Now, my day will operate around when the kids are at school," Whitfield explained. "Ill train every minute of the day the kids are at school and then on the weekends Ill do a little bit of training." Whitfields fourth Olympic Games ended abruptly when he and his bike cartwheeled off a speed bump in London. He broke his collarbone and required stitches in his toe. "I healed up super, super quick and then I went and broke my hand mountain biking," Whitfield said. "I have to laugh that after so many years of no injuries and then in a three-month span I go flipping over a speed bump and smacking into a tree. "Other than that, Im good. Im still the king of the bouncy castle with my kids, broken hand and all." cheap nfl jerseys . The team said Tuesday no timetable has been set for the right-handers return, but he will miss his next start and likely will be put on the disabled list. wholesale nfl jerseys . Cameron Maybin hit a two-run homer, Will Venable had three RBIs and the Padres handed the struggling St. Louis Cardinals an 11-3 loss.PHILADELPHIA -- Injured Philadelphia 76ers all-star centre Andrew Bynum said Friday he has suffered a "setback" in his return from a knee injury. Bynum, acquired by Philadelphia in a four-team trade before the season, has yet to play for the Sixers and spoke before a game against Utah. He has been recovering from a bone bruise on his right knee and his return has been pushed back three times since the beginning of training camp. The Sixers were hoping Bynum would be cleared to return to basketball activities by Dec. 10. That date is now in question because of issues with his left knee. Bynum now said he has swelling and a bone bruise on both knees. "I had a little bit of a setback," Bynum said. "Just working through some issues with the right knee, I kind of have a mirror thing going on with the left knee. I dont know whats going on. The doctors are saying its a weakened cartilage state, so we kind of wait, I guess. We cant do anything. I just have to wait for the cartilage to get strong." Bynum did say he targeted Dec. 10 as a possibility, with one to four weeks of basketball-related activity to follow, pushing his much-anticippated debut to anywhere from mid-to-late December to as late as mid-January. nfl jerseys china. "Its the same exact spot (as the right knee) with the cartilage," Bynum said. "Just doing routine things and it started swelling up. No blunt-force injury or anything like that. Its the same timetable still." The Sixers are 4-4 without Bynum, including three straight losses at home. Bynum announced in May, while still a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, that he was going to Germany in September for the Orthokine blood-spinning treatment in his knees that other professional athletes have sought. The Sixers announced before training camp that Bynum needed to delay his return to allow the effects of the Orthokine treatment to work. The bone bruise in his right knee caused the Sixers to push the return date from training camp to the regular season and now possibly to midseason. But the Sixers are still looking long term with Bynum, whos in the last year of his contract. "My main concern is Andrews health," Sixers general manager Tony DiLeo said. "My main concern is big picture. We want to have a long relationship with him." cheap jerseys ' ' '