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
"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
>"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?