Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
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.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale.
Well, no, not the Clydesdale.
I've done so many podcasts this week.
Can't even get the name right.
Welcome to Sunday Night
CrossFit Talk here on Clydesdale Media.
We are presented by Thickboy.
Go to thickboy.fit.
Get all your cool apparel there.
We're down one member tonight,
but it's okay.
We can play hurt.
Yeah.
I'll just talk more.
Our thoughts and prayers go
out to Jamie and her family.
She's had a little tough
situation this weekend, but all is good.
She's just exhausted from
what happened over the
weekend and we're letting
her hit the hay early so
she can recover and be good for the week.
Yes, absolutely.
And Carolyn and I can talk
way long enough for anybody.
So we're all good.
Yes.
So how's your week?
Week is good.
Just been prepping for semis,
tripping away at school.
It's getting to the end of the year soon.
So the energy level for some
of the students as the
weather is getting warmer
is just like a little bit.
inconsistent, I guess,
from what I get day to day.
But yeah, no, school's going well.
And then, yeah, training's going well.
And then this weekend was a long weekend.
I got to see my older sister
for all you can eat sushi
yesterday that we went out to eat.
And then today we relaxed by
the pool because our condo
outdoor pool opened finally.
So
yeah it was beautiful here
80s yesterday and today um
but I had my physical on
wednesday all my markers
are going in the right
direction in a very good
pace so everything is
awesome in that direction
and then thursday night I
blew my nose and surgical
sponge came out and I was
like what in the hell is that
And I tried to get my wife to look at it.
She was like,
I am not looking at whatever
came out your nose.
And I'm like,
but I need you to see this
because this is weird.
So was it there like the whole time?
So it had to have been there
since October.
Oh, my gosh.
When I had surgery.
Jeez.
Yeah.
So going to make some calls tomorrow,
see what all this means and.
can you breathe can you
breathe better now the
minute it came out I could
breathe so long and so deep
into my nose that's so
weird I mean it's good that
I came out yeah like I the
bad part was I was so
excited it came out like
everything was so cool that
I could breathe that I
threw it in the trash and
then spent the next two
days digging for it yeah
yeah it's been a fun weekend
With that,
but at least it was nice outside.
Set up a table in my garage,
just sat there and dug
through everything.
So that was fun.
The other thing I need to
announce is we have a
photographer going to West Coast Classic.
So it took some finagling
and some emails with Dylan and Sasha,
but I got a photographer in the stadium.
So we'll at least get some
cool shots from West Coast.
And it's a local LA guy,
so he doesn't have to pay for travel.
So he is just looking for an
opportunity to show his stuff,
and I want to give it to him.
And his IG is...
underscore e dot captures
underscore yeah go check
out his stuff uh it's
really good I think before
on instagram for sure yeah
so he's gonna um he's gonna
be there local guy uh
helping us out so wad
zombie seems to know him oh
he's a good dude
so yeah I've only met him
over the internet so but
his I looked at his
portfolio and it's awesome
yeah so he's gonna get us
some shots and uh that'll
be cool for wrap-up shows
next weekend um as we kind
of ramp up the coverage for
the north america semis
next week and then carolyn
gets to go the week after
that it's coming up fast I know
So they happened this weekend.
You're an athlete watching
these things go down.
And, um,
what were your thoughts of how the
workouts played out?
Well, it's just nice to see the, like, uh,
the visual of the floor layouts.
I know it can be different a
little bit region to region.
Um,
In terms of like the running
routes and just the lanes
and stuff can be maybe a
little bit different.
But just to see the workouts
play out was good.
I got to see, obviously,
what the top performances
are in each of the workouts.
For the most part,
no huge surprises on most of those.
And then I would just kind
of pick an athlete that would be, I think,
similar to me.
in certain aspects on each
workout just to kind of, um,
look at their strategy and
stuff and just try to learn from, uh,
you know, just watching, uh,
the YouTube all weekend.
Yeah.
I, um, I,
I have so many notes on what
happened this weekend that
I kind of jotted down as it was going on,
but, um,
I was talking to Sam Quant
just a couple hours ago,
and he said he doesn't even
watch the full workout
because it makes him too
nervous to kind of see it all.
So he's looking for bits and pieces,
like step up and step down.
How are they doing it?
Someone my size, how does it work there?
What are they holding on a row?
You know, things like that.
And then he goes, like, I just move on.
You watch the whole thing
because you're a CrossFit nerd.
Yes.
And rewind sometimes.
But yeah, I mean,
I'll watch the transitions.
I'll watch,
just try to learn anything
because I train by myself.
So I don't have any comparison.
So this is, you know,
my training camp that I get
to look at this.
Like these are opportunities
that I get that, you know,
I normally don't just training by myself.
Andrew says,
can you imagine the organizers
finding out after they have
to set up a run,
after they have the venue?
The run in Knoxville is
going to be strange because
the venue there is below ground level,
if I remember.
It is.
However, Andrew,
where the start-finish line
is and those temporary
stands are put up where the
family members got to sit,
right behind that are loading docks.
So I'm assuming that's the
out and in if you're going
outside to run.
That would make the most
sense because any other way
you'd be like fighting the
crowds up and down the stairs.
Yeah,
so we didn't get to see the run in
Europe.
Did you see any footage outside?
Yeah, when CrossFit did like a recap of it,
you got to see some of the
running outside.
So they ran for the most part on cement.
There was a little bit of
grass I think I saw on a
couple parts of it.
But it was on the recap show
that they did where they
would show more of the events.
I didn't watch much of the
Asia one because I felt
like that wasn't going to
be comparable in terms of their –
route um but just looking at
the europe one it looked
like it was mostly on
cement and then a little
bit of grass yeah I'm from
knoxville it might they do
have like an outdoor where
they had vendor village in
the last the last couple
times we were there and so
you could go out and up
that hill to that and then back down
And be on sidewalk, I think,
the whole time.
But I don't know.
I'm just guessing.
Draw Your Dagger says five
laps around the Jocko Go tent.
I've never been there,
so I have no idea what the
floor looks like.
So the floor there looks
like any basketball arena floor setup.
The seats are elevated above
the floor like...
I guess like the tennis stadium almost.
Although it's higher than that even.
And so you come in on the
second floor and the
spectators are all up there.
The athletes and media and
all that have to go
downstairs to get out onto the floor.
But yeah,
it's actually a really cool arena
for an event if they can fill it.
So
Let's walk through Europe real quick,
and then we'll finish up
with a little bit of Asia.
But as we walk through the events,
the event one,
Gabby McGowan wins it in a close,
close race with Amy Kringle.
I thought that was super exciting to watch,
even though we didn't get to see the run.
Yeah.
I mean,
it was exciting to look who would
come into the stadium.
I guess they're a little square.
thing first for the most
part it became Kringle but
you could see that each
round Gabby was getting
closer and closer and
Kringle went touch and go
from the start on let's say
like half of the reps and
then would finish up with
some singles and then it
would come out um and then
once Gabby did the touch
and go at the end I was
like oh this is going to be so close
And then they were,
they were both at their
capacity because they started,
both of them were breaking
and it was like, oh my gosh,
who's going to go?
Who's going to go?
And then Gabby took it and
it was an exciting finish.
Then on the men's side, that was it.
Was that Lazar?
Oh, yeah.
Upanix won the first two events.
Forgot about that.
Yeah.
Uh, and that still didn't, wasn't enough.
Um,
And it didn't have,
it didn't have the drama.
The women did.
He pretty much led that throughout.
So I thought it was a cool event.
I thought it, you know, like you said,
the strategy of touch and
go or not seems to be play
a big role in this.
And it's just going to know.
And the men did not touch and go.
No, not at all.
So that's worth it.
Very different from the men to the women.
I think also you saw a lot
of people go out really hot and round one,
probably just to try to get
out of the pack.
And then as the rounds go on,
it kind of separates,
but I almost looked like
people that went out really
hot to just try to get
ahead on round one.
It just caught up to them.
Yeah.
Um, on rounds two to four,
were you surprised some
athletes got lapped?
Yes.
But there's some good
runners out there and some
less good runners.
So I guess it's to be expected,
but maybe not a full lap.
So then event two was the front squat one,
correct?
The double under one, Scott.
The double under one.
I see I skipped right over it.
No, no,
it's a front squat and toes to bars
for everyone.
I'm saying it's a double under one.
Okay.
So I don't think I have any
– I don't have any notes for this.
So Upanix wins that on the men's side.
Yeah.
What were your thoughts on
the women's side?
And I can pull up the – They're fast.
Like it's just good, fast results.
Yeah.
Like, that's a tough one for me.
I know it's a tough one for me.
I need good execution.
But people were still getting tired.
Like,
it seemed like the toaster bars
played a big role here on
whether you could push the
pace there or hold on
versus some people were
leaning over a lot and
breathing and recovering.
There's a lot of just heavy
breathing in that workout.
Because when you have that
heavy front squat, it's hard to breathe.
Then that toaster bar, you're closing –
you know, you're closing in.
So again, it's a little bit,
it can be hard to breathe sometimes.
And then if you're anxious
on double unders like me,
it could be trying to find
somewhere to breathe.
Yeah.
And that's,
that was a Laura Horvath win to,
just to remind people like, Hey,
I'm here.
Yeah.
I took seventh in that first thing,
but like, I'm still here.
Yeah, which I mean,
I don't think anyone
expected Laura to win the first one.
She's a good runner.
She's a great runner,
but you wouldn't put her as
the best runner in Europe.
Yeah,
and so she actually beat Gabby by
seven seconds.
And then Claudia Gluck, or Gluck,
I think they were calling
it over the... Well, it's Gluck,
probably in French.
Yeah.
And how cool was the crowd
for the French contingent there?
Yeah.
And I mean,
the announcer is from Quebec
and he was really pumping
up the French crowd every
single time Victor or Claudia were,
you know,
pushing towards the finish line or just,
you know,
getting back to whatever station
he was getting the crowd going.
And then on the men's side, this was
oldest first, and then Luca Vujac second,
and Michael Wieslowski third.
So, and that was a tight race,
two seconds between first
and second on that one.
So then we go to event three,
and Yella Hosta comes to
the party on the men's side.
Well, that's a 12-person workout.
You have, that's the echo bag one, yeah.
You have the Echo Bike,
which is a power output.
It helps if you're taller or
way more for power output.
Then if you're tall and you
can just jump up nice and
high on the legless,
and then you have a tall
box jumps with a step down.
So that's no surprise in
that Yella was dominant in that one.
Followed up by Luka Jukic,
who had a great weekend, and Enola Kai.
On the women's side,
we had a painful event for this.
Rebecca Venison comes down on the rope,
knee pops.
She's on the floor.
I know a lot of people are
talking about how long it
took medical to get there.
It was such a bad look.
But then it was explained that medical,
unlike other CrossFit events in France,
if you're at the venue is
in charge of all medical, not the event,
which to me is mind
boggling because general
medical would not be
sufficient in a sporting event.
Like if I'm having a soccer match,
I want people who know
injuries that happen in soccer.
Right.
Um, so she is laying on the floor.
I feel terrible.
They finally get to her.
She hops back up and
attempts to get back in the race.
does the bike does a rope climb attempts.
One box jump gets over second box,
jump steps down with the
injured leg and falls to the floor.
Someone said,
why'd she do it with the injured leg?
But she probably was worried
that she could support
herself on that leg at the
top of the box is my guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seemed like forever for
the medical team to go on the floor.
Like she was just down on
the ground and like,
holding her knee.
Like she came down and you
could see the knees going
forward and in a twisting motion.
Like I texted Lex right away.
I go, that's an ACL like that,
that a hundred percent date.
Like it has to be an ACL just like the way,
cause that's typical of
like forward motion twisting.
And I was like,
the medical team was just like nowhere.
Like, even though it's the,
the venue that's holding it,
like there should be places
where they're strategically put, you know,
on each end of the floor,
to get there as soon as possible.
And if the medical team is
going on to the floor,
I don't think that the
athlete should be able to
continue like that event.
Right.
Cause the medical team is like in her lane,
they're kind of helping her, et cetera.
If they had to tape things up or whatever,
like,
I don't think that you should be
able to continue.
I don't think she should have continued.
I thought that that was very
dangerous to continue.
Cause I was like, she's going to ruin her,
her knee even more.
Cause like,
that's not a workout that you
can fake it.
You know, you can't like the,
the knee is either there or
it's not like those high
box jumps are tough for the knee.
And yeah,
it just seemed like the medical
team wasn't there enough.
And I don't know what kind
of clearance she got to
just continue the event like that.
It was very odd and a bad look.
then when she went down off
the box jump they were out
quickly but man it like
stretchers and stuff that
you just don't even see
normally at these events no
yeah it was uh but like you
the camera would kind of
like they had that one
camera and you could see
her on the ground just at
the beginning and it was
like okay like put the
camera away like make it
look good for crossfit and
like stop filming her and it
you know,
they just kept filming a little
bit of where she was at,
which I thought you
shouldn't be filming or
trying to keep her in the frame, right?
Like give her the privacy,
get the medical team on
there and get that out.
But wishing her obviously a good recovery.
And that's,
that's a horrible way to end
the season and,
she was doing really well.
Yeah, and really well in that event.
It looked very eerily
familiar to the Scott Pancheck injury,
but different circumstances.
She just came down weird.
There was no object on the
floor that caused that to happen.
And then Emma Tall ends up
winning this event.
So impressive.
She was so impressive on the rope.
It was like five pulls, boom, touch.
Like there was...
No struggle at all, which in my heat one,
I was like trying to figure
out whether I was going to
put her Laura and I should have,
I had her at first as my
pick and then I switched it to Lauren.
I should have known because
she won the alpaca as well last year.
She's so good.
Upper body pulling.
Very, very impressive.
Yeah,
I heard someone compare her to Alex Kazan,
like as the two best upper
body pullers there are.
Bruce asked,
would the stretcher get in the
way of the other athletes?
It was a backboard type stretcher,
handheld.
They just put her on it and
carried her off the floor.
It looked very like,
and this is probably a
reference only old people like me get,
but like very old Keystone
Cops stretchers.
out get her take her off it
just did not even look
professional but that's
that's what was there and
you're right Karen don't
show it get it off the
cameras you know like show
the other athletes like
don't go a full shot like
unless she's off the floor
it just it just made it
just made it look worse
like she and especially
when she was just laying
holding her knee and it
felt like at least 30 45
seconds for anyone to even
come in and see her
And she was just still in the frame.
And it's like, what is going on?
Like,
get someone to her versus like if you
had just panned out like somewhere else,
like you wouldn't have
maybe noticed it as much.
But I mean, it just puts I mean,
maybe it's good that we
notice and that type of
medical response needs to
get addressed for other semifinals.
She signed a waiver.
I'm not upset that she got
hurt or like there just was
better ways to handle it
from an image thing.
Like just don't put the
camera on her writhing in
pain and that's it for a
long period of time.
You know, there's a lot of,
there's a lot of sports
when someone gets injured,
they don't show the injury anymore.
Right.
They just move on.
Um,
because then you're battling
that is your sport safe is your,
and that's something that
CrossFit has been fighting
for a very long time.
And you don't want to keep fighting that,
that same argument.
Yeah.
And like, it's, it's a sport.
Like it's of course,
like this wasn't a unsafe
rope climb that made it dangerous.
Like it happens.
It's an injury that could
have happened to anyone.
And it just,
maybe the knee was just ready to go,
but it's just the response
that seemed like it was
just unprofessional.
And,
Of course,
injuries and CrossFit just has a
bad name.
So it just made it, in my opinion,
look worse.
And we're going to talk more
about the camera people in a second.
But let's move on to event four.
And someone said they're not
calling them tests anymore.
Apparently not.
Because on the CrossFit game site,
it is events.
Event four was the first one today,
which was something.
Handstand walk.
Oh, yeah.
The row.
Laura, so impressive on that row.
When they when they zoomed into her pace,
like everyone, I was just like, OK,
it's like that is.
as holding one good pace
right there that most
people aren't holding that
are able to hold that and
will handstand walk, um, at that speed.
Like, um, what's her name?
Why am I blanking?
Solberg had such fast handstand walk,
but she just can't match Laura's, um,
power output on the, on a rower.
Um, but she would,
she would just get off the
roll a little bit sometimes
after Ella Wilkinson and,
just would pass her.
And then you had a better
rower that would just maybe
get a little bit ahead,
but it's like she maximized
her strength of that workout.
I think if you're able to do both,
you're going to be successful,
but fast handstand walk
will go a long way.
And yeah.
And Andrea Soberg actually
came in third in that event.
Yeah.
Well, Gabby's a great, um,
handstand Walker and has, um,
better rolling power output.
So there's a lot of talk in
the chat about should the
athlete be allowed to continue.
And I understand that it's
up to the athlete if they
want to continue.
However, I agree with Carolyn.
If the medical has done
something to assist her to
be able to get back into the game,
I don't think she should.
At that point,
there was outside interference.
Just like in an online
competition when you have
someone touch your bar or
touch your rope or you get
a penalty for that.
It's that event becomes done.
Can she come back for the following event?
That's to be determined with
the medical heads and whatnot.
But I think once the medical
comes onto the floor and has...
treatment of any sort or
whatever I think that event
becomes done like if the if
the medical event or if the
medical team like comes on
the floor and the athlete
goes no no it's okay and
continues I think that
would be different because
then maybe they were just
on the ground and then can
get up but in this case I
think it was event over
like that's it right right
so um so yeah laura wins
that gabby second andrea
soberg third what I was
thinking when I saw andrea is
You know,
my idea of like the championship
belts and like you find
pick an event and you win the belt.
Wouldn't it be cool to see
Daniel Brandon on Andrea
Solberg do a handstand race
for like that belt?
When you watch the two of them go,
it's insane.
So fast.
So fast.
There's other fast handstand
walkers I'm sure we'll see
in the upcoming weeks will shine.
But that was very impressive there.
That's just what popped into
my head when I saw her go.
And we're going to see like,
and Victor Hoffer did the same thing.
Tudor Magda is going to do
the same thing at West Coast.
It's going to be insane.
But that would be a cool
like for the belt race.
For sure.
Yeah.
And speaking of Victor Hoffer,
on this event, he finished first, right?
Yep.
Yellow host second.
I guess I gave the handstand
too much credit.
I didn't see this happening,
but his row was insane.
That's the thing, right?
If you can either have a very,
very good row and a good handstand walk,
or if you're a very,
very good handstand walker
and have a decent row,
you can do very well.
So I think he has good
enough speed on the
handstand walk and is
obviously one of the taller
athletes on the field that
can just pull and maybe get
that extra 10 seconds on 10
to even maybe 15 seconds on
the row to make up for
possibly the lack of speed
that would be there on the
handstand walk.
So then we go to event five,
and this Bronislaw is just
a freak with strength.
He made that thing look so easy.
He didn't look rushed on anything.
He just methodically went
down and killed every bar
and broke the world record
and set that at 525.
um there was a lot of
records broken I think for
that for that workout
compared to 2016 it was
crazy well 2016 I think the
winning time was 604 um and
this was 525 and there were
three three times a beat
that winning time from
which just shows how
advanced and and ahead
fraser was in 2016 the fact
that he's you know just as
good still as these competitors is crazy
Yeah.
Uh, yeah, flat out insane.
So Kevin jurors was second.
More Moritz fee big was third on that one.
Um, and on the women's side,
big surprise kind of,
so every time I talk to Elisa,
she talks about how much
she loves Olympic lifting
and she thinks that it is
one of her strengths.
And she proved that every bit today.
And I almost went with her
in Heat 1 because of that.
But I'm going,
that would be picking with your heart.
That would be picking with your heart.
Don't be stupid.
And I went with Emma Tall on
this and got crushed.
Yeah, I mean, the way that she was just,
you know,
letting the bar bounce and then
right away back into it.
Super impressed again by her.
And we knew that Laura was
going to do all we knew that for over.
I didn't know.
Like I knew that was a good Olympic lifter,
like even her clean and
jerk at Waterpalooza was
very strong when I was
there watching last year or
the year before when she was there.
And she impressed me there.
and but I didn't know
sometimes some people are
really good at cleaning
jerks but maybe less good
at the snatch it was really
impressed uh impressive
there what she did yeah she
was impressive laura we
knew was going to be great
at that event um and then
lucy mcgonigal proving that
at a very young age uh her
strength numbers are coming
up and in a year or two
she's going to be someone to watch
Yeah, she had a rough first event.
And then, yeah,
she had a really good bounce today.
Moved her way a little bit
up today with the higher skills,
the strength.
She did better today.
I should just, like,
copy this and just paste it
for every show because
that's just what happens.
I get beat by Lex every shot
caller every time.
Maybe she's the female analyst today.
She should be John young again.
There you go.
Yeah.
I tried to get her on the show,
but family dinner comes in,
gets in the way.
I don't know.
Um, so then on the men's, uh,
or we did the men.
So now event six, we finish up, uh,
Emma tall wins this one.
I was a little bit early.
Um,
And this was,
this was surprising how much
that dumbbell ate people alive.
It was fun to watch some of them.
Like you thought that
they're gone and then boom,
they have to put them down.
They had to come back.
Is it going to slip from
their hands again?
Um, it was, yeah, it was very,
it was a nice race to watch.
Good.
It's great finale event.
Um, and,
it was just nice to see also
different strategies.
Like a lot of the females
broke the ring muscle ups, uh,
to have better grip for the,
for their lunges.
Someone like Emma tall just
crushed that workout.
I mean, if you look at events, um,
three and six,
I think they're very similar.
Like you have the echo bike
and something that's very grippy.
And it was the same thing for this one,
echo bike and grip.
Um,
So, yeah, Emma Tall crushed it.
And then just some of the
races were fun to look at.
And there was a few people
that were inside,
like the what's the one guy,
Chris Broussard, something like that.
Colin Bossard.
Colin.
There you go.
Like that was your dark
horse for coffee pods and wands.
And yeah,
he had a struggle in that last
one and really fell out of the top 10,
which just sucks.
You hate to see that.
But then you also had the
opposite with one guy that
came third place and was, I think,
14th going into the event
and jumped into that.
top 10.
Um, so some good, good races.
I mean, just shows that you have, you know,
every event matters,
every second matters.
Um,
and I thought some people were a little
bit lazy getting to the
finish line over the weekend.
So that's one observation I had in,
you know, those points.
Yeah.
So Lex just rubbing things in again.
So yes,
on coffee pods and wads around the
whiteboard,
my two dark horses were Colin
Bossard and Amy Kringle.
And I looked really,
really smart until the last event.
He did have a great first
couple of days though.
He did.
He did really good.
I just didn't know he had
small hands and couldn't
hold onto a dumbbell.
Yeah.
So yeah, I just,
I keep trying to be as good as Lex.
I just don't know if I ever will be.
I was really, um,
surprised to see the
schedule of the Sunday.
Like that's one thing,
like they just want heat one, two, three,
four.
Um, they've,
they normally recede for that
fourth heat off.
A lot of times you'll see heats one, two,
three woman heat.
it's one two three men and
then sometimes they'll
bring back even heats four
and four but they always
recede and this time they
didn't so I'm assuming
going forward on all the
semifinals they're just not
receding and I don't like
that I think and I actually
have that in my notes to
talk about as like an
overarching thing um and
there's a lot of people in
the comics since it had
that I don't understand why they didn't
I don't either.
I don't think I've ever been
to a semifinal where they
didn't at least recede the last event.
Just the last event.
That's it.
They always go at the end of
each day and then the final event.
Not sure why they went away
with it this year.
As a spectator,
I want to know who's in and
who's out and who's trying to get there,
right?
And when you reseed with 10 as your get in,
you know everybody in that final heat,
they have a spot going into
that last event.
And the middle lanes of heat
before you know are trying to get in.
It just tells the story better.
Absolutely.
And when you look at just
the seating over all over the weekend,
like day number one,
you have a very specialist type workout.
And then you're going to go
into day two receding off
of that one specialist type running.
Let's call it a running workout.
Then you go into those two
events and you're only halfway done.
So that last day when so
much so many points are on the line,
I think the receding is very important.
Because that final event,
you only had three events
prior to dictate the final day seating.
And so many moves happened
on that last day that, to me,
made no sense.
Yeah.
So I'm going way back to get
some questions for you now
that we've gone through all the events.
Sarah Cooper,
which event is Carolyn most
excited for now that she
has seen them all?
Hmm.
I don't know.
Let me the handstand walk one.
Um,
the double under one with that advice
is fingers crossed for a
great double under day.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't have a particular
one that I feel like I ha I
like way more or something.
Um,
Hoping I'll be executing well on game day.
Dex said the grip into from
sending muscle ups was wild.
Oh, yeah.
And like the men,
most of them were unbroken and then.
they're obviously having to
push the echo bike more.
And then you have some
people pushing the echo bike,
but then breaking the ring
muscles for the females.
And then maybe make it up on the lunges.
Like it's just what your
strengths are on that one.
But yeah, it's grippy.
Very, very grippy.
Nope.
Well that,
and then he asks ESPN plus schedule.
Maybe ESPN plus doesn't
really have a schedule
cause it's a streaming service.
In my opinion, maybe I'm wrong.
I'm not a network producer,
but you would think that
they would be pretty fluid
on that for streaming.
It's not on a network.
You would think that they
would want both back-to-back final heats,
like men and women,
so that little part is back-to-back.
I don't know.
But that's a good point.
Maybe it is ESPN.
ESPN.
I didn't think about that.
So he said the real question is,
will Legends be on ESPN Plus?
I'm guessing an iPhone 5
hanging from the rig.
It's just tough because ESPN
Plus is getting more popular.
There's more and more.
things going to that platform,
but there's so many sports
going on right now,
like playoffs and stuff.
So I just, it's,
it's really good that CrossFit picked up,
you know, that streaming with them,
but it's just a tough time
of the year versus the
summer when it's like
baseball and soccer.
So a couple of overarching
things I want to talk about
before we go down,
who made it and who didn't
is Lucy Campbell was good.
Very knowledgeable.
She was awesome.
Loved her.
Yeah.
I thought for like really
other than doing the
renegade broadcast last
year with chase a little bit in Europe,
um, and her,
this being her first time at the desk,
man, often running deep end, let her go.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, she's very knowledgeable.
She obviously knows how the
workouts feel as an athlete.
And she brought great points to like,
to the analysis of the, of,
The workouts,
she had great things to say
about the athletes,
about the stimulus of the workout.
I thought she did a phenomenal job.
Really good addition to that
European stream.
And what I loved most is,
and I talked about this
with Brent Fikowski a while ago,
and it was never like I
would do it this way.
It was,
this is what you're presented with
as an athlete and you have
a choice to make.
Let's watch it play out.
And I thought that's what
she was really good at.
So like kudos to her.
Now on the downside, camera guys,
I have been I've been
bitching for a very long
time that I don't need to
see up somebody's nostril
during an event to get excited about it.
I want to see more of the
races like back up.
Let me see three, four lanes at a time.
But when a camera guy is
moving the riser because
he's so close and the
athlete has to reset it
because the camera guy moved it,
that's a bad look.
I miss that.
When athletes are waving off
the camera guy because
they're trying to hit a big
snatch and he's right in
front of them setting up,
that's a bad look.
yeah I mean what other sport
are the camera guys on the
floor cameras have zoom
lenses right like am I am I being stupid
no like it's like I i just
know that when I compete
live like a lot of times I
have to like try to block
out the camera because but
normally they try to stay
in the corner but then
they're probably in in the
next lane and in the way
there as the judge is
backing up and stuff and
there's kind of a like
nowhere for them on the
floor um but yeah like they
could just use their zoom
button and maybe show a few
more athletes at the same time um
but yeah,
like you would see a few athletes
just be like, move,
move right before the snatch.
And I was like, Oh, but I mean,
it's a big snatch and it's
distracting to have that
camera right in your face.
Um, and when you're moving equipment,
you're,
you're actually affecting the race.
Well, yeah, I didn't, I see,
I didn't see that part,
but I think it was,
I think it was Emma McQuaid, um,
had her riser moved and,
And that's just unacceptable.
Yeah, you can't mess with the equipment.
So NBA is in the same kind of venue,
right?
And they have cameras up top
to see all the action.
And then they have cameras
along the sidelines, off the floor,
getting the close-ups.
And they do a great job.
So I just don't get it.
Um,
and then one thing that I thought that
was brought up that was,
and I think it was,
I think it was Lucy that
brought it up is.
everybody talks about how,
why North America can't
sell tickets and why it's
so loud and raucous in Europe.
But there are so many
different countries in Europe.
There's so much country pride,
like France versus Spain
versus the UK versus like,
and that adds an element to
this that makes it makes
the crowd get into it so much more.
Yeah.
I mean,
like people are bringing their
country flags.
Like you're not going to have,
I don't know, Wisconsin flag there,
like supporting, like, it's just like,
I don't think it's.
All we have is Canada, Mexico and US,
right?
Like you had the affiliate
presence when it was
regionals because people
could drive to the event.
It was close, like near, you know,
regionally you had people
and that's what made
regional so fun is people
would just drive to the
event and they would bring
the whole affiliate.
And you just don't have that
when you have these two
North America events.
And it's just essentially
it's just the competitors
and maybe a couple, you know,
friends and family.
But there's not as much of
the affiliates traveling
like there used to be in
that type of support.
I agree with you 1000%.
So let's see who got their
ticket punched in Europe.
And that is Laura Horvath, Gabby McGowan.
You got to zoom in.
There we go.
Okay.
There we go.
Laura Horvat, Gabby Magawa, Emma Tall,
Karen Frejova, Amy Kringle.
She looked really good.
Phenomenal.
Massive improvement over last year.
Very impressive.
Claudia Gluck, Linda Kiesman,
Elisa Fuliano, Emma McQuaid,
and Jacqueline Dahlstrom.
Yeah.
Any surprises for you on this?
I wasn't familiar with Linda Kiesman,
but when I clicked on her profile,
it looks like she's been
really close the last few years.
So it's always nice to see
someone that's been close, you know,
make their way through.
Obviously Kringle,
we knew she was up and
coming and has been close
and same with Gluck that
had a great Dubai
competition this past year.
And, you know,
she's been getting closer
and closer every year.
So yeah,
good to see that.
I was surprised obviously with Manon.
Um, she's one that I was, you know,
I thought was even in that middle tier of,
um,
that region in terms of those
qualifying spots.
I didn't think that she
would even be fighting for the,
like the last spots.
I know, like I, I,
I know that she has higher
potential than this.
Um,
Helga daughter,
I knew she was going to be close.
Sad to see no daughter will
be at the games for the first time.
So it's crazy to think about that.
Um, Miriam had, you know,
some good events and then
obviously some of the higher skills on,
on the last day, um,
was a little bit hard, harder for her,
but I thought that she
still had a great showing, um,
and we'll have a lot of
potential in the next few years as she,
you know,
devotes a little bit more time
to CrossFit and some of those skills.
Um, you had, uh, another injury, um, Sarah,
uh, uh,
If you go all the way down,
I think she's not even all
the way down right there.
20.
No, go back up.
Go back up.
27.
Keep going.
27.
Yeah.
So she wore a belt on the
handstand walk workout and
she finished like dead last of that one.
I was like,
something's off with her
because she would normally be in the mix.
Alina Kiratava, whatever,
how do you say her name?
Sorry for the mispronunciation.
And then she didn't end up
finishing the competition,
but she's still up there.
So if you go across,
she finished the event four,
but I think she had a back injury.
Something must have happened
the day prior or that morning,
maybe warming up even.
Because, yeah, when you come up with it,
when you come to the floor
with a belt on a rowing and
handstand walk workout,
it's a little odd.
So, yeah,
don't know what what happened with her.
But so I think what three
three girls were not
competing because Sarah Vitteson and her.
So on the men's side,
everyone ended up finishing.
Which is what you hope to
see that people can, you know,
have a start and a finish
to their semifinals and do every event.
the men's side we have lazar
jukic yellow hosta heinrich
hyperlinen ano akai luka
jukic victor hoffer bkg
harry lightfoot callum
clements with a major
comeback at the end and
moritz feebig aldis upenix
wins two events and
finishes one spot out that
means you got strengths and
you got holes that's that's
what that says right it's uh
So J.R.
Howe said that this proves
that the programming is spot on.
Your thoughts?
That there would be
something that just kind of
cancels out someone's first places.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, anytime you get too first place,
you're going to be close to
the cut line regardless.
But yeah,
I still think there's a couple
events that are similar in stimulus, but
Yeah, he was so close.
Luka was in the mix the whole weekend,
and then Yona had a good last day,
just not quite enough to
make his way through.
Yeah, and there's my Colin Bossard pick.
6th, 15th,
and then really kind of fell off
on the last two events.
Yeah, it's too bad.
Yeah, I was impressed with Yele.
He had a great weekend.
Happy for Luca, Lazar's brother,
to see them get back to the
games together.
He's had some close calls
the last couple years,
and he was sick one of the
years or something like that.
So nice to see him back.
And then a few rookies are making it,
which is nice.
Yeah,
and Heidrick Hypelainen with a
blazing speed on that last event.
It's crazy.
He just held the dumbbells
at the end for a farmer hole.
Did you see that at the
finish line he just held?
Yeah.
Then put them down.
Yeah, that was a boss move.
Yeah, very much.
All right, let's go to Asia real quick.
I'll be honest,
I did not watch much of this, if any.
But in my opinion,
we already knew two of the
people going on both the
men's and women's side.
It was just in contention
for the third spot.
On the men's side,
Ivan Kurestev and Arthur Seminoff.
Those were kind of the two we knew.
A lot of people had Aunt Haynes in this.
Nowhere to be found.
It was Ilya.
I think he was injured.
Wasn't he injured?
There's a lot of aunts there.
14th, he finished the weekend.
Um, but yeah.
So those are your three men going forward.
There's two men, right?
Or three women, two men.
I thought it was three and three.
Is it three and three?
Wow.
I will check real quick
while we're talking.
Maybe you're right.
Nope.
You're right too.
Yeah.
My bad.
Two and three.
So it's only the top two.
Ivan and Arthur.
They're heading off.
Then on the women's side, it was three.
If they can travel.
Sahir Kaya and Chung Young
Choi were the first two,
which we pretty much all
picked to be the first two.
And then Dewan Jung was number three.
Yes.
I mean...
going in I think that's
where she was ranked or
pretty close to that so no
real upset there in um in asia
so overall I thought great
first week of action uh
lots of drama Yona not
making it was a big shock
to me um after dominating
the first two um stages of
the season uh Miravan roar
I thought the way she came
out winning the open I
thought she would get a spot
I don't know if I thought
she was going to get a spot,
but I was still very impressed by her.
She's very new still to some
of the CrossFit.
I think it was someone on
the broadcast that was
saying just not long ago,
180 was her max snatch,
and then she's been seeing
an Olympic lifter to try to
work on the snatch and ring
muscle-ups and some of the higher skills.
So I think she's come a long way,
and I think she will be one
to watch in Europe in the
next competition.
few years.
Cause she does have home run capacity,
especially with, you know,
some of her squatting capacities and, um,
perhaps other movements too,
that we saw in the open and quarters.
Um, and then I,
I think it can't be said
enough what BKG has doing
for his 11th straight
qualification to the games.
No athlete has ever done that before.
Super impressive.
Yeah, I mean,
just to be able to compete at
this high level for that
many years is incredible.
Not only physically,
but just mentally to stay
in the game is hard, right?
So it's awesome.
Happy for him.
Just so everybody,
like Ben Smith got to 11 straight,
but one was by wild card.
BKG has done it qualifying all 11 times.
super super impressive and
he had to battle his way
back into that you know
those top 10. uh Holly our
stats and information
person says Dewan has been
third the last three years
in semifinals um
So next on the agenda is age group.
Last time we talked, it wasn't final.
We were waiting for the
final submission Monday night.
That happened.
Our very own Jamie Latimer
is sitting in a qualifying
spot for the CrossFit Games.
So pumped for her.
Dex, if he's still in the chat,
was one spot out but has moved up to...
the final qualifying spot he
is sitting in 40th last
check nice nice job so
super pumped for him and
then uh super listener of
the show corey leonard um
had a great time nice job corey
But learned a lot,
and really his goals are
for when he turns 50.
Masters are not official now,
Kenneth DeLapp.
We have to wait until next
Monday for the leaderboard
to be finalized.
And I know a lot of people,
I know Jamie at least has
one validated already.
I know Rudy has two validated already.
I haven't heard from Dex on any of that,
but I know that he's
watching with bated breath.
See if he moves up a little
bit more and secures it.
So, yeah.
But that is the schedule.
Yeah, next Monday, the 28th.
Maybe that's Tuesday.
Next Tuesday, the 28th,
they will be final.
So we're waiting for that.
And on that,
I got to talk to Jamie Igea today.
Man, what a ball of good vibes.
I'm rooting for her.
She is just so fun to talk to.
And she's going to be in the
West this weekend.
And she could be competing
at the Masters CrossFit Games.
And we talked about that a lot today.
But she's taking one step at
a time and not really
committing to anything
beyond West Coast Classic right now.
And then once that's done
and she sees what happens there,
then she'll commit.
And I think it's really like,
if she would by chance make
the CrossFit games,
she probably would not go
masters in addition to that.
Um, but it,
I thought of Carolyn the whole
time because we talked to
women's basketball and its resurgence.
And, um,
when you look up Jamie to research her,
she still comes up as USC
basketball player.
Um, not CrossFit.
Love it.
She's a, she's a great athlete.
Yeah.
I remember when I first got
into the sport and I was
competing and when she
first made the games and
she posted a picture of herself by,
by like the water,
she was like in her bikini and something.
And she was like,
I don't look like a games athlete,
but like, you know,
I perform and I'm an athlete.
And I was like, that's how I feel.
Like, cause I, every time I competed,
like I never felt like I
looked like everyone else.
I just felt like I was
athletic and I did CrossFit.
And I love following her
career over the years since,
since her first time that
she made the games and
she's a sick basketball player.
Yeah.
And she said like,
nobody gave her a shot
because she was so short
and she only got one
division one scholarship
and it was to USC.
Like that's crazy.
And she made the most of it
played professionally in Europe and
tried out for the WNBA,
but there's so few teams.
We talked about that too.
Like the opportunities just
aren't there for women yet,
but they're coming.
There's two teams coming one
in the Bay area and one in Toronto.
So Lex and I are very happy about that.
We get, we each get our teams.
Yeah.
And Jamie,
our Jamie says she uses Jamie
Hygieia's posts as
inspiration for some of the
young women and her affiliate.
Awesome.
Love that.
Because she is so cool about
like body image and very
open and transparent about that.
So I'm super stoked that we had her on.
She's been like a bucket
list of mine to have on the show.
And so glad we got to do that.
And I think she's like best
sideline reporter in the business.
She's awesome at that too.
Yeah, she's incredible.
I was at Granite Games when
she got challenged to demo
the legless rope climb in
her street clothes, and she killed it.
Killed it.
Such a boss move.
She just has a great personality, and yeah,
she'll be good.
Yeah.
Next, we're going to preview next week.
We're heading to Oceania and to Carson,
California.
It has been so fun talking
to athletes leading up to
this who get to go on that
tennis stadium floor.
If you have been a fan of
this sport for a very long time,
that's kind of where it all began.
I was talking to Sam Kwan tonight.
He didn't even realize that
all the events are on the tennis court,
tennis stadium.
Has he looked at his schedule?
I don't know.
I think he just,
how does he not know he's
just training and that's
not part of what he needs
to know at this point.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Um, but,
and then you talk to like Tristan
Harrison who like it, this is his dream.
This is a super bowl he gets
to do and it's his one shot
and he's starting his job
as a nurse right after.
That's awesome.
And that like,
that's the stories are so cool.
And then you have like Jamie
Hygieia who her first games
are 2016 at Carson.
She's going to go back on the floor.
Like that's,
there's so many cool little
stories with this whole thing.
I hope it just comes off as
well as like I'm anticipating.
And then we have Torian,
the complete rock show of
semifinals that has the fireworks,
the flames, the smoke, the dancing,
whatever's.
What is it called when they
drink out of the shoe?
A shoeie.
A shoeie.
The performances, yeah.
It's a vibe.
Yeah.
So super exciting weekend.
We just got done with Europe.
That was great.
These two, man.
Australia's going to be
early in the morning.
West Coast is going to be late at night.
I'm getting no sleep next weekend.
But we're going to do our picks,
who we think is going to make it.
And this was a lot harder
for me this week than it was last week.
Same here.
in two ways.
One,
we kind of talked about this off the top,
the way that the points are
levied in and figured out who,
what area gets the most
invites to the games just
seems off when you're
trying to pick who is going.
And you said it yourself, like in Asia,
because young,
young Choi was out hurt last year.
And then she comes back and,
it gave another person an
opportunity to go to the
games to get big points.
And then Chung Young Choi's
points are still big from
the year before they get an
extra spot when really
there shouldn't be an extra spot.
Yeah.
And this is what Brian spin
talked about last year on
how Africa can get another spot or,
or South America was you
almost need someone to not
make it or make it close
and then get other people getting,
you know,
those games points and stuff,
and then have them come
back the following year.
And then they get those points like that.
That's for sure.
I mean, in my opinion,
what happened with Asia
getting that extra spot.
And then you have a place
like Oceana who has Jamie Simmons,
not competing to me,
moving to the States.
Kara.
Yeah.
car saunders going team uh
emily deroy yeah emily
deroy going team and uh
gosh I can't why can't I
think of her name ellie
turner that's it ellie
turner out this year and
they still get four spots
that just it's insane
So let's start in Oceana,
and it is four and four, four men,
four women.
I don't think the women should get four.
I think the men maybe should get four.
It was pretty easy to make picks for that.
So we're picking four of
each and a dark horse.
I'll start with the men
because I think it's
probably consensus on the top three.
It's probably Jay Crouch, Ricky Garrard,
Bailey Martin.
Yeah.
In whatever order you want, but yes.
Right.
I think Jay has shown that
he's ready and it's going
to be tight between him and Ricky.
Yeah.
I think it'll be like those
two and then Bailey just a
little bit after.
Yeah.
So I have for my fourth Peter Ellis.
I was almost with that one.
I went with Zach Thomas.
Any reasons why?
no no particular reason I
was between those two but
my dark horse is luke dejon
my dark horse is just for
sentimental sake and it's
rob forte you're putting a
classic crossfit workout on
the floor throughout this
competition and who's
better at classic crossfit
than rob forte yeah and it
I'm that's just what I'm
going to be rooting for to
be honest that's a total heart pick
On the women's side, I have Maddie Sturt,
Gracie Walton, Caitlin Van Zyl,
and Georgia Pryor.
I have those top three in a
different order.
And then Haley Adams.
The other Haley Adams.
The other Haley Adams.
And then my dark horse is Julia Hannaford.
Okay.
My dark horse is Alethea Boone.
I'm just going old school.
Yeah.
Workouts.
I want to see the old school people play.
So that would,
and that's just what I'm rooting for.
So I will let you lead off
the North America West and
we'll start with the men because I think,
I think there's probably four for sure's.
And then the five,
the five got tight for me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I kept going back and forth
between different people.
So I have, uh, Brent, Pat, Justin quant,
James Sprague tutor,
especially with the snatch
and the handstand walk.
I think he's going to do great.
I feel like this is Brandon Luck.
It's here.
William Leahy, the fourth.
And here I'm back and forth
between Cole Greyshaber and Colton.
And I love Colton.
I know he can win number two.
I'm a little concerned with
the Echo Bike 30-inch box
legless roll climb one.
and the first the running
one which then puts them
possibly in the not as
great heat going into the
last day if they don't
recede but he's a gamer so
I feel like I gotta go with
colton he's just he gets it
done when it needs to like
I'm gonna put him in that
last spot so I have velner
fitkowski madaris quant
same as you top four
I actually have Colton
because he is a gamer.
He is like, he's just,
you can't not pick him.
Like he's just going to get it done.
And there's workouts
sometimes that you think
he's not going to do well.
And he does.
And it's like, wow,
it's not as tall person workout.
This guy's just so fit.
And he's going to hit a home run or two.
Yep.
Uh, so yeah.
And he's not going to drop
those dumbbells.
That's just one of those
workouts where he's just
going to will himself to be
better than others.
Then I have Tudor,
and I'm high on the Tudor
train this year.
He showed in the open and
quarters a capacity for
things he's never shown a
capacity for before.
And he has home runs with
the snatch and the handstand walk.
So I am really high on tutor this year.
Then I have James Sprague
and I was reluctant.
I didn't,
I didn't want to pull them out
cause I just love the kids so much,
but it's tight here.
And then I have William
Leahy and Scott Tetlow.
Scott Tetlow telling me that
he is for the first time in his career,
not hurt.
because he backed off his
volume this year to see
what that would do um
that's why I went with him
brandon luckett was around
there as well I did not put
him on this list and then
my dark horse who I really
wanted to put in the top
nine was max krieg he was
just on the outside last
year and uh I i think that
this is this is his year
and I almost switched him
and james sprague
Yeah, I mean,
I don't know if Cole
Grayshamers counts as a
dark horse when he's a games athlete,
so let me try to pick
another one for the men
that will go as a dark horse.
I will pick Sam Dancer.
Wow.
That's just like my raw forte pick.
Yeah.
Another athlete.
Yeah.
And you just never, like,
Sam's going to kill that snatch workout.
he's great on his hands.
Like he's going to be good.
Like he's probably won't be tutor,
but as long as he's healthy,
he's actually a really good runner.
Yeah.
I remember my first ever
volunteer experience was when he,
he was on the conjugate
team and he snatched some
stupid number like three 15
or back when nobody was doing that.
And the place went nuts, but he was,
that was big Sam.
He has become much worse
felt in his later years and
much better at a lot of things.
So it'll be fun to watch him.
On the women's side,
there are four no-brainers here, right?
Yeah.
All right.
Who are your top four?
Let's start there.
Ariel, Gazan, Rolf.
i have abigail dome it there
as the fourth bethany it
just depends if she's
healthy if bethany was
healthy I would put her
above domet and possibly
above rolf although I think
rolf is going to have a
great weekend I think a lot
of these workouts are
looking really good for her
so we are the same at that point
and the reason I put bethany
in there so many years I
said no way is she healthy
enough to do this no way is
she healthy enough to do
this and she always does it
and I've once bitten twice
shy putting bethany in
there there's not a whole
bunch of pulling from the
floor I don't think that would
Like those clean and jerks
are light enough.
It's the snatch.
She did really well in that
snatch ladder in 2021 at
the West Coast Classic.
She's a great runner and
she's great on machines.
Like she's got great aerobic capacity.
I think she'll I think she gets it done.
So from NASA,
we have our top five is Ariel Gazan,
Rolf Domet, Bethany.
All right.
Now we've got to finish it
out with three more.
I'm going to go with my girl,
my demo team partner, Sydney.
Son of a gun.
I forgot her altogether and
I would never forget her.
Why did I do that?
Yeah.
I'm going to put Sydney in
there as the next one.
I have, uh, Rebecca Fusliay.
And then there's four
athletes that I think are
very similar athletes.
And I think one of them will make it.
I don't know which one.
Spiegel, Olivia, Kyra, and Kelsey Keel.
Although I think, I don't know.
Might go with,
actually there's Devin Kim too.
That's right.
She has a back injury, I thought.
That's why she came to the team.
Yeah.
That's why I didn't put her in there.
I'm just kidding.
Come on.
She did way too good at the
other events for there
really to be a back injury.
In the quarters?
What heavy hinging did we have?
I'm trying to remember.
Wall balls, burpees, roll, climb,
handstand, push-up, toes to bars,
ring muscle-ups.
I mean, that's not hurting her back.
The snatch one was more grip
than I think the snatch hinging.
Okay.
Clean and jerk.
It came out last year.
There was talk of removing
her from the team last year.
I think it was just a way out.
Possibly.
Possibly.
And I don't think she's really as hurt.
But that's just my opinion.
I have no facts to back that up.
I'm having trouble with
these ones to pick my last one.
This was tough.
This was really tough.
So my modified list.
I think I might go with Kyra.
Wow.
Nice.
Honestly,
like when I watched her on the
team last year,
the most improved athlete I
saw last year.
The most improved by far.
Yeah, she's gone a lot there.
And she's got some good
high-skill gymnastics too.
I don't know what that means
in the individual competition.
But Spiegel and Olivia are
home run hitters too.
It's Kelsey Kiel.
It's hard to pick between.
I think they're very similar.
So we were the same to Flores.
I'm modifying my list to Sydney McElishan,
Rebecca Fusile, and Hattie Canule.
I like it.
What's your dark horse?
This one is everybody
forgets about her and every
year she hits home runs.
And it's Emily White.
That's my dark horse too.
She's a really good runner
and she's super strong.
Yep.
And everybody every year
forgets about her.
Yeah, that's my dark horse.
And every year she almost makes it.
Yep.
Same one.
Yeah.
That one, my dark horses in the West,
Max Krieg and Emily White,
I feel really solid with.
I'm not as familiar with Max, but.
Yeah.
I,
I think Olivia got lucky with the
programming last year.
I mean, there was,
I thought the programming
last year helped while
there were still smaller
athletes that qualified that were just
fit in general I think it
did have a bias towards um
taller bigger athletes so
and I think I think rebecca
has worked so hard on her
strength I i think this is
her time yeah there's
there's some good picks in
the west that you can that you can have
But honestly,
like looking at this and the
athletes in that area,
and maybe I'm just biased
because I talked to a lot
of them and it is like,
there's no way that Asia in
Australia should get extras
and not have room for at
least one more athlete in
North America West.
Yes.
But then my argument would be Europe,
North America East, like as well.
Like, I don't think, I mean,
some of the injuries that happened,
they had a little bit less.
Going in.
I agree with you on North America East.
They deserve one of those for sure.
Maybe two.
Give them South America's
and Asia's and give Australia's to West.
I'm okay.
But Europe,
I don't feel like there was
nobody that didn't make it
that that one spot was
going to get in that I
thought needed to get in.
Yeah.
At the end of the day.
So maybe 10 was right in Europe.
Yeah.
Like when you saw the list, you're like,
yeah, that's, that's a good 10.
Like, I mean, really good 10.
Right.
Yeah.
So, so those are our picks.
Love them.
Hate them.
Make your comments.
Um,
lots of comments about Kelsey looking
like a different athlete this year.
I, I just want to see it on the floor.
And it's probably,
I probably have a bias
today because the last time
I saw her on the floor,
she was struggling with a handstand walk.
And what did I see today?
A handstand walk that made a
big difference in who made it in Europe.
So that's probably why I
didn't even put her in here.
And I, I think she'll be close.
Like, I think she'll be close.
She's in the mix.
Like there's a,
there's a lot that are
going to be in the mix, right?
Like there's,
from let's call it six to 15, right?
Like there's some execution
that's going to be going on and, um,
some workouts,
maybe some people are just
better at like programming
will be a factor.
Yeah.
And again, like I'm, we've,
we have sponsored one team
on this podcast and
And Kelsey Keough was on that team.
So I do really like her and
I do think of the world of her.
I just,
that's just what was in my head today.
If Devin Kim is healthy,
I think she can be in the mix as well.
She should be in the mix.
I,
I don't disagree with you on that either.
There's just,
there's some proof I need to
see live before I go there.
And Kenneth DeLapp says,
so you're saying there's a chance.
I can't believe you didn't pick Sydney.
I did.
I modified it in time.
I thank goodness I let you go first.
Oh my gosh, like her shirt is right there.
We got you, Sydney.
We got you.
And her dad listens to this
podcast and show.
Oh man, what a moron.
She's one of the best pullers in CrossFit.
And I got this,
I already knew that going
into the demo team last year.
And then I saw it and I was like, yeah.
Well,
and what's going to be exciting for
me is I've talked to her coach and
You've seen the video of her training,
the running, her running, getting better.
We're going to see right off the bat.
How, how much better did her running get?
And if it does,
she's also in a field that
has other runners that are not as fast.
So that will also help her.
I think if I'm being honest.
Versus if you put her in Europe,
let's say Europe is just
has good aerobic capacity.
Like you can get like,
it's like the strength
workout in North and North
America is going to be different than,
you know, in certain regions,
they're just more known for
certain things.
West is top heavy.
They are very top heavy.
Bethany, Emily, Emily,
which is why if you have a
workout that you can go and
get a top five,
it is huge because for the most part,
a lot of times it's like
those same athletes getting
top fives and then the rest
are just kind of
interchanging in that middle.
So when,
when you get that top five points,
It helps you a lot.
And like someone like, you know, Spiegel,
Olivia with those snatch ladders,
Kelsey Keel will get those points there.
So it'll make up for possibly.
They're also top five in like runners,
right?
Emily, Ariel took, what,
second or third in the games in the 5K?
Emily White has proven that
she's a great runner.
Bethany Flores beat most of
the men at West Coast Classic in 21.
Yeah, I was going to say,
she won that workout by, like.
Right.
Like,
they have some of the top runners in
the sport.
If, if extremes though, if they don't,
right.
But it's packed up there
with those people at the top, like,
like Emily Rolfe needs a win there.
I think she can do well on a
few workouts there.
I don't disagree.
I guess I'm just proposing this to you.
Like, yeah.
because it's top heavy the
snatch ladder like kelsey
keel danny spiegel olivia
kerstetter yeah there's a
lot like getting the win is
going to be harder because
it's a crapshoot between up
to five people who are
really good at that
movement where like nobody
was going to catch braun in
europe right no yeah like
that snatch ladder there's a lot of
heavy hitters in North America.
Right.
And like, look at someone like, um,
Fuliano, right?
Like it could be just a
smaller athlete that just
has better capacity to just
cycle a heavy barbell for
multiple reps versus that one rep max, uh,
strength.
Yeah.
I think that's,
what's going to juggle it
more than we think in the
West is you have like that
first event where there are
five people that could win that.
And it's going to be hard to
be the one that wins it on that five.
Cause they're also good snatch ladder.
People are going to need
that win when you get to that moment.
And it's going to be tough
to get the win with those
five people fighting you for it.
Yeah.
And what heats are you going
to be in at that point?
So I think that's going to
be fun to watch and see how
much that plays a role in all that.
So that is our preview for next week.
We're going to ramp up.
We're going to do more shows.
I'll have on who can be on.
I know it's a busy weekend,
but I want to cover that a
lot more than we did Europe
because we did so many of
the interviews and stuff like that.
to finish up with I was on
around the whiteboard again
this week I took the
victory I don't know how I
felt like I was bad this
week and thank goodness the
last question was about
media and I got to go off
on the last question and
make a valiant comeback
yeah it's like you started
slower and then you were
picking up points you know
yeah you were like a hoffer you know
The first week I came out
punching hard and leveled off.
And this week I went the
opposite direction.
Got it done though.
It's not, you don't ask how.
So this week is the finals.
So there was already, like,
I think Brian Spinn won the
first quarter.
This is the second quarter,
and there's three people left.
It is me, it is Colton Mertens,
and it is Kiefer Lamy.
That's some heavy hitters.
That's going to be some good chirping,
too.
You better have your A game.
Yeah,
I think I'm going to have to come out
hot this week and see if I can hold on.
That's going to be a good one.
Yeah.
It's moving to Tuesday
because Kiefer and Colton
might be busy starting Wednesday.
Yeah,
they got to do something this weekend.
Right.
Might have a little thing on
the agenda the weekend after.
And I'm hoping that that
means that they are distracted.
That gives me the opening to
shoot through the gap and get the win.
So that is this Tuesday, 3 p.m.
Eastern time.
Super stoked for that.
See if we can take the W to
then move on to, I think,
the grand finale,
which would be spin me and
whoever wins the next quarter.
Awesome.
It's been fun watching.
It's a great, I mean,
I get that it's the same as the death by,
but it's not.
And it's,
it's nice to have like the weekly
winners come, you know,
there's got the
championships and then it's nice.
Yeah.
I think it's way harder than
death by the time.
The timer is huge.
Yeah.
If,
if you have never done anything like
this in your time for 60
seconds to get all your thoughts out.
Insane.
And the first week, I think I rushed it.
The second week, I started to tell myself,
just slow down.
It actually is a little bit
longer than you think it is.
And then it seemed to go better.
But super stoked for that.
And then I want to finish
with a little brag.
I'm super pumped about this.
For my mom's birthday and mother's day,
I got her tickets to the U S
swimming Olympic trials.
Where's that being held?
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Awesome.
So it's only a two hour
drive for us from here.
Um,
they are putting the pool in the
football stadium where the
Indianapolis Colts play.
That's cool.
I just want to see how
they're going to do that logistically.
Cause that seems insane to me.
But I am super pumped.
My mom is one of the biggest Olympic fans.
Every time the Olympics run,
she watches every sport under the sun,
including curling and
fencing and jujitsu and all of it.
She cannot get enough.
I love the Olympics.
And I was a swimmer growing up.
So we're actually going to go do that.
Um,
cause I haven't been to a swim meet in
forever.
So this is going to be really cool.
And we got seats right on
the start finish line.
That's awesome.
So that's actually in mid June.
So right after semis,
that's going to be my
relaxation to kind of go with mom,
hang out with her and go
watch some swimming.
I like that.
I was watching the gymnastics today.
Okay.
The U S a girl's gymnastics.
I think it was a national
meet or something.
Qualifier.
Yeah.
Everything right now has got
to be like Olympic trials.
I know track and field just
happened like a week ago, I think.
And what the Olympics are in August.
Paris.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right after the games,
we'll have something to watch.
That'd be cool.
I don't know how you had
time to watch gymnastics today.
Well,
I guess you didn't do all the three
interviews I did today.
Yeah.
It's like in the background
sometimes when I'm doing stuff.
Yeah.
Normally I'd be doing like
schoolwork on a Sunday,
but it's a long weekend for us.
So I get tomorrow off to do
my correcting of math tests
and other things, programming.
Well, cool.
Well, enjoy your day off tomorrow.
I will.
Everybody in the chat,
thank you so much for being here.
This was awesome.
Glad we got to spend the night with you.
And we'll be back next
weekend covering the West Coast Classic.
Make sure you join us then.
All the people I've been interviewing,
I've been prepping them
that we'll be reaching out
to them to talk to them
next weekend during our wrap-up shows.
So we should have some of
the athletes on during that,
which will be really awesome to do.
So with that,
we'll see everybody next time
on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
Thanks, guys.
See you soon.