The triathlete Little is referring to is four-time Ironman champion Lionel Sanders who has 185,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. From there, Little's trainer asked him if he wanted to compete in a sprint (a shorter triathlon, comprised of a 750-metre swim, a 20-kilometre bike and five-kilometre run) in the summer of 2018, right before he headed back to Winnipeg for training camp, something Little would repeat again in 2019.