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Okay.
What's going on, everybody?
We are live in Grant Park, Indiana.
Not Illinois.
Indiana,
we were at day one of the World
Fitness Project.
So Jamie and I thought we would jump
on.
We don't need the ceiling.
Here we go.
We thought we would jump on and see
if anybody was out there and wanted to
know what it was like here at the
venue.
uh for the world fitness project and it
was really nice it's very nice in there
they have done an excellent job it's very
intimate um i don't i mean i don't
like we've seen it we've seen the lights
we've seen the spectacle so kind of had
an idea of what to expect but
Yeah, I don't know.
It's intimate right now.
And I don't know if that's just because
it's Friday and there's maybe less
spectators that might be here this weekend
or that's just how these events generally
are.
There's a couple of things I would say.
The facility is beautiful.
The setup is awesome.
The vendors are as many if not more
than the CrossFit Games.
They, they weren't,
they just were in a more condensed area.
Um, but,
and some of them had smaller booths,
but there was, there was a, what, ten,
ten or twelve?
Yeah, there's probably at least ten.
And then there's like blow up chairs,
little couches that spectators can grab
with yard games,
like yard pong is in there, cornhole.
It's just – you can actually go work
out.
There's a spectator workout area.
It's just things you don't get really –
There's footballs to toss around.
It is the home of the Indianapolis Colts
practice facility.
So they are embracing the football vibe to
the whole thing.
They have nets to throw into,
footballs to throw into.
Lots of activities,
more so than a lot of events I've
ever been to.
Yes.
um but yeah it's it was really nice
and i think it was really well run
very professional um i know that i have
done schmear campaigns in the past uh but
this was a great experience i don't think
we've ever tried to smear wfp we've just
given
they said oh well they let us come
and it's it's going great so far and
the the um they have treated the media
better than we probably very well ever
that we there's two suites that are for
the media there's actually snacks and
drinks which we never get at any location
um
I mean,
we've been asked if there's anything we
need.
Do we like be good with where we
can go?
Yeah.
Very accommodating.
And they've given us tremendous access,
which we haven't taken advantage of yet.
So tomorrow will be the big day to
jump into that.
sometimes you just want to let athletes
warm up and do their thing we can't
really go in the warm-up area but there
we can get to where like their lounges
so we can maybe talk after before event
i noticed a bunch of people left in
between events because there was kind of a
big break from that combine into so i
don't even know how much we would have
been able to talk to them i am
curious though i would really like to talk
to some of the athletes and just get
their thoughts on that combine event like
it was it was like field day i
The only thing,
my biggest criticism was I wanted more.
Yeah.
You wanted the jump reach, everything.
No,
I wanted to see more of the athletes.
Oh yeah.
They had three floors going.
They had six lanes, five,
six lanes for the forty.
They had at least that many for the
five, ten, five.
And five for each of them.
Yeah.
And you could go whenever you wanted.
There was no,
because it was all laser timed.
Yeah.
So when you cross the first laser,
you start.
When you cross the second laser,
your time is done.
And, uh, it was, it was phenomenal.
Yeah.
We sort of have given some of this
like feedback already and it's, it's,
it was, it was awesome to watch.
There's just very, very minor things.
Like if it,
you could have popped up there,
like occasionally just popped up times of
people that had come through.
So you should
We lost signal for a second.
We are in an Airbnb and we are
subject to whatever Wi-Fi they have here.
It took us a while to even get
on the Wi-Fi.
We talked to their media person,
Patrick Clark,
about the screens and he said they
considered it,
but running the wires around that area was
going to be pretty cumbersome and
and could cause some tripping hazards,
things like that.
So that was something that they had
thought about.
They did have it.
The desk show is in that area of
the facility.
There's basically two floors.
There's the floor where the vendors and
the cornhole and the football,
and then the combine was on one floor.
And in that floor in the middle,
they have the desk show.
Yep.
the thing you see with Derek and Seth
and Annie and, uh, pit Malone.
Um, and they, for the combine,
they actually just turned around and
watched it and they had screens telling
them the time.
So they were trying to say it out
loud.
It was just kind of hard to hear
in there what those times were.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I almost could like,
the athlete would finish running and like
turn and walk by the judge to go
back and they would give them their name
and they would,
they would tell the athlete what they got.
And I would like,
could sort of like either read his lips
or hear him occasionally.
So that's kind of how I caught some
of the times,
but it was still just watching them.
Like, you're like, Oh, that one was fast.
Oh, that one was not so great.
Like,
It's just cool.
Yeah.
And just like who stayed low at the
start, who, and like on the five, ten,
five,
like who went lateral and who actually
turned their body.
It's just crazy.
And then on the broad jump,
what Gima heroes looked like going through
the air was crazy.
Awesome to see.
Yeah.
You just see him land and he's like
basically at the end of all the hashtag
hash marks.
And you're like, wow.
Yup.
That's ain't nobody beating that.
Yeah.
I mean,
it was the same when we could see
Carolyn jump and you could see where,
what hashtag she was on or hash mark.
And you're like,
Nobody's gotten that far.
I don't think that's not going to be.
Carolyn was the only one to go over
the fourth hash mark.
And speaking of Carolyn,
she took third in the forty.
She took second in the five, ten, five,
and she took first in the broad jump.
She actually ended up winning those three
events in their scored segment by sixty
some points.
The bad news is she only gets a
hundred for all three and second place got
ninety seven or ninety six.
Yeah, whatever this point spread is.
So even though she won by sixty some
points,
she only had she only gets the four
points or five points for whatever it is.
It does suck.
And one hand,
it would be nice to make those their
own scores, maybe not one hundred,
maybe fifty, whatever,
and and see that play out.
But
I mean,
I also understand because it is a combined
score.
That is the event.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, and of course we have a bias.
Right.
Just because Caroline would have done
amazing.
If it had gone any other way,
I don't know that we would...
I didn't look further into any of the
men scoring and
um how it ranked out i just was
it was quinn that one overall correct
queen one uh i think gee took second
yeah um which those were some crazy times
uh we won't be able to see this
but i can pull it up really quick
um let's go to the men so if
we yeah
Quinn Gee, that's right, Noah Wilson.
William Leahy took fourth.
He looked good on those events.
Yeah.
And we'll get into more William Leahy.
And then on the women's side,
it was Carolyn and Mathilde Garnes.
Emily Rethla, who looked so good.
Lena Richter and then Astrid Tinn.
Oh, and we were confused about this.
Yeah.
The audience can't see this, but, um,
they had Sydney McAlishan as tenth.
And I, if by eyesight,
I would say Sydney Wells would have had
a better combine score than Sydney
McAlishan,
but it has stayed as such all day.
I know we're like,
we both are going to fit for like,
did they switch the Sydney's?
Do they have the sin wrong?
So is there Sydney Gate?
We don't know.
We don't know.
So that ended.
Awesome job.
Kudos to everybody.
I actually talked to Will Morad about the
event.
And he said that they actually consulted
with people associated with the combine in
the NFL to make sure it was done
right.
And I agree.
That makes sense because it was it was
very well.
I love the lasers scoring.
Yeah.
And to be honest,
like some of the scores were so tight.
You had to have absolutely.
You just had to without it.
And what's cool is the first laser is
like you start and it's two steps before
you're through that first laser.
So you're actually up to speed a little
bit before you go.
So, yeah,
I think they did a great job.
And that's just like they do for the
NFL combine.
You could tell a lot of people had
never been in a three point stance.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And,
and there's definitely some hamstring
injuries.
There was that,
which is an unfortunate side effect of
doing something like this, but yeah,
there was probably, I don't know,
probably like six.
I know Chandler Yona, um,
Sydney McElysian had her hamstring taped.
There were a lot.
I know I'm missing a ton.
And when you saw event two, people,
when they got introduced,
couldn't even jog to their place.
And it became more evident.
But I talked to Will about that too.
Like,
did he think about the hamstring issue?
And he said they did.
And that's why they released it ten weeks
before the event so people could have time
to prepare.
And you can't ask for anything more than
that.
Nope.
I agree.
so i thought that was awesome um then
we went to event two and i know
they said this um uh crossfit says do
we think it's a failure to prepare well
chandler was doing this every week and
he's one of the ones that
I don't know if he like he looked
pretty good in event two.
So I guess I don't know if he
just kind of tweaked it a little bit
and he's he's OK.
And he looked flat out amazing in the
forty until the pop.
Yeah.
When he when you saw it go,
he had I mean, he pulled up immediately,
but he looked like he may set the
time.
Yeah.
Now, Quinn's time.
I don't think anybody predicted that
coming down the pipe.
There's some people thinking he might be.
Four, four?
Well, I don't think we, I don't, yeah.
I don't know what people were guessing the
top times would be, but maybe four, six,
four, five.
Yeah.
Two women ended up breaking the five
second mark.
Amy Kringle at four, nine, nine.
And then a team female athlete went four,
seven.
Yeah.
She beat a bunch of the men.
Holy smokes.
And then Quinn won on the men's side
at four, four.
I think it was Jamie at dinner was
reading all the NFL players that.
Amy is faster than?
Amy was faster and that Quinn was faster.
Oh yeah,
there was a bunch that Quinn was faster
than, yeah.
Amy was faster than Lineman and Tom Brady.
Quinn was faster than running backs and
wide receivers.
Yeah.
And it was, that is impressive.
Yeah, that was a cool post.
Go check that out on World Fitness
Project.
So then we move to event two,
which it's an event you just don't see
in competition anymore.
A long chipper.
And it, it did not disappoint.
It was actually really exciting to watch
and some great finishes like racing to the
end finishes in a. Fifteen to seventeen,
eighteen minute event.
Yeah, I, I loved it.
It's one of my favorite events that we've
seen.
I know it's long.
I know it makes for a long day
of watching five heats of twenty minute
heats.
is long i personally just love watching
fitness so i've thoroughly enjoyed it i
can see where people may have gripes it's
not as quick hitting as some of those
like back-to-back quick events they did at
the games and people seem to love the
pace of the games i just i thought
today was so well programmed it was one
of my favorite days of competition
And I don't even love like short sprints.
Like I enjoyed the combine.
It was fun.
It was cool to see some of those
times and then come over to a test
that truly like anyone can,
any one of these athletes can step out
there and do one round of that sprint
fast.
It's,
it's awesome to watch people like Olivia
was just perfect to watch.
Pace it correctly and finish strong.
The amount of people that imploded in
round four was crazy.
Yeah.
The implosions were because we don't do
this.
Exactly.
For event in competition.
Exactly.
And so many people blew up.
Yeah.
I mean, epic blow ups were Kringle.
who we didn't think had a weakness at
the games,
and now she blows up on this event.
Tudor totally imploded.
I know.
I thought we were past that.
Yeah, I thought so, too.
And he came out looking good.
He came out.
Yeah, I mean,
he was giving James a run for his
money.
And then James slammed the door.
Yep.
William Leahy was in one of the very
early heats.
He set the time to beat that did
not get matched until James went in the
last heat.
It would have been fun to see them
race each other.
I agree.
Because now William Leahy is in the lead.
Yep.
He's in first, Guy's in second,
James is in third.
William Leahy,
maybe that's why Hiller's back on.
Yeah, did he pull him out?
Pull him out of hiding.
His prediction for William Leahy is
finally coming true.
He did look good today.
We'll see how that tank goes, though.
Dude,
the unbroken parallel handstand push-ups
were impressive.
That's where, like,
Bill's handstand push-ups looked so good
the entire workout.
Almost everyone else broke down.
James looked good, but he had to break.
James is...
GHGs were incredibly fast.
And I feel like that's where Bill was
taking his rest.
I don't know if it would have been
a different race had he had competition on
the floor.
I don't know.
I don't think Bill has a coach yet.
Cross fat.
And I, and I do think,
I think that tutor has been trying to
work with mental coaches.
Yeah.
I think that people just aren't used to
the long chip.
And they went out too fast.
Yeah.
Amy Kringle,
I think is a bad-ass CrossFitter who just
went out too quick and couldn't hang on
for four rounds of that.
That sled was heavy.
You had to have been strong enough to
handle this one.
Or, I mean,
cause there were people that third round
three and four,
they just were too slow at the sled.
They couldn't keep up with it or the
combination of that sled.
going back to the handstand push-up they
were at the wall way too long or
failing handstand push-ups um i know
people early on asked about velner and if
there were any updates there are no
official updates that we know of um where
the media was supposed to be we were
on the other side of the floor so
we didn't see it happen
I've seen the clip of Katrin saying, oh,
it landed on his ankle.
Right.
We thought it was an Achilles because he
was grabbing the back of his leg.
But then I went back and watched the
YouTube and he's not on camera when it
happens.
Right.
So it's hard to say what happened with
Velner.
Yeah, it was kind of like for us,
it was just like the broadcast.
Like I was watching the floor and I
like,
turn and looked at at um travis and
then look and then looked over and pat
was on the ground so i also like
kind of followed the camera's eyesight
towards travis picking up the sled and
missed and i just i see i see
pat on the ground i'm like what's
happening
Right.
You actually said to me,
what happened to Pat?
Yeah.
Cause I'd moved to Travis cause Travis
took the lead at that moment.
And, uh, and then you tapped me like,
what happened to Pat?
And then we were trying to figure it
out,
but it was literally as far away across
the field.
He was lane one and we were over
on lane ten.
So probably wouldn't,
I don't even know if we would have
been able to see it happen anyway,
if we had been watching him.
So clock the running start,
Watch the NFL combine.
The first laser is just after the start.
And that's what they did here.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like a yard.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Somebody else had made a comment about
that.
I saw just scrolling through Instagram and
somebody else posted like times and they
added point one five to everyone's time to
like try to compare it to the NFL.
I actually think that might be the post
that shows who Amy Kringle is faster than
like they added point one five to all
the times.
And still,
and still that's who they're faster than.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
Again, I consulted with the NFL for this,
not the NFL, but people that are,
that are associated with the combine.
Um, and it was,
you can nitpick it all you want.
It was fun to watch.
Yeah.
I can see.
I know their concern was athletes fall
starting.
or tripping that laser early.
And so it makes perfect sense to me
why you do it.
Is it perfectly comparable?
Maybe not, but I still,
I think it was, we're compared,
it's for fun to like compare it to
other things.
This was, for today,
this was perfect to test these athletes.
Yeah, CrossFit, the NFL,
the NFL system is more robust because they
measure the ten-yard split,
the twenty-yard split, and the forty.
Yeah.
And so this was just the forty,
but it did it's to have the same
lasers they used at the NFL combine.
And they did that for the five, ten,
five, and they did it for the forty,
which I don't see any other competition
taking on that expense to make it a
legit test.
I mean,
how the masters athletes at the games
didn't even get chip timers.
No.
Yeah, this feels, I mean,
it's obviously individuals tough to
compare to us, but it feels prestigious.
They did not reach out to somebody in
India.
It was someone in Nashville.
Um,
Who is involved with tight end you who's
involved with the combine and he helps
train some of the tight ends like George
Kittle, uh,
and people like that for these types of
things.
Um, so yeah, I mean,
I had a nice long conversation with will,
um,
and they put a lot of effort into
this.
And like Jamie said,
today was one of the most enjoyable days
of watching competition.
that I've had in a long time.
And I'm just sad that more people weren't
here to see it.
I agree.
It is a little disheartening not seeing
more like true friends of the sport come
here to watch this because it's awesome.
And like fans and athletes alike are being
treated very well.
The whole thing just seems very
professional.
It does.
If photo sales are cheaper than chips,
then CrossFit should go to photo sales.
because they were legit tracking it all
the way down.
Um, okay.
Um,
I got news that I'm not allowed to
share.
So anyway, um,
That threw me off.
They were getting to the minute second and
differentiating everybody,
especially on that five, ten, five.
And I would love to see that at
a finish line at the games.
The five, ten,
five was cool to watch because some people
like turn and stop and turn completely and
start running forward.
Some people are really good at the
lateral.
Some people kept losing their footing and
falling down.
I mean,
that's why he had the three attempts.
Who's Greg Kittle?
I said George Kittle.
You did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, but it, again,
both events were great to watch.
Both events were fun.
You know,
who surprised the hell out of me.
And she always does.
And I don't know why I haven't gotten
over it.
Lydia fish thrown around that big,
heavy sled.
People were failing.
She never failed.
And she just chipped away at that thing.
And she's in contention for a podium spot.
She's crushing it.
She paced it perfectly too.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
Like I like instead of just these,
I mean,
Olivia crushed it and she's clearly like a
powerful athlete,
but she truly has some fitness because she
was able to hold onto it and somebody,
but then somebody like Lydia,
Lydia was not a power athlete gets the
time to work her way back up and
out last some of these athletes that had
it been one round and just power output.
It's just not the same.
Yeah.
She's impressive.
And she is so much smaller than most
of the athletes out there.
It's crazy to see her.
And Travis said they have the flip side,
so maybe she's getting plenty of work on
that at PTT.
That's true.
Because he moved it very well.
I mean,
he's going to move it well regardless.
Especially when you dog the Combine.
He was fresh.
I know that was the other heartbreaking
thing about Pat.
We wanted Pat to beat him because Pat
tried so hard in the combine.
Yeah, Pat took eighth in the combine.
He went hard.
And not bad for an old man.
Yeah.
Travis Mayer
jogged the forty, jogged the five, ten,
five.
Now, in his interview,
he said that he had a pooled abductor.
Yeah.
And so he was taking it easy to
try to make it through the weekend.
And so he was fresh for event two.
And he even said,
felt like my first event.
Well, because it was.
Yeah, he did good.
It was a good event for him.
But yeah, great day.
Very, everything was very professional.
Everybody that dogs, the lighting,
it was so nice.
It's cool.
It looks like it for pictures.
Oh yeah.
The lighting for pictures is so much
better.
So much better.
Um,
there's still a lot of people on the
floor.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Why we need.
Five cameras at one time.
Really no freaking sense to me.
And she was in lane ten.
So you couldn't see past them to get
to see anybody else.
Now,
I'll say the bleachers are nice because
they're elevated.
So you can see over the people.
My other little bone of contention which
is just a small little one is there
is a media pit yet
fans are now walking into the media pit
and taking up the space on the barricade
which is a little bit aggravating and
it'll probably get busier tomorrow yeah
more aggravating yeah i love today i'm
excited for tomorrow i almost i almost
think i might like tomorrow more than
today which is i like i you know
i like run so i'm excited and i'm
excited to get outside because it's cold
in there
I'm excited to be outside tomorrow
morning.
I did not think it was cold in
there.
It was cold in there.
Especially when I was trying to get.
So to get you,
we have a spot at the finish line,
but to get to it,
you have to basically leave the little
venue and haul ass down behind the
bleachers and get down there.
I left and Amy Kringle was in first
place.
I got down to the other thing,
hauling ass and she is in third.
Yep.
Because of the implosion.
Yeah,
that's what happens when you hit your
horse to one athlete and they don't always
pull through.
Clock says the lighting was good finally.
Chat moaning and bitching for the win.
Look,
I don't know what the broadcast looked
like.
The stuff on the Jumbotron looked
pristine.
Oh, man, it's crisp.
That is high def.
And I think that's the broadcast.
I would think that's the same stream that
the audience is seeing.
But the lighting in person is phenomenal.
It's cool.
The smoke coming out,
everything is so awesome.
Like,
it'd be such a cool experience as an
athlete.
I looked at Jamie and I said,
this feels like an, a big event.
They make it feel like a big event
when not only for the athletes,
but for the spectators, it just feel,
it has that feel of what you would
expect the games to be.
Yes.
And the games doesn't do smoke and the
games doesn't do a special lighting.
There's a lot of things that like this
does better.
I agree.
And again,
that second workout was something we
haven't seen even at the games in a
long time.
Yeah,
because they think they do their run,
and they're like, oh,
we've done a long event.
We've tested endurance.
Have we?
Yeah, I was just going to say,
JR mentioned that last night,
that programmers seem to think we did a
long run.
That's the endurance event.
Now we can just go to the rest.
Yep.
And this was...
This was a nice long chipper.
And I didn't even mind how long it
took to get through all the heat.
I didn't mind it either.
Because it was fun to watch.
I mean,
there was someone in every heat that was
worth watching.
Even those early heats set some blistering
times.
So it was exciting.
Every heat was exciting.
Who was banned?
oh like the jy stuff oh maybe i'm
so old can't we just move on i
don't know the chat in the wfp when
you're watching it live hmm yeah that's
too bad yeah just watch it without the
chat i just turned off it makes the
screen clear the chat usually runs over
the live scoring anyway so you just turn
the chat off yeah the live scoring is
awesome
And with it being on the Jumbotron.
Mark Phillips.
So I will say this, Mark Phillips.
It has not been without our rants today.
True.
We have had our disagreements.
She has called in third-party members to
prove that she is right in our arguments
at the venue.
I'm just argued out.
She has worn me down to the point
where I just can't anymore.
So yeah, maybe after a good night's sleep,
we'll go for round two tomorrow.
We just haven't had to like fight and
argue with access and area and other
people.
Like it's just been nice.
It has.
We've been treated almost...
It feels like we've been treated like
we're important.
And I just don't even... I don't...
I've never felt that way.
I almost don't want other external media
to come.
I mean,
I do because they deserve the exposure,
but it's nice.
If we're one of the few that want
to come talk about it for them and
they're willing to...
People are missing out is all I can
say.
Yeah.
Again, very enjoyable experience.
Very nice parking.
Yeah.
It was twenty five dollars parking for the
whole weekend.
That's the other thing.
Like the pricing on this.
That's where I'm sad.
More spectators are coming because it's
like ninety nine bucks for the whole
weekend.
And like.
That's that's more reasonable.
That's what the CrossFit game like
CrossFit game shouldn't be more than two
hundred bucks.
Yeah.
Ninety,
ninety-nine dollars for the whole weekend.
No fees on that.
That was straight.
That was it.
No service fees.
Just ninety-nine bucks the whole weekend
and twenty-five dollars to park for the
whole weekend.
So you get all three days for a
buck twenty-four and you're done.
And I'm just going to say that the
third party she called in on one of
the arguments today was Hiller.
Freaking Hiller.
And he's not even here.
But he's making meat again.
So, yeah, all is right in the world,
I guess.
And so I lost another argument.
The camera cutting away from Vellner and
Jeremy immediately reading an ad for the
celebrity was funny.
Yeah, that's weird.
Yeah, we just...
We were just catching Heller's recap on
that.
We haven't made that through.
I literally just caught that, so...
We actually just got back from dinner and
immediately went live so we could talk
about what we saw today.
Tomorrow we have the bench press.
We have the run.
And we have something in the middle.
Is tomorrow the sandbag squat and pull-up
one?
I don't know.
I can look real quick.
It was not about the Bears.
It was not.
Okay, yep.
That's four.
So it's five.
Yep.
Chest to bar, sandbag squat, sled push.
Yeah,
their legs are going to be wrecked
tomorrow.
I'm excited to see that one.
That one's going to hurt.
The way the floor is laid out with
the turf and the rubber...
is really cool too,
because it allows for like the flip sled
in one section and then like the GHDs
and stuff like that in the other section.
And it was really cool that the lights
did not turn on for the finish run
until someone was finishing.
Yeah.
That whole end of the floor didn't even
need to be lit up.
Like it brings your focus to where,
where everything is.
Yeah.
This will,
the sled push will be on that turf
tomorrow.
It's going to be, I'm excited.
Yeah.
it has been it has been awesome um
we're going to come back on tomorrow night
i don't know how late tomorrow goes me
either the run will take a while right
like forty forty five minutes yeah um but
i want to say that yeah and then
the bench press shouldn't take that long
And that other workout isn't really,
so maybe it won't,
but I think three team events are tomorrow
too.
And they have the activations in between.
So, yeah.
So we'll, uh,
we'll catch the action tomorrow and then
we'll be on for that.
And then we'll probably do a full show
with Carolyn like Tuesday.
Okay.
After cause I'm assuming you and I are
heading out of here as soon as this
is over.
Because I got to work Monday morning.
And then we'll probably go Tuesday when
nothing else is on.
Okay.
That works.
Tessa, you should be bummed.
It has really been an enjoyable
experience.
But at least you can always watch the
replay.
Just open Instagram and get scores.
Just open it when you can.
I enjoyed the games a lot watching it.
I think I've enjoyed this more.
Yeah, we're one day in.
We'll compare at the end of the weekend.
CrossFit says worried about Achilles,
to be honest.
That was our first thought.
That's exactly what I said.
I saw him reaching for the back of
his leg.
That is what I thought.
Everybody is saying that it is the sled
falling on his ankle,
but we'll wait to hear.
You know, there are HIPAA.
I know he's Canadian,
so I don't know if he's under HIPAA,
but in this, the United States, we are,
we have HIPAA rules that we can and
cannot release information.
Did anyone pull a hamstring on the Forty?
Yes, lots.
It was a lot of grabbing.
Yonah Koski and Chandler were probably the
two biggest names that pulled a hammy.
Sidney McElishnett and hers taped up.
I don't think I, I, there was,
there was a couple other women,
but they were in earlier heats.
Um,
I don't know if it did fall on
him, Tessa, Tessa.
I, I mean, we didn't see it.
So what I'm hearing now is he's going
to make an announcement in the morning.
Yeah.
Tire flips two up Achilles that strong and
I could see it.
I was talking to Scott about that right
after it happened.
I was explaining if anyone watched seven
on with Greg on Wednesday and they were
talking about the,
I don't know if it was jujitsu or
karate that came in for like level twos
and tore a couple of Achilles from the
planted foot from the other one kicking.
That was my thought process here with that
planted foot kick, pushing up the sled.
But I don't know.
Yeah.
But we're now hearing that he'll make an
announcement.
Okay.
Yeah, we're bummed regardless.
I mean, you know,
he didn't put any weight walking off.
So either way...
Early retirement just sucks.
I was really excited to see him here
this weekend.
And he looked good.
I know.
He looked good in both the Combine and
Event Two.
You know, Event Two was pure CrossFit-y.
And he was, other than Travis,
he was out there.
And I think he would have caught Travis
in the end.
It's the universe telling him it's over.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe.
He's had a great,
he had a great career.
If this is it,
and this is how he goes out.
The man did a lot with what he
had and he was always fun.
One of my favorite athletes.
Um, let me see that.
Uh, hold on.
There might be something now.
grin out oh he's good kind of what
happened in the second event today um
because i understand the feed uh showed
some dramatic stuff and uh people aren't
really sure what
on my left leg while I was doing
the flip sled when I went to split
stance in the clean or my back leg
Achilles and then I tried to ditch the
sled to the side and I went down
to kind of grab my leg and then
the sled like bounced off the ground and
then kind of landed on my other leg
while it was already flat on the ground
so pictures of like the sled on my
leg like it crushed me that had nothing
to do with that didn't hurt me and
that my right leg is completely fine
My left leg is not.
I have a full torn Achilles on my
left.
The injury before the sled ever ended up
on top of me.
That was like an aftermath consequence.
So, yeah, that's what happened.
That's exactly what I thought happened.
Yeah.
Jamie and I actually both thought Achilles
early,
and everybody was trying to tell us it
was something else.
But now we know for sure.
CrossFit says foot flattens with fatigue.
I mean,
you just came from those tall box jumps.
You just came from doing... The combine.
Yeah, the combine.
Then those box jumps into that.
And I... Yeah, that sucks.
Yeah.
I'm bummed.
So...
Yeah, he had a great career.
Again,
my favorite memory of him and you is
you running with him in Pasadena to get
the interview and he was pissed about the
sleds.
That's still like my favorite.
And the other memory I have of him
is his wife, Michelle,
lost her keys at the games.
And he came up to us and asked
if we'd found them or if we could
help find them.
And at the time,
Amy was a co-host on the show.
She found the keys.
Wow.
How?
Just happened upon them.
It wasn't even like... That's insane.
Yeah.
We were in that and Madison,
there was that athlete area where the
athletes kind of hung out and warmed up
and all that.
Um, and the media area was there too,
upstairs.
So it's not like a lot of people
come and go from that area.
And so she might've just left them sitting
somewhere.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Meredith says, uh, he went out swinging.
Yeah, my favorite picture he posted,
and I didn't even see this until just
now, is, I don't know if I can.
This is him in the broad jump.
And he typed we on it.
I love it.
So.
There are some really cool pictures out of
all of that.
I mean, Carolyn's got an amazing one.
Her start of the forties,
someone took a black and white picture of
her that if it were me,
it would be blown up and framed on
my wall.
And then Guy,
someone got a picture of Guy doing the
broad jump.
He looks like Superman.
I do not know what's going on with
Ella.
I found that very strange that she didn't
even attempt one handstand pushup because
I thought there was a minimum work
requirement.
so is she out but she came out
on the floor i don't know no she
couldn't have hurt the shoulder in the
combine she had to come in hurt i
mean she's not going to hurt your shoulder
i mean sam sam cornway is hurt
There's a bunch of dudes out there that
are hurting.
I got through that.
And he was doing six inch box jumps.
I don't understand what looked to be a
wonky knee.
He was one leg jumping for the last
few minutes of that workout.
And that's why the Travis mayor thing kind
of got me a little bit.
Now he did finish,
but he just jogged it.
Yeah.
But Ella didn't even take the floor.
She just sat there and chatted with her
judge.
Yeah.
She didn't even kick upside down once.
That didn't make sense to me.
I thought there was a minimum work
requirement.
I actually passed her on the way out,
but she was in full conversation with
somebody.
Because I did want to ask her.
Because she looks so good in the combine.
I know.
I was looking forward to seeing what else
was going to come.
Yeah.
I guess we'll see if she's out.
Maybe we can talk to her tomorrow.
We'll see if she...
She should do good in that tanky run
if she takes the floor for that one.
Yeah.
She doesn't have to go inverted.
Yeah.
I mean, she's a good runner.
Yeah.
I think the wild thing is Emily Rethwell
killed the combine,
did pretty good in event two,
and she's going to kill this run tomorrow.
She will kill the run, bro.
And she's going to be in the top
five by going into the fourth event.
Mm-hmm.
Emily Rathwell.
Who, who had that?
I know, but like, you just,
she's not that person you think of.
That's going to be top five halfway
through the weekend.
Who looked the biggest in person for
females?
Hmm.
Amanda Fisher.
Yeah.
But she just is a bit like she
looks big on TV.
Yeah.
Amy Kringle,
this is a funny story from today.
So Jamie took a picture the other day,
and we're not going to pull it out,
where her hamstring was very pronounced.
Yeah, I was embarrassed.
My sister took a picture and posted it.
I'm like, dude, be nicer.
So Amy's running the .
And Jamie sees the same hamstring
pronunciation
And she's like, that's that.
And then she pulled up this picture for
me to watch.
Look at them both.
Look at them both.
Amy is jacked.
Amy is jacked.
I'm not that jacked.
But we have similar hamstrings,
apparently.
Well,
apparently that means you can run a sub
five foot.
Folks, I would tear something.
Yeah.
Who's the biggest of the females?
I mean,
I always think Emily Rolfe looks jacked
out there.
She's just taller than everyone.
Yeah,
but Emily was like wearing long sleeves
today.
Yeah.
So it was hard to tell with her.
Emma Tall is, but she's short.
Not tall.
The last name is.
Yeah.
But she is jacked.
She always has been.
Honestly,
I almost feel like she looks smaller now
than she has in years past.
You know what did surprise me?
David Sharunky in Corn Rose.
I've only ever seen him bald.
Maybe I didn't even recognize who he was.
You'll have to point him out.
Yeah, Emma is definitely yoked.
But she is not tall in stature.
No.
Uh,
I'll think about that tomorrow and get
back to you.
I'll try to think who's the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll look for it tomorrow.
He looks like a specimen.
You thought Harry Lightfoot was bigger
than you expected.
Yeah.
Harry looked big, not taller,
but he just looked thicker than I thought
Harry was.
Um, hopefully he's feeling better.
He looks good out there.
Um,
I didn't see the guy in cornrows.
I don't know what to tell you.
I just didn't see him.
Yeah.
So when I went down to the finish
line, Emma won that.
Yeah.
He was,
he was in this VIP area and he
leaned over the,
the barricade to like hug her and have
a conversation with her.
Yeah.
And that's, that's why I saw him.
Yes.
David Shrunke's cornrows look very similar
to Dave Castro's cornrows.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
You can't miss them.
My prediction is by tomorrow night,
James Frank will have a commanding lead.
How do you think he's going to do
a bench press?
I think that's the only trip up he's
going to have.
But he's gained so much strength.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think at worst it's a mid
pack and then he's going to kill the
run and he'll do the kill the other
thing too.
And he just looks like he's in that.
His family's here.
Like the whole damn family is here rooting
him on.
And I think that helps.
I saw his dad.
Danica was standing right beside me when I
was in the media pit.
She was jumping and shaking my camera as
I was trying to take pictures.
Wayne, you know,
I didn't think Laura looked good in the
chipper either.
I thought she looked great.
But for a handstand push-up workout,
I think she took eleventh.
Right.
I think she looked great.
She's going to do well tomorrow.
Laura's going to get a lot of points
tomorrow.
Who got the biggest crowd reaction and why
was it Colton?
It wasn't Colton KDL.
I think there's a kid here in the
early heats who I think is from
Indianapolis because he has his own
little, and they are loud.
I thought it was Will Kearney,
which I don't think he is from around
here.
I don't even,
I think he's from like England.
Maybe not,
but I know you're talking about, yes,
they have like twelve.
They have their shirts.
Yeah.
Um, he's actually getting cheers.
I've a lot of times when he's gone,
I've heard cheers.
Um, who else?
I mean, Lydia has her fish heads.
I thought Colton was going to tank event
too.
And then he came out of nowhere.
He paced that one really well.
Chris, I borrowed them.
Good.
I actually talked to Nick Johnston and
Kiefer on the way out.
Chris has big goals for this weekend.
Good.
He was mad he didn't make the games,
and he's been busting his butt to have
a big weekend this weekend.
This is Chris's games.
I love that.
I love that mindset.
So, yeah, that was really cool, too.
Yeah,
Chris looked good in the combine and –
the trip he looked really good like just
quietly he never was he never led but
he just was right there with the lead
pack and he was in the same heat
as james and james beat the time to
beat by thirty seconds right so his second
place finish in that heat was pretty good
it was excellent well i think that's it
i think that's it i think that's it
We'll be back at it tomorrow.
We'll let you know what we see tomorrow
night.
And hope everybody has a great night.
And we will see everybody next time.
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