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What is going on, everybody?
24.3 scores are being added
to the leaderboard as we speak,
and something interesting has happened.
The six-time champ posted a
score that is not
indicative of her fitness
or her capacity.
What is going on?
Welcome back to Scott Riffs.
Where has CrossFit missed the mark?
And I want you to listen
closely because she does
something very tricky here
that really pissed me off.
You are not presenting accurate facts.
You are manipulating what
you're presenting to suck
people into your narrative.
CrossFit takes notes or gets
out of the way.
One or the other,
because this train's moving
forward because of people like you.
I'm too much of an alpha at
times to want to conform too much.
And I would rather be all of me.
What's going on, everybody?
We are here for a special
edition of Scott Riffs.
I was looking at the
leaderboard today through
the help of my friend Lex,
who sent me a heads up.
But looking through the leaderboard,
I noticed that One Miss
Tiatumi posted her scores today for 24.3.
So let's go back in the
timeline a little bit.
Right before the open,
she was spotted coaching a
class with a brace on her wrist,
which then she came out and
said that she had suffered
some damage by pushing a stroller a lot,
like a carpal tunnel type thing,
and that just needed some rest,
and she was doing the open.
does the first two weeks of
the open uh nothing nothing
alarming at that point and
then we get to 24.3 she was
supposed to do the open
announcement with ariel
lowen it then comes out
that she is withdrawing
from that announcement uh
and her statement was that
she didn't feel like in the
condition she was with her
wrist she could give the
fans the show that they
deserved for an open announcement
So she was going to sit this one out.
CrossFit pivoted,
brought three other
athletes in to compete against Ariel,
including Sydney Wells, Roman Kronikoff,
and Jay Crouch.
24.3 goes off without a
hitch at Proven
Headquarters with tons of
people in attendance.
Awesome spectacle.
We then get the scores from
what Tia did this weekend.
And she posts a score of
seven rounds with a
three-minute tie break.
meaning she got through the
65 pound thrusters and the
chest of bars fairly quickly,
three minutes, five rounds.
And then she only got two
more rounds after that,
making it less than,
or she was three rounds from finishing,
not reps, but rounds from finishing 24.3.
So my question is,
What's going on?
Is it a fact of, hey,
I don't want to damage this anymore,
and I'm just going to stop and rest.
This is all I need to make top 25%.
Or is something seriously
wrong where she is unable
to complete those movements
currently with the way her
wrist is feeling and is
whatever shape it's in.
Before all the alarm bells sound,
she has 30 days before
quarterfinals to rest up,
to heal the wrist,
and to take on the
quarterfinals at the end of
next month or wherever.
We're 30 days away, whatever that is.
mid April.
So then once she gets to
quarterfinals though, that's when the,
the eye of the needle
shrinks considerably.
And if it's, if it's bothering her,
she's at risk of not
qualifying to semifinals.
There's only 40 spots available, um,
at the,
at the semifinal level and in
North America East,
it is a juggernaut of a semifinal.
There are so many big names.
Um,
it is going to be a tough
road to hold even to get
out of that semi-final let
alone and to get into it
and she is really going to
be at a breaking point in
30 days so again she has 30
days to rest recover get
that right but things could
go south really quick if
that is not um if that is
not healed in 30 days
The other thing I want to point out is,
you know, all offseason,
everybody has been
anointing her the next
champion of the CrossFit
Games because she is the six-time champ.
She is the greatest
CrossFitter we've ever seen in the sport.
But sports are sports,
and unpredictable things
happen all the time.
And I made this call out a few,
probably a month ago,
where everybody was
anointing her to be the next champion.
And I said, listen,
it's been two years since
she's been on the competition floor.
She's two years older.
A lot can happen in those two years.
And we don't know how she's
going to perform coming back from that.
Injuries happen.
We're seeing that now.
There's a good shot.
There's a good chance that
she is unable to compete
throughout this year,
and she may not win the CrossFit Games.
And even if she makes it through,
if she's not 100% with that wrist,
and anybody who's been
through injuries...
Once you have an injury,
you compensate with other
things in your body,
and then they tend to go in
the same fashion.
And so we need to be careful
in sports about anointing
people to the champion
before a season even starts.
At the end of this,
I want the best competition
possible at the CrossFit Games.
I don't want her to miss
this year's CrossFit Games
just so I can be right.
But I do think we need to be
more cautious about our
predictions and our
absolute predictions about
who is going to win and who
is not based on past performance.
Every year is a different year.
Things happen.
Unpredictable things happen.
And that's where we are now.
So if you go out and look at
the leaderboard, Tia Toomey,
seven rounds for 24.3.
Did not finish the workout by...
three full rounds so again
there's no video with her
submission so I don't know
why she stopped when she
stopped if it was a um a
decision that was made um
that she stopped at that
point and just get on to
quarterfinals or if it was
something where she just
could not go on any further
So she did complete 14
thrusters and 14 muscle-ups
in that second half,
but was unable to finish
the last three rounds.
With that, I'm going to sign off.
Hope everybody has a great week.
And Tia,
I hope you rest up and you're
ready for quarters,
because sports better when
we have the best
competition available for everybody.
With that, Scott Riffs, out.