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Welcome to,

I don't know what we're calling

this thing.

We're wrapping up live from

the CrossFit Games.

We have a special guest in the house.

Allison Scuds is with us.

And she's going to hang out

with us for the next little

bit to wrap up today's events.

Super excited about that.

But yeah, what a crazy, crazy day.

crazy day ally you you just

got here like yesterday yep

I got in last night man

this morning was insane we

were given instructions

yesterday we went to get

credentials and we were

given instructions and we

weren't allowed to see

anything so they had like a

picture of stuff

and said, you're going to go here,

and you're going to go there.

Couldn't find any of it this morning.

Oh, no.

Couldn't find any of it.

Finally found... Whenever

they move the games,

it's like relearning the lay of the land,

right?

Like,

it's going to take everybody a couple

days to finally, like, get it.

Yeah,

it's... And the media room and the

athlete area is in a

separate building from the arena, right?

So you have to walk a block

and a half away or

something like that to get

to the athlete area and the press area.

And we finally found it this morning,

finally got in.

And then like, I didn't know what,

I know what enhanced access means,

but I didn't know how to get it,

get to it.

And by the time I figured it out today,

like the day was almost over.

Oh, so I'm ready for tomorrow.

Yeah.

I'm ready for tomorrow, but tonight.

Yeah.

So there's already a bunch

of stuff in the chat.

Um, the first thing I wanted to throw out,

did you guys see the open

and out the open dates are

already announced?

I did.

No, I missed that end of February.

which is what it always is.

That's not the surprise, right?

The surprise is, there's a pending sale.

And yet they announced the

open announcement.

Yes.

Yeah.

So is there more

synchronicity with the new owners?

And what is there?

that we can actually

announce a date like that?

You got to think, right?

The open is not going away.

That's always a good sign.

But we've never had it

announced this early.

That's true.

I just, I found that bizarre.

It's just one of those

things that make you say, hmm.

Well,

maybe this group and team of people

they put together is going

to get timing right and

communication right.

Yeah.

Do you see, Scott,

do you see that in any

world being not a positive

thing that they've

announced it so early or

you're just comfortable?

think it's a good thing they

announced it early and I

hope it foretells that the

new ownership is a move in

the right direction I agree

yeah that's what jimmy says

it's like those are some

pain points you know that

we've all heard over the

years and it's like okay

they're they're kind of

like setting a good foot

before they even officially

put their foot in so

Yeah, so cool, wow, love Scuds.

Fergie, Allison, my aim is true.

George Wang with the jokes.

They had to announce the

open dates before WFP

announced their dates.

I mean,

it's better to get those dates out

there so there isn't overlap.

and you claim the dates you

want yeah there are rumors

that wfp has announced

their tour stop one it's in

spain and it's two weeks

after the open geez after

the last week of the open

I'm assuming correct okay

which that's a rumor I

don't have confirmation I

saw it from spin somewhere

so I don't know how much to

how much stock to fully put in that yet

But I just thought that was

something that made you say, hmm.

Agreed.

Before we get into too much, another thing,

I'm uploading a reel right

now with Phil Muscarella

from CrossFit Invictus,

and he's the captain of

that team this year.

And he made the comment in a

vignette I made that's

actually for members only

up on YouTube right now.

But I clipped this little piece and I,

I it's taking forever to

upload onto Instagram.

So maybe I'll,

let me see if I can play it over this.

Sure.

No, it's not going to work.

Maybe it will.

Hold on.

Got to try another thing.

I've seen two comments about the crowd.

How was the crowd there?

Did you guys feel like it was lacking?

Yes.

Yeah, it was definitely pretty thin today.

But it is Friday.

Yeah.

That's what I was thinking.

Hopefully it fills out a

little bit Saturday and Sunday,

but I also just bought my

tickets last night.

So, and there was a lot left.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I could only see the stands maybe

once or twice,

and they didn't look super full,

but I also didn't know what

area it was necessarily.

Of course,

it looks pretty busy behind the

finish line, but sides,

when you could see the sides,

it did look a little lacking.

The sides are full.

The finish line...

lines full the the corners

are not and hopefully that

and there are some that are

like reserved for media and

maybe they didn't use up as

much as they thought even

the sides up top are fairly

full okay um and it's it's

supposedly a bigger arena

than any than fort worth

right right really it is

it's more than fort worth

and bigger than the madison

I believe yes yeah wow

felt small to me being in

there today at least and I

was just trying to like

imagine what last year and

the year before it felt

like and yeah if I would

have guessed I would have

said it was a smaller arena

so that's interesting maybe

maybe because it wasn't

totally passed out yet that

was that was why he did say

that was with like the top

upper bowl and I have a

feeling that's probably not

really going to get seated

so like the yeah

They had some of it covered

up with big sponsor flags, too,

I was noticing.

So those sections, they don't even exist,

though.

Yeah.

I'm trying to up Allison's mic volume.

Hopefully that works.

I see some stuff in here.

But I've got the Muscarella thing up.

We'll hit that,

and then we'll go back to attendance.

And that is...

right here what are you

looking forward to most

rest of the weekend I'm

just trying to enjoy it you

know like there's a lot of

friends and people that

aren't here this year that

are perennials across the

games athletes and like

talking with them and

they're like yeah even

though it was our choice

not to compete this year

like they still feel like

you know they're missing

something so I'm not taking

anything for granted I'm

just trying to enjoy the moment

So, did you pick on that,

that perennial games

athletes who chose not to

compete this season are

saying they're feeling like

they missed something?

Yeah.

So,

I just labeled this things that make

you go, hmm.

I mean...

Do you think it's the

coverage that they're seeing,

the kit that they got?

Is there anything, like,

in specific you think

people are seeing come out

that they're like, man,

I wish I was there?

I think it's,

if you've been listening to

me for the last few weeks,

I think it's a little bit of everything.

I think that the WFP has

made some promises they haven't kept.

I think that people...

that they thought were the

devil are coming off as

better than that over the last few weeks.

And it's probably they see

their friends out there

competing and having a good

time and they don't get to take part.

yeah yeah it's just like the

experience and I think the

crossfit games is always

like the excuse me it's

always like the christmas

like time of the year you

know it's like when you get

to see everybody and

especially if you're

competing as an athlete

like it's just such a

unique experience and so to

play devil's advocate a

little bit to that like I

think even if you were an athlete who

did make the choice like

even if you were still like

felt good about that

decision of not competing I

think no matter what you

could you're still gonna

feel that way you know

because it's feelings

aren't black and white

right so they might have

made the decision for you

know these reasons over

here but then these reasons

that are kind of like

separate from those are are

what they're missing out on

you know being with their friends and

having the experience with

the fans and just the

community and the competition.

Yeah.

I think being field of

thirty puts eyes on the

athletes a little more.

And so if you're sitting out, you're like,

man,

it would have been a good year to be

there.

These people aren't getting coverage.

I think the colors of the

uniform are back to some,

there's some color and they

look good on screen.

Yeah, I'm sure there's a host of reasons.

So I just clipped that

thought that was interesting.

Wanted to put that there.

The full vignette is on

YouTube right now as a members only.

It'll switch to all access tomorrow.

I have two more vignettes to

get out tonight.

So look for those.

And again,

those will flip over to full

access to twenty four hours later.

majority of them are staying

in my hotel and you can

tell this is their super

bowl to them so focused

yeah that is one thing I've

learned with enhanced

access when in semi-finals

when I could get interviews

pretty easily it's a

different game at the games

um warm-ups you just kind

of stand back and let them

do their thing and you

really your best hope is cool down time

And so that's,

I'm going to change up my

strategy tomorrow and

hopefully have some better

success with that.

Yeah, I think, I mean,

from years past being there

and like being there with

Jim in the back with warmup in,

I feel like in the past,

nobody was in the allowed in

the warmup area.

I know the, like the last two years,

they kind of opened that up

to Savan's group and some extra,

but the athletes I think

have become accustomed to

being able to warm up

without interruption.

And I mean, you kind of,

you just need that time to

focus on the event.

You, that is,

you don't want outside noise.

Yep.

Yeah.

I was like,

As an athlete, you're,

you're even planning it

down to like the minute.

So like,

I'm like arriving at the venue at

exactly the time I need to be there.

Cause I, you know, recovering outside.

So it's like the minute I get there,

minute zero to five, I'm on the bike,

minute five to seven, I'm doing this,

you know, mobility and whatnot.

And so it's easy,

like to get pulled out of

that and then feel like

you're kind of missing a piece of that.

Um,

so I definitely can understand that

from the athlete perspective.

Yeah.

Fergie, run, row, run.

Would Jamie rather chaperone

a Taylor Swift sing-along party or do run,

row, run for twenty-four hours?

The latter.

So, Allie, you did run, row, run, right?

You did the spectator version?

I did.

Yeah,

they had the full version that you

could do.

And I was actually planning

on doing the full version,

but with how the timing of

the heats and everything worked out,

I had to quickly get back

to watch Raf's second heat.

So I did like the scaled version,

which was still really hard.

It was a three mile run, two K row,

one mile run.

And it was super fun.

It was like really,

the weather here is amazing

compared to Vegas.

Like it's super hot and dry

in Vegas right now.

So I've been running a lot,

but I've kind of been,

had to like get up super early.

And even at like eight AM,

it's still ninety degrees in Vegas.

So it was like,

beautiful weather for

running and it was fun to

get to do like a little

berm run and just be with the community.

There was probably like

fifteen or twenty people in

my heat and we were the

first one of the event and

got to try out the echo

rower for the first time.

That was quite the experience.

I definitely felt,

and I don't know if this

was just the workout or if

it was the echo rower itself,

but my back felt like it

got so filled up.

It definitely had the same

feel of the rower,

but about a thousand feet in, I was like,

wow, my back is pumped right now.

So that was kind of interesting.

And yeah,

just to do those little course

along the river there, it was awesome.

The course looked awesome.

The weather looked,

it's actually really nice

here in Michigan too.

Like it would be similar.

I, when I saw her, the temperature there,

I was like, oh,

it's going to be such a

good day for this.

Yeah.

Especially the,

like when the individuals went,

it was a little earlier due

to cooler and like even better.

So yeah, they had that.

That was, that was a great event.

And three, two, one.

Yeah.

Denise, it was perfect weather today.

Just to walk around.

When I got there this morning,

the outside vendor village

was pretty packed.

And they were hitting that

more than the inside version.

And then that switched.

But one thing before we get

into the events,

CrossFit has their store open up.

And, you know,

we talked a couple weeks ago

that their designs hadn't changed.

And if they brought Pukie back,

it would be a big seller.

And

All of that happened.

No way.

All of it.

Pukey is back on a shirt.

They've done new designs for

all the CrossFit stuff.

It was like people are

buying that stuff up fast.

Interesting.

I'm going to have to go to

the store and see what they got.

That's awesome.

The weather definitely makes

you miss having some more outdoor events.

It's a shame that

They're all, like,

indoors for the rest of the weekend.

It is.

Did they bring Forging Elite Fitness back?

They did.

Amanda Hari,

my good best friend in the media space,

bought a Yeti mug that says

Forging Elite Fitness.

Nice.

So, yeah, it's all back.

All the old sayings, all the old pukey.

All of this stuff kind of

adding up is like,

I think this sale is going

to be a good thing.

Did they bring the unfuck

with the bull back?

I had a shirt back in the

day that said that.

I didn't see that,

but I wouldn't doubt it.

So, um, yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe I'll shoot up there and,

and get some footage of the

new stuff and put it into a real, um,

unbuyable.

Yeah.

I like the unbuyable.

Um, so the events, um,

um I saw that larry young

said like the experiences

went above his expectations

in every aspect um and I

think I saw him and his

wife in the stands but I

was nowhere near them to

like go be able to get over

to say hi and for us to get

to the pit we have to be

escorted in oh no so you

have to go to like a

meet-up area get a security

guard takes you to the pit

then you have to be escorted

back out of there so you

there's not a lot you can

like move around and do

it's like straight to the

pit straight out um so

anyway the events we had

the run row run this

morning ali just described

it it was a beautiful day for it they

two days ago was ninety five degrees here,

one hundred percent humidity,

and it broke with a major

rainstorm yesterday and

opened up to a beautiful day today.

I don't think we saw it for

the when the individuals were going.

Yeah, it's like fifty eight to sixty two,

something like that.

I don't think we saw

anything surprising in that event.

For me,

I was disappointed in James' finish.

I thought he'd be higher.

Didn't he take?

Like, tenth.

Really?

Yeah, it wasn't exceptional.

Like, I figured he'd be top four.

Seventh.

I figured he'd be top four.

Okay.

Uh, Hatfield surprised me.

I didn't,

I did not expect him to be fourth

or whatever he was.

Yeah.

Like I would have thought

Hatfield and James would have switched.

I was surprised Ricky was behind Roman.

Yeah.

I was,

I was going to say Roman surprised

me a bit.

Cause I just like thinking

about that event,

I was like Jeff and Ricky,

like nobody can hold

anything for their runs.

Um, so yeah,

that was that Roman did

surprise me a little bit, but yeah.

it's just so good yeah a lot

of people agreeing on the

the james thing I think I

picked james as like a flex

pick I think I picked jeff

and then james flex so I

just I'd expect it to be

higher than he was seventh

was a bit of a surprise to

me yeah I picked tia haley

and ricky okay I didn't do

well at all because I only

got one right answer yeah

I think Ricky's points will

get you pretty good.

Like I think you probably

found wound up better than me,

even though I picked the

two winners because I have

somebody who got seventh as my flex.

Yeah.

I had third, first, fourth.

I didn't,

I didn't really expect her to get second.

I, I know she's very good,

but I don't know.

I don't know who I thought

would be second.

I don't know if I thought it'd be Haley,

but

Yeah.

Amy, Amy crushed that row.

I think it was something

considered as like, you know,

as a CrossFit athlete,

you're kind of constantly

playing whack-a-mole, right?

Like your strength,

you can get stronger and

more enduring at the same time, but

when you're really diving in on one,

some of those are gonna take a hit.

And so when I think of

athletes like Haley and James,

like they do have some

pretty big weaknesses and

because their running is so strong,

they can afford to like,

let that training, you know,

quote unquote slip a little

bit and still get a fourth

or seventh or whatever,

but then make massive

improvements on bigger

weaknesses that are gonna like take them,

you know, lower in the path.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

On the women's side,

I don't think there really

was much shocking.

I mean, I'm following Hattie this weekend.

They expected to be higher

than this because she's a better runner.

Yeah.

What you'll see in the

behind the scenes is she

hit every one of her training paces,

and she just didn't compete.

You know what I mean?

Like she was so stuck on the

pace that she didn't.

pay attention around her to

see if she could push it to,

does that make sense?

Absolutely.

Yep.

Yeah.

It's definitely a slippery slope.

Cause like you can get,

definitely get caught up in

the race with it and the

adrenaline of the first event.

And like, it's very exciting.

And then you just could tank on that.

And also like you,

Oftentimes when you

perfectly pace a workout,

you kind of feel like maybe

I could have pushed it a little better,

you know?

Yes.

Um, so it's, it's always a fine line,

but I definitely get that,

that feeling of like, ah,

like I should have competed and like,

you know, kind of pay attention,

but all it takes is to do

that once and you blow up

and then you're like, oh,

I should have stuck to my paces,

you know?

Right.

You're always balancing that for sure.

Yeah.

So.

Tia wins, Jeff wins.

I think most people figured

that to be the case.

But Amy Kringle did row her

ass off and almost got Tia on the row.

And then it just kind of fell off.

Yeah, that was cool for a second.

We go to all crossed up.

And on the men's side,

I think the early big story

was Colton Mertens breaking

his rope in the first round

of crossover double-unders.

Tragic.

This is when I was running my event,

so I actually missed that.

And he still took third in the heat.

What did he do?

He actually was given just

like a blank rope.

It was not his.

I think Belites gave him just a rope,

and then he had to figure it out.

But his style or whatever

was very different before and after.

Yes.

That's right.

So, like,

not only did he lose the forty

five seconds that it took

him to get a rope,

I think for one that like a

little bit got in his head.

But then I feel like the

jump was different because

he tripped a few times.

So, I mean,

I feel like he lost more than

more than a minute easily.

Yeah, for sure.

That's that's definitely

like a big hiccup.

But it speaks to his, you know,

athletic abilities to be able to be like,

all right, what rope am I doing?

OK, it doesn't matter.

Like, it's not ideal, but getting it done.

The other thing they were

talking about on the

broadcast was that you

should take two ropes.

That is true.

That was going to be my second point.

Allie, when you're at semifinals,

do they allow you to take

two ropes to the floor?

Yeah, at least in my experience,

they have.

Yeah.

Because I'm not an athlete.

I'm bringing the two of us.

Athlete.

I have not ever done that.

Yeah,

I think we all learned a lesson today

that if you're competing, take two.

Did you test this one, Allie?

Yeah, I did.

It was super fun.

And I think they did it exactly the same.

The only change that they made, I believe,

from,

because they don't like tell me what they,

you know, end up finalizing or whatever,

but they were going to be

very strict about the dumbbell,

using your other hand on the dumbbell.

And that was a big change this year.

Because in the past,

they allowed you to use

your other hand to kind of

like restable it.

And then as long as you let go, you're,

you're good to go.

But I believe the rule that

they were going to do this

year was that once it leaves the floor,

if your other hand touches

it has to go back to the floor.

So like, if you're mid rep,

then that's a no rep.

But if you finish the rep,

and you stabilize it here,

you have to put it back down.

So that is definitely, like I said,

I missed this event because

this was when I was running,

but I could see how that

would play a big factor,

especially those last ten reps.

I remember I was trying to

get kind of unbroken,

and I kind of had a wobble,

and had I been able to just

stabilize it and reset,

I could have got a couple

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