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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
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now it didn't happen right away.
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you decide to stay.
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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale
Media Podcast live from the
Renaissance in Albany, New York.
And here comes Alison Scuds.
And there she is.
Let's bring her in.
Can you hear me?
Yep.
I can.
Okay.
I don't think the microphone is hooked up.
I have it plugged in.
And then I pushed the power button,
but nothing happened.
Did you hold it in?
Does it have a light on it?
It does.
I'm not seeing it do
anything when I hold it.
Let me try the other one.
Okay.
Can I wear my AirPods and
this at the same time?
Yes.
You already sound better
tonight than you did last night.
Oh, okay.
That's good.
So maybe it is Ricky.
Yeah, we are live.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You're fine.
Sorry guys.
It's all good.
It sounds good.
Then if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
So we're just.
Yeah.
So, um, we're here live in Albany.
Uh,
Allie and I are here in Albany.
Yeah, what's her name?
Jamie.
She's in Michigan,
leaving us high and dry.
But we're making it work somehow.
But, yeah, we're hanging out here,
having a good time.
It was a wild,
wild day at the CrossFit Games.
But before we get into all
the action on the floor,
the day started with a twist.
Dave Castro came out and
added some run to event four.
He added one other lap or
one other length of the
floor on the handstand walk.
Felt it was a little
underwhelming for a big twist.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, it was a little underwhelming.
Was it not originally said
that that was three hundred
feet of running?
No.
I swear that Isabel is two hundred feet.
Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
I don't know.
Right?
Never did I hear it feet?
No.
I don't know.
Definitely not because they
released the behind the
scenes video and there were
like on the runner so you
couldn't even do three
hundred feet on the runner.
So if they did, it was a typo.
But I think it was always
three hundred meters.
I mean that makes more sense
I just I swear I read the
feet and yeah lex this one
was always three hundred
meters yeah four hundred
makes more sense but I mean
either uh jeremy eats world
scuds did castro hint at
adding the distance when you tested
Um, not really.
I know that Rafa tested was
doing four hundred meters
on his first couple rounds
and mid workout.
He changed it to three
hundred for him because I
think he was taking longer.
So I was interested because like my runs,
I mean,
I'm not I'm definitely not the
best runner,
but my runs were very slow at the ranch.
I still did it on the
woodway like they did at the games.
But I was wondering if
maybe that one was kind of
like the air runner issue
where his was calibrated
like to an old system and
then when they got the new
ones at the games they
tested the the distance
again and maybe they were
quicker that was kind of
like the only thing that I
was like maybe that
happened it's total
speculation like I have no
insider info on that but
That was kind of what my
assumption was because to my knowledge,
they had already tested it
a few times when I test it
and they were pretty
certain on the three
hundred meter distance.
And my time was like twenty five, I think,
or twenty four or twenty five, I believe.
So it wasn't super fast.
And that was doing but I was
I did I tested it to forty five.
So I tested it much heavier.
which definitely had an
impact on the whole workout,
just because it's a lot,
you have to brace a lot harder.
You have to break it up more, um,
gets the heart rate a lot higher.
So, um,
but I did know about the final
fifty feet at the end,
just because that was just
a layout thing because
every round they were going
down and back to the
treadmill and then they wanted to finish.
They didn't want them to go
down and back and then have
to turn around and run.
So I did test it with the
full handstand walk length.
So I did a hundred and fifty
on my last lap as well.
There's a lot more in the
chat about the stuff that
happened on the floor.
Again,
we're going to get to that in a second.
A couple of things around the games.
People asked yesterday about the crowds.
I will tell you, under Village,
the line was completely
wrapped around the building
to get under Village today.
Vendors who were very happy
with how things were going as well.
I actually heard that
vendors didn't bring as
much this year after what
happened last year,
and they are running out of
stock because they are much
more crowded than they anticipated.
I've been there too.
Like they have,
I don't know if you saw Scott,
but like on the ceiling,
they have like these cool
like studio lights and it
actually like spells out
CrossFit kind of subtly.
And it was a good vibe in there for sure.
Yeah, it was, I love where it was at.
It was, I mean, one,
it's air conditioned unlike
Wisconsin when you're in a barn.
Everybody kind of brought
their best foot forward.
And I will say it's the best
layout the CrossFit retail
store has ever put up.
You got to get some footage in there.
So I did take some pictures
of the shirts that we
talked about last night.
Yeah.
Cause they're not on the store yet.
Like we can't see them on our end.
So let me pull those up.
Okay.
Um, just like,
it was bummed out to hear
that it wasn't completely connected,
but it's, it's not that far of a walk.
Like,
it felt kind of like,
whereas last year it felt like very far.
And maybe that was cause it
was so hot and whatnot, but it definitely,
even though it wasn't
technically the same building,
it does feel like a more
cohesive experience.
Okay.
Well, this sucks.
Um, I cannot blow it up.
Oh,
Hold on.
Let me try to share this another way.
So I can at least show Pukie.
Sort of worried that this is
like games exclusive merch.
I mean,
I guess depending on what they have left.
Because it's not on their website.
Yeah.
Get you something.
Okay.
Come on.
There we go.
So there's the Pukie shirt.
Oh, is that what Bryson had on?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that is out,
and you see it's got the
full CrossFit logo on it.
Now,
I think they've brought back Forging
Elite Fitness.
That's a flag that you can buy.
Nice.
And it does not say twenty twenty five.
Yeah.
CrossFit Games on it.
This is a CrossFit shirt
with like the metal lettering,
which I thought was kind of
cool and different.
Yep.
Here is, uh,
eat meat and veggies CrossFit.
Oh, that's cute.
That's cool.
Uh, here, here's a shirt.
Yeah.
That's like a new version of it.
Games, twenty,
twenty five CrossFit forging
elite fitness.
And the old routine is the enemy.
Yeah.
So they're,
they're bringing out all the old hits.
Well, hopefully they go online.
The general public would
like some of these.
Well,
a lot of them look like they are
branded to be online and sold year round.
Yeah.
Other than the forging elite
fitness shirt.
That's the only one that
said CrossFit games,
Yeah.
It doesn't take much to,
to like up the merch, you know?
So it's great.
Yeah.
So I thought that was cool.
Uh, inside the arena,
the whole lower bowl was full.
Um, the upper middles were pretty full.
So it was definitely a much
better crowd today than it was yesterday.
Good.
It's good to hear.
Um,
Fergie wants to know if they have
Spartan green.
I did.
I did not see Spartan green.
Oh,
spectator experience,
they could do a little bit
more with the lighting.
And also,
at least the events that I watched,
the DJ was pretty weak.
They before the final heat
of the women for six and seven,
they had some kind of like
almost like not elevator
music but like almost like
very chill music like
serious music for the
athletes like coming up to
the floor which is fine
that's a cool atmosphere
but then they were all like
on their starting mats and
the music was just like so
dead and the crowd was so
dead and I was like they're
about to do like a sprint
workout like you need to
like turn some something
bumping on right now like
it was just like that was
definitely a miss for me I
was like ah I couldn't
because that was such a fun
event to watch so
They could have created a
little bit more of like, okay,
we're about to go, you know.
Larry Young with nine ninety
nine super chat from where we were at.
It's great programming.
Great.
Lots of swings and pop.
Yeah.
Balanced old school merch
full pretty much today.
Albany.
This little square is fine.
Yeah.
The facilities are awesome.
Like,
you look around Albany and
you would not picture the
inside of these facilities
to be as nice as they are.
The amenities for the media
are better than they've been ever.
The, the,
the vendor village is the best
I've ever seen it at the games.
Cause it's indoor.
It looks nice.
It's,
I don't know.
It's just really, and the,
and the venue itself, the,
the arena looks really good inside.
Like the lighting is really good.
The Jumbotron is awesome.
The seats are nice.
It, it just is really good.
And, but we know we're not coming back.
So don't get too attached.
Yeah.
That sort of sucks.
Cause like Allison was saying yesterday,
it takes time to learn the
venue and learn.
And like,
I mean,
it is nice to stay in one place for
a few years and for even
for spectators to learn
restaurants and where they
want to go and just getting around.
Does it look professional?
No, it does.
I think you're muted, Allison.
All of a sudden we can't hear you.
Um, while she's trying to get on.
Um, yeah, it looks professional.
They, they extended the ending,
the landing where you come in to finish.
And, uh,
that makes it even better there too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think she can hear us.
We can't hear her.
She might be doing the out and in thing.
Vicki with a four ninety
nine super chat for a cup
of coffee and a snack or a snack.
Thank you so much.
That would have been so nice today.
Are you making it inside for
the events today or not?
So only I've only made one today,
but the content I'm trying to get,
I just can't get.
And because it's in two
different buildings.
Right.
If I had a team of two,
I could do I could do all this stuff.
Right.
I just, because I'm a team of one,
it's really hard.
Now,
Ishmael is getting me some content
from inside.
So I have a lot of video of
Hattie for that documentary
and stuff like that.
And he, of course,
posting pictures left and right.
You going to try to talk, Allison?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Sorry.
Oh, there.
There it is.
Nope.
Now gone.
You were there, then you were gone.
Jeremy, no,
I have not done any of the workouts.
I was thinking about
possibly doing the run
deadlift TNC walk tomorrow just for fun.
Just for fun.
Although that doesn't look fun at all.
I hope they announce the
twenty twenty-sixth location tomorrow.
Now you have the mute logo
that you're muted, Alison.
There, now try.
Is this working?
Yes.
That is awesome.
Okay, great.
I just ditched the AirPods completely.
There you go.
If they announce the twenty
twenty-sixth location,
It means that the sale is
imminent and that the new
owners are cooperating with
the current owners.
Right.
Yeah.
Just like the open
announcement already being
out for the dates,
just like the new merch
moving into a new owner.
I think that will just tell
a big story if we do hear a new location.
And you were saying for sure
it's not in Albany next year?
Dave said we are not coming
back to Albany.
Oh, wow, okay.
That it's a one-year thing.
Yeah.
And what's funny is the
people... So this was
something I had in my notes.
People from Albany are
telling me that Albany did
nothing to promote the event.
That's not good.
Yeah.
Now the people at the
facility are asking us if
all our needs are being met,
can they do anything more?
which is really cool.
But the fact that like when
you went downtown Madison,
you saw CrossFit everywhere,
not the case here.
Yeah.
I wonder how much of that is
CrossFit versus like the
city of Albany and like how
that kind of whole relationship works.
Cause I would assume it's kind of both,
right?
Yeah.
I would say that's a little
bit of function of,
first year thing I don't
think that they really I
don't think madison on year
one had a ton of buy-in
from the city I think as
the years progressed that
some of the businesses
would start to know you
know they know that weekend
is coming they would prep
menus with extra like
crossfit meals like if it
came back next year albany
might be more prepared yeah
It's interesting that he I didn't watch.
I'm assuming it was like one
of the weekend reviews that
Dave said we're not coming
back to Albany.
That would almost make me
think that they do have a location.
Yeah,
because I feel like if it were up in
the air, like, okay,
it's just a one year contract.
But like,
maybe we'll sign another one year
contract.
But if it was definitely
we're not coming back,
that makes it seem like
they have somewhere else then.
Agreed.
Yeah,
I know for like the age group games
that the people running
that are trying to work
with the city of Columbus
to form a partnership
because they want to stay
there long term.
And so they've been in
negotiations with the city.
community members and the uh
city of commerce chamber of
commerce um to help promote
the events and that's why
they got it we've said on
the show the different
hotels with blocks of rooms
so that they can show what
how many people are coming
to the town for the event
and um and so they can get
that partnership and making
it making it an ongoing um
an ongoing relationship
Which they were late to the
party on announcing that
because so many people
already had hotel rooms
booked in Columbus before
that got announced.
So maybe,
I don't know if these hotels can
ask upon check-in if you're
there for the games and
maybe tally it somehow after the fact,
because they're going to
miss out on a ton of
numbers with the way they
did it this year.
Yeah.
If you are going to Columbus,
I got some recommendations.
Definitely,
definitely check out North Star Cafe,
Jenny's Ice Cream, Brown Bag Deli,
and CrossFit Grandview.
Those are some of my...
CrossFit Grandview?
CrossFit Polaris.
That's like thirty minutes
from the convention center.
It is.
Even people that ask me,
I'm not even recommending that.
Yeah.
I see.
It's not CrossFit Polaris anymore though,
right?
It is.
Oh, okay.
I thought they renamed it.
no um the christy and
patrick sold it yeah and
they're old-time members
who bought it so they have
kept it all crossfit
polaris okay they never
really switched they called
it training center but it
was still crossfit polaris
okay well I thought they
changed it to like
community fitness polaris
like it was like cfp or
something I don't think it
ever got to that point I
got you okay let's see
It is a great gym also.
Jeremy says it'll go
overseas too much flying back and forth.
Dave specifically said it
like probably in two years,
it's going overseas.
That's what he said.
Yeah, I agree.
I think it's a mistake personally,
but I don't, maybe that was,
maybe he knows something
with the new owners that
they want to push the
Europe scene and that's,
that's on the plan.
One of the best crowds I ever competed in,
though, was Brazil.
CrossFit.
Jenny's is a chain now,
but it originated in Columbus.
Yeah.
Get your facts straight.
CrossFit.
Jenny's is basically in
every possible games.
Not the original.
Come on.
It's not in Albany.
No, it's not.
It's not in Las Vegas?
I've never heard of it.
It's not here in Michigan.
Bramble Berry Crunch.
And the goat cheese with red cherries.
Peanut Almond Brittle.
They have the wackiest flavors.
They are in Whole Foods.
Snackrelidge.
Grater's Beats Jenny's.
That's an L take.
All right.
That's Cincinnati versus Columbus.
Graders is Cincinnati.
Jenny's is Columbus.
Anything else I have?
Yeah, I think that's all the notes I had.
So we hit the floor this
morning with event four
where they did the twist,
and we had some running,
we had some deadlifts,
and we had some handstand walks.
Let's talk about the women first.
Okay.
Because someone stared down
the champ and said, let's go.
She sure did.
And I had goosebumps.
That's like someone going up
to Tiger Woods on a Sunday and saying,
let's rumble.
You know,
there was a fifteen year period
where that never happened.
And Lucy Campbell went head
to head with the goat and she won.
Did she actually say that to Tia,
or you're just saying by her performance?
By her performance.
Okay.
I was like,
I want to see that footage of
her going up to Tia and be like,
you and me.
That would be epic.
She forced Tia's hand to go
early on a handstand walk
and miss a handstand walk.
When was the last time you saw Tia miss?
I mean, I will say...
If there was an event.
Don't ruin my vibe.
Dan's handstand walking is
the event Tia doesn't win.
All the time.
That's where you see
Danielle Brandon or
somebody else beat Tia.
It's no surprise that she
didn't win this one.
I'd say with the amount of running,
that was surprising to me.
I mean, yes,
it was a lot of handstand walking, but
you just think tia like with
her high rocks you know
like stent that she's been
on it's like she could make
up so much time on those
runs but lucy beat her on
the deadlifts yeah she beat
her by going unbroken on
every set of deadlifts
that's incredible and
that's what forced tia to
do more handstand walking faster right
Well,
I would say it was probably heavy
enough on deadlifts.
It didn't need to be heavier.
It didn't need to change to
a heavy deadlift workout.
Yeah.
I thought that workout
looked boring on paper.
But like Dave always says,
it's not about the programming.
It's about letting the athlete shine.
Yep.
And that's what that workout did.
I agree.
The athletes made that workout.
Yeah.
I sort of expected Danielle
Brandon to be a little higher.
Really?
I did.
She has not done well on a
handstand walk workout in a couple years.
It's almost like she's saying,
I don't want to be predictable.
I don't know if I agree.
I don't know about that.
I think when you have your thing,
you want it to be your thing.
Like, yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe.
She just hasn't dominated
like she did in the past.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But the ones that she's
dominated have been, like, a heavy, like,
it's only handstand walking.
Like, the obstacle,
the year where they had the row,
kettlebell, long distance, like...
that that's where she can
really make up her time.
And like, I think in a workout like that,
I, you know,
wasn't paying super close attention,
but I would imagine that
most athletes are just breaking it up,
being smart.
And like,
you're not going to really make
up that much time on a handstand walk.
Like, yes,
if you're more efficient and
competent at the handstand walking,
it's going to take less
energy and that's going to, you know,
compound and help you get
through the event faster.
But yeah,
And especially these days,
like everybody's good at
handstand walking now.
The field is catching up.
Yeah.
So that workout changed the
leader's jersey.
Yeah.
Chase kept saying the first
time since two thousand eighteen.
That is not true.
It's not true.
It was twenty two.
Yeah.
After the skill medley.
I sent a note to the podcast
to say it was actually Mal
O'Brien took over the jersey.
It was Emma Lawson, then Mal O'Brien,
then she got it back after the Capitol.
Yes.
I went back through all the
video footage to see when
she had it on and when she didn't.
So for two events,
she did not wear the
leader's jersey in twenty two.
Yeah.
And
I sent a note to the barbell spin.
Hey, get this to Chase.
Tell him to stop saying twenty eighteen.
Set him straight.
Yeah.
Sounds so much cooler, though.
Yeah, it does.
But yeah,
it was because you remember in twenty two,
like everybody was shocked
when she got cut on the
first round of the skill
medley because she couldn't
do a single under single unders.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember.
Larry Young.
Oh my gosh.
This is actually Larry Young saying this.
I need to check ID.
It's funny.
I heard a few people say
deadlifts could have been heavier.
Probably Larry,
but it played out pretty good.
Shocker.
Shocker how that works.
I'm always like,
I know that I'm not the
only person that they had
test set events too,
but I was kind of nervous that I was like,
Oh, maybe I'm just like weak, you know,
like,
cause like I did it at two forty
five and it was very hard
and I had to break up every
set substantially.
And I was like, I don't know.
I just kind of feel like the
deadlifts were a little too heavy.
And just with the axle bar,
it's a little bit, you know,
it's kind of like not the
same percentages as a regular bar.
um and then you know when
you hear everyone
criticizing you're kind of
like oh maybe I'm just like
maybe I just suck at
deadlifts and they
shouldn't have changed it
you know but it was it
looked like a better
workout how it how it
played out today I every
single woman except for
Lucy broke up the deadlift
yeah if it would if it was
too light people would have
that people would have been
crushing yeah exactly it wasn't too light
Especially, you know,
considering how many events
they've done already.
Yes.
Why is it called the Woodway?
I was expecting it to look
like it was made out of a piece of wood.
I don't know why the brand is that.
Yeah.
Maybe the original, they were actually,
I think the original curved treadmill.
Um,
and maybe their first prototype was
made out of wood.
Cause they are kind of like slats.
Right.
Right.
But they're the current day
ones are made out of like rubber.
Yeah, it is the brand.
I don't know.
It could be someone's last name too.
I don't even know.
Uh, just not get Jersey till day two.
That's not correct.
You can go back and watch the video.
She has the Jersey on.
She won the first event,
which was bike to work.
And then she lost the jersey
on the fourth event,
which was the skill medley.
She did not get it back
during Elevated Elizabeth.
And then she finally took it
back after the Capitol.
I thought Haley won bike
tour because she had a
leader's jersey for the first time.
Okay.
But Tia does have it on in
the event before the skill medley.
Or she has it on in the skill medley.
Okay.
I went back and watched
those events over again to
see when she had the jersey on.
You can pull them all up on YouTube.
Yeah.
What I did notice is the
younger girls were stronger
than the old guard.
It wasn't me, Scott.
I told you give me one rep
max to balance things out.
Things...
do wtf you want the rest and
I'll never complain I'm
just giving you a hard time
larry uh trish heard that
the woodway was made of
douglas fur all right trish
all right so on the other
side of the house we also
had um we also had
a changing of the Leisure's jersey,
and someone get it for the
first time in his career,
and that's Jay Crouch,
who dominated this event.
Yeah, he did.
Incredible.
When I saw his time was like,
sixteen-something, I was like, what?
That's nuts.
It's crazy.
And he had such a lead, he could stop,
look both ways,
make sure that he kept the lead.
Almost.
He almost got beat by
walking across the freaking finish line.
He knew what he was doing.
I don't know.
I don't think anyone was coming.
Yeah.
Don't read all that.
They went down.
I can't see it.
jay almost hot dogged yeah
it yeah it was not I was
like oh my god get across I
mean even like judge is
like go yeah I I saw his
judge go like you have to
cross yeah yeah um so that
was pretty cool
Then we moved into Jamie's
favorite event of the weekend,
which is the one rep max back squat.
This was truly my favorite.
How?
How can it not be?
To see that little dude get
under that bar and walk
back with five hundred and
seventy pounds and drop
into a squat and back up
like I have six hundred in me.
Yeah.
I specifically said if it's
just a three-rep attempt
back squat situation like normal,
it's going to be dumb.
I mean, sure,
it's cool to see Colton hit that weight.
It's cool to see Annika and
Miriam hit those weights.
But, like, out of the women, I'd say only,
like,
three women even hit their third weight.
Everyone failed their third weight.
You left out Jennifer Muir,
who won the damn thing.
Oh,
Jennifer Muir hit the same way as Anika
though.
Hot take.
I think Anika has the stronger back squat.
She finished and I was like,
why didn't you go heavier?
It looked so easy compared to Miriam's.
Hers was amazing too, but I was just like,
oh my gosh,
Anika had like twenty more
pounds in there.
It would look so easy.
And then did you see Rebecca Devine?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, and that looked easy.
Unbelievable.
Oh, my God.
She attempted four.
Did she?
I missed that one.
She backed off the rep with
four hundred pounds.
That alone is amazing.
Yeah.
Did the boys have to start
lower than her top attempt?
They let her go first and
then strip the bar.
no so I don't the first guy
lifted what she finished
with okay that's so badass
that's so badass yeah five
seventies freakish try
moving that off the rack
yeah listen I've gotten
four seventy five off the
rack and I can tell you it
was it was hellish hard I
can't even imagine a hundred more pounds
Yes, Jeff.
Rebecca Devine is teams.
CrossFit Hendersonville.
They're the other Mayhem
team that had to go.
They were like last minute one, right?
Yeah, they're the ones who didn't... Yeah,
they got called in because
of the... I don't even know
what happened.
But yeah,
they're the ones that worked out.
I think it was a failed drug test.
Yeah, I think so.
It was someone got hurt and
they didn't name a sub.
They only named four people.
It was out of...
Yeah, it was out of Norway.
Yes.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
But, yeah,
they're typically the second Mayhem team,
but they couldn't have two Mayhem teams,
so they had to go to the
neighboring affiliate.
I see.
Did you see this?
Denise really enjoyed Alex's
commentary during the back squad event.
I liked her kickback to
Chase when he asked what it
– Brooke felt like being
out there for the last time,
and she's like, I don't know.
I have never retired before.
That's a good response.
Who was doing the commentary?
Alex Kazan.
Oh,
I didn't know she was doing that today.
That's awesome.
She just did heat one and
two of the women's squats.
Yeah.
And her response was what?
I don't know.
I've never retired before.
I love Alex.
Okay.
James Sprague looks like
he's going to herniate his
back and shoot a hemorrhoid
out every time he back squats.
That is an accurate description.
That's exactly what I look like squatting.
And just looking in a mirror
with far more plates than
what I would have.
Got to work with what you got.
Yeah.
James Sprague is performing good mornings,
not back squats.
I'm well aware.
Yep.
OK.
So I thought it was a fun event.
I didn't really like the format,
as we've talked about on the show.
I think tiebreakers can be
an exciting element to the games.
And if they would have had a
way to climb a ladder and
then have tiebreakers for
everybody at the same weight,
I think that would have
been a lot more fun.
Yeah, especially on the,
I didn't fully dive into
the leaderboard on the men's side,
but the women,
there was a lot of
bottlenecks right around
three Oh five to two ninety.
And so I think there was
like ten plus people in those weights.
And so if they had something,
I think it looked like they
scored them tiebreaker on
the attempt that they took.
So if you attempted three hundred first,
but then failed the rest, you, I guess,
won the tiebreaker.
Huh.
Versus like working up to three hundred.
okay so what I heard was
from athletes is that the
tiebreaker was your second
lift that's what I had
heard if you didn't have a
second lift it went to your
first lift yeah okay that's
good to know but like
annika and annika and
jennifer muir did the same
three weights the entire
way through so they tied
then yeah yeah um
Yeah.
I love when they have like the little,
like, you know,
sandbags over the yoke or
like something like little sprint off,
like, like they've done in years past.
I think that makes it really, it's like a,
you know,
workout within the workout to
make it more exciting.
Yeah.
And in the clean,
they did like a clean and jerk runoff in,
uh, in.
Yeah.
And they've done like the
touch and go cleans too.
They had the one year.
Yeah.
So that would have been fun,
but it was a good event.
Again, I could quibble with the format,
but it was still fun to watch.
I got excited.
I do like that they had
people go one at a time, though.
They've typically done that in the past,
but, you know,
when you look at something like WFP, like,
yes, the athletes got a lot more attempts,
but it was just, like, a lot going on to,
like,
instead of just kind of focusing on
one at a time.
Allison looking a lot like
Shailene Woodley tonight.
thank you I think I think
that's yeah I would I would
take that as a compliment
thank you um so we finished
the back squat and then we
went into probably the most
exciting event of the night
and I didn't foresee this
to be that way but it
really did turn out well um
I love the box jump box jump overs
three at a time,
boxes the whole way down the floor.
It tells the story so much
better than in past years,
but it was a back-to-backer.
The first one was ski erg
into chest-to-bar,
into the burpees down the
floor with a weight vest on.
Strip the weight vest,
come back to concept two bike,
bar muscle-ups, burpees down the floor.
this thing shook up the
leaderboard tremendously
tremendously so if you
thought the one rep max
squat was going to shake it
up because it's um single
modality this shook it all
right back to where fitness was king
Yep.
Especially with the recovery aspect.
Um,
I also thought it was cool that we
didn't see, uh, any repeat winners, um,
just showcasing that, like,
that they were different
enough to reward different
athletes and also the
recovery aspects and
different strategies that
you could take as an athlete.
Like,
am I going to just send it and see
what happens?
Or am I going to like leave
a little bit still on the tank?
So I heard a male athlete
tell a female athlete after
they went that the first
one doesn't get you tired
as tired as you think it will push it.
Totally different workouts for the women.
Very different.
I will say that is my big
complaint with this was the
difference in workouts
between the men and the women.
I,
either the calories needed
to be less or the time cap
needed to be longer.
So they had a little bit longer rest.
I didn't, I didn't like it.
Yeah.
The woman that was told that
did well in both.
Oh, there you go.
I think that was one of the
most interesting things of
the day for me.
Yeah.
Is the amount of talking
between the men and the
women in between events.
And it wasn't camp camp.
Exclusive.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, that's cool.
I've never been in the warmup area before.
This is like my first time.
Right.
So I'm seeing these things
that probably Alison has seen before,
but it just seems like, Hey,
these two people are
friends and they're sharing
a lot of information back and forth.
Yeah.
Even though they're in separate camps.
Yeah,
it can definitely be helpful if you
know who you're talking to as well.
But a lot of the times if I
hear advice from somebody
who doesn't know me as an athlete,
I'm just, I kind of just like, okay,
thanks.
Like, yeah, it's so...
specific athlete driven but
also it's a different type
like different types of
athletes I think also like
I'm a very like I know what
my strategy is and maybe to
a fault even you know maybe
I like pace it too much or
like have too much of a
strategy versus like kind
of letting it rip sometimes but
Yeah,
I remember actually one of my
previous semifinal event
level events that I competed at.
I was in one of the first
heats and someone in the top heat,
a very well-known games athlete, asked me,
was like,
what pace do you think I should bike at?
And I was like,
What?
We don't know each other at all.
I'm like, don't you know your paces?
I don't know.
I can tell you what I did,
but you're probably going
to be faster than that.
So that just kind of blew my
mind five minutes before the workout.
Oh, what pace do you think I should do?
Yeah.
Uh, Jeff Bako says,
can you comment on how DB's
interaction with the other athletes was?
I saw nothing out of the
ordinary in her interaction
with other athletes.
No,
she was just like everybody else back
there.
And no,
I didn't see the gooch and I didn't
see cash backstage.
No,
she's as focused as every other athlete
getting coached by, um, more not Adam,
but the other one.
Um,
of Justin's coaches.
But the glasses, I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jesse.
Yeah.
Jesse.
Yep.
Yeah.
She's getting coached more by Jesse and,
um,
and that they seem to have a nice
working relationship and
everything seems peachy
keen and all the other,
and she's chatting with the
other athletes on the bike
while they're warming up on
the bikes and whatever, nothing,
nothing out of the ordinary to report.
I will say like the one
thing I've learned is before an event,
the focus is through the roof,
like getting any kind of
interaction with an athlete
for the press is very hard.
It is much better to get it
after the event is over and
talk to them on a cool down bike.
Yeah.
And then they're very amenable to tell,
talk and tell a story and whatever.
Yeah, that's probably why, I mean,
a lot of people have
commented on Lauren
Khalil's interviews and
that she's getting a lot.
And honestly,
the not having the enhanced
access may have saved her
because she's getting them
on their way back from
events and when they're
more willing to talk and she isn't.
Yeah, in a way,
it's nice to not be in their space.
They will be more willing to
speak to you if you aren't bothering them
And you don't get on their nerves.
Yeah.
And most of the people back there,
back with the enhanced
access are doing more than one thing.
They're doing more than just interviewing.
So like they're splitting time with,
with different stuff and moving around.
Yeah.
I have other comments,
but I'm going to keep them to myself.
Did you watch six and six and seven,
Live or on the TV?
I was live right at the finish line.
You both watched it live?
On the TV.
You watched it?
I watched it on the TV.
And you thought it was good?
I did.
I did.
I thought it was terrible coverage.
I didn't say the coverage
was good I said the event
was good but you but you
could barely like I know
exactly what you're talking
about like when they would
show the floor you're like
man this is going to be
awesome but they kept
zooming in on one athlete
and you couldn't even see
the race on the floor you
didn't even know who was
ahead on burpee box jump
overs and you're like this
is a perfectly laid out
floor for a yeah for a side
view and to see people it was awful
I was talking with Lex this morning,
and they've gone back to
the same old coverage where
they just show the top person,
maybe a split screen if it's a close race,
and then you don't see any
of the other athletes until
those are off the floor.
And then you have to see
them laying on the ground
for five seconds before
they go back to the... Exactly.
Yeah.
So frustrating.
I will never like that coverage.
I don't understand why they
won't change that.
I don't understand how they
can think that's good
coverage and how that's
exciting for people to watch.
Yes, I'm watching the zone.
Nobody likes it, Andrew.
It's zero, one hundred,
maybe one ninety nine.
Andy has it right.
Love the event layout coverage was ass.
Yep.
And then just right.
You,
then you get to see the athlete that
finishes dead last more
than anyone else since
they're the last on the floor.
Yeah.
Um, at AI says, Allie,
tell your cat to calm down.
What do you mean?
There was someone banging on
one of somewhere.
Oh, sorry.
I was just moving my chair.
Oh.
My cat's not here, sadly.
I wish that she was.
They were missing people
coming up the outside lanes
and confusing athletes.
They missed a couple
completely that overtook the lead.
And even the ticker at top
said they took over the lead,
and they still didn't move
off the center lane.
Yeah,
I think definitely for the – I can
see why they do that
coverage in some events, but, like,
because you want to get the
– you do want to have the up-closes and,
like, get to really, like,
see the athletes.
But especially something
that's really short and
fast down the lane,
it's like you almost need, like,
a drone cam or, like,
just a sideline just, like,
following the leader, but, like,
so you can still see the floor.
Yeah.
um because that was a really
cool component of watching
it live is like you could
see they were right next to
each other and you could
see if somebody was gaining
on somebody because of how
fast they were like
advancing yeah it was
really great in person
Now you're just starting to piss me off,
Andrew.
Yeah.
I trust people who have
decades of experience in production.
It's only been one company
they have ever used.
There's been no threat to
them ever not being the
production company for the
CrossFit Games.
If you go back to twenty
thirteen and you turn it on,
you can't tell the
difference in the coverage then to today.
Every other sport you turn on coverage,
it has advanced.
It has gotten better.
Things around it have gotten better.
Hell,
they didn't even change the graphics
for ten years.
It is ass.
They have done nothing to improve it.
Nothing.
And I don't need to be an expert.
I'm a viewer.
I'm a watcher.
I can tell you it sucks.
I watch other sports.
They don't suck.
Yeah,
I will say I did get to get a little
peek behind the broadcast
curtain last year.
I was in their like control
rooms and it's an amazing
thing to watch for sure.
And those people like are
very good at their jobs,
but it almost seems like a
stylistic type of thing.
Like you're saying, Scott,
like they have this like
formula and they stick to it and
Yeah, I don't know.
I was just trying that whole time to, like,
brainstorm, like, what is that?
What is the reasoning, you know?
Because you hear that a lot
from the people that watch.
And, yeah, it's interesting.
I would love to talk to Rafi about that.
Yeah.
Well,
and part of my hope was the WFP would
do something about that, right?
And I understand what you're
saying about people want to see –
closer action I'm okay with
a two or a three shot for a
while I hate when they go
to a one shot yep so just
give me the couple lanes
beside the person yeah
along with the person don't
just give me the one person
Right.
Which they, you know, it's,
there's a time and a place.
Allie's right.
Like that,
that three minute event to spend
thirty seconds on one
person and you've lost, which they did.
Like, seriously, I'm like,
we're going to miss the
entire finish here.
I don't need thirty seconds
of one person on a three minute event.
When it's the eighteen minute event,
if you want to spend twenty,
thirty seconds on somebody, totally fine.
Yep.
Yeah,
and that's where they can sometimes
tell the story of an athlete.
They have it on them and they're like, oh,
this is Brooke Wells.
She's competed ten times, blah, blah,
blah.
Give a little background and
story of the athletes,
which I think is a great part.
But it's like they almost
need a dynamic approach.
It reminds me a lot, actually, of...
the crossfit um kind of like
their no rep policy where
it's like certain no reps
and events are much more
costly than others so you
can't just have like a
blanket statement much like
you can't just have a
blanket broadcast it's like
okay this is you know and
maybe they have like two or
three templates okay this
is like a longer event so
we are going to tell those
longer stories get in depth
And this is a fast event.
So we're going to like do
mostly zoomed out shots, show the leader,
but like also show the race
because that's what makes
this event super exciting.
Yeah.
And CrossFit has taken that
feedback and now they have
different penalties and
kind of like standards for
different types of no reps.
And I think that was a really good change.
Yeah.
Agree,
a double under is not the same as a
rope line.
Yeah, exactly.
You can though, Scott.
There's clock and rep
counters on the floor.
There's ticker across the
top of the screen.
The last few years we never had.
There's always been rep
counters at the top of the screen.
Go back to twenty fourteen.
There were rep counters at
the top of the screen then.
The rep counters on the
floor are not broadcast.
They are there in the arena
for the people watching live.
It's okay to say something needs improved.
It needs improved.
There can be a better
watching experience than
what we have today.
There can be.
I do think the rep counters on the floor,
though, were a nice touch this year.
I know they've done those in
certain events,
but it seems like they're
really utilizing those this year.
They used them for the pack squats.
They used them for the team pegboard event,
too, which was really nice.
I could not agree more.
I thought that added so much to the floor,
having them on everything.
You got to see the meters run.
You got to see the scales on the machines.
The made weight and the
attempted weight on the back squat,
I thought it added so much,
so much to the floor.
Yeah.
Kudos to whoever came up with that idea.
So anyway, that's that.
At the end of the day,
let's look at the
leaderboards real quick.
Okay.
Give you your top five.
On the men's side, James Hopper,
Jason Hopper.
Gosh.
Jason Hopper has the
leader's jersey again.
He had it, lost it, got it back.
Ricky Garrard made it mad
ground to be in second.
James Sprague is in third.
Justin Medeiros in fourth.
And Jay Crouch sitting in fifth,
with Dallin Pepper sneaking
up behind by five points in sixth.
The points were very close, like,
all the way down to eighth, really.
Like,
just like people were kind of predicting,
like, those top ten,
it could be anybody's
tomorrow with those events.
And I think Harry
Lightfoot's the only one in
there that wasn't in everyone's top ten.
Yeah.
Right.
He kind of struggled on
those last two events tonight,
but I don't know how much
that swung his points, but...
On the women's side,
Tia Clare Toomey got back
her leader's jersey.
Lucy Campbell, though,
is sitting in second.
Tia does have a sixty point lead,
fifty nine point lead.
Ariel Lowen is in fourth or third,
and she is.
Almost one hundred points
behind Lucy Campbell.
That's crazy.
That's insane.
Yeah.
Lucy Campbell and Tia are
running away from with this.
Miriam Von Roer is eight
points behind Ariel.
Amy Kringle sits in fifth,
just one point behind Miriam.
And Maddie Sturt sitting in sixth.
Yeah.
I was really impressed with Maddie today.
I mean, she's an amazing athlete,
obviously,
but she is a little bit on the
smaller side,
and I wasn't sure how she
would do in the back squat,
but she put up a really big number,
and she's just –
Good at everything.
She is extremely raw.
She's kind of like Jay.
Yeah.
Yep.
Did you guys see the real I
put out of Maddie watching
Jay on the screen?
Oh yes.
That was adorable.
That's adorable.
I love it.
And did you see the comment?
Do you get one of Jason and Dale?
Yeah.
If they could watch each other,
that would be amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The problem is they're on
the floor at the same time.
They'd have to stop working
out to look at each other.
Yeah.
All right.
Do we want to hit teams
before we head out?
I know Savon's live.
So we lost.
Yeah.
A decent, well, not,
we lost a third of our audience,
but we still have two thirds here.
What?
Yeah.
I want to,
I have not seen the finish of the teams.
I don't know what the leader.
Yeah.
So really close race for the podium.
Oh yeah.
Is Oslo in first?
yep but I believe that I
don't have it in front of
me but are they tied for
points scott or it's very
close five five point
difference yeah mayhem and
krieger oh mayhem oslo
mayhem and then butcher's
lab and then butcher's lab
okay yeah yeah and they
just um they don't have their uh they
don't have their final event
for tomorrow yet.
But Dave posted on his story
like a behind the scenes of
the teams doing lunges.
The team is thinking that
they're going to have lunges.
Worm lunges?
It was literally just people's feet,
but it looked like it was
worm lunges because they
were all on the line.
You know what I mean?
Okay.
He posted like a little teaser.
I see he put out the event ten, which is
Oh, right.
That event is out now.
Okay.
Yeah.
So do you think teams is
like basically the same
instead of the finish of
the overhead walking lunge?
There's a lunge to finish with the worm,
but they have to also do
I mean,
they have done overhead worm lunges
in the past.
Gross.
I have no intel of the team competition.
I just did the individual testing,
but it seems like the team
events have trended this
year as being very similar
to the individual events.
so I wouldn't be surprised
if they had some sort of
synchro thruster rope climb
and then a lunge maybe even
an overhead lunge with the
worm to finish it off I
would even like to see that
just like rope climb and
lunge a lunge thruster yeah
yeah maybe yeah that would
that would actually make
more sense to do worm
thruster and then you know
lunge it down the field or
whatever yeah I think that'd be great
They haven't done any burpees yet either,
so that could be a possible
wrench in the difference in the workout.
Yeah.
I could see that.
Bless you.
Thank you.
That final event is so fun, though.
Oh, yeah.
Especially ending with that lunge.
Ace ending reps.
Gross.
Yeah.
Yep.
Ooh.
Three, five, seven, rope climbs, nine,
fifteen, twenty-one, thruster,
hundred foot overhead
walking lunge to finish.
Yep.
You know Dave has to have
his march at the end.
I know.
Yep.
I think it'll be a exciting
day for teams and
individuals tomorrow just with chances.
On a team side, they have a lot of,
the first event is very CrossFit-y.
They have the four-person deadlift bar,
which is always fun.
It's a cool visual on the floor.
They have big chunks of handstand walking,
which in the past has been
a really big shakeup for the teams.
So that'll be interesting.
I don't think they know
exactly the format of that
because they get briefed in the morning.
So it'll be interesting to see, like,
they had the one year where
they all had to kind of go
in the same order and you
had to go unbroken.
So I could see them doing
something similar to that,
which could really shake up
the field more.
And then, yeah,
if we get some sort of like
burner with the worm,
especially we saw the teams
today with those clean and jerk jerk,
which was like a new movement,
you can just tell the
difference in the teams
that have experience in
that and how much of a
difference that makes in
their efficiency and how
well they perform on those events.
And just to reiterate how close it is,
kreiger is at four eighty
mayhem four seventy five
butchers lab four sixty
five whoo who's in fourth
and then it's crossfit
franco's imam company they
are forty five points
behind okay and fourth so
it really does look like a
three-team race and
something unless something crazy happens
There could be some, I mean,
those three teams are very
solid and they're in first,
second and third for a reason.
But we've seen crazier things happen,
especially with a high scale movement,
like a long handstand walk,
especially if it's got to be unbroken.
There can be a lot of shakeups there.
And the team field is just
very competitive this year
with only twenty teams.
So I know the Franco squad there.
They're legit.
I know I know a few of them
and they're they're right there.
They've been doing great all weekend.
And yesterday's leader, Campbell City,
is still in fifth.
Okay.
I think they did last on the back squat.
That was tough.
They are sixty-five points out of first.
Everybody else is way more
than a hundred points out.
Yeah.
So it's really going to come
down to those five teams.
Any others?
I really want to see Tola
get his gold medal.
So that's what I'm rooting for.
Do you know what Tola hit on a squat?
I didn't even like see him.
I don't know.
I know Griffin did a four sixty five.
Five sixty five.
Sorry, five sixty five.
I keep getting the hundred
pound marker messed up for
the men and the women.
Yeah, I did.
Griffin's.
Yeah.
Griffin had more in the tank.
They just were rushing to
get that last lift in.
And that's probably all they
could get on there.
Yeah.
It was very chaotic for the team format.
They were like, five minutes to go.
Yeah.
How about totally getting
his gold medal and Kristen
Holta helping him do it?
Pretty epic.
I find it interesting that
they keep talking about Oslo like a
I don't know what they've been saying.
A Norwegian team has never
won or whatever.
But then, I mean,
they keep talking about them,
but they fail to mention
that it's taken bringing an
American to the team to get
them in this position.
And it's like,
maybe you should stop
talking about it because it doesn't.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's weird.
Jamie always defending us.
All the top teams are mixed,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
There's no true grassroots affiliate teams,
really.
There might be some.
I don't know for sure,
but I'd say more teams than
not are some kind of super team,
whether somebody's moved
there or like Raf's team,
they travel in for, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's pretty much all I have today.
There are more vignettes out
there for the members.
I talked with, who did I talk to today?
Nick Matthew after the back squat.
I talked to, or no,
I talked to Nick before the back squat.
I talked to your guy, Tudor Magda,
after the back squat.
I talked to Braun,
which is always an
interesting conversation.
He's great.
because I interviewed him
last year for the masters
games and this year, and he's like,
he's just over the moon
that as a master's aged athlete,
he's out there on the floor
and he just wants to finish
better than twenty seven,
which is where he finished
last time he went to the games.
OK.
But he it's a good one.
And then I did talk to the AFJ today.
about what they're trying to do,
how they're trying to
tighten up so little things
don't bog them down.
So we had a nice conversation about that.
And those will all be live
to everybody tomorrow.
Basically,
I'm not even following the
twenty-four hour rule.
It is as I get a new one,
I put the new one in members only,
and I take the last one of
the members out to the
public as I do it from now on.
Uh, CrossFit,
I did ask if their L ones
were up to date and what
they were doing to prove
that all of their app,
their judges are L ones are
up to date whenever they do
a competition.
Now they actually post all
the certifications on the
wall with the names of the
judges on it so that they
see the spelling and can
actually type it into the
database correctly.
Cause CrossFit doesn't have a,
a dropdown list anymore.
Right.
That's a good idea.
Should print those certificates.
They actually hired a
secretary who is taking
that and making a database of everything.
And they're doing their own
reminders now to their
judges when their L-Ones
are due to expire.
That's good.
We actually talk a lot about
like the goals of getting
more entrenched with
CrossFit HQ and having a
database for CrossFit to
have who are certified judges,
who are good ones to have
come in and do things.
And they say they're working on all that.
Now,
hopefully that continues with the new
ownership.
So.
Uh, no.
And I,
I don't want to ask them what their
favorite color is.
Although, uh,
Jules that I interviewed with them,
she brought me a red velvet
cheesecake cookie.
Oh, did she get that somewhere on site?
She made it herself.
She is, she is a known like chef, uh,
level cook and baker it was
so rich oh my gosh but it
was tasted so good that's
one thing I think they're
missing out a little bit is
the food situation on site
I wish they had more better food options
Although I had a slice of pizza today,
and it was pretty good.
Is it just, like, normal concession food?
Normal concession food.
And then outside they have, like,
the Asian punch bowls, which were fine.
One of the concessions today I had was,
like, tacos, which was fine.
But I just feel like they
have a missed opportunity there.
Like,
I remember they had a couple
specialized vendors in Madison,
and they were, like, such good food.
And they were always super busy.
Yeah.
It did.
It had white chocolate on the outside,
just so you know.
Still talking about this cookie.
She told me she bribed you
with it to get the interview.
We actually set up the interview.
He doesn't deny it.
In Vendor Village,
they did have like a yogurt stand.
which was a little bit different.
You could just get like
literally a cup of yogurt
that you would buy at the store.
They just had it available
like as a vending thing.
And I know some of the press
people were eating that as
opposed to the other options available.
So, all right.
Yeah,
forget that Allie talked about
Jenny's ice cream earlier.
Yeah, they need an ice cream place.
I'd be hitting that up.
I've, I've definitely been in a,
as a spectator,
I've definitely been in a calorie deficit,
which is not good for me.
So I got to kind of get the
calories in somehow.
They have the acai bowls at least.
Yes, they do have the acai bowls,
but I think only one vendor
and it's outside.
Like they don't have a
little cart on the inside.
Like they moved it.
Yeah.
You've got to go like back
and forth so much anyway.
You're outside, inside, outside, inside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Well, with that,
Andrew's going to bring
graders up to Columbus.
We have those.
They have them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We don't need you to bring us other.
Actually, graders is actually.
We don't need your graders.
Graders is pretty good, but it is not.
It is good.
Agreed.
Jenny's is a little creamier.
in my opinion um with that
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on earth are and team I bet
you and team and I bet you
the woman is either tia or lucy
Oh, it's not losing that at this point.
She's far enough ahead,
especially with the workouts tomorrow.
Like push up line.
Like she's so good at those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
Have a good night.
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