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[man] It's cliché, but in
regards to the things I create

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that are not workouts,

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the process and the journey

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to get to the end state,
the creativity,

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the ability to make
your own decisions,

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to go a different direction,
to decide this looks good,

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this feels good,
this doesn't look good,

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this doesn't feel good,

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the only person
held accountable

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to the end state is myself.

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But in regard to the workouts,
that's a whole other level,

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'cause the people
I'm held accountable to

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is the community.

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At the end of the day,
it's my 15-year-old kid,

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and I look across
even these open workouts,

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and I look at 2011, 2012, '13,

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all the way up
to the current years,

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and every one of those
means something to me.

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I knew what was going on
in the background.

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I knew what our team
was talking about,

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our CEO at the time,

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and they really wanted
to disrupt what we did.

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I think the 2018 Games
were some of the most creative

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visually and programmatically

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in terms of CrossFit events
that we've ever had,

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and that was really driven
by the notion

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that this might be
the last Games ever.

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I put my all into that event,

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so therefore I wanted
to just blow it out the water

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and make it an incredible show.

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[indistinct sports commentary]

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[man 2] In March of 2018,

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on the way to an open
announcement in Houston,

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we got a call and it said
that our leadership

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wanted to change the structure
of the Games next year.

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And that meant anybody who was a
national champion from the Open

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was going directly to the Games.

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They wanted to expand the amount
of licensed competitions.

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They wanted to replace the
regional stage of competition

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and wanted
to dramatically overhaul

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the finances
of the whole sport.

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From that point forward,
we knew that 2018

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was gonna be a dogfight,

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to preserve the things
that were essential

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for our sport
to grow and thrive...

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and for the athletes,
for our events, for our fans

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that wanted to see this thing
continue forward,

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and it was a race against
the clock to produce some plan

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that we thought was going to
carry the sport forward.

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The CrossFit Games are known
as the ultimate proving grounds

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for the fittest athletes
on Earth.

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So the CrossFit Games is a test.

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And it starts with
a worldwide online competition

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where anybody
can register and compete,

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and it advances
through a series of stages

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until only the top 40 men
and 40 women

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are in the field at the finals.

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[Sean] It is just a bunch
of different stuff.

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It's part Olympics,
it's part Super Bowl,

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it's part decathlon,
weightlifting meets Strongman.

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It's got a bit of something
for everybody

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and it is unlike
any other event out there.

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[man] When you go
to the CrossFit Games,

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you can expect a spectacle.

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You're gonna see some of the
fittest people on this planet

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put down amazing performances.

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That's not just true
for the individual divisions,

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it's true
for a variety of age groups,

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because they have
a teenage division,

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they have masters divisions
extending upwards of 60 plus.

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And not just that, you're gonna
get to enjoy that spectacle

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with an amazing group
of like-minded individuals

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who are there to celebrate
a once-a-year festival scenario

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that is kind of like
a fitness Super Bowl.

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[man] The modern CrossFit Games
athletes, it's a full-time job.

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You cannot casually mistake your
way into the CrossFit Games.

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It's not possible at this
point. Those guys are animals.

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What does it take? It takes
an insane well-roundedness.

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It takes talent and then
the discipline and hard work

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layered on top of that talent.

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It's no easy feat.

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[labored breathing]

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Why do you put yourself
in this pain?

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Because I wanna win
the CrossFit Games.

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[grunts]

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Is this good product placement?

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It's all about
product placement.

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Do you think it's bothering Mat
that you got a bigger cooler?

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- Nah.
- Wait till tomorrow.

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Yeah, right. He's gonna walk out
with a tumbler.

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- Come out with my YETI 160.
- Yeah, that thing right there.

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How are you feeling
this morning?

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Good.

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Why are you the only athlete
that brought your own bike pump?

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I don't know.
At the Airbnb they had one.

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And I thought
might as well, yeah.

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It was fine yesterday,
we didn't need it,

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but I'd rather have it
and not need it.

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Of course I do.

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I'm just impressed
that you brought one too.

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I got two. I got one like that
and then I got a pocket one.

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- Trumps.
- Yeah, right? There you go.

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I think everybody woke up
this morning

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and the reality of today
sunk in a little bit.

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We got a lot of work to do.

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I think this morning's gonna be
a little more fun.

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The cycle's a little different.

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People are excited to go do it
and try not to crash.

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The afternoon's just some fun,
easy stuff on the field,

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and then tonight's
when shit gets real.

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They want the CrossFit Games,

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and that's the bottom line,

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people are
a little less friendly.

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Ride with consideration

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for preserving yourself
for the rest of the weekend,

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and also, more importantly,
consider the people around you.

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If you go down, people
might go down because of you.

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If you get too aggressive, you
might make other people go down.

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So think about your actions,

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you can hurt yourself
or put yourself down,

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but, worse yet, you can put
your other competitors down.

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[Tommy] The Crit is basically
a play on a criterium race,

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which is a type of cycling race

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that exists outside
of the sport of fitness.

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It was basically
the entire field

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of the CrossFit Games
for the men,

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and then also the women,
thrown onto road bikes.

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First of all,
good morning, welcome.

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It's gonna be a great event.

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We've got a couple
of minor things...

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[Adrian]
Dave loves having things

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that are
a little bit unconventional

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as far as what you're gonna see
in a CrossFit gym.

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Everybody rides Assault Bikes,

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everybody rides C2 bikes,
stuff like that,

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but sometimes people forget

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that we're really trying to make
this apply to the real world.

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They should be ready to roll out
at 8:20 easy.

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All right. 8:20, you wanna
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- Do a rolling start.
- Two laps.

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Two laps, stopping,
slowing them down back there.

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Yeah, stopping, getting into
position. Then it's game on.

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[Sean] It's the final stop
on the road to the finish,

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Madison, Wisconsin, and
the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games.

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- [cheering]
- Goosebumps.

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[commentator] There just is
no limits anymore

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when you talk about
the CrossFit Games,

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of what kind of tests are gonna
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starting off with
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Last year we saw
the mountain bike.

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We see a very technical race
this year with the road bike.

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It's gonna be fun.

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- Liverpool, England.
- Who'd you come to see?

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Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

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- Who'd you come to see?
- Sara Sigmundsdóttir.

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- Tia.
- Tia-Clair?

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Tia and Mat.

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And Josh.

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[Sean] Athletes starting
to build up speed

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as they approach the
beginning of the opening event

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of the 2018 Reebok CrossFit
Games, the criterium,

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10 laps around a 1200-metre
course, and we are underway.

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[Tommy] Honestly, I think
the Crit was probably

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one of the more
dangerous events

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that the CrossFit Games
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not because of the physical toll
that it took on the athletes,

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but the skill set required
to tackle a road bike race

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in close quarters with 39 other
individuals besides yourself

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speaks to the athleticism
and the adaptability

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of the athletes
in tackling that.

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I think the line
was that unpredictable riding

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is what causes crashes.

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[woman] I feel like, actually,
the male side

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was a little bit more
like considerate.

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The girls just go for it.

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They're, like,
I don't care who I'm hurting.

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We're going for it.

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It's like Mad Max.It was just
get to the finish line.

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[Adrian] It's funny
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outside of the ropes,
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watching them on the track
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it didn't look
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[Sean] Oh. Patrick Vellner
has dropped a chain.

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But Vellner gets himself
a new bike. He is back on.

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[Patrick]
I basically got a new bike

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that was not fitted for me.

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The seat was way too low.

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I was basically riding
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for the next nine laps.

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So tough hit on lap one.

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[commentator] Being in the lead
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All that does is mean you're
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[Sean] We've had a change
at the front of the pack.

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Sara Sigmundsdóttir, in all
black, has moved to the front.

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I don't even wanna talk
about it. I'm so embarrassed.

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In the event announcement,

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Boz had said that we would hear
bells before the last round.

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So I heard bells
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that were just in the crowd,
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And I was like,
why is nobody going faster?

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Then I knew
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and I had just hit a wall.

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[bell rings]

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[Tommy] Noah grounded his pedal
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and it eventually popped off.

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He had to get that swapped out.

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And then Mat Fraser, who was
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nearly had disaster strike
on the final turn of the event.

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[Mat] I thought I was upright
enough to start pedaling out

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and caught my pedal.

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So both wheels
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my back wheel kicked out
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and I just, like, oh...

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Landed on both wheels,
eyes were like grapefruits,

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and it was just like
put the hammer down,

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but, yeah,
that got the heart racing.

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[Sean] It looks like Adrian
Mundwiler on the final stretch

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is gonna lock up
his first career win

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at the CrossFit Games.

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100 points
for Adrian Mundwiler.

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[commentator] Wow.

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[Sean] And now the sprint
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but Holte has overtaken
Laura Horvath,

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and Kristin Holte will win
event number one.

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[woman] That was super fun.

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So it was Katrín, me and Laura
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I had to sprint as hard as
I could and made it. It's cool.

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Was there a camera
on that corner? I almost...

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Someone fell.
So, I was always...

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Oh.

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- How's your elbow?
- Busted up.

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Her front tire. I was in front.

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And she cuts in closer,
and I bounced off my bike.

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I thought I was on the ground.

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And then I just heard someone
fall behind me.

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[Adrian] It is an individual
sport, at the end of the day.

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If you have an athlete

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that is knowingly
impeding another athlete,

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of course that's not fair
and we're gonna look into it,

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so we did,
and there was no foul play.

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I always try to put myself
in the mindset

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of being in the competition,
in the intensity of the moment,

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and I'm sure that if you get

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a little bit of friction
from another rider,

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it very much can feel like
somebody wants to take you out,

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but the reality doesn't always
import to that.

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Tell me about that. How'd it go?

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Good. Mat came over
at the beginning.

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And so we had a strategy,
me, Mat and Rasmus.

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It didn't work that well.

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I knew I was gonna win that one.
I had to.

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It's Swiss National Day today,

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so I had to keep
my country proud.

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And, yeah, it's good. Looking
forward, it was a good start.

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I was leading for too long
in the beginning,

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so I shouldn't
have done that, but...

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It was so much easier in the
back. I knew it would be easier.

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But it was way more easier
than I thought.

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Everyone was messing around
in the back,

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so I was maybe more careful
than I should have been, but...

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And then in the last lap
I just pulled out

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and then Kristin came
in the last turn

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and she passed me
in the last stretch,

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but I'm happy with that.

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There were some scary moments
out there.

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Some of the girls pushing back
and forth against each other.

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Please don't fall. Please don't
push each other off.

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All the rules were
out the window by the start,

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but by round seven, eight,
they were out the window.

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Little bit of lacking
race etiquette out there.

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In the first corners
when the pack was pretty tight,

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some guys swiped across
and wiped out six riders.

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Not the first time I've started
in a big hole, unfortunately.

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- How's she doing?
- Good. Good.

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- She warmed up?
- Well, warming up now.

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So we'll find out how good.

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Has she done a Muscle-Up yet?

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2018? 2017? She did one
last year at regionals.

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That was the last time
we've done them.

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How do you think
this is gonna go down, buddy?

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- The Muscle-Ups or the Total?
- The Muscle-Ups.

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Think you're gonna see some guys
go for it and crash and burn.

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And then I think
you'll see maybe one...

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I think we'll see one guy
go unbroken.

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[Sean] The toughest day

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in CrossFit Games history
rolls on.

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It's event number two,
and it's pretty simple.

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30 muscle-ups four times.

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[commentator]
It's classic CrossFit.

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This was
the gold standard event.

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30 ring muscle-ups.
It's pure gymnastics.

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[Tommy] It's a classic CrossFit
benchmark type test.

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It's been around
in the community for ages.

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I think a lot of people
were excited

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to see
the Games athletes tested,

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because the standard
has always been whether or not

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someone can go unbroken on that.

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[commentator] Sean, a number
of athletes are having trouble

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locking out
at the top of the muscle-up

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because of the length
of the strap.

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The rings are eight feet
above the ground.

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There's 10 feet from the rings

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to where the straps
are affixed.

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[Tia] Typically
with longer straps,

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they do require you to keep the
rings in a little bit closer,

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so you're actually going to be
fatiguing your upper body

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because you're fighting
with the straps

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wanting to just constantly
keep going out.

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[Patrick] Everybody knew
the length of the straps

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and things like that
would impact the muscle-ups,

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so you might have to be
a bit more conservative

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than maybe in training.

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[Katrín] I've never worked
as hard in my life

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on muscle-ups
as we did this year.

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[Adrian] It's funny,
the athletes talk about

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longer straps and different
details like this,

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and maybe this is my lack of
competitive experience talking,

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but I think that's nerves.

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I really don't think
it makes as much difference

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as a lot of them claim.

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[Sean]
Fighting for first place,

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Fraser back up on the rings
after a break.

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[Adrian] What stood out most
about that event

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was seeing Fraser miss a rep.

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[Sean] Mat Fraser fails a rep.

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That might open the door
for Cole Sager.

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But Fraser is trying
to minimize his rest.

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He has one rep to go.

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[Adrian] I don't know,
I've long felt

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that his mentality
of do or die and attack

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is what it takes
to be a champion.

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And I see a lot of athletes
on the other end of that

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that actively strategize
themselves out of a win.

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His willingness, even
that early in the competition,

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to take a risk,
to blow it out and fail,

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even if it means he might
have lost some placements,

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that speaks to the mentality
that it takes to be on top.

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You can't hold anything back.

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[whoops]

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[Sean] Tia Toomey looking
to lock up an event win.

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She will lock it out, and
the 2017 fittest woman on Earth

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will get beat now
by Kristi Eramo

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on the far side of the field.

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[Patrick] I think that Dave
probably programmed that

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expecting people
to go unbroken,

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at least a couple of people.

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And it just didn't happen,
like, it's, I don't know.

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Sorry, like, it's hard.
We tried.

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[Sean] Two tests are down.

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Two more remain here
on the opening day

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of the 2018 Reebok
CrossFit Games.

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The CrossFit Total is up next.

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CrossFit Total's awesome.

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Everyone loves heavyweights.
It's like the Home Run Derby.

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But it's a significant event
because you go from that

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to another benchmark workout,
CrossFit Total,

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that has been around forever.

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It is one of the first events
that was ever performed

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at the CrossFit Games
back in 2007.

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[commentator] In event number
two, we went back to 2002

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Mainsite programming.

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00:20:31,186 --> 00:20:33,144
In event number three
it's time to lift heavy

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and have a flashback to the
very first Games back in 2007.

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It's time for CrossFit Total.

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Another athlete that needs
a good event here.

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Patrick Vellner.

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Rough start
with that bike race.

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Tried to get himself back
in there with the Muscle-Ups.

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He needs to finish off
this day well

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going into that last event.

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Ever since I started CrossFit,

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I've never been
one of the stronger guys.

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Coming from
a gymnastics background,

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I'm much more interested
in doing high-skill movements

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than heavy, heavy movements.

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[Mat] Dead lift is a lift
that just favors

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a certain body type so much.

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You see Vellner over there
with his ape arms.

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He was talking after the event,
he was, like,

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dude, the weight
didn't even come off the ground

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until it's at my knees.

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[Patrick] I was not planning
on dead-lifting that heavy,

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so I had no idea.

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I didn't even know
how to load the bar.

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I was asking my judge,
what do six blues weigh?

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I don't even know. I've never
loaded that on a bar before.

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00:21:30,201 --> 00:21:32,856
And the fives were sitting
right beside the clips,

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so I just threw the fives on.

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[commentator]
Vellner needs a big lift.

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[Sean] And Vellner is lining up
for a huge lift.

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At 595 pounds,
less than 30 to go,

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so plenty of time
for Pat Vellner.

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- Pat Vellner at 595!
- [commentator] Wow. Man!

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Then by the time I processed
that that was ridiculous,

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like who dead-lifts 595?

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00:21:59,492 --> 00:22:02,364
That's basically 600 pounds.
You might as well dead-lift...

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Next time.
Now I know. Next time.

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[Sara] I was pretty angry
going into the Total.

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I had tried one lifting belt
one time before,

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00:22:11,808 --> 00:22:14,376
a thick powerlifter's belt.

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00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:16,378
I just put it
as tight as I could

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00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:18,467
because I thought
the tighter it would be,

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the more weight I could handle.

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00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:22,558
My first dead lift
in the warm-up,

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I just felt something,

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00:22:24,691 --> 00:22:26,693
and I didn't wanna
think about it more.

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00:22:26,736 --> 00:22:30,218
I knew what happened, but
I wasn't gonna let it stop me.

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So I was just in denial
that something had happened

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and went out to the floor

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and did the worst dead lift
of my entire life.

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[Sean] Here's
Sara Sigmundsdóttir at 365,

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00:22:39,793 --> 00:22:42,665
and Sara Sigmundsdóttir
is off to a surprising start

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here at the CrossFit Games.

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[Sara] PR'ed with a broken rib.

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[Laura] I didn't exactly know
the number that I was lifting

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in kilos
because it was in pounds.

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I PR'ed my back squat.
I PR'ed my press.

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I PR'ed my dead lift.

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00:23:03,207 --> 00:23:05,732
I thought I would win
the dead lift by a lot.

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00:23:05,775 --> 00:23:08,517
Clearly people had been working
on their dead lift

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because everyone
was super close to me.

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[Sean] It was hard to tell
who was gonna win.

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You knew who was gonna do well.

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00:23:15,045 --> 00:23:16,743
A lot of people
were watching Tia Toomey

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'cause of her recent foray
into the Olympics

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and her proficiency
in anything you throw at her.

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00:23:22,966 --> 00:23:25,882
[Shane] I'm very conscious of
what the field are capable of.

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Based off a lot of the data
that I received,

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I thought she'd be
very competitive in it.

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00:23:30,626 --> 00:23:32,802
[Sean] Remember,
she competed for Australia

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at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics
in weightlifting.

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00:23:37,372 --> 00:23:38,939
[Katrín] She was next to me

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00:23:38,982 --> 00:23:41,158
and she was getting
really loud roars.

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00:23:41,202 --> 00:23:44,379
So I didn't even wanna know
what number she was putting up.

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00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:46,555
But they were
pretty big numbers.

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00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:50,211
- Let's ....... go, yeah?
- [woman] Come on, Tia!

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[Sean] Now Toomey will be
making a run at 410 pounds.

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[Tia] I had my mom, dad, Shane,

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just standing right there
in front of me.

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00:23:59,873 --> 00:24:04,181
And there my dad was,
shirtless, with a hat on,

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00:24:04,225 --> 00:24:05,792
and he was screaming at me.

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00:24:05,835 --> 00:24:08,229
I just thought that
that was the best thing.

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00:24:08,272 --> 00:24:12,799
It didn't matter what was on
that barbell, I was lifting it.

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00:24:12,842 --> 00:24:16,324
- Come on!
- Let's go! Let's go! Come on!

448
00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:19,327
[shouting continues]

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00:24:31,252 --> 00:24:33,515
[cheering]

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00:24:44,787 --> 00:24:46,920
[Tommy] We got to see Tia
make a statement

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00:24:46,963 --> 00:24:48,661
with that final dead lift.

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00:24:48,704 --> 00:24:53,970
Last year it was a close
competition, the closest ever.

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00:24:54,014 --> 00:24:58,322
But it probably wasn't gonna be
that way this year.

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00:24:58,366 --> 00:25:02,805
The hair thing, don't worry
about it. It's too late now.

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00:25:02,849 --> 00:25:04,546
- What?
- You dropped the thing.

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00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:07,897
So just be smart,
find comfort in this movement,

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00:25:07,941 --> 00:25:10,639
and then just breathe,
follow through.

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00:25:10,683 --> 00:25:12,815
Just be very conscious
to keep breathing.

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00:25:12,859 --> 00:25:14,904
That's what we're after.
It's an endurance test.

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00:25:14,948 --> 00:25:17,690
You're an endurance athlete.
Period.

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00:25:17,733 --> 00:25:21,215
- I love you so much. Have fun.
- Thanks.

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00:25:21,258 --> 00:25:24,044
- Have fun? You have fun.
- You'll have fun.

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00:25:24,087 --> 00:25:28,091
I will. I'll be eating burgers
and drinking beers.

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00:25:28,135 --> 00:25:30,790
Where are we going?

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00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:32,531
We're walking to our doom.

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00:25:32,574 --> 00:25:37,013
We're gonna go row a marathon.

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00:25:37,057 --> 00:25:40,495
Nice finisher.
Nice finisher for your day.

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00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:44,543
I wish they gave us a last
supper or something, though.

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00:25:44,586 --> 00:25:47,589
But it's gonna be...
it's gonna be good.

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00:25:47,633 --> 00:25:51,071
Do you like being a part
of the history of the Games?

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00:25:51,114 --> 00:25:55,902
Yeah, I mean, like, I know when
I first started, it was just...

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00:25:55,945 --> 00:25:59,209
I was in... I am still,
but I was in so much awe

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00:25:59,253 --> 00:26:04,606
of the athletes that had done it
from the very beginning.

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00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:06,477
I think that this is so special.

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00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:08,784
The CrossFit Games
is more than just determining

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00:26:08,828 --> 00:26:10,612
who the fittest on Earth is.

477
00:26:10,656 --> 00:26:14,703
It's more than just people
working out and everything.

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00:26:14,747 --> 00:26:19,229
We're a huge community and just
growing every single year,

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00:26:19,273 --> 00:26:23,146
and it's pretty spectacular,
yeah.

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[Justin] The first time
Dave talked about

481
00:26:27,237 --> 00:26:31,241
doing a marathon row,
in my mind I said that's long,

482
00:26:31,285 --> 00:26:34,680
but I was only thinking
half-marathon long.

483
00:26:34,723 --> 00:26:37,204
So in my mind
it's an hour and a half workout.

484
00:26:37,247 --> 00:26:38,727
I remember him saying

485
00:26:38,771 --> 00:26:41,208
how long it took him
to do a marathon row

486
00:26:41,251 --> 00:26:43,645
and then going they'll probably
be a lot faster.

487
00:26:43,689 --> 00:26:46,474
And then I remember
being in the arena

488
00:26:46,517 --> 00:26:47,997
while they were doing the row,

489
00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:51,522
leaving after 45 minutes,
eating dinner,

490
00:26:51,566 --> 00:26:56,353
coming back, and they still had
over an hour to go on the event.

491
00:26:59,574 --> 00:27:01,707
[Sean] There are
some infamous numbers

492
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:03,665
in CrossFit Games history.

493
00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:09,628
42,195 is going to join them
after today.

494
00:27:09,671 --> 00:27:13,327
That is the number of meters
that these athletes must row

495
00:27:13,370 --> 00:27:15,155
in event number four.

496
00:27:15,198 --> 00:27:17,200
It is a marathon row.

497
00:27:17,244 --> 00:27:21,770
It is the longest event
in CrossFit Games history.

498
00:27:21,814 --> 00:27:24,773
The time cap: four hours.

499
00:27:24,817 --> 00:27:28,995
This is a grueling physical
and mental challenge.

500
00:27:29,038 --> 00:27:31,127
[commentator] This is gonna be
mentally draining,

501
00:27:31,171 --> 00:27:34,435
so who's gonna be able
to deal with that?

502
00:27:34,478 --> 00:27:36,785
[Justin] I don't think anybody
looks at a marathon row

503
00:27:36,829 --> 00:27:38,787
and says
"That sounds like fun."

504
00:27:38,831 --> 00:27:43,400
That's hard, it's long,
it's outside your comfort zone.

505
00:27:43,444 --> 00:27:46,490
But at the CrossFit Games,
people look at that and say,

506
00:27:46,534 --> 00:27:51,147
"Does everybody have to do it?
All right. Who's gonna win?"

507
00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:01,636
I think that's exactly what
you get with CrossFit training,

508
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,683
a daily dose of "This is
outside my comfort zone."

509
00:28:04,726 --> 00:28:07,381
"It's hard.
Is everybody else doing it?"

510
00:28:07,424 --> 00:28:09,949
"All right, let's go.
Start the clock."

511
00:28:13,604 --> 00:28:15,694
That builds
tough, durable people

512
00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:17,826
that have
a performance mindset,

513
00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:22,744
and it takes them and their
mentality outside of a workout

514
00:28:22,788 --> 00:28:25,834
and it applies to other parts
of their life.

515
00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:32,972
[Adrian] Mental toughness
is huge.

516
00:28:33,015 --> 00:28:34,974
I think it's one of the things
we train for.

517
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:38,542
You're not always gonna get
the event that you want.

518
00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:41,458
You're not always gonna have
the movement that you like.

519
00:28:41,502 --> 00:28:44,418
And yet you're gonna show up
and do it anyway.

520
00:28:44,461 --> 00:28:46,507
That's a huge aspect

521
00:28:46,550 --> 00:28:48,465
that's baked
into the culture of CrossFit.

522
00:28:48,509 --> 00:28:50,729
You take a challenge,
you embrace it

523
00:28:50,772 --> 00:28:52,208
and you do the best you can
with it.

524
00:28:52,252 --> 00:28:54,515
That's true for everybody.

525
00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:59,607
[Tommy] There's an inherent
mental training

526
00:28:59,650 --> 00:29:01,391
that goes along with CrossFit

527
00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:04,003
as a training methodology
as well as a sport.

528
00:29:04,046 --> 00:29:05,526
In practice, every single day,

529
00:29:05,569 --> 00:29:07,920
you're redefining
and pushing the limits

530
00:29:07,963 --> 00:29:09,748
of what you're capable of

531
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:13,316
and actively trying
to tiptoe to the edge

532
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,233
and see where that line is
for you physically.

533
00:29:17,277 --> 00:29:20,497
And when you're constantly
pushing those limits,

534
00:29:20,541 --> 00:29:22,108
that is an opportunity for you

535
00:29:22,151 --> 00:29:24,371
to reframe
your mindset personally

536
00:29:24,414 --> 00:29:27,374
about what you see in the
mirror is capable for yourself.

537
00:29:27,417 --> 00:29:29,942
[cheering]

538
00:30:01,712 --> 00:30:04,454
Can you help us?

539
00:30:04,498 --> 00:30:07,457
We can't really bend down
right now.

540
00:30:07,501 --> 00:30:11,287
So... I'll do the camera,

541
00:30:11,331 --> 00:30:16,727
and can you put our stuff
into the basket?

542
00:30:18,904 --> 00:30:22,690
- Seriously, I can't bend over.
- I can't bend over.

543
00:30:23,996 --> 00:30:26,912
- It was good.
- Was it the hardest yet?

544
00:30:26,955 --> 00:30:28,827
- Yes.
- Yes.

545
00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:37,574
[announcer] ...with a time
of three hours,

546
00:30:37,618 --> 00:30:40,621
13 minutes and 24 seconds...

547
00:30:44,059 --> 00:30:46,627
Heber wouldn't pick up
my stuff for me.

548
00:30:49,021 --> 00:30:50,196
[laughs]

549
00:30:52,067 --> 00:30:55,592
- You OK?
- No. I feel ....ing shit.

550
00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:01,860
I feel like I have to throw up,
crap and everything.

551
00:31:03,339 --> 00:31:07,343
So I literally
just wanna dip my ass in.

552
00:31:16,265 --> 00:31:18,659
- This is unbelievable.
- I got it.

553
00:31:18,702 --> 00:31:20,400
You got it?

554
00:31:24,404 --> 00:31:28,799
- Oh, God.
- [man groans]

555
00:31:28,843 --> 00:31:31,977
Cramp? Dude, as soon as... Mmm.

556
00:31:32,020 --> 00:31:33,979
As soon as I stood up, dude,

557
00:31:34,022 --> 00:31:37,504
quads, hamstring, ass,
calves, everything cramped.

558
00:31:38,331 --> 00:31:39,810
That was brutal.

559
00:31:39,854 --> 00:31:41,421
Hitting the hour 40 mark

560
00:31:41,464 --> 00:31:44,511
and realizing I still have
over an hour to go.

561
00:31:44,554 --> 00:31:48,123
[groans]

562
00:31:52,084 --> 00:31:54,869
I would like to do triple
marathon instead of that.

563
00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:59,743
I'm never doing that again,
not a ....ing chance.

564
00:32:05,010 --> 00:32:07,186
How do you feel
after that row?

565
00:32:07,229 --> 00:32:09,101
I feel really good, actually.

566
00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:12,887
Are you sore? Like your boots
are sore? Your hands are sore?

567
00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,976
- No.
- You feel fine?

568
00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:16,847
Yeah, I feel really good.

569
00:32:16,891 --> 00:32:20,155
Like, I was wondering,

570
00:32:20,199 --> 00:32:23,811
I thought between my shoulder
blades was a little bit sore,

571
00:32:23,854 --> 00:32:25,944
but the more I move around,

572
00:32:25,987 --> 00:32:28,685
the more
I don't feel it anymore.

573
00:32:28,729 --> 00:32:31,558
When I very first got up, but...

574
00:32:31,601 --> 00:32:34,778
Yeah. I'm ready for day two.

575
00:32:34,822 --> 00:32:37,564
What's your confidence levels
like this morning?

576
00:32:37,607 --> 00:32:40,132
- How are you feeling?
- It feels good.

577
00:32:40,175 --> 00:32:41,960
I'm trying not to think
too much about it.

578
00:32:42,003 --> 00:32:43,744
I'm in second place right now,

579
00:32:43,787 --> 00:32:46,399
and that makes me
a little bit nervous.

580
00:32:46,442 --> 00:32:50,838
But it's three more days,
so it's just started.

581
00:32:50,881 --> 00:32:52,361
Anything can happen.

582
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:55,190
But I'm gonna for sure
do my very best.

583
00:32:55,234 --> 00:32:59,978
I wanna do really good
this year, so I'm excited, yeah.

584
00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:05,809
I'm Lukas Hogberg
from Stockholm, Sweden.

585
00:33:05,853 --> 00:33:07,637
I have an apartment
here in Stockholm.

586
00:33:07,681 --> 00:33:09,857
I live there
with my girlfriend and my dog.

587
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,468
My dog's name in Swedish
is Walter.

588
00:33:12,512 --> 00:33:15,863
- How old is he?
- Seven months. Just a kid.

589
00:33:15,906 --> 00:33:18,779
He's a Rhodesian Ridgeback,
an amazing dog.

590
00:33:18,822 --> 00:33:22,739
He's seven months old, but he's
big as ..... Can you say ....?

591
00:33:22,783 --> 00:33:26,221
- New sweater? You just got it?
- Yeah, yesterday.

592
00:33:26,265 --> 00:33:28,963
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg
is just like a big, goofy dog.

593
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:32,140
He's always happy
and he's a little bit goofy.

594
00:33:32,184 --> 00:33:34,708
You can't help
but really like Lukas Hogberg.

595
00:33:34,751 --> 00:33:36,405
He's just a good guy.

596
00:33:36,449 --> 00:33:39,669
[whines]

597
00:33:39,713 --> 00:33:41,323
[man] Where are we going
right now, Lukas?

598
00:33:41,367 --> 00:33:45,197
We're going for a run
in the spooky forest.

599
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,068
We have a place
just out in the woods.

600
00:33:47,112 --> 00:33:49,375
We have a lot of tracks
and we run around.

601
00:33:49,418 --> 00:33:51,246
The session can be
from 45 minutes

602
00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:52,987
up to two and a half hours.

603
00:33:57,078 --> 00:34:00,560
[Adrian] I remember the words
of my friend Martin Altmark,

604
00:34:00,603 --> 00:34:02,388
Swedish CrossFit
affiliate owner.

605
00:34:02,431 --> 00:34:04,477
Swedes know how to run.
It's in our culture.

606
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,307
We run a lot.
People don't realize it.

607
00:34:08,350 --> 00:34:12,702
And I think Hogberg showed that
a few times over the 2018 Games.

608
00:34:14,356 --> 00:34:16,315
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg,
what changed?

609
00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:18,491
This athlete wasn't even
in the Games last year.

610
00:34:18,534 --> 00:34:20,536
[commentator]
In the last qualifying spot,

611
00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:22,799
fifth place, Frederik Aegidius!

612
00:34:22,843 --> 00:34:24,845
[cheering]

613
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:31,156
[Sean] Frederik Aegidius
did just enough

614
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,115
to hold off Lukas Hogberg.

615
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,552
Two points and two seconds,

616
00:34:36,596 --> 00:34:39,903
all that separates
fifth from sixth.

617
00:34:39,947 --> 00:34:43,516
[Lukas] So what I learned
about not qualifying in 2017

618
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,127
was to focus more on myself

619
00:34:46,171 --> 00:34:51,001
and not think too much
about what others think about me

620
00:34:51,045 --> 00:34:55,223
or how they expect me
to perform.

621
00:34:56,659 --> 00:34:59,488
I really had to think back,

622
00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:01,229
I'm doing this
'cause I love the sport,

623
00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:06,147
and I love competing
and I enjoy it and it's fun.

624
00:35:06,191 --> 00:35:07,975
That's why I'm doing it.

625
00:35:08,018 --> 00:35:10,282
I started when I was a kid,
10 years old. I did kung fu.

626
00:35:10,325 --> 00:35:12,632
I thought Bruce Lee
was super awesome.

627
00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:14,547
And then I started
boxing instead.

628
00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:16,288
I always enjoyed

629
00:35:16,331 --> 00:35:20,118
the physical training more.

630
00:35:20,161 --> 00:35:23,164
I loved the boxing, but it's
more fun to do all the push-ups

631
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:25,035
and the stuff
that everyone hates.

632
00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:26,994
And then when I saw CrossFit,

633
00:35:27,037 --> 00:35:29,736
I was like,
shit, this is my sport.

634
00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:36,003
OK, listen up. Make
smart decisions out there, OK?

635
00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:39,267
Do the right thing
on these obstacles.

636
00:35:39,311 --> 00:35:41,008
The event's not gonna be won

637
00:35:41,051 --> 00:35:44,185
on shaving off time
from dropping from obstacles.

638
00:35:44,229 --> 00:35:46,927
Someone just hurt themselves
on a low wall.

639
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:50,409
I'm thinking they rolled
their knee. I don't know yet.

640
00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:53,194
But think about
self-preservation, OK?

641
00:35:53,238 --> 00:35:56,632
Win this on the stuff in here
and on the run.

642
00:35:56,676 --> 00:36:00,114
Don't win it on the O-Course.
Be efficient on the O-Course.

643
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:03,726
Promise me you're gonna be safe?
All right, thank you. Good luck.

644
00:36:03,770 --> 00:36:06,903
[Laura] When they announced the
Battleground, I was very happy.

645
00:36:06,947 --> 00:36:09,167
I was stoked.
I was like, that's my event.

646
00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:10,777
It's awesome, it's great.

647
00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:12,561
[Sean] It's the Battleground,
presented by

648
00:36:12,605 --> 00:36:14,172
the United States Marine Corps,

649
00:36:14,215 --> 00:36:15,956
one of the most
unique challenges

650
00:36:15,999 --> 00:36:17,827
these athletes
will face all weekend.

651
00:36:17,871 --> 00:36:19,481
[commentator]
I absolutely love it.

652
00:36:19,525 --> 00:36:22,397
It is true, real-time,
real-world fitness.

653
00:36:22,441 --> 00:36:25,313
With that Rescue Randy Drag and
O-Course, it is fun to watch.

654
00:36:25,357 --> 00:36:28,447
I'm actually kind of jealous
they get to do it.

655
00:36:31,537 --> 00:36:34,104
[Adrian] The Battleground
was a good test of GPP.

656
00:36:34,148 --> 00:36:36,106
General physical preparation
is a big part

657
00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:37,891
of what CrossFit is all about.

658
00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:43,070
[Tia] It showcased how diverse
CrossFit can really be,

659
00:36:43,113 --> 00:36:48,118
and it showcased that
we really, truly are preparing

660
00:36:48,162 --> 00:36:49,555
for anything and everything.

661
00:36:51,339 --> 00:36:55,082
[commentator] Rescue Randy
is 185 pounds of dead weight.

662
00:36:55,125 --> 00:36:58,738
The dummy is 165,
plus 20 pounds of body armor.

663
00:36:58,781 --> 00:37:00,479
We've seen
different techniques.

664
00:37:00,522 --> 00:37:03,177
It's called Randy
or Bob or Pukey.

665
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,266
What did it say? I don't know.

666
00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:08,095
Yeah, I get to drag
my doppelganger around.

667
00:37:08,138 --> 00:37:09,792
It was great. Good time.

668
00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:11,968
[man] What is the fastest way
to move Randy?

669
00:37:12,012 --> 00:37:14,057
How can you get an edge
on the rest of the field?

670
00:37:14,101 --> 00:37:16,190
Literally, as I walked out
on the field,

671
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:19,976
I looked down at Randy,
and I kind of saw his strap

672
00:37:20,020 --> 00:37:21,500
sticking up on one side.

673
00:37:21,543 --> 00:37:23,632
I was like,
the fastest way to move Randy

674
00:37:23,676 --> 00:37:26,983
is to run up to him and be
the first one to move him.

675
00:37:28,681 --> 00:37:30,378
[commentator]
It looks like Cole Sager

676
00:37:30,422 --> 00:37:32,337
single-handed running forward.

677
00:37:32,380 --> 00:37:34,208
We haven't seen that yet.

678
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:36,863
There's been a lot
of monkey see, monkey do.

679
00:37:36,906 --> 00:37:41,389
But all the way out
to the front. Great first move.

680
00:37:41,433 --> 00:37:43,652
I took the lead, I think,
from the beginning,

681
00:37:43,696 --> 00:37:47,003
and then I kept it almost
throughout the whole event.

682
00:37:47,047 --> 00:37:48,483
[commentator]
I love her confidence

683
00:37:48,527 --> 00:37:50,659
at only 21 years of age.

684
00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:53,488
Look at the way she just
ripped right up that rope

685
00:37:53,532 --> 00:37:57,144
like she doesn't even
have a weight vest on.

686
00:37:57,187 --> 00:38:00,930
One of the biggest cues
in that workout was to run hard.

687
00:38:00,974 --> 00:38:04,543
There was no assigned lane
at the obstacle course,

688
00:38:04,586 --> 00:38:06,588
so getting
to the obstacle course first

689
00:38:06,632 --> 00:38:08,982
meant that
no one's in your way.

690
00:38:09,025 --> 00:38:11,463
[Mat] We saw Lukas and Cole
hitting elbows.

691
00:38:11,506 --> 00:38:14,335
They were getting aggressive.
I thought they were joking.

692
00:38:14,379 --> 00:38:18,339
[commentator] Oh! We got
a little jostling on the field.

693
00:38:18,383 --> 00:38:21,342
Yeah, he got so pissed,
and I tried to be a bit annoying

694
00:38:21,386 --> 00:38:24,824
and just go pretty close
and block his way.

695
00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:29,698
I just tried to tire him out
by ....ing with him.

696
00:38:29,742 --> 00:38:32,614
He started to crowd me,
and he was leaning into me

697
00:38:32,658 --> 00:38:33,789
and I was leaning into him.

698
00:38:33,833 --> 00:38:35,356
He gave me a shoulder check,

699
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,706
and instantly,
I didn't even think about it,

700
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:40,361
I grab his hip, swim over
the top of this shoulder

701
00:38:40,405 --> 00:38:42,102
and throw him back behind me.

702
00:38:42,145 --> 00:38:46,019
Right when it happened,
I was like, 14 years of football

703
00:38:46,062 --> 00:38:49,327
all just came together
in one moment right there.

704
00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:51,067
That's fine,
'cause I ....ed with him,

705
00:38:51,111 --> 00:38:53,896
so I guess he's ....ing me back.

706
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:55,985
[commentator] If they can get
to those obstacles,

707
00:38:56,029 --> 00:38:57,509
they can make each one count.

708
00:38:57,552 --> 00:39:00,468
They have to be
very specific and exact

709
00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:03,732
when they hit those obstacles.

710
00:39:03,776 --> 00:39:06,561
[Patrick] So I had to pick
lines and avoid some people,

711
00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:08,476
but it was fine,
it was all pretty smooth.

712
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,130
I got through the jump hurdles

713
00:39:10,173 --> 00:39:12,567
without crashing again
this year, which was great.

714
00:39:12,611 --> 00:39:15,831
I've had to live down
that video for a whole year.

715
00:39:18,312 --> 00:39:21,228
[Sean] Brent Fikowski
is right next to Cole Sager.

716
00:39:21,271 --> 00:39:22,838
He's climbing
the cargo net as well.

717
00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:25,711
Mat Fraser is there,
as is Patrick Vellner.

718
00:39:25,754 --> 00:39:27,408
[Patrick] There was somebody
coming up behind me,

719
00:39:27,452 --> 00:39:29,149
so I went close on one side.

720
00:39:29,192 --> 00:39:32,413
I was reaching right towards
those black lines,

721
00:39:32,457 --> 00:39:34,023
so I had to really choke out

722
00:39:34,067 --> 00:39:35,895
and try to avoid
that cargo net no rep.

723
00:39:35,938 --> 00:39:37,549
So I came over really awkward.

724
00:39:37,592 --> 00:39:40,421
I should have climbed down
more under control.

725
00:39:40,465 --> 00:39:43,642
[Mat] I got to the top of
the net, I went over sideways,

726
00:39:43,685 --> 00:39:47,428
got two solid handholds and then
just flipped my feet over,

727
00:39:47,472 --> 00:39:49,256
and my first thought,

728
00:39:49,299 --> 00:39:53,521
as soon as I realized
I was falling, was... "Good."

729
00:39:53,565 --> 00:39:56,132
"I'm gonna get down so much
faster than these other guys."

730
00:39:56,176 --> 00:39:58,787
[Sean] Sager's up and over.
Hogberg hits the ground.

731
00:39:58,831 --> 00:40:03,052
And Mat Fraser takes a nasty
spill off of that thing.

732
00:40:03,096 --> 00:40:04,358
But he is OK.

733
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,621
And Vellner's off it as well.

734
00:40:08,318 --> 00:40:11,191
[Patrick] I knew it
as soon as I let go,

735
00:40:11,234 --> 00:40:13,019
and I was pushing back,

736
00:40:13,062 --> 00:40:16,065
and my whole body's coming
back, and my one foot snags,

737
00:40:16,109 --> 00:40:18,416
and then
you're just like "pew!"...

738
00:40:18,459 --> 00:40:21,070
And I was like, all right, shit.

739
00:40:23,290 --> 00:40:25,379
[Mat] In that one second
of falling,

740
00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:27,816
you have so many thoughts
going through your head.

741
00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:29,775
It went from,
"Good, I'm gonna get down

742
00:40:29,818 --> 00:40:31,951
so much faster
than everyone else," to,

743
00:40:31,994 --> 00:40:34,475
"No, you idiot, that's not good.
You're gonna die."

744
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:37,130
[Sean] But the two of them
look to be all right.

745
00:40:37,173 --> 00:40:39,480
Fraser gets over the hop logs
in a hurry.

746
00:40:39,524 --> 00:40:41,482
Vellner looks like he's OK.

747
00:40:41,526 --> 00:40:44,093
[Patrick] Really knocked the
wind out of myself pretty good,

748
00:40:44,137 --> 00:40:48,837
and did one of those like...
[wheezes, laughs]

749
00:40:48,881 --> 00:40:50,622
And I was like, just move,

750
00:40:50,665 --> 00:40:52,711
'cause otherwise
someone's gonna try to help you

751
00:40:52,754 --> 00:40:55,061
and you don't wanna get saved.

752
00:40:55,104 --> 00:40:57,542
Two or three obstacles
were the swinging and catching

753
00:40:57,585 --> 00:40:59,892
and a lot
of highly technical things,

754
00:40:59,935 --> 00:41:02,634
and then you did monkey bars,
and then you're running again.

755
00:41:05,637 --> 00:41:07,465
[Sean] Now Laura Horvath
is done.

756
00:41:07,508 --> 00:41:09,945
650 meters back
to the North Park.

757
00:41:09,989 --> 00:41:12,078
[Laura] Got in the stadium,
did my two rope climbs,

758
00:41:12,121 --> 00:41:14,733
and then saw Cole Sager
pulling it with one arm,

759
00:41:14,776 --> 00:41:16,648
so I was like,
why not give it a go?

760
00:41:16,691 --> 00:41:18,345
And I pulled it all the way.

761
00:41:18,388 --> 00:41:19,825
[Sean] Somebody get out there

762
00:41:19,868 --> 00:41:21,783
and tell this woman
she's a rookie!

763
00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:25,308
Laura Horvath takes event five!

764
00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,796
[Patrick] But, yeah,
I hit the white finish line

765
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,059
and took a knee real quick,

766
00:41:37,103 --> 00:41:42,325
and I just spat a loogie, like
when you're done working out,

767
00:41:42,369 --> 00:41:44,589
you're just
all phlegmy and gross,

768
00:41:44,632 --> 00:41:47,766
and it was just pure red, right
on the white finish line too.

769
00:41:47,809 --> 00:41:50,072
I was like, "Uh-oh."

770
00:41:50,116 --> 00:41:53,467
[clears throat]
It's like if I do that...

771
00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:56,426
- Are you having pain?
- I don't have any pain, really.

772
00:41:56,470 --> 00:41:58,167
It feels like
you lie on your back,

773
00:41:58,211 --> 00:42:00,822
you've got a little bit
of wind knocked out of you.

774
00:42:00,866 --> 00:42:02,824
And I thought
I got sand in my mouth.

775
00:42:02,868 --> 00:42:05,523
- Which way did you land?
- A bit more on my shoulder.

776
00:42:05,566 --> 00:42:09,091
I saw him hit, on TV,
right here.

777
00:42:09,135 --> 00:42:11,224
[Patrick] I had to
go through due process

778
00:42:11,267 --> 00:42:12,834
and everybody got involved,

779
00:42:12,878 --> 00:42:15,184
and they basically
have their policy

780
00:42:15,228 --> 00:42:18,100
and wouldn't let me compete
until they had investigated that

781
00:42:18,144 --> 00:42:22,148
and I got a CT scan and had
been cleared by some doctors.

782
00:42:22,191 --> 00:42:25,630
So a couple of the events staff
just drove us to the hospital.

783
00:42:25,673 --> 00:42:28,284
I had to get a scan done.

784
00:42:28,328 --> 00:42:30,156
The CT came back

785
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:33,115
and there was clearly
bruising in my left lung,

786
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:38,425
but they kind of said
it's not gonna get any worse,

787
00:42:38,468 --> 00:42:40,427
it just might be uncomfortable.

788
00:42:40,470 --> 00:42:43,473
- How do you feel right now?
- Pretty good. A little sore.

789
00:42:43,517 --> 00:42:45,650
I fell from pretty high,
but not too bad.

790
00:42:45,693 --> 00:42:49,218
I don't feel bad.
I just feel like... I feel dumb.

791
00:42:49,262 --> 00:42:50,785
I shouldn't have done that,

792
00:42:50,829 --> 00:42:53,658
but that's what happens
when you're racing.

793
00:42:53,701 --> 00:42:56,443
[shouting and cheering]

794
00:43:01,274 --> 00:43:03,363
Tia, how was it?

795
00:43:03,406 --> 00:43:05,147
That was harder than the row.

796
00:43:05,191 --> 00:43:08,629
What was that battle
with Laura like?

797
00:43:08,673 --> 00:43:12,415
Yeah, that was fun.
Very, very fun.

798
00:43:14,548 --> 00:43:15,984
[cheering]

799
00:43:16,028 --> 00:43:18,073
[rap music]

800
00:43:27,779 --> 00:43:32,000
Guys, you're running 10 rounds!
60 seconds! Go!

801
00:43:32,044 --> 00:43:35,264
Right now we are in Boston.
I was in Tennessee before.

802
00:43:35,308 --> 00:43:37,049
I was at Chris Hinshaw's place.

803
00:43:37,092 --> 00:43:40,487
He is doing a seminar here and
I'm helping out a little bit.

804
00:43:40,530 --> 00:43:43,621
The goal here is to count
your reps, count your lunges.

805
00:43:43,664 --> 00:43:46,232
I like helping people
to get better in anything.

806
00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:48,887
And go.
Fast, fast, fast, fast, fast.

807
00:43:48,930 --> 00:43:51,498
It's awesome, and they just
want to learn from you.

808
00:43:51,541 --> 00:43:53,195
When they wanna
reach their goal,

809
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,067
you just help to make it happen.

810
00:43:55,110 --> 00:43:58,723
Faster, faster, faster.
And time.

811
00:43:58,766 --> 00:44:01,551
- So how do you like Boston?
- It's nice. Great city.

812
00:44:01,595 --> 00:44:03,815
The weather was perfect.

813
00:44:03,858 --> 00:44:07,427
Everything was fun. We ate ice
cream. We had a smoothie.

814
00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:10,604
Sightseeing on a bike is
so much more fun than walking.

815
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:14,303
[Chris] We want Laura to reach
into a lobster pot, grab it,

816
00:44:14,347 --> 00:44:17,437
throw it into hot water
and eat it with her bare hands.

817
00:44:20,048 --> 00:44:22,790
- Tell me, how do I do?
- Pull the tail off.

818
00:44:22,834 --> 00:44:25,140
- I can't eat the head.
- Just talk to it.

819
00:44:25,184 --> 00:44:27,839
- Just go "Hi!"
- Hi!

820
00:44:27,882 --> 00:44:30,537
Now, the problem is,
you got the poop chute here.

821
00:44:30,580 --> 00:44:33,975
- There you go.
- That was easy. It's empty now.

822
00:44:34,019 --> 00:44:36,151
It's like you grew up in Boston.

823
00:44:37,631 --> 00:44:39,241
[Laura] I was a rock climber.

824
00:44:39,285 --> 00:44:41,548
I still do climb sometimes
for fun.

825
00:44:41,591 --> 00:44:43,289
So I was very athletic
as a kid,

826
00:44:43,332 --> 00:44:45,944
because my parents
are PE teachers.

827
00:44:45,987 --> 00:44:48,163
I had always to win.
I had to beat the guys.

828
00:44:48,207 --> 00:44:51,297
So I was very competitive.
I like to win, I guess.

829
00:44:52,994 --> 00:44:54,909
[Patrick] Knowing her
from just this last year,

830
00:44:54,953 --> 00:44:56,781
training with her
at a couple of camps,

831
00:44:56,824 --> 00:44:58,696
I expected
that she would crush it.

832
00:44:58,739 --> 00:45:01,307
I thought Laura
would have a great weekend.

833
00:45:01,350 --> 00:45:03,788
She was very stoic
throughout the whole weekend.

834
00:45:03,831 --> 00:45:06,921
She surprised me with how well
she kept her composure

835
00:45:06,965 --> 00:45:09,968
for just being new in the game.

836
00:45:10,011 --> 00:45:13,885
[Laura] My goal was to be
top five or podium.

837
00:45:13,928 --> 00:45:15,625
I would be very happy
with that.

838
00:45:15,669 --> 00:45:19,194
But of course
I was there to win.

839
00:45:19,238 --> 00:45:20,892
All 40 women are there to win.

840
00:45:20,935 --> 00:45:23,677
If you are not there to win,
then why are you there?

841
00:45:30,989 --> 00:45:33,818
Do you have any big goals?
Clean ladder?

842
00:45:33,861 --> 00:45:36,255
Other than not have
your aorta explode?

843
00:45:37,865 --> 00:45:41,434
That's plan A,
every event from now on.

844
00:45:41,477 --> 00:45:44,611
No, I think you have to power
the whole first round

845
00:45:44,654 --> 00:45:49,007
if you wanna advance,
and then... and not miss any.

846
00:45:49,050 --> 00:45:51,879
So do that,
and then the second round,

847
00:45:51,923 --> 00:45:55,100
I don't think I'm top five.

848
00:45:55,143 --> 00:45:57,189
'Cause I can't power
all the bars.

849
00:45:57,232 --> 00:46:00,583
I think you need to power all
the bars in the second round.

850
00:46:00,627 --> 00:46:01,889
Then you advance.

851
00:46:01,933 --> 00:46:03,891
How you feeling?

852
00:46:03,935 --> 00:46:05,545
I'm not the strongest guy here,

853
00:46:05,588 --> 00:46:09,897
so if I make it to the top 20,
I'm happy, for sure.

854
00:46:09,941 --> 00:46:12,726
[commentator] Welcome in
to the electrifying Coliseum

855
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:15,294
at the Alliant Energy Center
in Madison, Wisconsin,

856
00:46:15,337 --> 00:46:17,600
as we're ready
for women's event number six

857
00:46:17,644 --> 00:46:20,038
of the 2018
Reebok CrossFit Games,

858
00:46:20,081 --> 00:46:22,040
the Speed
Clean and Jerk Ladder.

859
00:46:22,083 --> 00:46:24,433
The interesting thing about
the Clean and Jerk Speed Ladder

860
00:46:24,477 --> 00:46:26,435
is the format, basically rounds.

861
00:46:26,479 --> 00:46:27,959
And you're trying to get a time

862
00:46:28,002 --> 00:46:31,310
that will advance you
to the next round.

863
00:46:31,353 --> 00:46:33,094
That unique format

864
00:46:33,138 --> 00:46:35,227
really adds some excitement
to the competition

865
00:46:35,270 --> 00:46:37,707
because there is that pressure
to make the final cut

866
00:46:37,751 --> 00:46:39,492
and make the final round

867
00:46:39,535 --> 00:46:42,234
and be one of those final few
athletes to secure a top spot.

868
00:46:42,277 --> 00:46:44,976
[commentator] Vellner here
getting some medical attention.

869
00:46:45,019 --> 00:46:47,979
They're trying to make sure
that he's fit to compete.

870
00:46:48,022 --> 00:46:50,068
He has been cleared
to continue.

871
00:46:50,111 --> 00:46:53,419
Patrick Vellner has made
his way back to the arena

872
00:46:53,462 --> 00:46:55,856
to complete this event.

873
00:46:55,900 --> 00:47:00,078
The question is, is he 100%?
How will he handle this one?

874
00:47:04,996 --> 00:47:08,042
[Tia] So the Speed Clean
and Jerk Ladder, it's like,

875
00:47:08,086 --> 00:47:12,264
OK, you can't think,
you just have to go.

876
00:47:12,307 --> 00:47:14,744
[Adrian] When you have to do
near max efforts

877
00:47:14,788 --> 00:47:16,137
back to back to back,

878
00:47:16,181 --> 00:47:18,444
that expression of strength

879
00:47:18,487 --> 00:47:21,273
is much different
than having a lot of time

880
00:47:21,316 --> 00:47:22,709
to get the perfect rep.

881
00:47:26,713 --> 00:47:28,454
[Mat] Everyone's
gonna be sprinting.

882
00:47:28,497 --> 00:47:30,891
No one's gonna be setting up
on their lift.

883
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:36,505
[Tia] The Coliseum
is so electric.

884
00:47:36,549 --> 00:47:38,681
[Adrian] At least once a year
the hairs

885
00:47:38,725 --> 00:47:42,076
on the back of my neck'll
stand up in the Coliseum.

886
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,904
I'm thinking literally
of the movie Gladiator.

887
00:47:43,948 --> 00:47:46,733
They're out there
showcasing their best.

888
00:47:46,776 --> 00:47:49,301
[commentator] Toomey trying
to hold off Thorisdottir.

889
00:47:49,344 --> 00:47:50,693
Thorisdottir trips.

890
00:47:50,737 --> 00:47:51,912
I do my final lift, put it down

891
00:47:51,956 --> 00:47:53,914
and I slam down on my face.

892
00:47:53,958 --> 00:47:56,482
[commentator] But Mat Fraser
might be taking the top time

893
00:47:56,525 --> 00:47:58,876
here in
the quarter final round.

894
00:47:58,919 --> 00:48:03,097
Why not? Mat Fraser,
fastest time in round one.

895
00:48:06,579 --> 00:48:08,929
[Patrick] I think
the second round,

896
00:48:08,973 --> 00:48:10,844
I wasn't really trying
to race that much.

897
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,890
Get through all of them,
don't miss any bars,

898
00:48:12,933 --> 00:48:16,154
try to fall inside that top 15
or something like that.

899
00:48:18,634 --> 00:48:20,723
[Sean] Mat Fraser,
whether it's fair or not,

900
00:48:20,767 --> 00:48:22,987
gets held
to a much higher standard.

901
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:25,903
Everyone expects him
to demolish every event.

902
00:48:25,946 --> 00:48:28,079
Don't make Mat Fraser angry.

903
00:48:28,122 --> 00:48:30,211
You would not like him
when he's angry.

904
00:48:30,255 --> 00:48:31,821
And he only leads
by eight points.

905
00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:33,345
Looking to put some distance

906
00:48:33,388 --> 00:48:35,260
between himself
and Lukas Hogberg.

907
00:48:35,303 --> 00:48:36,870
[Mat] And I was so nervous

908
00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:38,698
about not qualifying
for that final heat.

909
00:48:38,741 --> 00:48:41,527
I know I need
to give everything I have.

910
00:48:41,570 --> 00:48:43,659
I'm so amped up
when I go out on the floor,

911
00:48:43,703 --> 00:48:46,619
I don't take time to notice
where a clock is.

912
00:48:48,708 --> 00:48:50,840
[Sean] Fraser hits that lift
and he continues to lead.

913
00:48:50,884 --> 00:48:54,540
Fraser's going through it and
then gets to that final weight.

914
00:48:54,583 --> 00:48:56,629
[Mat] Never saw
where a clock was.

915
00:48:56,672 --> 00:48:58,109
So I'm just in full panic mode

916
00:48:58,152 --> 00:49:00,154
going into the last bar,
just grip it and go.

917
00:49:00,198 --> 00:49:02,026
[Sean] Paulson behind him.

918
00:49:02,069 --> 00:49:04,724
Fraser drops the bar.
He'll get right back on it.

919
00:49:04,767 --> 00:49:07,814
And he missed once,
and people went, "What?"

920
00:49:09,555 --> 00:49:12,514
[Adrian] He made a tactical
mistake and he got back on it,

921
00:49:12,558 --> 00:49:15,256
'cause he thought he could beat
the person next to him.

922
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:18,042
If I took five seconds
to regroup, do it again,

923
00:49:18,085 --> 00:49:19,608
it would have been too late.

924
00:49:19,652 --> 00:49:22,002
I just said, .... it,
grab it, try it again.

925
00:49:22,046 --> 00:49:25,092
[Sean] Fraser has it stood up,
as does Tim Paulson.

926
00:49:25,136 --> 00:49:28,661
Fraser will miss the jerk.
Paulson is through.

927
00:49:28,704 --> 00:49:31,490
This could be huge
for Lukas Hogberg.

928
00:49:34,841 --> 00:49:37,452
Shit's not good.
I attacked this incorrectly.

929
00:49:37,496 --> 00:49:40,107
[Sean] The top five times
advance.

930
00:49:40,151 --> 00:49:43,415
Mat Fraser may not be
one of them.

931
00:49:43,458 --> 00:49:45,808
[Tommy] It was like this
kind of shock and all moment,

932
00:49:45,852 --> 00:49:48,246
not getting to see
the Michael Jordans

933
00:49:48,289 --> 00:49:50,074
or the Kobe Bryants
of your sport

934
00:49:50,117 --> 00:49:52,685
not be in the finals
in this very spotlighted,

935
00:49:52,728 --> 00:49:54,426
highlighted type final heat.

936
00:49:54,469 --> 00:49:55,993
But it also provided
an opportunity

937
00:49:56,036 --> 00:49:59,387
for some other athletes
to shine.

938
00:49:59,431 --> 00:50:01,389
[Sean] Nick Urankar
can throw some weight around.

939
00:50:01,433 --> 00:50:03,522
[commentator] Look at
the bowling ball shoulders.

940
00:50:03,565 --> 00:50:06,307
We talked about that during
the CrossFit Total as well.

941
00:50:06,351 --> 00:50:07,917
He likes these kind of events.

942
00:50:07,961 --> 00:50:11,443
He likes to go big.
He likes to go heavy.

943
00:50:11,486 --> 00:50:14,533
When it was announced,
I was excited/scared,

944
00:50:14,576 --> 00:50:17,188
because everybody anticipated
I'd have a shot at winning it.

945
00:50:17,231 --> 00:50:21,018
[Sean] Urankar sticks to jerks,
and he is way out in front

946
00:50:21,061 --> 00:50:23,498
as he moves
to the 340-pound barbell.

947
00:50:23,542 --> 00:50:25,544
Opening up a lead
with Amanda Barnhart.

948
00:50:25,587 --> 00:50:27,067
The rookie is hanging tough.

949
00:50:27,111 --> 00:50:31,158
220 pounds.
Amanda Barnhart hits the jerk.

950
00:50:31,202 --> 00:50:36,468
Amanda Barnhart,
her first career event win!

951
00:50:36,511 --> 00:50:39,993
And he's calling on the crowd
to get him through this lift.

952
00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:41,821
[Nick] The final bar, thinking,

953
00:50:41,864 --> 00:50:44,606
"What am I gonna do?
This is heavy."

954
00:50:44,650 --> 00:50:48,175
All I told myself was, "You've
hit this a million times."

955
00:50:52,962 --> 00:50:56,444
- [cheering]
- [commentator] Oh, yeah.

956
00:50:56,488 --> 00:51:00,666
[Sean] Nick Urankar wins the
Speed Clean and Jerk Ladder.

957
00:51:00,709 --> 00:51:03,625
[Nick] Probably one of the most
unbelievable moments

958
00:51:03,669 --> 00:51:05,714
of my athletic career ever.

959
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:11,894
That was... That was awesome.

960
00:51:11,938 --> 00:51:14,767
That was so loud. So loud. And
they just kept getting louder.

961
00:51:14,810 --> 00:51:16,943
And I was like,
I don't wanna not go.

962
00:51:16,986 --> 00:51:18,988
I started telling 'em
to get loud a little early.

963
00:51:19,032 --> 00:51:20,555
I wasn't quite ready.

964
00:51:20,599 --> 00:51:24,385
And, yeah, that was...
that was sick.

965
00:51:24,429 --> 00:51:27,301
The energy out there
is un... unbelievable.

966
00:51:27,345 --> 00:51:28,911
Hopefully it stays like that.

967
00:51:28,955 --> 00:51:31,088
I'm sure it's gonna stay
like that all weekend.

968
00:51:31,131 --> 00:51:34,003
What are we fixing to see?
What's gonna happen?

969
00:51:34,047 --> 00:51:36,397
Well, best strategy in
this workout, like all workouts,

970
00:51:36,441 --> 00:51:39,444
is fast and unbroken.

971
00:51:39,487 --> 00:51:41,402
So whoever does that wins.

972
00:51:41,446 --> 00:51:43,578
[Sean] The top 10 men
in the overall standings

973
00:51:43,622 --> 00:51:45,145
in this final heat.

974
00:51:45,189 --> 00:51:47,016
Pat Vellner in lane four
has been

975
00:51:47,060 --> 00:51:49,584
the living embodiment
of Murphy's Law

976
00:51:49,628 --> 00:51:51,586
so far in this competition,

977
00:51:51,630 --> 00:51:53,980
but he is still
in third place overall.

978
00:51:54,023 --> 00:51:55,808
[commentator]
Katrín Davídsdóttir right now

979
00:51:55,851 --> 00:51:59,246
is sitting 46 points
outside a podium position.

980
00:51:59,290 --> 00:52:01,857
She also has had some struggles
along the way.

981
00:52:01,901 --> 00:52:03,859
38th in the CrossFit Total.

982
00:52:03,903 --> 00:52:06,645
She would definitely love
100 points at this point.

983
00:52:08,734 --> 00:52:10,605
[Mat] When he announced
Fibonacci,

984
00:52:10,649 --> 00:52:12,259
I was pretty excited
about that.

985
00:52:12,303 --> 00:52:14,653
Even last year
I did well in the event,

986
00:52:14,696 --> 00:52:16,437
while still pacing it
to the point

987
00:52:16,481 --> 00:52:17,873
that it was almost comical.

988
00:52:17,917 --> 00:52:19,614
I was like, OK, time to see

989
00:52:19,658 --> 00:52:22,748
what I'm actually
capable of with this event.

990
00:52:22,791 --> 00:52:25,272
[Laura] So when they announced
the Fibonacci, I wasn't happy.

991
00:52:25,316 --> 00:52:28,188
I didn't like that workout.
It's not good for me.

992
00:52:28,232 --> 00:52:30,930
[Sean] Laura Horvath
is in lane number six,

993
00:52:30,973 --> 00:52:34,020
and she is falling
well off the lead pace.

994
00:52:34,063 --> 00:52:36,283
My handstand push-ups
have got better,

995
00:52:36,327 --> 00:52:37,806
but they are still my weakest.

996
00:52:37,850 --> 00:52:39,199
I'm gonna say this
a couple of times.

997
00:52:39,243 --> 00:52:41,027
That was my favorite event.

998
00:52:41,070 --> 00:52:42,768
[commentator] Look how fast
Katrín Davídsdóttir

999
00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,857
transitioned
right to the dead lifts.

1000
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:47,294
[Katrín] I like it when
you get to use your fitness,

1001
00:52:47,338 --> 00:52:49,688
there was gymnastics,
there was dead lifts.

1002
00:52:49,731 --> 00:52:51,342
I'm very good with
those kettlebell dead lifts.

1003
00:52:51,385 --> 00:52:54,171
I never know
where they come from.

1004
00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:55,998
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg is the man

1005
00:52:56,042 --> 00:53:00,046
who is closest to Mat Fraser
in the overall standings.

1006
00:53:00,089 --> 00:53:02,266
He trails him by 20 points.

1007
00:53:02,309 --> 00:53:03,789
[Mat] I'm in a lane
next to Vellner.

1008
00:53:03,832 --> 00:53:05,573
That dude is standing upright

1009
00:53:05,617 --> 00:53:07,749
by the time the kettlebells
come off the floor.

1010
00:53:07,793 --> 00:53:10,839
His arms are so long and the
kettlebells are sitting so high.

1011
00:53:10,883 --> 00:53:13,407
[commentator] We saw him falter
on the cleans earlier,

1012
00:53:13,451 --> 00:53:16,105
so we wanted to see
if he could actually handle

1013
00:53:16,149 --> 00:53:17,759
the pressure of being chased.

1014
00:53:17,803 --> 00:53:19,935
I was like,
I know I'm gonna have to push

1015
00:53:19,979 --> 00:53:23,461
to keep a good race on this.

1016
00:53:23,504 --> 00:53:26,725
I noticed that every time
Mat would come down and move on,

1017
00:53:26,768 --> 00:53:29,510
and I would come down
10 seconds after and advance,

1018
00:53:29,554 --> 00:53:31,295
the crowd would really react.

1019
00:53:31,338 --> 00:53:33,122
[commentator] He needs
to hold on to that position.

1020
00:53:33,166 --> 00:53:34,472
He has to keep fighting.

1021
00:53:34,515 --> 00:53:36,300
[Patrick] I so far had had

1022
00:53:36,343 --> 00:53:38,650
a bit of a rough shake,
but I keep coming.

1023
00:53:38,693 --> 00:53:40,565
I wasn't gonna sit down.

1024
00:53:40,608 --> 00:53:42,610
[Sean] Davídsdóttir,
one rep to go, she's done.

1025
00:53:42,654 --> 00:53:45,091
It's time to grab
the 35-pound kettlebells

1026
00:53:45,134 --> 00:53:47,267
and take off on that march
down the floor.

1027
00:53:47,311 --> 00:53:51,619
And that's when your arms are so
fried, and they feel like jelly.

1028
00:53:51,663 --> 00:53:56,276
And the only thing I'm thinking
about is just lunge faster.

1029
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,583
[Sean] Mat Fraser will be
the first man

1030
00:53:58,626 --> 00:54:00,628
on the overhead walking lunge.

1031
00:54:00,672 --> 00:54:02,761
[Mat] When you pick up
the kettlebells to lunge,

1032
00:54:02,804 --> 00:54:05,242
you can deal with the pain
in your legs and ass later.

1033
00:54:05,285 --> 00:54:06,939
It's go time.

1034
00:54:06,982 --> 00:54:09,724
[Sean] A good race developing
now in the middle.

1035
00:54:09,768 --> 00:54:11,596
Katrín Davídsdóttir
on the left,

1036
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:13,598
Annie Thorisdottir
on the right.

1037
00:54:13,641 --> 00:54:16,383
I love the overhead walking
lunges with the kettlebells.

1038
00:54:16,427 --> 00:54:18,907
I really wanted
to get to that final line,

1039
00:54:18,951 --> 00:54:20,605
I have one gap left,

1040
00:54:20,648 --> 00:54:24,870
and I could just feel my right
shoulder getting wobbly.

1041
00:54:24,913 --> 00:54:26,698
[Katrín] My shoulder mobility
is really good,

1042
00:54:26,741 --> 00:54:28,917
so I was able
to just set my shoulders back

1043
00:54:28,961 --> 00:54:33,966
and just keep 'em there, and
I was like, keep 'em straight.

1044
00:54:35,446 --> 00:54:39,711
[Sean] Katrín Davídsdóttir
is across,

1045
00:54:39,754 --> 00:54:43,410
and Katrín Davídsdóttir
takes the Fibonacci!

1046
00:54:45,238 --> 00:54:48,328
Fraser continuing to march
towards the finish line.

1047
00:54:48,372 --> 00:54:51,636
He's gonna take a break and has
to retreat to the nearest line,

1048
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:54,247
and here comes Patrick Vellner.

1049
00:54:54,291 --> 00:54:56,684
[Patrick] I think that was
a turning point in the weekend.

1050
00:54:56,728 --> 00:54:59,600
I had had a lot of things
go wrong,

1051
00:54:59,644 --> 00:55:01,341
and it was like,
I can turn this around.

1052
00:55:01,385 --> 00:55:04,823
[Sean] Mat Fraser
wins the Fibonacci.

1053
00:55:04,866 --> 00:55:07,652
Vellner is in, but
Vellner's gonna take fourth.

1054
00:55:07,695 --> 00:55:11,917
There's still lots of weekend
left, and I'm in a good spot.

1055
00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:17,879
[Mat] That sucked having that
be my first event win.

1056
00:55:17,923 --> 00:55:20,839
Waiting that long in
competition to finally get one?

1057
00:55:20,882 --> 00:55:23,363
I was like, "Oh, man,
what's going on here?"

1058
00:55:23,407 --> 00:55:26,584
It was concerning, but it was
a relief to finally get one.

1059
00:55:26,627 --> 00:55:29,674
It was good.
I was very clear-minded.

1060
00:55:29,717 --> 00:55:32,894
Um, I did good.

1061
00:55:32,938 --> 00:55:35,375
Good, fair judge,
he was making me

1062
00:55:35,419 --> 00:55:36,898
open up my hips
on the handstand push-ups,

1063
00:55:36,942 --> 00:55:38,552
which was good, it was fair.

1064
00:55:38,596 --> 00:55:41,729
So it just slowed me down
just a little bit,

1065
00:55:41,773 --> 00:55:45,603
but I'm still super happy
with how I paced it.

1066
00:55:45,646 --> 00:55:48,257
Everything felt great.
I got a good score.

1067
00:55:48,301 --> 00:55:52,261
Yeah, no complaints.
Good workout. Great workout.

1068
00:55:52,305 --> 00:55:55,830
Heber! The Coliseum
is magical this year.

1069
00:55:55,874 --> 00:55:58,920
- You like the magic?
- It's all magic.

1070
00:55:58,964 --> 00:56:01,314
Is that what
you've been missing?

1071
00:56:01,358 --> 00:56:03,577
I thought of that
as the end of my workout.

1072
00:56:03,621 --> 00:56:06,624
I knew I could put
those kettlebells up

1073
00:56:06,667 --> 00:56:09,583
and lunge 'em all the way,
and then halfway and I was like,

1074
00:56:09,627 --> 00:56:11,585
- "Oh, shit."
- Annie was right there.

1075
00:56:11,629 --> 00:56:15,459
He told me to stop if you need
to when you got over a line.

1076
00:56:15,502 --> 00:56:18,026
And I was like...
I didn't know where Annie was,

1077
00:56:18,070 --> 00:56:20,464
but the crowd was roaring
and Annie's judge was here,

1078
00:56:20,507 --> 00:56:23,771
so I was like,
"Lunge faster, lunge faster."

1079
00:56:23,815 --> 00:56:25,730
Then you don't have to
hold them up for as long.

1080
00:56:25,773 --> 00:56:27,732
- Yeah.
- [laughs]

1081
00:56:36,567 --> 00:56:40,179
Let's go back to fact that some
days you don't know it's Friday.

1082
00:56:40,222 --> 00:56:42,268
[laughter]

1083
00:56:42,311 --> 00:56:44,444
Do you know
what day it is right now?

1084
00:56:44,488 --> 00:56:47,055
- [man] It's Saturday.
- Obviously did you know?

1085
00:56:47,099 --> 00:56:51,016
[woman] Everyone's just walking
around knowing what day it is.

1086
00:56:51,059 --> 00:56:53,801
But do you just know, or do you
have to think about it?

1087
00:56:53,845 --> 00:56:57,544
- [man] I know.
- It was really good yesterday.

1088
00:56:57,588 --> 00:56:59,720
And I'm really excited
about this one,

1089
00:56:59,764 --> 00:57:02,157
especially the 500 swim.

1090
00:57:02,201 --> 00:57:03,681
It's just so pretty out

1091
00:57:03,724 --> 00:57:06,597
that I think it'll be
a fun event to do.

1092
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,904
Right, so I'm not
gonna be there.

1093
00:57:09,948 --> 00:57:14,648
We know what we need to do.
Back to square one, OK?

1094
00:57:14,692 --> 00:57:17,825
Your day. Love you.

1095
00:57:17,869 --> 00:57:19,174
- Love you too.
- Bye.

1096
00:57:39,194 --> 00:57:41,675
Let's focus on the course.

1097
00:57:41,719 --> 00:57:44,896
Swim starts here and ends here.
You're gonna go that way.

1098
00:57:44,939 --> 00:57:48,073
You'll see the buoy
when we get out there.

1099
00:57:48,116 --> 00:57:52,425
Boat launches from here
and lands over here.

1100
00:57:52,469 --> 00:57:53,948
What do you think about Katrín?

1101
00:57:53,992 --> 00:57:55,907
- On this?
- In general.

1102
00:57:55,950 --> 00:57:58,344
- Is she gonna climb back up?
- I think she can climb back up.

1103
00:57:58,387 --> 00:58:00,172
It'll be a battle
between her and Annie

1104
00:58:00,215 --> 00:58:02,740
on the second and third.

1105
00:58:02,783 --> 00:58:05,873
- Mmm.
- What do you think?

1106
00:58:05,917 --> 00:58:08,615
I think yesterday was good
for her. She needed that.

1107
00:58:08,659 --> 00:58:10,704
Otherwise she was .......

1108
00:58:10,748 --> 00:58:13,228
[Sean] For two days,
the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games

1109
00:58:13,272 --> 00:58:15,317
have been contested
on dry land.

1110
00:58:15,361 --> 00:58:17,232
That changes on day three.

1111
00:58:17,276 --> 00:58:20,801
Thanks for joining us as
we kick off action on Saturday

1112
00:58:20,845 --> 00:58:23,325
with event number eight,
the Madison Triplus,

1113
00:58:23,369 --> 00:58:26,764
and this is the latest
in CrossFit Games history

1114
00:58:26,807 --> 00:58:30,637
that we've actually put
athletes in the water.

1115
00:58:30,681 --> 00:58:32,291
[Tommy] Madison Triplus
was a mash-up

1116
00:58:32,334 --> 00:58:34,511
of a few different
off-site events,

1117
00:58:34,554 --> 00:58:36,904
and any time
there's a swim involved,

1118
00:58:36,948 --> 00:58:38,558
the Australian contingent

1119
00:58:38,602 --> 00:58:40,429
automatically jumps
to the forefront

1120
00:58:40,473 --> 00:58:43,128
as some of the favorites.

1121
00:58:43,171 --> 00:58:46,566
[Tia] As soon as there's a run,
a swim, anything outside,

1122
00:58:46,610 --> 00:58:49,003
I'm like, yes,
these are my points.

1123
00:58:49,047 --> 00:58:52,964
And in 2015 we had this event,

1124
00:58:53,007 --> 00:58:55,183
I think it was actually
the first swim event.

1125
00:58:55,227 --> 00:58:58,926
I was so nervous, I was
so young, and I came fourth,

1126
00:58:58,970 --> 00:59:02,408
but I knew that I could have
done so much better.

1127
00:59:02,451 --> 00:59:06,238
So for the CrossFit Games team
to bring the board back,

1128
00:59:06,281 --> 00:59:08,980
I was like, yes, let's do this.

1129
00:59:10,938 --> 00:59:14,681
When that event got announced,
oh, God, this is gonna be bad.

1130
00:59:14,725 --> 00:59:17,902
'Cause every other year that
there's been a swim and a run,

1131
00:59:17,945 --> 00:59:19,773
it's been survival mode for me.

1132
00:59:19,817 --> 00:59:22,820
I'm kind of like stroking
in and out of consciousness.

1133
00:59:22,863 --> 00:59:25,605
I'm getting light-headed
and tipping over.

1134
00:59:25,649 --> 00:59:29,957
And then they're doing a mass
start on the swim in the water.

1135
00:59:30,001 --> 00:59:32,569
It's just a recipe for chaos.

1136
00:59:32,612 --> 00:59:34,788
[starter buzzer rings]

1137
00:59:34,832 --> 00:59:38,009
[Sean] Event eight, the Madison
Triplus, is underway.

1138
00:59:38,052 --> 00:59:41,360
500-metre swim
to open things up here.

1139
00:59:41,403 --> 00:59:45,494
It was hard swimming next to 39
other women. I got some kicks.

1140
00:59:45,538 --> 00:59:49,324
I think I gave some kicks
to some girls next to me.

1141
00:59:49,368 --> 00:59:52,023
[commentator] That's legs
and feet on top of heads,

1142
00:59:52,066 --> 00:59:54,286
on top of other legs.

1143
00:59:54,329 --> 00:59:56,854
Three pulls into the swim,
knocks my goggles,

1144
00:59:56,897 --> 00:59:58,507
lens fills up with water.

1145
00:59:58,551 --> 01:00:00,771
I'm like, "Shit."

1146
01:00:02,599 --> 01:00:05,993
And with a compromised lung,
I don't wanna blow it in a swim

1147
01:00:06,037 --> 01:00:08,387
when there's two other sections
of that workout.

1148
01:00:10,389 --> 01:00:12,565
[Sean] This is more like
a street fight than a swim,

1149
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:15,612
but there are some
really competent swimmers

1150
01:00:15,655 --> 01:00:18,310
who can do very well
in this portion of the event.

1151
01:00:18,353 --> 01:00:21,661
I can't tell you how much I've
worked on my swimming this year.

1152
01:00:21,705 --> 01:00:23,837
I've done more distance
in the water this year

1153
01:00:23,881 --> 01:00:25,665
than the last
three years combined.

1154
01:00:25,709 --> 01:00:28,581
I was excited to see
how much I could improve,

1155
01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:30,583
but at the same time
I still hate swimming.

1156
01:00:34,718 --> 01:00:36,763
[Brent] My goal was
to start swimming fast

1157
01:00:36,807 --> 01:00:39,548
and hold the lead there
and hold off the Aussies

1158
01:00:39,592 --> 01:00:41,202
as long as I could
on the paddleboard.

1159
01:00:41,246 --> 01:00:43,030
I got out of the water first,

1160
01:00:43,074 --> 01:00:46,033
and I could hear and see
that they weren't far behind.

1161
01:00:46,077 --> 01:00:48,645
[Sean] Brent Fikowski is done
with the swim.

1162
01:00:48,688 --> 01:00:51,212
The women, the leaders
got out of the water

1163
01:00:51,256 --> 01:00:53,650
faster than Brent Fikowski did.

1164
01:00:54,868 --> 01:00:56,870
I knew, though,
you didn't wanna go out,

1165
01:00:56,914 --> 01:00:58,437
and I wasn't one in the swim,

1166
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,483
so I came out of the swim
in third place,

1167
01:01:01,527 --> 01:01:03,703
and then it was about
picking up the board,

1168
01:01:03,747 --> 01:01:06,445
having a fast transition.

1169
01:01:08,969 --> 01:01:10,667
[Sean] Now, Kristi Eramo
and Amanda Barnhart

1170
01:01:10,710 --> 01:01:12,625
are dead even on that paddle.

1171
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,715
[commentator] So far both women
are laying down on the board.

1172
01:01:15,759 --> 01:01:18,109
Toomey is able to use
a lot more of her hips

1173
01:01:18,152 --> 01:01:20,198
and get more pull
through the water.

1174
01:01:20,241 --> 01:01:23,897
And I ended up catching up
to them and I was on my knees,

1175
01:01:23,941 --> 01:01:27,771
so I was able to actually gain
some momentum from them.

1176
01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:31,078
[Laura]
I fell a couple of times.

1177
01:01:31,122 --> 01:01:32,340
I tried to get on my knees.

1178
01:01:32,384 --> 01:01:33,820
It was impossible for me.

1179
01:01:33,864 --> 01:01:36,301
I just fell over.

1180
01:01:36,344 --> 01:01:39,347
It's so hard for me to know how
to control it and how to do it.

1181
01:01:39,391 --> 01:01:43,351
When I gain speed, I get
so tired in the shoulders,

1182
01:01:43,395 --> 01:01:47,878
and I think
more than 10 people passed me.

1183
01:01:47,921 --> 01:01:51,098
[commentator] He just doesn't
look real confident to me.

1184
01:01:51,142 --> 01:01:52,926
[commentator 2]
He's really struggling,

1185
01:01:52,970 --> 01:01:54,885
but if you can't balance,
then it's really hard

1186
01:01:54,928 --> 01:01:57,148
to even get yourself to move.

1187
01:01:57,191 --> 01:01:59,411
[Brent] It was not as fast
as Dean Linder-Leighton,

1188
01:01:59,454 --> 01:02:01,587
who had these big
double-hand strokes.

1189
01:02:01,630 --> 01:02:03,937
[Sean] Three Australians out
front, Dean Linder-Leighton,

1190
01:02:03,981 --> 01:02:05,547
followed by now Khan Porter

1191
01:02:05,591 --> 01:02:07,375
and James Newbury,
your top three.

1192
01:02:07,419 --> 01:02:09,813
And near the end,
Sean Sweeney, yelling,

1193
01:02:09,856 --> 01:02:12,511
"You Australian dingo,
I'm coming for you!"

1194
01:02:12,554 --> 01:02:15,340
[Sweeney]
I'm coming for you, Khan!

1195
01:02:15,383 --> 01:02:17,864
You better paddle
that sweet ass!

1196
01:02:17,908 --> 01:02:20,519
Yelling at me, "How you doing
over there, Brent?"

1197
01:02:20,562 --> 01:02:22,260
And I just had my chin down.

1198
01:02:22,303 --> 01:02:24,871
I'm not gonna give him
the satisfaction of response.

1199
01:02:24,915 --> 01:02:28,701
And when we get out of
the water, I'm gonna dust him.

1200
01:02:28,745 --> 01:02:30,616
[Sean] Now Toomey is off,

1201
01:02:30,659 --> 01:02:32,009
and now the race really starts.

1202
01:02:32,052 --> 01:02:34,707
The two lead women faster

1203
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:37,405
than the two lead men.

1204
01:02:37,449 --> 01:02:39,320
[Mat] For me,
coming out of the swim

1205
01:02:39,364 --> 01:02:41,801
and not being
in a panic survival mode,

1206
01:02:41,845 --> 01:02:45,544
and feel comfortable,
was just a huge win for me.

1207
01:02:47,328 --> 01:02:50,114
[Sean] Brent Fikowski right now
looking to pick up some points.

1208
01:02:50,157 --> 01:02:53,595
Fikowski could find himself in
the top three after this event.

1209
01:02:53,639 --> 01:02:55,772
[Brent] Pretty quickly
I caught Khan Porter,

1210
01:02:55,815 --> 01:02:57,382
and then I caught up to James.

1211
01:02:57,425 --> 01:03:00,124
We've shared a coach.
We're good friends.

1212
01:03:00,167 --> 01:03:01,908
Dean Linder-Leighton
had a sizeable lead.

1213
01:03:01,952 --> 01:03:04,519
[Sean] And he will
be 100 points richer.

1214
01:03:04,563 --> 01:03:08,306
Dean Linder-Leighton
takes event eight,

1215
01:03:08,349 --> 01:03:10,134
the Madison Triplus.

1216
01:03:10,177 --> 01:03:11,962
[Brent] We talked a little bit

1217
01:03:12,005 --> 01:03:13,790
and made sure no one behind us
was gonna catch us,

1218
01:03:13,833 --> 01:03:18,055
and we said, "Hold this pace,
get into the stadium,

1219
01:03:18,098 --> 01:03:21,667
sprint to the finish
for second, OK."

1220
01:03:21,710 --> 01:03:23,321
[Sean] Brent Fikowski
opening it up.

1221
01:03:23,364 --> 01:03:25,802
James Newbury right behind him.

1222
01:03:32,547 --> 01:03:35,159
And it's Fikowski
just ahead of Newbury.

1223
01:03:35,202 --> 01:03:37,988
The final stretch
for Tia Toomey.

1224
01:03:38,031 --> 01:03:41,905
100 points for the defending
fittest woman on Earth.

1225
01:03:48,737 --> 01:03:51,218
- High five.
- Good job. There you go.

1226
01:03:54,569 --> 01:03:57,007
[cheering]

1227
01:04:01,968 --> 01:04:05,754
Fourth place on the swim.
How you like them apples?

1228
01:04:05,798 --> 01:04:07,452
I might have finished
just outside the top 20

1229
01:04:07,495 --> 01:04:09,454
in the swim, so...

1230
01:04:09,497 --> 01:04:12,196
- I'm so happy you did bad too.
- I know. It's a swim, man.

1231
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:14,459
- For me it's the paddle.
- Always like that.

1232
01:04:14,502 --> 01:04:21,901
So, we are all
getting checked in

1233
01:04:21,945 --> 01:04:26,123
to go and get
our workout announced.

1234
01:04:26,166 --> 01:04:28,734
So we don't really know
what's going on,

1235
01:04:28,777 --> 01:04:34,174
but we have a feeling it's gonna
be some sort of pulling workout,

1236
01:04:34,218 --> 01:04:35,784
which is gonna be good.

1237
01:04:35,828 --> 01:04:40,137
All 40 women are gonna walk out
onto the field.

1238
01:04:40,180 --> 01:04:42,922
You're actually gonna jog out
onto the field.

1239
01:04:42,966 --> 01:04:44,619
You're gonna get in position,

1240
01:04:44,663 --> 01:04:46,708
and there's gonna be a judge
in front of you

1241
01:04:46,752 --> 01:04:48,449
and the entire field.

1242
01:04:48,493 --> 01:04:51,278
On three, two, one, go,
you're gonna run to your judge

1243
01:04:51,322 --> 01:04:53,672
and whatever happens to be
right there,

1244
01:04:53,715 --> 01:04:55,282
and they're gonna tell you go,

1245
01:04:55,326 --> 01:04:57,850
and it's gonna be obvious
what you need to do.

1246
01:04:57,894 --> 01:05:01,332
They are not gonna tell you
how much you need to do

1247
01:05:01,375 --> 01:05:03,029
until you finish that.

1248
01:05:03,073 --> 01:05:04,596
Then you're going to advance

1249
01:05:04,639 --> 01:05:06,946
to another thing
you might need to do.

1250
01:05:06,990 --> 01:05:08,817
They're not gonna tell you
how much of that

1251
01:05:08,861 --> 01:05:12,691
you need to do either
until you're done.

1252
01:05:12,734 --> 01:05:14,475
Then they're gonna repeat that

1253
01:05:14,519 --> 01:05:17,783
and repeat that and repeat that
through the whole field,

1254
01:05:17,826 --> 01:05:20,525
until the end
there will be a point

1255
01:05:20,568 --> 01:05:23,963
where they tell you
what you need to do,

1256
01:05:24,007 --> 01:05:26,966
therefore you have the ability
to turn it on

1257
01:05:27,010 --> 01:05:31,797
and you can kind of pace
at the end to finish this off.

1258
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,320
Everything will be unknown,

1259
01:05:33,364 --> 01:05:35,714
and it'll be very clear
once you get there.

1260
01:05:35,757 --> 01:05:39,239
But don't ask again, don't say,
where do I have to go to,

1261
01:05:39,283 --> 01:05:40,980
how many reps do I have to do,

1262
01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:43,330
how many whatever
you need to do.

1263
01:05:43,374 --> 01:05:47,378
They'll tell you
when you're done. Just work.

1264
01:05:47,421 --> 01:05:50,250
[Sean] It is time
to embrace the Chaos.

1265
01:05:50,294 --> 01:05:54,167
It's the ninth event of
the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games.

1266
01:05:55,995 --> 01:05:58,041
That's one of
my all-time favorite events

1267
01:05:58,084 --> 01:06:00,391
at the CrossFit Games,
the Chaos event.

1268
01:06:02,132 --> 01:06:04,351
[Adrian] Dave had been saying
for a while

1269
01:06:04,395 --> 01:06:05,918
that he wanted to do an event

1270
01:06:05,962 --> 01:06:07,964
where the athletes
would take the field

1271
01:06:08,007 --> 01:06:10,009
and they didn't know what
the event was gonna look like,

1272
01:06:10,053 --> 01:06:13,273
how many reps they had to do
or how long it was gonna be.

1273
01:06:13,317 --> 01:06:15,797
We knew that the athletes
would know nothing

1274
01:06:15,841 --> 01:06:19,192
about what they were doing,
that the judge would say,

1275
01:06:19,236 --> 01:06:22,065
"You're gonna do this.
Go until I tell you to stop."

1276
01:06:24,719 --> 01:06:27,070
[Tommy] It is
the most insane concept,

1277
01:06:27,113 --> 01:06:29,724
and I think it is
quintessential CrossFit,

1278
01:06:29,768 --> 01:06:32,379
in terms of sometimes,
even at the Games,

1279
01:06:32,423 --> 01:06:34,077
you gotta lay down the track

1280
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:36,296
right in front of the train
as it's going.

1281
01:06:38,603 --> 01:06:41,649
[Cole] Everything being kept
secret before we went out there,

1282
01:06:41,693 --> 01:06:43,086
it toyed with people's minds.

1283
01:06:43,129 --> 01:06:45,001
Everyone was kind of worried.

1284
01:06:45,044 --> 01:06:48,395
[Katrín] What can Chaos be?
Who gets to something first?

1285
01:06:48,439 --> 01:06:53,183
40 athletes on the field, I was
like, "That's gonna be chaotic."

1286
01:06:53,226 --> 01:06:55,707
[Lukas] No one told us
and no one in the audience

1287
01:06:55,750 --> 01:06:58,231
when we walked in
said anything.

1288
01:06:58,275 --> 01:06:59,972
They were just quiet.

1289
01:07:01,713 --> 01:07:04,672
[Laura] You don't know
how to warm up, what to expect,

1290
01:07:04,716 --> 01:07:06,544
what to bring out to the field.

1291
01:07:06,587 --> 01:07:08,763
It's not good.

1292
01:07:08,807 --> 01:07:11,027
- [starter buzzer rings]
- [Sean] We are underway.

1293
01:07:11,070 --> 01:07:13,290
The athletes
are being told right now,

1294
01:07:13,333 --> 01:07:16,858
"Work until I tell you to stop"
by their judges.

1295
01:07:16,902 --> 01:07:19,078
They don't know the movements
that are ahead of them.

1296
01:07:19,122 --> 01:07:23,387
Their judges will inform them
at every station.

1297
01:07:23,430 --> 01:07:25,650
[Patrick] Something that I do
maybe more than I should

1298
01:07:25,693 --> 01:07:27,173
is watch everybody else.

1299
01:07:27,217 --> 01:07:29,262
As soon as the announcer
is like,

1300
01:07:29,306 --> 01:07:31,395
so-and-so's hand is in the air,

1301
01:07:31,438 --> 01:07:33,658
you're like,
cool, where are they?

1302
01:07:33,701 --> 01:07:36,095
As soon as they move,
I see what the next movement is.

1303
01:07:36,139 --> 01:07:39,403
OK, what's he doing? What's
he doing? Burpees. Got it.

1304
01:07:39,446 --> 01:07:41,361
Instead of waiting
for instruction,

1305
01:07:41,405 --> 01:07:42,536
I started doing burpees.

1306
01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:44,799
My transition's twice as fast.

1307
01:07:44,843 --> 01:07:48,542
I had 28 calories
when Annie's judge goes, "Go!"

1308
01:07:48,586 --> 01:07:50,849
Kind of figured gonna be 30.

1309
01:07:50,892 --> 01:07:53,765
I was gonna run past and I see
Annie drop to the floor.

1310
01:07:53,808 --> 01:07:55,680
Oh, like, burpees.

1311
01:07:55,723 --> 01:07:57,508
Every time
I'd get to a movement,

1312
01:07:57,551 --> 01:08:01,381
I would just go pretty hard
but not redline.

1313
01:08:01,425 --> 01:08:03,644
[Kara] It's this constant
back and forth

1314
01:08:03,688 --> 01:08:07,648
of trying to figure out what's
too much, what's not enough.

1315
01:08:07,692 --> 01:08:10,825
[Sean] Pat Vellner has had

1316
01:08:10,869 --> 01:08:14,742
all kinds of bad breaks
throughout this competition,

1317
01:08:14,786 --> 01:08:17,354
but he is still in contention
for a spot on the podium,

1318
01:08:17,397 --> 01:08:19,791
fourth place overall.

1319
01:08:19,834 --> 01:08:21,619
[Patrick] I started doing
overhead squats.

1320
01:08:21,662 --> 01:08:23,838
Switch your arms
as often as you want

1321
01:08:23,882 --> 01:08:26,493
to make sure that you're not
gonna wreck your shoulders.

1322
01:08:26,537 --> 01:08:28,582
[commentator] You saw him
make that switch.

1323
01:08:28,626 --> 01:08:31,455
He is a smart competitor,
not just resilient,

1324
01:08:31,498 --> 01:08:34,675
as we've seen with all those
bumps and bruises, but smart.

1325
01:08:34,719 --> 01:08:37,287
[Patrick] I'm pretty good at
pistols, and once you're there,

1326
01:08:37,330 --> 01:08:39,593
it's clear, what else
are you gonna do on that box

1327
01:08:39,637 --> 01:08:41,204
other than jump over it?

1328
01:08:41,247 --> 01:08:42,901
The other thing's a sled drag.

1329
01:08:42,944 --> 01:08:45,077
It was obvious what
you had to do after pistols.

1330
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:48,124
It was just the first four
movements that were mysterious.

1331
01:08:50,822 --> 01:08:52,911
[Katrín] When you hear
Pat Vellner's strategy,

1332
01:08:52,954 --> 01:08:54,434
it was the opposite to mine.

1333
01:08:54,478 --> 01:08:56,306
I didn't mind where I was

1334
01:08:56,349 --> 01:08:58,699
as long as I wasn't redlining.

1335
01:08:58,743 --> 01:09:00,658
[Sean] Davídsdóttir,
the first woman on

1336
01:09:00,701 --> 01:09:01,963
to do the box jump-overs.

1337
01:09:02,007 --> 01:09:03,530
They are telling them

1338
01:09:03,574 --> 01:09:05,445
how many repetitions
they have to do here.

1339
01:09:05,489 --> 01:09:08,144
The reason is, director
of the CrossFit Games said,

1340
01:09:08,187 --> 01:09:10,058
"I wanna tell the athletes

1341
01:09:10,102 --> 01:09:12,670
so if they want to turn on
the gas, they can right here."

1342
01:09:12,713 --> 01:09:14,628
It doesn't hurt
to be a little bit taller.

1343
01:09:14,672 --> 01:09:16,587
I saw Mat wipe out on the box.

1344
01:09:16,630 --> 01:09:20,068
It brought me
a little bit of enjoyment.

1345
01:09:20,112 --> 01:09:24,334
It showcased, hey, we don't need
to know what we're doing.

1346
01:09:24,377 --> 01:09:26,771
We're so fit and we're so strong

1347
01:09:26,814 --> 01:09:29,643
that you can throw anything
at us and we got it.

1348
01:09:29,687 --> 01:09:32,080
[Adrian] The Chaos event
really does replicate

1349
01:09:32,124 --> 01:09:34,735
a lot of people's day-to-day
affiliate experience.

1350
01:09:34,779 --> 01:09:36,520
No matter
what's gonna be thrown at me,

1351
01:09:36,563 --> 01:09:38,391
I'm gonna show up and train.

1352
01:09:38,435 --> 01:09:41,873
That mentality is so important
because, at the heart of it,

1353
01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:43,483
CrossFit is about capacity.

1354
01:09:43,527 --> 01:09:45,616
What can I do
when I haven't had the chance

1355
01:09:45,659 --> 01:09:48,096
to train specifically
for this thing?

1356
01:09:48,140 --> 01:09:50,011
How prepared am I really?

1357
01:09:50,055 --> 01:09:52,275
[Sean] Now it is on to the
implement known as the Slug,

1358
01:09:52,318 --> 01:09:53,972
her judge telling her,

1359
01:09:54,015 --> 01:09:56,801
"You gotta pull that thing
to the finish line."

1360
01:09:56,844 --> 01:09:58,411
Vellner is way out in front

1361
01:09:58,455 --> 01:10:01,109
and has that finish line
within reach.

1362
01:10:01,153 --> 01:10:04,417
She says she's a sled dog,
and she proves it here.

1363
01:10:04,461 --> 01:10:09,205
Davídsdóttir wins Chaos.

1364
01:10:09,248 --> 01:10:14,819
And Pat Vellner conquers
the Chaos and wins event nine.

1365
01:10:14,862 --> 01:10:16,516
[Patrick] That's also
a cool event to win

1366
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,823
because it's
quintessentially CrossFit,

1367
01:10:18,866 --> 01:10:20,172
unknown and unknowable.

1368
01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:22,435
It was like
a true test of that.

1369
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:24,481
It was like
a marquee CrossFit event.

1370
01:10:24,524 --> 01:10:28,093
I feel like
I'm good to win one a year.

1371
01:10:28,136 --> 01:10:31,270
So I got it done.
Pressure's off.

1372
01:10:31,314 --> 01:10:35,187
But it feels good. The swim's
never gonna be my best finish.

1373
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:36,623
I did better this year.

1374
01:10:36,667 --> 01:10:38,190
So it's nice to rebound
with a strong finish

1375
01:10:38,234 --> 01:10:39,626
to balance that stuff out.

1376
01:10:39,670 --> 01:10:40,975
[cheering]

1377
01:10:43,891 --> 01:10:45,632
[Sara] Saturday I woke up

1378
01:10:45,676 --> 01:10:50,028
and I've never felt this bad
in my entire life.

1379
01:10:50,071 --> 01:10:52,073
I was just stuck with my hand
like this.

1380
01:10:52,117 --> 01:10:55,686
So Phil can read me
really well,

1381
01:10:55,729 --> 01:10:57,992
and he could just see
how much pain I was in.

1382
01:10:58,036 --> 01:11:01,126
That's where I told Phil that
I thought my rib was broken.

1383
01:11:01,169 --> 01:11:03,998
[Sean] The big news is not
who is here but who is not.

1384
01:11:04,042 --> 01:11:08,264
Sara Sigmundsdóttir was
supposed to be in lane five.

1385
01:11:08,307 --> 01:11:11,310
She has withdrawn
from competition

1386
01:11:11,354 --> 01:11:12,572
due to a medical issue.

1387
01:11:12,616 --> 01:11:14,226
We do not know what it is,

1388
01:11:14,270 --> 01:11:16,315
but we do know
that Sara Sigmundsdóttir,

1389
01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:19,318
who was 11th overall coming
into this event, has withdrawn.

1390
01:11:19,362 --> 01:11:22,452
[Sara] So I talked to
the medical team, got an MRI,

1391
01:11:22,495 --> 01:11:26,499
and I could see the broken rib
on black and white paper.

1392
01:11:27,108 --> 01:11:30,808
I had worked the whole year
to get to the Games,

1393
01:11:30,851 --> 01:11:32,984
and I was in the best shape
of my life,

1394
01:11:33,027 --> 01:11:36,335
and it's the hardest thing
that I've ever done in my life.

1395
01:11:36,379 --> 01:11:40,905
I just felt like, I don't know,
like a... a weak person

1396
01:11:40,948 --> 01:11:44,343
that I stopped competing
because of pain.

1397
01:11:44,387 --> 01:11:46,258
Why couldn't I push through it?

1398
01:11:47,999 --> 01:11:50,915
[Sean] The people get
what the people want.

1399
01:11:50,958 --> 01:11:53,874
Back-to-back events to close
out day three of competition

1400
01:11:53,918 --> 01:11:57,400
here at the 2018 Reebok
CrossFit Games.

1401
01:11:57,443 --> 01:11:59,706
There are 200 points
up for grabs

1402
01:11:59,750 --> 01:12:02,840
for potentially
only six minutes of work,

1403
01:12:02,883 --> 01:12:05,408
here on Saturday night
in the Coliseum.

1404
01:12:07,497 --> 01:12:10,674
[Tommy] The Bicouplets were
effectively a two-part workout

1405
01:12:10,717 --> 01:12:12,371
but each graded separately

1406
01:12:12,415 --> 01:12:14,373
and featured
some gymnastics work

1407
01:12:14,417 --> 01:12:17,333
and then some barbell work
as well.

1408
01:12:17,376 --> 01:12:19,073
[Adrian] Both events
are pedal to the metal.

1409
01:12:19,117 --> 01:12:20,858
There's not
a lot of room for error.

1410
01:12:20,901 --> 01:12:22,729
And then
it's who can be ready to go

1411
01:12:22,773 --> 01:12:25,036
immediately after
emptying the tank?

1412
01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:27,430
I think that's really at the
top of the heap where you see

1413
01:12:27,473 --> 01:12:29,649
the biggest difference
between CrossFit athletes.

1414
01:12:29,693 --> 01:12:32,826
Everybody can go hard,
but who can go hard again?

1415
01:12:33,653 --> 01:12:35,481
[Tia] I just sent it.

1416
01:12:35,525 --> 01:12:39,311
Whether that was the smartest
option, I didn't really care.

1417
01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:41,400
[commentator] Toomey is
so strong on the barbell,

1418
01:12:41,444 --> 01:12:43,837
but I was really impressed
how she held on

1419
01:12:43,881 --> 01:12:46,492
for that set of bar muscle-ups.

1420
01:12:46,536 --> 01:12:49,974
Go to the point
right before failure.

1421
01:12:50,017 --> 01:12:51,584
[commentator]
Mat is extremely smart.

1422
01:12:51,628 --> 01:12:53,717
He knows exactly
where everyone is.

1423
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:57,764
He knows how far along he is
and how fast he needs to go.

1424
01:12:57,808 --> 01:13:00,985
[Mat] Take a quick glance side
to side to see who's there.

1425
01:13:01,028 --> 01:13:05,511
And it was Willy Georges.
Like, damn. Good for you, kid.

1426
01:13:05,555 --> 01:13:06,947
[Sean] Willy Georges
on the left,

1427
01:13:06,991 --> 01:13:08,775
Noah Ohlsen is in the middle,

1428
01:13:08,819 --> 01:13:11,865
and it's Mat Fraser
on the right.

1429
01:13:11,909 --> 01:13:14,738
[man] I watched Camille go
unbroken all the way through.

1430
01:13:14,781 --> 01:13:17,958
Unbroken snatches,
unbroken muscle-ups.

1431
01:13:18,002 --> 01:13:20,047
Somebody can do it,
I can do it too.

1432
01:13:20,091 --> 01:13:23,703
[Sean] As Noah Ohlsen moves out
for his final set,

1433
01:13:23,747 --> 01:13:27,098
here comes Mat Fraser.

1434
01:13:27,141 --> 01:13:30,318
Credit to Noah in that scenario.
He really sold the farm.

1435
01:13:30,362 --> 01:13:33,060
You could see him
just absolutely

1436
01:13:33,104 --> 01:13:36,150
throw himself over that bar
because he was that redlined.

1437
01:13:36,194 --> 01:13:39,327
If you wanna beat the best,
you gotta be willing to do that.

1438
01:13:39,371 --> 01:13:41,678
[Noah] If I would have taken
an extra second

1439
01:13:41,721 --> 01:13:43,506
to breathe
and shake out my arms,

1440
01:13:43,549 --> 01:13:46,378
I could have hopped up
and done all six unbroken.

1441
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,468
[Sean] The crowd comes to its
feet to watch this showdown.

1442
01:13:49,512 --> 01:13:52,210
Who will break first?

1443
01:13:55,866 --> 01:13:59,304
[Noah] So I jump up,
one, two, three.

1444
01:13:59,347 --> 01:14:02,525
So on four I was pulling
like this from my fingertips,

1445
01:14:02,568 --> 01:14:05,702
and I chicken-wing over
for four.

1446
01:14:05,745 --> 01:14:07,834
[commentator] Look at the way
that Noah's doing that.

1447
01:14:07,878 --> 01:14:09,749
He's actually
pushing himself... Oh!

1448
01:14:09,793 --> 01:14:12,883
Just thought, please, please,
let me get this next one.

1449
01:14:16,234 --> 01:14:17,975
- [commentator] Oh!
- [Sean] Fraser's off.

1450
01:14:18,018 --> 01:14:20,760
Willy Georges!
Vive la France!

1451
01:14:20,804 --> 01:14:22,545
[commentator] Wow!

1452
01:14:22,588 --> 01:14:24,503
[Noah] It was
a fourth place finish.

1453
01:14:24,547 --> 01:14:27,550
Normally I would be happy.
That gets you a lot of points.

1454
01:14:27,593 --> 01:14:30,683
But what could have been
once again.

1455
01:14:30,727 --> 01:14:32,293
[Sean] Kara Saunders is in.

1456
01:14:32,337 --> 01:14:34,687
And here comes
Cassidy Lance-McWherter.

1457
01:14:34,731 --> 01:14:38,517
Kara Saunders, 26 points
behind Davídsdóttir for third.

1458
01:14:38,561 --> 01:14:40,650
Davídsdóttir could fall
out of the top three.

1459
01:14:40,693 --> 01:14:42,347
[commentator]
I'm a little nervous for her

1460
01:14:42,390 --> 01:14:44,871
going into the next event.

1461
01:14:44,915 --> 01:14:47,874
[Katrín] We underestimated
that workout a little bit.

1462
01:14:47,918 --> 01:14:50,007
We thought it was gonna be
way faster and easier

1463
01:14:50,050 --> 01:14:51,704
than it actually was.

1464
01:14:51,748 --> 01:14:53,227
I think that's always dangerous.

1465
01:14:53,271 --> 01:14:55,795
You never underestimate
a workout.

1466
01:14:55,839 --> 01:14:58,232
And I was really bummed
after that one,

1467
01:14:58,276 --> 01:15:01,018
but I turned around and I was
like, let's kill this one.

1468
01:15:01,061 --> 01:15:03,977
[Sean] Final heat
of the final event

1469
01:15:04,021 --> 01:15:07,154
of day three is underway.

1470
01:15:07,198 --> 01:15:09,374
The second one,
my grip was falling apart.

1471
01:15:09,417 --> 01:15:11,550
I was having trouble putting
together big sets of pull-ups.

1472
01:15:11,594 --> 01:15:13,857
[Lukas] When I came
to the chest bar

1473
01:15:13,900 --> 01:15:14,988
and lightweight snatch,

1474
01:15:15,032 --> 01:15:16,947
my grip was just way gone.

1475
01:15:16,990 --> 01:15:19,297
[Laura] Chest bar pull-ups,
I just couldn't hang on,

1476
01:15:19,340 --> 01:15:21,865
so I had to break up
a couple of times.

1477
01:15:21,908 --> 01:15:23,736
[Adrian] With events like that
where you've got

1478
01:15:23,780 --> 01:15:26,391
these really short events,
a really short break

1479
01:15:26,434 --> 01:15:28,567
and then another
really short event,

1480
01:15:28,611 --> 01:15:30,787
the tension you feel,
there's a difference to it.

1481
01:15:30,830 --> 01:15:33,050
The athletes sense
that there's something

1482
01:15:33,093 --> 01:15:36,096
really on the line here,
and that's palpable.

1483
01:15:38,577 --> 01:15:40,971
[Sean] The time to beat
is 3.44.90.

1484
01:15:41,014 --> 01:15:43,800
Davídsdóttir is taking a break.
She has four reps left.

1485
01:15:43,843 --> 01:15:47,412
I was just trying to hold out
and I was falling off the bar.

1486
01:15:47,455 --> 01:15:49,283
I have no clue
where anyone else is.

1487
01:15:49,327 --> 01:15:52,417
I sprint across and my judge
goes screaming after me.

1488
01:15:52,460 --> 01:15:54,985
He's like, "No, you're not
done." I was sure I was done.

1489
01:15:57,509 --> 01:16:01,165
[Sean] Katrín got hit with
a no rep and had to go back.

1490
01:16:01,208 --> 01:16:03,428
We had Chaos
in the event earlier,

1491
01:16:03,471 --> 01:16:05,169
and we get chaos tonight.

1492
01:16:05,212 --> 01:16:06,910
[Katrín] I was absolutely sure
I was done,

1493
01:16:06,953 --> 01:16:09,042
and so I come back
and I finish that one,

1494
01:16:09,086 --> 01:16:12,437
and by that time a couple
more girls had finished.

1495
01:16:15,309 --> 01:16:17,616
They actually went back,
reviewed the videos.

1496
01:16:17,660 --> 01:16:19,749
I did get that no rep
in the beginning,

1497
01:16:19,792 --> 01:16:24,667
but I did that extra rep,
so I did finish my nine reps.

1498
01:16:24,710 --> 01:16:27,757
I needed to do well in that one

1499
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:30,237
'cause I'd done so poorly
in the bar muscle-up one.

1500
01:16:30,281 --> 01:16:33,676
It ruined my vibe a little bit.
It's OK.

1501
01:16:33,719 --> 01:16:37,593
I just wanted to do... I didn't
do well on the first one,

1502
01:16:37,636 --> 01:16:39,769
so I really wanted to do well
in the second one,

1503
01:16:39,812 --> 01:16:41,640
and I thought I did,
and then I just felt stupid

1504
01:16:41,684 --> 01:16:45,905
if I had gone
and not done nine, you know.

1505
01:16:45,949 --> 01:16:47,472
But I never count wrong.

1506
01:16:47,515 --> 01:16:49,822
I'm actually very good
at keeping count.

1507
01:16:49,866 --> 01:16:51,519
So I was surprised.

1508
01:16:51,563 --> 01:16:53,870
What happened, buddy?

1509
01:16:53,913 --> 01:16:57,830
I went just too hard
on the first one, I guess.

1510
01:16:57,874 --> 01:17:02,792
I'm pretty happy with that one.
But my grip just blew up.

1511
01:17:02,835 --> 01:17:06,273
I'm still hanging in there,
trying to do my best.

1512
01:17:06,317 --> 01:17:09,059
One more day tomorrow,
so have to be prepared.

1513
01:17:09,102 --> 01:17:10,756
And I'm pretty excited, man.

1514
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:14,151
It's been a crazy journey
this week for me,

1515
01:17:14,194 --> 01:17:16,719
so I'm gonna try
to keep the spirit up.

1516
01:17:16,762 --> 01:17:19,678
Hopefully I didn't drop
too much. We'll see.

1517
01:17:19,722 --> 01:17:22,681
How did that leader board
check out tonight?

1518
01:17:22,725 --> 01:17:27,555
It was huge. 200 points in one
event there was a massive swing.

1519
01:17:27,599 --> 01:17:30,994
So I jumped to second.
Brent's down to fourth.

1520
01:17:31,037 --> 01:17:32,430
Lukas is in third.

1521
01:17:32,473 --> 01:17:34,824
Willy jumped
from ninth to fifth.

1522
01:17:34,867 --> 01:17:38,828
- [woman] Sixth.
- Sixth. Bjorgvin's fifth.

1523
01:17:38,871 --> 01:17:42,266
It made a big difference.
It's a big shake-out, so...

1524
01:17:42,309 --> 01:17:46,139
It's gonna be a big day
tomorrow, another one.

1525
01:17:46,183 --> 01:17:49,665
Final day at the CrossFit Games.
What else could you ask for?

1526
01:18:00,632 --> 01:18:06,377
Dave Castro just posted
that there's pegboards.

1527
01:18:06,420 --> 01:18:07,857
From a coaching point of view,

1528
01:18:07,900 --> 01:18:09,902
you would think
that there would be pegboards,

1529
01:18:09,946 --> 01:18:13,514
just given
that they did chest bars,

1530
01:18:13,558 --> 01:18:16,256
they got a sled pull,
so more lat work,

1531
01:18:16,300 --> 01:18:19,259
a lot of forearm activation,
so compounding fatigue,

1532
01:18:19,303 --> 01:18:22,088
you'd think the likelihood
of having that would be there.

1533
01:18:22,132 --> 01:18:24,787
So I guess
it sort of goes to show

1534
01:18:24,830 --> 01:18:27,354
that I've never picked
a workout yet

1535
01:18:27,398 --> 01:18:29,879
and he's still got me
100% of that.

1536
01:18:29,922 --> 01:18:33,186
How many pegboards have I done?

1537
01:18:33,230 --> 01:18:37,234
You would say, like, between
50 and 60, and I did one.

1538
01:18:37,277 --> 01:18:41,978
Yeah, not because we didn't try.
We were able to complete one.

1539
01:18:42,021 --> 01:18:44,458
We tried 'em.
We could only do one.

1540
01:18:44,502 --> 01:18:46,460
- Now we can do 'em.
- Now we can do 'em.

1541
01:18:46,504 --> 01:18:50,073
Oh, man, this event,
this is a Fikowski event.

1542
01:18:50,116 --> 01:18:54,338
This is a...
This is a Toomey event.

1543
01:18:54,381 --> 01:18:58,342
And everything is easy enough
that there's no strategy.

1544
01:18:58,385 --> 01:18:59,865
You just have to be fast.

1545
01:18:59,909 --> 01:19:03,739
[indistinct]

1546
01:19:05,088 --> 01:19:06,654
You're fine.

1547
01:19:06,698 --> 01:19:08,787
[Sean] Fourth and final day
of competition

1548
01:19:08,831 --> 01:19:11,311
at the 2018 Reebok
CrossFit Games,

1549
01:19:11,355 --> 01:19:12,878
and we are about to find out

1550
01:19:12,922 --> 01:19:16,273
who has some gas
left in the tank.

1551
01:19:16,316 --> 01:19:19,102
[commentator] It is all about
engine. It's not technical.

1552
01:19:19,145 --> 01:19:21,713
It's just about how much pain
are you willing to endure

1553
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:24,803
for all five of those rounds?

1554
01:19:24,847 --> 01:19:27,763
[Tommy] Two-Stroke Pull was
the opening event on Sunday.

1555
01:19:27,806 --> 01:19:30,678
That first event
is a big turning point

1556
01:19:30,722 --> 01:19:32,985
because it can
make or break some athletes.

1557
01:19:33,029 --> 01:19:36,032
A lot of people were thinking,
sled dog, Katrín Davídsdóttir,

1558
01:19:36,075 --> 01:19:37,773
this is custom-built for her.

1559
01:19:37,816 --> 01:19:39,905
[Sean] Laura Horvath
had been hanging around,

1560
01:19:39,949 --> 01:19:41,864
but I think
a lot of people expected,

1561
01:19:41,907 --> 01:19:44,214
OK, she's a rookie,
this is not gonna last.

1562
01:19:44,257 --> 01:19:45,824
We were all proven wrong.

1563
01:19:45,868 --> 01:19:47,260
Laura Horvath went toe-to-toe

1564
01:19:47,304 --> 01:19:48,914
with Katrín Davídsdóttir.

1565
01:19:51,221 --> 01:19:53,658
[Mat] Super nervous
about that one.

1566
01:19:53,701 --> 01:19:56,226
I knew the possibility

1567
01:19:56,269 --> 01:19:59,882
of me finishing in the middle
of the pack was very high.

1568
01:19:59,925 --> 01:20:03,189
The Assault Bike, just the way
it favors the power athletes,

1569
01:20:03,233 --> 01:20:04,538
it favors the big guys.

1570
01:20:04,582 --> 01:20:06,323
From the start,
I felt like, oh, shit,

1571
01:20:06,366 --> 01:20:10,370
I can maybe push this one
and get an event win.

1572
01:20:10,414 --> 01:20:12,198
[commentator] Katrín
Davídsdóttir here in blue.

1573
01:20:12,242 --> 01:20:14,331
These women have
the pressure on them.

1574
01:20:14,374 --> 01:20:16,681
They're the ones sitting
in fourth and fifth place,

1575
01:20:16,724 --> 01:20:18,683
just outside the podium,

1576
01:20:18,726 --> 01:20:22,252
so they need every possible
point that they can get.

1577
01:20:22,295 --> 01:20:24,428
Laura Horvath,
who's sitting in second,

1578
01:20:24,471 --> 01:20:26,647
Kara Saunders,
who's sitting in third,

1579
01:20:26,691 --> 01:20:29,433
they have to do
better than them.

1580
01:20:29,476 --> 01:20:31,870
[Katrín] I go out pretty hot,
and I was OK with it.

1581
01:20:31,914 --> 01:20:33,219
I was like, I'm gonna go hot.

1582
01:20:33,263 --> 01:20:35,047
I thought I'd be able
to hang on,

1583
01:20:35,091 --> 01:20:37,441
and then the pull
was really hard for me.

1584
01:20:37,484 --> 01:20:39,269
I couldn't even
just use my arms

1585
01:20:39,312 --> 01:20:41,140
'cause I was going so slow.

1586
01:20:41,184 --> 01:20:42,925
[Lukas]
Everyone was standing awkward

1587
01:20:42,968 --> 01:20:44,491
when they were doing the pull,

1588
01:20:44,535 --> 01:20:46,624
and I tried to stay
pretty straight up

1589
01:20:46,667 --> 01:20:48,713
and just lean back
and do big pulls,

1590
01:20:48,756 --> 01:20:51,455
and I was much faster
than a lot of the other guys.

1591
01:20:51,498 --> 01:20:53,370
[commentator]
This kid can drive.

1592
01:20:53,413 --> 01:20:56,460
He keeps that confidence,
he's gonna do amazing.

1593
01:20:56,503 --> 01:20:59,202
[Sean] And Hogberg, currently
sitting in third place overall,

1594
01:20:59,245 --> 01:21:02,640
looking to stay on the podium
for the first time here.

1595
01:21:04,598 --> 01:21:07,601
Laura Horvath now off the bike,
as she looks to gain ground

1596
01:21:07,645 --> 01:21:12,171
and solidify her hold
on second place overall.

1597
01:21:12,215 --> 01:21:14,391
[Laura] The first round
I was biking,

1598
01:21:14,434 --> 01:21:16,175
and everyone got off so early
from the bike.

1599
01:21:16,219 --> 01:21:18,525
They went too fast
on the first round

1600
01:21:18,569 --> 01:21:21,485
and I could catch them
on the second and third round.

1601
01:21:21,528 --> 01:21:23,574
[Sean] And now Laura Horvath
has taken the lead

1602
01:21:23,617 --> 01:21:25,402
from Katrín Davídsdóttir

1603
01:21:25,445 --> 01:21:28,013
as we head into the fifth
and final round.

1604
01:21:28,057 --> 01:21:30,102
[Katrín]
Still don't regret this,

1605
01:21:30,146 --> 01:21:32,104
but the only way to catch her
is on the bike.

1606
01:21:32,148 --> 01:21:33,976
She was so much stronger
on the pull.

1607
01:21:34,019 --> 01:21:35,760
Every round she'd catch me.

1608
01:21:35,803 --> 01:21:38,067
I was like, if I can make it
to the pull before her,

1609
01:21:38,110 --> 01:21:40,983
maybe I can win this event.

1610
01:21:44,073 --> 01:21:47,293
[Tommy] That event is what
really kick-started the battle

1611
01:21:47,337 --> 01:21:49,948
that we would see play out
through the end for third place

1612
01:21:49,992 --> 01:21:53,169
between Lukas Hogberg
and Brent Fikowski.

1613
01:21:53,212 --> 01:21:56,041
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg is trying
to hold off Brent Fikowski,

1614
01:21:56,085 --> 01:21:59,131
who's the man right behind him
in the overall standings.

1615
01:21:59,175 --> 01:22:01,786
Hogberg can earn 100 points
if he stays in front.

1616
01:22:01,829 --> 01:22:03,396
[Brent] Keep within range

1617
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:05,181
and try and chase him down
at the end.

1618
01:22:05,224 --> 01:22:07,270
Before I knew it,
on the third round,

1619
01:22:07,313 --> 01:22:09,141
Lukas was out in front by a lot.

1620
01:22:09,185 --> 01:22:12,797
I was like, I don't know what
he's done to get that lead,

1621
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:14,755
but I don't think
I can cover that ground.

1622
01:22:14,799 --> 01:22:18,107
[Sean] All that remains
is a final 44-foot sled pull

1623
01:22:18,150 --> 01:22:22,198
for Lukas Hogberg as he is
staring 100 points in the face.

1624
01:22:22,241 --> 01:22:24,417
[Lukas] Round one and two
was pretty easy,

1625
01:22:24,461 --> 01:22:27,420
and then three was hard,
four was like, oh, shit,

1626
01:22:27,464 --> 01:22:31,033
and five was like,
I wanna die, you know.

1627
01:22:31,076 --> 01:22:33,383
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg
blew the doors off that event

1628
01:22:33,426 --> 01:22:35,951
and saved
one of his best performances

1629
01:22:35,994 --> 01:22:38,127
for when he absolutely
had to have it,

1630
01:22:38,170 --> 01:22:42,261
and that event win
proved to be huge for him.

1631
01:22:42,305 --> 01:22:45,003
Davídsdóttir looking to win
for the second consecutive time

1632
01:22:45,047 --> 01:22:46,483
here in the North Park.

1633
01:22:46,526 --> 01:22:48,964
But here comes the rookie,
Laura Horvath.

1634
01:22:49,007 --> 01:22:50,835
I just knew
if I can get to the bike

1635
01:22:50,878 --> 01:22:53,403
in the same time as she does,
she will catch me,

1636
01:22:53,446 --> 01:22:55,971
but then I will catch her
on the sled pull

1637
01:22:56,014 --> 01:22:58,886
because I just pull
faster and harder.

1638
01:22:58,930 --> 01:23:01,541
[Sean] Laura Horvath,
one pull to go.

1639
01:23:01,585 --> 01:23:04,370
And the new kid on the block
is here to stay!

1640
01:23:04,414 --> 01:23:06,503
Laura Horvath wins event 12.

1641
01:23:18,297 --> 01:23:21,170
Lukas, what are you feeling
right now, buddy?

1642
01:23:21,213 --> 01:23:25,217
Amazed. I know this was
a really good workout for me.

1643
01:23:25,261 --> 01:23:27,698
I tried to just, like,

1644
01:23:27,741 --> 01:23:31,006
keep a steady pace
and then just hold it,

1645
01:23:31,049 --> 01:23:34,357
like in the head think that
you're pushing it in the end,

1646
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:36,402
but you probably don't
'cause you're so tired,

1647
01:23:36,446 --> 01:23:39,231
so you can't keep
the same speed.

1648
01:23:39,275 --> 01:23:44,236
Last round was really hard.
It was fun, though.

1649
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,457
Maybe I'm gonna get
a post on Instagram

1650
01:23:47,500 --> 01:23:49,024
for CrossFit Games this times.

1651
01:23:49,067 --> 01:23:51,765
I don't know.

1652
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:55,117
- Come down every single time?
- From the obstacle.

1653
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:58,903
And then try and push
for that tiebreaker there.

1654
01:23:58,946 --> 01:24:01,819
Then you just rest,
and then have a go at it.

1655
01:24:01,862 --> 01:24:04,474
- Handstand.
- How is that obstacle course?

1656
01:24:04,517 --> 01:24:07,085
Different. A lot of people
predicted that.

1657
01:24:07,129 --> 01:24:09,000
- Didn't they, Tia?
- Yeah.

1658
01:24:09,044 --> 01:24:14,005
- They thought it would come.
- What's your game plan?

1659
01:24:14,049 --> 01:24:16,703
Go out hot, try and go unbroken
on the whole obstacle.

1660
01:24:16,747 --> 01:24:21,012
If she comes down,
that's not the plan.

1661
01:24:21,056 --> 01:24:23,971
You said earlier, dream
scenario, handstand course.

1662
01:24:24,015 --> 01:24:25,408
- Mmm!
- Uh...

1663
01:24:25,451 --> 01:24:27,453
- What do you think?
- And a fatigued one.

1664
01:24:27,497 --> 01:24:30,891
I'm excited. I think
it's gonna be really fun.

1665
01:24:32,806 --> 01:24:35,722
I'm a little nervous for
other people on the traverse,

1666
01:24:35,766 --> 01:24:38,638
but maybe everyone will just
put their hands on the thing.

1667
01:24:38,682 --> 01:24:43,426
Interesting way to finish. It's
gonna make for some good photos.

1668
01:24:43,469 --> 01:24:46,907
Yeah, I mean,
going into the last day,

1669
01:24:46,951 --> 01:24:50,128
I know it was really close
between Hogberg and Fikowski,

1670
01:24:50,172 --> 01:24:52,348
and I know that Hogberg was up.

1671
01:24:52,391 --> 01:24:56,656
And I think it came down
to the last two events,

1672
01:24:56,700 --> 01:24:59,137
the Handstand Walk event
with the obstacles,

1673
01:24:59,181 --> 01:25:01,531
and then the final.

1674
01:25:01,574 --> 01:25:05,839
Yeah, we'll see. I'm just gonna
try to stay really focused.

1675
01:25:05,883 --> 01:25:08,712
[commentator] We last used
this heavy jump rope

1676
01:25:08,755 --> 01:25:12,063
at the 2016 Reebok CrossFit
Games on Sunday afternoon.

1677
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:14,370
It's five times heavier
than normal rope,

1678
01:25:14,413 --> 01:25:16,850
and each handle
is around one to two pounds.

1679
01:25:16,894 --> 01:25:20,202
The new element for this
is the low parallel bars.

1680
01:25:20,245 --> 01:25:23,335
Demo member Travis Mayer
will show us how it's done.

1681
01:25:23,379 --> 01:25:25,468
He said
the most disorientating part

1682
01:25:25,511 --> 01:25:28,427
is approaching the bars
and seeing nothing there.

1683
01:25:28,471 --> 01:25:30,342
These athletes
weren't able to test this

1684
01:25:30,386 --> 01:25:32,649
before coming
on the competition floor.

1685
01:25:34,825 --> 01:25:36,653
First time they tested it
was in 2011,

1686
01:25:36,696 --> 01:25:39,177
and Rich Froning
walked 50 yards on his hands.

1687
01:25:39,221 --> 01:25:40,918
That blew everybody's minds.

1688
01:25:40,961 --> 01:25:43,703
You had athletes
who couldn't even do it.

1689
01:25:43,747 --> 01:25:46,489
Fast-forward now to 2018
and we're throwing obstacles in.

1690
01:25:46,532 --> 01:25:48,839
They're walking
up and down steps,

1691
01:25:48,882 --> 01:25:51,711
down ramps, over parallettes.

1692
01:25:51,755 --> 01:25:53,539
[Adrian] How hard
should we make it?

1693
01:25:53,583 --> 01:25:55,715
How technical
do you wanna get on your hands?

1694
01:25:55,759 --> 01:25:59,676
We didn't know if the athletes
would rise to that challenge

1695
01:25:59,719 --> 01:26:02,679
or if they would
get tripped up by it.

1696
01:26:09,990 --> 01:26:12,515
When they announced the
Handstand Walk, I was nervous.

1697
01:26:12,558 --> 01:26:17,128
I never tried the parallels.
I was terrified of that event.

1698
01:26:17,172 --> 01:26:19,086
[Tia] When I first
started CrossFit,

1699
01:26:19,130 --> 01:26:21,785
doing a handstand hold
or even handstand walking

1700
01:26:21,828 --> 01:26:26,790
for even three foot
was not possible.

1701
01:26:26,833 --> 01:26:29,140
[Brent] I made a little mistake
and I caught my finger

1702
01:26:29,184 --> 01:26:30,750
under my hand and fell off.

1703
01:26:30,794 --> 01:26:32,317
I said, OK, relax, it's OK.

1704
01:26:32,361 --> 01:26:34,276
And then I went up
a little too slow.

1705
01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:36,756
So I said you gotta go up
a little faster.

1706
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,933
The list kept going on. I'd
change something, reset, focus.

1707
01:26:39,977 --> 01:26:43,850
Before I knew it, 20 seconds
left. My God, what happened?

1708
01:26:50,466 --> 01:26:52,468
[Mat] With that event,
with how short it is,

1709
01:26:52,511 --> 01:26:55,253
half a second can be
two places, three places.

1710
01:26:55,297 --> 01:26:57,864
[Katrín] You had to be really
smart with your approach.

1711
01:26:57,908 --> 01:26:59,953
You have to just
make every obstacle.

1712
01:26:59,997 --> 01:27:03,479
It's not about being fast.
It was about being smooth.

1713
01:27:03,522 --> 01:27:05,481
[commentator] You are trying
to push for the top,

1714
01:27:05,524 --> 01:27:08,962
and you overextend yourself,
and you get overextended

1715
01:27:09,006 --> 01:27:10,921
and you fail,
you fail, you fail.

1716
01:27:10,964 --> 01:27:13,445
You're not fifth place.
Now you're 35th place.

1717
01:27:13,489 --> 01:27:16,056
I was right between
Brent and Lukas, I think.

1718
01:27:16,100 --> 01:27:17,580
I was like,
it's the three of us

1719
01:27:17,623 --> 01:27:19,408
racing for the podium
right now.

1720
01:27:19,451 --> 01:27:21,758
We all were very sloppy
in that workout.

1721
01:27:21,801 --> 01:27:25,588
I stumbled on my finger
on the line with my left hand,

1722
01:27:25,631 --> 01:27:28,286
and I fell down,
and I was like, .....

1723
01:27:28,330 --> 01:27:30,027
[Brent] Me,
Vellner and Hogberg,

1724
01:27:30,070 --> 01:27:31,855
I could see us all
look at each other,

1725
01:27:31,898 --> 01:27:34,161
we were like,
this is really important.

1726
01:27:34,205 --> 01:27:37,034
I could really use these points
like you guys.

1727
01:27:41,647 --> 01:27:43,693
[Adrian] Currently on track
to potentially be

1728
01:27:43,736 --> 01:27:45,303
the second fittest man
on Earth,

1729
01:27:45,347 --> 01:27:47,784
with one event remaining,

1730
01:27:47,827 --> 01:27:49,655
what's going through your mind
right now,

1731
01:27:49,699 --> 01:27:51,004
considering all the hardships

1732
01:27:51,048 --> 01:27:52,571
you've had to go through
this week?

1733
01:27:52,615 --> 01:27:54,269
Do you know how heavy
that yoke was again?

1734
01:27:54,312 --> 01:27:56,532
[laughter]

1735
01:27:56,575 --> 01:27:58,664
It's gonna be a hard event
in the final,

1736
01:27:58,708 --> 01:28:00,449
and so I think
it's gonna come down to that.

1737
01:28:00,492 --> 01:28:02,320
Like you said, there is still
one event to go.

1738
01:28:02,364 --> 01:28:05,105
Nothing's sealed.
I got a lot of work to do.

1739
01:28:05,149 --> 01:28:06,890
- [cheering]
- Try to regroup and recover.

1740
01:28:06,933 --> 01:28:10,676
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1741
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:13,331
At that point, based on what
Brent and Lukas were doing,

1742
01:28:13,375 --> 01:28:15,942
I was like, I think
I've locked up second place,

1743
01:28:15,986 --> 01:28:17,901
so that was a cool moment.

1744
01:28:17,944 --> 01:28:20,904
I high-fived Mat
and he knew it too,

1745
01:28:20,947 --> 01:28:23,341
and we gave a good chest bump.

1746
01:28:23,385 --> 01:28:25,343
I think he's happy
for me to be successful,

1747
01:28:25,387 --> 01:28:27,214
just as long as it means
he's in first.

1748
01:28:27,258 --> 01:28:30,130
You know what I mean? So...

1749
01:28:30,174 --> 01:28:33,873
It's one of those... he wants me
to be as successful as possible

1750
01:28:33,917 --> 01:28:36,441
just as long
as he's a little bit more.

1751
01:28:39,966 --> 01:28:42,795
Thank you.

1752
01:28:42,839 --> 01:28:48,279
You did so good. I'm so proud
of you. You did so good.

1753
01:28:48,323 --> 01:28:52,457
Oh, my gosh, we're gonna get you
back there. Oh, man.

1754
01:28:52,501 --> 01:28:54,720
- Did you have fun?
- Yeah, a lot.

1755
01:28:54,764 --> 01:28:57,593
That's good. Well,
how was the parallettes?

1756
01:28:57,636 --> 01:29:00,247
Easy. I rested before,
like, 10 seconds or so.

1757
01:29:00,291 --> 01:29:02,685
You just went through. You did
everything you had to do.

1758
01:29:02,728 --> 01:29:08,517
That was fantastic. You caught
up so much on the... the stairs.

1759
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:10,823
Yeah, I know.

1760
01:29:10,867 --> 01:29:15,393
A little stumble and then...
Crazy, crazy, crazy.

1761
01:29:15,437 --> 01:29:18,744
You should be proud of yourself.

1762
01:29:18,788 --> 01:29:22,444
[Brent] The whole weekend, I
don't look at the leader board,

1763
01:29:22,487 --> 01:29:27,405
'cause I know so much can change
from Thursday to Friday to...

1764
01:29:27,449 --> 01:29:29,799
There are so many points
up for grabs.

1765
01:29:29,842 --> 01:29:35,065
Usually on the last day I look
at the guys in the top eight,

1766
01:29:35,108 --> 01:29:36,849
and I just make sure
when I'm doing events

1767
01:29:36,893 --> 01:29:38,373
I know where they're at

1768
01:29:38,416 --> 01:29:41,941
and I try to beat those guys
if I can.

1769
01:29:41,985 --> 01:29:44,074
And then on the final event
my coach said

1770
01:29:44,117 --> 01:29:46,642
we should probably look
at the leader board.

1771
01:29:46,685 --> 01:29:51,995
[Tommy] Fikowski is 34 points
back of Lukas Hogberg,

1772
01:29:52,038 --> 01:29:55,825
which is interesting
because Fikowski typically

1773
01:29:55,868 --> 01:29:57,957
comes out of the West Regional,

1774
01:29:58,001 --> 01:30:01,787
and that is the one regional
where 30-plus point deficits

1775
01:30:01,831 --> 01:30:03,572
going into the final event

1776
01:30:03,615 --> 01:30:07,314
have evaporated yearly
with these amazing comebacks,

1777
01:30:07,358 --> 01:30:10,274
with Cole Sager multiple years.

1778
01:30:10,317 --> 01:30:13,451
And so Fikowski
is probably the one athlete

1779
01:30:13,495 --> 01:30:17,499
that has repeatedly seen
that type of comeback play out

1780
01:30:17,542 --> 01:30:20,023
on the competition floor
around him.

1781
01:30:20,066 --> 01:30:24,897
And he's probably one of the few
athletes that mindset-wise

1782
01:30:24,941 --> 01:30:27,857
can approach that with,
hey, I can go out there

1783
01:30:27,900 --> 01:30:30,686
and still have a shot at this.

1784
01:30:30,729 --> 01:30:34,907
Don't go half-hearted.
All in. Feels good?

1785
01:30:43,916 --> 01:30:45,701
[indistinct]

1786
01:31:13,337 --> 01:31:15,774
[Adrian] The Aeneas workout
was really cool.

1787
01:31:15,818 --> 01:31:19,299
Dave reads a lot,
and his whole deal

1788
01:31:19,343 --> 01:31:22,607
was that he wanted to recreate
the myth of Aeneas,

1789
01:31:22,651 --> 01:31:25,349
who, after the Siege of Troy,
escaped.

1790
01:31:25,392 --> 01:31:28,483
It's kind of the story of that,
so you gotta scale the walls,

1791
01:31:28,526 --> 01:31:31,398
and then you gotta carry
whatever it is

1792
01:31:31,442 --> 01:31:35,359
out of the wreckage
of the burning city of Troy.

1793
01:31:35,402 --> 01:31:37,274
[commentator]
Aeneas was a demigod

1794
01:31:37,317 --> 01:31:38,971
who carried his mortal father

1795
01:31:39,015 --> 01:31:41,670
out from the ruins
of the burning city of Troy.

1796
01:31:41,713 --> 01:31:44,324
Mat Fraser is a full human
on the precipice

1797
01:31:44,368 --> 01:31:47,763
of his third consecutive
CrossFit Games title.

1798
01:31:52,681 --> 01:31:55,597
The final event was cool,
first of all,

1799
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:57,555
because they brought back
the pegboard

1800
01:31:57,599 --> 01:31:59,601
that had first shown up
I think in 2015.

1801
01:31:59,644 --> 01:32:02,342
It was one of those things
that stopped athletes

1802
01:32:02,386 --> 01:32:03,692
dead in their tracks.

1803
01:32:03,735 --> 01:32:06,956
A lot of them
just could not do it.

1804
01:32:09,828 --> 01:32:13,963
So fast-forward now three years
and they can all do it.

1805
01:32:14,006 --> 01:32:15,791
And Mat Fraser shows up

1806
01:32:15,834 --> 01:32:17,793
and, again,
he has clinched the victory.

1807
01:32:17,836 --> 01:32:21,057
All he has to do is just finish.

1808
01:32:21,100 --> 01:32:24,408
One event stands
between Tia Toomey

1809
01:32:24,451 --> 01:32:28,368
and a second straight
CrossFit Games championship.

1810
01:32:28,412 --> 01:32:30,022
[Tia] I couldn't
have programmed

1811
01:32:30,066 --> 01:32:31,720
an even better workout
to finish on.

1812
01:32:31,763 --> 01:32:35,680
It is 99%
that Tia is going to win.

1813
01:32:35,724 --> 01:32:37,943
[Sean] Who will join Mat Fraser
on the podium?

1814
01:32:37,987 --> 01:32:40,293
Right now it's Pat Vellner
and Lukas Hogberg.

1815
01:32:40,337 --> 01:32:42,208
But Brent Fikowski has a chance

1816
01:32:42,252 --> 01:32:45,037
to work himself back
into a top three spot.

1817
01:32:45,081 --> 01:32:47,605
[Mat] I'm gonna go like a bat
out of hell and just send it

1818
01:32:47,649 --> 01:32:49,520
and just see
what I'm capable of.

1819
01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:52,610
Worst-case scenario,
you crash and burn.

1820
01:32:52,654 --> 01:32:54,612
Who cares? You still won.

1821
01:32:54,656 --> 01:32:58,355
[commentator] Mat Fraser has
been nonstop unbroken so far.

1822
01:32:58,398 --> 01:33:01,576
[Sean] Fraser is done, and for
the third straight year,

1823
01:33:01,619 --> 01:33:05,405
the final event is just
a victory lap for Mat Fraser.

1824
01:33:05,449 --> 01:33:07,407
[Adrian] That event
was really dramatic

1825
01:33:07,451 --> 01:33:09,627
because at that point
Mat was pretty much a lock.

1826
01:33:09,671 --> 01:33:11,760
Vellner was already up there.

1827
01:33:11,803 --> 01:33:14,850
He wasn't in any real danger
of losing his second place.

1828
01:33:14,893 --> 01:33:19,681
But Lukas and Brent
were battling that out.

1829
01:33:19,724 --> 01:33:23,293
[Sean] Lukas Hogberg needs
to just reel in Brent Fikowski

1830
01:33:23,336 --> 01:33:25,338
to do some damage control
and keep Fikowski

1831
01:33:25,382 --> 01:33:27,950
from leapfrogging him
onto the podium.

1832
01:33:27,993 --> 01:33:32,041
Vellner was in second,
then 34 points back was Lukas,

1833
01:33:32,084 --> 01:33:33,912
then 34 points back was myself.

1834
01:33:33,956 --> 01:33:37,655
Risk it and try and get those
34 points on Lukas Hogberg.

1835
01:33:37,699 --> 01:33:40,571
[Lukas] And I didn't know
how good Fikowski was,

1836
01:33:40,615 --> 01:33:43,922
but I didn't wanna think about
him when I'm doing the workout,

1837
01:33:43,966 --> 01:33:45,707
'cause that's gonna .... me up.

1838
01:33:45,750 --> 01:33:49,101
So the plan was to try and do
five pegboards unbroken,

1839
01:33:49,145 --> 01:33:50,929
40 thrusters unbroken,

1840
01:33:50,973 --> 01:33:54,106
and carry the yoke fast to the
finish line and win the event.

1841
01:33:56,108 --> 01:33:58,415
[Kara] I knew I needed
a bit of separation

1842
01:33:58,458 --> 01:34:01,331
with Katrín and I
to be on the podium,

1843
01:34:01,374 --> 01:34:05,074
but Matty had said,
"You can't drop below fourth."

1844
01:34:05,117 --> 01:34:07,337
[Sean] Kara Saunders is trying

1845
01:34:07,380 --> 01:34:09,165
to work her way back
on the podium.

1846
01:34:09,208 --> 01:34:11,515
She is only six points back

1847
01:34:11,558 --> 01:34:13,822
of Katrín Davídsdóttir
for third.

1848
01:34:13,865 --> 01:34:17,129
[Katrín] I knew
going into the last one

1849
01:34:17,173 --> 01:34:19,001
that I was fighting
for the podium.

1850
01:34:19,044 --> 01:34:21,003
[Laura] We got to the barbell,
me and Tia

1851
01:34:21,046 --> 01:34:22,874
and almost Katrín
at the same time.

1852
01:34:22,918 --> 01:34:24,963
She was ahead of me,
so she kept going.

1853
01:34:25,007 --> 01:34:27,966
I was like, hell, yeah, I'm not
gonna take the barbell down.

1854
01:34:28,010 --> 01:34:29,402
I can do this all day.

1855
01:34:29,446 --> 01:34:31,230
[Sean] And here goes Mat Fraser

1856
01:34:31,274 --> 01:34:33,058
on his first yoke carry.

1857
01:34:33,102 --> 01:34:34,886
Lukas Hogberg
is onto the thrusters.

1858
01:34:34,930 --> 01:34:37,019
He's gotta try and reel in
Brent Fikowski

1859
01:34:37,062 --> 01:34:41,110
if he wants to guarantee
himself a spot on the podium.

1860
01:34:41,153 --> 01:34:43,721
Vellner and I
were really close on the yoke,

1861
01:34:43,765 --> 01:34:46,506
and he fell off pace,
and I didn't know why.

1862
01:34:46,550 --> 01:34:49,553
Mr Magoo Patrick Vellner style.

1863
01:34:49,596 --> 01:34:53,122
His plate apparently
was rolling across the stadium.

1864
01:34:53,165 --> 01:34:54,601
You see this yellow
35-pound plate

1865
01:34:54,645 --> 01:34:56,473
go rolling across the floor

1866
01:34:56,516 --> 01:34:59,650
and Pat Vellner frantically
scrambling to go and get it.

1867
01:34:59,694 --> 01:35:03,349
[Patrick] I could see it flip
up. "You gotta be kidding me."

1868
01:35:03,393 --> 01:35:07,223
I just ran it down, and I could
see Boz was looking at it.

1869
01:35:07,266 --> 01:35:09,704
He's looking at me
and he's like, "Stop it"

1870
01:35:09,747 --> 01:35:11,836
and I'm like,
"I can't get involved."

1871
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:14,752
[Patrick] It got right
to his feet when I grabbed it.

1872
01:35:14,796 --> 01:35:16,754
I grabbed this plate
and looked up.

1873
01:35:16,798 --> 01:35:19,801
And he's looking at me like,
"What are you doing?"

1874
01:35:19,844 --> 01:35:21,803
I'm like, "Sorry."

1875
01:35:25,632 --> 01:35:30,550
[Sean] Once again,
Mat Town is Mat's town.

1876
01:35:30,594 --> 01:35:34,816
For the third straight year,
he is the fittest man on Earth.

1877
01:35:38,645 --> 01:35:42,693
That's Fikowski
trying to jump Hogberg

1878
01:35:42,737 --> 01:35:44,434
for the final spot
on the podium.

1879
01:35:44,477 --> 01:35:45,870
Fikowski ahead of Vellner.

1880
01:35:45,914 --> 01:35:47,959
Vellner also ahead of Hogberg.

1881
01:35:48,003 --> 01:35:50,396
And Fikowski is in.

1882
01:35:54,183 --> 01:35:58,013
As long as Tia Toomey stays
right here with Laura Horvath,

1883
01:35:58,056 --> 01:35:59,579
it is all over.

1884
01:36:02,408 --> 01:36:05,498
First she finished second
two times.

1885
01:36:05,542 --> 01:36:07,805
Then she won by two points.

1886
01:36:07,849 --> 01:36:11,809
Now two for Toomey! She is
the fittest woman on Earth!

1887
01:36:11,853 --> 01:36:15,291
Davídsdóttir is in. This could
be your women's podium.

1888
01:36:15,334 --> 01:36:19,121
Kara Saunders needs to do
damage control right now.

1889
01:36:22,472 --> 01:36:25,736
Unofficially, Brent Fikowski
has scored 84 points.

1890
01:36:25,780 --> 01:36:30,828
Lukas Hogberg
was only up by 34.

1891
01:36:30,872 --> 01:36:33,135
- Thanks so much, Pat.
- What a weekend.

1892
01:36:33,178 --> 01:36:35,572
Love you, buddy. Good job.

1893
01:36:35,615 --> 01:36:37,574
[indistinct]

1894
01:36:37,617 --> 01:36:40,446
[Tommy] Lukas finishes towards
the back half of the heat,

1895
01:36:40,490 --> 01:36:44,320
and it's not exactly clear
where he finished overall.

1896
01:36:44,363 --> 01:36:46,496
So immediately everyone becomes

1897
01:36:46,539 --> 01:36:48,715
an amateur calculator,
leader boarder,

1898
01:36:48,759 --> 01:36:52,676
just trying to figure out times
from the previous heat.

1899
01:36:52,719 --> 01:36:54,547
[Sean] We didn't wanna say

1900
01:36:54,591 --> 01:36:57,855
that it was officially
gonna go to a tiebreak,

1901
01:36:57,899 --> 01:37:01,424
but it was very clear that
that was what was gonna happen.

1902
01:37:01,467 --> 01:37:03,992
And then we knew
that because of Hogberg's win,

1903
01:37:04,035 --> 01:37:06,777
he was gonna wind up on
the podium for the first time,

1904
01:37:06,821 --> 01:37:11,042
and once again it's another
near miss for Brent Fikowski.

1905
01:37:11,086 --> 01:37:13,915
- Congratulations, man.
- Oh, God.

1906
01:37:13,958 --> 01:37:15,830
[Brent] You compete
long enough,

1907
01:37:15,873 --> 01:37:18,963
I've been playing sports
my whole life,

1908
01:37:19,007 --> 01:37:21,487
and you learn more
from the losses than the wins,

1909
01:37:21,531 --> 01:37:23,925
even though I'd prefer to win
all the time.

1910
01:37:23,968 --> 01:37:26,318
There's ups and downs,
and there's 40 men there,

1911
01:37:26,362 --> 01:37:28,364
and only one guy
gets the gold medal,

1912
01:37:28,407 --> 01:37:32,020
and the other 39 men
get to choose

1913
01:37:32,063 --> 01:37:35,632
how they perceive
their performance.

1914
01:37:35,675 --> 01:37:38,853
And obviously they might not be
as happy as the guy in gold,

1915
01:37:38,896 --> 01:37:41,594
but happiness is also a choice.

1916
01:37:41,638 --> 01:37:44,119
[Dave] For the third
consecutive year,

1917
01:37:44,162 --> 01:37:50,255
your CrossFit Games champion
is Mat Fraser!

1918
01:37:50,299 --> 01:37:52,954
[cheering]

1919
01:38:08,795 --> 01:38:11,929
[Sean] It was really cool
to see Katrín Davídsdóttir

1920
01:38:11,973 --> 01:38:13,583
pull off that comeback

1921
01:38:13,626 --> 01:38:16,238
and make that steady march
up the leader board

1922
01:38:16,281 --> 01:38:18,501
that we have been accustomed
to seeing from her.

1923
01:38:18,544 --> 01:38:20,068
She's never out of it.

1924
01:38:20,111 --> 01:38:22,679
But you had to feel
for Kara Saunders

1925
01:38:22,722 --> 01:38:24,724
because here she is again

1926
01:38:24,768 --> 01:38:30,687
suffering another
just heartbreaking near miss.

1927
01:38:32,123 --> 01:38:33,777
[indistinct]

1928
01:38:35,866 --> 01:38:37,868
I love you so much.

1929
01:38:40,871 --> 01:38:43,482
- Next year.
- Next year.

1930
01:38:43,526 --> 01:38:49,793
You're talking about next year?
2019? What part?

1931
01:38:49,836 --> 01:38:52,970
- What we're doing for training.
- How we're gonna show up.

1932
01:38:53,014 --> 01:38:54,929
[Katrín] Now it's done,
you can't change it.

1933
01:38:54,972 --> 01:38:57,496
There's no hope, there's
no keeping the mindset good,

1934
01:38:57,540 --> 01:38:59,063
there's no working harder.

1935
01:38:59,107 --> 01:39:01,109
It's just like it's done
and I didn't win.

1936
01:39:01,152 --> 01:39:03,981
But at the same time,
I've never worked harder

1937
01:39:04,025 --> 01:39:07,680
in my entire life
than I did this year.

1938
01:39:07,724 --> 01:39:09,726
And third place
is still third place,

1939
01:39:09,769 --> 01:39:13,208
and we're back on the podium,
and there's a lot of wins

1940
01:39:13,251 --> 01:39:14,905
and there's
a lot of good in it,

1941
01:39:14,949 --> 01:39:18,430
and I can't forget
to celebrate that.

1942
01:39:18,474 --> 01:39:21,564
I felt like I ....ing won
the CrossFit Games

1943
01:39:21,607 --> 01:39:23,566
taking third place.

1944
01:39:23,609 --> 01:39:26,003
This has been my dream
for eight years,

1945
01:39:26,047 --> 01:39:27,700
make it to the podium.

1946
01:39:27,744 --> 01:39:29,398
It was just amazing,

1947
01:39:29,441 --> 01:39:32,575
and I was so proud
to be representing Sweden,

1948
01:39:32,618 --> 01:39:35,795
and all this hard work I've
been doing for so many years

1949
01:39:35,839 --> 01:39:38,798
has really paid out and I'm
standing here on the podium

1950
01:39:38,842 --> 01:39:40,887
at the CrossFit Games.

1951
01:39:40,931 --> 01:39:42,889
I've been thinking
about it a lot,

1952
01:39:42,933 --> 01:39:44,456
how it feels to stand up there,

1953
01:39:44,500 --> 01:39:47,764
and it's ....ing amazing.

1954
01:39:49,896 --> 01:39:51,855
[Laura] It's awesome.
It's so great.

1955
01:39:51,898 --> 01:39:56,425
Standing on the podium next to
these girls, it was incredible.

1956
01:39:56,468 --> 01:39:59,080
It was amazing, it was
the best experience ever,

1957
01:39:59,123 --> 01:40:00,907
like, representing my country.

1958
01:40:00,951 --> 01:40:03,301
I was the only Hungarian
at the Games this year,

1959
01:40:03,345 --> 01:40:07,088
which was huge for me and also
for my country, I guess.

1960
01:40:07,131 --> 01:40:10,178
It was awesome.
It was so great.

1961
01:40:10,221 --> 01:40:13,007
[Patrick] I put myself
in some sticky situations,

1962
01:40:13,050 --> 01:40:16,053
but I'm happy that I'm able to
just rally and figure it out.

1963
01:40:16,097 --> 01:40:17,489
I think that's part of what

1964
01:40:17,533 --> 01:40:19,100
people liked about me
this year,

1965
01:40:19,143 --> 01:40:20,840
was that terminator mentality

1966
01:40:20,884 --> 01:40:23,278
where it didn't matter
what happened to me.

1967
01:40:23,321 --> 01:40:25,671
I was gonna figure it out
and ride the ship

1968
01:40:25,715 --> 01:40:27,934
and we were gonna
get back on track.

1969
01:40:27,978 --> 01:40:29,762
I'm proud of my ability
to do that

1970
01:40:29,806 --> 01:40:32,200
and I think that's something
I have as a competitor

1971
01:40:32,243 --> 01:40:34,158
that maybe some others don't

1972
01:40:34,202 --> 01:40:37,248
that gives me a little bit more
of an edge, so it's cool.

1973
01:40:37,292 --> 01:40:39,990
It's nice to see
that sort of thing pay off.

1974
01:40:45,343 --> 01:40:47,824
[Dave] I've said before
that there will be people

1975
01:40:47,867 --> 01:40:50,957
fitter than Rich Froning
in the future

1976
01:40:51,001 --> 01:40:52,872
but never more dominant.

1977
01:40:52,916 --> 01:40:56,398
I'm on the verge
of being proved wrong.

1978
01:40:56,441 --> 01:40:59,966
He's now won three times
in a row, Rich won four,

1979
01:41:00,010 --> 01:41:05,233
and arguably a much harder
time period in our sport.

1980
01:41:05,276 --> 01:41:11,195
So... I might have to tip my hat
to Mat. He might have it.

1981
01:41:11,239 --> 01:41:13,023
I remember I finished the event

1982
01:41:13,067 --> 01:41:16,983
and I'm just scanning the crowd,
like, where is my sweetheart?

1983
01:41:17,027 --> 01:41:21,553
I wanna go get a hug
from my sweetheart.

1984
01:41:21,597 --> 01:41:25,122
And then someone finally
pointed her out to me

1985
01:41:25,166 --> 01:41:30,388
and it was just a mess
of tears and hugs and...

1986
01:41:30,432 --> 01:41:34,044
It hasn't been all roses.

1987
01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:36,351
So it means a lot.

1988
01:41:39,310 --> 01:41:43,009
[Tia] This year it was so
different to the previous year.

1989
01:41:43,053 --> 01:41:46,448
It was more relief
that I won in 2017,

1990
01:41:46,491 --> 01:41:49,668
and then to be able
to back it up in 2018,

1991
01:41:49,712 --> 01:41:52,280
I actually felt like
my job wasn't done.

1992
01:41:52,323 --> 01:41:54,456
There's still room
for improvement.

1993
01:41:54,499 --> 01:41:56,284
I have a long way to do.

1994
01:41:56,327 --> 01:41:58,721
I'm just ready
to start the next season,

1995
01:41:58,764 --> 01:42:01,854
because I'm not satisfied.

1996
01:42:01,898 --> 01:42:05,031
- You're the back-to-back champ.
- What did you say?

1997
01:42:05,075 --> 01:42:08,426
You're the back-to-back CrossFit
Games fittest woman on Earth.

1998
01:42:08,470 --> 01:42:11,777
I heard you the first time.
I just wanted to hear it again.

1999
01:42:11,821 --> 01:42:13,779
[laughs]

2000
01:42:13,823 --> 01:42:16,826
Her goal in 2018 was
exactly this, to leave no doubt.

2001
01:42:16,869 --> 01:42:18,784
She wanted to make that
a clear goal

2002
01:42:18,828 --> 01:42:20,308
throughout the weekend,

2003
01:42:20,351 --> 01:42:22,875
the CrossFit Games,
the entire season,

2004
01:42:22,919 --> 01:42:25,182
that she was gonna turn
every stone possible.

2005
01:42:25,226 --> 01:42:28,142
And to see her
get the finish she deserves,

2006
01:42:28,185 --> 01:42:30,231
for me it just
makes everything worth it,

2007
01:42:30,274 --> 01:42:32,320
for that particular moment
where I'm like,

2008
01:42:32,363 --> 01:42:36,106
I'm happy for you completely
'cause you deserve this.

2009
01:42:36,150 --> 01:42:37,890
That's it.

2010
01:43:01,871 --> 01:43:03,568
[Justin] In March of 2018,

2011
01:43:03,612 --> 01:43:05,570
on the way to an open
announcement in Houston,

2012
01:43:05,614 --> 01:43:07,964
we got a call
and it said that our leadership

2013
01:43:08,007 --> 01:43:11,097
wanted to change the structure
of the Games next year.

2014
01:43:18,757 --> 01:43:22,761
So on Monday morning, the day
after the CrossFit Games,

2015
01:43:22,805 --> 01:43:24,676
I got a phone call
that those changes

2016
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:26,678
are happening right now.

2017
01:43:26,722 --> 01:43:28,637
And normally
that following week

2018
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:31,161
is a time
for me and my family to detox,

2019
01:43:31,205 --> 01:43:33,250
we go away,
we turn off cell phones,

2020
01:43:33,294 --> 01:43:36,166
and it was, you need to start
scheduling time to be in town

2021
01:43:36,210 --> 01:43:39,474
because we're gonna make
dramatic changes to the team.

2022
01:43:41,780 --> 01:43:44,914
Leading into it, I didn't know
the teams were gonna be let go.

2023
01:43:44,957 --> 01:43:48,700
We actually thought, I thought,
maybe I was too hopeful,

2024
01:43:48,744 --> 01:43:51,007
that we had solved the problem.

2025
01:43:51,050 --> 01:43:52,922
It was a surprise
and a huge contrast,

2026
01:43:52,965 --> 01:43:54,532
because that was coming
right on the heels

2027
01:43:54,576 --> 01:43:57,318
of an amazingly good event.

2028
01:43:57,361 --> 01:43:59,233
It was the best viewership
we'd ever had,

2029
01:43:59,276 --> 01:44:01,670
the best international pickup
we had ever had,

2030
01:44:01,713 --> 01:44:04,325
largest crowds
that we've ever had.

2031
01:44:04,368 --> 01:44:07,284
And it was a cold-water bath
on Monday,

2032
01:44:07,328 --> 01:44:10,505
knowing that everything
was gonna change that fast.

2033
01:44:12,420 --> 01:44:14,944
[Tia] I think
it was quite distressing,

2034
01:44:14,987 --> 01:44:16,467
not just for the athletes

2035
01:44:16,511 --> 01:44:18,948
but the whole
CrossFit community.

2036
01:44:18,991 --> 01:44:21,167
It actually affected
a lot of friends

2037
01:44:21,211 --> 01:44:24,910
that I'd met through CrossFit,
you know, the media team.

2038
01:44:24,954 --> 01:44:28,697
I had people who would come
to Australia and film me

2039
01:44:28,740 --> 01:44:33,397
and actually get to see and
meet my friends and family.

2040
01:44:33,441 --> 01:44:35,443
It just really sunk
a lot of people's hearts

2041
01:44:35,486 --> 01:44:38,750
back in 2018
when everything happened.

2042
01:44:38,794 --> 01:44:42,885
From the outside looking in,
very much it could have seemed

2043
01:44:42,928 --> 01:44:46,149
like there was this "we don't
care" kind of attitude,

2044
01:44:46,192 --> 01:44:49,152
we're not really interested
in what the athletes

2045
01:44:49,195 --> 01:44:51,067
or what the community thinks.

2046
01:44:51,110 --> 01:44:53,504
Nothing could be further
from the truth.

2047
01:44:53,548 --> 01:44:57,421
These are people that have put
their life into this event.

2048
01:44:59,467 --> 01:45:02,513
[Justin] It's our life's work.
It is for Dave, it is for me.

2049
01:45:02,557 --> 01:45:06,343
It is for a lot of people
on this team.

2050
01:45:06,387 --> 01:45:08,998
It's the same way when you look
behind the scenes,

2051
01:45:09,041 --> 01:45:11,479
whether it's the way
the teams are led,

2052
01:45:11,522 --> 01:45:13,002
the way we treat people
on the floor,

2053
01:45:13,045 --> 01:45:15,352
the way judges respond
to athletes,

2054
01:45:15,396 --> 01:45:17,223
the way we interact with fans,

2055
01:45:17,267 --> 01:45:21,315
the way this entire team tries
to bring this event to life.

2056
01:45:21,358 --> 01:45:23,055
It's not a selfish pursuit.

2057
01:45:23,099 --> 01:45:25,928
It's something that we do feel
we have a duty for,

2058
01:45:25,971 --> 01:45:28,060
but it's also deeply satisfying

2059
01:45:28,104 --> 01:45:31,063
to produce something that adds
value back to our community.

2060
01:45:31,107 --> 01:45:34,763
It's a job
that we wanna do really well

2061
01:45:34,806 --> 01:45:36,721
and to the best
of our abilities,

2062
01:45:36,765 --> 01:45:38,375
and it's in service
of athletes,

2063
01:45:38,419 --> 01:45:39,898
it's in service
of our community,

2064
01:45:39,942 --> 01:45:42,205
it's in service of affiliates.

2065
01:45:42,248 --> 01:45:47,993
And when we do our job well,
it changes people's lives.

2066
01:45:52,433 --> 01:45:55,436
CrossFit is a sport, but more
importantly it's a community.

2067
01:45:55,479 --> 01:45:58,439
It was a community first
before it was a sport.

2068
01:45:58,482 --> 01:46:01,703
And long after
the sport is done each year,

2069
01:46:01,746 --> 01:46:03,487
the community
is what continually

2070
01:46:03,531 --> 01:46:06,577
keeps things moving
within the space.

2071
01:46:06,621 --> 01:46:09,928
It's the affiliates, it's
the people that you train with.

2072
01:46:09,972 --> 01:46:11,495
Those are the people

2073
01:46:11,539 --> 01:46:13,497
that are the constant
throughout the year.

2074
01:46:13,541 --> 01:46:16,326
When the athletes are done,
the season's done,

2075
01:46:16,370 --> 01:46:18,328
they walk back
to their affiliates

2076
01:46:18,372 --> 01:46:21,375
and they train with those
people, in that community.

2077
01:46:21,418 --> 01:46:24,203
Long after their
sporting careers are done,

2078
01:46:24,247 --> 01:46:26,771
it's that community
that's gonna surround them

2079
01:46:26,815 --> 01:46:28,338
and it's gonna support them,

2080
01:46:28,382 --> 01:46:30,384
whether they're
an athlete or not,

2081
01:46:30,427 --> 01:46:32,777
in pursuit of something
much bigger than sport,

2082
01:46:32,821 --> 01:46:35,606
which is your lifestyle,
your health

2083
01:46:35,650 --> 01:46:38,000
and your fitness
over the course of your lifetime

2084
01:46:38,043 --> 01:46:39,828
that will make you
a better human

2085
01:46:39,871 --> 01:46:43,701
and allow you to live
a happy and fulfilling life.

2086
01:46:55,496 --> 01:46:56,845
I think that's the beauty

2087
01:46:56,888 --> 01:46:58,716
of what
the CrossFit Games represent,

2088
01:46:58,760 --> 01:47:01,458
is everything changes.

2089
01:47:03,242 --> 01:47:05,288
When I look back at 2018,

2090
01:47:05,331 --> 01:47:07,464
the challenges
that we went through that year,

2091
01:47:07,508 --> 01:47:09,248
and in 2019 and 2020,

2092
01:47:09,292 --> 01:47:11,468
the direction we were going
wasn't wrong.

2093
01:47:11,512 --> 01:47:13,035
It was difficult to make

2094
01:47:13,078 --> 01:47:15,690
those dramatic changes
that quickly,

2095
01:47:15,733 --> 01:47:18,040
but the motivations were good,

2096
01:47:18,083 --> 01:47:20,564
to be
more geographically diverse,

2097
01:47:20,608 --> 01:47:23,132
to welcome more events
into the fold,

2098
01:47:23,175 --> 01:47:25,787
to create more opportunities
for people to participate

2099
01:47:25,830 --> 01:47:27,658
in our sport around the world.

2100
01:47:31,575 --> 01:47:34,143
We will
and we have grown faster

2101
01:47:34,186 --> 01:47:37,102
because we've brought
more people in,

2102
01:47:37,146 --> 01:47:41,106
and I think it was a necessary
change in our evolution.

2103
01:47:50,507 --> 01:47:53,075
And to know where we're going
in the future,

2104
01:47:53,118 --> 01:47:57,296
we're taking some of the best
elements from 2018,

2105
01:47:57,340 --> 01:48:00,735
and we're taking some of the
challenges and the learnings

2106
01:48:00,778 --> 01:48:03,172
from 2019 and '20
and correcting them,

2107
01:48:03,215 --> 01:48:05,261
and then
we're building something

2108
01:48:05,304 --> 01:48:09,004
that's got the best
of both of those systems.

2109
01:48:09,047 --> 01:48:10,571
And that's what gets me
really excited

2110
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about the future
of the CrossFit Games.

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I think sometimes
to know where you're going...

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you have to know
where you've been.