Friday Kickoff Show — 2024 Europe CrossFit Semifinal

Host Chase Ingraham is joined by a variety of guests — athletes, coaches, content creators, and others — on the Friday Semifinals Kickoff Show.

Ingraham and the crew will share expertise and insights on the athletes, events, and all things CrossFit.

Grab your friends, get your snacks ready, and tune in to the Saturday and Sunday livestreams to watch your favorite athletes in Europe in action!

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[Standing by for real-time captioning] ≫ WE WILL GIVE YOU LIVE COVERAGE TODAY OF THE EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS WE ARE IN LCD ARENA IN LIONS, LYONS, FRANCE. WE HAD A CHIPPER STYLE FOR THE TEAM EVENT THAT YOU SAID WILL SNEAK UP ON YOU TOWARDS THE END. ≫ IT IS LIKE A TRAIN LEAVING THE STATION. THAT TRAIN DOESN’T SHOOT OUT THE GATE BUT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE TO GET UP TO SPEED. WHEN IT IS UP TO SPEED, IT WILL BE A TOUGH RIDE . YEAH. THIS ONE STARTS OUT PRETTY SLOW AND MOST PEOPLE LEAVING A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY . IT WILL GET REAL. ≫ IT WILL START OFF WITH ALL TEAMS WILL WORK ON THE FLOOR . 10 TEAMS AT A TIME 150CALS ON THE ECHO BIKE AND HANDSTAND TO THE FINISH LINE. ≫ WE SAW THE THEME KIND OF CREEP IN LAST SEASON WHERE WE STARTED THE TEAM EVENT WITH A BIG HOLD AND THAT HOLD ENDED UP BEING VERY SIGNIFICANT IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS AND THINK IT WILL BE THE SAME THING HERE. THAT IS A LONG TIME TO HOLD INTO THE WORM AND TEAMS CAN DROP IT BUT COMES AT COST OF A PENALTY 5 BURPEES OVER A WORK IN SINK ROW . DEPENDING HOW THE TEAM WANTS TO BREAK IT UP AND TAKE A BREAK FROM HAVING THAT RESPITE. ≫ WE HAVE 1 MINUTE UNTIL WE KICK THINGS OFF AT THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL FOR THE FRENCH THROW DOWN AND WHAT IS DIFFERENT THAN LOTS OF SEMI-FINALS THIS IS WHAT IS HERALD AS THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP FOR CROSSFIT YOU HAVE ALL NATIONALITIES ALL TOGETHER IN ONE SINGLE LOCATION AND DUKING IT OUT FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS AT THE VERY LEAST. ≫ I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF PRIDE ON THE LINE HERE . YOU CAN SEE IT ALREADY. THIS IS FRIDAY MORNING FIRST EVENT AND THEY ALWAYS BRING IT. LOOKING ACROSS THE ARENA WITH A FLAG AND THEIR LITTLE ENCLAVE READY TO GO AND PRETTY COOL TO SEE WHEN IT IS FIRST HEAT, FIRST EVENT, MORNING. IT IS NOT THE CASE EVERYWHERE. SO HERE WE GO. ≫ STANDBY. ≫ LIKE I SAID, BIT A SLOW START ON THE EVENT. ALL RIGHT. WORMS OFF THE GROUND. ONCE IT GETS OFF THE GROUND TEAMS CAN SEND OUT ONE ATHLETE AT A TIME. NO WORK REQUIREMENT AS FAR AS HOW MANY THEY DO AND WHEN THEY SWITCH. FOR THAT AS A CASUAL FAN OF THE COMPETITION. I’M A PRETTY BIG FAN OF THE COMPETITION. I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED WHEN THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE TEAMS TO MAKE A DECISION WHAT IS BEST FOR THE TEAM AND HOW THEY TACKLE THIS EVENT. WHY MAKE THAT DECISION THREE RAIN TO DO IT AND WHY NOT LET’S DO SETS OF 3 OR SETS OF 10 AND TIME TO FORCE THE TEAM TO SHOW WHAT THEY HAVE AND HOW TO DICTATE HOW THEY WORK THROUGH AN EVENT. THERE IS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO LET THEM RUN WITH IT AND SEE HOW THEY STRATEGIZE. PART OF THE COMPETITION IS HOW YOU CAN MAXIMIZE THE STRENGTHS OF YOUR TEAM. FRANKLY, AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU DON’T HAVE A TEAM THAT WILL CARRY THEIR WEIGHT ACROSS THIS VOLUME OF WORK , SOMEBODY WILL GET HURT BY THAT. I DON’T MEAN PHYSICALLY BUT IF YOU AND I ARE ON A TEAM AND. MY POINT IS IT WILL BE A DOUBLE WHAMMY NOT ONLY SLOW BECAUSE I CAN’T HOLD MY WEIGHT BUT YOU WILL BE MORE FATIGUED FOR WHATEVER COMES NEXT. IT IS A COMPOUNDING EFFECT IF YOU CAN’T HAVE A TEAM THAT WILL SHARE THE LOADING THAT WAY. ALLOWING THAT THEMSELVES IS PART OF IT. TEAMS ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN OUTSIDE OF YOUR SCREEN AND WHERE THE WORM IS WHERE IS STARTING MAT IS . CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG THE WORM WILL STAY THERE BEHIND THE RIG FOR THE FIRST 2 MINUTES AND ADVANCE TO THE ECHO BIKE. ≫ WORM WILL STAY WHERE IT IS AND SEND ATHLETE OUT TO THE ROPE AND WHEN ROPE CLIMB IS TOTALLY ACCUMULATED THEY WILL DO THE HANDSTAND BARB UP BALL RIGHT TO THE THROW AND NOT MUCH FURTHER AND THROWING EVERYTHING AT THE RIG AND MARCH FORWARD AND FIRST TIME WE WILL SEE WHO IS BREAKING AWAY FROM THE PACK AND ECKO BIKE SPRINT AND WHEN WE DID IT IN TESTING THAT IS WHERE YOU STARTED TO SEE THINGS GET REAL. ≫ RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN COMING UP IS TEAMS WILL TACKLE AND IT IS ALL 30. YOU CAN’T PARTITION THROUGH IT LIKE HEY WE WILL MIX IN ROPE CLIMBS AND FACING HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS. GET 30 DONE AND ADVANCE THROUGH THE WALL AND TEAMS MAKING WAY AND THIS IS HEAT 1 OF 3 FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION HERE AT THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL AT LDLA- RENNA FOR FRENCH THROW DOWN. ≫ ONE THING I WILL SAY TOO, CHASE, WHICH IS INTERESTING WHEN WE TESTED THIS AND HAVING SEEN SOME PEOPLE TAKE IT ON SO FAR IS THAT THE TRANSITIONS ARE KIND OF AWKWARD. THAT IS PART OF IT. SO WHEN YOU SEND SOMEBODY BACK, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING WE WILL DO ONE OR TWO REPS AND THEN SWITCH . BUT ALL THOSE TRANSITIONS AWKWARDLY FIGURING OUT WHERE PLACEMENTS WILL BE ON THE WORM AND GETTING THAT PERSON FREE TO HEAD OUT TO DO THAT NEXT MOVEMENT. ALL THAT TAKES TIME AND EFFORT. YOU HAVE TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH A SET THAT IS NOT ENORMOUS BUT BIG ENOUGH TO MAXIMIZE TIME AWAY FROM THE WORM . TRANSITIONS WON’T BE YOUR FAVORITE. ≫ NOT ONLY ARE THEY AWKWARD BUT THEY ARE SLOW. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU HAVE TO BE BASICALLY DELIBERATE IN HOW YOU DO THAT. I’M WATCHING THE TEAMS TRANSITION AND 100% CORRECT AND IT IS LIKE A WEIGHTER TRANSITION CARRYING DRINKS OUT THERE WHICH DO I MOVE FIRST SO THE WHOLE THING DOESN’T TOPPLE OVER. ≫ THAT IS NOT ONLY COSTLY IN TIME BUT WILL BE COSTLY IN EFFORT ONCE IT STARTS TO ADD UP. ≫ LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE OUR FIRST HAND IN THE AIR. BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN IN LANE NO. 9. C23 CROSS IT FROM TRAIN CULTURE. ≫ 2 AND UP 3 AND REELS. ≫ LOTS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF SPAIN AND SWEDEN THIS WEEKEND AS WELL AS NORWAY OBVIOUSLY WITH OSLO . THEY HAVE MULTIPLE TEAMS HERE AND BUTCHER SLAP . DENMARK, SWEDEN, SPAIN AND OSLO , NORWAY WELL-REPRESENTED HERE IN TEAM COMPETITION. ≫ LAST YEAR THEY HAD MASSIVE NUMBERS INCREASING IN THE OPEN AND GENERALLY AFFILIATES AROUND THE COUNTRY AND SEEMED TO BE CONTINUING IN 2024 AND REALLY COOL TO SEE THE SPANISH COMMUNITY SHOW UP. ≫ LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 2, CROSSFITS . EARLY LEADERS AT THE TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN THE LANES GO FROM 1 TO 10, TOP TO BOTTOM . IF YOU GUYS ARE WATCHING ALONG WITH US, WOW. THAT ATHLETE LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 4 CRANKING ON HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS IN DOUBLE TIME . IMPRESSIVE. ≫ DOUBLE TAKE WHAT WAY HE WAS FACING. I THOUGHT FOR SURE HE WAS DOING REGULAR STRAIGHT PUSH-UPS. ≫ THAT IS NICE NOW TOO. ≫ THIS BEING REALLY THE THIRD YEAR THAT A WALL-FACING POSITION HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO COMPETITION. I WOULD SAY THE CROSSFIT GAMES BEING LAST YEAR WITH SEMI-FINALS AND NOW THIRD YEAR OF 2 YEARS OF PEOPLE GETTING READY AND SEEING THE QUICKNESS OF ADAPTATIONS OF SOME OF THESE ATHLETES IS STAGGERING. FOR A SECOND I WAS LIKE WAS I INCORRECT WITH WALL FACING ? NOBODY GOES THAT FAST. AM I INCORRECT. ≫ I’M NOT SURPRISED THOUGH. THESE ATHLETES ARE VERY CAPABLE. AS A WHOLE SOMETIMES THERE IS A PUSHBACK WHEN THINGS GET USED . I GET T I UNDERSTAND. ≫ WE REMEMBER PEG BOARDS ON COMPETITION TEAM. ≫ AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE TRAINING FOR ADAPTABILITY AND COMMUNITY SHOWS IT TIME AND AGAIN AND HARD START OR FIRST GLANCE, MAN, I DON’T KNOW . ONCE PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET IN THERE AND GET ACCURATE , THEY ADAPT FAST. ≫ WHAT IS THAT BALANCE LIKE, BOZ, HEY, WHEN SHOULD INTRODUCE THIS? WHEN SHOULD WE DO IT? YOU KNOW, WHAT GOES INTO THAT CONVERSATION OF, ALL RIGHT. NOW I FEEL IT IS TIME TO BRING THIS OUT INTO THE COMPETITION. ≫ I THINK A LOT OF IT IS OBSERVATIONAL WHERE THE ATHLETES ARE IN THEIR LEVEL AND WHEN YOU GET TO A CERTAIN POINT WHERE YOU HAVE ATHLETES RIPPING OFF A SET OF 50 OF SOMETHING IS A SET OF CHALLENGING ARGUMENTS. ≫ BEYOND THE NORM IS PART OF IT. I ALSO THINK THAT JUST LOOKING AT THE NATURAL EXPRESSION OF THE END OF WHAT THAT MOVEMENT COULD BE AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GO BACK TO CROSSFIT JOURNALS AND GREG WAS VERY CLEAR REASON YOU TRAIN A HANDSTAND BARB UP ON THE WALL IS SO 1 DAY YOU CAN DO A HANDSTAND BARB UP — ≫ LOTS OF THESE ARE BREADCRUMBS FOR THE FUTURE. ≫ IF WATCHING ALONG HEAT 1 OF TEAM EVENT FIRST ONE HERE AT EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL FOR THE FRENCH THROW DOWN TOP TO BOTTOM LANES, 1 THROUGH 10 YOU HAVE CROSSFIT ST. MARTIN. LANE 2, CROSSFIT GEMET. LANE 3, CROSSFIT KRUEGER. ≫ WE ARE ALREADY IN LANE NO. 3, EXCUSE ME. ≫ LANE NO. 3 IS OSLO, ONE OF MULTIPLE TEAMS. WOW! ALREADY THROUGH THE 100. BOZ YOU ARE SAYING WHERE IT IS TESTING AND WHERE IT STARTS TO GET REAL FOR THESE ATHLETES NOT NECESSARILY ONES ON THE BIKE BUT THOSE HANGING ON THE WORM ON THEIR SHOULDER. ≫ YOU SEE HANDS ON KNEES. THAT STATIC HOLD FOR THAT LONG REALLY STARTS TO SAP YOUR ENERGY COMBINED WITH THE BIKE SPRINTS YOU DON’T HAVE TIME TO WASTE HERE AND THROW BIKE WITH RECKLESS ABANDON. EVERY TEAM WILL BE DOING THAT. ≫ YOU GET QUOTE REST; RIGHT? ≫ EXACTLY. THAT IS THE THING YOU COME OFF THIS HEAVY BIKE SPRINT WE KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE AND YOU HAVE TO BE STATICALLY STRONG AND HOLD IT AND RESPIRATION IS CRAZY. WOW. LOOK AT THIS. ≫ MAN, SEE THAT IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. ≫ SEE HOW IT IS. ≫ RECKLESS ABANDONMENT. ≫ ECHO BIKE. THREE TEAMS IN THE LAST THIRD OF THIS 150CALES ON THE BIKE ROTATE AS NEEDED. ≫ WATCH BODY OF ATHLETE THAT COMES OFF BIKE RIGHT TO THAT. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 150 CALS IS A LONG WAY AND EVERYBODY WILL LIKELY HAVE A COUPLE ATTEMPTS AT THE BIKES BEFORE WE CLEAR THAT CALORIE MARK. IT ALL STARTS TO GET PRETTY MESSY . ≫ TOP 3 TEAMS IN TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN THAT IS CROSSFIT GERMETS CROSSFIT OSLO, CROSSFIT KRUEGER, CROSSFIT JENOSS AS TOP THREE TEAMS MAKING WAY HALF WAY THROUGH THE FIELD. WE CAME LIVE HERE TESTING THESE EVENTS IN PARTICULAR. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU TOLD ME ABOUT SORT OF MR. DAN BAILEY. ≫ YEAH. WELL, WE TESTED THESE EVENTS IN COLUMBUS OHIO AND DAN BEING DOWN THE ROAD HELPED US WITH A COUPLE EVENTS . NOT HIS FORTE BUT ALWAYS GAME AND GREAT TO THROW HIM IN THE MIX. DAN WAS HAVING A TOUGH TIME WHEN WE GOT TO THIS PHASE IN THE TEST . CLASSIC BAILEY. ≫ CLASSIC BAILEY. ≫ 150 CALS IN THE ECHO BIKE . DOESN’T END THERE, BOZ. WE ARE FINISHING WITH A HANDSTAND WALK RACE TO THE FINISH LINE. ≫ YUP. ≫ AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE. ONCE THEY ARE DONE WITH THE CALS DROP THE BAG AND EVERYBODY FOLLOWS THE LEADER OR HOW WILL THEY FINISH THIS OFF. ≫ THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT. MINIRELAY GETTING TO 150 CALS AND WHERE WORM COMES DOWN AND SEND ONE ATHLETE AT AT TIME AND FIRST ATHLETE GETS TO FINISH AND NEXT ATHLETE CAN FOLLOW. LOTS OF STRATEGY WHO HAS GAS IN TANK TO GO FOR HANDSTAND WALK AND WHO NEEDS A LITTLE REST? AGAIN, YOU TALK ABOUT SKILLS AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT GETS LOST SOMETIMES AND PEOPLE LOOK AT A HANDSTAND WALK AND ALL THESE GUYS ARE CAPABLE OF THAT IS NOT TRUE IT IS ANOTHER THING TO DISPLAY THAT SKILL UNDER PRESSURE AND UNDER FATIGUE AND DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND YOU KNOW. ≫ YES. ≫ WHATEVER 60 FEET OF HANDSTAND WALK WHAT IS A BIG DEAL OR 48, RATHER . ≫ TOP 3 TEAMS TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN STILL AS WE HAVE LOOKS LIKE THREE TEAMS LEFT ON THE HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS. THEY WILL BE OUT OF YOUR SCREEN AS 7 OF THE 10 IN HEAT NUMBER 1. THREE TOTAL HEATS TO KICK OFF THE WEEKEND HERE AT FRENCH THROW DOWN JUST PAST 10 MARK AND TIME FOR THIS PARTICULAR EVENT. ≫ 25-MINUTE TIME CAP, PRETTY GENEROUS. HOW NICE OF YOU, BOSS. ≫ YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SPREAD THE LOVE AND MAKE SURE MOST OF THE TEAMS GET TO EXPERIENCE THE FULL, REAL DEAL. ≫ SAME TIME CAPSULES IN PARTICULAR I HAD THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE. SOMETIMES YOU WILL SEE ONE WILL BE MORE THAN MOST TEAMS NEED. ≫ YUP. ≫ IS THAT PART OF, HEY, MOST PEOPLE NEED TO GET THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING, EXPERIENCE THIS WHOLE THING FOR THE TOTALITY OF THE WEEKEND WHERE ON SOMETIMES WE WILL SEE SHORTER TIME CAPS TO DICTATE THE PACE OF PARTICULAR EVENTS? ≫ YEAH. IT DEPENDS. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERATION AROUND PROGRAMMING IS A BIG ONE. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE MOST PEOPLE CAN GET THROUGH IN A REASONABLE TIMEFRAME MOST OF THE TIME. ≫ LOOKS LIKE IT. ≫ BURPEES. I WONDER IF INTENTIONAL OR IF THEY DROPPED IT. I DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO SEE. REGARDLESS, SOMETIMES IT IS A MATTER OF SCHEDULE. THIS IS A LONG EVENT AND LONG DAY AND LET’S MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DO EVERYTHING WE WANT TO DO. YEAH. MANY TIMES THE TIME CAP IS THERE TO PUSH THE ACTION ESPECIALLY IF SOMETHING EVERYONE CAN DO AND THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DOING IT AND BEING PUSHED TO DO IT QUICKLY AND SOMETIMES TIME CAP CAN SERVE THAT PURPOSE TOO. IN THIS FOR INSTANCE, WE WANTED MOST TEAMS TO BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THE MAJORITY. ≫ YEAH. ≫ EVEN THE TEAMS THAT MIGHT NOT BE STRONGEST ROPE CLIMBING HANDSTAND AND PUSH-UPS SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT AND GET A BIG BITE OUT OF THE BIKE. ≫ BOSS SEEING LOTS OF ATHLETES ON THE WORM. HAND HIP TYPE OF POSITION ON KNEES OR HIPS. ≫ NO COMFORTABLE POSITION SPRINTS ON THE BIKE AND YOU SEE BODY LANGUAGE OF SOME ATHLETES REALLY CONFIDENT ON THE BREAK ALL OF A SUDDEN REALLY BREAKING DOWN A LITTLE BIT . WOW THIS TEAM IN THE MIDDLE COMING OUT OF NOWHERE. ≫ FIRST TEAM HANDSTAND WALK LANE NO. 3 CROSSFIT OSLO. ≫ THEY MADE UP A SIGNIFICANT DEFICIT ON THE BIKE AND HAD A COUPLE TEAMS IN FRONT OF THEM AND THEY MUST HAVE CRANKED ON THAT. JUDGING BY THE BODY LANGUAGE OF THE GENTLEMAN THERE, THEY WENT FOR IT. ≫ I’M GOING LAST. I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAY. ≫ ONE ATHLETE DOWN FOR OSLO KRIEGER IN LANE NO. 5 AND MULTIPLE TEAMS CROSSFIT OSLO HAS BEEN ONE OF THE TEAMS COMING OUT OF EUROPE IS STARTING TO CREATE A DYNASTY OF THEIR OWN. LANE NO. 3 CROSSFIT — SORRY. OTHER OSLO KRIEGER. WE HAVE KRIEGER BLS TEAM IN LANE NO. 5. YOUR WORDS CONFUSE ME. YOU ARE UP . ≫ LOTS OF TEAMS IN THE HANDSTAND WALK NOW. EXCITING. ≫ TIME CAP IS 25. ≫ YEAH. STARTING TO SEE A COUPLE ATHLETES MAKE SIMPLE MISTAKES HERE KICKING UP OVER THE LINE INSTEAD OF BEHIND IT. FATIGUE FACTOR MAKES A DIFFERENCE. SIMPLE SKILL BUT WHO HAS WHERE-WITH-ALL WHEN YOU ARE TIRED AND JUST WANT TO GET THE TO FINISH LINE. ≫ KRIEGER, THAT’S RIGHT. ≫ I HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE EMCEES LOCAL TO THE AREA. ≫ CUE YOU UP. ≫ OKAY. ONE LOCAL TEAM RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DROP DOWN AND DROPPING TO THEIR. ≫ OH, YEAH. HOW ARE THE LEGS TODAY. ≫ WHAT’S THAT? ≫ HOW ARE THE LEGS TODAY? ≫ A LITTLE BEATEN UP NOT GOING TO LIE. RIGHT OFF THE PLANE BUT GREAT AND NICE NOON CLASS THERE AND AWESOME ENVIRONMENT . SHOUTOUT TO CROSSFIT JENAS FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY. ≫ FIRST TEAM ACROSS FINISH LINE JENAS AS WELL AS OSLOS KRIEGER. ≫ CROSSFIT JENNA, YOU ARE THE BEST. GO REP! ≫ LOOKS LIKE MOST TEAMS WILL GET IN WELL UNDER THAT TIME CAP. HAVE A COUPLE DOWN HERE. ≫ WHOA! OH, MAN! ≫ AH! ≫ DUDE! ≫ THAT IS THE SECOND OR THIRD TIME. ≫ YEAH. CROSSFIT JENAS AND BUDDY ON THE BIKE SENDING THEM TO GET THEM IN THAT POSITION. ≫ YEAH. EMPTIED THE TANK A LITTLE PREMATURELY MAYBE. ≫ BOSS THIS IS NOT BROKEN UP THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH BUT THROUGH SECTIONS. ≫ THAT IS CORRECT. LITTLE SLOPE SECTIONS AND AGAIN WHAT YOU WILL SEE THIS IS KIND OF INTERESTING TALKING ABOUT PROGRAMMING IN THE MORE MODERN ERA OF CROSSFIT. YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THE ATHLETES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK IT UP, BETTER TEAMS WILL NOT. IT IS SIMPLY TOO SLOW TO BE COMING DOWN AND WORRYING ABOUT THAT. IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS DISTANCE UNBROKEN YOU ARE REALLY HURTING YOUR TEAM. EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT, TAKING THAT WILL BE A DETRIMENT. ≫ THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE CONVERSATION AROUND MINIMUM WORK REQUIREMENTS IN GENERAL. ≫ OH, YEAH. ≫ USED TO HAVE SOME OF THOSE DEPTH OF FIELD WASN’T QUITE AS STRONG AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ATHLETES THAT MADE IT TO THE NEXT STAGE HAD THE SKILLS WE EXPECTED OF THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DIDN’T WANT SOMEONE TO MAKE IT TO THE GAME THAT COULDN’T DO A MUST CLE-UP. ≫ RIGHT. ≫ IF YOU CAN’T DO IT YOU WON’T QUALIFY ANYWAY. ≫ RIGHT. ≫ APPROACHING THE 18-30 MARK. SAYING EARLIER 25-MINUTE TIME CAP. HEAT 1 EVENT 1. FIRST EVENT OF THE THROW DOWN. ≫ TRYING TO MAKE UP SOME GROUND FOR THEIR TEAM. I THINK THEY WERE ONE OF THE LAST TEAMS TO THE BIKE. SHE IS TRYING TO CLOSE THAT DEFICIT A LITTLE BIT. WE LOVE TO SEE IT. ≫ OKAY. LANE NUMBER 9 WORKING ON HANDSTAND WALKS. C23 CROSSFIT TRAIN CULTS. ≫ LOTS OF TIME FOR THE TEAMS TO FINISH. JUST OVER 6 MINUTES — JUST UNDER 6 MINUTES REMAINING. ≫ WE HAVE THREE TEAMS LEFT ON THE BIKE, UP TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN LANE NO. 1 IS CROSSFIT SAN MARTI IN RED WORKING ON THEIR SECOND ATHLETES. 45 FEET TO FINISH ON THE HANDSTAND WALK. 4-FOOT 12 SECTIONS MUST BE UNBROKEN. IF THEY DO COME DOWN, THEY HAVE TO RESTART AT NEXT 12-FOOT THAT THEY DIDN’T OR PREVIOUSLY COMPETED. JUDGE IS TELLING ATHLETE TO GO BACK . BOSS, YOU SAY LITTLE MISTAKES. ≫ YUP. ≫ STAYING IN THE GAME PICKING UP HANDSTAND WALKS HAND BEHIND THE LINE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. ≫ LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT ADD UP AND MAKE A BIG IMPACT ON YOUR TEAM WHEN COMING OFF BIKE IN THE EVENTS IT IS EASY TO MAKE A MISTAKE THAT COULD BE COSTLY. ≫ I WILL TELL THE IS EXCITING FOR ME IN MY CURRENT ROLE. I HAVE WORN A LOT OF HATS OVER THE YEARS. THESE DAYS I GET TO INFLUENCE THE PROGRAM AND DO WHAT I DO AND HAVE A HAND IN CRAFTING SOME OF THE EVENTS AND SEEING THE FIRST HEAT OF THE FIRST REGION KICK OFF AND SEEING THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON THESE ATHLETES, NO. IT IS REALLY NOT ONLY EXCITING BUT IT IS NECESSARY. AN EVENT LIKE THIS IS A LITTLE UNORTHODOX AND SOMETIMES HAVE SELF-DOUBT WHETHER IT WAS ENOUGH AND CONDITIONS OF THE TEAMS AT END OF THIS SUGGEST TO ME YES I THINK IT WAS. ≫ YES. THERE HAVE SOME ATHLETES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE FOR 5 OR 6 MINUTES NOW THAT ARE YET TO GET OFF BACK AFTER COMPLETING LAST HANDSTAND WALK. LOTS OF THAT IS POTENCY OF THE BIKE AT SPEED YOU NEED TO GO. ≫ YEAH. ≫ IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND TRY TO GET ACROSS THE GAMES. LOTS OF THE CONVERSATIONS YOU HAVE AS AN ATHLETE IS , OKAY. I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS BUT HAVE TO DO THIS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ I WILL SEE HOW MUCH I WANT TO REALLY GO TO THE CROSSFIT GAMES. ≫ ESPECIALLY IN THE TEAM ENVIRONMENT DON’T WANT TO LET TEAM DOWN AND OTHER ATHLETES ARE DOING BEST TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE PART OF THAT SUCCESS. YOU KNOW, LOTS OF PRESSURE TO DO THE SAME. ≫ YOUR HEAT WINNER WAS AT 15: 21. ≫ OH, WOW. ≫ ABOUT 6 MINUTES AGO. THAT IS CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER BLST. ONE OF MULTIPLE OSLO TEAMS OUT HERE. 15: 21 TO START AND SECOND PLACE TEAM CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER15: 57 AND CROSSFIT [INDISCERNIBLE] IN 16: 31. TIME TO BEAT SO FAR THIS IS HEAT 1 AND TWO MORE HEATS LEFT. CROSSFIT WISH WYSH AS THEY TRY TO GET TO THE HANDSTAND WALKS AND RACE IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN LANES 7. CROSSFIT 4700 AND LANE 8 CROSSFIT ST. MARTIN LANE NO. 8 WITH 22: 27 AND PLENTY OF TIME HITTING HAND CAP TO WALK TO THE FINISH LINE. ≫ LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY WILL FINISH. LOOKS PRETTY WELL FOR THE OTHER TWO HEATS COMING NEXT AS WE GET TO THE MORE COMPETITIVE TEAMS IN THE REGION STACKED IN THE FINAL HEATS. ≫ FINAL ATHLETE , TWO ATHLETES. ≫ FINAL ATHLETE YOU SEE THAT IN THE RED PANTS BLACK SHIRT IS HAND TOUCHING LINE AND BOSS HERE FOR HANDSTAND WALKS DON’T TOUCH THE LINE. ≫ EXACTLY. EDGE OF THE LANES TO LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE ATHLETE TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAS ROOM IN LANES ADJACENT TO THEM AS PEOPLE GET CLOSE TO BOUNDARY AND LEGS START TO SPREAD YOU DON’T WANT ATHLETES HITTING EACH OTHER. IT IS A REALLY STRICT RULE HOW FAR YOU CAN DRIFT TO THE LEFT OR RIGHT. SOON AS YOU SEE AN ATHLETE TOUCH THE LINE THEY WILL GET CALLED DOWN. ≫ CROSS THE FLOOR AND LANE NO. 10 TO CLOSE HEAT NO. 1 OUT. UNDERNEATH THE TIME CAP. 23: 46 UNOFFICIALLY BUT NEARLY 8 MINUTES AGO YOUR TOP TIME WAS SET BY CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER BLST TIME OF 15: 21. NOW WE HAVE TWO HEATS WAITING TO COME AS THEY NOW HAVE A NEW TIME TO BEAT . THAT WILL DO IT FOR HEAT NO. 1. HEAT NO. 2 IS COMING UP. LIKE YOU SAID IT IS GOOD TO SEE IT COME OUT ON THE FLOOR AND SEE WHAT IS ON PAPER AND TESTING AND MEET THE COMPETITION FLOOR AND IS ALWAYS NICE TO SEE. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. GREAT TO SEE THE RACE UNFOLD HERE. SO MUCH PREPARATION NOT JUST FOR OUR TEAM BUT TEAMS HERE COMPETING AS WELL. IT IS AWESOME TO FINALLY HAVE THINGS UNDERWAY . LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED. ≫ AS FAR AS TEAM COMPETITIONS OR SEEING EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IN TESTING A LOT OF TIMES WHAT YOU SEE IN TESTING GETS YOU PRETTY CLOSE AND HELPS YOU FINE TUNE TIME CAPS AND WEIGHTS AND REP SCHEMES AND SEEING IT MAKE ITS WAY ON THE COMPETITION FLOOR, STILL DO YOU EVER GET SURPRISED SEEING WHAT TEAMS OR ATHLETES DO WITH WITH THE PROGRAMMING. ≫ YEAH. AT END OF THE DAY WE USE BEST INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE TO CRAFT THESE EVENTS SO THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE. THAT IS ATHLETE AS JOB IS TO COME IN AND BLOW DOORS OFF AND WHAT WE WANT TO SEE AND TRUE TO PLAY THE GAME OF ALL SPORTS YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND CAN BE PUSHED OUT AS FAR AS THE BOUNDARIES GO AND IS THE JOB OF THE ATHLETE IN MY OPINION. ≫ SECOND HEAT COMING UP HERE IN A COUPLE MINUTES RESETTING THE FLOOR AND, AGAIN, STARTING THINGS OFFER AND FAR EAST THROW DOWN HAS BEEN GOING ON. TIME THAT CAME OUT OF THE TEAM COMPETITION 16: 57 BY KT CROSS TOP TIME COMING OUT OF FAR EAST THROW DOWN THEY ARE WRAPPED FOR THE DAY. 9 HOURS AHEAD OF WHERE WE ARE AT AND SHIFTING THINGS BACK TO THE START OF THIS ONE. ANY SURPRISES HERE YOU SAW IN THE FIRST HEAT. ≫ NO. I’M A LITTLE SURPRISED ALL OF THE TEAMS FINISHED AND EXPECTED 1 OR 2 TEAMS TO MAYBE GET STOPPED AND HAD A MEMBER THAT MAYBE COULDN’T HANDLE SOME GYMNASTICS MOVEMENT AND PUT TEAM IN DEFICIT AND ENDED UP HURTING THE REST OF THEIR TEAM. THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN AND BODES REALLY WELL FOR THE OTHER TWO HEATS COMING UP AND SHOULD BE EXCITING AND HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE EVERYBODY FINISH WITH A PRETTY COMPETITIVE TIME. ≫ THREE HEATS TO START THINGS OFF AND INDIVIDUALS WILL BE A BIT LATER IN THE DAY AND STARTING THINGS OFF WITH TWO EVENTS FOR THE TEAMS AND COMING UP AFTER THIS EVENT WILL ACTUALLY BE THE LIFTING EVENT WE SAW IN 2022 FOR THE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION. WHY BRING IT BACK TO THE TEAMS THIS YEAR. ≫ GREAT COMPLEX AND SUCH A GREAT DISPLAY OF CROSSFITER STRENGTH. ≫ YEAH. ≫ EVERYBODY KNOWS SINGLE LIFTS AND SNATCH AND POWER LIFTING MOVEMENTS AND SEEING IN A ONE- REP MAX IS PRETTY ROUTINE AND PEOPLE ARE PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT AND WHAT IS A LITTLE UNIQUE TO THE SPORT OF CROSS- SPIT FIFTH IS SEEING COMPLEXES COME OUT AND ATHLETE NOT ONLY HAS TO BE STRONG BUT HAVE STAMINA TO MAINTAIN STRENGTH ACROSS A PRETTY LONG SPAN OF TIME WHEN YOU ARE CONSIDERING A MAX EFFORT AND THAT I THINK IS A REAL TESTAMENT TO WHAT THE CROSSFIT ATHLETE IS CAPABLE OF. ≫ TEAMS MAKING WAY ON TO THE COMPETITION FLOORS GETTING SET IN BIKE HEIGHTS AND WHO WILL GO FIRST AND HOW THEY SET THAT UP. AND WELL IT IS ACTUALLY KIND OF AN INTERESTING THING, BOSS. TEAM OF 4, TWO MEN AND TWO WOMEN AND ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES AND WHERE CAN YOU SET AND FINE-TUNE LITTLE THINGS TO SAVE TIME AS SEAT HEIGHT IS REALLY ONE OF THOSE THAT MAY GO UNDERNOTICED OR UNDER-APPRECIATED IF YOU ARE TALL ONE SITTING ON THE SHORT BIKE. ≫ OR TEAM COMFORTABLE WITH LESS THAN OPTIMAL FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE TEAMS TYPE OF SET UP AND THAT WILL HAPPEN IN A TEAM COMPETITION. IN MY OPINION IF YOUR TEAM IS SO SPECIFIC EACH MEMBER HAS TO HAVE THEIR OWN, YOU KNOW, SETUP AND CAN’T PERFORM OTHERWISE THAT WILL BE A REAL PROBLEM AT SOME POINT. THERE WILL BE AN EVENT AT SOME POINT THAT FORCES YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE IN THAT WAY AND YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO SAY I’M A LITTLE HIGHER OR SHORTER THAN I NEED TO BE AND CAN STILL GET IT DONE FOR MY TEAM. THAT IS A BIG PART OF IT. ≫ ECHO BIKE IS UNCOMFORTABLE TO BEGIN WITH AND NOW HAVE TO SIT TWICE OUTSIDE OF MY COMFORT ZONE FOR THAT PARTICULAR ONE. ALL RIGHT. ACTION UNDERWAY HERE FOR HEAT NO. 2, TEAM EVENT NO. 1 AT LDL CENTER OR ARENA IN LYONS, FRANCE. STARTING WITH 30 ROW CLIMBS USE TEAMS AS NEEDED AND ROTATE THROUGH AND GET 30 DONE. BOSS, YOU SAW IN THE FIRST HEAT THAT THE FIRST TEAM THAT WAS DONE PRETTY MUCH HELD ON TO THE LEAD THE ENTIRE TIME RIGHT FROM THE START. ≫ WE DID SEE ONE TEAM COME AND MAKE A BIT OF A DEFICIT ON THE BIKE. YEAH. IT WAS TEAMS THAT CAME OFF THAT HANDSTAND PUSH-UP EARLY. I MEAN, THAT IS A HUGE ADVANTAGE TO START CHIPPING AWAY AT 150 CALS ON THE BIKE AND CURIOUS. WE HAVEN’T SEEN A TEAM SWITCH YET. FIRST SWITCH THERE . ≫ IT LOOKS LIKE TEAMS ARE OPTING FOR MULTIPLE REPS BEFORE THEY SWITCH. ≫ I THINK 30; RIGHT? YOU KNOW, PROJECT YOURSELF OUT ON THE COMPETITION FLOOR AND WHAT IS A DECENT SET FOR YOU AND THINKING ALL RIGHT I’M COMING HERE ONCE AT MOST A COUPLE REPS ON A SECOND ROTATION. ≫ WELL, I THINK IT IS OBVIOUS, CHASE. 8 FOR THE MEN AND 7 FOR THE WOMEN. THERE IT IS. ≫ JUST DO THE MATH. ≫ I DO THINK IT IS PROBABLY SMART TO PLAY WITH THE NUMBER A LITTLE BIT. I WOULD SAY 4 TO 5 IS A NUMBER THAT MOST OF THE ATHLETES SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN AT ALL. IN MY OPINION WHEN YOU HAVE THIS KIND OF OPEN-ENDED WORKOUT THE TEAMS SHOULD THINK IN THAT WAY. WHAT IS THE NUMBER WE CAN DO WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN AT ALL? WHEN YOU SLOW DOWN YOU MIGHT AS WELL SWITCH AND GET THAT NEXT ATHLETE IN THERE. ≫ TIME TO BEAT SET IN HEAT NUMBER 1, 15:21. LANES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM SHOWS 1 DOWN TO 10 AND LANE NO. 1, YOU HAVE CROSSFIT 10K CAPITAL . IN LANE NO. 2 CROSSFIT BUTCHERS LAB X. AND LANE NO. 3 — AND LANE NO. 4 VEER BANNIA AND CROSSFIT LANE NO. 45 — LANE 7 BOZ ‘S FAVORITE TEAM THE JOLLY SAILOR. ≫ THERE IT IS. ≫ FOLLOWED BY MY FAVORITE TEAM NAME PERFORMANCE CROSSFIT JST COMPETE RED. THANK YOU FOR THAT TEAM SO MUCH. ≫ GOING BACK TO AFFILIATE NAMES CROSSFIT CIAN — ≫ IF YOU HAVE A TEAM NAME THAT LONG I AM FREE TO GIVE YOU A NICKNAME. ≫ LOOK AT THAT, COMPETE RED. ≫ YEAH. WE HAD FIVE TEAMS OF THIS LENGTH AND HAD TO DESIGNATE COLORS FOR EACH ONE OF THEM. ≫ THERE WE GO. GREAT. GOOD ON THAT IF YOU CAN FIELD THAT MANY TEAMS. ≫ I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT AFFILIATE APPLICATION GO THROUGH . YES. WE WOULD LIKE ALL OF THE NAMES, PLEASE. WHAT IT PROBABLY WAS IS THEY DIDN’T GET FIRST 7 CHOICES AND PUT ALL 7 TOGETHER INTO ONE AND HOW ABOUT THAT? DID I GET ALL THOSE PUT TOGETHER. THAT WAS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TRYING TO OPEN THE AFFILIATORS WAS FINDING A NAME. ≫ YUP. WE HAVE HANDS IN THE AIR IN LANES 1 AND 2 AND 9 AND 10. ≫ OUTSIDE SMOKES. BUTCHERS X IN LANE NO. 2 IN TOP PART OF THE SCREEN. ≫ LOTS OF HANDS COMING UP AND SHORT ORDER HERE AND GOING TO BE A PRETTY COMPETITIVE HEAT AND SEE HOW THEY NAVIGATE HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS. THAT WILL BE THE REAL TELL. ≫ I THINK PART OF THIS IS SEEING HOW CLOSE TEAMS ARE ACROSS 30,000 AND WHAT WE SEE IN HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS IS ABILITY TO DO ANY AMOUNT OF SETS YOU WANT TO. ≫ YEAH. ≫ I THINK REALLY HELPS KEEP INTENSITY UP FOR THE TEAMS. IF YOU ARE DOING 3 I’M DOING 6 AND IF I’M DOING 2 YOU ARE DOING 8. AS LONG AS TRANSITION TIMES ARE TIGHT AND MOVEMENT IS CONSTANTLY HAPPENING, SEPARATION THERE WILL BE VERY MINIMAL BETWEEN THESE TEAMS. ≫ YUP. ABSOLUTELY. I THINK ON THAT OTHER END OF IT IT CREATES AN EVENT WHERE EFFORT OF EVERY EVENT NEEDS TO BE A SPRINT. CAN’T AFFORD TO BE ON FLOOR TAKING A PACE AND OTHER ATHLETES AND LANES BLOWING DOORS OFF YOU MIGHT AS WELL LET SOMEBODY FRESH COME IN AND CRANK AND WHERE THIS EVENT MIGHT NOT APPEAR DIFFICULT ON PAPER BUT WHEN YOU SEE ACTIVE ATHLETE ON FLOOR THEY HAVE TO BE PEDAL TO THE MEDAL. ≫ HOCKEY TRANSITIONS; RIGHT? ≫ EXACTLY. ≫ IF I HAD TO DO IT ON THE ECHO BIKE ALONE, WHAT A HORRIBLE ENDEAVOR. WE ARE ON 120. IF YOU CAN’T TELL, THESE ARE ACTUALLY WALL-FACING HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS AND SPEED AT WHICH THEY ARE DOING THESE DOESN’T SEEM LIKE IT IS. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE TO SEE HOW FAR WE HAVE COME IN A COUPLE YEARS AND SEE HOW FAST AND STRONG THESE ATHLETES ARE IN THIS POSITION. ≫ YOU LOVE TO SEE IT AND TEAMS ARE A GREAT LITMUS AND PEOPLE TRY TO ARGUE TEAM ATHLETES COMPETITIVE DEPTH IS NOT AS GOOD AS INDIVIDUALS YES HOWEVER HOW THEY ARE HANDLING THIS MOVEMENT AND GREATER CROSSFIT COMMUNITY EMBRACED THIS MOVEMENT AND IT IS GREAT TO SEE. ≫ WE HAVE SOME ATHLETES SLOWING DOWN AND SURPRISINGLY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE REACHING FAILURE IN THE MIDDLE SCREEN FEMALE ATHLETE WORKING RIGHT TO THE LIMIT. SURPRISING TO ME TO CHOOSE THAT STRATEGY INSTEAD OF SIMPLY MOVING ON AND GETTING NEXT ATHLETE IN THERE TO GET A COUPLE REPS IN IN SAME TIMEFRAME YOU CAN GET IN ONE. ≫ ADAPTATION ON FLY AS A TEAM. IN PRACTICE WE ARE ALL GOOD WITH TENS. ≫ RIGHT. ≫ I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS WENT AWAY FOR SOME REASON. SOME PEOPLE ARE MARRIED TO THAT REP SCHEME AND WE CAN’T BREAK IT AND CHANGE AND SOMETHING HAPPENS AND TENS IS NOT HAPPENING AND I’M DOING FINE AND WE HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT AFTER THIS. ≫ YEAH. BIG PART OF THAT TEAM COMPETITION FOR SURE AND COMMUNICATION AND SEE THAT AND WHEN PRESSURE IS ON WHO CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE TEAM AND BE SUCCESSFUL? COMMUNICATION IS NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE EASY. IT IS LOUD ON THE FLOOR AND DISTANCE THAT ATHLETES WILL BE FROM ONE ANOTHER AND DON’T NECESSARILY GET TO TALK TO EACH OTHER RIGHT NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER. ≫ YEAH. ≫ IT IS LOUD ON HERE. IF YOU CAN’T HEAR IT ON THE SCREEN, THE MUSIC IS LOUD AND EVERYTHING IS LOUD AND ATMOSPHERE YOU WANT AND LIKE YOU SAID BOZ MAKES IT A HARD THING AND LOOKING ON SCREEN YOU HAVE THREE ATHLETES STUCK UNDER THE WORM 10 OR 15 FEET AWAY FROM THERE IS A TEAM ATHLETE. ≫ WHEN YOU GO BACK AND WATCH CLASSIC TEAM COMPETITIONS , MAYHEM WHEN THEY WERE ON THEIR SUCCESSFUL RUN FOR THOSE YEARS THEY HAD A SENSE OF ESP THEY COULD TALK TO EACH OTHER WITHOUT TACHEING TO EACH OTHER AND TOOK A LOOK AT RICH AND KNEW WHAT TO DO NEXT AND THINK THAT SAY BIG PART OF THAT AND HOW WELL TEAM COHESION IS AND WE HAVE A TEAM ON BIKE LOOKING AT THAT. ≫ ALREADY. ≫ BIG LEAP FOR THEM. 8-MINUTE MARK AND CROSSFIT X ACADEMY BEING TRUE TO THEIR NAME WORKING THEIR WAY TO 150 CALS ON THE ECHO BIKE. ≫ WITH A NAME LIKE THAT HOPEFULLY WILL HOLD TRUE ON THE BIKE. ≫ PERFECT NAME. THAT IS WHAT IT WILL TAKE. LIKE BOZ SAID QUICK TRANSITION FOR MEN NOT JUST TO THE BIKE BUT WITH THE BAG. ≫ THAT IS WHAT IT WILL TAKE AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MANY TRANSITIONS WILL HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT ON THIS WORKOUT . IF YOU HAVE SLOW , ARDUOUS TRANSITIONS ON THAT IT WILL ADD UP AND ADD MINUTES TO YOUR TIME OVER THE SPAN OF THIS EVENT. ≫ 15:21 IS TIME OFFICIALLY TO BEET BY OSLO KRIEGER BST. ≫ LOOKING IN LANE NO. 2 AT COMPETITORS TO SEE THEIR PACE. ≫ ANOTHER PIECE HERE WHEN WE GET TO THE BIKE IS — I MEAN, HONESTLY, HOW YOU STRATEGIZE YOUR WOMEN ON THE SAME BIKE AND ATHLETES LOOKING OVER AND MOSTLY GUYS ON BIKE AND HOW MUCH POWER THEY CAN PUT OUT IS THAT LITTLE SHELL GAME WITHIN THE GAME ITSELF. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. LOOKS LIKE MOST TEAMS OPT TO HAVE FIRST MALE ATHLETES COME IN AND HIT BIKE HARD AND TAKE A BIG CHUNK OUT OF THOSE CALORIES INITIALLY. ANOTHER THING TO NOTE IS THERE IS NO DESIGNATED ORDER THAT ATHLETES NEED FOR THE BIKE FOR EXAMPLE CHASE IF YOU AND I WERE ON A TEAM I COULD START AND YOU GO SECOND AND GO RIGHT BACK INTO THE MIX AND NO REQUIREMENT THAT WOMEN OR ANY ATHLETE HAS TO JUMP IN AND TAKE A TURN. AGAIN, SMART MONEY IS DIVIDING THAT UP EVENLY AS YOU CAN GIVEN ABILITIES OF YOUR TEAM. IF YOU NEED TO, YOU CAN JUST GO BACK TO BACK TO BACK. I DON’T THINK IT WILL BE A WINNING STRATEGY BUT IF YOU HAVE TO YOU CAN DO IT. ≫ IS THAT DELIBERATE PUTTING EVENT TOGETHER , FREE REIGN AND DO IT AS FAST AS CAN YOU. ≫ ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY WILL DO AND ULTIMATELY YOU WILL SEE THE TEAM THAT IS MOST WELL-ROUNDED COME OUT FRONT. ALL OF THE MEMBERS IT MEANS ARE CONTRIBUTING . IF YOU ARE ON A TEAM WHERE ONE OR TWO PEOPLE CARRY BULK OF THE MOVEMENTS, IT WILL SLOW YOU DOWN. ≫ ONE TEAM, ACTUALLY TWO TEAMS LEFT ON THE HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS AS — IT LOOKS LIKE A FEMALE ATHLETE ON LANE 6. CROSSFIT BUTCHERS LAB CHAOS IS STRUGGLING. SWITCH IT OUT AND SOMEONE ES GET IN THERE AND REPLACE THEM. ≫ SAVE TIME AND GET UP ON THE BIKE. THEY CHOSE TO GO STRAIGHT PUTTING A FEMALE ATHLETE ON THE BIKE. HAVEN’T SEEN TOO MANY TEAMS TAKE THAT STRATEGY. ≫ THEY PROBABLY HAD A COUPLE REST BREAKS TO REFRESH. ≫ YEAH. ≫ SAVES A TRANSITION HAVING TO SWITCH SOMEONE OUT ON THE WORKS. ≫ THERE IT IS. ≫ I WILL TAKE THE NICER ROUTE. ≫ WONDER IF ORIGINAL STRATEGY YOU HAVE TO GO LAST WILL YOU GO FIRST ON BIKE. ≫ OR MEANING. ≫ WHOEVER WAS LAST. ≫ STARTING WITH A MALE ATHLETE BUT. ≫ MAYBE SOMETHING CHANGED OVER THE COURSE OF THE HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS, WHO KNOWS. ≫ ALL TEAMS ON THE BIKE AND FIRST TEAM TO GET THERE BOTTOM OF SCREEN AND TEEL IN BLACK. ≫ THEY OPTED TO LOWER SEATS TO FEMALE HEIGHTS AND DEAL WITH IT CLEARLY NOT HEIGHT HE WOULD HAVE CHOSEN. ≫ TIME TO BEAT , 15:21. CURRENT TIME IS 3 MINUTES BELOW THAT APPROACHING THE 12:15 MARK. ≫ NOT A SINGLE TEAM TAKE A PENALTY ON THIS. ≫ PREVIOUS. ≫ PENALTY BEING 5 BURPEES OVER THE WORM AS A TEAM IF WORM TOUCHES THE GROUND. ≫ IF WORM DROPS BEFORE CALORIES ARE DONE — 5 OR 6 BURPEES BEFORE THEY CAN PICK IT UP AND CONTINUE. IT COULD BE PART OF THE STRATEGY BUT IT IS MORE WORK AND AWKWARD TO GET THAT THING INTO POSITION. ≫ BOLD STRATEGY. ≫ THAT’S RIGHT. ≫ ALL TEAMS WORKING FINAL 150 HPZ CALS IF JOINING US 2024 CROSSFIT EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS OF CROSSFIT HERE FOR EUROPE AND ALL 10 TEAMS CHASING TIME TO BEAT. THEY ARE 2 MINUTES AWAY FROM TIME SET IN HEAT NO. 1 AND BOZ DOESN’T END HERE DONE WITH 150 CALS BAG CAN TOUCH GROUND WITH NO PENALTY BUT THERE IS A RELAY OF 45- FOOT HANDSTAND WALK TO THE FINISH LINE. ≫ WHAT A SAVE! WOW. THAT WAS DESPERATE TOO. ESPECIALLY COMING OFF THE BIKE. ≫ SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE BIKE TO WRESTLE THAT WORM . GOOD FOR THEM. HEARD THE FLOOR ANNOUNCER SAY THEY ARE OVER 100-CALORIE MARK. 115 OR 120 CALORIES AND APPROACHING THE TIME I THINK TEAMS NEED TO START TO GET OFF THE BIKE TO MATCH THE PACE OF SOME OF THE TEAMS IN THE FIRST HEAT AND SOME FINISHERS AROUND 15 MINUTES IN FIRST HEAT. ≫ 15- 21-AND 16-30 FROM TOP TIMES IN PREVIOUS HEAT AND REALIZING HOW FAST THAT FIRST HEAT TEAM WAS. ≫ THEY CAME OUT HOT. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT TEAMS IN THE FIRST HEAT OF THE WEEKEND AND FIRST REGION COME OUT SWINGING AND FIGHT WAY TO TOP HEATS LATER IN THE COMPETITION. ≫ CROSSFIT MAX EFFORT IN LANE NO. 10 AND HAND IN AIR UP IN LANE NO. 2. ≫ MADE SOME GROUND. AWESOME. ≫ CROSSFIT BUTCHERS LAB X. ≫ THEY WILL BE FIRST OFF THE BIKE. DON’T SEE ANY OTHER HANDS IN THE AIR YET. MAX EFFORT WITH MOST TIME ON THE BIKE. THEY HAD AN EARLY LEAD BUT DOESN’T SEEM THEY CAN HOLD IT. ≫ CROSSFIT BUTCHERS LAB X SCREEN NO. 2 OFF AND 45-FOOT HANDSTAND WALK. PREVIOUS GAMES TEAMS NOT SAME TEAM. ≫ OKAY. ≫ PREVIOUS GAMES TEAMS EXPERIENCE IS PAYING OFF IN THE SECOND HEAT. ≫ FIRST FEMALE ATHLETE ABOUT TO FINISH DOESN’T LOOK LIKE INITIAL TIME SET IN FIRST HEAT IS IN DANGER. ≫ YEAH. ≫ MAX EFFORT NOW FIRST TEAM TO THE BIKE FINISHING UP. ≫ MAX EFFORT IS DONE. LANE NO. 5. ≫ THEIR GENTLEMAN LOOK LIKE THEY TOOK A BITE OUT OF THE BIKE AND ARE LOOKING FATIGUED. ≫ LADIES, YOU CAN TAKE FIRST HANDSTAND WALKS MAKE THEM WORK IN LANE 10. FIRST ATHLETE DOWN FOR MAX EFFORT. MAX EFFORT COMING OUT OF SPAIN, ONE OF MULTIPLE TEAMS OUT OF SPAIN. YOU KNOW, EARLY ON DAYS, BOZ, IT WAS LOTS OF THE ICELANDIC CONTROL OF THE REGION WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL TEAM. NOW SPAIN, SWEDEN, NORWAY, JUST POWERHOUSE COUNTRIES ALL HERE ON THE COMPETITION FIELD. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE UK. WE HAVE STRONG TEAMS COMING OUT OF THE UK AS WELL. IT DEFINITELY SEEMS TO HAVE DROPPED. I THINK THAT IS A PRODUCT OF CROSSFIT AND GETTING MORE TRACTION AND PLACES AROUND THE CONTINENT. ≫ BOZ WANTED ME TO SAY SOLLY SAILOR CROSSFIT AGAIN. ≫ I LOVE IT. ≫ OKAY. 1521 IS SAFE AND TOP THREE TIMES. 16:30. TIME CAP IS 25 MINUTES. ≫ COUPLE:21 IS SAFE AND TOP THREE TIMES. 16:30. TIME CAP IS 25 MINUTES. ≫ COUPLE OF TEAMS COMING IN HERE. SOME TEAMS THAT FINISHED UP LOOK LIKE THEY DID SOME WORK SO TOUGH EVENT TO OPEN THE DAY. THEN QUICK TURNAROUND FOR THESE TEAMS AND SOMETHING THAT WILL BE A FACTOR AS WELL. THESE TEAMS WILL BE BACK ON THE FLOOR IN PRETTY SHORT ORDER TO TAKE ON THE MAX EFFORT EVENT COMING UP. QUESTION WILL BE HOW MUCH DID THEY EMPTY THE TANK AND HOW MUCH WILL IT IMPACT LIFTING AT ALL. ≫ WHAT THEY ENDED WITH ON THE BIKE AND HOLDS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ WHAT YOU WILL NEED IN THIS COMPLEX COMING UP OF THREE CLAIMS, TWO FRONT SQUATS AND ONE SHOULDER OVERHEAD. EVERYTHING THEY ARE DOING HERE AT LEAST ESPECIALLY SHOOT. EVERYTHING THEY DO IN THIS EVENT WILL HAVE INTERFERENCE TO THE NEXT ONE. ≫ IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE STRONG IN PERFECT CONDITIONS AND DISSWAYING THAT WHEN YOU ARE IN FATIGUE AND TIME AND ATTENTION IN COMPLEX LIKE THIS IS SIGNIFICANT. SO IS TIME AND ATTENTION YOU HAVE TO CARRY THE WORM DURING THIS EVENT. NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN YOUR TEAM YOU WILL CARRY THAT WORM FOR A LONG TIME. THAT IS — JUST, YOU KNOW, THAT FATIGUE BUILT UP WILL HAVE A PRETTY BIG IMPACT ON THESE ATHLETES ABILITY TO LIFT. ≫ JUST PAST THE 18-MINUTE MARK. TWO TEAMS — ONE TEAM LEFT ON THE BIKE. TWO TEAMS LEFT ON THE COMPETITION FLOOR. LANE 6, CROSSFIT BUTCHERS LAB CHAOS FINAL ATHLETE CROSSING FINISH LINE ON HER HANDS . BOZ, 48 FEET GREEN LINE/RED LINE START TO FINISH. NICE LITTLE TOUCH. 12-FOOT SECTIONS MUST BE UNBROKEN NOT ENTIRE 48 FEET. ≫ DISTANCE IS NOT CRAZY FOR THESE ATHLETES. ALL OF THEM WILL BE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF WALKING 48 FEET ON THEIR HANDS AT THIS LEVEL HOWEVER IN THE EVENT WHEN FATIGUED AND ON THE LINE AND PRESSURE IS REAL SKILL. ATHLETES CAN COME DOWN AND ONLY HAVE 12-FOOT SECTIONS BUT TO BE COMPETITIVE YOU ARE NOT COMING DOWN. THAT WILL BE WAY TOO SLOW IF YOU WANT TO TAKE ONE OF THE TOP SPOTS. ≫ TOP TIME IS HELD BY CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER, BLST AT 15;21 UNOFFICIALLY. CLOSEST TEAM IN THIS ROUND IS MAYBE A MINUTE BEHIND THAT. WE DON’T HAVE THE OFFICIAL TIME YET . WE HAVE ONE TEAM LEFT AND WHAT WE DIDN’T SEE IN HEAT 1, BOZ, WE DIDN’T SEE ANYONE TIME CAPPED IN THE FIRST HEAT. A LITTLE SURPRISE SEEING IN FIRST HEAT FIRST EVENT OF THE FIRST WEEKEND AND MIGHT HAVE EVERY TEAM ATHLETE FINISH IN UNDER 20 MINUTES IN THE SECOND ONE. ≫ WE WILL BE CLOSE HEAR AND LAST TEAM WILL FINISH UP AND COME DOWN TO LAST FEW ATHLETES AND WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE PEOPLE COME IN UNDER THAT TIME CAP . ≫ 2 ATHLETES LEFT LANE NO. 9 LAST TEAM ON THE FLOOR CROSSFIT LYONS, FRANCE AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL BEING SPECIAL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS OF CROSSFIT WHETHER TEAMS AND MOST TEAMS ARE NOT HODGE PODGED TOGETHER FROM ATHLETES FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AS WELL AND BEING IN FRANCE AND SAW SAME THING IN BERLIN YOU KNEW WHEN [INDISCERNIBLE] TOOK THE FLOOR IN BERLIN AND WE WILL GET SAME THINGS HERE AS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ARE ANNOUNCED IN THEIR COHORT OF FLAGS AND COLORS. IT IS LIKE A GIANT SOCCER STADIUM WHEN COMING TO THE EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS. ≫ YOU SEE PEOPLE REALLY TURN OUT FOR THEIR ATHLETES AND SEE THAT REGIONALISM REPRESENTED. IT IS A LOT OF FUN. ≫ 12 FEET LEFT TO GO. FINAL ATHLETE FOR CROSSFIT, CYAN. ≫ OH,! ≫ THAT SAY HEARTBREAKER. I DON’T THINK HE HAD BOTH HANDS OVER THE LINE BEFORE HE BELLY FLOPPED THERE. PLEASE LET ME HAVE IT. ≫ HOPING FOR THE BEST. ≫ ALL RIGHT. HERE WE GO TAKING HIS LAST ATTEMPT. ≫ MAN, THAT IS TOUGH AND THAT FATIGUE CREEPING IN. THAT 12-FOOT IS CREATING PROBLEMS FOR THIS ATHLETE. ≫ I TELL YOU WHAT. AS AN INDIVIDUAL THAT IS A TOUGH PLACE TO BE IN. ON A TEAM LAST PERSON TO GET YOUR TEAM ACROSS THE FINISH LINE IS A HEAVY WEIGHT TO BEAR. 12 FEET YOU PROBABLY DID THIS 1,000 TIMES IN YOUR SLEEP. BOZ, YOU CALLED IT 48-FEET NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED BECAUSE INTENSITY THEY HAD TO PUT IN TO GET IN THIS POSITION. ≫ THAT IS THE REAL GAME-CHANGER AND MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN LOOKING AT PROGRAMMING OH, THAT IS IT? THEY DISCOUNT THE FACTOR OF THE RACE WHEN YOU HAVE PRESSURE INTENSITY THAT IS NECESSARY TO WIN YOUR HEAT OR BE COMPETITIVE IT CHANGES A LOT OF THINGS. ≫ HEAT 2 IS DONE STILL WELL UNDERNEATH THE TIME CAPS. BOZ, GAVE THEM ENOUGH TIME TO SUFFER FULLY FOR THIS ENTIRE EVENT AND ONE HEAT REMAINING. ≫ EVERYONE GETS THE FULL PULL. ≫ TOP TEAMS WILL BE COMING UP IN 5 MINUTES AND WE WILL BE BACK IN A SECOND. CAN ANYONE TAKE OSLO CRYINGER BLST AT 15: 21. ≫ GREAT TO SEE THEM OUT THE GATE AND EXCITING TO SEE FINAL TEAMS. ≫ THERE ARE TEAMS OUT HERE MAKING A STATEMENT TRYING TO TAKE THE TOP TIME AND WILL BE RIGHT BACK FOR FINAL HEAT OF ROUND NO. 1. ≫ WELCOME BACK WE ARE AT LDL ARENA IN LYONS, FRANCE AND FIRST HEAT. ≫ FIRST EVENT OF THE DAY TOP TEAMS COMING AT QUARTER FINALS AS FAR AS SEATING IS COMING IN. WE HAVE PACKED TEAMS AND SOME POWERHOUSE TEAMS HERE CHASING TIME OF 15:21. WE DIDN’T HAVE ANYONE IN HEAT 2 TAKE THAT TIME AND WHAT DID YOU SEE FROM LAST TWO HEATS NEEDING TO DO TO GET TIME TO 15:21. ≫ FULL SPRINT FROM THE GET-GO AND SLOW DOWN AND GET YOUR TEAM MATE IN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE WORKOUT AND ONLY WAY TO MAKE TOP TIME. 15:21 IS FAST AND THOUGHT THERE WERE PEOPLE TO BEAT IT AND WASN’T THE CASE. ≫ THE BIKE IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER AND SOMEONE SAID IT IS ABOUT THE WORM AND THE BIKE. IT IS THE TRUTH SAYER; RIGHT? HOW BAD DO YOU REALLY WANT IT. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. HOW BAD DOES EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM WANT IT. IT IS EASY WHEN YOU GET IN THE THICK OF IT TO HOP ON THE BIKE AND I WILL GET A LITTLE OF THE EDGE OFF. THAT’S RIGHT. ≫ WE WILL SEE TOP 10 TEAMS TAKE THE FIELD AND 8 GAME QUALIFYING SPOTS COMING OUT HERE OUT OF THE FRENCH THROW DOWN AND BOZ QUALIFYING SPOTS FOR INDIVIDUALS IS DIFFERENT FORMAT FOR TEAMS 8 SPOTS IN EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS. WHAT WENT INTO THAT. ≫ WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAD A GOOD DISTRIBUTION WORLDWIDE AND 8 TEAMS FROM NORTH AMERICA EAST AND 7 TEAMS OUT OF NORTH AMERICA WEST THAT IS TOTAL OF 15 HALF OF FIELD IS DOMESTIC STATES AND OTHER HALF OF FIELD COMES FROM INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION. 8 TEAMS COMING FROM EUROPE CLEARLY ONE OF OF THE MORE COMPETITIVE REGIONS OUT THERE AND AWARDED THOSE SPOTS AND GOES DOWN THE LIST FROM THERE. ≫ 30 BEING THE NEW NUMBER OF TEAMS GOING TO THE CROSSFIT GAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME. PREVIOUS YEARS HAS BEEN 40. NOW WE ARE HAVING 30. ≫ THAT IS RIGHT. OVER THE YEARS WE LANDED BACK ON 30 AND OBSERVED, YOU KNOW, FOR SCHEDULING PURPOSES TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE HAD ENOUGH TIME IN THE DAY TO REPRESENT BOTH DIVISIONS BEST WE CAN WITH INDIVIDUAL TEAMS AND HAVING LATITUDE THERE MAKES SENSE AND FRANKLY 40 TEAMS AND DROP OFF TO 25 OR 30TH PLACE IS SIGNIFICANT AND WE ARE SEEING BOTTOM 10 TEAMS NOT QUITE AT COMPETITIVE LEVEL AS REST OF THE FIELD AND KEEPING THINGS MORE CONSISTENT WE ARE EXPERIMENTING BACK WITH THE 30 FIELD. ≫ 8 SPOTS ON LINE BOZ YOU SAID 30 ROPE CLIMBS TO START EVENT NO. 1 THIS IS HEAT 3 TOP TEAMS COMING OUT OF QUARTER FINALS AND POWERHOUSE SUPERTEAMS LOOKING TO MAKE A BIG SPLASH AT CROSSFIT GAMES SHOULD THEY GET THERE IN FORT WORTH AUGUST. 30 WALL CLIMBS 150 CALS ON ECHO BIKE AND ALL THE WHILE YOUR TEAMMATES AND THREE NOT WORKING ARE NOT RESTING BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HOLD ON TO THE FOUR- PERSON WORM THE ENTIRE TIME AND WORM HITS DROWNED 5 BURPEES OVER THE PENALTY. ≫ TEAMS CAN TAKE THAT PENALTY OF IF THEY WANT IF PART OF STRATEGY AND IN SECOND HEAT DIDN’T SEE WORM TOUCH GROUND ONCE. ≫ COUPLE TIMES IN FIRST HEAT AND NOT SURE IF PRODUCT OF STRATEGY OR TRANSITION OR A MISTAKE BETWEEN THE TEAMS. ≫ KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW NOW I THINK IT WAS A TEAM MAKING A MISTAKE. ≫ THIS IS HEAT 3 OF 3. TEAM EVENT HERE IN LYONS, FRANCE AND CHASE AND HERE WITH ADRIAN BOZMAN. 1521 FROM OSLO KRIEGER BLST . — LANE 2, CROSSFIT AORTA . LANE 3, BUTCHERS LAB FLAKE. LANE 4, A TEAM THAT SHOULD BE IN THE CONVERSATION OF TAKING THIS WHOLE THEME THAT IS CROSS IT WHILE I ORCA. IN LANE NO. 5 CROSSFIT [INDISCERNIBLE] KRIEGER. LANE 6, CROSSFIT ZARUT. LANE 7C23 CROSSFIT THE PROGRAM. LANE 8, CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER PSL LANE 9, CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER RIZ. IF MAX EFFORT. ≫ YEAH. ≫ DID WELL IN PREVIOUS HEAT MAKE RIZ HAS CARRIS MA AS KID SASE THESE DAYS. ≫ I HAD TO LOOK UP A YOUTUBE. ≫ YEAH. WHAT IS RIZ. REMEMBER JUST IN CASE DIDN’T LOOK IT UP ON COMPANY LAPTOP JUST IN CASE LANE 10 CROSSFIT HOLISTIC. AS TEAMS GET BETTER AND ATHLETES AND WORK WAY TO HEAT NO. 1 THERE WILL BE LESS AND LESS SEPARATION FROM MOVEMENT TO MOVEMENT. ≫ YOU WILL SEE MORE CONSISTENCY WITH THE DEPTH OF THE FIELD AND THINK THAT THE LITTLE ELEMENTS WILL START TO ADD UP MORE. WHO CAN TRANSITION MORE SMOOTHLY AND WILL BE TRANSITIONS IN THIS EVENT NO MATTER HOW YOU CHOOSE TO STRATEGIZE IT. IS IT A 10 SECOND TRANSITION OR 5 SECOND TRANSITION AND ADD IT UP ACROSS ALL OF THEM AND IT WILL BE SIGNIFICANT. I’M CURIOUS HOW MUCH THE NEXT EVENT IS WEIGHING ON THE ATHLETES MIND. MAX EFFORT EVENT AND ON THE FLOOR QUICKLY AFTER THIS ONE. NOT A BIG BREAK. 90-MINUTE TIME TO REST RECOVER AND WARMUP AND GET BACK ON FIELD AND THAT STATIC HOLD WILL TAKE IT OUT OF MAX EFFORT ABILITY AND CURIOUS HOW MANY ARE THINKING IN THE LINES IF AT ALL AND IF IT IS HEY YOU KNOW WHAT WE CAN’T AFFORD TO THINK THAT WAY AND COME OUT AND SELL OUT HERE OR DO WE WANT TO SAVE A LITTLE BIT KNOWING THAT STRATEGY IS TO BE BEST OVERALL. I’M NOT SURE. ≫ BEING — I’M LOSING THAT WORD. CARPENTAMIN. ≫ WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY NOW? THAT IS HOW BAD IT IS TEAM ROSTER FROM POLAND. ≫ BLAME IT ON JET LAGGING. ≫ . ≫ I WON’T TRY TO SAY IT A THIRD TIME. I THINK MORE OFTEN THAN NOT LIFTING EVENT IN THAT TYPE OF A FORMAT WHERE WE HAVE TO HIT A MAX LIFT OR HAVE A COUPLE TO DO AND TIMEFRAME TO-DO LIST IN FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION AND IF WE CAN GET PAST THAT IS EXECUTION-BASED PERFORM AT LEVEL I WANT TO AND HIT WEIGHT I CAN AND NOT SURE HOW IT WILL SHAKE OUT WHEN HANDS TOUCH BARBELL WEIGHS ON ATHLETES QUITE DO THE LIFT IN FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION AND IF WE CAN GET PAST THAT IS EXECUTION-BASED PERFORM AT LEVEL I WANT TO AND HIT WEIGHT I CAN AND NOT SURE HOW IT WILL SHAKE OUT WHEN HANDS TOUCH BARBELL WEIGHS ON ATHLETES QUITE A BIT. ≫ LANE NO. 9, THE RIZ. JAMIE SIMONS IS BACK IN TEAM COMPETITION. IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER, I BELIEVE IT WAS IN 2016 WAS JAMIE SIMMONS AND CROSSFIT AND WON THE OPEN AND DECIDED TO GO TEAM AND GOT SECOND OVERALL AT CROSSFIT GAMES. SAME TIME ELLIOT SIMMONS HER HUSBAND WAS ALSO ON THE TEAM AND HE IS BACK IN TEAM COMPETITION AND LET’S NOT OVERLOOK MIA WHO MIGHT BE ONE OF THE STRONGEST WOMEN IN COMPETITION AND TEAM SETTING VERY DANGEROUS. SKILLSET OF GYMNASTICS AND STRENGTH AND CIS KRISTOFF WILL HOLD THAT TEAM. ≫ TEAM TO WATCH THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND EXCITING TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN BRING TOGETHER. ≫ ON CROSSFIT YOZ TEAM WHERE THEY TOOK SECOND OVERALL. ≫ JAMIE HAD IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCES AS AN INDIVIDUAL AS WELL. LOTS OF EXPERIENCE ON THAT TEAM AS WELL NOT JUST FROM HER BUT OVERALL TEAM AS WELL. ≫ YEAH. MIA HAS HAD A LOT OF COMPETITIONS AND SAME WITH KRISTOFF AT SEMIFINAL REGIONAL LEVEL AND LOTS OF INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS AND ALREADY MOVING UP AND THINK TO THE BIKE. THAT LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 7, CROSSFIT C23, THE PROGRAM MOTION. ≫ WE HAVE SEEN THIS A COUPLE TIMES ALREADY. WE HAVE A TEAM WITH AN EARLY LEAD ON THE BIKE AND THEY CAN’T HOLD IT AND GET THOSE CALORIES AS QUICKLY AS THEY MAYBE WANT TO AND CURIOUS TO SEE IF THIS TEAM COULD OPEN A LEAD AND MAINTAIN IT OR IF THEY WILL GET CHASED DOWN BY SOME OF THE OTHERS. ≫ JUST PAST 8-MINUTE MARK. 15:21 TIME TO BEAT BY OSLO KRIEGER BLST. THEY WERE ALONE BUT NO LONGER. LANE NO. 8, JUST BELOW THEM, YOU HAVE CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER PSL. ≫ QUICK TRANSITION FROM THE FIRST TEAM TO THE BIKE . ALWAYS CURIOUS HOW FIRST ATHLETE ATTACKS FIRST SET OF CALORIES. ≫ LANE NO. 6, CROSSFITS TRAIN CULT AND WHILE GETTING TO THE BIKE WHILE I WAS TO HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS FIRST ALONG WITH LANE NO. 9, CROSSFIT OSLO RIZ AND THEY ARE SITTING IN 6 OR 7 AFTER THE HOPPED STAND PUSH-UPS. ≫ BIT OF A ROUGH TRANSITION THERE TOO . SENT FEMALE ATHLETES SCRAM BRING WITH WORM A BIT AND THEY RECOVERED AND DIDN’T DROP IT BUT IT WAS A LITTLE ROUGH. ≫ MOST TEAMS ON THE BIKE, JUST ONE THAT IS IN LANE NO. 10, CROSSFIT HOLISTIC. ≫ FEMALE ATHLETE IN LANE NO. 7 GOING FOR IT MAKING UP GROUND. ≫ LANE 9! ≫ THIS IS WHAT WE CAME HERE TO SEE. LET’S GO. THE TEAM DOESN’T HAVE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A TON OF GROUND IN INITIAL GYMNASTICS MOVEMENTS. SEPARATOR HAS TO BE ON THIS BIKE. WHO WANTS IT? SEEING SOMEBODY WANT IT TOP OF THE SCREEN THERE, LANE NO. 1. ≫ BLUEPRINT CROSSFIT TEAM AOD PART OF TOP OF YOUR SCREEN GOING FROM LANE 1 TO LANE 10 IF WATCHING AT HOME. ≫ ATHLETES NOW ARE WITH SKIN IN THE GAME JUST GOING FOR IT. ≫ JUST PAST 10-MINUTE MARK. ≫ AND 10% ON THE ECHO BIKE. ≫ ALL TEAMS ON TO THE BIKE AS CROSSFIT HOLISTIC MAKE THEIR WAY. THERE YOU HAVE A TEAM OF NATALIE , IVA, ERIC MARKINSON AND LUCAS PETERSON. ≫ CROSSFIT STRUGGLING WITH HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS WELL ABOVE THE PACK THERE AND GOT HUNG UP AND THEY HAVE GROUND TO MAKE AND SEE HOW MUCH THEY HAVE IN THE TANK. ≫ CROSSFIT SWEDEN RETURNING 2 OF 4 GAMES TEAMS FROM 2021 TEAM . ≫ 11 MINUTES IN. ≫ SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE GOT LANE 7 PASSING 100 CALORIES. I HEARD THE FLOOR ANNOUNCER STATE THAT. ≫ ALL RIGHT. ≫ THAT IS A PRETTY BLISTERING PACE. ≫ C23. ≫ IN GOOD POSITION TO TAKE THAT TOP HEAT TIME AND GOOD POSITION TO TAKE TOP TIME OVERALL . 15:21 IS BEST WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR. ≫ THEY ARE HOLDING ON FROM SECOND HEAT BUT IN IN DANGER 4 MINUTES TO GO BEFORE WE HIT 15:21 TIME. RIGHT NOW SEEMS LIKE IT IS LANE 7. C23 CROSSFIT PROGRAM MOTION. OUT OF C23 CROSSFIT OUT OF SPAIN . ≫ THE FLOOR ANNOUNCER SAID SEVERAL TEAMS NOW ARE PAST THE 100-CALORIE MARK AND GETTING CLOSE. ≫ 3 MINUTES AND 2 SECONDS BEFORE WE HIT THE TIME TO BEAT BUT DOESN’T END HERE 48-FEET HANDSTAND RELAY WALK TO FINISH. ≫ WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL WHEN SEEING IT ON PAPER ANYBODY CAN DO IT AT THIS LEVEL BUT WHO CAN DO IT UNDER FATIGUE WHEN THEY HAVE GIVEN ALL THEY HAVE ON THAT BIKE AND HOLDING THAT WORM FOR BETTER PART OF 15 MINUTES. THAT IS NO JOKE. ≫ KEEP FORGETTING THEY ARE HOLDING ON TO IT THIS ENTIRE TIME LIKE THAT. ≫ THAT SAPS YOUR STAMMINA. ≫ 400 POUNDS SITTING ON SHOULDERS FOR 15 MINUTES. ≫ YEAH INA. ≫ 400 POUNDS SITTING ON SHOULDERS FOR 15 MINUTES. ≫ YEAH. ≫ WE ARE ALMOST THERE, WAIT. WE HAVE MORE. ≫ ALL RIGHT. BACK ON THE GROUND AND TIME TO GET ON YOUR HANDS LANE NO. 7. STILL HOLDING ON C23 CROSSFIT THE PROGRAM MOTION. WE ARE JUST OVER 2 MINUTES AWAY AND ON HEELS IN LANE NO. 8 BELOW THEM CROSSFIT OSLO KRIEGER PSL. ≫ WOW. WHAT A RACE. THAT IS GREAT. TWO TEAMS NECK AND NECK HERE. ≫ ONE ATHLETE DONE. C23, OSLO WILL FINISH AND SECOND ATHLETE WILL GO OUT AND BATTLE FOR THE TOP TIME IS ABOUT 90 SECONDS AWAY. ≫ WE HAVE A HAND UP AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 9 AND LOOKS LIKE THEIR TEAM IS ABOUT TO DROP THE WORM . YUP. HERE WE GO. FIRST HANDSTAND WALKER GOING. ≫ OSLO RIZ IN LANE NO. 9 AS YOU SAID BOZ. TWO ATHLETES ON BOARD FOR C23. HERE COMES THE THIRD AS WE APPROACH 14-MINUTE MARK. 1521 IS TIME TO BEAT COMING IN BUT NOT TIME TO BEAT COMING OUT. 8 SPOTS TO 2024 CROSSFIT GAMES FOR THE TEAMS. ≫ WOW THEY WILL BEET THAT TOP TIME FOR A MINUTE HERE IF THEY CAN HOLD ON TO FAME HANDSTAND WALK. ≫ LANE NO. 87 WILL TAKE IT C2314 AND 15 AND JUST BEHIND THEM. ≫ WOW. ≫ RIGHT BELOW THEM LANE 8 CROSSFIT OSLO PSL ARE TOP TWO TIMES. 15:21 HAS BEEN BUSTED BY A FELLOW OSLO TEAM. OSLO NOW HAS TWO OF THE TOP THREE TIMES HERE SO FAR IN TEAM EVENT NO. 1. ≫ JUST SQUEEZING OUT COMPETITION THERE, OSLO ACROSS THE BOARD. ≫ TWO ATHLETES REMAINING BOTTOM PART OF YOUR SCREEN. THAT IS OSLO RIZ. ≫ A COUPLE MORE HANDS UP AND WE HAVE A TEAM LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 3 STARTING THE HANDSTAND AND WE HAVE TO START THE HANDSTAND AS WELL. ≫ WHILE THEY ARE FINALLY GETTING INTO HANDSTAND WALKS BOTTOM PART OF SCREEN IN LANE NO. 9 AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY THERE 1510. IF WE CAN MAKE IT ALL THE WAY THEY WILL SET THE THIRD BEST TIME HERE. ≫ BUTCHERS LAB LOOKS LIKE LANE NO. 3, BUTCHERS LAB IS FLYING ON HANDSTAND WALK FIRST TWO ATHLETES ARE WASTING. ≫ 15 SECONDS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ 48-FOOT START OF GREEN FINISH AT RED DOESN’T HAVE TO BE UNBROKEN BUT IF YOU WANT TO WIN IT DOES. ≫ TEAMS COME DOWN. YOU CAN’T BE COMPETITIVE. YOU HAVE TO BREAK IT UP. IT IS TOO SHORT FOR THAT. AGAIN, CONSISTENCY MATTERS HERE WHEN YOU ARE FATIGUED AND NOT THINKING STRAIGHT AND ARE A LITTLE BIT UNSURE OF WHETHER OR NOT THAT SKILL WILL BE THERE. THAT IS WHEN IT REALLY COUNTS AND WHAT THE SEPARATOR WILL BE FROM ANY OF THE TEAMS . WHO CAN DO SMALL THINGS WELL UNDER PRESSURE. ≫ NO REP IN LANE NO. 6 BOZ YOU SAID. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU HAVE TO GET PAST THE LINE AND NOT TOUCH LANE YOU ARE IN. ≫ IT IS VERY STRICT. SOON AS THEY TOUCH THAT GRAY THEY HAVE TO COME DOWN AND REPEAT THAT SECTION. ≫ LOTS MORE OF A FRANTIC PACE TO GET ACROSS FINISH LINE IN HEAT NO. 1 WE HAVE SEEN IN PREVIOUS TWO HEATS COMBINED. ≫ THESE HEATS CAME TO PLAY NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. LANE 10 HERE WHERE WE HAD THE TEAM STRUGGLING A LITTLE BIT WITH THE. ≫ THEY CAUGHT UP. GOOD JOB CROSSFIT HOLISTIC CLOSING THE GAP DESPITE BEING LATE OFF THE HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS . ≫ WE ARE JUST PAST THE 17-MINUTE MARK AND HEAT 1, ALL TEAMS WERE UNDER 22:30 HEAT 2, ALL TEAMS UNDER 20. WE MIGHT SEE ALL TEAMS UNDER 18 MINUTES. ≫ THAT MIGHT BE GENEROUS, CHASE. ALL TEAMS BELOW 18 BUT CLOSE. ≫ MAKING A BET. WE ARE GAMBLING. ≫ SOUNDS GOOD. ≫ IF YOU CAN’T SEE AT HOME WE ARE AT 17:30 AND GETTING MORE NERVOUS AS THIS ATHLETE . YOU HAVE TO GO UNBROKEN. IF YOU CAN HEAR ME GO UNBROKEN. ≫ IT WILL BE CLOSE. ≫ WHOA. HALF WAY TO — OKAY. DON’T TOUCH THE LINE. ≫ I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT AND WE WILL SEE IT AT 18. I THINK WE WILL DO IT. ≫ PLEASE DON’T FALL. NO! YOU BLEW IT. ≫ I GOT SAVED BY THE MISTAKE. I WILL NEVER DOUBT YOU AGAIN. ≫ YOU GOT THAT ONE. I CAN’T BELIEVE IT. WHO ARE YOU? I WILL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE. JUST KITING, CROSSFIT AORTA. ≫ ALL JOKES ASIDE, GREAT TIMES. SCREAMING FAST AND IMPRESSIVE AND AWESOME WAY TO OPEN A COMPETITION AND CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY THROW OUT ON THE BARBELL AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THIS THAT WILL ZAP YOU. ≫ TWO EVENTS STARTING OUT DAY 1 AT EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL. C23 TAKES IT OUT OF CROSSFIT C23 THE PROGRAM MOTION. SUPER TEAM COMING OUT OF CROSSFIT GAMES IN 2023 AS ELLA UNGER JOINED THE TEAM WITH TWO PAST TEAMMATES FROM THE GAMES THERE IS LOTS OF EXPERIENCE AND TALENT AND THEY START THE WEEKEND OFF WITH AN EVENT WIN. ≫ NICE PLACE TO BEGIN THE WEEKEND FOR SURE. ≫ WE ARE BEGINNING HERE I’M CHASE AND THIS IS ADRIAN BOZMAN STARTING THE COMPETITION WITH TEAM EVENT 1. EVENT NO. 2 IS COMING UP IN 30 MINUTES AND WENT FAST AND WILL LIFT HEAVY. ≫ THAT IS RIGHT. ≫ WONDERFUL COMBINATION. ≫ SEEING BIG WEIGHTS COMING UP SOON. ≫ BACK HERE LIVE FROM LDLC ARENA HERE IN FRANCE CONTINUING COMPETITION HERE FROM THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL [BREAK] ≫ WELCOME BACK TO THE 2024 CROSSFIT GAMES SEMIFINAL. WE WILL GET SET FOR EVENT NO. 2. BEFORE THAT LOTS OF ATHLETES HAVE BEEN COMPETING ALL YEAR IN TRAINING TO GET PREPPED TO COME HERE FOR SEMI-FINALS TO GET READY FOR THE WITH LIFTING PORTION OF THE WEEKEND. LOOK. WE WENT FAST AND HARD AND WILL EIGHTLIFTING PORTION OF THE WEEKEND. LOOK. WE WENT FAST AND HARD AND WILL GO HEAVY. ≫ FINALLY. ≫ THERE IS THE ECHO BIKE THAT WILL CHEW YOU OUT. PUT THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER AND IS A TIGHT TURNAROUND . THAT GLYCOGEN AND ET CETERA AND IT WILL BE TOUGH. WE WILL SEE IT A LITTLE BIT AND SAME TIME HAVE ADRENALINE ON THE OTHER SIDE THAT WILL EVEN THINGS OUT. ≫ ON ONE HAND ATHLETES GOT EVENTS PLENTY EARLY. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THEY HAD TIME TO PREP FOR THIS AND HAVE BEEN PREPPING FOR WEEKS ON END TO GET READY FOR THE SEMIFINAL . YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF THE TEAMS HOP INTO SOCIAL MEDIA PUTTING OUT TRAINING AND GETTING SET TO GO AND IF YOU SCAN THE QR CODE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN YOU CAN WIN FREE CROSSFIT SHOES FROM YOUR AFFILIATE WITH GO RUCK. SCAN TO VISIT GO RUCK. C OWE, M/CROSSFIT. GOOD DEAL. 50 PAIRS. ≫ WORTH IT. ≫ I HAVE MY PHONE OUT. OH, NO. COULD YOU PUT THAT BACK UP? KIDDING. DON’T PUT IT BACK UP. I HAD TO SCAN THE QR CODE MYSELF FOR THE 4 OR 5 PEOPLE THAT TRAIN OUT OF MY GARAGE AFFILIATE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ FOR LIFE. ≫ FOR LIFE THAT IS WHAT IT IS. THAT IS FOR LIFE. WE HAVE HERE WE ARE BRINGING BACK A LIFTING EVENT FROM THE 2022 REGIONAL OR SEMI-FINALS. I HAVE TO GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD. ≫ I KNOW. CONFUSING. ≫ I CAN PROBABLY SAY THAT. BARBELL COMPLEX. THREE CLEANS TWO FRONT SQUATS AND 1 JERK OVERHEAD. INTERESTING THING WE TALKED ABOUT PRESSURE. ≫ RIGHT. ≫ PRESSURE TO PERFORM AND DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE LIFT. WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE LIFTING EVENT THAT PUTS SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THESE ATHLETES ? ≫ I THINK WITH THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR IT IS A LITTLE PARTICULAR. NOT ONE SNATCH AND YOU MAKE IT OR MISS IT. ≫ TWO ATTEMPTS. ≫ I HOPE WHEN YOU APPROACH THE BAR YOU WILL AT LEAST MAKE THE FIRST CLEAN AND GET THE NERVES OUT THAT WAY AND THEN IS THE PRESSURE OFF STAYING AT ATTENTION THAT LONG WILL REALLY BE PRESSURE FOR ATHLETES. ≫ GETTING CHEERS. THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT COMING TO THE EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS TALKING ABOUT IN THE FIRST EVENT THIS IS THE EUROPEAN CROSSFIT CHAMPIONSHIPS AND COUNTRIES FROM ALL OVER THE REGION AND ALL COMPETING FOR OBVIOUSLY SPOTS ON THE LINE FOR CROSSFIT GAMES AND TEAMS, IT IS 8 TICKETS TO THE GAMES. THERE IS BRAGGING RIGHTS COUNTRY TO COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO THIS. ≫ NOT JUST TEAMS OR INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES BUT ALSO [VIDEO FROZE]. ≫ OKAY. YES. DRUMS IN THE BACK AND SKULL CHANNEL WILL COME OUT SOMEHOW. ≫ HAS TO. ≫ HAS TO AS WE SET TO TAKE ON TEAM EVENT NO. 2 AND TEAMS MAKING WAY ON THE FLOOR NOW AND AS YOU SAID COMPLEX FROM 2022 AND NICE THING, WE SAW IT 2 YEARS AGO. NOT UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY AND OFTEN TIMES NOD IS ONCE COMPLEX MAKES WAY INTO SEMIFINAL SPACE OR REGIONALS IT BECOMES MORE COMMON PLACE AND NOT FIRST TIME ANY OF THE ATHLETES HAVE TRIED IT IN LAST COUPLE WEEKS . THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IT A COUPLE YEARS. ≫ WHEN COMES IN BELLA COMPLEX OR THIS IT BECOMES LORE ALMOST AND PEOPLE HIT IT AND BECOMES A NEW BENCHMARK ESSENTIALLY. ≫ THREE CLEANS AND TWO FRONT SQUATS . THEN THAT SHOWED OVERHEAD AND ONE THING TO NOTE LISTENING TO ATHLETE BRIEF , YOU DON’T HIT DEPTH IN FRONT SQUAT IT IS ANOTHER ONE . YOU CAN DO. MISS JERK IT IS DONE. THAT LAST REP THERE IS LOTS RIDING ON. NUMBER OF REPS IT TOOK TO GET THERE, NO. 1. AND HAVING TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. ≫ TIME UNDER TENSION IS SIGNIFICANT AND SEE IT WATCHING FAR EAST THROW DOWN SEE IN ATHLETES FACE IF THEY WILL MAKE THE JERK OR NOT. THEY ADJUST THREE TIMES AND OKAY THIS MIGHT NOT HAPPEN. ≫ ONE PUMP AND SECOND PUMP AND THIRD ONE PEOPLE ARE. ≫ YOU MIGHT JUST PASS OUT. ≫ WITH TIMEFRAME THEY WILL GET; RIGHT? IT WON’T BE, OKAY, TWO LIFTS ONLY OR THREE LIFTS ONLY BUT TIMEFRAME ELEMENT TO THIS THEY WILL HAVE I BELIEVE 7 MINUTES OF TIME FOR EACH SAME- SEX PAIR TO BE WORKING TOGETHER. YOU CAN GO UP AND YOU CAN GO DOWN. THERE’S ACTUALLY I THINK A LOT OF PRESSURE TAKEN OFF THIS FORMAT FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION. ≫ YOU CAN ONLY GO UP. ≫ OKAY. ≫ WHAT IF YOU START TOO HIGH AND DON’T GET A LIFT ON THE BOARD. THAT’S IT. ≫ BEFORE THIS PUTTING COACHING HAT OBVIOUSLY YOU RUN TRAINING PLAN AND PART OF THIS FOR A LONG TIME. YOU AND ANNIE AND YOU HAVE BEEN IN IT A LONG TIME . COACHING HAT ON AND BEEN IN CORALS 10 OR 15 MINUTES WHAT ARE WE PUTTING ON BARS TO GET STARTED. ≫ YOU SHOULD GET A LIFT IN. DON’T GO FOR FIRST ATTEMPTS WITHOUT DOING 3 OR 4 COMPLEX. ≫ IT JUST WON’T COUNT. ≫ DO A WARMUP LIFT AND FEEL HOW THE BAR IS FEELING AFTER THAT REST TIME. THEN START TO THINK ABOUT YOUR FIRST LIFT. LIKE THIS FIRST BAR NOBODY SHOULD BE MISSING THE FIRST COMPLEX. ≫ FEMALE PAIRS WILL TAKE THE STAGE FOR THEIR FIRST SET. THREE CLEANS, POWER SQUAT, TWO FRONT SQUATS, ONE SHOULDER OVERHEAD. THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL EVENT FROM THE 2022 SEMIFINAL SEASON AS IT MAKES ITS WAY ON TO THE TEAM COMPETITION FLOOR. IF YOU THINK YOU WILL GET NUMBERS FROM ME OR YANI, GOOD LUCK. ≫ I SEE BLUE. I SEE SOME GREEN. ≫ YEAH. ARE THEY KILOS OR POUNDS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THOSE COLORS MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TOO. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THEY DO PUT KILOS ON THE CARDS SO, OKAY. YOU WILL AT LEAST GET THAT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN . NOT SURE IF YOU CAN SEE IT WHERE YOU ARE AT. TWO TEAMS SITTING IN GAME QUALIFYING POSITIONS. OTHER THING, YANNI, THREE EVENTS AND 2 TODAY FIRST COMPETITION FIRST FOR THE TEAM. ≫ PUTTING A DIFFERENT PRESSURE ON THE TEAMS TO KNOW HOW TO RECOVER BETWEEN EVENTS ESPECIALLY STARTING WITH BIGGER OR MORE TAXING EVENT DEFINITELY ADDS A LAYER TO THE COMPETITION AND SPREAD IT OUT AND NOT HAVE ONE EXTRA NIGHT OF EATING OR SLEEPING. ≫ NOW WITH THE FIVE TOO, THE MORE EVENTS YOU HAVE, MORE ROOM YOU HAVE FOR MISTAKES. NOW YOU DON’T. 20% OF YOUR BID ACROSS THE GAMES IS A LIFT. ≫ YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. WE SAW IT AT THE QUARTER FINALS WITH FOUR EVENTS EVERY EVENT MATTERED. ONE MORE AND MAYBE TAKES PRESSURE OFF A TINY BIT . AT THE SAME TIME, LEVEL OF COMPETITION WILL BE HIGHER AND LESS ROOM FOR MISTAKES FROM THAT END AND THINK WE WILL SEE TEAMS FIGHTING FOR EVERY POINT THEY CAN GET . ≫ AGAIN, FIRST PAIRS , WOMEN WILL GO AND THEN THE MEN. THEY HAVE A DESIGNATED TIME TO BOTH GET A SCORE ON THE BOARD. THEN IT WILL BE MEN AND THEN MEN IS TOTAL WEIGHT COMBINED FOR THE TEAM. TWO TEAMS IN THE FIRST HEAT. BOTH OUT OF CROSSFIT OSLO — HOW MANY CROSSFIT OSLO TEAMS DO YOU HAVE? ≫ 500. ≫ 500 OF THE 40 TEAMS SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT, ACTUALLY. OSLO KRIGER BLST IS SITTING IN 4TH OVERALL. ≫ YEAH. ≫ 4TH PLACE IN THE FIRST ONE AND OSLO KRIGER SITTING IN 6TH. BOTH SITTING IN A GAME’S QUALIFYING POSITION AFTER THE FIRST EVENT OF THE COMPETITION. ≫ INTERESTING TO SEE IF NORWEGIANS OVERALL IN SPORTING WORLD ARE KNOWN FOR BIG ENGINES GREAT CONDITIONING BL2 HIGH GENETICS GOING IN THERE. SEE HOW THEY DO ON LIFTING EVENTS. I KNOW MANY ARE STRONG AND SO MANY TEAMS AND DON’T KNOW ALL OF THE ATHLETES. INTERESTING TO SEE IF THEY ARE MORE WELL-ROUNDED OR MORE SPECIALIZED. ≫ SEEING FROM MUSTIM YEARS OF LARS FAMILY BREEDING. ≫ GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONS WHAT I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH CROSS-COUNTRY SKIERS BUT THEY HAVE EXPANDED TO THE CROSSFIT ARENA AS — YOU THINK ABOUT KRISTEN HALTA HALLMARK ATHLETE ON NORWAY INDIVIDUAL SIDE AND WHAT OSLO HAS DONE IN THE TEAM COMPETITION WHERE THEY CHALLENGED THE LIKES OF, YOU KNOW, CROSSFIT MAYHEM IN PEAK TIME. ≫ 100%. THAT IS A SPECIFIC COMMITMENT. THEY SEEM KEEN TO COMPETE AND CONSCIOUS CHOICE THEY WILL GO HEAVILY INTO THE COMPETITION AND IS PAYING OFF SO FAR. ≫ HEAT 1, TEAM EVENT NO. 2. WORKING THE BARBELL COMPLEX OF THREE CLEANS, TWO FRONT SQUATS, ONE SHOULDER TO OVERHEAD . IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE LOTS OF THE ATHLETES ARE POWER CLEANING AT LEAST FIRST 2 BARS OR REPS AND SEE LANDING IN NORMAL SQUAT STANDS AND EXPECT TECHNICALLY IDEAL TO BE AND SEE GOING OUT WIDE AND GOING OUT WIDE CLEANS AND YOU WOULD EXPECT THEY WON’T MAKE IT AND SOME HAVE. ≫ WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF THINGS. ≫ LOTS GOING ON. ≫ AS WE SPEAK, LOTS STARTED TO HAPPEN. ≫ LOTS OF CREATIVITY WE WILL SAY . A LOT OF — A LOT OF FREE- FORM TECHNIQUE IS BEST WAY TO. ≫ MOVEMENT PROBLEM YOU HAVE TO SOLVE WITH A HEAVY LOAD. CHOICE IS YOURS. WE WILL SEE A LITTLE MIX OF SPLITS, POWER. ≫ NOW FROM YOURSELF IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT, HEY, WE WILL TEST STRENGTH; RIGHT? ≫ UH-HUH. ≫ HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BUT BASIC ONES WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IS SINGLE LIFT , COMPLEX, LADDER; RIGHT ? FROM YOUR PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE WHEN COMING TO SAY A 5-EVENT SAMPLE SIZE TO GET PEOPLE TO CROSSFIT GAMES FROM TEAMS SIDE, WHICH FORMAT TEAM ENJOYS MORE AS FAR AS AN APPROPRIATE TEST FOR THE ATHLETES. ≫ I THINK IN THIS CASE, WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF CONDITIONING AS PART OF THE TESTS, THIS BECOMES APPROPRIATE. ≫ OKAY. ≫ IF IT WOULD BE LIKE, LET’S SAY, EVENTS THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE HEAVIER AND MIGHT BE A LADDER FOR EXAMPLE WOULD BE MORE EXCITING INSTEAD OF TESTING HEAVY LIFTING COMPLEX AND IT IS ABOUT LOOKING AT COMPETITIONS HOW EVENT FITS INTO THE WHOLE FLOW AND ALL OF THE TESTS AND NOT AS A STANDALONE ITEM. THIS FITS IN JUST FINE AND IS GREAT TO SEE INDIVIDUALS DO IT A FEW YEARS AGO AND SET SOME BENCHMARKS AND SEE HOW TEAMS CAN LIVE UP TO THAT NOW. ≫ IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHAT WE WILL SEE TODAY WE WILL HAVE THREE EVENTS TODAY FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION. WE STARTED OFF WITH, YOU KNOW, HEAVY-HANDED GYMNASTIC WALL CLIMBS AND GYMNASTICS AND SITTING ON ECHO BIKE AND GYMNASTICS THAT IS ISYMMETRICAL TO THE BAG AND COMPLEX AND HOW HEAVY WE CAN LIFT UNDER RELATIVE FATIGUE. 60 TO 90 MINUTES MAX TO RECOVER FROM WHAT THEY WENT TO AND CLOSE THINGS OUT WITH RUNNING AND WORM THRUSTERS FOR FIVE ROUNDS IS A PRETTY I WOULD SAY VERY APPROPRIATE FOR THESE TEAMS. ≫ IT IS A VERY DAY AND BIG WELCOME TO THE COMPETITION. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THESE GUYS WILL BE FEELING IT TOMORROW FOR SURE. ≫ WE HAVE 7 MINUTES ON THE CLOCK AND WILL BE THE MENS TURN AND RESET BEFORE THINGS GET STARTED AND 7 MINUTES TRYING TO FIND YOUR HEAVYSET . ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOU, WHAT DO YOU PREFER? YOU HAVE THREE ATTEMPTS OR YOU HAVE THIS DESIGNATED AMOUNT OF TIME. IN THIS CASE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ 7 MINUTES. ≫ I THINK IN THIS FORMAT IT IS NICE TO HAVE THE TIME. IT OPENS UP FOR THE TEAM CONTEXT AND OPENS UP THE STRATEGY A LITTLE BIT. AGAIN, LIKE YOU SAID, IF THEY CAN MOVE UP AND DOWN ON THE WAY AND YOU HAVE TO BE SMART AND LOADING WILL TAKE TIME . IF YOU MISS WHAT IS YOUR PLAN, THEN I THINK THIS IS A VERY NICE FORMAT FOR THE TEAMS AND THINK FOR THE INDIVIDUALS, OF COURSE, IT IS NERVE WRACKING FOR THE ATHLETES TO HAVE X-MANY ATTEMPTS BUT GREAT FOR SPECTATORS TO SEE THE DRAMA. ≫ MEN’S TURN FROM HEAT NO. 1 AND SEEING BOTH OF THESE AND SEEING SOME GUYS LOADING UP, YOU KNOW , 130 ON THE BARS FOR KILOS AND 275S OUT THERE AND SEE SOME, ALL RIGHT. WE WILL PUT 60K ON THE BAR AND DO A SQUAT CLEAN AND A JERK AND STANDING AROUND WATCHING FOR 7 MINUTES AND CORAL TIME. ≫ CORAL TIME, YEAH. ≫ WHAT WOULD YOU TELL YOUR TEAM IF OUT THERE AND HEY THIS IS HOW WE HAVE TO APPROACH ESPECIALLY FOR MEN. ≫ SUCH A LONG WAY AND LIFT WITH BAR AND ADD A LITTLE MORE WEIGHTS 60 KILOS 135 AND ADD SET OF BLUES AND DO ANOTHER LIFT AND THINK ABOUT THAT FIRST WEIGHT AND DEPENDING WHERE YOU START THERE MIGHT BE ONE WARMUP IN-BETWEEN GET IT DONE QUICKLY AND GET HEART RATE UP AND GET UP AND FIGHT UP AND STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO EXECUTE. ≫ HEAT 1 OF THE TEAM COMPETITION THIS IS EVENT NO. 2. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD ONE EVENT IN THE BOOKS. IF YOU EXPECT ME TO TELL WHAT YOU LANE ANYBODY IS IN, HALF THESE GUYS ARE ALL WEARING BLACK ANYWAY . WE WILL SAY NOTHING CHANGED FROM FIRST HEAT. THESE ARE 10 TEAMS ON THE FLOOR NOW . CROSSFIT WERB AND CROSSFIT 47100. CROSSFIT SAGITTARIUS. CROSSFIT OSLO BLST CURRENTLY SITTING IN 4TH OVERALL CROSSFIT JENNAS PROCESS AND CROSSFIT SANT MARTI RED AND 10 TEAMS IN HEAT NO. 1 TAKING ON TEAM EVENT NO. 2. WE HAVE 5 MINUTES REMAINING AS THESE ATHLETES ARE TRYING TO PUT UP HEAVIEST COMPLEX OF THREE CLEANS, GENAS PROCESS AND CROSSFIT SANT MARTI RED AND 10 TEAMS IN HEAT NO. 1 TAKING ON TEAM EVENT NO. 2. WE HAVE 5 MINUTES REMAINING AS THESE ATHLETES ARE TRYING TO PUT UP HEAVIEST COMPLEX OF THREE CLEANS, TWO FRONT SQUATS AND ONE JERK. ≫ INTERESTING EVENT TO WATCH LOOK AT COMPONENTS WATCH CLEANS HOW IT WILL GO POWER CLEAN AND HOW FAST SQUATS ARE MOVING AND HOW IS POSITION AND HOW FAST ARE THEY COMING UP FROM THE WHOLE. YOU MIGHT REALLY STRUGGLE UP TO THE POINT GETTING TO THE JERK AND THAT LEADER IS STRONG AT JERKING AND NO WAY THEY WILL EVER MAKE IT AND BAM MAGIC THEY ARE AHEAD. NICE EVENT TO WATCH. ≫ I LOVE THE BAM MAGIC MOMENTS. THEY DON’T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN BUT WHEN THEY DO I’M LIKE WHY DOESN’T IT HAPPEN EVERY TIME AND IT WOULDN’T BE MAGIC I GUESS. ≫ THEN IT IS JUST A BANG. ≫ JUST A BANG OF THE BAR CLINGING ON MY SHOULDERS AND DOWN TO THE FLOOR. YOU HAVE AN ATHLETE AND ALL BOXES ARE CHECKED. CLEAN AND POWER ON THE SQUAT AND EITHER WAY DOESN’T MATTER NOT LIMITED BY THAT AS WELL AS FRONT SQUATS IN TAIL END. DO YOU HAVE THEM MAYBE DO TWO POWERS AND DO SQUAT LATER? PRETTY SOON DEPENDING ON WAY YOU WANT TO GET TO SQUAT CLEAN WILL BE BETTER THAN POWER CLEAN. ≫ YEAH SEGRE FOR MOST PART FOR MOST ATHLETES. ≫ EXACTLY. GETTING MOST WEIGHT WE HAVE TO SQUAT EVERY ONE AND HOPEFULLY GET FIVE OF THOSE GETTING INTO SHOULDER HEAD PORTION. ≫ GENTLEMAN FEW YEARS BACK HAD DECENT RESULT ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE. HE WAS THIRD IN THE EVENT. HE WENT BECAUSE SQUAT CLEANS STRAIGHT FROM GET-GO AND SAME YEAR [INDISCERNIBLE] DID 150 KILOS , 330. HE POWERED AT LEAST TWO OF THEM NOT 100% SURE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ IT REALLY DEPENDS ON STRENGTH OF ATHLETE IS STRENGTH WEAKNESS OR POWER CORE WEAKNESS WHAT YOU HAVE TO FOCUS ON YOU SHOULDN’T BE SQUARED OF SQUAT CLEANS IF SETTING YOU UP FOR A SUCCESSFUL JERK AT THE END. ≫ YEAH. ≫ SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PUT MORE POWER INTO IT AND IT WILL DRAIN THE BATTERY A LITTLE MORE THAN SQUAT CLEAN IF SQUAT CLEAN ER. ≫ 100% YOU HAVE TO PUT BREAKS ON, ON THE DIP AND CHANGE DIRECTIONS FROM THE POWER POSITION. IF YOU CAUGHT THE BAR THERE THREE TIMES, THAT IS SPECIFIC. ALL MUSCLES SPECIFICALLY USED IN THAT RANGE WILL HAVE ALREADY WORKED HARD UNLESS YOU DO A SPLIT CATCH THERE. ≫ [LAUGHING]. WIDER IS BETTER! WE HAVE 2 MINUTES REMAINING AND CHANTS ARE COMING FROM THE CROWD AS IT IS STARTING TO FILL UP HERE IN THE LDLC ARENA. WE ARE IN LYONS FRANCE FOR THE 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL. 8 GAMES QUALIFYING SPOTS COMING UP OUT OF THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL FOR THE TEAMS . THE INDIVIDUALS WILL BE COMING UP AFTER THIS EVENT. THEY WILL TAKE THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME. HERE THIS WEEKEND AS THEY HAVE A 5- ROUNDER 800-METER RUN AND 10 CLEAN JERKS. WHAT HAVE PEOPLE NOT SEEN ABOUT THE EVENT. ≫ I HOPE THEY SEE IT IS A LOT OF RUNNING. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU WILL SPEND A MAJORITY OF THE TIME RUNNING. CLEAN AND JERKS, IF YOU ARE REALLY RUSHING WILL BE 40 SECONDS, WHICH IS PROBABLY TOO FAST. MOST OF THE ATHLETES WILL FALL IN THE 50 OR 60 RANGE I ASSUME ON CLEAN AND JERKS UNLESS YOU DO TOUCH AND GO THAT IS A LITTLE CRAZY. ≫ YEAH. ≫ MAJORITY OF THE TIME WILL BE SPENT RUNNING ON THAT EVENT. SO I THINK THAT GOOD RUNNERS WILL DO WELL IN THAT WORKOUT VERSUS ATHLETES WHO ARE STRONG, STRONG WITH THE BARBELL . I THINK IT IS RELATIVELY OBVIOUS WITH THE LAYOUT. ≫ YEAH. LOTS OF RUNNING ON TAP AND GLAD THEY ARE NOT ON RUNNERS THOUGH. ≫ YEAH, YEAH. IT IS NICE TO HAVE THE TRACK. I’M HAPPY IT IS LONG STRETCHES WIDE ENOUGH TO OVERTAKE. ≫ GREAT STRAITH AWAYS AT LEAST. ≫ EXACTLY. MIGHT SET 800-METER WORLD RECORD ON THAT TRACK BUT IS REASONABLE FOR SURE. ≫ ALL RIGHT. CLOSING IN FINAL 20 SECONDS AS THESE ATHLETES ARE TRYING TO GET ONE LAST LIFT IN TO TRY TO ADD SOME POUND TO THE TEAM TOTAL. ≫ YOU CAN SEE THE CELEBRATION IN THE CENTER OF THE FLOOR LOOKS LIKE CROSSFIT OSLO BLST! HIT A LIFT THEY WERE EXTREMELY HAPPY ABOUT. GETTING NUMBERS SOON ON OFFICIAL TALLIES AND COMING UP PAST TIME BAR CAN HIT THE GROUND BEFORE THEY HIT THAT TIME CAP. THEY WILL BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE WHOLE PROCESS. AS WE CLOSE THINGS OUT HERE FOR HEAT NO. 1 AND FINAL TALLY GAMES CROSSFIT .COM AND CHECK LEADERBOARD . TWO TEAMS SITTING IN TOP 10 AND LOOKS LIKE OSLO KRIGER BLST HIT A NUMBER THEY WERE HAPPY ABOUT WITH TOTAL AT END THERE. ≫ LOTS OF TEAMS WORKING UNTIL LAST MINUTE TAKING EXTRA REST BEFORE FINAL ATTEMPT AND PAID OFF FOR SOME AND OTHERS DID NOT. ≫ ONE ROUND DOWN TWO HEATS TO GO ANOTHER COMING UP IN A COUPLE MINUTES RESETTING FLOOR AND YANNI WILL STICK AROUND I WILL MAKE HIM STICK AROUND FOR ONE MORE. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK! ≫ WELCOME BACK TO THE 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL GETTING READY FOR HEAT NO. 2, EVENT NO. 2. WE HAD AN EVENT EARLIER THIS MORNING AND TALKING ABOUT EARLIER THE FATIGUE FROM THE FIRST EVENT AND WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN. ≫ YEAH. ≫ WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FOUR MOVEMENTS THEY HAD TO DO ROPE CLIMBS WALL-FACING HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS, ECHO BIKE, DEAD SPRINTS AND HANDSTAND WALK TO THE FINISH LINE. WAS IT THE BAG THAT NOBODY REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT WOULD BE THE REAL, MAYBE TAKING AWAY FROM WHAT WE COULD SEE HERE ON THE FLOOR. ≫ YEAH. I THINK TWO ELEMENTS THERE IS OBVIOUSLY IT IS A LOT OF PUSH/PULL FOR THE UPPER BODY THAT WILL EFFECT THE JERK FOR SURE AND JUST THE SET UP FOR THE CLEAN AND GET LOTS TIGHT AND ISOMETRIC HOLD AND USE YOU HAVE DONE GYMNASTICS AND GYMNASTIC HOLDS AND RING SUPPORTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND YOU START TO KIND OF HAVE THAT FATIGUE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU CAN’T GO NO MORE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. ≫ UH-HUH. ≫ A LITTLE LIKE THAT WITH WORM AS WELL YOU HOLD IT FOR A LONG TIME AND DEFINITELY SEEING IMPACT OF THAT. ≫ WE SEE UNDERRATED THING FOR STRENGTH DEVELOPMENT USING GYMNASTICS HOLDS. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. ≫ ABSOLUTELY DECIMATE. THINK OF AN LSET ITSELF. ≫ YEAH. ≫ AND HOW LOW OR FOR ME HOW LITTLE AMOUNT OF TIME I SPEND IN THAT POSITION. ≫ YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. WE USE RING SUPPORTS RING HOLDS CHIN-UP HOLDS EXTENSIVELY IN TRAINING LOW STRESS FOR BODY OVERALL AND IS A HIGH RETURN AND AGAIN IS ADDING SOMETHING IN THE TRAINING THAT LIKE IT IS SOMETHING MORE THAT YOU CAN DO THAT STILL IS GOING TO PAY OFF AND YOU CAN STILL RECOVER FROM VERSUS DOING MORE DYNAMIC REPETITIONS THAT MIGHT BE HEAVIER ON THE BODY. ≫ GETTING READY FOR SET NO. 2 TAKING IN AND GETTING READY AND SET TO TAKE ON THE COMPLEX. IT WILL BE 7-MINUTE RUNNING CLOCK. ≫ SEVEN AND AM WRAP. ≫ 7 AND AM RAP NOT WAY I WOULD DO IT IF CLEANING REPEAT FROM INDIVIDUAL EVENT 2022 AND TEAMS TACKLE THIS AND HAVE SEEN ONE HEAT GO AND AS FAR AS APPROACHING HERE TALKING ABOUT IN FIRST HEAT. SIT IN THE STALLS AND HOW LONG ARE SOME ATHLETES ON AVERAGE USUALLY SITTING IN THE CORAL? ONE THING THAT PEOPLE DON’T SEE AT HOME. ≫ YEAH. ≫ ATHLETES YOU HAVE WARMUP PREPPING ATHLETES FOR SEMIFINAL CROSSFIT GAMES DO YOU PRACTICE TIMINGS SO THEY UNDERSTAND I CAN’T WARMUP 20 MINUTES AND HIT A COMPLEX AND DO YOU DO THAT AND HOLD AND GET BACK ON THE FLOOR. ≫ YEAH. ESPECIALLY TRAINING WITH GROUP OF PEOPLE SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO PEE IN TRAINING AND BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM AND ABSOLUTELY SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT REALIZE IF YOU STAND AROUND FOR 15 MINUTES AND ANOTHER 7 MINUTES FOR GUYS, IT IS A LONG TIME. YOU KNOW, THERE IS ALWAYS THINGS YOU CAN DO. DO SOME SQUAT JUMPS KEEP HEART RATE UP OR GET IT UP BEFORE YOU GO OUT. THESE ARE IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE GAME IF TRYING TO SQUEEZE OUT LAST ONE OR 2%. ≫ TWO TEAMS ON THE FLOOR AND THESE ARE YOUR SECOND HEAT OF 10. SEATING COMING INTO SEMI-FINALS IS ACTUALLY THEIR PERFORMANCE THEY HAD FROM QUARTER FINALS. 8 GAME SPOTS ON THE LINE FOR THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL FOR THE TEAMS . EARLIER THIS MORNING TEAMS TOOK ON A FULL TEAM TEST AND 30 ROPE CLIMBS, 120 WALL-FACING HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS. HOW ABOUT HOW FAST ATHLETES ARE DOING THEM NOW. ≫ YEAH. ≫ I THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING THEM REGULAR AND READ THE EVENT WRONG. MY GOODNESS. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. WE SEE THIS YEAR ON ENDS WE INTRODUCE NEW STANDARDS FOR MOVEMENTS AND TAKES A LITTLE WHILE FOR ATHLETES TO ADJUST AND TRAINING VOLUME BUILDS UP AND IT IS LIKE WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DOING THIS. ≫ DID A COUPLE QUARTER FINALS AND THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE THAT, DID NOT LOOK LIKE THAT. WE HAD ECHO BIKE INTERVAL NOT INTERVAL BUT 150 CALS ON ECHO BIKE AND HANDSTANDS AND WORMS 400 + POUNDS SITTING ON SHOULDERS 15 TO 20 MINUTES DEPENDING HOW SOON YOU GOT IT DONE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ ADDING THAT UP INTO THIS IS — TEAMS HAVE HAD TIME TO PRACTICE THOUGH. SO AT LEAST UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU WILL FEEL COMING INTO THIS EVENT. ≫ YEAH. ≫ IT IS A BONUS IF YOU PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION. ≫ ABSOLUTELY AND FOR EXAMPLE WORM EVENTS NOT ALL TEAMS HAVE ACCESS TO ONE. IT WILL BE AN ADVANTAGE IF YOU DID. ONE THING PEOPLE FORGET WITH WORM AND ISOMETRIC WORMS YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO BREATHE. YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO BREATHE. YOU CAN REALLY EXHAUST YOURSELF IF YOU DON’T. THERE IS DEFINITELY BENEFITS TO PRACTICING THAT AND LEARNING TO BREATHE UNDER PRESSURE. ≫ WEIGHTS ARE SLOWLY COMING IN FROM THE PREVIOUS HEAT. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO UPDATE YOU ON AT LEAST WHO HAS THE HEAVIEST TOTAL. LIKE I SAID EARLIER, THIS IS HEAT 2 OF 3 FOR TEAM EVENT NO. 2. 10 TEAMS IN THE FIELD AND CROSSFIT 10K CAPITAL AND CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB X [INDISCERNIBLE] ON THE FLOOR CROSSFIT VEER BANIA AND CROSSFIT BUTCHER ‘S LAB CHAOS AND MY FAVORITE ONE AS I HAVE THE DEEP BREATH TO SAY THIS TEAM HIGH PERFORMANCE CROSSFIT TEAM RED WHY CROSS-MIX MAX ACADEMY AND TOP 10 OVERALL C23 CROSSFIT SITTING WITH 100 POINTS AND UNOFFICIAL TIME OF 14:16 FIRST EVENT PSL WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR? PRIVATE SEAT LICENSE WE USUALLY HAVE. ≫ MAKES SENSE. ≫ MAKES SENSE FOR CROSSFIT TEAM SITTING IN SECOND PLACE OSLO KRIGER RIZZ. HAD TO LOOK IT UP BY THE WAY IT IS WHAT YOUNG KIDS SAY IF YOU HAVE CARRIS MA. ≫ I HAVE HEARD IN TIC TOCKS. ≫ IF YOU NEVER SOUNDED OVER 40 THERE YOU GO. OSLO, SECOND, THIRD, 4TH, FIFTH. SORRY. HARISMA. ≫ I HAVE HEARD IN TIKTOKS. ≫ IF YOU NEVER SOUNDED OVER 40 THERE YOU GO. OSLO, SECOND, THIRD, 4TH, FIFTH. SORRY. 6TH. COMING BACK ON TEAM WITH KRISTOFF AND MIA THAT WILL COME UP IN THE THIRD HEAT . IF WATCHING AT HOME WE WILL POINT THEM OUT. ALL EYES ON MIA COMING TO COMPLEX. ≫ KRISTOFF AS WELL. ≫ AND [INDISCERNIBLE] WHO HAS EXPERIENCE WITH THIS COMPLEX IN COMPETITION. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. 330 LAST TIME WHEN DID INDIVIDUAL. 150 KILOS OR JUST UNDER INTERESTING TO SEE IF HE CAN TOP THAT. ≫ WE ARE APPROACHING THE 6-MINUTE MARK AND STARTING WITH THE FEMALE PAIRS. WOMEN WILL GO FOLLOWED BY MEN. THEY WILL DO THREE CLEANS, TWO FRONT SQUATS , ONE JERK. TOTAL WEIGHT COMBINED FOR TEAM SCORE, 7 MINUTES PER PAIR. WE HAVE 60 SECONDS REMAINING FOR THESE SECOND HEAT OF WOMEN. ≫ SEEING 207S. 2 TENS ON THE BOARD AND 215 IN 10S ON THE BOARD AND 215 IN THE BACK. ≫ WE CAN’T SEE THE NUMBERS BUT YANNI HAS BEEN AROUND SO LONG HE SEES IT. BLUES AND GREENS WITH LITTLE YELLOW ONES. ≫ WE USE ONLY BLUES AND REDS THOUGH. DON’T HAVE OTHER PLATES. SMALLEST JUMP IS 2-45S. ≫ NATURALLY. HOW IS THAT. I WAS AT A LEVEL 1 SEMINAR WITH SARA HOPPER. FIRST AND WE WERE WARMING UP SNATCHES AND STARTED WITH 95 AND WARMING UP . SHE PUT ON REDS , 125. EVER SINCE THEN I NEVER LIFTED WITH LESS. SHE WEIGHT BULLIED ME SO HARD AT LEVEL 1 AND RUINED ME FOR YEARS. ≫ THAT IS SPECIAL. ≫ WEIGHT BULLYING. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THAT IS WEIGHT SHAMING WE WANT TO BRING BACK. ≫ IT IS LIKE 1 POUND PLATES NOT PUT THEM OUTSIDE THAT IS ONE WAY OF DOING IT PUT THEM ON INSIDE OF BAR AND LET PARTNER KNOW AFTER YOU BOTH FINISH LIFTING. ≫ THE SANDWICH IS GOOD AND I LIKE THE SANDWICH TECHNIQUE. I WILL DO THE POCKETS AND DON’T KNOW IF IT TECHNICALLY COUNTS. NOT ON THE BAR AND BUDDIES TIED AND REACHES DEEP AND POCKET AND NO WE DIDN’T. ≫ DEPENDS ON LIFT. SQUATS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ SHOULDER POCKET, I DON’T KNOW. ≫ MAYBE A WEIGHTED PULL-UP MAKES SENSE. ≫ WRIST AND HAVE NECKLACE WITH LITTLE PLATE. ≫ THERE IT IS 1 POUND PLATE. ≫ CHAINS ON BARBELL. ≫ EXACTLY. ≫ MENS TURN. 7 MINUTES RUNNING CLOCK 3 CLEANS, 2 FRONT SQUATS , 1 JERK. SQUATS, POWER, SPLIT, HYBRID. CLEANS AS LONG AS FEET COME WITH ELBOWS TO FINISH OUT FRONT AND SOMETHING THAT LOTS OF INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES WERE DOCKED ON IN 2022 WAS CYCLING THROUGH CLEANS TOO QUICKLY. ≫ YOU HAVE TO BE SO FOCUSED IN THESE EVENTS. EASY TO COME IN AND BE SUPER HYPED YOU WILL LIFT HEAVY AND YOU HAVE TO THINK LIKE A WEIGHT LIFTER AND COME AND AGGRESSION NOT JUST RECKLESS ABANDON. ≫ WE SAW THAT IN FIRST EVENT WITH A HANDSTAND WALK. ATHLETES WOULD GO TOO FAST AND PUT HAND ON LINE WHEN KICKED DOWN OR MOVE TOO FAST AND HIT LANE WHEN THEY COME DOWN OR DO TOO QUICKLY AND ONE THING TO BE PHYSICALLY CAPABLE IN SPORT OF CROSSFIT CAN YOU LIFT BAR OR RUN DISTANCE OR HOLD ON TO THE RINGS? HOWEVER, HAVING MENTAL FORTITUDE AND BEING — THAT IS A HUGE PART OF LITTLE MISTAKES HAVE MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES WHEN YOU TRY TO QUALIFY FOR THE CROSSFIT GAMES. ≫ ABSOLUTELY. EASY IF YOU LOOK AT A BALL SPORT, YOU CAN SEE THESE THINGS MORE EASILY AND SOMEBODY THAT UNDERSTANDS THE GAME. NOT AS OBVIOUS ON THE FLOOR OF CROSSFIT COMPETITIONS AND SIGNIFICANT PART IT AND ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT WITH HENDRIK GETTING READY FOR THE EVENT 4 IS DEPENDING HOW IT IS SET UP, HOW FAST DO YOU RUN FOR THE HANDSTAND WALK AND TAKE IT INTO ACCOUNT. ≫ YEAH. ≫ DON’T PICK UP AND GO OVER THE LINE. GOING BACK, THAT EVENT WILL BE DOWN TO SECONDS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ YOU MAKE ONE MISTAKE AND THAT COULD BE IT. ALL THOSE LITTLE THINGS ADD UP. ≫ I WANT TO TALK TO YOU FOR A LITTLE BIT. WHEN IS THE OPEN. ≫ WHEN IS QUARTER FINALS? PEOPLE THINK HE IS AN OLD MAN. HE IS NOT. HE IS 29. ≫ YEAH. ≫ CROSSFIT GAMES WHEN BARELY TURNING 20. ≫ HE WAS WEARING DIAPERS. ≫ THAT IS HOW WE SAY IT. YONNA HAS HAD A WONDERFUL CROSSFIT CAREER AND IN MY OPINION WATCHING HIM THIS PAST YEAR SEEMS HE IS HEALTHY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST A DECADE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ NOW NOT JUST CAN YOU COMPETE HEALTHY BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR CROSSFIT SEASON, CAN YOU TRAIN HEALTHY? ≫ YES. ≫ WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN FROM YONNA I THINK THIS IS THE YEAR OF YONNA. ≫ SO FAR SO GOOD. ≫ YEAH. OPENS DIFFERENT AND QUARTER FINAL ALL ONLINE AND THINK HE IS A TOP CON TENDER TO WIN HERE AND MIGHT SEE BEST PERFORMANCE IF HE QUALIFIES AT CROSSFIT GAMES . WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN FOR HIM. ≫ FOR HIM AND BK AS WELL MAKE SURE GET THROUGH SEASON UNHURT UNINJURED TO TRAIN WHOLE TIME AND FOR ME NO. 1 PRIORITY FOR BOTH OF THOSE GUYS. WITH YONNA LIKE YOU SAID HAD A CAREER WITH LOTS OF INJURIES THROUGHOUT CAREER AND ABLE TO KEEP AT BAY AND BIG THING IS HE HAS [INDISCERNIBLE] LOTS OF ATHLETES GUYS ARE GOOD AT LISTENING TO THEIR BODY AND WILL LET ME KNOW I THINK I’M COMING UP WITH A FLU AND WILL TAKE A REST DAY. ABSOLUTELY OR I’M FEELING MY KNEE OR SHOULDER AND WE HAVE TO SPACE THIS OUT FOR A COUPLE MORE DAYS AND I’M ALWAYS OPEN AND LISTENING AND THINK THAT INTERACTION HAS BEEN REALLY SUCCESSFUL AND REALLY, REALLY ENJOY WORKING WITH ATHLETES THAT HAVE SELF-AWARENESS AND UNDERSTAND THE LONG GAME NOT PLAYING I HAVE TO DO THIS LIFT THIS WEEK IF TAKING AWAY FROM NEXT 2 WEEKS AND TRAINING AND HAVING UNDERSTANDING AND MATURITY HAS BEEN A DIFFERENCE. ≫ WHAT SCARES BJORKMAN. ≫ YEAH. ≫ HE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE FIRST ATHLETE TO QUALIFY FOR 11 CONSECUTIVE CROSSFIT GAMES BEN SMITH TOOK AN INVITE BUT [INDISCERNIBLE] 2019 THAT YEAR WAS AN ASTERISK. BKG AMOUNT OF SUCCESS HE HAS. LISTEN, HE HAS NOT FALLEN OFF THE MANTEL YET BANGED UP LAST YEAR AT CROSSFIT GAMES. ≫ YEAH. ≫ HOW HAS HE BOUNCED BACK SINCE THEN. ≫ TOOK TIME OFF FOCUSED ON GETTING HIS BODY FEELING GOOD AFTER GAMES AND HITTING HIM HEAL AND FOCUS ON SEASON AND SAID A GREAT HEALTHY OFF SEASON THE WHOLE YEAR AND HAD THINGS TO STAY ON TOP OF AND WE HAVE DONE THAT AND TYPICALLY AROUND JANUARY OR FEBRUARY SOMETHING HAS PREVENTED US FROM DOING SOMETHING AND HAVEN’T HAD THAT THIS YEAR . I’M COMING INTO WEEKEND FEELING CONFIDENT HE WILL BE FIRST MAN GETTING IN THAT TIME. ≫ WE ARE APPROACHING 90 SECONDS REMAINING FOR THIS TEAM EVENT NO. 2, HEAT NO. 2. COMPLEX FOR 2022, THREE CLEANS, TWO FRONT SQUATS, ONE SHOULDERED OVERHEAD. OKAY. LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE SOME UNOFFICIAL RESULTS, YANNI FROM THE PREVIOUS HEAT AND LOOKS LIKE CROSSFIT JAMERK. CROSSFIT SAGITTARIUS AT 980 AND OSLO KRIGER BLST. THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE CELEBRATING THAT LAST LIFT AND MALE ATHLETE GUY GOT THEM IN 2 SECOND TIME SO FAR. ≫ YEAH. ≫ ARE WE GOING TO SEE — THAT IS A BIG NUMBER TO ASK. WAS GOING TO SAY 1,000. 1,000 IS ON THE BOARD. ≫ WE WILL SEE 1,000. WE WILL SEE 1,000. ≫ WE WILL SEE. ≫ WE MUST. YOU HEAR THAT OUT THERE? THOSE THAT CAN’T HEAR US, WE HAVE A HEAT TO GO. WILL WE SEE THAT FROM WAIL EYE OPPORTUNITY? ≫ JAMIE IS STRONG TOO. THEY WILL MAKE IT. ELLIOT WILL GET A GOOD NUMBER UP. ≫ ALL RIGHT. NOW, TIME HAS PASSED. HOWEVER, IF THE BAR GETS OFF THE FLOOR BEFORE THE 7 MINUTES IS UP, THEY CAN CONTINUE THE COMPLEX . ≫ LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE FOUR GENTLEMEN TRYING TO HIT THE LAST LIFT. ONE GOT IT! TWO GOT IT! THAT WILL DO IT! I SEE ATHLETES AND TEAMS CELEBRATING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR AS HEAT 2 COMES TO A CLOSE. ONE FINAL HEAT REMAINING FOR TEAM EVENT NO. 2. MOST WEIGHT WE HAVE SEEN IN HEAT 1, 985. TWO TEAMS SITTING AT THAT AND GETTING FINAL RESULTS HERE FOR HEAT NO. 2. COMING UP WE SAID WE HAVE TO SEE 1,000 . WE ARE A FEW POUNDS AWAY. ≫ WE WILL DEFINITELY SEE IT. ≫ 15 POUNDS AWAY. 5 MINUTES AWAY FROM LAST AND FINAL HEAT FOR TEAM 2 EVENT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. ≫ THANKS SO MUCH. ≫ LAST HEAT FOR TEAMS COMING UP. WILL SEE HOW IT WILL SHAKE OUT IN JUST A FEW! ≫ WELCOME BACK I’M CHASE WITH LAUREN WHO IS IN THE BOOTH AND WILL BE ON THE FLOOR STARTING TOMORROW. ≫ INDEED. ≫ WRAPPING UP EVENT 2. LOTS BEING LIFTED AND THINGS GOING ON AND WILL TELL YOU HOW IT SHAKES OUT WHEN WE GET FINAL RESULTS. 985 FROM HEAT 1 IS WEIGHT TO BEAT. TEXT FROM ALL STATS MAN CHAD. WE SEE 1,000 POUNDS THOUGHT FOR SURE TOTAL COMBINED WAS 1,000. WHAT DID HE SAY NUMBER WAS? 1,060 POUNDS COMBINING TOTAL LIST FROM FOUR ATHLETES FROM WALLEYE HAVING EXPERIENCE WITH LIFT AND SEEING BEFORE WITH INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION 2022. ≫ INDEED. THEY ARE SO COMFORTABLE IN THIS ARENA AS WELL AND BY OWN EMISSION THAT FIRST WORKOUT DIDN’T LINE UP AS EXPECTED OR THAT IS US ON SIDELINES . A LIFT AND WHEN YOU HAVE ATHLETES JAMIE SIMMONS THAT GIRL MIA IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIFTS IN ENTIRE FIELD. ≫ YEAH. ≫ ELLIOT IS THERE THINKING SHE IS LITTLE. ≫ GOOD JOB, GUYS. ≫ THAT IS WHAT TO WATCH IN THE NEXT HEAT. THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY OSLO TEAMS TO THE 9. ≫ YEAH . ≫ BUTCHER’S LAST AND IN EARLIER HEAT WATCHING 3 AND LIKES OF PORTTI THOUGH AND THREE TIMES AND PUT ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIFTS UP SO FAR. YOU CAN’T COUNT OUT ANYONE FROM HEAT 2 GOING INTO HEAT 3 AND SHAKING THOSE THINGS UP. ≫ OSLO HAD FOUR TEAMS IN TOP 6 SO FAR IN FIRST EVENT AND BIGGER EVENT THAN IT WAS COMING HERE WITH MAJOR LIFT AND STARTING WITH FEMALE PAIRS FOR HEAT NO. 3. 7 MINUTES TO COMPETE THE COMPLEX AS HEAVY AS THEY CAN. THREE CLEANS, TWO FRONT SQUATS AND ONE SHOULDER TO OVERHEAD. AS EARLIER, YOU MENTIONED WALLEYE THAT WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE RIGHT PART OF YOUR SCREEN IN THE BLACK. THAT IS CROSSFIT WALLEYE AND JAMIE SIMMONS AND MIA GOING FOR TEAMS FIRST TIME SINCE 26 TAPE AND OSLO TAKING THIRD AND WHERE BUDDING RELATIONSHIP MAYBE STARTED WITH ELLIOT. ≫ YEARS BEFORE THEY MOVED OUT AND COMPETED ON TEAM AT [INDISCERNIBLE] 1 YEAR. ≫ OH. ≫ WAS IT REGIONALS 15 I THINK IT WAS. ≫ YEAH. ≫ THESE GUYS HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOREVER AND KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ONE ANOTHER. I THINK MARRIAGE WAS ICING ON THE CAKE FOR CROSSFIT BRINGING THEM TOGETHER. THE OTHER TEAM OUT THERE THAT I’M EXCITED TO WATCH ARE C23 CROSSFIT BY [INDISCERNIBLE] TEAMS AND ANOTHER SUPER TEAM AND ANTONIA LIFTING NOW ON LEFT-HAND SIDE OF SCREEN IN 95 IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIFTERS IN THE FIELD AND SECOND TO MIA ‘S TEAM IN GAMES THIS YEAR AND SUPER TEAM SAM STEWART AND JOSHUA. ≫ YEAH. ≫ GERMAN I CAN’T QUITE REMEMBER AT THE MOMENT WHO WILL PUT UP BIG EVENTS AND. ≫ LEFT MIDDLE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE COMPETITION FLOOR WALLEYE SEEING RIGHT PART OF MIDDLE SCREEN AND ALL BLACK MIA GETTING TO THE BAR . SURE. WE WILL POWER CLEAN THAT WEIGHT AS IF IT DOESN’T WEIGH WHAT IT WAYS ON THE BOOR. ≫ MIA IS SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE WOMAN. ≫ ALWAYS HAS BEEN. AND I THINK THE MORE IMPRESSIVE PART IS SHE IS KEEPING AND IMPROVING UPON THOSE SKILLS AND STRENGTH. ≫ WE TALK ABOUT IT AND THAT MUM STRENGTH. ACTUALLY, WHEN YOU REALLY APPRECIATE THE AMOUNT OF TRAINING AND HOURS AND COMBINE THAT WITH HAVING TO NURTURE A NEWBORN BABY AND AMOUNT OF TIME AND HOURS YOU PUT INTO HAVING A TODDLER AND WAY HER AND HER HUSBAND HAVE DONE PROGRAMMING AND MANAGED ALL THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE TO HAVE AND UNCANNY WHAT THEY ARE DOING. ≫ 2. 5 MINUTES IN AND ATHLETES HAVE 7 MINUTES TO COMPLETE COMPLEX TOTAL MEN GO FIRST AND WOMEN SECOND AND DIFFERENT ELEMENT TO THIS THAN OTHER STRENGTH TESTS WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST, IF YOU DON’T HIT THE WEIGHT YOU ARE TRYING FOR YOU ARE ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO GO DOWN IN WEIGHT AND ATTEMPT A LIGHTER WEIGHT . WHEREAS, USUALLY, WHEN YOU PICK YOUR WEIGHT, YOU STICK WITH THE WEIGHT. ≫ YEAH . I DON’T KNOW IF ME AND AFFILIATE DOING IT AT MUCH MORE AMATEUR LEVEL DON’T KNOW IF GOOD OR BAD THING YOU CAN’T ATTEMPT TO GO FOR MAX YOU CAN ACHIEVE AND SAFETY NET AND ALL THE TIME YOU ARE ON THE CLOCK. ≫ TRUE. ALL RIGHT. STARTING TO SEE A COUPLE MISSES OUT THERE. ANOTHER PART OF THIS, ONLY WOMEN CAN CHANGE WEIGHTS ON BAR. MEN CAN’T HELP. HAVE TO STAND THERE AND WATCH. ≫ MAKE A GREAT CHEER SQUAD THOUGH. ≫ THERE YOU GO. AT LEAST THEY SHOULD. THIS IS AN INTERESTING ONE. ≫ JAMIE SIMONS NAILS HER LAST LIFT AND VERY EXCITING. ONE THING THAT IS NICE TO SEE FOR JAMIE IS HER GAMES LAST SEASON WAS ACTUALLY CUT SHORT WITH AN ELBOW INJURY FROM THE EVENT LAST YEAR AT CROSSFIT GAMES AND NOW PUT UP SERIOUS WEIGHT. ≫ WE SAW HER IN THE MIDDLE EAST ENTER A COMPETITION CALLED UAE STORM GAMES AND WITHDRAW EARLY ON SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THAT INJURY. IT WAS DECEMBER AND AMOUNT OF TIMES COMING BACK AND HITTING LESS THAN THIS REALLY IMPRESSIVE. ≫ PAIN FREE AND INJURY FREE AND WITH SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT ON THE BAR. ≫ YES. ≫ MIDDLE PART OF THE SCREEN AND RIGHT SIDE OF THE FLOOR IS MIA HETSKA. ≫ LANE 4, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 230 POUNDS FOR CROSSFIT WALLEYE. ≫ SOUNDS LIKE 230 ON THE BAR. 225 IS WHAT SHE HIT 2 YEARS AGO. THIS IS 5 POUNDS OVER THAT! SECOND SQUAT IS DONE FOR MIA. RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IN ALL BLACK. ONE SHOULDER OVERHEAD TO GO. WOW! THAT WILL DO IT! 230. 5 POUNDS MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO. ≫ WOW. ≫ 2 MINUTES LEFT ON THE CLOCK AND DON’T KNOW HOW FAR YOU GO FROM THERE FOR BOTH THOSE ATHLETES. ≫ SO, SO STRONG FROM THAT TEAM AND NOT LIKE WE EXPECT MUCH FROM THEM. ≫ THEY ARE DONE AND GOT WHAT THEY WANTED. THAT IS AWESOME. ≫ TO THAT THOUGH, CROSSFIT PORTTI YOU SEE HER HIT JERKS AND MULTIPLE TEAM APPEARANCES FROM THEM AND FEMALE REMAINS THE SAME AND COMING BACK WITH VICTOR LANGSFORD AND ALEXANDER 5 TIME CROSSFIT ATHLETES GAME AND TAKING AWAY INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS OF JAMIE SIMMONS. ≫ THAT IS HUGE IN THIS SETTING WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT HAS SUCH EXPERIENCE AND ALL THESE GUYS HAVE COACHES AND WHEN YOU HAVE A CAPTAIN ON THE FLOOR TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE COACH BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HEAR IT. WE CAN BARELY HEAR EACH OTHER AND WE HAVE HEADPHONES ON AS IT COMES TO THIS. THE EXPERIENCE IS VALUABLE AND INTERESTING TO SEE HOW WALLEYE WILL PERFORM. ON PAPER THEY HAVE LOTS OF FANTASTIC ATHLETES. EXPERIENCE AS A TEAM YOU HAVE AND COHESIVENESS AND COMMUNICATION AND WAY YOU READ EACH OTHER ON THE FLOOR IS A BIG PART OF THE COMPETITION. ≫ FOR THIS GROUP DON’T KNOW WHETHER LAST YEAR AND SUPER TEAM AND HOW WELL JAMIE AND ELLIOT KNOW EACH OTHER INTIMATELY AND ELLIOT AND [INDISCERNIBLE] HAVE WORKED TOGETHER WELL IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT GROUP TOGETHER ACTUALLY ARE ALL REALLY GOOD MATES AND UAE CONNECTION WITH MIA BEING IN UAE SAME TIME AS JAMIE AND ELLIOT AND IS ACTUALLY A FULL- ON FRIENDSHIP TEAM I WOULD CALL IT. ≫ WALLEYE SITTING IN EIGHTH OVERALL AND IS THE LAST SPOT FOR THE CROSSFIT GAMES TAKING 8 TEAMS HERE FOR EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL AND AS WOMEN ARE DONE. ≫ YEAH. ≫ TAKING A MINUTE BREAK AND WILL BE THE MEN. THOSE YOU SEE ARE LIFTING ARE OKAY. BAR GOT OFF FLOOR BEFORE THEY HIT TIME CHECKS. THAT IS WHY YOU SEE ATHLETES STILL TRYING TO HIT COMPLEX. ≫ INGRID ON 225 GOING FOR FINAL JERK WAS ON OSLO BLACKOUT TEAM AT GAMES THIS YEAR AND SHE HITS IT! THAT WILL BE VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. GIRLFRIEND OF IVAN WHO WAS THAT NAVY BLUE OSLO CAPTAIN THAT IS MANICING THAT GROUP THIS WEEKEND. ≫ THAT TEAM IS OUT THERE WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. [INDISCERNIBLE] WHO IS COMPETING ON IS IT NOAH ‘S TEAM. ≫ OUT OF MIAMI. SUNNING HERSELF. IT IS REALLY EXCITING TO SEE VARIATION OF OSLO AT THIS COMPETITION. EVERY YEAR THEY SEPARATE UP AND LOOK AT STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND PAIR GROUPS OPPOSED TO WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE WITH AND COMES TO A CERTAIN EXTENT AND [INDISCERNIBLE] GO OKAY WHO WILL WORK WELL TOGETHER AND WHY YOU SEE SO MUCH SUCCESS FROM SO MANY OSLO TEAMS. ≫ SELFLESS THING TO DO AS A TEAM ATHLETE. WHAT I DID LAST YEAR DOESN’T GUARANTEE WHAT I DO NEXT YEAR . LOOK AT PERFORMANCE ON PAPER WHO IS BETTER PAIRINGS WITH MEN WE HAVE AND WOMEN WE ARE USING AND PAIRINGS BETWEEN THE TWO AND FACT THEY SIT BACK AND FIRST OF ALL LOOK AT RIDICULOUSNESS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR 7 OR 8 TEAMS TO COMPETE AT SEMI-FINALS. ONE WON’T DICTATE WHOLE WEEKEND BUT SHOWING SO FAR WITH 4 TEAMS IN TOP 6. ≫ INTERESTING KRIGER RIZZ TEAM HALF ARE FROM TRAM P TIME GAMES AND RUNNING EVENT AND THEY AMALGAMATED AND NORWAY AND OSLO IS MORE SOUTHERN NOR I WOULD AND AMALGAMATE TO O- IS LOW GROUNDS AND FEEDING INTO THIS STRUCTURE AND ON TEAM IS SWISS INDIVIDUAL ATHLETE NICOLE HERE. CHATTING WITH HER AND WHAT MADE YOU GO THIS YEAR AND IN DEEPER SO LONG AND SEEN YOU IN SEMI-FINALS SO MANY TIMES. MY COACHES TOLD ME. ≫ THEY TELL YOU WHAT TO DO. ASSUMING MY NORWEGIAN GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE I’M LIKE TOTALLY. I DON’T KNOW MY OWN STATES IN MY OWN COUNTRY. ≫ I’M LOOSE ON YOUR STATES. ≫ OBVIOUSLY NORTHERN NORWAY VERSUS SOUTHERNS. ≫ HELP ME WITH POUNDS AND I CAN HELP YOU. ≫ HELP ME WITH COLORS. ≫ APPROACHING 10-MINUTE MARK MEANING 5 MINUTES REMAINING FOR MEN TAKING BARBELL COMPLEX. 3 CLEANS 2 FRONT SQUATS AND ONE SHOULDER OVERHEAD. ≫ 300 POUNDS. WAY THAT TEAM CAME TOGETHER WAS UNUSUAL AS WELL. OSLO PROCESS AND ONE OF THE TEAMMATES WAS INJURED LAST MINUTE AND IT WAS ACTUALLY THE OTHER GENTS ON THE TEAM WHO CAME IN 1 WEEK BEFORE THE OPEN TO PULL THIS TOGETHER. ≫ HEAR IT FOR THE OLD GUYS. OLD OF WHAT? 34? ≫ FAR RIGHT HAND IN THE BACK AOD TEAM 275 AT THE MOMENT AND THEY PROBABLY HAVE WORST LUCK IN SEMIFINAL HISTORY OF THE GROUPS AND HARRY WAS THE LEAD AT TIME AND STRUCK UP A BAD HAMSTRING INJURY AND FINAL EVENT INCLUDING THE CURVE RUNNER COULDN’T COMPLETE AND FINISHED 2 POINTS OUT OF [INDISCERNIBLE] AND CAME BACK NEXT YEAR IN BERLIN AND HELEN AND LOIS SMITH ONE OF THEIR GIRLS HAD A BAD INJURY TO HER SHOULDER AND ELEMENT OF REDEMPTION BEING BACK ON FLOOR WITH HALF THE CREW STILL IN TACT. ≫ HEY, GIVE IT ANOTHER SHOT . TOP TOTAL WEIGHT WE HAVE SEEN IN HEAT NO. 1 WAS 985. HEAT 2 WEIGHTS ARE BEING UPDATED AS WE SEE RIGHT NOW UNOFFICIALLY WE HAVE CROSSFIT VERBANIA, 1,010 TOTAL POUNDS CROSSFIT PORTTI 995 AND CROSSFIT HIGH PERFORMANCE 990. WEIGHTS HAVE CHANGED AFTER HEAT NO. 2. TEAMS ARE CHASING 1,010 POUNDS FOR THE THIRD AND FINAL HEAT WITH LESS THAN 3 MINUTES REMAINING. ≫ PORTTI TEAM YOU EXPECT TO BE UP THERE LIFTING THEIR BAG AND KNOW HOW TO DO IT ON BIG STAGE AND IF THEY DON’T TAKE IT THIS WEEKEND I THINK SURPRISE IS THE TITLE THERE AND VERBANIA TEAM IS SLIGHTLY NEWER ONE TO ME AND DOWN ON RIGHT- HAND SIDE WITH MASSIVE CHEER CREW ON SIDE AS THEIR FINAL ATHLETES LIFTED A 305 OR SOMETHING OBSCENE LIKE THAT AND HE FOUGHT FOR EVERY SECOND AND HIT THAT FINAL JERK AND BURSE INTO TEARS ON THE FLOOR. ≫ THAT IS IT, SPORTS. SPORTS TEARS, THEY DON’T COUNT. IT IS OKAY . 2 MINUTES REMAINING. ≫ VICTOR HIT A 300 THERE HAPPY WITH THAT FIST PUMP IN THE AIR AND 310 ON BAR FOR KRIGER PSL TEAM. ≫ BOTTOM RIGHT OF SCREEN LIGHT SHIRT AND ONE SQUAT IN AND ONE MORE TO GO. ≫ [INDISCERNIBLE] ON THE BAR THERE . INGRID JUMPING, PRAYING, HOPING. ≫ THAT WEIGHT IS GOOD. CROSSFIT OSLO PSL! OKAY. I ASKED YANNI WHAT PSL WAS AND HE DIDN’T KNOW. WE MADE GUESSES. ≫ [LAUGHING]. ≫ NONE GOT INAPPROPRIATE. THAT WAS THE GOOD PART. ≫ WHERE IS THE LINE ON APPROPRIATE. ≫ PSL, PLEASE SEND. ≫ LOVE. ≫ THERE YOU GO. I LIKE THAT. MAYBE THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS. I DON’T KNOW. ≫ PRETTY SEXY LOOKING. ≫ OH, NOW WE ARE GETTING THERE. SEE, THESE ARE MUCH BETTER. ME AND YANNI WERE NOT A CREATIVE . FINS AND CREATIVITY, I DON’T FEEL IT IS PART OF THEIR NATURE. THEY DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD. ≫ THAT IS GOOD AT CROSSFIT. ≫ YES. ≫ [INDISCERNIBLE] RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IN ALL BLACK WHITE SHOES, MIDDLE LANE. ≫ ISN’T IT WILD. ≫ 20 SECONDS BAR OFF THE GROUND. ≫ GIVEN HOW MUCH WE KNOW ABOUT KRISTOFF AND HOW REGULAR HE IS AT THESE EVENTS OUTSIDE OF THE SANCTIONAL SEASON WE HAVE ONLY SEEN HIM AT ONE SEMIFINAL. ≫ WHAT SEMIFINAL. ≫ GAMES AND HE IS A PIVOTAL PART OF SEMIFINAL SCENE BECAUSE OF WORK HE DID BEHIND THE SCENES FOR HIS SISTER AND. ≫ KRISTOFF. ≫ SUCH A SHAME FOR HIM. THOUGHT HE HAD IT. KRISTOFF IS LIMPING OFF TO THE SIDE A LITTLE BIT. ≫ YOU CAN SEE ON RIGHT SIDE THAT KRISTOFF IS TALKING TO ELLIOT AND SAW THAT LAST LIFT. NOW HE IS GETTING HELP TO GET HIS KNEE WRAPS OFF. ≫ DOESN’T LOOK GOOD. ≫ I REALLY HOPE THAT IS NOT SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT. I’LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE HERE. THAT WILL DO IT FOR HEAT 3. TEAM EVENT NO. 2 AND AS WE CLOSE THINGS OUT HERE, FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION BEFORE WE GET TO THE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION AS WE HAVE ONE MORE TEAM EVENT, THREE TEAM EVENTS FIRST DAY OF COMPETITION AND 2 DAYS COMPETITION WITH TWO COMING UP TOMORROW. ≫ INDEED AND WILL BE BULK OF THE POINTS BEING PICKED UP TODAY HOW YOU CAN PUT YOURSELF IN GOOD POSITION IN END AND ESPECIALLY. ≫ TODAY AND TOMORROW PRETTY MUCH LOCKING IT IN. ≫ RUN EVENT IS COMING UP. ≫ RUN EVENT FOR BOTH COMING UP AND INDIVIDUALS TAKING STAGE FOR FIRST TIME THIS WEEKEND AND EVERYBODY IS — I’M EXCITED AND STANDS ARE FILLING UP AND WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STADIUM AT LDLC ARENA THAT WHAT OPENED IN NOVEMBER AND 6 OR 7 MONTHS OLD AT BEST. ≫ UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL AND NOT JUST THAT BUT LYONS CITY IN FRANCE ONE OF MOST SCENIC PLACES YOU WILL EVER GO WATCH IN CROWD OR COME AS WIDER GROUP THIS IS A PROPER EXPERIENCE IF EUROPEAN YES BUT IF COMING FROM FURTHER AFIELD IT SITS ON A GORGEOUS RIVER AND FOODIE CAPITAL OF FRANCE AND SAYING A LOT WITH FRENCH CUISINE. ≫ TRUE. ≫ INCREDIBLE HUB AND OUTSIDE VENDOR VILLAGE LA LA PALLOONALIKE. NO THIS IS I COULDN’T HAVE THOUGHT OF A BETTER PLACE AND FRENCH THROW DOWN DOING THIS A LONG TIME. 12 YEARS. ≫ SHOWING LOOK AT VENUE COMPETITION AND SIGNAGE AND EVERYBODY BEHIND SCENES RUNNING IT TOP-TIER EVENT FACT THEY HOST A SEMIFINAL IS A NO-BRAINER FOR THIS COMPETITION. ≫ YEAH AND RUNNING FULL COMMUNITY EVENT ALONGSIDE. ≫ IN OTHER ROOM TWICE AS BIG AS THIS. ≫ INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF ORGANIZATION GOING INTO THIS AND YOU WILL SPEAK TO DANIELLE AT SOME POINT ON THE PROD CAST. ≫ MAKE SURE IT IS ON CROSSFIT BROADCAST. ≫ WE ARE OUT OF TIME. ≫ [INDISCERNIBLE]. ≫ HE HAS BEEN A BIG PART OF GROWING SPORT OF CROSSFIT THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND WORLD AND THIS BEING BABY OUTSIDE OF FOUNDING CROSSFIT LOUVRE HE IS HEART AND SOUL OF EVERYTHING CROSSFIT IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD. ≫ YOU MENTIONED THREE LOCATIONS AND 1,000 PEOPLE OUT OF THE THREE AND RUN OUT OF SHOEBOXES AND VERY SMALL AFFILIATE WHAT HE DOES AFFILIATE TEAM AND HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATES CROSSFIT TEAM AND CAPACITY AND WHAT MAKES THIS WHAT IT IS YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR IT INDIVIDUALS WILL COME UP IN 45 MINUTES OR SO KICKING OFF 2024 SEMIFINAL SEASON. LAUREN THANKS FOR JOINING ME AND SEEING YOU TOMORROW ON ACTUAL PODCAST FINALLY AND ANYTIME WE CAN SMIC IN PODCAST I WILL HAVE YOU COME ON THERE AND STAY TUNED COMING UP AT 12:45 HERE FROM FRANCE . CAPTION TEST. ≫ WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE TO THE 2020 CROSSFIT SEMIFINALNESS LYONS FRANCE, GETTING SET FOR THE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION, GETTING SET TO BE UNDERWAY, LAUREN SMITH, CHASE INGRAHAM AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING AS IT GETS SET. GETTING SET FOR THE INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE ON THEIR FIRST EVENT OF THE WEEKEND, ONLY ONE EVENT TODAY AND WE WILL START WITH THE WOMEN, TWO HEATS OF 20, A LONG ONE, FIVE ROUNDS FOR TIME, 80-METER RUN, 10 CLEAN AND JERK. ≫ I TESTED THIS, FULL FUN BY NO MEANS WAS I ELITE LEVEL ATHLETE FOR AVERAGE LEVEL ATHLETE I ONLY MANAGED 31/2 TO 4 ROUNDS. ≫ A LOT OF RUNNING. ≫ IT IS A LOT OF RUNNING. BUT I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ONES THAT WE WILL SEE OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. JUST BECAUSE IT TESTS THIS THING THAT IS TYPICALLY MAYBE DOESN’T LEND ITSELF TO CROSSFIT THE 800-METER KIND OF — YOU KNOW, WE MAYBE DO 5K THAT IS WHAT IS TESTED AT THE GAMES. THIS IS AN INTERESTING MIDDLE GROUND. ≫ IT IS. FOR MULTIPLE ROUNDS, OKAY, DO WE PACE IT OUT? DO I DO SINGLE ROSS ON THE CLEAN AND JERKS, TOUCH AND GO, NO, DON’T DO THAT, SAVE IT FOR THE END. SAVE IT FOR THE END AND IT IS A PACE THAT WE HAVE TO PACE OUT. WHAT IS FATIGUE LEVEL, HOW MANY TIMES WE DOUBLE KNEE BEND ON CLEAN STARTING AND RECEIVING AND GOING INTO THE JERK, TIMES 10 AND TIMES 5. A LOT OF THINGS IN HERE THAN AS SIMPLE AS WHAT YOU SEE ON PAPER, THE RUN AND 10 CLEAN AND JERKS. THE. ≫ THE FLOOR THE WAY IT IS SET OUT CAUSED A FAIR AMOUNT OF CONFUSION, THERE WERE MORE QUESTIONS AROUND THIS EVENT THAN ANY OTHER, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CLEAR MARKED LANES, YOU WILL HAVE TO BE IN FRONT OF YOUR IN UM BOARD, NOT LIKE YOU HAVE WHITE STRIPES RUNNING DOWN THE SIDE OF YOU AND YOU ARE REQUIRED TO STAY IN YOUR ZONE AND UNDER FATIGUE THAT IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE SOMETIMES. ≫ 2020 CROSSFIT SEMIFINAL SEASON IS UNDERWAY. WE ARE IN LYONS FRANCE AS THE INDIVIDUALS ARE TAKING THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME. WE WILL START WITH THAT 800-METER RUN, 10 CLEAN AND JERKS AS THEY COME IN, ALL LOOKING AT THE BARBELLS THAT IS A COOL THING. THEY ARE OUT FOR THEIR 800-METER RUN AND LAUREN A LOT OF THESE ATHLETES HAVE BEEN WORKING ALL YEAR LONG TO GET TO THIS POSITION FOR SEMIFINALS. THEY HAVE BEEN TRAINING, THIS HE HAVE GOT THE EVENTS EARLIER THAN NORMAL, BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT, WE SAID A COUPLE OF PARTNERS HAVE COME ON BOARD WITH CROSSFIT, WE ARE — I’M ROCKIN MY GO ROK RUNNERS. THEY ARE SOFT ON THE STEP A NICE THING. LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE HERE TO START THINGS OFF. THAT 800 METRE RUN, HOW WE WILL PACE IT OUT, WITH ATHLETES, REBECCA IS IN THE FIRST HEAT, ALL OF THIS COMING FROM QUARTER FINAL SEATING. THINGS WILL SHAKE OUT, ONE EVENT TODAY. TOMORROW WILL BE ANOTHER ONE. KNOCKING OUT THE COBWEBS GETTING THE SERVES OUT. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS ONE, THIS IS NOT AN EVENT THAT YOU CAN HAVE A SMALL MISTAKE AND HAVE A BIG CONSEQUENCE. YOU CAN FIGURES OUT AFTER ROUND TO ROUND, VERSUS SAY AN EVENT LIKE THE ROPE CLIMB OR THE HANDSTAND WALK, WHERE A SMALL MISSTEP COULD BE A MASSIVE PROBLEM. SO I LIKE THIS AS A STARTING EVENT FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS. ≫ YES, HONESTLY I COULDN’T AGREE MORE, PERFECT SCENARIO FOR HARNESSING EMOTIONAL ENERGY THAT YOU WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE STEPPING ONTO THE FLOOR FOR THE FIRST TIME AND NOT JUST THAT, IT IS STUFF THAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE DAY IN AFFILIATE, WE ARE CLEANING, WE DON’T RUN EVERY SINGLE DAY. IF WE DID THAT PEOPLE WILL LEAVE THE GYM. ≫ I LOST ALL OF MY MEMBERS. ≫ EE KNOW HOW TO RUN, IT IS A GENTLE INTRODUCTION INTO A GREAT WEEKEND OF COMPETITION AND FEELS LIKE TRADITIONAL CROSSFIT STUFF, BACK TO BASICS. ≫ AND YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, IT IS OKAY, WHAT IS YOUR ABILITIES THAT YOU GAIN IF YOU DO CROSSFIT ITSELF. WELL I CAN RUN LONG-DISTANCE OR GO SHORT, LIFT HEAVY OR FOR HIGH VOLUME. ≫ AND I CAN LOOK GOOD NAKED. ≫ THAT IS WHAT GOT ME IN THE DOOR TO START THINGS OFF. PURE VANITY. AND SOMEONE ARGUED THAT HAS YET TO CHANGE. I’M SITTING HERE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA SCREEN WITH A MIC IN FRONT OF MY MOUTH AS WE TALK. VANITY ONLY GOTTEN WORSE OVER THE YEARS FOR MYSELF. BUT, THIS IS LIKE, YEAH, WE CAN RUN LONG-DISTANCE AT A HIGH INTENSITY, AND WE CAN CYCLE A BARBELL GOOD AT MODERATE WEIGHT AS THE INDIVIDUALS MAKE THEIR WAY ONTO TO THE FLOOR. YOU WILL HAVE TO NAVIGATE AROUND THE ARENA AND TO YOUR BARBELL. YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SHORTEST PATH, THERE WE KNOW IT TO BE A STRAIGHT LINE. BUT THE ONES COMING IN, IN THE DOOR FIRST, BUT SOMEONE MIGHT GET TO THE BAR THE SAME AS YOU. AND THAT IS — ≫ THAT IS A — ANNA. ≫ OUT OF THE U.K. , SHE HAS BEEN A KEY ATHLETE ON THE LOCAL SCENE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND WON AN OPEN WORKOUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. AND ANYTHING THAT IS RUNNING, LIGHT WEIGHT HIGH INTENSITY, THAT IS HER BAG. ≫ WILKINSON OUT OF THE U.K. , HIGH PERFORMANCE CROSSFIT WITH THE LONGEST TEAM NAME I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. THAT IS RIDICULOUS. 5’4", 21 YEARS OLD, SO YOUNG. ≫ TOOK LAST YEAR OFF TO FOCUS ON STUDIES, FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN HER IN THE COMPETITION POOL. SHE SAID IN THE U.K. WE ARE A SMALL CREW OF PEOPLE AND BASICALLY IT FEELS TO HER LIKE SHE IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ATHLETE NOW TO WHERE THEY WAS COMPETING A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND ON THE BARBELL IT IS NOT A HEAVY WEIGHT. YOU WILL NEED. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ CLEAN AND JERKS AT THIS WEIGHT IN TOTAL WILL ADD UP. THIS IS A LOT MORE GENTLE ON PAPER THAN IT APPLIES TO COMPETITION FLOOR AS ALL ATHLETES ARE DONE WITH THE FIRST ROUND OF CLEAN AND JERKS. SINGLES ACROSS THE BOARD, ATHLETES TOOK THIS ON. ≫ THERE YOU GO. 3:50. ≫ AND THAT IS 800 METERS-ISH. THERE ARE THINGS WE KNOW IN CROSSFIT. DISTANCES HAVE AN ISH BEHIND IT P 400-METER-ISH TO WIN, 5K-ISH — THERE IS AN ISH. ≫ ONLY YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THAT. ≫ IF YOU DON’T SEE ME EVER AGAIN YOU WILL KNOW WHY! ≫ BUT IT IS GOING TO BE THE SAME EVERY TRACKER IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AND EVERY — EVERY COURSE WILL HAVE DIFFERENCES, DIFFERENT STADIUMS. ≫ YOU KNOW, THE ONLY AGE I MADE A JOKE ON, LIKE A MARIO CART COURSE, BUT THEY ARE RUNNING THE SAME RACE, DOING SAME DISTANCE AND NOT COMPETING FROM SEMIFINAL TO SEMIFINAL. WHAT EACH ONE DOES DIFFERENTLY DOESN’T MATTER AT THE END OF THE DAY. TESTING THAT, AEROBIC CAPACITY AND ENDURANCE AND STAMINA AND BARBELL AT MODERATE WEIGHT, WILKINSON IN THE LEAD 24 YEARS OLD, TOP 10 FINISHES HAS TWO, FIRST SEMIFINAL WAS LAST YEAR AND THIS IS HER SECOND. TWO YEARS AGO. I GUESS SHE HAD NOT MADE TO IT THE YEAR BEFORE. ≫ TOOK A STEP BACK, AND BUT INTERESTINGLY, BACK IN THE DAY, SHE COMPETED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS. NOW IT IS SLIGHTLY OBVIOUSLY THEY HAD A GAMES TEAM AND GOTTEN HIGH PERFORMANCE LONG NAME THAT YOU ARE NOT A FAN OFF. ≫ YES. ≫ AND I GUESS MORE IMPORTANTLY, HER COACH AT THAT TIME, ALONGSIDE. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ AND WE CAN SEE ALL OF THE SUCCESS THAT THEY HAVE MADE. ≫ TALK ABOUT THE HYPE TRAIN PULLING IN FOR VICTOR HOFFER, YOU WOULD THINK HE WOULD BE WINNING CROSSFIT GAMES BASED ON HOW MUCH HE IS TALKED ABOUT. ≫ I’M EXCITED FOR HIM. I ALSO FEEL THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A YOUNG MAN HYPED UP IN THIS WAY FOR SUCH A PERIOD OF. WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL, IT IS UNDUE PRESSURE OF. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ THAT IS PART ABOUT BEING AN ATHLETE, RIGHT? THAT IS THE PART OF WANTING TO PROFESSIONALIZE THE SPORT, PROFESSIONALIZE COMPETITION, PAYOUT MARKETING AND ATHLETES NEED TO PROFESSIONALIZE THEMSELVES AND THEY HAVE TO HANDLE THE PRESSURE AND THAT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY. ≫ IT IS TRUE. ≫ ALL RIGHT ATHLETES ARE IN. HOLDING ONTO THAT BIT OF A LEAD. WILKINSON, TOP RIGHT PART OF YOUR SCREEN. AND TWO REPS AHEAD. TWO OR THREE WOMEN THAT ARE TRYING TO KEEP PACE WITH HER. ≫ I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A CHAT ABOUT CONNIE, SHE HAS BEEN DOING CROSSFIT FOR THREE YEARS, DEBUT, CAME IN THIRD WHICH IS REALLY INCREDIBLE. JUGGLED A BIT OF COACHING AND WHAT IS INTERESTING IS SHE WAS FROM TRIATHLON. A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SKILLSET. THE RUNNING COMES INTO THIS PARTICULAR WORKOUT. HER BACK STORY IS UNBELIEVABLE. AND. [ INAUDIBLE ] BECAUSE SHE HAD AN EATING DISORDER. THAT GOT SO BAD IT PUT HER IN HOSPITAL ON A PSYCHIATRIC WARD. SHE SPENT A LOT A HER SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIENCE TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW AND SHE PUTS HER ENTIRE RECOVERY TO CROSSFIT. SHE FOUND A NEW GOAL AND TO BE SUCCESSFUL SHE NEEDED TO FUEL AND FOOD WAS PART OF IT,. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ I MEAN, GOOD TO HAVE THOSE STORIES OUT THERE AND GOOD FOR PEOPLE. IT IS NOT JUST UNIQUE SITUATION AS WE HAVE SEEN THE POWER OF CROSSFIT MANIFESTED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. IT IS A LIFE-SAVING TRAINING METHODOLOGY. TALKING ABOUT IT ON THE CROSSFIT SHOW. THAT IS WHAT IT TRULY IS. AND SEEN IT MANIFEST IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. TO SEE THAT AND HER ON THE BIG STAGE AFTER THIS I THINK IS POWERFUL. ≫ I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE COMBINATION OF THE SPORT AND WHAT WE SEE IN THE BIG SHOWS VERSUS HOW CLOSELY IT TRANSLATES TO EVERYTHING WE SEE WEEKLY IN AN AFFILIATE. THE COOLEST THING IN THE WORLD. TWO OHHHH TWO ROUNDS DOWN, GOING INTO THE THIRD ROUND. THOUGHT ABOUT ATHLETES PREPPING FOR THE OFFSEASON AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT GOES INTO THIS, YOUNG ATHLETES, TEAM ATHLETES INTO COMPETITION HERE TEAMS THE ELDER STATESMEN, PANELS ARE SO ENGAGED WITH THE SPORT. I CAN’T MOVE AS FAST AS YOU IN FIVE ROUNDS I UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE AND I THINK THAT THAT IS A COOL BOnd THAT WE HAVE BETWEEN COMPETITORS AND COMMUNITY. ≫ DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE? ≫ DO I WANT TO KNOW? ≫ YES. ≫ DEATH ON THE RUNS OR DEATH ON THE BARBELL, WE DIE IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS. TWO ROUNDS DOWN, INTO OUR THIRD ROUND. ≫ THEY ARE MAKING IT LOOK PRETTY COMFORTABLE AT THIS STAGE I WOULD STAY. IT IS INTERESTING, IT IS A BIG FIELD, HALF OF THE FIELD COMPETING AT ONCE. A VARIETY OF SKILLS AND DEBUTANTES IN THIS HEAT AS WELL. ≫ IF YOU ARE TIRED OF LOOKING AT OUR FACES GET YOUR PHONES OUT, SCAN THE QR CODE, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET 53 PAIRS OF ROUGH RUNNERS. WEARING THEM RIGHT NOW, NOTHING ROUGH ABOUT THEM, FEEL FANTASTIC ON MY FEET. WIN FREE SHOES FOR YOUR AFFILIATE WITH GO RUCK ENTER TO WIN SCAN QR CODE, 50 PAIRS OF RUNNERS, VISIT GORUCK. COM SLASH CROSSFIST. ≫ BACK TO COMPETITION. ≫ I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU LAUREN. ≫ YES. ≫ I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER, WHEN IT COMES TO RUNS AND THE WAY THIS COURSE IS SET UP WITH A COUPLE OF SWITCHBACKS THE FACT THAT EL LAW WILKINSON IS IN THE POSITION SHE IS IN, THEY ARE RUNNING THE SAME, SHE IS OUT THE DOOR FIRST AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE SEEN BY THE OTHER ATHLETES TO WANT TO TRY TO CHASE HER DOWN. SHE MIGHT BE PRIMED IN THE BEST POSITION POSSIBLE, ATHLETES NOT SEEING WHERE SHE IS TO WANT TO CATCH HER. ≫ HONESTY, SPEAKING ABOUT IT IN CYCLING, AND WHEN THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN THE LEADING AND THE CHASING, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ABILITY TO OVERCOME THE GAP PLAY INTO A HUGE PART THAT WILL GIVE YOU SUCCESS AND EXERTING WHAT YOU NEED TO CLOSE AND TO DO THAT TO MAINTAIN REACHING THE LEADER THAT IS ALONE IN AN ATHLETE’S HEAD ENOUGH TO PUT AN ATHLETE OFF. YOU NEED TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN RUNNING ABILITY AND MAINTAIN. IT IS INTERESTING. AND IN THE SWITCHBACK THEY ARE PUTTING A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT STRAIN ON THE BODY. SUBSTANTIALLY FASTER. ≫ AND WILKINSON IS EXTENDING HER LEAD ROUND TO ROUND. CONNIE IS IN SECOND PLACE AS SHE GOES OUT THE DOOR. ≫ OUT OF THE U.K. , DAVENPORT, SHE WAS ON THE TEAM THAT WENT TO THE GAMES LAST YEAR. BUT INTERESTINGLY, SHE IS AN INTERNATIONAL DIVING COACH. ≫ ALL RIGHT. ≫ SHE IS PREPARING TEAM GB FOR THE OLYMPICS AT THE MOMENT. ≫ NO WAY! ≫ YES AND QUESTIONS ISENING CROSSFIT SEMIFINALS. ≫ IN MY OFFTIME I’M GOING TO SEMIFINALS. ≫ AND THEN. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ ON THE WOMEN’S SIDE IS I THINK WE HAVE 11 ROOKIES HERE THIS WEEKEND. AND A SMALLER FIELD THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, TOOK 60 LAST YEAR, NOW 40 TO SEMIFINALS, EVERYTHING IS LESS IN EUROPE, LESS ATHLETES COMPETING, LESS SPOTS IN THE CROSSFIT GAMES A POINT OF CONTENTION FOR ATHLETES HERE. FACE IT EUROPE IS ONE OF THE MOST JAM-PACKED TALENTED SEMIFINALS IN THE WORLD. AND THEY ARE GETTING LESS SPOTS THIS YEAR. ≫ IT HAS BEEN A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION AMONGST THE COACHING TEAMS IN EUROPE. GOING BACK TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THERE BEING SO MANY DEBUTANTENESS HERE, PROGRAMMING IN THE COMPETITIONS ARE AIDED WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH SKILL MOVEMENTS AND MUCH MORE GEARED TOWARDS YOUR TRUE CROSSFIT FITNESS AND THAT HELPS THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS COMING THROUGH, THEY HAVE NOT HAD THE TIME AND CAPACITY TO WORK ON THIS HIGH LEVEL STUFF YOU HAVE SEEN AT THE GAMES, SEEN IT PREVIOUSLY AND IT OPENED THE DOOR FOR NEW TALENTS AND PLENTY OF THE — I WILL NOT SAY ALL OF THE TALENT, THAT IS NOT WAWA IT IS, BUT SOME OF THE MORE ESTABLISHED FACES. ≫ YES. ≫ THREE ROUNDS DOWN, ATHLETES ON THE COURSE, STARTING THEIR FOURTH ROUND. EVERY ROUND IS STARTING WITH THAT RUN, FINISHING WITH THE BAR AND INTERESTING TO SEE ELLA WILKINSON LED FROM THE START, INCREASING HER LEAD ROUND TO ROUND. SITTING IN THAT CORNER SPOT, CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THE NEXT ONE LOOKS LIKE IF THAT IS SWEET SPOT. CAN I GET OUT AHEAD AND AWAY FROM EVERYONE’S VIEWING. ONCE YOU RUN IN, EVERYONE CAN SEE EACH OTHER THEY ARE NOT LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. LOOKING AT THE BAR BOUNCING AND PICKING IT UP. MAY BE A GREAT SPOT AS WILKINSON MAKES HER WAY INTO THE STADIUM AT THE LDLC ARENA AND IT IS FILLING UP MORE AND MORE AS THE MINUTES GO BY. HAY WAY THROUGH DAY ONE OF COMPETITION HERE AT THE 2024 FRENCH THROWDOWN. ≫ IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY. IT IS FRIDAY, IN THE MIDDLE OF A WORKING DAY AND ALREADY PEOPLE ARE COMING IN — ≫ PEOPLE WITH FLAGS AND THIS IS COOL. ≫ FANS ARE THE FANS NEXT LEVEL. THEY FRIDAY FLARES AND DRUMS. THE ONLY TIME I WAS EVER TEAR-GASSED AT AN EVENT WAS IN FRANCE. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ LISTEN, CROSSFIT FANS, LAUREN HAS CHALLENGED YOU IF YOU DO NOT COME IN HERE, SAVE TEAR GAS FOR PODIUM CEREMONY. WE NEED TO SPICE IT UP. ≫ IT IS A FUN STORY, NOT A PLEASANT EXPERIENCE. ≫ WILKINSON TOP PART OF THE SCREEN IS OUT, FIFTH AND FINAL ROUND. NOW, THERE IS ONLY TWO HEATS HERE. TYPICALLY, WITH 40, WE HAVE FOUR HEATS OF 10. ≫ TWO HEATS OF 20. ≫ SO, THIRD IS REBECCA IN LANE 7. AND SHE HAS HAD A REAL CHANGE. NEW COACHING PROGRAM, SHE IS NOW WITH. [ INAUDIBLE ] AND IT PAID OUT WITH THAT INCREDIBLE. [ INAUDIBLE ] BUT SHE HAD A — MAYBE NOW THERE IS CONSISTENCY. [ INAUDIBLE ] TO GET THE BEST — GOT ONE OF THE LAST SPOTS FOR THE CROSSFIT GAMES IN THE BUBBLE AND FIRST TIME SHE HAD EVER DONE THAT. NOW SHE KNOW WAS TO EXPECT. I DON’T EXPECT IT TO. [ INAUDIBLE ] SECOND HEAT COME TOMORROW. ≫ IN THE BACK SHORTS MAKING HER WAY AROUND ATHLETES, IN THIRD, WILKINSON IS THE TOP AND THEN CONNIE AND THEN REBECCA. SHE WAS 25th AT THE GAMES LAST YEAR BEING HER FIRST TIME MAKING IT INDIVIDUALLY. BUT TO HAVE THAT AND COME BACK AND I THINK SHE IS SET UP WELL THIS THREE AT SEMIFINALS. BUT THE NUMBER OF ATHLETES WE HAVE THAT HAVE GAMES EXPERIENCE FAR OUTWEIGH THE NUMBER OF SPOTS THAT ATHLETES WILL GET TO CROSSFIT GAMES AND IT WILL BE HARD-FOUGHT ALL WEEKEND LONG TO GET INSIDE OF THE TOP COMPETITORS. ≫ IT IS TERRIFYING. I’M SO EXCITED. I’M SO SAD FOR THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BE SO CLOSE, YET NOT GOING TO MAKE IT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IF YOU WANT FIGHT, YOU WANT A SPORT THAT CAN PROMISE EVERYTHING EXCITING AND LIKE A — THE SPORT IS EXCITING TO WATCH AND IT IS A VERY GOOD THING. ≫ WE ARE APPROACHING THE 20-MINUTE MARK HERE. THIS IS INDIVIDUAL EVENT 1 FOR THE WOMEN. HAD TWO TEAM EVENTS TODAY ALREADY. BUT AS THE INDIVIDUALS — WE HAVE ONE MORE TEAM EVENT TO GO TODAY. DO THEIR VERSION OF THIS EVENT, FIVE ROUNDS FOR TIME, 800-METER RUN AND THERE WILL BE MORE EVENTS COMING UP. THESE TEAMS, THAT EVENT 1 WAS A POTENT TEST OF TEAMWORK AND FITNESS FOR SURE. YOU GET A BIT OF A BREAK WITH A LIFT BUT THEY ARE COMING BACK THIS AFTERNOON AND GETTING HAMMERED AGAIN. ≫ IT IS A FULL-OUT SCHEDULE FOR THE TEAMS. ≫ THAT INVITATIONAL TEAM COMPETITION THAT WAS OUT IN MALLORCA, SHE IS. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ 17. ≫ PROBABLY THE YOUNGEST IN THE FIELD. ≫ AND HERE COMES ELLA WILKINSON AND SHE IS 10 CLEAN JERKS AWAY FROM TAKING HEAT 1. KNOWING FULL-WELL THERE IS A SECOND HEAT OF PRETTY FORMIDABLE ATHLETES. INCLUDING. YOUR REIGNING CROSSFIT JAMES CHAMPION LAURA HORVATH. ELLA, 24 YEARS OLD, HIGH PERFORMANCE CROSSFIT LED END TO END SO FAR. AND SHE IS FIVE REPS IN AND NOT A SOUL HAS STEPPED INTO ARENA TO MATCH HER. SO LOOKS LIKE ELLA WILKINSON WILL SET THE TIME TO BEAT. JUST AS CONNIE MAKES HER WAY INTO THE ARENA. ≫ NOT BIASED WHAT A HEAT FOR U.K. CROSSFIT. AND FOR TWO YOUNG WOMEN TO BE SETTING STANDARD. THAT IS REALLY EXCITING. ≫ ELLA WILKINSON 24 YEARS OLD OUT OF THE U.K. , CONNIE HER FIRST TIME AT SEMIFINALS. SHE IS 20 YEARS OLD OUT OF CROSSFIT WEST YORKSHIRE AND REBECCA IS COMING IN. TOUCH AND GO. CONNIE BETTER LOOK TO THE RIGHT. CONNIE HAS 4 REPS TO GO BUT REBECCA VITTISON. ≫ HANGING ONTO BARBELL, 3 REPS TO GO. 2 REPS LEFT FOR REBECCA. ONE MORE FOR VITTESON. ≫ NECK-IN-NECK. ≫ SEE THE OFFICIAL TIME. BECAUSE THAT IS NOTHING BUT A PHOTO FINISH BETWEEN REBECCA AND CONNIE. AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO SEE, QUESTION WAS HOW DO YOU MANAGE BARBELL, DO I DO FIVE TOUCH AND GO OR SINGLES OR SINGLES ALL WAY THROUGH AND WHAT REBECCA DID IS WHAT SOME ATHLETES HAVE TO DO IN THE SECOND HEAT, HANG ON AND TRY TO GET THAT DONE AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN. SHE CAUGHT UP ABOUT 15 SECONDS. ≫ THEY ARE SAYING THAT IT IS A TIE ON THE FLOOR. WOW! ≫ PART OF THAT, TOO, IS THAT WE DON’T HAVE FINISH LINE ON THIS EVENT AND WE DO ON OTHER EVENTS BUT NOT HERE. WHEN IT COMES TO HAND TIMER, THAT IS UNOFFICIAL. WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OFFICIAL CLOCKS WILL BE BASED ON THE HAND CLOCKS THAT SHE WILL GO BY. BUT, I MEAN, I COULDN’T TELL YOU WHO WON BETWEEN THE TWO. ≫ NO, DONE BY FINAL — ≫ AND WILKINSON WON, 21:41 IS HER TIME. AS WE ARE APPROACHING 24 MINUTE MARK. AND IN THIS EVENT IT IS A 30-MINUTE TIME CAP. TALKING TO ADRIAN BOZMAN THIS MORNING LAUREN S THAT TIME CAPS CAN BE USED IN A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT WAYS. ONE COULD BE IN A WAY THAT ALLOWS EVERYONE TO EXPERIENCE THE EVENT. EVERYBODY SHOULD DO RUNS AND CLEAN AND JERKS. IF YOU DON’T I DON’T WANT TO SAY THERE IS AN ADVANTAGE OF BEING LAST, THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADVANTAGE OF NOT BEING AS BEAT UP AS EVERYBODY ELSE AND TIME CAP EXTENDED 30 MINUTES THAT NOBODY WILL NEED. ON THE FLIPSIDE TIME CAP THAT IS MUCH SHORTER THAT WILL FORCE THE PACE OF THE EVENT. ≫ COMPLETELY. IT HAS MENTAL EFFECTS AS WELL. SOMETIMES YOU SEE A LONG TIME CAP AND GO OKAY, DEPENDING WHAT THE REST OF THE FIELD CAN DO, MAYBE I CAN TAKE THIS OFF. THERE IS SPACE AND TIME. SOME PEOPLE FORCE THEMSELVES TO BE A TIGHT TIME CAP AND PLAYS INTO MENTAL APPROACH TO WORKOUT WHICH COMES TO INDIVIDUAL. THE SHOES ARE OFF. ≫ CLASSIC. ≫ COUPLE OF ATHLETES COMING IN NOW TO CLOSE OUT CLEAN AND JERKS. ≫ CLEAN AND JERK FOR WOMEN, 10 REPS EACH ROUND 50 REPS TOTAL TO GO WITH 2. 5 MILES OF RUNNING-ISH. ≫ IN YOUR EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING DONE THIS WORKOUT, BATTERING ON THE LEGS, A LOT OF COMPROMISED RUNNING, IS THERE ENOUGH TIME TO BE. [ INAUDIBLE ] THEY HAVE A BIG GAP, WHERE DO YOU THINK. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ I THINK THIS IS NOT OUTSIDE OF ANYTHING THEY USUALLY DO ON A TYPICAL TRAINING DAY. ≫ IF IT WERE A SHORTER RUN WHERE INTENSITY NEEDS TO BE HIGHER, BARBELL WEIGHT THAT YOU HAVE THE CYCLE AND P IF YOU HAVE TO SQUAT, IF THIS WAS THRUSTERS — [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ WILL BE FOR THE TEAMS, MUCH DIFFERENT FEELING GOING INTO THE DAY. BUT I LIKE THE FACT THAT THIS IS THE LONGEST ONE TO DO, ONLY ONE THAT ATHLETES WILL DO ON THE INDIVIDUAL SIDE. EVERYBODY IS DONE, UNDERNEATH THAT 30-MINUTE TIME CAP NEW SCORE ON THE BOARD AND THAT IS 21:41 FROM ELLA WILKINSON AND MAGIC LANE 20. OUT THE DOOR FIRST, DISTANCE IS ALL THE SAME. GETTING OUT OF CHASING SIGHT FOR THE OTHER ATHLETES IS A MASSIVE ADVANTAGE, IF, IF YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. ≫ YES, I AM MOST INTERESTED LIKE, EVEN ELLA WILKINSON WHO I KNOW IS SO GOOD AT RUNNING I WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT IN THE LANE GOING FORWARD AND WHETHER IT HAS A TANGIBLE ADVANTAGE, DEFINITELY HELPS, ELLA IS A GOOD RUNNER AS ALWAYS. ≫ HEAT ONE IS DONE WILKINSON, UNOFFICIAL TIME 21:41 RIGHT BACK FOR SECOND AND FINAL HEAT IN 2023 CROSSFIT GAMES CHAMPION LAUREL HORVATH WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEKEND. ≫ ≫ ONE HEAT DOWN, ONE TO GO, INDIVIDUALS ARE TAKING THE STAGE ANNOUNCING ATHLETES ONE BY ONE AND THE SHEERS ARE GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER AS THESE 20 ATHLETES WILL BE TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE TIME BY ELLA WILKINSON SET IN THE FIRST HEAT, WHICH THERE ARE SOME ATHLETES IN THE MIX THAT WILL MAKE — NOT TO SAY THAT TIME WON’T STAND, GABBY IS OUT THERE, I SPOKE TO HER YESTERDAY, THAT IS THE ONE SHE IS THE MOST EXCITED ABOUT. ≫ REALLY? ≫ OF ALL SIX, THAT IS THE ONE SHE WANTS TO DO. SHE IS MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT ONE. ≫ EXCITED TO SEE WHAT SHE CAN DO OVER THE COURSE OF WEEKEND. COMING IN AS A DEFENDING CHAMP. HER BEST GAMES RESULTS, ON TRAJECTORY OF GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER AND NOW HER AND HORVATH ARE SPEND SO MUCH TRAIN LIVING AND TRAINING TOGETHER. AND THEY HAVE THE WALLEYE TEAM AROUND THEM AS WELL. GOT AN INCREDIBLE. [ INAUDIBLE ] COMMUNITY LOOKING OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER. ALL OF THAT COMBINED EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THE FITNESS WE KNOW THAT SHE HAS. I MEAN, THIS COULD BE — I WILL STATE MY CLAIM EARLY PODIUM CROSSFIT GAMES HERE FOR GABBY. ≫ GOOD PICK. NOT UNLIKE THE MEN. TO CRACK THE TOP FIVE ALONE IN MEN AND WOMEN LET ALONE PODIUM WILL BE WOW! TIA IS COMING BACK, LAURA IS RETURNING TO DEFEND, WHO IS TAKING THE THIRD? ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, GABBY MAY TAKE THIRD. TAKING THIRD. ALL RIGHT. GETTING SET. START THINGS OFF, START OFF WITH THAT 800-METER RUN ON THE RUN COURSE, 10 CLEAN AND JERKS AT 125, FIVE ROUNDS, 25 MINUTE CAP. NOBODY NEEDED IT IN HEAT 1, NOBODY WILL NEED IN IT HEAT 2 I WOULD NEED IT. ≫ I NEEDED IT. ≫ STAND BY. ≫ AND WE ARE OFF! HEAT 2 IN TO EVENT NUMBER 1 FOR THE WOMEN, TAKING ON FIVE ROUNDS, 800-METER RUN AND 10 CLEAN AND JERKS AT 125. TIME TO BEAT SET IN HEAT 1, 21:41 BY ELLA WILKINSON ATHLETES MAKE THEIR WAY ON THE COURSE. ≫ YOU KNOW WHERE MY EYES WENT IMMEDIATELY, LANE 19. THE ATHLETE THAT IS HOLDING THAT SPOT. ≫ HOLDING DOWN FOR THE. [ INAUDIBLE ] FIRST TIME SINCE REGIONAL’S ERA PUSHING 13 PLUS YEARS THAT ANNIE IS NOT COMPETING AND OTHERS ARE NOT COMPETING. IN MY OPINION, HAS BEEN THE LOST DAUGHTER COMPETING IN THE 2012 CROSSFIT GAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME. I TRIED TO SAY HER FULL NAME WHICH WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER. BUT, I THINK ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED NOT JUST DAUGHTERS OF THE CREW, BUT ATHLETES IN GENERAL, LONGEVITY AND SUCCESS, LOOK AT THIS, TRACK AND FIELD BACKGROUND COMING INTO THE SPORT AND THE WEIGHTLIFTING SHE DOES IN THE OFFSEASON, THIS LINES UP WELL FOR AN ATHLETE LIKE TURI. ≫ LAURA HORVATH WAS COMPETING, THE ONLY OTHER CROSSFITTER THERE. SO THE FACT THAT SHE IS IN LANE 19 PROVES THAT THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IS A FAST LANE. AND IN LANE 18, THE ATHLETE TOOK THE LEAD COMPLETELY UNKNOWN. ≫ WE KNOW SHE DID WELL IN THE OPEN AND MANAGED EXPECTATIONS IN QUARTER FINALS AND ON SEMIFINAL STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME. A LOT OF SUCCESS IN EVENTS THAT ODDLY ENOUGH DOING CROSSFIT MADE HER BETTER AT. WHO KNEW? CROSSFIT MOVEMENTS AT HIGH INTENSITY MAKES YOU BETTER AT. ≫ FUNCTIONAL FITNESS. SHE HAS A HUGE RUNNING BACKGROUND. ≫ YES. ≫ ELEMENT FOR ME ON THIS FOR HER WILL BE BARBELL WORK. THAT IS ONLY COMING TO HER TRAINING SCHEDULE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. DONE A BIT OF CROSSFIT BUT NEVER AT THE SEMIFINALS LEVEL THIS WORKOUT WILL BE A GREAT TEST OF ONE EXTREME STRENGTH VERSUS SOMETHING SHE LEARNED FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. ≫ GREAT EVENT TO PUT THAT THE TO TEST. WITH THAT BARBELL NOT A HEAVY WEIGHT IT IS FOR HIGH VOLUME AND THE WEIGHT YOU START TO FEEL IT MORE AS THOSE ROUNDS AND RUNS COME ON. SO ATHLETES ARE MAKING THEIR WAY AT A VERY, VERY FAST PACE. NOT SLOW AT ALL. AT THE 4-MINUTE MARK. ≫ SO AMY CRINKLE WAS THE FIRST TO BARBELL AND U.K. -BASED ATHLETE. THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF STRONG INDIVIDUALS, SURROUNDED BY A LOT OF GOOD INDIVIDUALS WHO COME TOGETHER AS TEAMS AND CAN MAKE IMPACT. ≫ JANE MUIR IS FIRST TO BARBELL TOP RIGHT CORNER IN PURPLE SHORTS AND BLACK TOP IN LANE 1, LONGEST TO RUN INSIDE OF THE ARENA. WHERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT CRINKLE IS OFF AEROBIC-BASED BACKGROUND AND THEN MUIR IN YELLOW AND BLACK. IN SECOND OVERALL, MUIR IS IN THIRD. CRINKLE IN THE LEAD. THERE WAS AN ATHLETE THAT WAS SCREAMING AT SPEED IN THE ARENA, BECAUSE, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE REALITY OF MEASURING THIS EVENT VERSUS SOMETHING THAT MYRIAM HAS EXPERIENCED A LOT OF SUCCESS AS WE MENTIONED AT MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF 1,000 METRE RUN AND THEN AN EXERCISE. SO NOW THIS IS — YES, THIS IS ONE THAT WHAT A GREAT WAY TO BASICALLY STEP FOOT ON THE SEMIFINAL FLOOR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AN EVENT LIKE THIS. IT IS GOOD FOR HER IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. HIGH SKILL AND FOR HER SUCCESS, FOR ROOKIE ATHLETES IS CAN I NOT GET SHAKEN BY THE FIRST EVENT, WHETHER IT IS SUCCESS OR FAILURE WHEN IT COMES TO THAT. I DON’T THINK SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SET UP BETTER FOR THE FIRST EVENT. ≫ FOR YOUNG ATHLETE ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE PEOPLE I HAVE COME ACROSS IN A LONG TIME. SHE COMPLETELY — FOCUS AT THAT AGE, SHE WENT OKAY, I’M EUROPEAN CHAMPION OF HIGH ROCKS, I WILL TO GO RACE AT A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. DEDICATED HER LIFE TO DOING THAT AND UNFORTUNATELY AT WORLD CHAMPION HAS TO WITHDRAW DUE TO BACK ISSUE THAT SHE COULDS NO KEEP HOLD OF AND HALFWAY THROUGH SAID I CAN’T DO THAT ANYMORE AND I SPOKE TO HER AND HER COACH, SHE TOOK A STEP AWAY, DID NOT GET ON ROWER OR GO FOR A RUN OR DO KETTLE BELL CARRY FOR 7 MONTHS MENTALLY AFTER EVERYTHING SHE PUT INTO IT AND FOR TO IT BLOW UP LIKE THAT SHE WENT NO. YOU MIGHT EVEN ARGUE THAT IT WAS NOT THE BEST PREP COMING INTO A FULL CROSSFIT SEASON BUT IT SHIFTED FOCUS TO STRENGTH CYCLING AND THINGS AND SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE THERE SHE WENT NO I’M GOING TO GIVE CROSSFIT A GOOD GO. THIS IS MY FOCUS. RACED ONE MAJOR IN VIENNA. FINISHED IT WAS AN ADMIRABLE PERFORMANCE BUT HER FOCUS HAS BEEN THIS AND ONLY THIS AND WHEN SHE FOCUSED ON SOMETHING WE ARE TALKING LASER, NOT LOOKING AT ANYTHING ELSE. ≫ A ROOKIE HERE IS TRUE, SHE IS NOT A ROOKIE TO EXPERIENCE, TALKING ABOUT HER WORLD CHAMPION SUCCESS. LIKE THAT TRANSFERS OVER AND IT IS FUNNY, USUALLY WE WILL SEE THE OPPOSITE. I DID CROSSFIT FOR A LONG TIME AND I FOUND A SPORT THAT I GOT GOOD AT BECAUSE I DID FUNCTIONAL TRAINING AND I COULD ADAPT TO OTHER THINGS AND SHE IS ALMOST GOING THE OPPOSITE WAY. ≫ AMY KRINGLE, OPENED UP A SUBSTANTIAL LEAD. ON THE OTHER ATHLETES AROUND HER. AND SAW REBECKA VITESSON IN THE PREVIOUS HEAT TOUCH AND GO ON THE LAST ROUND HANDSPRING L DID A SET OF 6. AND KRINGLE IS THE LEADER AND NEXT TWO IS THE ATHLETE CHASING HERE YELLOW AND BLACK IN THE TOP MIDDLE PART OF THIS ARENA WAS MUCH CLOSER AT THE FIRST ROUND AS KRINGLE OPENED UP SUBSTANTIAL LEAD. ≫ WHAT IS IN WATER IN THE U.K.? WILKINSON AND KRINGLE KNOW EACH OTHER WELL AND COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER. ≫ A PACK OF FOUR ATHLETES OUT THE DOOR TO CHASE AMY KRINGLE. ≫ YES. ≫ JENNY MUIR, ABOUT TO EXIT IN THE PINK SHORTS, OUTSIDE FOR THE THIRD ROUND. THERE ARE FIVE ROUNDS. APPROACHING 9-MINUTE MARK. TIME TO BEAT, 21:41 BY WILKINSON IN THE FIRST HEAT. BUT KRINGLE AN ATHLETE ON THE CUSP FOR UP AND COMING COULD POTENTIALLY BE A GAMES ATHLETE IN THE FUTURE, CAN SHE PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER AND FILL HOLES KEEPING HER OUT OF THE GAMES. HER NAME COME UP A FEW TIMES SHE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE CROSSFIT GAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME. ≫ 100%. HUGE FIGHT COMING IN AS ONE OF EUROPE’S WOMEN. AND I THINK MAYBE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, THERE WAS A BIT OF A DOUBT IN HERSELF. THAT SHE WAS CAPABLE OF DOING THOSE THINGS. WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE GROUP. IT SHOWS YOU WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT THAT IS. IN AMONGST THAT ENVIRONMENT EVERY SINGLE DAY AND HAVING THE SAME COACH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS ALL ALL OF THAT FEEDS INTO SELF BELIEF AND SYSTEMS THAT WHAT YOU’RE DOING WILL PAY OFF. ≫ AMY, THIS IS HER THIRD SEMIFINAL. TWO EVENT WINS IN THE SEMIFINAL ERA THAT WAS FIRST EVENT IN 2022 AND EVENT FIVE LAST YEAR IN 2023. ODDLY ENOUGH HAD AN 800-METER RUN WITH IT. ≫ PROBABLY ONE OF THE HIGHEST PROFILE CROSSFIT FIGURES IN EUROPE SHE WENT TO AIRPORT ON THE WAY TO FRANCE AND ON THE FRONT OF MAGAZINE WOMEN’S HEALTH. ≫ THAT WILL DO IT. ≫ SHE IS PROBABLY HAVING TO DEAL WITH THINGS THAT A LOT OF ATHLETES DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHEN IT COMES TO NOT LIKE OUR PRESS IN A CROSSFIT ECOSYSTEM PRESS, BUT THE PRESS AT LARGE. AND I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT THAT IS LIKE HAVING THAT ON THE SIDE AS WELL. WE SPOKE ABOUT JEN MUIR, SHE CAME ON THE SCENE LAST YEAR AND SHE TOOK AN EVENT WIN. ≫ FIRST EVENT. ≫ HAD A LOT OF MACHINE WORK. BIKE, SKI AND RUNNER. ≫ JEN HAD A HARD TIME WITH MUSCLE-UPS AND IN BERLIN AND KRINGLE IS BACK IN. ≫ FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME THINGS HAVE CHANGED. ≫ AMY ENTERING L WITH TOUCH AND GO. ≫ ABBY IS IN SECOND PLACE. EMMA BEHIND HER, ABBY IN GREEN, EMMA IN THE BLUE. AMY ENTERING L ON THE RIGHT SIDE HANDFULL OF ROUNDS — KRINGLE IS OFF TO 4th ROUND AT THE 12-MINUTE MARK. MAINTAINING HER LEAD. SHE IS RUNNING PAST GABBY AND EMMA WHO ARE TRYING TO KEEP PACE WITH HER FOR FIRST PLACE IN THIS HEAT. EVENT 1 FOR THE WOMEN, HEAT 2, 21:41 TIME TO BEAT SET BY WILKINSON. AND GABBY IS IN SECOND PLACE. AND EMMA IS NOW DONE. AMY KRINGLE, GABBY, EMMA, ONTO THE FOURTH-800-METER RUN. PACK OF 5 SPREAD TO TWO. ≫ KRINGLE IS KEEPING COMPANY IN THE LEADING GROUP. ≫ ATHLETE IN YELLOW AND BLACK IS EXITING. JENNY MUIR IN PINK IS AHEAD OF ALL OF THESE LADIES AS FAR AS PACE IS CONCERNED, MUIR IS IN LANE 18. LANE 1 ATHLETE RUNS FURTHER INSIDE, NOT FURTHER OVERALL FURTHER INSEED TO GET BACK OUTSIDE. THAT IS ONE UNIQUE ELEMENT ABOUT THIS SINCE THEY ARE FACING EACH OTHER, THEY ARE RUNNING SAME DISTANCE. SOME RUN FURTHER OUTSIDE OR HOW THEY GET TO BARBELL OR WHERE THEY START IS DIFFERENCE-MAKER. ≫ SAFEST WAY TO DO IT. ≫ AND THE FAIREST WAY. ≫ COUPLE OF OTHER ATHLETES ON THE FLOOR , DAL STROM AFTER DROPPING OUT LAST YEAR IN BERLIN, NOT PUNCHING A TICKET TO THE GAMES SHE IS BACK OUT AND LOOKING TO MAKE AN IMPACT. SHE WAS WITH THE PROGRAM AND HER BOYFRIEND JOHN SINGLETON NOW SHE MOVED TO HARD WORK PAYS OFF CAMP. STILL TRAINING WITH THE SAME GROUP SHE HAS. BUT WITH PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORTS FROM OTHERS. ≫ FOURTH ROUND FOR EVENT 1 FOR THE WOMEN. THE FIELD IS GETTING STRETCHED MORE AND MORE. AS WE HAD SOME BREAKS IN ARENA WHILE EVERYBODY WAS RUNNING. AND DEPENDING ON THE PACE WE SEE, MAY SEE KRINGLE MAKE HER WAY IN BEFORE LAST ATHLETE LEAVES, MCGONIGAL WHITE TOP, BROWN SHORTS, THREE TIME CROSSFIT GAMES ATHLETE, WINS 14 TO 15 DIVISION AND THEN 16 TO 17, WON THAT ONE AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ATHLETES SEEN A LOT OF YOUNG SUCCESS FOR AMERICAN TEAM FEMALES LISA COULD BE NEXT ONE IN EUROPE. ≫ SO MUCH TIME ABOUT WHAT CAMP SHE WOULD GO WITH. TRAINING OUT OF IRELAND AND COMFORTABLE BUT WE KNEW THAT PEOPLE WERE APPROACHING HER, SETTLED WITH A CAMP. I SPOKE TO HER THE OTHER DAY, AND SHE TOLD ME HOW MIND-BLOWING IT IS TO GO TO TALK TO AND ASK FOR ADVICE FROM HER IDOLNESS THE SPORT. AND ENJOYING THAT PROCESS AT THE MOMENT, STILL SUPER YOUNG. ≫ MELISSA OUT OF IRELAND, 17 YEARS OLD. HER WORST FINISH LAST YEAR WAS EVENT 1. NOT UNCOMMON TO SEE THAT. AMY KRINGLE AND GABBY HAS CLOSED DISTANCE ON HER IN THAT FOURTH RUN. AMY TOUCH AND GO FIRST FEW SETS. GABBY MIG GALA. EMMA IN THIRD AMY KRINGLE WHITE TOP BLUE SHORTS TOUCH AND GO MORE REPS TO GO FOR KRINGLE. FIVE REPS FOR MIGALA, MIGALA 2 REPS LEFT TO GO. LAURA HORVATH TO BARBELL IN BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN. MIGALA 15 SECONDS BEHIND KRINGLE. AND MIGALA MAY BE ABLE TO CLOSE DISTANCE. ≫ SHE KNOWS THAT SHE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LAST ROUND SHE HAS ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO WORK LATER. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ EMMA IS IN THIRD OUT THE DOOR FOR FINAL RUN. ≫ EMMA. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ EMMA IS HERE WITH DAVID WHO DID NOT MAKE SEMIFINALS MADNESS GIVEN SKILL OF THAT MAN. ALONGSIDE PHILLIP. ≫ LAURA HORVATH IS OUT THE DOOR. MUIR. ≫ RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IN BLUE PANTS WHITE TOP, ONE OF THE ATHLETES TRYING TO GET BACK TO CROSSFIT GAMES. ≫ I WAS IN THE UAE WITH HER AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, CONTINGENT. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ AND SHE WON I THINK IT WAS ALL BUT ONE EVENT AT THAT COMPETITION WE WERE AT. AND IT WAS A FIELD THAT WAS DEEP WITH HER OWN COUNTRY WOMEN. BUT SHE DID HAVE A RESULT SHE GETS BETTER AND BETTER NOT A LEADER BOARD WATCHER. I FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY. ≫ I DID THAT WITH VALERIE ONCE AND I NEVER DID IT AGAIN. ≫ THERE YOU GO. ≫ NOW WE DO WORD ASSOCIATION I SAY A WORD. ≫ THAT IS HOW WE DO IT RIGHT! WE ARE SLOWLY GETTING TO 20 MINUTE MARK AT 19:20. 21:41 TIME TO BEAT SET BY WILKINSON IN HEAT 1. AND THE QUESTION IS, IS AMY CRINGLE HAVE THE LEAD SHE HAD GOING OUT OR WILL GABBY MIGALA CLOSE DISTANCE ON CRINKLE? MIGALA HAS ONLY DONE SINGLES THIS ENTIRE TIME. IS THIS SAME THING AS HEAT ONE IS GABBY SAVING HER POTENTIAL ON THE BAR? THE NEXT ATHLETE IS COMING IN FOR THE FOURTH ROUND OF CLEAN AND JERKS. ≫ THERE IT IS CRINGLE WILL GET TO HER BAR FIRST BUT GABBY MIGALA WILL GET THERE ABOUT SAME TIME. ≫ MASSIVE. TOUCH AND GO FROM BOTH LADIES. ≫ CRINGLE TWO REPS. ≫ MIGALA CYCLING BAR FOR FIRST TIME. ≫ CRINGLE DROPS THE BAR. HER COMES MIGALA. ≫ CRINKLE CYCLE RATE SO FAST. ≫ CRINGLE DROPS BAR CAN GABBY HOLD ON? THREE REPS TO GO, GABBY DROPS THE BAR. THREE REPS TO GO FOR CRINGLE, CRINKLE 2. HERE COMES GABBY MIGALA. ONE MORE REP TO GO FOR GABBY. AND MIGALA AT 21:10 WITH CRINGLE BEHIND HER AT 21:13. ≫ THAT IS WHY WE LOVE THIS SPORT. THAT WAS AWESOME. ≫ GABBY PLAYED EVERY SINGLE ROUND, EATING INTO THE TIME. ≫ LAURA HORVATH HAS BEEN JUST LURKING IN THE BACK FOR THE LAST THREE ROUNDS. IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. WE HAVE A RACE FOR THIRD PLACE. AGAINST THE CLOCK AND IT LOOKS LIKE ELLA WILKINSON’S TIME WILL STAND, TAKES THIRD. EMMA TALL IS DONE. EMMA TALL, THIRD IN THE HEAT, BUT HORVATH IS TRYING TO GET IN TO THAT TOP FIVE IN THIS HEAT, POTENTIALLY TOP FIVE IN THE EVENT. ≫ YOU MIGHT REMEMBER LAST YEAR, WITH HORVATH AND THE SEMIFINALS. ≫ MUIR WE TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE IT HAPPENED, KNEW THAT JEN WILL BE LAST IN FIRST ON THE BAR. JEN MUIR TAKE TOP FIVE FINNISH THIS EVENT. ≫ AND HORVATH EASED THROUGH OPENING DAY. DID NOT MAKE A BIG STATEMENT. SHE KEPT IT COOL AND CASUAL. ≫ AND WITH LAURA HORVATH I THINK ONE OF THE WORST FINISHES WAS THE FIRST EVENT LAST YEAR AT 2023 EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS. WHERE SHE TOOK 23rd IN THAT EVENT. A MUCH BETTER START FOR HORVATH THIS YEAR THAN LAST YEAR AND HOW ABOUT GABBY MIGALA. THAT IS — ONE SHE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST. ≫ SEE WHY. ≫ WE CAN SEE WHY. GREAT RUN SORRY GOOD ON BARBELL. HAVE HER CHALLENGE ON DAY 3. I BELIEVE IT IS DAY TWO WITH ROPE CLIMB. NOT OUT OF THE WOODS FOR GABBY. ISSUE IN THE PAST, TALKED TO HER COACH ABOUT IT YESTERDAY, THAT IS A THING OF THE PAST. ≫ I HAD THAT CONVERSATION IN BERLIN LAST YEAR AND LAST YEAR SHE DOMINATED THE WORKOUT FOR ROPE CLIMB. IT IS NOT SOMETHING SHE LET DRAG THROUGH THE YEARS. I THINK MUCH LESS OF A CONCERN. ≫ BOTTOM PART OF THE SCREEN, CLAUDIA WORKING THROUGH LAST SET OF CLEAN AND JERKS. ≫ ANOTHER ATHLETE IS COMING IN FROM THE RUN. HER BAR IS ON THE BACK SIDE. IN LANE — ≫ 19. ≫ LANE 19. ≫ NOW CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OTHERS IN TRAINING. I THINK SHE FOUND A BIT OF FAMILY THERE SHE HASN’T HAD IN PREVIOUS YEARS. ≫ 30 MINUTES IS TIME CAP, ATHLETES HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET THROUGH THIS. NOT A LOT OF FAN FAIR WITH WHO IS COACHING OR TRAINING HER. SHE IS DOING IT ON HER OWN. ≫ YES. ≫ AND SHE HAS OTHER TRAINING PARTNERS. ≫ HOLLY TYNAN IS DONE. HOGER. 5 MINUTES LEFT TO GO COULD BE MCGONIGAL. TOUGH START FOR HER. ROUGH START LAST YEAR. OF 60 ATHLETES THAT COMPETED LAST YEAR IT WAS LUCY’S WORST FINISH. AS SHE TOOK 55th OUT OF THOSE 60. NOT UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY FOR HER. FINISHED WELL OVERALL AT THE SEMIFINALS LAST YEAR. WITH FIVE EVENTS REMAINING. STILL A LOT OF TIME FOR HER TO SHINE AS SHE — COUPLE OF GYMNASTICS EVENTS COMING UP THAT SHE CAN MAKE UP ROUND ON. SHE TOOK FIRST IN THE EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL, IN QUARTER FINALS IN 24.3. WHICH WAS ALL GYMNASTICS BASED WITH HANDSTAND PUSH-UP. McGONE ANY CAL 10 REPS AWAY TO CLOSE OUT HER FIRST EVENT OF THE WEEKEND. ≫ I KNOW COMING IN TO LAST YEAR IT WAS A BONUS. STILL COMPETING TEEN AND JUST LIKE A FEELER. THIS TIME I CAN IMAGINE NOW AT ELITE LEVEL STILL A FEELER BUT HAVING DONE IT ONCE DOES THAT MENTALITY CHANGE? DO YOU WANT TO GO IN FOR THE BIG WINS OR IS THIS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR HER. ≫ THREE REPS FOR MCGONIGAL. ≫ FINAL REP FOR McGONE NIGGLE. ≫ I SPOKE TO ATHLETES AND THE APPROACH HAS BEEN INTERESTING. IT IS A CLEAR DIVIDE FOR THOSE, I HAVE TESTED THEM ALL BUT NOT WITH. [ INAUDIBLE ] AND THOSE WHO GO I’M NOT TESTING THOSE BAD BOYS THEY KNOW THE PAIN AND WILL NOT WANT TO DO THEM TO SAME EXECUTION ON GAME DAY. ONE OF THEM WAS BUILDING THEM TO TEST REPETITIVE MOVEMENT AND SO IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE DIFFERENT ATHLETES AND DIFFERENT COACHES HAVE STRATEGIZED TRAINING FOR THIS WEEKEND. ≫ WELL, THEY HAVE GOT TWO HEATS DOWN FOR THE INDIVIDUAL MEN, THE MEN WILL TAKE THE FLOOR FOR THE FIRST TIME COMING UP NEXT AS GUDMUNDSSON TRIES TO MAKE BID FOR THE FIRST ATHLETE TO QUALIFY 11 TIMES. BEN SMITH MADE IT 11. AND BKG MIGHT BE DOING IT THE OG WAY. AND WILL THERE WILL BE BUILDING OFF THE FINALS? ≫ DUDE I’M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. ≫ DID YOU JUST DUDE ME? ≫ SORRY. ≫ THAT IS THE MORE AMERICAN THING I JUST EXUDED IT IS MY FAULT. ≫ SO EXCITED ABOUT THE CONVERSATION THAT I HAVE DOWN THE BOX OR PUB WHENEVER IT IS WHEN I ANNOY PEOPLE WITH MY TALK ON CROSS FIT AND EXCITED ABOUT FINS IN GENERAL. THEY ARE CONSISTENT TRAINING AND HAD A HABIT OF OVERTRAINING IN THE PAST. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE, HAVE I BEEN DOING ENOUGH, I WILL DO MORE. HE HAS BEEN ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW, GREAT LAST YEAR THE BEST WE HAVE SEEN AND THIS YEAR WITH OPEN AND QUARTER FINAL PERFORMANCE WITHOUT ARGUING TRYING TOO HARD, EXCITED TO SEE HOW HE PUTS IT ON THE FLOOR AND TRAINING WITH HENRY WHO HAS TWO BACK-TO-BACK SECOND PLACE FINISHES — ≫ QUIETLY BY THE WAY. ≫ NO ONE TALKS ABOUT HIM WHICH IS MADNESS. ≫ WERE YOU ABOUT TO SAY THE F-WORD? ≫ NO, TALKING ABOUT HENRY HE IS AN ABSOLUTE ANIMAL. THROW IN A BIT OF MACHINE WORK AND ERG WORK AND HE IS SO POWERFUL AND IN HIS HEAD I HAVE 2 SECONDS ONE THING REMAINING FOR ME TO DO TAKE TOP SPOT AND BKG IS INTERESTING, HE HAS ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS IN EVERY SINGLE CAPACITY TO BLOW THIS OUT OF THE WATER I FEEL THAT HE DOESN’T FEEL HE HAS TO WHICH IS A CONFIDENCE IN HIS ABILITY. HE KNOWS HE WILL GET TO CROSSFIT GAMES AND THAT IS WHEN HE IS GOING FOR THE FURTHER PODIUM POSITIONS AND THE BEST PERFORMANCE POSSIBLE. BUT HE DID GRAB THE MICROPHONE OUT OF MY HAND AND I’M NOT LEAVING — I’M NOT DONE. ≫ NOT DONE YET. ≫ HE IS NOT EVEN THAT OLD. ≫ NO HE IS NOT. ≫ THAT IS COMING UP NEXT WOMEN ARE DONE FOR THE DAY. BACK TOMORROW, TWO EVENTS ON SATURDAY, THREE ON SUNDAY AND WE HAVE ANOTHER TEAM EVENT COMING UP AFTER THEY ARE DONE. INDIVIDUAL MEN COMING UP IN 15 OR 20 MINUTES DON’T GO ANYWHERE. BE RIGHT BACK. ≫ MEN ARE TAKING THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEKEND, INDIVIDUAL EVENT NUMBER 1 AND TAKE ON FIVE ROUNDS 800-METER RUN AND 10 CLEAN AND JERKS. WITH ME IS GOMAR. ≫ YES. ≫ AS A PROGRAMMING NERD WATCHING YOUR STUFF ON INSTAGRAM AND WHAT YOU PUT TOGETHER IS A NICE BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO, WHAT GOT YOU STARTED WITH THAT. [ INAUDIBLE ] BY CRAFT SO I STARTED DOING — I WAS INTO SCIENCE MY WHOLE LIFE AND DOING EXPERIMENTS IN THE LAB AND READING ALL OF THESE PAPERS AND THEY DID NOT GET TO THE TRAINERS OR TO THE COACHES. WHY IS NO ONE DOING THIS. AND WE EXPLAINED THIS TO GENERAL PUBLIC. ≫ METAPHORICAL PROGRAMMING NERD AND YOU ARE A NERD? ≫ I AM A NERD. ≫ I LOVE WHAT YOU DO AND GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE WE ARE GOING TO TALK CROSSFIT INDIVIDUAL EVENT NUMBER 1. IN THIS HEAT SOME GAMES ATHLETES THAT MADE A BIG SPLASH ON THE SCENE, LAZAR, ENRICO AND MORE ATHLETES WILL BE IN THIS HEAT. QUARTER FINALS SOME PENALTIES THAT GOT THEM IN FIRST HEAT. FORTUNATELY FOR THEM THERE IS ONLY ONE EVENT ON DAY ONE AND GET RE-SEEDED GOING TO DAY 2. ≫ YES. ≫ FOR THE WOMENS’ SIDE, 800-METER SIDE, DO A LAP AROUND ARENA TO MAKE THINGS FLOOR, DEPENDING ON WHERE ATHLETES WERE THEY COULD HIDE THEMSELVES ON GETTING PAST BECAUSE OF THE SWITCHBACKS OUTSIDE. SERIOUS, NOW, WE SAW DIFFERENT STRATEGIES WITH CYCLING OF A BARBELL, TOUCH AND GO SINGLES TALKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER BEFORE WE GOT ON CAMERA. I THINK IN THE STRENGTHS OF THE ATHLETES ON WHAT WORKS BEST FOR THEM DEPENDING ON WHEN THEY COULD DO THAT OR KEEP THEM AT CONSISTENT PACE. ≫ IF YOU CAN DO IT, DO IT AT THE END. ≫ INDIVIDUAL MEN, EVENT 1 OFF TAKING THE FLOOR FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE LDLC ARENA IN LYONS FRANCE, AS 2024 CROSSFIT SEMIFINAL FORCE EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS IS UNDERWAY STARTING OFF WITH 800-METER RUN. SWITCHBACK OUTSIDE AND MAKE THEIR WAY INSIDE. NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT YOU STARTED AND WHAT YOU WANTED TO PUT OUT THERE, YOU SAW A NEED AND YOU WANTED TO INSTEAD OF HEY LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE THIS, YOU WENT OUT THERE AND MADE IT? ≫ YES, I MET MY CO-FOUNDER, HE IS NOT HERE, AND WE MET VIA TWITTER AND I SAID WE ARE READING ALL OF THESE PAPERS. ≫ HOW ALL BUDDING RELATIONSHIPS START. ≫ IT IS TRUE. I NEVER MET HIM IN PERSON SAID WE HAVE TO DO THIS AND INTERESTED IN STRENGTH SPORTS ENDURANCE AND CROSSFIT. SO THEN AFTER A WHILE, ONE OR TWO YEARS, MORE STUDIES ON CROSSFIT CAME OUT. IT WAS EASY, WE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT AND IT GREW ORGANICALLY AND PEOPLE SEEMED TO LIKE IT. ≫ I LIKE IT. AND WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT, I FOLLOW A SLEW OF OTHER SPORTS IN THE SPACE AND THEY ALWAYS HAD SPORTS SCIENCE. IT WAS TRAJECTORY ANGLE OF QUARTERBACK THROWING FOOTBALL THAT GETS MAXIMUM DISTANCE IF WE TOOK PHYSICS IS 30 DEGREES AND THEN YOU LOOK AT WIND FACTOR ORS WEIGHT MOVEMENT OR WEIGHT DISPLACEMENT AND THE FACT THAT YOU ARE BRINGING SOME OF THAT INTO THE CROSSFIT SPACE I THINK IS COOL, BUT IT IS ALSO BEYOND THAT AS YOU LOOK AT — WHAT ARE THE OTHER TRENDS YOU GUYS FOCUS ON. ≫ WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN IS THAT CROSSFIT IS ENDURANCE AND STRENGTH AT THE SAME TIME, A GOOD EXAMPLE HERE. AND WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE GOOD AT CROSSFIT BUT NOT THE BEST IN OTHER SAY STRENGTH SPORTS OR ELITE ENDURANCE SPORTS. SEEMS THAT SOME CROSSFITS CAN DISTRIBUTE BLOODFLOW PERFECTLY TO DO CROSSFIT WE DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS AS HUMANS AND SCIENTISTS, CROSSFIT IS INTERESTING AND YOU DO WHAT YOU FIND INTEREST IN. ≫ TRUE. THAT IS WHY I’M HERE. ≫ EXACTLY. ≫ I THINK THEY ARE COMING IN. ≫ MEN ARE GETTING CLOSE, 2:30 MARK. ON THE WOMEN’S SIDE COMING IN AROUND 3 MINUTE MARK. WE ARE PROBABLY ABOUT WITHIN 30 SECONDS OF COMING IN FOR THE FIRST RUN AND IF ANYBODY IS COMING IN AT SUB 3-MINUTE 800. THERE THEY ARE. ≫ YES. ≫ I HOPE THAT IS NOT A TRUE 800. BECAUSE WE MAY BE — YOU KNOW, YOU WOD SCIENCE YOU NEED TO MEASURE RUN COURSE TO SEE IF THAT IS A FEEL 5K. LASARUS IS FIRST. AND MICHAEL SMITH, BEEN TO GAMES BEFORE AND LOOKING TO SEE IF HE MAKES HIS WAY BACK, 6 FEET TALL, 210 NOT BUILT FOR RUNNING BUT DEFINITELY FOR MOVING A BARBELL. THIS IS HIS THIRD SEMIFINAL. AND HE HAS ONE EVENT WIN AND THAT CAME ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE 2014 REGIONALS, WHERE HE TOOK BEST FINISH 7. OUT THE DOOR AT 3:40 MICHAEL SMITH BEHIND HIM AT 3:45. TIGHTER IN THE FIRST RUN WINDOW. THAT TENDS TO SPREAD OUT A BITH. THE REST OF THE FIELD IS SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY OUT AFTER LOUISIANAAR DUKIC. ≫ WORKING TO THE NEXT RUN, SOME BARBELLS OUT HERE AND THERE IS OUTFITTING ALL OF THESE SEMIFINALS, AND THAT IS ROGUE FITNESS. AND THE FAULT THAT THEY BRING OUT, GET YOUR PHONES OUT, SCAN THE QR CODE NOW. AS — HERE IS WOD SCIENCE QUESTION SHORT BARS VERSUS REGULAR BARS WHEN IT COMES TO WEIGHTLIFTING, HOW ABOUT THAT? ≫ I HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. GOOD QUESTION. ≫ YOU WILL GET LESS WIDTH ON A SHORTER BAR. IT DOESN’T ADD WEIGHT BUT IT MAKES IT HARDER TO MOVE WHICH I THINK WOULD BE — THIS IS ME SAYING YOU DO THE WORK. YOU DO ALL THE WORK. YOU LOOK AT LEVERS AND PINCH POINTS OF WHERE THE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION IS AND THOSE SHORT BARS FEEL HEAVIER BECAUSE OF THE BACK OF WIDthFROM THE LONGER ONE. ≫ WITH TOUCH AND GO MOVEMENTS I WOULD SAY, SO THAT MAY BE WHY THEY — WHY THEY WANT TO DO — TOUCH AND GO. ≫ THAT IS NOT WHY I DO SINGLES, I DO SINGLES BECAUSE I CAN’T TOUCH AND GO BLAME IT ON SHORT BARS. MEN OUT FOR THE SECOND RUN. LAZAR DUKIC IN THE FIRST HEAT, HE WON THIS SEMIFINAL IN 2023 IN BERLIN, HOW MAN SEMIFINALS HAVE YOU BEEN TO? ≫ FIRST ONE. ≫ FIRST ONE? ALL RIGHT! COMING TO A GOOD ONE IN LYONS FRANCE, BEAUTIFUL WEATHER COLDER THAN I WAS PLANNING ON THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I LOOK AT CELSIUS INSTEAD OF DEGREES. ≫ INSIDE OF ARENA PLENTY OF OXYGEN GOOD FOR ATHLETES AND FOR THEIR HEALTH BECAUSE I THINK AFTER A LONG DAY SPECTATORS WHEN THERE IS NO — ≫ YEAH, YEAH, BREATHING UP EVERYBODY’S AIR. ≫ EXACTLY. ≫ LAZAR. BACK IN. ≫ HE LOOKS LIGHT-FOOTED. ≫ HOT ON HIS HEELS IS MICHAEL SMITH. DUKIC MOVING TO HIS BAR, MICHAEL SMITH MAY GET TO BAR NEARLY SAME TIME. MICHAEL CLOSED DISTANCE ON DUKIC ON THE LAST RUN, GOING FOR SINGLES SAME WITH MICHAEL SMITH. ≫ THAT IS WHAT I MEAN. LIKE THE DISTRIBUTION OF BLOOD FLOW. ALL OF THE BLOOD OR MOST OF THE BLOOD IS IN THE LOWER BODY. NOW THEY HAVE TO USE SHOULDERS IT IS A RELATIVELY HEAVY WEIGHT AFTER 7 OR 8 REPS. THIS IS WHERE ENDURANCE CAPACITY WINS. YOU NEED TO DISTRIBUTE THE BLOOD. ANOTHER THING WE DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT AND INTERESTING. ≫ WE TALK ABOUT THAT IN A CERTAIN STAND BUT IT IS MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT MISMANAGING YOUR MOVEMENT PATTERNS AND MAKING IT HARDER THAN IT IS WITH SLOPPY TECHNIQUE OR BAD REPS. ≫ LAZAR DUKIC OUT THE DOOR PUTTING HOW MUCH ROOM HE MADE ON MICHAEL SMITH. TIED WHEN THEY GOT TO THE BAR. SMITH IS 10 SECONDS BEHIND AFTER 10 REPS. ≫ MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IT IS NOT ONLY RUNNING. I WOULD SAY IT IS PREDOMINANTLY THE RUNNING, BUT 60/40. ≫ YOU THINK TIME ORIENTED AND SPENDING 60 OR 70% OF THE TIME ON THE RUN. HOWEVER THAT COMBO MAKE UP TIME ON THE RUN OR ON THE BARBELL. ESPECIALLY WHEN EVERYBODY IS DOING SINGLES. THIS IS A WAY YOU COULD TOUCH AND GO A DIFFERENT STORY. IF THERE IS LIGHTER, 1:55 OR 1:05 IT IS A WORKOUT YOU CAN’T GAIN ADVANTAGE ON BARBELL, 185 AND SERVE DOING SINGLES IS TIME BACK TO THE BAR, HOW EFFICIENT ARE YOU WITH THAT BAR. ≫ THAT IS RIGHT. WORKOUT, HEAVY ENOUGH BUT NOT TOO HEAVY. KEEP GOING. ≫ YOU THINK ABOUT, TOO, IT IS ALSO CLASSIC CROSSFIT MANIFESTED IN HEY ATHLETES RUN FAR, LIFT HEAVY AND BE NO ADRIAN BOZMAN. I FEEL LIKE EVERY YEAR NO MATTER WHAT COMPETITION IS ON THERE IS A RUN LIFTING COMBO ELEMENT SCORED DIFFERENTLY OR EVENLY PROGRAMMED IN A PARTICULAR EVENT. THIS IS A CLASSIC ADRIAN BOZMAN STAMP ON THE PROGRAM. ≫ TALK ABOUT HYBRID TRAINING, LIFTING HEAVY AND BE ABLE TO RUN. THAT IS WHY IT IS NOT ALSO ONE ABOUT YOU SAY METRICS OF ATHLETE THAT WILL WIN HERE. YOU CAN BE SOLID AND DO WELL, YOU JUST GOT LONGER STRIDES. YOU CAN BE RELATIVELY LIGHT BECAUSE THEN RUN FASTER BUT BARBELL IS HEAVIER. I THINK IT IS A BALANCED WORKOUT AND GOOD SEMIFINAL WORKOUT. ≫ GOOD TO SEE AN EVENT PROGRAM WHERE YOU DON’T PICK A PERSON BASED OFF STATURE KNOWING THAT THEY WILL WIN. SOME OF THE EVENTS ARE IN PLAY ESPECIALLY IN CROSSFIT, ANTHROPO METRICS PLAY A BIG THING IN CROSSFIT WE ARE DOING MOVEMENTS WITH OUR BODY. THE WAY THIS IS PROGRAMMED IT COULD BE TALE OF THREE ATHLETES. ENDURANCE BASED ATHLETE VERSUS STRENGTH OR SMALLER VERSUS BIGGER AND THEN THAT PERSON IN THE MIDDLE NOT HYBRID YOU ARE FIT, FITTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO FIND TO BEGIN WITH. ≫ DID A STUDY ON ELITE CROSSFIT ATHLETES AND METRICS THAT DETERMINES THEIR OPEN PERFORMANCE, NOT I THINK WHEN YOUR COME TO SEMIFINALS AND THE GAMES THEN IT IS MUCH LESS OF A FACTOR. IF YOU ARE A TALL PERSON, GET TO QUARTER FINALS AND YOU ARE GOOD. ≫ I’M CURIOUS TO SEE HOSTE TAKE THIS. LAZAR DUKIC IS DONE EXTENDED LEAD. SECOND RUN SMITH MADE UP TIME BUT AFTER THIRD ONE LAZAR RIGHT TO BARBELL WOW! TOP LEFT CORNER OF SCREEN WHITE SHIRT FIRST TO BARBELL FIRST OVERALL IN THE HEAT SINCE WE BEGAN AND THIS IS A MAN THAT DOES NOT WANT TO BE IN EARLY HEAT GOING INTO DAY TWO TOMORROW. ≫ HE WON’T BE. ≫ KNOWING THAT IN HEAT 1, A SECOND HEAT LEFT TO GO. LAZAR DUKIC WITH THE PACE HE HAS ON THIS BARBELL. IMPRESSIVE, EVEN THOUGH IT IS STILL SINGLES BUT IT IS NOT A LOT OF REST BEING TAKEN HERE. ≫ AROUND 3 TO 4 SECONDS PER REP. ≫ LAZAR DUKIC 11:40 DONE WITH ROUND 3 GOES OUT FOR FOURTH ROUND. MICHAEL SMITH IN BLUE AND BLACK. STILL HAS LOOKS LIKE 2 OR 3 REPS LEFT TO GO. ONE REP LEFT FOR MICHAEL SMITH. MAINTAINING THAT SECOND PLACE POSITION BUT LOSING TIME TO LAZAR DUKIC. ≫ I THINK HE RUNS CLOSE TO SAME PACE. ≫ YOU LOOK AT THE COMBO OF THESE TWO MOVEMENTS AS WE TALKED ABOUT. GOT THE RUN, CARDIOVASCULAR BASED HOWEVER WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUR LEGS ON THE CLEAN AND JERK, AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT MUSCLE GROUP IS JUST GOING TO SUCK ALL OF THE OXYGEN OUT OF YOUR BODY AND WILL BE THOSE LEGS. THE FACT THAT PLAYS INTO HOW WELL YOU CAN RECOVER OR MANAGE THAT FATIGUE ON THE RUNS. ≫ THAT IS BEAUTY OF CROSSFIT. YOU KNOW, YOU USE ONE MUSCLE GROUP IN CERTAIN WAY AND COME BACK TO ANOTHER MOVEMENT AND TAX IT AGAIN. ≫ JUST PAST THE 13-MINUTE MARK, 30-MINUTE CAPPED EVENT. AS YOUR TOP THREE GUYS IN THIS HEAT. ABSOLUTELY BLOWING THE DOORS OFF EVERYBODY ELSE. LAZAR DUKIC, MICHAEL SMITH AS TOP 2. EVEN IN THIS HEAT ENRIQUE COAND OTHER ATHLETES ALL IN THIS HEAT. ≫ YOU SEE AFTER THEY STOPPED THE LAST MOVEMENT — [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ KEEP GOING ONE OF THE NICE THINGS AS YOU SAID, STADIUM OR THIS ARENA IS GETTING BIGGER, MORE PEOPLE ARE COMING IN, GETTING WARMER IN HERE. OUTSIDE IT IS NICE, NICE AND COOL. GETTING OUTSIDE IS ONE OF THOSE — IT IS TRICKS OF THE BRAIN DURING AN EVENT WHEN YOU’RE GRASPING AT STRAWS, LET ME GET OUTSIDE AND I CAN FEEL BETTER ON GET AROUND THIS CORNER OR — YOU GOT TO START PLAYING THOSE GAMES WITH YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE OUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENT. ≫ THESE ATHLETES ARE RIDING THE RED LINE. ON THE THRESHOLD MAYBE BECAUSE IT IS A LONG WORKOUT TO START WITH, THIS WILL TAX THEM FOR THE NEXT EVENTS AND IT IS BEAUTIFULLY PROGRAMMED TO SEE WHO CAN RECOVER FROM A WORKOUT. IF IT IS 2 OR 3 MINUTE TREND THESE GUYS THEY CAN HANDLE THIS AND THIS IS LONG AND THEY WILL EXPEND A LOT OF ENERGY AND SUGAR OR GLYCOGEN. IT IS A GOOD STARTING EVENT I THINK. ≫ SINCE IT IS JUST ONE EVENT TODAY. IT IS A GOOD — YOU REALLY DON’T HAVE A LOT OF REASONS NOT TO PUSH YOURSELF BASICALLY, IN TO THE RED, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE GOT A FULL DAY TO RECOVER. LAZAR DUKIC AND THE SHIRT IS OFF. RUNNING AND LAZAR IS SUCH A GOOD RUNNER. HAS BEEN SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN. AND NO TIME WASTED, RUNNING TO THE BAR. PICKING IT UP RIGHT AWAY. NICE TIGHT EFFICIENT MOVEMENT ON THE CLEAN AND JERK TRANSITION FROM SHOULDER OVERHEAD. AND THE OTHER THING IS THE WAY HE IS HAVING THAT BAR DROP AND BOUNCE WHERE IT IS NOT ALL OVER THE PLACE OUT OF CONTROL. MICHAEL SMITH IN THE DOOR. AND LAZAR DUKIC HAS FIVE REPS LEFT TO GO MICHAEL SMITH YET TO GET TO HIS BAR. ≫ DOING WELL ON THE RUN. ≫ SMITH HOLDING HIS GROUND, BUT LAZAR DUKIC THREE REPS REMAINING. AND FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN A SIGN OF FATIGUE FROM LAZAR. ONE STEP BACK OLD TWO-STEP BACK. 16 MINUTES. LAZAR DUKIC. ONE FINAL ROUND TO GO. AND TAN TANK TOP CINCHING UP BELT MICHAEL SMITH WORKING ON 10 REPS, BOTTOM LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN AN ATHLETE IS TO HIS BAR. WORKING AROUND ON THE BACKSIDE. AND LANE 20, PARADEAS IS IN. ≫ BOTTOM LEFT OF THE SCREEN, TRYING TO HOLD ONTO FIFTH POSITION. NOT NECESSARILY HE GETS OFF THE BAR, BUT PARADILLOS IS THREE REPS BEHIND, THE OTHER ATHLETE HAS TO MAKE UP THE GROUND BETWEEN HIS LANE AND FERNANDOS. ≫ FERNANDO ONE REP LEFT LANE 20, CAPA LINE NEN COMES AROUND AND THIS IS HOW CLOSE THEY ARE. SO THEY ARE SITTING IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH PLACE POSITION RESPECTIVELY. ≫ THIS IS GREAT. ≫ DEFINITELY MUCH BETTER THAN SAY A RUNNER OR BETTER FOR THE — WE CAN’T SEE 800 BUT IT IS NICE FIGURATIVELY. ≫ IT IS SPREAD OUT. YOU CAN SEE ATHLETES MOVING. IT DOESN’T MATTER TOO MUCH TO BE HONEST. I LOVE IT. ≫ AND MORE NATURAL DISPLAY OF FITNESS. GET YOUR FEET ON THE PAVEMENT AND START TO RUN. IT IS NICE THAT THEY DID MAKE THAT CHANGO POSTED TO LAST YEAR. ≫ AND HEAT 1 OF MEN INDIVIDUAL EVENT 1. THE ONLY EVENT THEY WILL HAVE TODAY. DEFINITE WILL INCREASE DAY-TO-DAY, TWO EVENTS TOMORROW. AND THREE EVENTS TO CLOSE OUT THEIR SEMIFINALS ON SUNDAY. WE STILL HAVE THE TEAMS AS THEY ARE DOING THE OPPOSITE. THREE EVENTS TODAY, TWO EVENTS TOMORROW AND THEY WILL BE DONE. TEAMS WILL HAVE THEIR VERSION OF THIS EVENT COMING UP. I THINK IS THE WORST OF THE TWO. 800-METER RUNS AND THEN 15 WORM THRUSTERS BETWEEN EACH ROUND. PAST 19-MINUTE MARK. ≫ SEE THE BREAKS SLIGHTLY LONGER. AS YOU. [ INAUDIBLE ] OR DO YOU GO HARD AND THEN TRY TO HOLD ON. THIS IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF AS AN ATHLETE. ≫ THE LENGTH THAT THIS EVENT IS AS LAZAR IS COMING IN FOR HIS FIFTH AND FINAL ROUND. ≫ NOT GOING TO BEAT 20 MINUTE MARK HE WILL BE CLOSE. ≫ ONE REP IN FOR LAZAR DUKIC. ALL ALONE ON COMPETITION FLOOR. 40 SECOND LEAD ON SECOND PLACE MICHAEL SMITH. ≫ DUKIC IS DONE FIFTH REP. ≫ TOP TIME WAS 21:11. ≫ LAZAR DUKIC FOUR REPS LEFT TO GO SMITH MAKES HIS WAY TO THE BAR. WHAT A GREAT START FOR SMITH. ≫ MICHAEL SMITH BEEN IN THE GAMES ONCE IN 2019 IS TRYING TO SEE IF HE CAN MAKE HIS WAY BACK. 10 SPOTS FOR EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL FOR THE MEN AND LAZAR DUKIC IS DONE. ≫ WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF SOME PEOPLE GO UNBROKEN TO SHAVE OFF 5 OR 6 OR 7 SECONDS. ≫ HAAPALAINEN IS IN. HE WAS CHASING PARADILLOS. JUST PASSING HIM. SO HAAPALAINEN TURNED ON THE JETS AS SMITH CLOSES HIS EVENT OUT. 21:07 UNOFFICIALLY FOR MICHAEL SMITH. AND HAAPALAINEN WHO QUIETLY HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS HERE AT THE EUROPEAN SEMI-FINALS OVER THE YEARS. LAST YEAR TAKING SECOND PLACE OVERALL TO LAZAR DUKIC IN 2023. IN 2022 STRENGTH AND DEPTH HE TOOK SECOND PLACE, TWO BACK-TO-BACK SECOND PLACE FINISHES AT THE SEMIFINALS FOR HAAPALAINEN WHO FINISHES UP HIS EVENT. ≫ ENRICO WILL BE FOURTH OR FIFTH, SO THAT IS A GOOD RESULT FOR HIM I THINK. ≫ ENRICO ZENONI IS DONE, DOING EVERYONE DISSERVICE BY WEARING A SHIRT, HOW DARE YOU! ≫ WE ARE RUNNING OUTSIDE? ≫ LISTEN IF I LOOKED LIKE ZENONI I WOULD PROBABLY NEVER WEAR A SHIRT ANYWHERE, IN PUBLIC, ON A TRAIN! WHY DEPRIVE ANYBODY OF THAT? ≫ MAYBE WITH THE CLEAN AND JERKS IT MIGHT BE A BIT SLIPPERY. ≫ LET ME DREAM! FINAL REPS FOR HEAT 1 ATHLETES. WE JUST HAD THREE MAKE THEIR WAY IN. 10 REPS, 185, CLEAN AND JERK. 50 TOTAL REPS. ≫ WHAT IS FUN ABOUT THIS WORKOUT, YOU CAN DO IT AT AN RX ELITE ATHLETE YOURSELF. TRY TO PICK A WEIGHT YOU GO SINGLES AND NOT TOO LIGHT AND SEE IF YOU BEAT THE GUYS OR BE CLOSE TO THE SAME. THAT IS WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT PROGRAMMING. IT IS RELATABLE FOR PEOPLE AT HOME I THINK. ≫ WE SEE THAT THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND. THERE IS NOTHING CLEVER, CUTE, THERE THIS LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD MORE AS TO WHO IS FITTEST 10 GUYS AND FITTEST 10 GIRLS HERE. WE WILL NOT OUTTRICK YOU OR OUTPROGRAM YOU, GIVE YOU 6 EVENTS AND YOU GUYS GO TO BATTLE IT OUT FOR IT. WHAT IS THE WOD SCIENCE ON GAME DISTRIBUTION SPOTS, DO YOU WANT TO JUMP INTO THAT REALM. ≫ I’M BIASED HERE I WOULD SAY. ≫ I WILL LET YOU SPEAK TO IT. STAY QUIET HERE IN THE CORNER. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ I GOT INVITED BY YOU GUYS! ≫ COMING UP TO 25-MINUTE MARK. 30 SECONDS FROM THAT. STILL 5 MINUTES FROM THE 30-MINUTE TIME CAP, NO ONE IS IN DANGER OF THAT. TIME CAP EXTENDED TALKING TO ADRIAN BOZMAN HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE EXPERIENCES THIS WORKOUT TO THE FULLEST. ≫ HOW NICE OF HIM. ≫ WHAT A GENEROUS HUMAN BEING! ≫ TWO MORE REPS TO GO. ≫ FEELING AT THE MOMENT IT WAS ABOUT 5 MINUTES AGO WHEN LAZAR DUKIC CAME IN AND FINISHED THIS EVENT. SETTING THE TIME. WE STILL HAVE ONE HEAT LEFT TO GO LAZAR DUKIC. THEY WILL RESEAT TOMORROW AND LAZAR MAY BE IN THAT HEAT TOMORROW. ONE HEAT LEFT TO GO. PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU HERE. THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO, TO ADD TO CROSSFIT SPACE LOVE WHAT YOU DO. SECOND AND FINAL HEAT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL MEN COMING UP NEXT. ≫ WELCOME BACK, CASE THAT HERE AND LUCY CAMPBELL HAS ARRIVED WELCOME NICE TRIP IN EASY. ≫ SUPER SMOOTH. ≫ YOU ARRIVED BUT FRENCH HAVE ARRIVED YOU TOLD ME. IS THAT THE DRUM BEAT YOU HEAR? ≫ IT IS A DRUM CHANTING GETTING NOISY IN HERE. ≫ NOISY, DEPENDING ON HOW PEOPLE TAKE THAT FRENCH HAVE ARRIVED I HOPE SO, BECAUSE WE ARE LIVE FROM LYONS FRANCE FOR 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS AS THE SECOND HEAT AND FINAL HEAT OF THE INDIVIDUAL MEN TAKE THE FLOOR, LAZAR DUKIC 20:43, THAT WILL BE A HARD TIME TO BEAT WITH THESE ATHLETES. ≫ LAZAR HAS A BIT OF REPUTATION FOR THESE EVENTS HE IS A GOOD RUNNER. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF ANYONE CAN BE CLOSE TO THAT TIME AND BEAT IT. NOW THAT THEY KNOW THEY HAVE TIME TO BEAT. THERE WILL BE A BIT OF WATCHING THE CLOCK AND THAT KIND OF THING. IT WILL BE INTERESTING. YOU WANT A GOOD FINISH. INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. ≫ LOOK AT ATHLETES TAKING THE STAGE, LAZAR IS NOT USED TO BE IN THE FIRST HEAT LOOK AT THE NAMES ON THE BUSINESS, BKG, DUKIC IS IN FIRST HEAT, BENEITO, BUT JELLE IS TALLER AND LONGER AND HE CAN RUN IT IS NOT ABOUT BARBELL CYCLING IN THIS EVENT FOR THE MEN. ≫ NO, EXACTLY HE IS NOT KNOWN FOR THE STRENGTH SIDE OF THINGS, WE DO KNOW FROM THE EVENT THAT HE HAS A GOOD RUN IN HIM AND MOST OF THIS EVENT IS ALL ABOUT THE RUNNING AND ABOUT HOW FAST CAN YOU CYCLE NOT DOING SINGLES HOW FAST CAN YOU DO THAT WITHOUT AFFECTING THE RUNNING PITT PACE. ≫ LAST YEAR AT 2023, HOSTE WAS AN ATHLETE WE KNEW OF, COMES OUT WINS THE FIRST EVENT AND TWO MORE IN THE WEEKEND AND FINISHING 10th AT CROSSFIT GAMES AS ROOKIE AMAZING PERFORMANCE FOR HOSTE. GETTING IN THE GAMES ONE TIME IS ONE THING GETTING BACK TO GAMES ANOTHER TIME IS ANOTHER AND PRESSURE SPEAK TO THAT YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. THE PRESSURE TO GET BACK. DOES THAT OUTWEIGH THE — HOW MUCH YOU WANTED TO GET THERE THE FIRST TIME? ≫ I DON’T KNOW IF IT NECESSARILY OUTWEIGHS HOW MUCH YOU WANT IT THE FIRST TIME. IT IS NOT AN EXTERNAL THING, NO ONE IS LOOKING AT HIM AND IS SAYING HE HAS TO GET BACK NOW IT IS A PRESSURE. ≫ RIGHT. ≫ FEW SECONDS AWAY BEFORE WE START THINGS OUT. STAND BY. ≫ TOP OF YOUR SCREEN IN THE ORANGE WILL BE HOSTE. NOW THE THING FOR HIM HE IS OUT THE DOOR FIRST. SINCE IT IS A LOOP EVERYONE RUNS THE SAME DISTANCE. IN THE LATER ROUNDS, HE WILL HAVE THE MOST AREA TO GET TO — TO GET TO HIS BARBELL. IT EVENS OUT IN THE END. SAW THIS IN THE FIRST HEAT WITH ELLA WILKINSON, FIRST OUT THE DOOR, SO QUICK ON THE RUNS SHE ALMOST GOT OUT OF EVERYBODY’S SIGHT WHERE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO CHASE HER OR KNEW THAT SHE WAS THERE. ≫ YES, BENEFIT OF KIND OF BREAKING THAT VISION OF SIGHT. YOU KNOW, IF THEY FORGET ABOUT YOU, THAT IS DEFINITELY A BENEFIT. ≫ YOU THINK ABOUT, I MEAN, ENDURANCE SPORTS BACKGROUND IN TRIATHLONS AND SUCH, THAT IS A BIG PART OF IT WHEN YOU THINK, YOU SEE BIKING AND RUNNING, RUNNING IN PARTICULAR IS OKAY, CAN I PLAY THAT GAME, BECAUSE THERE IS ABOUT THREE OR FOUR SWITCHBACKS OUTSIDE WHERE YOU CAN SEE THIS AND IF I CAN GET OUT THE DOOR AND GET ENOUGH OUT OF YOUR SIGHT YOU DON’T WANT TO CHASE ME. THEY ARE CAPABLE OF. THERE IS DISTANCE AROUND THERE WHERE YOU FEEL YOU DON’T FEEL YOU CAN. ≫ IT IS A BIT DEMORALIZING IF YOU ARE THE PERSON CHASING AND EVERY TIME YOU COME AROUND A CORNER THAT PERSON IN FRONT IS A BIT FURTHER AWAY. IT IS NOT LONG BEFORE IT STARTS TO BREAK YOU AND YOU REALIZE WHAT IS HAPPENING AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE, DO I TRY AND CHASE HIM OR AM I GOING TO STICK TO MY STRATEGY AND LET THEM GO. IF YOU ARE PERSON IN FRONT THIS IS A TEMPTATION I CAN’T LET ANYONE GO PAST ME BECAUSE I’M IN FRONT AND THAT COULD THEN COME AROUND AND KICK YOU IN THE BUM LATER. ≫ ONE TO SEE THEM AND THEY ARE 40 YARDS AWAY IF IT IS A 20/20 SWITCHBACK AND YOU CAN’T SEE IF YOUR PACE IS GAINING YOU THAT GROUND. IT IS INTERESTING THAT THEY HAVE THAT RUN SET UP FOR THIS. TIME TO BEAT, 20:33 BY LAZAR DUKIC. HE ROLLED IN AT 2:30 OR 2:33 THAT IS WHERE WE PUT THE ISH ON THE 800-METER RUN. ≫ THAT IS A FAST 800. ≫ YES, FAST 800 IF I HAVE SEEN ONE. YOU DIDN’T REALLY GET TO RUN THIS COURSE, YOU ARE COMPETING HERE. DO YOU THE FIRST RUN, HOW ARE YOU APPROACHING IT? PUSHING THE PACE OFF WHAT I KNOW IT FEELS LIKE AND ASSESS THAT WITH THE CLOCK WHEN I COME IN? ≫ FOR SURE, IT NEEDS TO GO BY FEEL ON THIS. ≫ ON CUE, 2:31 AND HOSTE HE IN ORANGE. YOU WON’T MISS HIM. HE WILL BE ALL THE WAY ON THE BACKSIDE. AND THAT IS COLIN BOSSHARD, HE IS SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH HOSTE. BOTH COMING IN AROUND 3:30 AND BARBELL CYCLING AS FAR AS TEMPO. EVERYONE IS GOING ALL SINGLES FOR THE MEN. SAW DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR THE WOMEN. BUT IS THAT BAR IN CONTROL WHEN YOU DROP IT? ARE YOU IN CONTROL WHEN YOU ARE MOVING THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS? ALL OF THAT CAN ADD UP OVER TIME. ≫ EVERY TIME YOU DROP THAT BAR, REASON THEY ARE DROPPING THE BAR AND NOT CYCLING, TO GET THEMSELVES A BIT OF BREATHING TIME. YOU DON’T WANT THAT BAR TO REST ON THE FLOOR TOO MUCH BUT YOU DON’TV WANT TO HAVE TIME AND ATTENTION OF ATHLETES CHASING THE BAR DOWN IN TOUCH AND GO. ≫ BOSSHARD OUT THE DOOR FIRST, HOSTE BEHIND HIM AT 3:42. AND THEN IT LOOKED LIKE MAISURADZE IS IN THIRD CLOSE TO HOSTE, TOP THREE SEPARATED BY 7 SECONDS WITH COLIN, JELLE AND MIKO. ROOKIE COMING INTO THIS SEASON OUT OF GEORGIA ROOKIE ON THE SCENE ON SEMIFINALS. QUALIFIED 6 OVERALL COMING OUT OF QUARTER FINALS TO SECOND THE GUY HAS AN ENGINE. ≫ FOR SURE, GOT A GUY FROM GEORGIA AT THE GYM THAT I WORKOUT AT AND HE WAS SAYING THIS GUY WOULD BE ONE TO WATCH ON THESE WORKOUTS FOR SURE. ≫ STARTING WITH DAY 1. NOW ONE EVENT TODAY, TWO EVENTS TOMORROW, THREE ON SUNDAY FOR INDIVIDUALS. IT IS INCREASING WHICH WE HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE WHICH IS INTERESTING. BUT HAVING ONE EVENT TODAY AND IT BEING THIS PARTICULAR EVENT, ARE YOU MAYBE PUSHING A BIT MORE, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE SOME RECOVERY COMING IN, NOT HAVING TWO EVENTS ON THE DAY? ≫ YES, I THINK SO. I THINK, YOU KNOW, SEMIFINALS LEVEL. IT IS ALL TO PLAY FOR. YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO BE THINKING I’M GOING TO HOLD BACK, NOT UNLESS YOUR LEADING THE FIELD BY A MILE AND YOU THINK OKAY I WILL MAKE SURE I STAY AHEAD ON THE RUN, I THINK MOST PEOPLE THEY WILL BE LEAVING IT ON THE FLOOR IN THIS EVENT. ≫ ROUND ONE OR ROUND FIVE WE KNOW THAT IS DIFFERENT, I FEEL LIKE THERE IS A SECOND ROUND SMACK IN THE FACE OF HOW I FEEL. IS THAT COMING ON THE SECOND RUN OR SECOND TIME THAT BAR COMES OFF THE GROUND? ≫ I THINK THAT YOU USUALLY — I THINK IT WILL COME ON THE SECOND RUN IN TERMS OF HEART RAKE SHOCK YOU ARE LIKE OH GOD AND THIRD ONE IS WHERE YOU REALLY START TO FEEL IF YOU HAVE GONE A BIT TOO HARD IN FIRST TWO ROUNDS AND FOUR AND FIVE PEOPLE THAT PACE IT PERFECTLY WILL MAKE A MOVE AND PULL AWAY AND PEOPLE GONE OUT TOO HARD WILL START TO FEEL. ≫ IT AND ATHLETES HAVE HAD MORE TIME THAN EVER WITH THESE EVENTS FOR WEEK ONE ATHLETE. THEY SHOULD KNOW WHAT THAT FEELING WILL BE. THINK ABOUT A FIVE-ROUND EVENT WITH 800-METER RUNS IN IT, HOW DO YOU PACE IT OUT IS IT NEGATIVE SPLIT ONE TO FIVE AND TAKE FIRST ROUND AND SEE HOW I FEEL ON THE DAY, HOW YOU FEEL ON GAME DAY, FIRST EVENT OF THE WEEKEND CAN BE DIFFERENT THAN HOW IT FELT IN PRACTICE OR TRAINING. ≫ YES AND HAVING A PACE THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO HOLD, VERSUS GIVING YOURSELF FREEDOM RUNNING IT BY FEEL. A PACE MIGHT FEEL EASIER ON THE DAY. ≫ 800-METER RUN I CAME IN AND I DID NOT THINK I WAS GOING THAT FAST AND NOW I’M IN TROUBLE. HOW I THOUGHT I FELT WAS A LIE. BOSSHARD AND HE IS IN THE LEAD, HOWEVER, HOSTE CLOSED THAT 7-SECOND GAP ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IN THE WHITE SHIRT TOP RIGHT IS LUCA VUNJAK HE HAD A GREAT OPEN PERFORMANCE. ON THE SCENE FOR A WHILE. BEST OVERALL FINISH WAS 9TH IN 2022. HAD THEY BEEN TAKING 10 AT THE TIME HE WOULD BE IN A QUALIFYING POSITION. LUCA VUNJAK IS OFF THE BAR FIRST CURRENTLY LEADING IN THIS HEAT WITH ANOTHER ATHLETE BEHIND HIM, HOSTE AND BOSSHARD ARE OUT THE DOOR. VUNJAK AND BOSSHARD AND HOSTE ARE FOLLOWING HIM. ≫ IT WAS A PACE ON BARBELL AND THAT GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE OTHER ATHLETE TO COME THROUGH. ≫ MOST ATHLETES IN FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF CLEAN AND JERKS GOING OUT FOR THE THIRD ROUND. LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN, NO SHIRT BLACK SHORTS IS VICTOR HOFFER MIDDLE OF THE PACK IF NOT BOTTOM FIVE IN THIS HEAT. TALK ABOUT PRESSURE, AMOUNT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT VICTOR HOFFER GOING TO CROSSFIT GAMES FIRST TIME HAS BEEN LOUD GOING IN, THIS IS SECOND ROUND OF FIVE. ≫ I THINK IT IS A DIFFICULT ONE. THIS IS NOT — YOU LISTEN TO ANY PODCAST OR TALK TO ANYONE THAT HE IS INVOLVED WITH THIS IS NOT HIS TOP EVENT. AND SO I THINK THAT THIS IS A BIT OF A DAMAGE CONTROL EVENT FOR HIM FOR SURE, BUT THAT TYPE AROUND HIM. SOMETIMES THAT IS A DOWNSIDE TO BEING WITH A BIG COMPANY, YOU HAVE THAT ATTENTION ON YOU AUTOMATICALLY JUST BECAUSE OF THE NAME ASSOCIATED. SO I THINK IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE HANDLES THE PRESSURE OF THE HYPE MAKING HIS FIRST GAMES, BEING HOME CROWD EVERYTHING LIKE THAT AND UNFORTUNATELY NOT STARTING WITH HIS BEST EVENT. ≫ YES, WE ARE NOT STARTING WITH HIS BEST EVENT BUT GETTING WORST ONE OUT OF THE WAY AND ONLY ONE, SO THERE WON’T BE ANY EVENT HANGOVER IN THE SAME DAY, BUT HE IS GOING TO GET HIS. TWO EVENTS ARE COMING UP, ROPE CLIMB AND HANDSTAND WALK EVENT COULD BE POTENTIAL WINS FOR VICTOR HOFFER. ≫ YES I THINK HANDSTAND WALK ONE WILL BE INTERESTING. A LOT OF THAT EVENT IS GOING TO BE ON THE VERY PACE. BUT, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME REALLY GOOD HANDSTAND WALKERS THAT IS WHERE THEY WILL PULL AWAY ON THAT. ≫ AND COUNTER TO WHAT WE ARE SEEING TODAY BETWEEN THE LONGER RUN AND BARBELL CYCLING AND THEN THOSE MODERATE DISTANCE ROWS AND SHORTER HANDSTAND WALK. INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE TWO OPPOSE EACH OTHER THIS WEEKEND. ≫ FOR SURE. ≫ WAITING FOR WHO WILL BE COMING IN FIRST. WILL BE MOST LIKELY BOSSHARD ON BACK SIDE FIRST ONE OUT, HOWEVER, LUCA VUNJAK IN LANE ONE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF CORNER EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE 10 FEET APART IN SPACING IN ARENA. LUCA VUNJAK IS SITTING AT — ≫ HOSTE MOVED AHEAD OF BOSSHARD THAT IS DECEPTIVE POSITION THAT LUKA VUNJAK IS IN HE IS TWO REPS IN. AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHO IS IN THE LEAD AT THE SPECIFIC TIME WHEN THEY FINISH CLEAN AND JERKS DISTANCES LOOK DIFFERENT EVEN THOUGH IT IS THE SAME IN TOTAL. LUKA VUNJAK 20 YEARS OLD OUT OF SERBIA. HALFWAY THROUGH. ≫ TOUCH AND GO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LOOKING — ≫ BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. HARRY LIGHTFOOT ANOTHER ATHLETE NOT UNLIKE COLIN BOSSHARD IS GETTING BETTER EVERY YEAR, HAS POTENTIAL TO GO TO THE GAMES BUT HONESTLY, HERE IN EUROPE, THERE IS SO MUCH TALENT. THE DEPTH OF THE FIELD IS SO FAR YET THE SPOTS — ≫ ARE INTERESTING. ≫ YOUR FIRST TEST. ≫ WHAT WOULD LUCY DO IF I GAVE HER THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THAT. MORE ATHLETES ARE OUT THE DOOR PAST THE 12 AND A HALF MINUTE MARK, CHASING THE TIME SET BY DUKIC AT 20:33, STARTING FOURTH ROUND. ≫ WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE IMPACT OF BOTH TOUCH AND GO REPS ON THE NEXT RUN. ≫ I DON’T REMEMBER HIM DOING THAT IN THE PREVIOUS TWO ROUNDS. MAYBE HE THOUGHT HE NEEDED TO MAKE UP TIME THAT IT WAS NOT HAPPENING ON THE RUN. IT IS NOT WHAT I WOULD GO OR DO. ≫ I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE TOUCH AND GOES FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE REPS IN ROUND 3. ≫ ABOUT 10 ATHLETES ON THE FLOOR, WORKING THROUGH THE THIRD ROUND OF CLEAN AND JERKS, 185 ON THE BAR. TOP RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN EXITING IS MORRIS, BACK-TO-BACK YEARS IN THE GAMES, BEST FINISH LAST YEAR. ≫ ONE ATHLETE HAS JUST FOLLOWED VICTOR HOFFER OUT. ≫ IT IS AN ODD POSITION FORAN COW SKI. I THOUGHT THAT HE MAY HAVE HAD POTENTIAL TO WIN THIS WHOLE THING. ≫ KEVIN JURS UPPER LEFT PART OF THE SCREEN. ≫ RELUCTANTLY MOVING BARBELL. YOU KNOW WHAT A GOOD WAY TO. [ INAUDIBLE ] THIS BAR WAS 315 POUNDS. ≫ USE MY SHOULDERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ≫ FINISHING OFF THIRD ROUND KEEP OUR EYES OUT TO SEE IF WE HAVE A CHANGE IN OUR TOP FIVE MEN COMING IN FROM THE FOURTH RUN. HOSTE MOVED AHEAD OF BOSSHARD BUT VUNJAK CLOSED DISTANCE ON THE RUN NOT SOMETHING WE ARE USED TO SEEING WITH HOSTE IN THE FIELD. DUKIC WAS DONE WITH ROUND 4 AT 16 MINUTE MARCH AND HERE COMES LUKA VUNJAK MOVED AHEAD OF HOSTE ON THE RUN AND ANOTHER ATHLETE. ≫ HE SEEMS TO BE GETTING STRONGER EVERY ROUND ON THIS. AND VUNJAK LOOKED TIRED COMING OFF THAT RUN . ≫ UPENIEKSS OUT OF LATVIA. TRYING TO KEEP PACE WITH LUKA VUNJAK. UP PEN KNICKS HAS PULLED AHEAD OF VUNJAK . IS THE LEADER. TOP OF YOUR SCREEN. HOSTE HAS TWO REPS REMAINING. THE ATHLETE TO THE LEFT ALSO TWO. AND LANE 20, WESOLOWSKI QUALIFIED FOR THE GAMES LAST YEAR. NEXT TO HIM BUT IT IS UPENIEKS AS BOSSHARD AND HOSTE IS DONE AND LUKA DUKIC MIGHT BE IN A THIRD PLACE POSITION IN THIS HEAT AS BENEITO COMES IN. ≫ NEXT ATHLETE WILL BE LANE 13, OUT OF CROSSFIT 148. THIRD AFTER THE FIRST ROUND HOLDING TOP 6 POSITION DECENT PERFORMANCE, AGAIN, ROOKIE DEBUT HERE AT SEMIFINALS. BOTTOM CORNER OF YOUR SCREEN IN THE BLACK AND WHITE IS ANOTHER ATHLETE. BKG IS DONE WITH HIS 10 CLEAN AND JERKS. ONE ROUND REMAINING AS WE ARE APPROACHING 18-MINUTE MARK. ≫ IT IS FUNNY TO SEE FIRST FEW STEPS THEY DO. PROPERLY SHUFFLE. HAMSTRINGS AND HEART RATE. ≫ RELUCTANT STEPS. ≫ ALEX COTYLES OUT THE DOOR. KOTOULAS OUT THE DOOR. VUNJAK IS OVERALL LEADER IN THIS HEAT, HE WILL COME INTO LANE 1, THAT IS BENEFIT OF DOING LONGER RUN AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR 800. ALL ATHLETES STARTED ON THEIR BAR, LOOPED AROUND ARENA AND WENT OUT THE DOOR. AND JUST COMING IN, KEVIN JURS, TOP PART OF THE SCREEN IN THE BLUE AND OLENKOWICZ. AND LEADER ON THE WAY OUT, LEADING ON THE WAY IN? UP PEN KNICKS OH HAS 1 MINUTE TO CATCH THE TIME OF LAZAR DUKIC OF 20:33. AT 19:45. 8 REPS LEFT TO GO FOR UP A PEN NICKS. ≫ 30 SECONDS, CAN HE TAKE THE TIME TO BEAT, ULDIS, THREE REPS TO GO, 20 SECONDS. AND KICKOFF WEEKEND, WITH ONE FINAL REP AND MAYBE ONE ATTEMPT AT TOUCH AND GO. ULDIS UPENIEKS TAKES INDIVIDUAL EVENT FOR MEN AT 20:20. TRYING TO CHASE DOWN LUCA SOON YACK. , LUCA DUKIC LOOKS LIKE ONE LEFT TO GO HIMSELF. BOTH TIMES BEHIND THE TIME OF LAZAR DUKIC. SO LOOKS LIKE LAZAR SHOULD HOLD ONTO SECOND PLACE FINISH ULDIS FINISHED JUST BEFORE THAT TIME. LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, NIKA GETTING TO HIS BAR BELLE AND FRENCHMAN IN FRONT OF THE HOME CROWD WHATEVERRING TO GET THEM ON THEIR FEET BOSSHARD FINISHED AHEAD OF HOSTE, HOSTE ONE REP LEFT TO GO. JELLE FINISHES AROUND 21:31. RACE TO FINISH BETWEEN MULTIPLE ATHLETES. LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IN THE ORANGE HEAD BAND. HARRY, BOTTOM PART OF THE SCREEN, SNEAKS AHEAD OF ANOTHER ATHLETE. EDGED OUT NIKA. ≫ A RACE BETWEEN KOTOULAS AND BENEITO, BENEITO FINISHES BEHIND HIM, FIVE REPS LEFT TO GO, HOFFER, BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. TWO REPS IN. ≫ KOSKIE COMING IN. ≫ NO BET I WOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT I WOULD HAVE SEEN KOSKI IN THE BOTTOM FIVE OF THIS HEAT. HOFFER IS DONE. KOSKI BLACK SHIRT WHITE HAT. FIVE REPS LEFT TO GO. TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN, JURS AND OLENKOWICZ ARE OUT ON THE RUN. 23:53 FOR RAN OWE COW SKI. ≫ NOT THE START THAT HE WOULD HAVE WANTED. HE IS A SEASONED GAME VET. DO NOT COUNT HIM OUT. THERE ARE PLENTY MORE EVENTS TO COME. ≫ FEW THINGS ON THE LINE SOME OF THESE ATHLETES IN HERE. ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES OUT THERE IS GUDMUNDSSON IS ATTEMPTING TO QUALIFY FOR THE 11th CONSECUTIVE CROSSFIT GAMES AND WOULD BE THE FIRST ATHLETE EVER TO QUALIFY FOR 11 CONSECUTIVE. HAD SOME THAT MADE 11, BEN SMITH DID 11 IN 2019 BUT WAS INVITED TO THE CROSSFIT GAMES AND BKG TRYING TO DO SOMETHING THAT NO ONE HAS DONE IN HISTORY OF THIS SPORT AND QUALIFY FOR 11 CONSECUTIVE CROSSFIT GAMES. HAD AN INJURY LAST YEAR. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ OUTSIDE OF TOP 10 FOR THE FIRST TIME, FIRST YEAR COMPETING AT CROSSFIT GAMES BREAKING A STREAK OF CONSIST TENSE THAT BKG HAD. CONSISTENCY THAT BKG HAD. LAST MAN ON THE FIELD, FORMALITY OF HIM GETTING THE LAST TWO REPS. WELL CLEAR OF THE 30-MINUTE TIME CAP. AND THAT DOES IT FOR THE INDIVIDUALS ON DAY ONE. TEAM ATHLETES ARE COMING UP. AND LAZAR DUKIC SET THE TIME TO BEAT IN HEAT 1 BUT UPENIEKS BEAT THAT BY 10 OR 12 SECONDS AND SEE HOW THIS MAKES OUT. ONE EVENT DOESN’T PAINT PICTURE. FIVE EVENTS LEFT TO GO. FOR AN ATHLETE BASED OFF HOW YOU PERFORM GOOD, BAD AND DIFFERENT HOW DO YOU MANAGE THIS GOING IN WEEKEND AFTER ONE EVENT AND SIT ON IT FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. ≫ TAKE THE EVENT AS IT COMES. DO YOUR DEBRIEF, THINK ABOUT WHAT DID NOT GO WELL, WHAT COULD HAVE GONE BETTER AND ULTIMATELY YOU DRAW A LINE UNDER IT, ONE EVENT AT A TIME, WHETHER IT GOES WELL OR POORLY. YOU CAN’T LET THAT RUN INTO THE NEXT ONE. BECAUSE YOU COULD BE OVERCONFIDENT AND MAKE MISTAKES OR YOU COULD LOSE THAT CONFIDENCE BECAUSE OF A POOR PERFORMANCE AND LET THE MOMENTUM RUN IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. ≫ HAPPENED TO A LOT OF ATHLETES WITH GREAT SUCCESS AND SOMETIMES LET THE NEGATIVE ONES KIND OF SNOWBALL AT THEIR EVENTS. THAT DOES IT FOR THE INDIVIDUALS HERE IN LYONS, FRANCE. HOWEVER WE STILL HAVE ONE EVENT LEFT TO GO FOR THE TEAMS. IT WILL BE TEAM VERSION OF THIS. WHICH I WOULD MUCH RATHER DO CLEAN AND JERKS THAN 15 WORM THRUSTERS. DON’T GO ANYWHERE CLOSING ACTION OUT HERE AT LDLC ARENA IN LYONSOUS FRANCE. TEAM COMPETITION WILL WRAP NEXT. ≫ WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE TO 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL, CHASE IS HERE AND DAN WILLIAMS IS HERE FROM NORTHERN SPIRIT GETTING SET FOR TEAM PENALTY, SEEN TWO, THE INDIVIDUALS WENT. NOW FOR YOU COMING IN FOR NORTHERN SPIRIT IS THIS YOUR FIRST IN-PERSON LIVE SEMIFINAL? ≫ IT IS NOT. I HAVE BEEN TO A FEW. ≫ OKAY. ≫ OVER THE YEARS I HAVE BEEN TO A FEW. ≫ THIS COMPARES THIS IS A BRAND NEW VENUE AT THE LDLC ARENA FANTASTIC SET-UP WE ARE SPOILED IT IS 7 MONTHS OLD. ≫ YES. ≫ BUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IT IS A FRIDAY, IT WILL BE NUTS THIS WEEKEND IT ALWAYS DOES, HOW HAVE YOU ENJOYED THIS SO FAR. ≫ VENUE IS AMAZING ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE SEEN FOR ELITE ATHLETE AND THE COMMUNITY NEXT DOOR. IT WILL BE FANTASTIC, BUSY TODAY, BUSIER THAN I EXPECTED AND TOMORROW WILL BE CRAZY. ≫ IT IS WILD. FUN THING WE TALKED ABOUT THIS ALL DAY, HOW FUN EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS IS BECAUSE OF SO MANY COUNTRIES REPRESENTED IN THE COMPETITION. ≫ AMAZING, BEING BRITISH I’M LOYAL TO THEM. BUT THERE ARE SO MANY COUNTRIES REPRESENTED A LOT OF NEW ATHLETES, A LOT OF US HAVE NEVER HEARD OF AND THE OLD-COMERS STILL UP THERE. ≫ AND AS WE GET STARTED, TEAM EVENT NUMBER 3, HEAT 1. HAVE THREE TOTAL HEATS OF THIS. WE JUST SAW THE INDIVIDUALS GO, FIVE ROUNDS FOR TIME, 800-METER RUN, 10 CLEAN AND JERKS. TEAMS ARE DOING SAME THING INSTEAD OF CLEAN AND JERKS 15 WORM THRUSTERS OR I LIKE TO CALL IT THE SHORT END OF THE STICK. THAT IS WAY WORSE THAN CYCLING SINGLE REPS OF CLEAN AND JERKS. ≫ IT IS WORSE. THE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS WERE AWESOME. THIS WILL SUCK. ≫ THIS WILL BE FUN FOR NO ONE. TEAMS ARE GETTING SET, TOP 10 OR FIRST 10 TEAMS. THESE TEAMS ARE ALL SEEDED BASED OFF PERFORMANCE IN QUARTER FINALS, CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER AND C23 AND PRESTANDA KRIGER. IT WILL START, TWO ATHLETES GO. GO IN A 10-20 SECOND MARK ON THE NEXT TWO AND THAT WILL BE ON THE FIRST ONE. WHAT THIS IS TO CLEAR THE PATH AND HAVE AT FLASH MOB OF 40 ATHLETES RACING AND AFTER THIS EVERYBODY IS ON THE SAME PACE, RUN AROUND LOOPS FOR EVERYBODY, GO TO YOUR LANE AND START Q QUAT SQUATTING. YOU ARE NEW ON THE SCENE BUT NOT NEW AS FAR AS APPAREL AND SPORT. ≫ BEEN AROUND, ESTABLISHED FOR 10 YEARS. EUROPEAN CONSUMER PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT US A BIT, INTERNATIONALLY WE ARE A NEW BRAND AND WE HAVE BIG PLANS. REALLY BIG PLANS. FOCUS ON THE CROSSFIT SPACE, AND WE HAVE GOT PLANS TO GO LABEL. ≫ HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO STEP IN AND BUILD THE BOND WHICH YOU CREATED. YOU GUYS ARE DOING SOMETHING WE HAVEN’T HAD IN THE HISTORY OF SEMIFINALS EVEN REGIONALS GET A T-SHIRT AND YOU GUYS KITED OUT ALL OF THE ATHLETES FOR SEMIFINALS. ≫ I JOINED THE BUSINESS EARLY THIS YEAR, IN JANUARY THIS YEAR THEY TOLD ME THE PLAN TO BE HONEST I WAS LIKE WHOA THIS IS AMBITIOUS. WE DID IT. FIRST TIME IT HAS EVER BEEN DONE, A SERIOUS ACHIEVEMENT, VALUABLE FOR THE ATHLETES GLOBALLY, NO STRINGS ATTACHED. WE WANT TO MAKE ATHLETES FEEL INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. IT IS NOT JUST SEMIFINALS. TEAM FINALS. SO IT IS ALL-IN. ≫ YOU GUYS ARE COVERING ALL OF THOSE QUALIFICATIONS AND TALKING CROSSFIT GAMES FOR AGE GROUP AND ADAPTIVE. THAT IS A BIG UNDERTAKING. SO IT IS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING. BUT WE WANT TO DO IT FOR THE COMMUNITY AND I THINK WE HAVE EXECUTED WELL SO FAR AND IT LOOKS GREAT. ≫ IT DOES. FOR YOU GUYS IT IS LIKE SEEING ATHLETES POST, POST THE KIT ON THE BED PICTURE FOR INSTAGRAM. ≫ WE WERE HOPE FOR THAT. AND GREAT TO WAKE UP SEEING THE POSTINGS. WE ARE IN EUROPE NOW. ≫ WHAT IS UNDERTAKING OF THAT? IT IS NOT JUST LIKE YOU SAID, DOING 7 SEMIFINALS AND AGE GROUP AND THE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS. IT IS LIKE — IT IS NOT LIKE YOU ARE DOING 7 SEMIFINALS IN EUROPE ALONE OR IN THE STATES. THIS IS A WORLDWIDE OPERATION THAT YOU GUYS WILL TRY TO MANAGE TO COME UP WITH. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? ≫ WITH DIFFICULTY. YOU EMPLOY THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT PLACES TO EXECUTE IT. FROM A PRODUCTION STANDPOINT IT IS NOT ANY HARDER BUT WE HAVE BEEN TO MANY COUNTRIES. GOT AMAZING YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE TEAM WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS PROJECT ON AND SPECIALISTS IN THEIR FIELD. AS WE TRY TO GROW THE BRAND GLOBALLY IN GENERAL. ≫ WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES OF INCOME OTHER PLACES IN DO YOU HAVE REPRESENTATIVES THAT YOU WORK WITH, THAT HELPS YOU WITH MANUFACTURING, DISTRIBUTING AND GETTING THESE THINGS TO THE SEMIFINALS. ≫ WE DO IT ALL OURSELVES. SO WE HAVE BASES IN THE U.S. AS WELL AND EVERYWHERE ELSE WE WORK WITH PARTNERS. ≫ TEAMS COMING IN FROM THE FIRST RUN, 15 WORM THRUSTERS. AND THIS IS THE THIRD EVENT THAT THE TEAMS HAVE HAD TODAY SO FAR. STARTED THINGS OFF WITHHOLDING THAT WORM WHILE YOUR TEAMMATE WOULD PERFORM 30 ROPE CLIMBS HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS AND ECO BIKE AND HANDSTAND WALK. SECOND TIME WORM HAS BEEN USED BUT THE FIRST TIME IT HAS BEEN USED IN THE MOVEMENT VERSUS HOLDING AND NOT SURE WHICH IS WORSE BETWEEN YOU AND ME. ≫ THIS LOOKS AWESOME AND THEY FINISHED FAST AS WELL. ≫ AND THAT IS THE THING. IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL, AND ADRIAN BOZMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS MORNING SURE YOU COULD BREAK IT UP, DO FIVES AND A PAUSE AND PUT IT DOWN. YOU WILL NOT GO TO THE CROSSFIT GAMES, YOU MAY HAVE TO DO THINGS YOU DON’T WANT TO DO THAT YOU HAVE TO DO. ≫ YES. GABBY HELD ON UNTIL THE END. ≫ YES. ATHLETES OUT FOR SECOND 800-METER RUN. PAST THE 5-MINUTE MARK WITH THIS EVENT IN PARTICULAR BEING THE THIRD EVENT OF THE DAY FOR THE TEAMS. IT IS THE 30-MINUTE CAPPED EVENT. AND THE TRICK HERE IS OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT THAN THE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION, IS THAT YOU ARE BASICALLY AT THE MERCY, IN BOTH OF THESE PARTICULAR MOVEMENTS OF YOUR WEAKEST LINK. WHO IS GOING TO — LIKE WHO ARE WE GOING TO — MAYBE WE WILL PUT THAT WAY, WHO WILL WE HURT THE MOST IF WE RUN TOO FAST, WHO WILL WE SMASH THE MOST IF WE GET TO WORM. COULD BE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. I MAY NOT BE THE BEST RUNNER OR I’M ONE OF THE STRONGER ATHLETES WORM WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM UNLESS YOU BURY ME ON THE RUN AND THEN I WILL BE NO HELP ON THE WORM. VICE VERSA, LIGHTER ATHLETE THAT IS GOOD AT AEROBIC CONDITIONING DOES NOT WANT TO SIT UNDERNEATH THE WORM FOR 15 THRUSTERS. ≫ PEOPLE WILL BE DREADING THIS EVENT BECAUSE OF THAT RUN. ≫ RUN IS TO GET OUTSIDE. 800-ISH METERS WITH SWITCHBACKS AND TURNS AND HOW THOSE TEAMS MANAGE THE PACE AND THAT WILL CHANGE ROUND TO ROUND AS THEY MOVE IN. ABOUT YOU WHAT WE SAW IS THAT, YEAH, THOSE THRUSTERS WILL HAVE TO BE UNBROKEN AND QUICK, BUT YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF CONTROL, NO ONE CAN AFFORD NOFLIP TOP SPOTS. ONLY 8 SPOTS GOING TO CYST GAMES, FOUR TEAMS THIS YEAR. WHY DID YOU GUYS NOT JUMP INTO THE SCENE FOR THIS. ≫ WE HAVE BEEN AROUND 10 YEARS BUT BRAND RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY OUR FOUNDER, AND HE LIKE MANY OF US, CROSSFIT GYM WOULD SAY HIMSELF FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, CHANGED HIS LIFE. OTHER BRANDS IN FRONT OF US HAVE DISAPPEARED OR MOVED ASIDE AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE GOING FOR IT IN THIS SPACE. ≫ GETTING IN THE SPACE, I HAVE NOT SEEN TOO MANY PEOPLE JUMP INTO THE SPACE AS HARD AS YOU GUYS HAVE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. THAT CAME TOGETHER QUICKLY. ≫ I JOINED 6 MONTHS AGO IT HAS LITERALLY BEEN 6 MONTHS, IT HAS HAPPENED QUICKLY. BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOME PLANNING BEFORE THAT, IN THE PIPELINE. SO WE HAVE GONE IN HARD, ONLY STARTING ON OUR JOURNEY, MUCH BIGGER THINGS TO COME, BUT, YEAH, WE ARE GOING AS HARD AS POSSIBLE. ≫ I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING FAST, STARTING STRONG, BUT POTENTIAL FUTURE OF WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO. WOULD IT BE SPORT-BASED OR MASSIVE WORLDWIDE AFFILIATE COMMUNITY, TOO AND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THAT AS WELL. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING AT? ≫ WE WANT TO FOCUS OUR BRAND EFFORTS ON AFFILIATE. ≫ OKAY. ≫ SO FOR EXAMPLE, TRADITIONALLY, SPONSOR ATHLETES WE WILL DO THAT A LITTLE BUT OUR FOCUS IS AFFILIATE AND COACHES. WE WANT TO WORK WITH GRASS ROOTS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS TO HELP THEM. AND WE THINK THAT IS BEST WAY TO GO. MORE AUTHENTICALLY. ≫ ALL RIGHT. TWO TEAMS IN NOW MAKE IT THREE, FOUR. YOUR LEADERS LANE 5 CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER AND CROSSFIT WYSH IS IN LANE 10. MULTIPLE OSLO TEAMS HERE AS OSLO KRIGER , ARE BEHIND ON THE RUN BUT SLIGHTLY AHEAD OVER CROSSFIT WYSH AND FIGURE OUT YOUR RUN, PACE IT OUT IF YOU HAVE TO AND YOU PICK AT THAT WORM — WE ARE GOING. YOU HAVE TO GET 15 DONE. ≫ IT IS REALLY FAST. ≫ THE WORM AND ITS EVOLUTION IN THE SPORT. YOU GO BACK TO 2013 WHERE SIX-PERSON TEAMS IT WAS MADE OUT OF WOOD. I MEAN, THE THING — BASICALLY IT LOOKED LIKE A MEDIEVAL TORTURE DEVICE IT WAS, DEPENDS ON WHO YOU TALK TO AS FAR AS HOW THAT HAPPENED. YOU SEE A TEAM CRASH, IS ENSAY THE END OF THE WORM FALLS AND — SAY THAT THE END OF THE WORM FALLS AND YOU TAKE EVERYBODY WITH THEM. NOT — ≫ WOOD — ≫ WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY. ≫ STILL HARD, THOUGH. ≫ IT IS NO EASY IMPACT. EASIER TO MOVE, YOU HAVE TO MOVE MORE AND MOVE FASTER, IT COMES TO INTENSITY IT RAMPS UP. A WORM IS A STAPLE PART OF TEAM COMPETITION. DEFINITELY NEEDED. HOW DO YOU TEST TEAMWORK OUTSIDE OF HOW MANY REPS YOU DO VERSUS HOW MANY REPS I DO. AND THERE IS NO GETTING AWAY FROM THIS THING THAT IS TETHERING US ALL TO FOR EXAMPLE. ≫ EXACTLY. IT FINDS PEOPLE OUT EVERY YEAR IT IS VITAL. ≫ THIRD AND FINAL EVENT OF DAY ONE FOR TEAMS. TEAMS WILL HAVE TWO-DAY COMPETITION. FIRST TIME SINCE INCEPTION OF TEAM COMPETITION AT REGIONAL LEVEL. AND FIVE EVENTS WHICH IS LEAST NUMBER OF EVENTS TEAMS HAVE HAD IN THIS FORMAT. 8 SPOTS AT CROSSFIT GAMES HERE AT EUROPEAN SEMIFINAL, NORTH AMERICA EAST AND WEST 8 AND 7 RESPECTIVELY WITH THE OTHER 7 DISTRIBUTED AGAINST THE OTHER THREE SEMIFINALS FAR EAST THROWDOWN GO SO FAR AND FOR YOU, BEING WHERE YOU GUYS ARE AT, BEING ABLE TO SEE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE BRINGING TO THE COMMUNITY ON DISPLAY IN COMPETITION, ON INSTAGRAM IN AFFILIATES, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? ≫ THAT FELT GOOD. THIS MORNING, SEEING ATHLETES POST PHOTOS, WE GOT TO SEND A TEAM TO EVERY EVENT. SEEING THEM DO THIS, SEEING ATHLETES ON THE FLOOR, RESELLING THERE, IT IS FULL 460 IT IS QUITE AMAZING SEEING THAT COME TOGETHER. ≫ YOU DO SAY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS LIKE I FEEL LIKE THERE IS DIFFERENT STYLES AND DIFFERENT TRENDS AND DIFFERENT AREAS, DO YOU GUYS LOOK INTO THAT OR LEAN INTO THAT AT ALL? I MEAN, IS THAT MAYBE SOMETHING DOWN IN THE FUTURE. I DON’T KNOW IF NORMAL BRANDS DO THAT? ≫ IT IS CHALLENGING. MY BACKGROUND AGAIN IS IN RETAIL AND APPAREL IS VERY DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. SO WE HAVE TAKEN IT, ONE ACROSS THE WORLD FOR THE CONSUMER — ≫ I LIKE THE BRIGHT. I’M GLAD IT IS BACK. ≫ PINK. ≫ PINK, YELLOWS, WE HAVEN’T HAD BRIGHT COLORS IN A WHILE. COLOR PALETTE IS MORE EARTHY TONES. ≫ GUYS IN CROSSFIT NUMBER ONE REQUEST. LET’S GO LOUD. ≫ REALLY? ≫ THE FRENCH CONSUMER LIKES LOUD PRODUCT. AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER PINK YOU WILL SEE NEXT WEEK. ≫ FOR HANNAH? ≫ YES. ≫ THAT WILL BE COOL, HAVE THEY TOLD YOU ABOUT THE THING THIS THAT THEY DO? ≫ YES. ≫ IT IS COOL TO SEE THAT SUPPORT ON DISPLAY WHEN THEY WEAR PINK. ≫ YES. ≫ FIRST TEAM IN CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER BLST. ≫ IN THE CENTER LANE WORM OFF THE GROUND FOR CROSSFIT WYSH IN LANE 10 AT THE BOTTOM PART OF THE SCREEN. ≫ ADVANCING TO 4. NOT SLOWING DOWN AT ALL. ≫ LANE 4, CROSSFIT GENAS WITH LOUD YELLOW COLORS. ≫ NICE TO SEE. THEY DIDN’T HAVE THEM WALKING IN. THAT MEANS THEY GOT IT AT CHECK-IN AND SAID WE ARE WEARING THIS ON FRIDAY. ≫ LOOKS GOOD. ≫ I GOT MY BAG. I’M READY. CROSSFIT GENAS ADVANCES FORWARD IN LANE 4. BACK OUT YOUR LANE AND AROUND. ≫ CROSSFIT GENAS LOCAL TEAM FROM FRANCE. GOOD SUCCESS AT CROSSFIT GAMES. RETURNING FROM THE THIRD PLACE, CROSSFIT GAMES TEAM BACK IN 2021. ≫ WHO IS ADVANCING AND WHO IS NOT JUST YET AND WE HAVE SIX TEAMS. THEY ARE DONE WITH THE THIRD ROUND OF THRUSTERS AS THEY WORK INTO THEIR FOURTH ROUND. FIVE ROUNDS TOTAL TEAMS RUNNING 800 METERS. AND THEN COME INSIDE AND DO 15 WORM THRUSTERS. ≫ BOTTOM LEFT IN THE GRAY CROSSFIT SANT MARTI, OSLO KRIGER PSL, SECOND PLACE, C23 CROSSFIT, THIRD PLACE CROSSFIT PRESTANDA, AND FOURTH PLACE CROSSFIT WALLEYE, THEY ARE IN FOURTH PLACE AND TIED FOR FIRST AFTER EVENT 2, LIFTING 1055 POUNDS. TIED WITH OSLO PSL AT 1055 POUNDS. THEN OSLO KRIGER BLST SITTING IN 5th, CROSSFIT VERBANIA 6, CYST GYMERT IS 7 AND BLUEPRINT CROSSFIT IS 8, BLUEPRINT CROSSFIT TIED WITH 128 POINT WITH CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB. SEE A LOT OF OLD SCHOOL NAMES HERE. BUTCHER’S LAB BEING AROUND FOR A LONG TIME BUTCHER’S LAB HAS THREE TIMES TEAMS AND THE TURNOVER IS SO MUCH IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE. THERE IS LAB X, LAB KAOS AND FLAEK. PRINTING, PRODUCTION AND DESIGN, HOW DO YOU GUYS SEE THAT WORKING AT AFFILIATES. ≫ WORK CLOSELY WITH THE PRODUCT. WE WILL SEE IT AS MUCH PRODUCT AS WE CAN. BUT DO A LOT OF PERSONALIZATION AND STARTING IN EUROPE AND THEN USA, WHETHER IT IS TRANSLATION WITH THE GYMS, WORKING WITH THEM ON INTERNAL COMPETITIONS. THE THINGS THEY NEED. ≫ AND HAVING TO DEAL WITH APPAREL BUT HEY WHEN IS YOUR NEXT. [ INAUDIBLE ] DO I DO A PRE-ORDER, DO I TAKE EVERYBODY’S SIZES? HOW DO I GET THEM IN AND DISTRIBUTE THEM AFTERWARDS, COLLECTING PAYMENTS, ALL OF THAT, WAS — I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE YOU ANOTHER T-SHIRT THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT IS. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO. ≫ LAST ROUND TO GO. FOR CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER BLST SITTING IN 5th OVERALL. AND IMPRESSIVELY SITTING IN 5th OVERALL, THEY CAME IN IN FIRST HEAT OF COMPETITION. TWO MORE HEATS TO GO. THEY ARE SITTING IN A TOP 5 POSITION. EARLIER TODAY 4th IN EVENT 1 AND TIED FOR 13th IN EVENT 2. ONLY 30 TEAMS AT SEMIFINALS LOWEST NUMBER THAT QUALIFIED AT THIS LEVEL INCLUDING THE REGIONALS. AND THE PRESSURE COOKER HAS TURNED UP A NOTCH AS FAR AS SPOTS, AVAILABILITY AND QUALIFICATION. SO YOU HAVE TO BE ON YOUR GAME. AND I WISH EVERY TEAM WORE A UNIFORM WITH NUMBERS ON IT AT SEMIFINALS LIKE THAT. IT WOULD MAKE MY JOB EASIER. ≫ THEY STAND OUT, THEY DO. ≫ 20 MINUTE MARK. YOU CAN HEAR THE FRENCH CROWD. CHEERING FOR THE LOCAL TEAM CROSSFIT GENAS. I HAVE HEARD THE DRUM, HAVE YOU HEARD THE DRUM RECENTLY? ≫ YES, CRAZY. ≫ YES, APPARENTLY IT IS A FRENCH CROWD THING I HEARD. LUCY HEARD THE DRUM, SHE IS LIKE OH THE FRENCH ARE HERE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT WAS A THING. ≫ IT IS EVERYWHERE. ≫ GETTING CLOSE TO WRAPPING UP HEAT 1. TEAM EVENT NUMBER 1. PAST THE 20. MINUTE MARK. 10 MINUTES BEFORE THE CAP. WE ARE CLOSING OUT THE FINAL EVENT OF THE DAY FOR THE TEAMS. HERE AT THE 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS. HERE IN LYONS, FRANCE AT FRENCH THROWDOWN. A STAPLE OF CROSSFIT COMMUNITY AS FAR AS COMPETITIVE SCENE FOR WELL OVER A DECADE AND THE FACT THEY PUT ON AN EVENT WE ARE NOT SKIPPING THE BEAT WHEN IT COMES TO QUALITY OF THE COMPETITION. ≫ BEEN AROUND FOR 10 YEARS, BEEN A STAPLE FOR EUROPEANS AND NOT JUST ELITE BUT NEXT DOOR COMMUNITY. THE ATMOSPHERE IS FANTASTIC AS WELL. ≫ ATMOSPHERE NUMBER OF ATHLETES THAT ARE COMPETING IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE. ≫ YES. ≫ TWO TEAMS LEFT TO CLOSE OUT FOURTH ROUND TOP OF THE SCREEN CROSSFIT SANT MARTI AND IN LANE 7, CROSSFIT 477-100. CROSSFIT 47-100. CROSSFIT SANT MARTI BLACK, TWO TEAMS HERE TEAM RED AND TEAM BLACK. TEAM BLACK OUT OF SPAIN AND SPAIN EXCLUDING WHEN IT COMES TO COMPETITIVE ATHLETES AND — EXPLODING WHEN IT COMES TO COMPETITIVE ATHLETES IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. ALL TEAMS INTO FIFTH AND FINAL ROUND. 800-METER RUN. 15 WORM THRUSTERS TO FINISH. AS THE LAST TWO TEAMS ARE EXITING YOUR TOP TEAM IS ENTERING. THE LDLC ARENA IN FRANCE AS YOUR FIFTH PLACE OVERALL TEAM AFTER 2 EVENTS CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER BLST 15 REPS TO GO BEFORE THEY SET TIME TO BEAT FOR THE NEXT 2 HEATS. ≫ JUST PAST THE 23-MINUTE MARK TWO REPS LEFT TO GO AND OSLO KRIGER BLST SET NEW TIME TO BEAT AT 23:10. AND HERE COMES CROSSFIT WYSH. CYST WYSH GETTING TO THE WORM. AND HEAR THE CROWD RISING TO THEIR FEET AT CROSSFIT GENAS IN LANE 4 BLACK AND YELLOW TRY TO CHASE DOWN CROSSFIT WYSH AT THE BOTTOM PART OF YOUR SCREEN IN LANE 10. AS YOU SAID CROSSFIT GENAS IN LANE 4 LOOKS TO BE CYCLING THROWS THRUSTERS A TOUCH FASTER A COUPLE OF REPS BEHIND. IT WILL BE CLOSE. AND WYSH WILL BE DONE. ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. AND THAT WAS A CLOSE FINISH. AND SEE WHAT THE OFFICIAL TIMES WILL BE. BECAUSE, NOT ONLY GENAS BUT IN LANE 3 OSLO KRIGER WERE IN THE MIX AS WELL, CLOSE FINISH FOR SECOND PLACE BETWEEN THE THREE TEAMS. ≫ TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN IN THE STANDS, THE FRENCH CONTINGENT. WITH THE DRUM AND THE FLAGS. THOSE ARE THE THINGS I LOVE TO SEE AT THIS EVENT. YOU DON’T GET THAT IN THE STATES. NO ONE IS FLYING THE ARIZONA FLAG. ≫ DON’T GET THAT ANYWHERE. ≫ MAYBE SOUTH AMERICA IT IS KIND OF THE SAME THING, LOCALIZED TO THE COUNTRY, OCEANIA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, ASIA COULD SEE THAT AS WELL. AS FAR AS LIKE FANATICISM, WHAT YOU GET IN EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA YOU DON’T GET IT ANYWHERE. ≫ PASSION. ≫ ABSOLUTE PASSION. THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT FUN. IT IS GREAT TO SEE ATHLETES COMPETE AND WE ARE CHEERING FOR THEM, AN ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE BUILDING UP OVER THE COURSE OF WEEKEND IT MAKES IT BETTER. ≫ FRIDAY IT IS FANTASTIC. ≫ THIS EVENT, NICE SET-UP THAT WE HAVE HERE GETS ME EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WILL COME IN FORTH WORTH FOR THE CROSSFIT GAMES IN AUGUST. YOU THINK THIS IS NICE, MULTIPLY THIS WHICH TWO AND THAT IS WHAT YOU GET AT CROSSFIT GAMES THIS YEAR THAT TEAMS WILL BE A PART OF. CROSSFIT SAGITTARIUS REPRESENTING ITALY. CROSSFIT SAGITTARIUS CENTER PART OF SCREEN TAKING A BIT OF A BREAK. MANUEL, EDUARDO AND FRANCESCA AND LUCIA MAKING UP SAGITTARIUS BE DONE BEFORE THE 27-MINUTE MARK. TWO TEAMS LEFT TO FINISH THIS OUT. 30 MINUTES WAS THE CAP. WON’T NEED IT. THESE TWO TEAMS ARE TRYING TO GET UNDER 27-MINUTE MARK. TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN, SANT MARTI RED WILL BE DONE. LEAVES BLACK TEAM. BOTH SANT MARTI TEAMS IN THIS HEAT, ONE FINAL TEAM LEFT. 47-100 OUT OF ITALY. LAST THREE TEAMS. 2 MINUTES LEFT BEFORE WE HIT THE CAP. DON’T MAKE ME DO 15 THRUSTERS JUST TO PROVE A POINT. FOUR REPS TO GO. LAST REP FOR 4700 AND THEY CLOSE OUT HEAT NUMBER 1. AND HEAT 1 TEAMS DAY IS DONE AND TIME HAS NOW BEEN SET. AND WE WILL SEE IF IT CAN BEAT. AND CRYING EBL — KRIGER BLST. NOW, WHAT DOES PSL STAND FOR, PULSE? ≫ I WILL NOT GUESS. MAYBE. ≫ I FEEL LIKE THE MORE I GUESS THE MORE I COULD POTENTIALLY GET MYSELF IN TROUBLE DAN APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THANKS FOR BEING A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND WHAT YOU GUYS BRING TO THE TABLE FOR SEMIFINAL EVENTS AND AGE GROUP AND TEAMS. THEY DESERVE THAT AND YOU GUYS ARE BRINGING TO THEM THANKS FOR THAT. ≫ WE ARE EXCITED THANKS FOR HAVING ME. ≫ HEAT ONE IS DONE, TWO HEATS REMAINING FOR THE FINAL AUCTION IN LYONS, FRANCE, HEAT 2 COMING UP NEXT. ≫ WELCOME BACK, HEAT 1 IS DONE FOR TEAMS, HEAT 2 COMING UP, LUCY CAMPBELL IS JOINING ME AGAIN, YOU GOT TO WATCH THE FIRST HEAT GO. AND WE SAID THIS WOULD BE SIMILAR TO WHAT INDIVIDUALS TODAY MOSTLY ON PAPER, NOW THAT YOU GOT TO SEE THE THRUSTERS BEING ALMOST A NON FACTOR IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT THAT PUTS ONUS BACK ON HOW YOU RUN AS A TEAM. ≫ FOR SURE WITH THIS KIND OF TEAM RUNNING THINGS HOW FAR CAN YOU PUSH THE WEAKEST RUNNER SUCH THAT THEY DON’T END UP MESSING UP. [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ WE DON’T NEED TO MESS UP TWICE. WHAT THEY DO AT THE START JUST TO EASE THE FLASH MOB IS START SECOND PAIR 20 SECONDS AFTER THE FIRST PAIR. NOW PARTNER THEM UP HOWEVER YOU WANT. FOR THIS ONE IT IS ONLY TIME WHERE THE SLOWER RUNNER YOU PUT THEM FIRST, YOU DON’T HAVE TO RUN FAST YOU GOT A 20 SECOND HEAD START. 800-METER RUN TO START, 15 WORM THRUSTERS TOP TIME SET BY OSLO KRIEGER BLST IT IS BLAST APPARENTLY. ≫ IN FAIRNESS I DIDN’T KNOW HOW IT WAS SPELLED. IT IS AN INTERESTING SPELLING. ≫ LET’S PLAY A GAME. PLUS A WE CAN’T SEE PEOPLE RUN YOU A CAN’T SEE PEOPLE RUN WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS STANDS FOR PULL UP OSLO TEAMS. HAVE SOME FUN WITH YOU IN COMMENTS ON YouTUBE I CAN’T SEE THEM. ≫ RIZZ WHAT IS RIZZ? IT IS SHORT FOR CHARISMA. HEY DAD — I DON’T WANT TO SAY THAT. BLST WHICH IS BLST, RIZZ SHORT FOR CHARISMA. PSL. ≫ PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE. ≫ I HOPE THAT’S IT. BECAUSE I’M TIRED OF SAYING OSLO KRIGER SAYING AT LOT BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE SO GOOD. BUT IF I SAY TEAM PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE I LIKE THAT. ≫ PUZZLE. ≫ IT HAS BEEN A LONG DAY. THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING HERE. AND THE LAST ONE IS KRIGER PGR. ≫ KRIEGER PGR. WHICH MAKES ME FEEL WEIRD SAYING THAT TOO. ≫ I WONDER WHAT THAT STANDS FOR. IS THAT A NORWEGIAN WORD? I DON’T KNOW. ≫ I DON’T KNOW. ≫ MAYBE IT JUST RHYMES. ≫ IF YOU ARE FROM NORWAY AND YOU KNOW WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN, TEAM PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE — ODDLY ENOUGH GO THROUGH TOP 8 IN QUALIFYING POSITIONS. IN TOP POSITION CROSSFIT PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE SITTING IN FIRST PLACE WITH 196 POINTS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE UP SILLY NAMES. IN SECOND PLACE, C23 CROSSFIT 188 POINTS. C23 ONE EVENT WON. 1055 TIE FOR TOTAL POUNDS LIFTED FOR TEAMS. THIRD PLACE CROSSFIT PRESTANDA 176, WALLEYE FROM 8 TO 4th. 176, FOUR POINTS OUT OF PODIUM POSITION, CROSSFIT OSLO BLST AND VERBANIA IN 6th AND GYMERT AND BLUEPRINT IN 8th WITH 128, TIED WITH BUTCHER’S LAB WITH 128 POINTS AND THANK GOODNESS TEAMS ARE BACK IN. FOR 30 SECONDS. 15 WORM THRUSTERS. ADVANCE THE WORM AFTER 15. WORM SECTIONS, 100 POUNDS AND 70 POUNDS. PUT YOUR ATHLETES WHEREVER YOU WANT. ONE THING I ADVISE AFTER BEING ON A TEAM DON’T PUT TALLEST PERSON IN THE MIDDLE. ≫ NEVER A GOOD DECISION. ≫ OF COURSE THEY DO, EVERYBODY HAS A REASON FOR THINGS THEY DO. FOR THE SAME REASON OF BEING MY FAVORITE TEAM NAME IN THE COMPETITION, WHO IS SITTING IN LANE 8, HIGH PERFORMANCE CROSSFIT JST COMPETE RED. THANKS FOR THE LONG NAME. IN THE 12 YEARS I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS I HAVE NOT SEEN MORE RIDICULOUS LONG TEAM NAMES. ≫ CAN WE GO BACK TO AFFILIATE NAMES. ≫ IT IS AFFILIATE PLUS PROGRAMMING NAMES ON TOP OF IT. ≫ WE GET IT. YOU GUYS WANT TO BE AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE. BUT LIKE JUST TALK ABOUT IT WHEN YOU WIN AN EVENT. WE ARE NOT DOING AN INTERVIEW. YOU CAN’T DO THAT EITHER. WE WILL MAKE UP NAMES. YOUR TEAMS CROSSFIT MAX ACADEMY. ADRIAN BOZMAN’S FAVORITE NAME, CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB KAOS. IT LOOKS LIKE CHAOS, CROSSFIT 77 FEET ORANGE. DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. AND I SEE CROSSFIT VERY BANE NEAH. VERY BANE VERBANIA. ≫ AND PORTTI CROSSFIT 10 CAPITAL. SOUNDS LIKE A BANK. LANE NUMBER 1. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE RUNS YOU CAN’T WATCH. ANY QUESTIONS WE CAN’T SEE. PULL UP YouTUBE NOW WHILE WE ARE HERE. ≫ ASK YOU A SERIOUS QUESTION. BUT WHAT IS THAT THRESHOLD OF PUSHING YOUR ATHLETES TOO FAR? IS THIS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO PRACTICE AND KNOW, HEY ARE WE GOING TO PUSH IT ON THE RUN AND SUFFER ON THE THRUSTERS IT IS NOT LIKE I DON’T THINK THEY CAN HANDLE 15 IN A ROW? ≫ I THINK IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE LIKE A LOT OF THE TIME WHEN IT IS — WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE WEAKEST ONE IT IS ON YOU TO COMMUNICATE WHEN IT IS TOO FAR. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW HOW HIGH YOUR HEART RATE IS GETTING. ≫ WE ARE GETTING HELP. READY, PSL, PIXEL. ≫ OH — ≫ YOU LEFT OUT THE — ≫ PCSL — ≫ IS THAT WHAT THE SIDE OF MY FACE LOOKS LIKE? ≫ LET’S NOT LOOK AT THAT. I HATE MY NOSE! ≫ LET’S SEE. A LOT OF SPANISH IN HERE. ≫ WHATEVER YOU SAID ALEX, PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO SAY CAYENNE. CROSSFIT 10K IS A — WHY 10K IS IT ELEVATION? ≫ I DON’T THINK IT IS 10K THAT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE A BANK, 10K CAPITAL. ≫ A LOT OF CAPITAL THINGS IN TEXAS. ≫ MORE PEOPLE. YOU GUYS ASK QUESTIONS. COMING IN, ROUND 2, GLAD THEY PUT THE WORM WHEREAS THEY WERE, I WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ROUND WE ARE ON. TWO TEAMS, SIDE-BY-SIDE, LANE 7 AND LANE 8. CROSSFIT HIGH PERFORMANCE JST COMPETE RED AND THEN JOLLY SAILOR CROSSFIT IN LANE 7. ≫ HAVE A THEORY AS TO WHY JOLLY SAILOR PUT MORITZ IN THE MIDDLE. THE FORMAT IS GIRL, BOY, GIRL, BOY, BUT MIDDLE GIRL IS SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN THE TWO BOYS. AND THE TWO BOYS ARE RUNNING AHEAD OF THE GIRLS. A GAP BETWEEN WHEN THE BOYS COME IN AND WHEN GIRLS COME IN. LOOKS LIKE THE BOYS ARE LETTING THE GIRLS COME IN LATER. ≫ YES. ≫ BECAUSE THE GIRLS ARE WEAKER. BUT THEN PUTTING JAMIE IN A POSITION WHERE SHE ALLOWS HERSELF TO PUSH THE RUN MORE. KNOWING THAT THEN THEY CAN HAVE SOME OF THE LOAD TAKEN OFF HER BETWEEN THE TWO TALLER BOYS. ≫ THAT IS WHY LUCY IS HERE. POINTING PAPERS INTO A CAMERA THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY ON. IF IT WERE TO BE ON, THAT IS WHY LUCY IS HERE. THAT IS GENIUS. ≫ IT IS SMART. ≫ 6’2" AND 223 IS MORITZ. JUST WATCHING THE WORM PASS OVER HER HEAD FROM THRUST TO THRUST. MOVE IT OVER HERE? MOVE IT OVER HERE. ONE TEAM LEFT ON THE FLOOR IN LANE 4, CROSSFIT VERBANIA. IF I SAY THAT WRONG TELL ME. OUT OF ITALY THREE ITALIAN TEAMS IN THE FIRST HEAT. THEY GO OUT FOR THEIR THIRD-800-METER RUN. LUCY, MATT MOON SAYS HI. ≫ HI. ≫ I DON’T KNOW IF HE KNOWS YOU. ≫ HE DOES KNOW ME. HE FIXED MY BATHROOM LIGHT. ≫ HE WHAT? ≫ HE FIXED MY BATHROOM LIGHT. ≫ I HEARD SOMETHING TOTAL DIFFERENT. I WON’T REPEAT WHAT I HEARD BUT I WAS SURPRISED YOU SAID IT THAT LOUD. PSL IS PIXEL. FOUND OUT RIZZ AND KRIGER, IS THAT BECAUSE IT RHYMES? 800-METER RUN, THIRD ROUND. AND WE ARE BACK. ≫ YouTUBE GOT IT RIGHT. ≫ THAT IS GOOD. SEE THIS IS WHY. THIS IS THE PROBLEMS I HAVE. LISTENING. WHICH IS PROBABLY A WEIRD PROFESSION TO BE IN IF I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE SAY. VERY NICE. NOW, IF YOU GUYS ARE ENJOYING WHAT YOU ARE SEEING WHICH IS JUST ME AND LUCY ON CAMERA, WONDERING HOW THE 800-METER RUN IS GOING. HI MOM. PERFECT TIME TO SAY HI TO FAMILY. HI DAD, HI MOM. DIDYLAN AND BLAKE. YOUR DAD IS ON TV. I THINK MY WIFE IS IN A PLANE RIGHT NOW. AND THANK YOU MOM FOR WATCHING THE KIDS AND ALLOWING ME TO COME TO FRANCE. THANK YOU GUYS. IT IS LIKE I SLOUCH. I SHOULD SIT UP STRAIGHT BUT THEN MY BACK GETS TIRED. I DON’T WORK ON THOSE MUSCLE GROUPS AS OFTEN AS I SHOULD. ≫ YOU SHOULD SEE MY DEADLIFT. ≫ JORDAN, STOP CALLING ME. YOU KNOW I’M ON THE AIR RIGHT NOW. IF NOT YOU SHOULD KNOW. DID YOU FLEX ON ME? ≫ NO. ≫ I HAVE WORKED OUT — ≫ YOU CAN SEE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT ARM. ≫ HOW IS YOUR WRIST? ≫ IT IS ALL RIGHT. ≫ THAT IS A NICE SCAR. ≫ IT IS A NICE SCAR. ≫ WHEN YOU ARE IN PUBLIC DO YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU HAD WRIST SURGERY. ≫ I’M QUITE TEMPTED TO GET A TATTOO NEAR TO IT UNINTENTIONALLY BUT INTENTIONALLY — ≫ WHILE WE ARE DOING THESE RIVETED 800-METER RUN BREAKS PUT IN THE COMMENTS OF WHAT TATTOO YOU WOULD LIKE LUCY TO GET ON HER FOREARM. MAKE THEM APPROPRIATE. THE TEAM IS HERE. THANK GOODNESS. BYE. LANE 9. CROSSFIT I WILL SAY CN, OR CAYENNE IF WE WANT TO BE MORE CAJUN. RACE BETWEEN 9, 8 AND 7, HIGH PERFORMANCE AND JOLLY SAILOR TOP THREE TEAMS FIVE REPS LEFT TO GO IN LANE 9. CYAN BY ANNOUNCER AND CROSSFIT CAEN. IT IS DONE. CAEN IN THE LEAD ADVANCING FORWARD. JOLLY SAILOR JUST BEHIND. TEAMS ONTO FOURTH ROUND. FUN WHEN THE FOURTH ROUND FEELS LIKE THE 10th ROUND. ≫ THESE ARE DECIDING ONES. THE FIRST THREE YOU WANT TO PUSH BUT DO NOT PUSH TOO HARD THAT YOU MESS UP THE LAST TWO. THE LAST TWO ROUNDS IF YOU DON’T FEEL DEAD ON THE RUN YOU NEED TO START FEELING DEAD ON THAT RUN. ≫ THE LAST RUN. AT LEAST IT IS NOT ENDING ON A RUN. ENDING ON MONOSTRUCTURAL OUTSIDE OF DOUBLE UNDER. ≫ IT IS A GREAT WAY TO END IT. ≫ WHO DOESN’T LOVE A FOOT RACE TO FINISH. ≫ YOU KNOW YOU CAN EMPTY THE TANK PROPERLY WHEN IT IS IN THAT SITUATION AS WELL. ≫ TRUE. ≫ FINISHING ON THE THRUSTERS, DON’T DROP IT. ≫ IT IS LIKE DON’T SCREW IT UP IS HOW EASY THESE TEAMS ARE MAKING IT. AT THE MOMENT. THESE TEAMS HAD THEIR FAIR SHARE OF INTENSITY IF YOU LOOK AT EVENT 1. ONE PERSON WORKING AT A TIME 30 ROPE CLIMBS 120 HANDSTAND PUSH-UPS 150 CALS ON THE BIKE THEN HANDSTAND TO FINISH WHILE YOUR TEAMS HELD THAT WORM IN STATIC HOLD, 18 OR 20 MINUTES FULL BLAST WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN. AND NOTHING SOUNDS LESS FUN THAN SPRINTING ON THE ECO BIKE AND HOLDING A 400 PLUS OBJECT ON MY SHOULDERS AFTERWARDS. VERBANIA. I SAID VERBANIA. ≫ THAT IS YOU BEING AMERICAN. ≫ IT IS TRUE. STAY WITH THAT. WORST PART IS — MATTES JACOBSON CAN SPEAK A LOT OF LANGUAGES NEVER BEEN MORE THROWN OFF IN MY LIFE I WAS LIKE DO I HAVE TO DO THIS? HE IS NO. ≫ ROLL THE Rs. ≫ I CAN DO THAT A BIT. BUT IT TAKES A COUPLE OF TRIES. CHRISTOPHER BLST IS THE LAST LETTER IN THE ATHLETE’S SURNAME WHICH IS AN INTERESTING THING USING THE LAST LETTER OF THE LAST NAME, I TRIED FIRST LETTER IT DOESN’T WORK. ≫ IF YOU CAN MAKE A WORD OUT OF THE LAST LETTER OF THE LAST NAME. ≫ BLST OR PIXEL OR PSL OR PUZZLE — BECAUSE YOU LEFT OUT THE C YOUR PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND. AND YES, WHEN YOU WIN I WILL SAY IT. ≫ WE ARE THAT BASIC. ≫ YES. CROSSFIT CAEN IS THAT LIKE A RAP SONG? CALVIN IS IN THE CHAT DO YOU REMEMBER CK FROM WHEN WE DID THIS LAST YEAR? ≫ NO. ≫ CK GUY DOING THIS BOOTLEG BROADCAST IN ORLANDO. AND BROADCASTING AND THEN IN THE CHAT KEEP SAYING HEY WHO IS THAT CK GUY BEHIND YOU IT FLOODED THE CHAT AND WE LOOK BEHIND US AND THERE IS THIS GUY INNOCENTLY SITTING THERE WATCHING COMPETITION WITH A CK, CALVIN KLEIN SHIRT. SO I TO GO INTERVIEW HIM AND REALIZE I PROBABLY SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT. IT DID NOT WORK OUT THE WAY I THOUGHT IT WOULD. HE LIVES IN INFAMY. ≫ CROSSFIT JST EXTENDING THEIR LEAD A BIT AS JOLLY SAILOR COMES IN SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH CROSSFIT CAEN IN LANE 9, LEADERS, SAILOR AND JST RIGHT TO IT. ≫ BOTH BRITISH TEAMS AS WELL, THEY KNOW EACH OTHER — ≫ OH NO! ≫ AND THAT IS THE DANGER OF PUSHING THE PACE A BIT TOO QUICK. SO JST DROPS THE WORM AS JOLLY SAILOR ADVANCES TO THEIR FIFTH AND FINAL ROUND. AND LUCY YOU SAID, OTHER THAN THAT MISSTEP THERE WHICH IS COSTLY IS — THERE IS NOT MUCH SEPARATION ON THE WORM. THESE TEAMS HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION OF HOW HARD TO PUSH TO CATCH THE NEXT ONE. ≫ FOR SURE. IT IS BIG TIME, UNBROKEN ON THE WORM, BUT ULTIMATELY THAT IS ASSUMING THAT YOU HAVE THE ACCURACY WITH IT. AND THAT WAS — IT LOOKED AS THOUGH SWAPPED THE FORMAT STRAIGHT AWAY AFTER THAT. IT LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS NOT SUPER-HAPPY WITH HAVING THE OTHER TEAMMATE AT THE FRONT. AND MADE THAT CHANGE AND MADE IT SMOOTHER AFTERWARDS. HAVING THAT DROP AND REARRANGING THE WORM THAT IS A BIG THING. ≫ THEN YOU START TO THINK ABOUT, HOW CLOSE IS THAT GOING TO BE COMING IN TO THE FINAL AND HOW MUCH DOES THAT PLAY INTO YOU MAYBE NOT WANTING TO TRY TO PUSH AS FAST AS YOU CAN, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE. ≫ ON THE FLIPSIDE, YOU KNOW, KNOWING THAT YOU MADE A MISTAKE AND THEN FEELING THAT PRESSURE AND FEELING THAT PANIC AND THEN RUNNING TOO FAST POTENTIALLY TO TRY TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOST TIME AND PUTTING YOURSELF AT RISK OF MAKING FURTHER MISTAKES IN THE LAST ROUND. ≫ NINE TEAMS DONE WITH FOURTH ROUND, FINAL RUN, 800 RUN AND 15 WORM THRUSTERS. ONE TEAM IS OUT THERE ON THE FOURTH ROUND IN LANE 4 CROSSFIT VERBANIA. JUST PAST THE 20:30 MARK, TIME TO BEAT WAS 23:10 SET BY OSLO KRIGER BLST WHICH I ENJOY SAYING MORE THAN BLST. THEN YOU THINK OF A SANDWICH. BACON SALAMI. ≫ I DON’T EAT RED MEAT — ≫ THAT DOESN’T SOUND GOOD. ≫ NO. BACON LETTUCE — ≫ HOW ABOUT — MAKE NON RED MEAT VERSION. ≫ OKAY. I WILL NEED A MINUTE. ≫ BLST. BLUEBERRIES LETTUCE, STRAWBERRIES AND — WHAT WOULD I DO FOR THE T? WHAT IS THE T? TOMATO. ≫ TOMATO. ≫ TOMATO, TOMATO . ≫ VERBANIA, CAEN. LAST TEAM DONE WITH THE FOURTH ROUND OF THRUSTERS. IT JUST APPEARS THAT THE RUN HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL ON THE TEAM. WAITING TO SEE THE TOP TEAM TO COME IN. PAST THE — 23:10 TIME TO BEAT SET BY OSLO BLST. AND WE WILL SEE IF CROSSFIT CAEN OUT OF LANE 9 YOUR LEADER — ≫ CAEN ANNOUNCERS SAY IT DIFFERENTLY. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE. HERE THEY COME. THEY ONLY HAVE 20 SECONDS TO DO IT. I THINK OSLO BLST MAY BE ABLE TO HOLD ON FOR ANOTHER HEAT. ≫ YOU CAN NEVER UNDERESTIMATE OSLO TEAMS, SO MUCH EXPERIENCE IN THAT GYM. ≫ TO HAVE THAT MANY TEAMS IS ONE THING TO HAVE THEM ALL QUALIFY IS A COMPLETE OTHER. ≫ JOLLY SAILOR MATCHED UP IN LANE 3. CROSSFIT PORTI MADE HUGE MOVE ON THE LAST RUN. JOLLY SAILOR IN LANE 7 IN PINK AND BLACKS SECOND TEAM IN THE MIDDLE. ≫ PORTTI IS CYCLING FASTER. ≫ CROSSFIT CAEN SECOND JOLLY SAILOR ACROSS FINISH LINE AHEAD. MAYBE A SECOND AT BEST. OF CROSSFIT PORTTI AND THEN BUTCHER’S LAB KAOS CROSSES THE FINISH LINE AND 77 FEET ORANGE ANOTHER TEAM NAME I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON OF. ≫ NIGHTMARE ON THAT WORM. ≫ 77 FEET ORANGE OUT OF SPAIN. LANE 1 TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN, CROSSFIT 10K CAPITAL. NOT OPEN ON SUNDAYS. THAT IS A TERRIBLE JOKE. APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF YOU GUYS LISTENING FOR THAT ONE. 41-YEAR-OLD DAD. THIS IS THE BEST THEY WILL GET. LANE 2, TOP PART OF YOUR SCREEN, CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB X. LOOK AT THE FINISH. WOW! ABSOLUTE DISASTER IN LANE 8. CROSSFIT JST AT ONE POINT IN TIME WERE FIGHTING FOR A TOP POSITION IN THE HEAT. AND THEY FAILED THESE LAST 15. I BELIEVE THAT IS THE THIRD TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST 15 REPS. JST IN YELLOW, LANE 8. AS I SAID BEFORE, IN A TOP POSITION WHERE THEY WERE AND NOW THEY ARE FINDING THEMSELVES POTENTIALLY LAST IN THIS HEAT IF THEY CAN’T FINISH THE THRUSTERS. ANNOUNCER’S CURSE MY BAD. ONE REP LEFT TO GO AND IT LOOKS LIKE — MIGHT ARE WALKER? ≫ IT IS BOTH OF THE — [ INAUDIBLE ] ≫ AND EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT — IT SEEMS THEY HAVE NO MID-LINE ON THE CLEANS BEATING THEM UP GOOD. GEEZ. WOW! ≫ THAT IS HARD. ≫ YES. KEEP THE MUSIC GOING. KEEP THE MUSIC GOING DEEJAY. ≫ HAVE YOU DONE THAT IN THE GYM? ≫ YES. ≫ PUT YOUR EQUIPMENT AWAY. ≫ YOU KEEP CONVERSATION GOING AND YOU ARE LIKE OKAY — ≫ SORRY I FORGOT THAT YOU GUYS WERE STILL THERE. LAST TEAM CROSSFIT VERBANIA. 15 REPS. 3 MINUTES UNTIL THE CAP, NO WORRIES THERE. CROSSFIT VERBANIA DONE AND NOW OFFICIALLY DONE WITH HEAT 2 BUT THE TIME TO BEAT STILL STANDS FOR ONE MORE HEAT, OFFICE BLOW BLST 23:10. LOOKED LIKE — OSLO BLST 23:10. THERE IS A REASON IN OFFICE BLOW BLST IS FIFTH OVERALL AFTER 2 EVENTS ONE HEAT TO GO, TOP TEAMS OUT OF QUARTER FINALS COMING INTO THIS DOES THIS TIME STILL STAND FOR ONE MORE HEAT? ≫ I DON’T THINK IT WILL FOR THE LAST HEAT PARTLY BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING MORE OSLO TEAMS, WE ARE SEEING OBVIOUSLY THE TOP TEAMS THAT CURRENTLY COME INTO IT, THAT BEING SAID IN TOP TEAMS THERE ARE SOME TEAMS THAT ARE POTENTIALLY YOU KNOW, STRONGER IN THE STRENGTH SIDE OF THINGS. INTERESTING TO SEE WITH THIS AMOUNT OF RUNNING HOW THOSE TEAMS WILL DO IN PARTICULAR. ≫ UNIQUE TEST AND THE TWO WE HAD. EVENT 1, A LOT OF INTERVAL HIGH MAX POWER OUTPUT AND STRENGTH TEST AND NOW DOING LONG AEROBIC TEST FOR THE TEAMS THIRD AND FINAL HEAT OF THE TEAMS WILL BE COMING UP NEXT. ≫ THIRD AND FINAL HEATING GETTING READY TO GO, LAST HEAT, LAST ACTION OF DAY 1 AND THEN YOU GUYS GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANTED WHICH IS MORE COVERAGE TOMORROW AND SUNDAY. I’M CHASE INGRAHAM WITH LUCY CAMPBELL GETTING SET TO SEE YOUR TOP 10 TEAMS COMING OUT OF QUARTER FINALS AND EVENT 3, FIVE ROUNDS, 800-METER RUN, 15 THRUSTERS. DIDN’T THINK THAT THRUSTERS WOULD BE BIGGEST DEAL AND THEN WE SAW IT MADE A BIG DEAL FOR ONE OF THE TEAMS. ≫ IT IS NOT BE THE BIGGEST DEAL BUT IT COULD BE THE BIGGEST DOWNFALL. ≫ SECOND HEAT, 20 SECONDS BACK TO CLEAR START FOR RUN COURSE. DON’T NEED ANYBODY CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER ON THE FIRST 800-METER RUN. TEAMS GO OUT FOR FIRST 800-METER RUN. TIME TO BEAT SET IN THE FIRST HEAT, OSLO KRIGER BLST. 23:10 TIME TO BEAT STOOD FOR THE SECOND HEAT, WITH THAT BEING SAID THEY NEVER SLOWED DOWN RUN SEEMED STEADY, PACE ROUND TO ROUND SEEMED CONSISTENT AND YOU WERE TALKING TO, HOW DO WE WATCH THAT OR BEAT THAT. IF YOU KNOW TIME AHEAD OF TIME YOU HAD ALMOST 30 PLUS MINUTES TO PLAN THAT WOULD COULD BE. IS THIS IS THE TIME AND WE KNOW HOW TO MANAGE THAT AND DO THE MATH AND TRY TO KEEP PACE. ≫ I THINK IF YOU KNOW THAT AN EVENT WIN IS ON THE CARDS FOR YOU, THEN MAYBE SORT OF HAVING A ROUGH IDEA OF THE KIND OF PACE THAT THEY WERE DOING IS A GOOD THING. I THINK IF YOU ARE NOT NECESSARILY OF THAT — NOT CALIBER, BUT IF A WIN IS NOT LIKELY FOR YOU, THEN THAT IS WHERE YOU GET LURED INTO PUSHING A BIT TOO HARD TOO SOON AND THEN WE SEE WHAT HAPPENED WITH JST HAPPENING. I THINK IT IS LIKE YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF IT BUT YOU DON’T WANT TO LET IT DICTATE THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR GAME PLAN. ≫ I LOVE THAT YOU SAY THERE. BECAUSE IF YOUR NOT CAPABLE OF THAT WIN, SAY YOU KNOW WHAT THE TOP TIME TO BEAT OR KNOW THAT ATHLETE WILL WIN THIS EVENT, YOU TRY TO BEAT THAT PERSON, USUALLY YOU DO WORSE THAN WHAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAN IF YOU STAYED IN YOUR LANE. ≫ IF YOU COME TO THESE EVENTS AND YOU’RE COMPETING, YOU WANT TO BE AWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND IF YOU ARE NECK-IN-NECK WITH SOMEONE AND USING THAT PERSON OR TEAM TO HELP TO PUSH YOU A BIT AND IF PUSHING YOU ENDS UP PUSHING YOU OVER THE EDGE THAT IS WHERE WE SEE IT. WHERE YOU SEE IT BENEFIT IS WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT BE STARTING TO SLOW DOWN A BIT OR WHATEVER AND THEY USE THAT AS A BIT OF A SORT OF ACCOUNTABILITY TO HOLD THE PACE THAT THEY SHOULD BE HOLDING. SO I THINK IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS. IT IS A SKILL THAT NEEDS PRACTICING. BECAUSE IF YOU ONLY EVER TRAIN ON YOUR OWN AND YOU ONLY SORT OF ARE IN YOUR BUBBLE, THEN AS SOON AS YOU STEP OUT INTO THESE SORTS OF ARENAS YOU SEE PEOPLE LOOKING AROUND TOO MUCH, GETTING LURED INTO OTHER PEOPLES’ STRATEGIES AND THEY DO WORSE AS A RESULT. ≫ THERE YOU GO. THAT IS ALL YOU GOT TO DO. KNOW THYSELF. ≫ KNOW THYSELF IS KEY TO EVERYTHING IN CROSSFIT. ≫ MATRIX, 1990. I THINK IT IS 1990s WHICH HARMS ME TO THINK ABOUT. ≫ SO OLD I WASN’T BORN. ≫ LUCY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO ME? ≫ IN FAIRNESS PROBABLY AROUND 50% CHANCE. ≫ FIRST AND LAST TIME ALL TEAMS THIS CLOSE TOGETHER AS THIS EVENT GOES ON AS WE HAVE 15 WORM THRUSTERS. FIRST TEAM WITH THE WORM ON SHOULDERS IN LANE 3, CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB. LANES GO TOP TO BOTTOM, LANES 1 THROUGH 10. LANE 1, BLUEPRINT CROSSFIT, 2, CROSSFIT AORTA, BUTCHER’S LAB IN LANE 3, WALLEYE IN LANE 4, PRESTANDA IN LANE 4. IN LANE 6 CROSSFIT DERR ROOTS, LANE 7 C23 AND IN LANE 10 CROSSFIT HOLISTIC. ALL TEAMS THRUSTERS NO PROBLEM. ≫ WHEN YOU START TO SEE PEOPLE COME AROUND CORNERS AND THAT KIND OF THING IT IS STAY WIDE. ≫ PEOPLE IN THE CHAT SAID CROSSFIT MATRIX — CAME OUT IN 1997. PLEASE TELL ME YOU WERE BORN. ≫ I WAS 1. OH MY GOD, LUCY! I WAS LIKE A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL. I’M NOT GOING TO DO THE MATH. ≫ ME AND LUCY LOOK AT OURSELVES IN A JUMBOTRON. ≫ NOTHING THAN I LOVE BETTER THAN MY FACE BLOWN UP. ≫ HELLO TO YOU SITTING OVER THERE AND NEW THE WARM-UP AREA, STOP PULLING EARLY WITH YOUR ELBOWS. I CAN SEE YOU FROM HERE. JUST KIDDING! BUT STOP. 1999 — 1999. OKAY. ≫ STILL HOLDS UP. UNLIKE OTHER MOVIES FROM THE NINETIES THAT DON’T. ≫ THAT STILL LOOK NINETIES. ≫ TOP TEAMS COMING OUT OF THE OPEN ARE IN THIS HEAT. OVERALL STANDINGS OSLO KRIGER PSL IN FIRST PLACE WITH 198, C23 SITTING SECOND, CROSSFIT PRESTANDA 176, 12 POINTS BACK OF SECOND PLACE. CROSSFIT WALLEYE 172, 4 POINTS OUT OF PODIUM POSITION, 8th TO START DAY OFF BUT TIED FOR FIRST IN THE LIFTING EVENT. CROSSFIT OSLO KRIGER BLST IN 5, VERBANIA AND THEM GYMERT IS NEXT AND IN 8 BLUEPRINT CROSSFIT. WE WATCH THIS UNFOLD, WATCHED THE LAST LIFT ON HORVATH COME UP LAME AS IT LOOKED FROM HERE. DURING THE SECOND EVENT OPINION CURIOUS TO SEE HOW HE IS HANDLING THAT IF IT WAS NOTHING OR A CRAMP. HOPEFULLY HE IS TOTALLY FINE, WALLEYE IS ONE OF THOSE TEAMS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING IN MAYBE ONE OF THE BETTER TEAMS IN THE FIELD IF NOT CROSSFIT GAMES. ≫ FOR SURE. IF THERE IS ANYTHING MORE JUST — ≫ NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR. ≫ A LOT OF MATRIX CHAT IN THE CHAT. ≫ I HAVE CREATED IT. ≫ YOU STARTED IT. ≫ WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT. ≫ TEAMS ARE BACK. ≫ TEAMS ARE BACK. I WAS GOING TO BRING UP POLITICS. DARN IT. MAYBE IN ROUND 2. TEAMS ARE BACK IN. SO QUICK AT THE BOTTOM PART OF YOUR SCREEN IN LANE 9. HIGH PERFORMANCE, OVERALL STANDINGS. LANE 9 IS OSLO RIZZ. KEEPING PACE WITH LANE 3, CROSSFIT BUTCHER’S LAB, OSLO RIZZ AHEAD OF BUTCHER’S LAB. BUTCHER’S LAB IN SECOND AND IN LANE 10 CROSSFIT HOLISTIC AHEAD OF BUTCHER’S LAB BUT BEHIND AS FAR AS TIME IS CONCERNED. BECAUSE THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT POSITION HERE IN COMPETITION FLOOR. ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL. SEE CROSSFIT WALLEYE BOTTOM PART OF THE SCREEN, HORVATH AT THE BATH, SIMMONS IN FRONT AND JAMIE AND THEN MI M — MIA IS NEXT. THEY ADVANCE TO THIRD ROUND, 800-METER RUN. RELIVED LUCY’S AMAZING PERFORMANCE AT LOWLANDS THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE. WHAT ABOUT LUCY’S TATTOO? YES, YOU GUYS ARE NOT GIVING SUGGESTIONS WE HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT IF YOU DON’T PUT IN IT THE CHAT. ≫ SOMEONE SAID MAKE AN ARROW OF MY SCAR. ≫ THAT WOULD WORK. LUCY IS CROWD SOURCING HER FOREARM SCAR WHY AM I LOOKING AT MYSELF? I’M TALKING TO YOU. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK LUCY SHOULD GET? ARROW WOULD WORK. ≫ WOULD IT WORK. ≫ MAYBE LIKE SOME TYPE OF LIKE ROSEBUSH. ≫ THE THING IS — ≫ I DON’T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO TATTOO OVER A SCAR. ≫ YOU CAN. ≫ I WOULDN’T WANT TO. I’M NOT GOING TO DO THAT. ≫ IS IT SENSITIVE? ≫ NOT ANYMORE. A LITTLE BIT NUMB SOMETIMES. ≫ ALL RIGHT. IDEA RAILED MY ORIGINAL QUESTION HOW THAT IS COMING, BECAUSE GREAT PERFORMANCE IT THE THE GAMES IN 2022, WON TWO EVENTS. ≫ YES. ≫ JEOPARDY QUESTION THAT EVERYBODY MISSED. LAST WEEK. NOT RUINING LUCY’S SPIRITS AT ALL THAT NOBODY REMEMBERED WHO THAT WAS. HAD A WRIST INJURY. ≫ YES. ≫ AND LONG TIME YOU HAVE BEEN TRYING TO RECOVER, PRODUCT OF SURGERY AND SETBACKS WITH THAT, HEALING PROS IN. ≫ I THINK LIKE OBVIOUSLY WE SPOKE ABOUT IT BRIEFLY LAST YEAR AND I HAD NOT HAD A SURGERY YET. NOT A SURGERY TO TRY TO FIX ANYTHING, ANYWAY. SO VERY LONG STORY, SOMEWHAT SHORT ONE OF THE BONES IN MY WRIST BROKE AND ESSENTIALLY DIED SO WE COULDN’T FIX THAT. AND THE REASON THAT THEY THINK IT BROKE IS BECAUSE ONE BONE IN MY FOREARM IS LONGER THAN THE OTHER. SO ESSENTIALLY KNOCK-ON EFFECT OF OVERHEAD STUFF AND THE OTHER THINGS WE DO, IT SHOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH MY RADIUS BONE DISSIPATED OUT TO OTHER WRIST BONES AND CRACKING THIS BONE AND CUTTING OFF BLOOD CIRCULATION. ≫ PUMMELED IT INTO OBLIVION. ≫ YES. ≫ AND SOUNDS NOT PAINFUL AT ALL. ≫ IT IS PRETTY WILD. I BASICALLY HAD MY RADIUS SHORTENED BY 5 MILLIMETERS, A SECTION TAKEN OUT, HAD MY RADIUS PLATED AND, YEAH. THAT IS WHERE WE ARE AT. ≫ AND RIGHT ON CUE. THAT SOUNDS HORRIBLE. MY GOODNESS. LANE 9. CROSSFIT OSLO RIZZ. AND IN LANE 10 MADE UP GROUND ON THE LAST RUN. CROSSFIT HOLISTIC. 15 THRUSTERS. WORM ITSELF, TOTAL 365 POUNDS, 100 SECTIONS AND 70-POUND SECTIONS WITH 7-POUND FILLER BAGS. AND THE R STAMPED ON THE END IS THE END THAT HAS THE 100-POUND BAG WHICH IS GOOD TO KNOW DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU PUT YOUR MALE AND FEMALE. ONE TEAM EXITING, OSLO RIZZ TOP POSITION, HOLISTIC JUST AHEAD AS WE SAW LAST TIME BUT LESS BEHIND. AS WALLEYE IS MAKING THEIR WAY OUT ON THE RUN. 23:10 TIME TO BEAT BY OSLO BLST SET IN HEAT 1. SECOND TIME THEY HAD THE BEST SCORE COMING INTO THE THIRD HEAT. THEY ENDED UP 4th OVERALL IN THE HEAT. IN THAT EVENT WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE IN FIFTH OVERALL AFTER 2 EVENTS. AND THEN LUCY AFTER TODAY, WE ARE OVER HALFWAY DONE WITH THE TEAM COMPETITION. THREE EVENTS TODAY, TWO EVENTS TOMORROW AND THEN IT IS OVER. AND WITH THE VARIETY OF EVENTS THAT WE HAVE HAD TODAY WE TALKED ABOUT THAT EARLIER, IS THAT A LOT OF GYMNASTICS INTERVAL BASED POWER OUTPUT AND HEAVY LIFT TEAM AND AIR ROBIC TEST MAY BE A — AREA ROBIC TEST MAY BE A GOOD INDICATION OF WHAT WE MIGHT SEE COMING IN TO THE COMPETITION LATER ON. ≫ YOU HAVE OVERHEAD SQUATS AND THEN — ≫ THAT OVERHEAD SQUAT ROW WORKOUT WILL BE MONSTER EVENT. ≫ AND LAST EVENT WITH THE WORM CLEAN AND JERK, BURPEES, BAR MUSCLE UPS, WORM LUNGES. ≫ ALL BETS OFF TOMORROW WITH EVENTS LIKE THAT, TALK ABOUT EVENT, ONE PAIR GOES, 3 ROUNDS OF 30 CALS 30 OVERHEAD QUATS AND ONE AT 90 AND 90. AN ELEMENT IN THERE, IF YOU JUST BLOW UP YOU LOSE 5, 10 SPOTS ON LEADER BOARD. ≫ AND LEAVE TO IT YOUR POOR PARTNER TO TRY TO CARRY THE REST OF IT. ≫ LAST EVENT IS ON COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK. THREE MOVEMENTS WHERE THERE IS NO LET-UP FOR ANYONE, WITH CLEAN AND JERKS INTO BURPEES INTO WALKING LUNGE. ≫ CLOSE RACE TO FINISH LINE WITH THAT. ≫ LIKE YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH JST SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN ON CLEAN AND JERKS OR ON THE LUNGS AND THE WORM FLOPS TO THE FLOOR. ≫ THAT HAPPENED WITH MY FINGER. HAD BONE IN IT. I HAD A FREAK SHOPPING CART INCIDENT. ≫ WHAT? ≫ I WAS RIDING A SHOPPING CART. ≫ RIDING IT? ≫ YEAH, RIDING IT, YOU HAVE NEVER RIDDEN A SHOPPING CART BEFORE? ≫ NO. ≫ WE WERE DONE SHOPPING AND THERE WAS A DOWNHILL TO THE CAR AND I GOT ON THE BACK AND JUST ROAD THE SHOPPING CART. ≫ NOT INSIDE OF THE SHOPPING CART. ≫ NO I WOULD HAVE FAIRED BETTER IF I WAS INSIDE OF THE SHOPPING CART. APPARENTLY IT WAS COLD, I HIT A PATCH P BLACK ICE AND SLID OUT AND ALMOST LOST THIS FINGER ENTIRELY IT WAS TRAPPED IN THE HANDLE. THE END OF IT BASICALLY LOOKED LIKE I SMASHED WITH IT A HAMMER. ≫ MY DAD HAS DONE THAT TO ONE OF HIS FINGERS IN WOODWORK. ALMOST SLICED OFF ONE OF THEM A COUPLE OF TIMES. ≫ LANE 9. NO PROBLEMS HERE. CLOSING OUT THE FOURTH ROUND HERE IN EVENT 3 FOR THE TEAMS, THIRD AND FINAL HEAT, THE LAST ACTION WE WILL HAVE HERE TODAY FOR DAY NUMBER 1 AT THE FRENCH THROWDOWN, THE 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS. AS CROSSFIT OSLO RIZZ IS EXTENDING THEIR LEAD ON THE FIELD. GETTING INTO THE LAST ROUND, THE CLOCK ON THE FLOOR DIED. I CAN’T CREATE ANY DRAMA WITH HOW MUCH TIME WE HAVE LEFT. THIS IS WHY I — ≫ YOUR CORRECT LUCY WHAT ABOUT THE CLOCK ON THE COMPUTER, PAST THE 18 MINUTE MARK. LET DRAMA ENSUE. FIVE MINUTES AWAY FROM THE BEST TIME TO BEAT. SEEMS WITHIN REACH BUT — I DON’T WANT TO CALL IT THIS I AM GOING TO, I HOPE NOBODY HAS A JST MOMENT HERE. ≫ JUST SAYING. DON’T DO IT. CROSSFIT PODCAST COMING TO MY DEFENSE. THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. ALSO WELCOME IT. LAST ROUND FOR THE TEAMS. AT 19:10. 4 MINUTES BETWEEN OSLO BLST TIME AND OSLO RIZZ TRYING TO BEAT THEM IN THIS THIRD AND FINAL HEAT. I GUESS IF YOU GOT TO GET BEAT BY SOMEBODY IT MIGHT AS WELL BE YOUR OWN TEAM. ≫ TRUE. ≫ LANE 6 CROSSFIT ZARAUTZ AND LANE 2 CROSSFIT AORTA. APPROACHING 20 MINUTE MARK 20 MINUTES IN, 3:10 BEFORE WE HIT THAT TIME OF 23:10 SET BY OSLO BLST AS OSLO RIZZ IS ON THE COURSE AND FINISHING UP THE LAST 800 AND HAVE 15 WORM THRUSTERS BETWEEN THEM AND POTENTIAL EVENT WIN. ≫ YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL HOW ATHLETES ARE FEELING BY HOW THEY COME OFF THE WORM. THRUST WALKING STRAIGHT OFF THE WORM UP UNTIL HALFWAY TO THE END OF THAT FLOOR YOU CAN TELL THAT THEY ARE SUFFERING BIG TIME. ≫ STEADY WALK LOOK TO HEAVENS, JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL OR TAKE ME. TAKE ME NOW. PAST THE 21 MINUTE MARK. 2 MINUTES. STARTING NOW. WE JUST PASSED 21:10, 2 MINUTES BETWEEN CROSSFIT RIZZ AND OSLO BLST. HELLO EVERYONE, WELCOME TO THE LAST HEAT OF THE CROSSFIT GAMES PODCAST COVERAGE OF 2024 EUROPEAN SEMIFINALS. CHASE INGRAHAM AND LUCY CAMPBELL. ALL OF THE FUN AND EXCITING STUFF TOMORROW BUT SOME ARGUE THIS IS THE FUN AND EXCITING STUFF. THIS IS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY TO LET US KNOW WHAT TATTOO LUCY SHOULD BE GETTING OVER HER WRIST SCAR. 21:50. SO RIZZ IS IN. AT 22 MINUTES, 15 THRUSTERS STAND BETWEEN THEM AND AN EVENT WIN, OSLO RIZZ WORM ON SHOULDERS AND NO REP ON THE FIRST ONE THAT IS THE RISK YOU TAKE WHEN TRYING TO SQUAT CLEAN THE FIRST REP OF A WORM THRUSTER. ≫ IT IS ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE ATHLETES KNOW THAT THAT IS THE NO REP BECAUSE THE RISK IS THAT ONE OF THEM OR THE BACK TWO THINK THEY FINISHED EARLY AND THEN ENDING UP DROPPING THE WORM. ≫ 22:35 GETS DOWNCALL. AND THAT WILL DO IT, CROSSFIT OSLO RIZZ TAKES THE HEAT AND TAKES THE EVENT AND LANE 10. CROSSFIT HOLISTIC, 10 SECONDS BEHIND THEM UNDERNEATH THE TIME. CROSSFIT PRESTANDA UNDERNEATH THE TIME. SO, OSLO BLST WITH THE TIME OF 23:10, 10 SECONDS AWAY TO SEE IF THEY CAN HOLD ONTO FOURTH PLACE POSITION AND EVEN THEN MIGHT NOT GET IT. AS IT LOOKS LIKE FOUR TEAMS IN THE FINAL HEAT HAVE POTENTIALLY GOT UNDERNEATH THAT 23:10 TIME AS WALLEYE FINISHES AROUND 23:18. ALL TIMES UNOFFICIAL UNTIL POSTED ON GAME LEADER BOARD. TWO TOP FIVE FINISHES FOR OSLO BLST WHO HAS BEEN IN HEAT 1 THIS ENTIRE TIME. IF THEY WERE IN THIS HEAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN POTENTIAL TO WIN THIS BEING IN THE MIX AND KNOWING WHERE OTHER TEAMS WERE. ≫ FOR SURE. I GUESS THAT IS DOWNSIDE OF IT BEING ONLY TWO DAYS IS THAT YOU HAVE GOT THAT FIXED SEEDING FOR ALL THREE EVENTS AND YOU NEVER HAVE THAT ADVANTAGE AND TEAM MIGHT HAVE HAD A BAD QUARTER FINALS EVENT AND THEN DOWN IN FIRST HEAT AND YOU NEVER REALLY SEE THEM COMPETE WITH THE TOP TEAMS UNTIL THE LAST DAY WHICH MAKES THE LAST DAY SO MUCH MORE EXCITING. ≫ C23 CROSSFIT THESE ARE YOUR LEADERS COMING INTO THIS EVENT. AND DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY LAND, I MEAN, TEAMS IN PREVIOUS HEATS ARE COMING IN TO PLAY THERE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE POINT SPREAD OF C23, OSLO PSL FIRST AND C23 IN SECOND AT 188. BUT KRIGER BLST IN FIFTH, 30 POINTS OUT OF FOURTH, WALLEYE MAY HOLD THE FOURTH PLACE POSITION. BUT CROSSFIT RIZZ OUT OF OSLO SITTING IN 12th BUT ONLY 24 POINTS OUT OF A QUALIFYING POSITION FOR THE FIRST PLACE FINISH HERE, 100 POINTS IS HUGE IN THIS FORMAT. ≫ YES. ≫ TWO TEAMS LEFT ON THE FLOOR. CROSSFIT AORTA. YOUR LAST TEAM ON THE FIELD. CROSSFIT AORTA OUT OF GERMANY. PROBABLY MEANS I’M SAYING THEIR TEAM NAME WRONG. ≫ I THINK AORTA IS AORTA LIKE THE HEART. ≫ STILL THE SAME. ≫ YES. ≫ THAT IS GOOD. LIKE THE HEART OR JUST A VALVE. BUT IT IS OKAY. ≫ YES. ≫ WE MEAN HEART IT IS THAT ONE THING. ≫ YOU DON’T WANT TO OVERCOMPLICATE IT FOR PEOPLE. ≫ THAT WILL DO IT FOR THE TEAM COMPETITION. THAT DOES IT FOR ALL OF FRIDAY COMPETITION. I WANT TO THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU GUYS THAT TUNED IN TO JOIN THE SHOW HERE ON CROSSFIT PODCAST CHANNEL, FULL COVERAGE ON CROSSFIT GAMES COVERAGE CHANNEL TOMORROW AND THAT IS FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THANKS TO LUCY, A LOT OF FULL, LUCY’S DEBUT ON THE BROADCAST FOR THIS. TO GO GAMES.CROSSFIT. COM FOR CHASE AND LUCY ALL OUR GUESTS AND FANS THANKS FOR JOINING US. SEE YOU TOMORROW.