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Not sure I understand the insult. The article mentioned the distances and called it half ironman (Ironman 70.3 might be more correct, but I think everybody calls that half anyway).

Adding the word to the title doesn't make a huge difference to me "Two men die in Half Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"

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Guess wording can be taken in different ways.

>"They were competing in a so-called half Ironman event".

This seemed to indicate it was a lesser event. "so-called". But maybe it was just referring to a type of event. And it was just poor grammar?

Who knows, maybe it was GPT producing the text?

No, it's just pointing out the colloquialism.

"IRONMAN" and "IRONMAN 70.3" are the official names, even though "full" and "half" are how they're commonly referenced.

"so-called" isn't diminutive or derogatory

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