Clydesdale Media Podcast

We Recap the days events from the Syndicate Crown

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Live from the Best Western

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We are here to break down

the Syndicate Crown final day action.

What went on?

Who's punching their ticket?

Who's going to the games?

Wow, we got Seema Cannons in the house.

We got Holly.

We got Kenneth.

What's going on, guys?

Helson Albernaz is there.

It says, hello, I'm sad.

Taylor, Annika, and Prevost.

uh couldn't have said it

better myself so we went in

today with three events

remaining uh and things

started off pretty hot we

had the row handstand row

handstand walk event oh

marma switzer's in that crowd

So we started out with that one,

and there were so many close races.

But I think the theme of the day,

and it started with this event,

were that people from the

first couple heats were

setting the time to beat.

Yeah.

and in this event it it was

like no other and uh or all

the others um ashley wozni

came out on fire in that

first event dana pran

actually won the first heat

then ashley wozni beat the

time from the second heat

and she actually ended up

finishing top five yeah it was solid

So that shook up the

leaderboard quite a bit

because Ashley actually

jumped 10 spots on that

performance for the women.

And then when it came to the end, it was,

of course,

everybody thought it was

Danielle Brandon's event to win.

And what actually happened, Jamie?

I can't even remember the final heat.

Was it like...

Oh, well, Haley.

She rode incredible.

She did.

And then once she hit the handstands,

nobody was catching her.

Yeah.

So I believe it went Haley, Tia, Raptus.

Then Wozni.

Danielle was up there.

I think Danielle might have beat Raptus.

on the last like two feet.

Yeah.

I just was shocked.

Danielle did not run on her

hands like she normally does.

Yeah.

She didn't look like she was

moving as fast.

Um, which it's more,

it seems to be more of a rowing workout,

but you expect when

Danielle flips upside down to be out.

walking everybody,

and that was not the case.

I mean,

she was walking in time with the

other girls on the floor.

Holly said Danielle actually

came in 10th in that event.

Yeah, that's crazy.

So that was not at all expected.

It was a close race at the top.

I'm pulling it up now.

Yeah, I mean, the last...

20 feet of that walk was

pretty close between.

It actually was Haley Adams, Brooke Wells,

then Tia, then Annika from the third heat,

and then Ashley Wozni from

the second heat.

Yeah.

Annika and Brooke were together.

Oh, that's right.

And Brooke had overtaken

Annika on the rower.

Yeah.

Just a hair.

That was such a tight race.

That one was so fun to watch.

It was.

And then when the men came up, it was very,

very similar.

And was it the third heat?

Because Rosema had to like

tuck and shoot his leg out

to get the win of that heat.

Yeah, that was the third heat.

I hate that it resets to

overall every time.

So it ended up in the,

in the third heat Rosema

one with Vino and Parker and it was bang,

bang, bang.

Yep.

Uh, Jack Farlow dominated the first heat,

uh,

and ended up with a fifth place finish.

But the event actually was Hopper, Pepper,

Corn YA to start off the final heat.

But there were crazy

finishes all over the place

on every heat of that

except for Farlow dominating the first.

So, so much fun to watch.

Yeah.

Lots of screaming around as it,

because we could not tell

with the naked eye who had won what.

No.

But it was crazy.

And now when I feel like the

way you finished your

handstand walk mattered,

at least for those guys,

because it was such tight race,

they needed to be.

They just need to be very

calculated with the way

they came down on their

handstand or rolled like

Jack did to make sure that

chip timer immediately ticked over.

Yeah,

it actually prompted a lot of

discussion in the pits

about what was the best way

to end that race.

Take two more steps on your hands,

do the front somersault,

or pull down and tuck under.

Everybody had their own theory.

But when you're relying on a chip timer,

I think staying on your

hands doesn't give you the

sense of security that it's

going to trip.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Helson says, Farlow had a great day three.

He sure did, man.

Being down at the bottom for

most of day one and two,

and then to finish 17th overall.

Lots of great performances by Jack today.

Yeah.

He looked like what we would

have expected day one and two.

So what do you take from the

Danielle thing not running on her hands?

I don't know.

I don't know if she was just

being calculated this

weekend and making sure

there was no mistakes.

Not that I think she would

have gotten a mistake in that workout.

So it is interesting.

I don't see her needing to.

change anything about her

handstand walking to make

sure she doesn't make an

error but we saw some

fingertips touching sides

of tape and things like

that getting people no reps

or kind of like Tudor last

week starting with your

fingertip just grazing that

start of the line so maybe

she just took things slower

I don't know my conspiracy

theory is she did it just

to mess with us all

She did it to blow the heat one out.

Not necessarily.

He won just because she's

known as the handstand Walker and like,

I don't want to be known as that.

So I'm just going to take this one.

Chill.

I'm in a good spot.

I don't need to.

So that's my conspiracy theory.

Just, just to be defiant.

Like Danielle likes to be like,

I'm going to show you,

don't call me the handstand Walker.

I'm going to have a nice

consistent weekend and just

punch my ticket.

Maybe.

Or do you think she wasn't

fully confident she could

win it and didn't want to try and fail?

Bruce, was it a row workout or not?

I don't think it was a row workout.

I think it was whatever you

wanted it to be.

It was a row workout.

If you ask Andrea Solberg in

Europe whether it was a

handstand walk or a row,

she'd tell you it was a handstand walk.

It was a row workout.

Who won the workout?

Here?

Who won the workout worldwide?

Laura.

Okay.

So if you had that prop and

you thought the world

record was going to fall today,

it did not.

And who won the record?

Men.

worldwide.

Cole grease saver.

I'm guessing because I don't know.

Yeah, I think so.

So I don't know.

Elson agrees.

It was a real workout.

Sorry, Scott.

Yeah,

but Andrea Solberg finished second in

Europe and she did not

attack that as a row workout.

She's so good on her hands.

That's what she attacked it as.

Then I don't know.

There's something going on

with the rest of the field in Europe.

Thank you, Kenneth.

It was a CrossFit workout.

I mean, sure,

you couldn't suck on your hands.

You couldn't stop every 12-foot increment.

You definitely couldn't win doing that.

So you needed to be good on your hands,

but it was a rowing workout.

Bruce says,

where does Danielle bet big on

the Heat One app?

Yeah, all that cash.

So...

So that's the end of that.

It is what it is.

Hopper won.

And, uh, yeah.

Who won for the Haley one?

Hopper and Haley.

So then, and I want to,

I do want to say to you

right before that workout,

you and I look down at

Haley and on the start mat,

completely different Haley.

She was having fun.

She was singing along to the

music playing in the arena.

She was swaying, dancing,

whatever you want to call it,

to that look super calm.

Nothing like we've seen her in the past.

Oh, my goodness.

Look who's joined us.

Oh, hey.

Hello.

We don't want to bug you.

I don't know what you guys

are talking about.

I missed the first part.

We just talked about the event four.

And then argued whether it's

a row workout or a

handstand walk workout.

It's 100% a rowing workout.

Unless you have very,

very fast handstand walks,

it's a rowing workout.

Yes.

Okay.

This was a power-up.

It depends on who you are.

But if you have very,

very fast handstand walk,

you can stay in the race.

But it's mostly a rowing workout.

Okay.

I'd already lost before you came.

You just slam dunked it over

my head even harder.

Chloe and I were talking

about it after she had done her event.

We're like, yeah,

that was more of a rowing

capacity workout.

Because you can get a lot of a head start

like, over the three rounds,

especially the 800 and the 600,

you can make up some time where, like,

even if someone goes really,

really fast on their hands, like,

if you're a good rower,

you can do some damage.

Yeah, I mean, prime example,

I think Danielle lost her very first,

like, handstand workout ever.

You need it to be good at both.

Yeah, yeah.

But I think it was more

important to be a really good rower.

Out of the two.

Yeah, I agree now.

Everybody's slam dunked on me.

I'm good.

But Danielle did not look like Danielle.

Typical Danielle on her hands.

So I don't know what was up

with her that she didn't

kick in that gear.

I think it's true.

I think it's a lot of pressure for her.

Every time she does,

she's done handstand walk workouts.

She's talked about that's

like the most anxious that

she gets her like pressure

that she has because she

knows she's expected to, to win.

So.

Well,

my concern was that she doesn't want

to be known as a handstand

Walker anymore.

And she just said, I'm, I've,

I'm just building bricks

this weekend and I'm doing well.

And if I'm just consistent,

it's good enough.

Doubtful, but maybe.

So Carolyn's been on for all

of two minutes and she slam

dunked me twice.

Glad you jumped on the show, Carolyn.

All right.

Bruce Wayne says,

always great to slam dunk on Scott.

I've been posterized twice.

All right.

So then we move to event five,

which was a snatch ladder event.

so many crazy finishes like

for most people this

workout really came down to

those last couple that last

bar oh sure oh my gosh my

mom is saying go carolyn

thank you that was a rough

go this weekend but we're

here so it seemed like

unless there were just a

handful of people that got capped

And then it was,

how fast could you get

through that last barbell

once you switched over

midway up the floor to the

last two rounds on the new barbell?

And some people did it

really quick and some

people struggled a little bit.

Are you willing to walk us

through how that felt, Carolyn?

For me?

Or just overall as an analyst?

I'm very impressed with Shelby Neal.

I think she got a second on that one.

She's a great lifter.

When I looked at her do

clean and jerk last year

and her snatch last year at the Games,

for someone who's smaller,

on the smaller side, she moves very well.

She had a great finish there.

For me,

it was the quads were kind of blown

up a little bit in my lower

back as I was progressing through

like the snatch ladder.

But yeah, I mean,

it's impressive how fast

the girls are just able to

snatch that weight.

Like, like you said,

there's not that many that didn't finish.

I don't know how that

compares to the other regions,

but it seems like there's

most people ended up

finishing here than maybe

some of the other regions.

Yeah.

I want to say only like,

four or five,

maybe five didn't finish here.

And I think it's typically

been 10 to 12 in other regions.

And one girl, Elena Savage, she withdrew.

So that's, so five out of 39.

Yeah.

Just crazy.

Cause I did that smash

ladder in 2016 and I got capped at the

think I was like seven reps

at the 145 that year and

like I finished I mean I

missed three or four

snatches today was not a

not my best day but like

eight something like late

eights and like it's like a

horrible finish which is

just crazy to think just

how far sport is like we're

just so strong

So I'm going to ask you a

question and you can slam

dunk on me again if you want.

So you hit that last bar and

you nailed the first snatch.

Like I was getting excited, like,

oh my gosh, she's nailing it.

And then that's when the

difficulty set in for you.

Is that a weight that takes

so much of your energy and

exertion in that moment

that it's really hard to

recover and hit it a second time?

No,

I felt fine going back to the barbell

to reattempt.

I thought that they were good misses.

It wasn't like I was getting

really sucked under the barbell.

It was like the one I had stepped forward.

It's a game of inches for snatch.

I was just a little bit

ahead of me every time.

Yeah,

just a little off in the execution

all weekend really for me

was off here and there.

And in this type of field, it's so good.

It's so deep.

You know,

you miss 10 seconds here and it's

like five spots here.

Like it just keeps adding up.

The field's just too good to

have a moderate execution.

We were talking with Brian

Friend and I don't think

any of us had seen a

competition with so many

close finishes where like

fractions of a second were

making the difference in

three or four spots.

Absolutely.

The field was just so deep, right?

Like this was, in my opinion,

the deepest of the fields.

So yeah, like those,

those points just add up

over the weekend.

And like you said,

there's seconds and it's five people.

You're like, gosh.

Yeah.

Yeah,

like there were seven one-hundredths

of a second on the one race.

Like it's getting down to

like less than tenths of a second.

It's so tight with this field.

Like I told everybody,

and I actually ran into a

couple of listeners who

came to semifinals because

we talked about it.

And now they said they're

never going to the games again.

They just want to go to semis.

That's how exciting it was.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it was super evident that...

with the wins, not necessarily wins,

but times to be being set

and difficult times to be

being set early.

And you don't really get

that at the games.

Like you get like a decent

time and then heat two

comes and it gets beat.

And then he three comes and it,

it gets beat.

Like, you know,

each heat is getting better.

Like it's self-seated and,

by the end of the day.

And that w there, there was no way,

like you weren't going to

have that no matter how you

seated this weekend.

Like there was always going

to be a top five time out of heat one.

Yeah.

Every, every heat was relevant.

Um, I still think this seating, oops,

Can you still see me?

Sorry, a window popped up.

I was doing work before here.

I still think that the

seating is just messed up

over the weekend out of all the semis.

We talked about that,

like seating after the first workout,

not seating after the last workout.

But regardless,

he's just relevant because

everyone's good here.

It also shows you that the

allotment of spots around

the world is off.

Because there's no way that

this field should have been

cut at 11 on both sides.

Including the teams at 8.

Agreed.

Completely.

Because the teams,

I don't know if you guys talk about teams,

but the North America East

teams are taking Invictus

and maybe one or two teams from Oslo.

area and a couple teams from

australia but like north

america east is always the

deepest region like those

other regions might have a

couple top teams but

they're not the depth of

north america east for

teams so to give them eight

spots to me is ridiculous

those teams should have at least 10 to 11

11, so that Pro 1 gets in there.

And I was listening.

I think John and JR were

talking about of the

qualifiers from the East,

how many would have good

potential to finish in the

top 10 at the Games?

And they kind of plotted it

out and came up with six

names and really only four

others in their top 10 from other regions,

two from the West, two from Europe,

and six in North America East.

that's it's a shame that

north america east isn't

getting way more people in

them yeah I agree so so the

snatch workout comes uh

it's won by tia tia won

pretty much everything all

weekend and then um shelby

took second on that

which, like you said, was amazing.

She really moved well through that ladder.

Emma Lawson was third.

Ashley Wozni,

she was in heat three by then.

She had moved from heat two

to heat three at that point

because she had a great day.

Probably one of the best

days out of anyone that competed today.

And then Lexi Neely was in fifth.

And Dana had a pretty good

time out of heat one.

Yeah.

I mean,

she's has that Olympic lifting

background.

Um, so there's no surprise there.

I'm assuming she could have

gone faster again,

had she been in a different

heat and a better heat in

terms of that workout.

Um,

Yeah.

I mean,

great finish for Emma Lawson

showing that as she's, you know,

getting a little bit older,

her Olympic lifting is great though.

Like I'm not sure where her

raw strength numbers are.

They are getting, I think stronger,

but she's a great Olympic lifter.

Um,

did well last year also at the games

during those, those two lifts.

Yeah.

She looks,

she just looks smooth at all

times on the floor.

She moves very well.

Um,

And there was a point where

Jamie and I looked at each other.

We quit picking Tia for Heat

One App just because it was boring.

Like, who else is going to?

Because the game isn't fun

when it's just Tia, Tia, Tia.

Yeah,

they got to switch that up so that

you can only play her or

each person eliminated.

Even each person,

you can only play like once or twice.

Agreed.

um so then we flipped to the

men's side and another

person who had a great day

was jack farlow uh he

followed up event four and

his heat win with uh heat

win in this and his his

time stood for a long time

yeah if I remember I think

till the end you had you

had jack and then you had

um he finished fifth in the snatch ladder

And the only people that

beat him were the final Heat.

Those four guys.

And then you had Joe Piero

do the touch and go.

Which that time had to have been up there.

Top 10, maybe?

Well, he set the time to beat.

He was 5.58.

Oh, 5.58.

After that.

And then that was the time to tell Jack.

And then Jack got it.

And then nobody in Heat 2

beat either of them, I believe.

Correct.

Or Heat 3.

And then the final four.

All right.

With Hopper, Pepper...

Was that Cornway?

Yeah, Cornway.

Because he got all fired up.

Yeah.

And then Kronikoff.

Yeah,

Cornway snatches probably his best lift.

I said to Jamie,

of all the athletes that had that quiet,

really solid weekend, it was Sam.

Yep.

He just put in the work day

after day after day,

and it just paid off at the end.

I'd say Sam for the boot cycle.

Keep going.

Good thing he did because

event six was his worst

finish of the weekend.

And then on the female side,

I would say Alexis Raptus

was very quiet all weekend

but so consistent.

She was.

Yeah.

So Joey Piero was like my

favorite athlete to talk to all weekend.

And he was willing to chat

me up about every time I passed him.

And he knows what his

strengths are and he knows

what his weaknesses are.

And he doesn't take any of

it too seriously at this point.

And it was just a fun little

like humorous break from

everything that was going

on this weekend.

You're right, Kenneth.

Brooke had a really good weekend, too.

Other than that,

was it the front squat workout?

She didn't finish very well,

but everything else was super solid.

Daniel Brandon, super solid.

Yeah.

I like the Alexis pick

because I actually picked

her to finish second in the

heat one app and that she did.

I mean, I was kind of counting Brooke out,

so she surprised me.

Yeah.

So then we go to that.

We gave the wrong names for

the snatch ladder.

I hit the wrong button.

Jack Rosema won the snatch ladder.

Right.

And then it was Sam Cornway in second,

Pepper in third, Adler in fourth,

then Farlow in fifth.

So Farlow actually took two

fifths back-to-back after

being in heat one and then heat two.

And Piero actually finished

right behind him in sixth.

So there we go.

Um...

So, Lynn,

I know you're asking about DB and

the handstand walk.

We kind of beat that horse

to death a little bit.

We beat Scott to death.

And I'm not bringing it up

again because I don't need

to get slammed on.

It's a rowing workout.

I'll say it.

That's why, Lynn.

Okay.

So then we go to event six and the women.

And this, man, tough workout.

Oh, I've got so many feelings about this.

So, that's what happens.

It keeps changing on me.

Okay.

So,

this was the echo bike into the

muscle-ups into the heavy

dumbbell lunges.

I'm going to say this first.

I'm not an athlete, so I can't say this.

The judging on this event was atrocious.

Atrocious.

On the lunges or on the ring muscles?

On the lunges.

The inconsistency on how the

lunges were being called

across the board was horrific.

And I'm not an athlete, so I can say that.

It was horrific.

Some judges were making you

come to full extension at

the top before you swung

your leg through.

Others were not.

Some were letting you rest

the dumbbells on your thighs,

which blew me away.

Others were not.

As soon as they touched, it was a no rep.

The line...

calls were mind-boggling um

the for this for this great

weekend to come down to

whether your judge screwed

you over or not should not

be how you get to the games

and erica folo got mega screwed

Mega screwed.

And then once she got the couple no reps,

she just had no grip left.

And for her to cap was a shame.

She came off the muscle ups

in third place in that heat.

And they were,

what they wanted for

extension was insane.

She has two 70 pound

dumbbells in front of her body.

There's going to be some

forward lean just naturally

for any of us.

And to no rep her for that was appalling.

Yeah.

I felt really sad watching her.

She's like, she had such a good weekend.

I know this day was a little

bit tougher with, uh,

I know her handstand walk was,

that's like one of her weaknesses,

maybe like rowing and handstand walk,

but like she had a great weekend.

I think really put her name, um,

like on the board really.

People are starting to know about her.

I've known about her for

many years just because she

lives close to me.

So I've kind of seen her

name pop up and I thought

she could have gone individual last year.

So for her to have that

heartbreak and to come from

an inside position on the

last event to an outside

position is just hard to see that, right?

But she's very,

very young and I think the future is very,

very bright for her.

I mean,

the fight kind of goes out in

somebody when you're no rep like that.

And you kind of know you

just lost your shot.

There's really nothing you

can do in that moment.

I know people say just, like, go, finish.

But, like,

it was over for her with that call.

And you can't.

Like Scott said,

I do not like that

someone's fate is in a

judge's hand when it's not

consistent across the board.

Other people did the exact same thing.

I didn't see her no rep.

I only saw when she started

just losing her grip.

So she got no rep for the

extension or she just

didn't make it to the line?

Extension.

And there was nothing wrong

with her extension.

She just had a forward lean.

Now,

what the broadcast probably showed was

not the initial no reps.

They probably showed her

only when she was

struggling like hell

because she'd been called

back three times.

Yeah.

It...

And we were right that we

were almost parallel with

her when this was happening.

I am telling you,

I've judged in this sport for many years.

It was a bad call.

Bruce says watching it live,

the calls looked right.

If you say that, Bruce,

then you didn't see other

lanes of other heats do the

exact same thing and get away with it.

Because people were swinging

the leg through and not

coming to full extension on

steps all the time.

Bruce, and you're blind.

I'm telling you.

He probably didn't see it

happen to other people.

He said they showed her the whole time.

Yes.

But maybe not the

Right.

You may have not seen, like,

Christopher got no-repped

the second time his

dumbbells touched his thighs,

but they touched his thighs

a line before that,

and he didn't get no-repped for it.

Yeah.

Oh, Lynn.

Yeah, they do.

You can read them.

And that, so Lynn says, honestly,

and maybe it's just me,

I always lean and stand up.

CrossFit has to release a

movement standard book or something.

I could not agree with you more.

The problem when we argue

about all these calls there,

there is no standard movement book.

There is no, when you say,

what is the lunge standard?

We don't know.

It's dependent on

It's dependent on whatever

that competition or this

stage of the competition

states is the rule.

It's a rule, not a standard.

And that's where I think the

sport needs to go or we're

just going to continue to

complain about this.

Well,

and some judges seem to interpret

those differently.

Because they change for every competition.

It's not okay.

Not in a sprint when there's

no recovering.

You no rep one rep on somebody like Colton,

like Erica.

You've just changed their fate.

The hard part about this

sport is you can't appeal a no rep.

Yeah.

That's something that

we're... I don't know if...

I know I get...

it would just be so hard on

the appeals and scoring

would take forever,

but they don't accept any

videos that you could show them.

They don't, they don't look at,

they don't allow you to appeal no reps.

So like, I wish we had, you know, one,

one case you can make all weekend.

You get one pick,

pick the time that you want to appeal.

you're no reps, right?

I don't know.

Like at a minimum.

Cause just if,

when there are calls like that,

it's just tough.

And like,

it's the athlete can't do anything.

Like we have no, no recourse there.

No.

Yeah.

Train to lift says one

review should be allowed at this stage.

A hundred percent.

Um,

I'm working with one screen.

Dang it.

There we go.

Would love to see if anyone

has behind-the-scenes

videos showing the workout briefings.

Judges really should be held

accountable to,

and CrossFit has to do

better on that end with the

appeals process.

Usually media is not allowed

in the athlete briefing.

Well,

that's the one place the media was

not allowed was the judges area.

So we definitely wouldn't be

there for the judges being

reviewed the standard and

discussing that.

I'm okay with your thought, Kenneth.

I think three is too many in

a six event weekend.

Absolutely.

One or two tops.

Yeah.

And I think people would be

hesitant to use those early

on in the weekend, knowing like many,

many workouts are left and it's like,

do I use it now?

You know, but yeah,

I think max one at least,

but better than zero.

Yeah.

So then to the event on the floor, this,

this workout was such a killer.

you watch an ashley wozni go

unbroken and on her last

step into the finish line

goes down on one knee and

drops the dumbbells and

then she has to go back the

12 feet and do that last

one again that may I know

she finished near the line

that may have made a difference

Anika man every year we get

to that last event and

something happens one

freaking point again

outside and just like she

was behind Lexi Neely going

into that event she beat

Lexi in the event but at

the point where they both

finished it was only a two

point difference and it was

a three point lead

so uh and then on the men's

side the annika of the

men's side is tyler christophel

Honestly, like the whole time,

Jamie and I are saying,

all he has to do is finish

with a decent time.

Like, just go two blocks,

drop the dumbbells, shake it out,

go two more, shake it out,

get to the end.

And he just completely blows

up on that last word.

And that's all Annika had to do, too.

She was in a pretty safe position.

Yeah.

All she had to do was just play it safe.

You don't have to go on

broken on the ring muscle ups.

You don't have to bike super, super hard.

And like you said,

break up your sections and

just get a decent finish and you're fine.

So Lex,

what I saw that Anika did is she

actually rested the head of

the dumbbell on her thigh.

That was the no rep that got called.

I think that's a legit no rep,

but Tyler Christoffel did

it once and didn't get called,

did it a second time.

Then they called it.

That's the inconsistency

that just is baffling to me.

And Garty, Sanchez, Christoffel,

and Annika both, the last couple years,

just last event curses.

At this point, that's what it is.

It's sad to see.

It is.

You feel for them so much.

Like,

I've been in that position once

before in 2018 to Chloe.

Like, it's rough.

Like, each of us had a bad workout,

and we're waiting at the end,

and you're like, did I do enough?

Did I do enough?

Like, that's a hard position.

And to have that happen many, like,

multiple years in a row, like,

that's tough.

I looked at Jamie,

I think it was yesterday.

No, it was this morning.

It was this morning for the

handstand walk row workout.

Annika's in a heat with

Brooke Wells and Emma

Lawson and Alexis Raptus and Tia Toomey.

And all the cameras are on Annika.

No, it was just Annika and Brooke.

She wasn't in,

they weren't in the final heat with,

The row?

Yeah.

Okay.

You're right.

But there were still like

big names in that heat.

Yeah.

And every camera is on Anika.

Like why?

That's, that's just a lot.

And I don't know.

It just seemed like a lot.

Yeah.

She beat Lexi by one spot.

So not enough.

If it was two spots, then she would be,

have been in that.

And that comes into play with the follow.

calls and no reps like could

she have been that person

that middled them like not

only did she get totally

effed over or maybe she

didn't maybe you guys all

agree with it but not only

did it like I mean and

that's you don't ever want

like annika can't rely on

other people of course she

needs to just be do what

she needs to do and be safe but

The one thing we can say

this year is Anika.

It was on her.

Yeah.

Like this year, slightly better.

And it was not an issue, right?

Right.

There, there was no bad call this year.

There was no judgment thing.

It was,

she just had to do better on one event.

Yeah.

And when, and it could have been the run,

it could have been the

snatch ladder one place.

It was one point at the end

of the end of the weekend.

I didn't see her not

standing up her lunges.

I didn't either.

Nathan Wilson says, I'm behind.

Buffalo was the only one in

that heat that wasn't

standing up their lunges.

And then when she got a no rep,

she was able to change.

It was so clearly she could do it.

Not everybody was calling

that standing up the lunge

issue across the board.

Train to Live says she

needed to Travis Mare that event.

Exactly.

He did great.

He came in clutch.

Just had to do enough to get some points.

So at least this year it

wasn't in somebody else's hands.

She had it in her ability to make it.

But Anika's hair was amazing, though.

Sucks to see because Anika

has done so much running this past year.

But that first workout took no prisoners.

If you didn't pace well,

it feels like Farlow got

caught in that too.

Absolutely.

And Carolyn.

So many people got eaten up by that.

Went out too hot.

Went out with the lead pace.

And round four and five was a disaster.

I had medical.

It was bad.

TK just joined.

Super stoked for Chloe.

Had her in my top 10 after

your podcast that you did with her.

Scott and I talked about

Chloe prior to doing that podcast.

You reached out to me and you're like,

what are her big holes?

I was like, no.

This girl is so good at everything.

Once the workouts were out,

Like there was no doubt in

my mind that she was qualifying.

No doubt.

Like this day,

this day three was made for her.

It's all of her strengths.

She's amazing on her hands.

She's such a good rower.

She is unreal with snatching

at high weight.

Like she has a 200 pound

snatch and she hits like a

190 consistently in training.

She's probably a top three

in the world in ring muscle-ups.

I think she can do like 25 unbroken.

high,

like high level gymnast and then

played that right.

She was one of the slowest

person off the bike,

went unbroken on the rings,

took her time to pick up

the dumbbells and finished.

Like she did unbelievable.

Yeah.

So let me ask you this.

Cause you know,

her as an athlete really well,

she was coaching a team at

this event and she was

taking that very seriously

on Friday and Saturday when

they were going.

How much help was it when

they were done and she

could then just focus on herself today?

Or was it just that's just

happened to be when the

workouts were better for her?

I think the workouts were

better for her today.

And on top of it,

but even with the workouts better for her,

I still think that the team

not qualifying like was

heavy on her heart because

I had a long talk with her

this like in the morning.

And, you know,

she's invested in in that pro one team.

Obviously, her boyfriend's on the team.

Those are her friends on the team.

So.

I think it was obviously a

disappointment for them not to make it.

So her heart was kind of in both places.

But I just think she has so

much natural talent that

once it's 3-2-1 go,

she's able to perform.

So I'm going to ask you one

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