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[narrator]
The CrossFit Games.

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Every year, a new fight,
a new chase, a new climb.

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Everyone
with a singular mission:

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to find and crown
the Fittest on Earth.

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[Tia] I go to the gym
every single day.

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I treat my craft
as a profession.

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I dedicate my life to this.

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And I do not want
to be classed as a joke

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because of the time and the
energy that I put into this.

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♪

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I would argue the fact
that I am just as professional,

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if not more,
than another athlete

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that is going to a sport

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that has been around
for hundreds of years.

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[narrator] For the last few
years, the top of the podium

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at the CrossFit Games has been
summited by just two athletes.

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For the women,
Tia-Clair Toomey has earned

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the title of Fittest on Earth
each of the last four years.

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And, on the men's side,
Mat Fraser has been

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the only man standing

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at the end of every one
of the last five climbs,

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a feat many claim to have
earned him the title

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of Fittest Man in History.

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After winning in 2020,
Mat Fraser

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sent shockwaves
through the sport.

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He was done competing.

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One champion departs

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and the other prepares
for her next ascent.

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At the base of this year's
mountain, questions abound.

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Who will fill Mat's shoes?

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Can anyone finally catch Tia?

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Is the next generation ready

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or will the veterans
of the sport hold them back

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for one more season?

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Coming into 2021,

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the only thing for certain

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was that it was someone
else's turn to make the climb.

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[audience cheering]

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[pulsating electronic music]

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[announcer] We are ready
for the opening event

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for both the men
and the women

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here at the 2021
Noble CrossFitGames.

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And this is the type of test

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that we are used to seeing
kick things off at the games.

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[announcer 2]
This is a classic way

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to kick off
The CrossFit Games.

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We're getting outside the box,
we're getting in the water

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and we have a new
implement with that kayak

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as the paddle portion
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[Adrian] Event one,
we're going to go long,

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we're going to get wet,
we're going to do something

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that a lot of people
haven't done.

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We've got a long swim

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and then we've got a kayak
all the way across the lake.

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So it's something
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are going to be
truly comfortable with.

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Grab a pair of fins.
There's different sizes.

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You can take your time
getting a size that feels good.

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[plastic rustles]

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Not that one.

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[interviewer] Have you
done much swimming in fins?

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I've done it,
like, once in a pool.

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But not really.

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[laughs]

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-[spritzing]
-The kayak is funny.

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Everybody has done it and
I don't think anybody's raced.

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Right?

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Every time I kayak
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with my girlfriend or whoever.

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And I'm just going for
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like, I'm not actually
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I don't think people really
knew what to expect on that.

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And-- And three miles
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[Justin] Leading in
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you just keep like, "Okay,
I've been working so hard,

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but I know
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have been working just as hard.

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So you're kind
of just scared, like--

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Just that fear of not knowing
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leading in that first event.

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It's just--
it's gonna set the tempo

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for the rest of the weekend.

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[whistle blows]

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[announcer]
And, with that, the 2021

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Noble CrossFit Games
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[announcer 2]
The challenge here is that

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it's a mass start of both
the men and the women.

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And typically we've had
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some separation
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Now that
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all starting
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it's going to be mass chaos
in the beginning.

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[Brent] The first quarter of
the race was really strange.

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I've never felt that
disoriented in a swim before.

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I just felt
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was oscillating,
like, a tremendous amount.

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Kind of like sight,
I'd take a few strokes,

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I'd sight again

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and then everyone was in
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and I was
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And people were
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because with fins you can
just, like, crank up the RPM.

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[Annie] Someone swam over me,
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during that event,
just, like, literally over me.

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[Pat] So I thought I'd stay out
of the fight in the water

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and not get pummeled
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and try to make a lot
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once it got time to paddle.

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And I just wasn't able
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[announcer] Now we're
going into a three mile kayak,

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but it's still going to be
about a 40- to 50-minute bout,

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but it's going to come
down to a lot of technique.

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Efficiency with this group

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is going to be huge
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[Mallory] I didn't
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I came out fourth.

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And so I had to make up ground.

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And I tell you what,

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it was very hard
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[Pat] I feel like
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and I kind of had one gear

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that could either work
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or I could work less hard
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So it was quite frustrating.

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There was some--
some dark times in that boat

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in the middle of the water.

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I was, like, giving
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and we were just kind
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like, slow motion,

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like, turtle dove
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[announcer] Jonne Koski,
if you didn't know any better,

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you would just think he was
out for a leisurely paddle

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by himself on Lake Monona.

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There is no one
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[Brent] From the outset,
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it was Jonne Koski's
event to lose.

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[announcer]
Koski is out of the water.

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100 points
for Jonne Koski.

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[Tia] I was in the kayak and
we're kayaking across the lake,

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and you see this beautiful
horizon of Madison City.

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And just realizing, "Wow,
look at where I am right now."

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I'm doing what I love and
with the most beautiful view.

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It was just so special,
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"We're here and we're--
we're ready to put on a show."

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[announcer]
And Tia Toomey starts

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her quest for her fifth
straight championship

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with her 25th career event
win at the CrossFit Games.

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[vibrant instrumental music]

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Pat Vellner,
one of the heavy favorites

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to win the CrossFit Games

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has a history of digging
himself an early hole,

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and it looks like
he is doing it again

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here in the opening event.

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And there he is,
still on the kayak.

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[announcer 2] Wow.

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Once I've backed
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and then I feel like
there's nowhere to go but up.

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Fortunately,
I've made it a habit

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to take a bad dive
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and then make it real exciting

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for everybody for the next
ten, 11, 12 events.

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I just couldn't get any speed.

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I was, like, drifting a lot to
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and my, like, left side.

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And I breathe on my right
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So my left side
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And then I just like
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and I just couldn't get
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Felt like I was just like--

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I could maintain my speed fine,

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but I just couldn't
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[interviewer] Was she
yelling at you on the kayak?

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Yeah, she's fucking
drafting off me, again.

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Good job. Good job.

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I'll take half her points.

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It didn't say
we weren't allowed to.

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It was good.

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Yeah, it wasn't, like,
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or anything like that.
Good job, darling.

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It was just--
most of it was focusing

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on staying engaged, you know?

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[man] What do you guys think?

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It was great.
It was a good start.

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I think, um, athletes sometimes
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how quickly time compresses.

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Like, we get out here

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and everybody is just taking
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And with a mass event like
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who all have their own needs
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So-- But we got there.

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We got them in the water
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So always good
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out of the way on time.

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Every time.

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Yeah, it was good.

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[dynamic orchestral music]

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[Sean] I think to describe
putting on the CrossFit Games

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as a Herculean effort
would be an understatement.

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I have never been part
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that logistically involves

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so many moving parts,
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to getting
the equipment certain places,

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to making sure the athletes
are where they need to be

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making sure they have
the equipment they need,

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that they're dressed
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that, you know, the judges
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the broadcaster
knows what to do.

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You have to have an army
of people all over the place,

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all knowing exactly
what they're doing in order

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to even have a chance
of pulling this thing off.

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The past few years
of the CrossFit Games

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have been extremely tumultuous.

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2018 was the last
"normal year,"

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where we had the same system
that had been in place

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for about a decade

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with open regionals games
and that similar flow.

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And then, in 2019,
the entire system got upended

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and a new system
was put in place

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and the path to the games
was much less than a year.

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All of that was cut short
in 2020 by the pandemic.

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[Adrian] The 2020 games were
massively affected by COVID.

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There was one point

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where we thought
it just wasn't possible.

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We took the top five men
and the top five women.

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They all came to the ranch
in Aromas

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and we had a final there,

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which was really,
really strictly monitored.

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We had lots and lots
of testing.

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I mean, this was right

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in the middle of the early
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No spectators,
limited staff, limited media.

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It was pretty locked down.

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[Sean] So, finally in 2021,
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the most normal thing that
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We knew we were
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we knew we were going to be
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But there was still
that specter of COVID

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that was hanging
over the whole thing

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that could derail this
at any minute.

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We are here waiting for our
athletes, Danielle and Kari.

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They're going to come and test.

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We just want to make sure

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that they continue
to test negative

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because there has been
potential exposure.

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[light classical music]

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We get notified
that Bethany Shadburne

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has tested positive for COVID

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and that she is likely
out of the competition.

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Now, the challenge
that that created

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beyond the obvious
of having to tell her

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that she cannot compete
this year,

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is that she's been
in close contact

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with several
other prominent athletes

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in the female division.

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So, Kari Pearce
and Danielle Brandon,

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her training partners,
have been around her

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and are now
at risk of exposure.

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So the microscope is
focused on them at that point.

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-[nurse] Good morning.
-Good morning.

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[nurse] I'm just
gonna swab both nostrils,

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[indistinct] gonna wait 10
minutes, all right?

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Awesome.

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[interviewer]
Kari tested positive?

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[Katina] Uh, yes.
Her first test is positive.

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The protocol is to do a retest.

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So we will
give her that.

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So we have to do a retest.

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[nurse] We got to do
a retest on you.

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Okay?

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All right,
so can you follow me?

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[interviewer]
Did Danielle test positive?

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[Katina] No,
Danielle is negative.

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[interviewer]
But Kari tested positive?

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[Katina]
Kari's tested positive.

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We're gonna do a retest and see

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if she tests positive again.

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[interviewer]
What happened?

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Kari tested positive,
but she's retaking it.

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Okay.

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[indistinct]

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So, you're out,
and I'm so sorry about that.

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So now you have
to leave campus

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and you're not allowed
to come back.

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[Adrian] So, unfortunately,
Bethany's out.

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Unfortunately, Kari's out.

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We're down
to one of the three women

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that have trained
together all season long.

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We're really worried that
Danielle's been exposed

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and will ultimately
test positive.

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So she is under
a really strict protocol.

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She's getting tested regularly.

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She has a liaison from the
medical team attached to her.

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She has to keep her distance
from the other athletes.

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[announcer]
If you're just joining us,

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Bethany Shadburne
tested positive for COVID

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earlier in the week
before competition started.

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She was--
she was forced to withdraw.

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And then this morning,

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Kari Pearce also
testing positive as well.

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So she is out
of the competition.

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Both of those women
with podium aspirations here

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at the CrossFit Games and just
so unfortunate for them

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that they
were not able to compete.

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♪

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[Tommy] In event two, we moved
over to the North Park.

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Switched things up completely,
had some odd object work

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and some gymnastics,

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and for Tia,
it really highlights

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the breadth of fitness
that she has

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as the reigning
Fittest Woman on Earth

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and really the fittest woman
in history.

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[Tia] Yes, I believe it's my

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responsibility to keep

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raising the bar.

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If I'm not raising it,
then who will?

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You know, I don't mean
that in any disrespect

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to any other athlete,

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because we all are out there
just trying to raise the bar.

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We don't know what
those limitations are.

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♪

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[announcer]
Start with that sled drag,

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300 pounds
on the sled for the men.

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That's a heavy sled drag,
and the question is,

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what is this going to do
to the athletes?

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Well, it's all about the legs,
the hamstrings and the glutes,

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which is everything you need
going into this pig flip.

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The pig is an implement
that has never been seen before

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besides
the CrossFit Games

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and they're bringing it back
and we got to warm up with it

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and we only got three flips,

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so we got to walk out there,
test three flips,

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and then it was like,
"Well, see what happens."

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[announcer 2]
It's like

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flipping your refrigerator,
end over end,

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if your refrigerator is
six feet, ten inches long

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and weighs 510 pounds.

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[announcer 2]
Pat Vellner, who once again

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needs to work his way
out of a gigantic hole.

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[announcer 3] Now,
the good news for Vellner

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is that he did it
in event number one.

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So he has plenty of time left.

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Whenever I have events
that I feel like line up

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really nice for me,
I get extra nervous

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because it's-- it's just
an execution thing.

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It's not an ability problem.

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It's not
a fitness problem.

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It's like if you don't succeed,

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it is because
you made a mistake.

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[announcer]
Laura Horvath.

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Horvath in the bottom right
of your screen,

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just leaving everyone
behind her right now.

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And it looks like
she will be the first woman

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to that 350-pound pig
for five flips.

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[Laura] I like those things
because I'm a bigger athlete

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and it's like I can move mass
or like objects easily.

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But it wasn't really
about the pig or the sled,

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I think it was only like
a muscle effort,

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there were,
like, 42 muscle-ups.

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I went aggressive,

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and did the first 12-ring
muscle-ups unbroken

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to get ahead of the pack
a little bit

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and then tried
to just sort of hold everybody

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at arm's length
for the rest of the workouts.

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[announcer 2] Not only
is he great at muscle-ups,

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but he has one of the best
deadlifts in the field of men.

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So this is a good bounce
back event for Vellner

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to really capitalize on
his strengths and his skill.

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Tia Toomey
went 12 in a row.

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Most we've seen any athlete do

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on the men's
and women's side so far.

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[announcer] Toomey,
approaching the finish line.

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And another 100 points
for Tia Toomey.

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♪

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And Pat Vellner is gonna
go from worst to first.

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100 points for Pat Vellner.

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Let the comeback begin.

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[announcer 3] Give it up

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for the one,
the only Tia-Clair Toomey.

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[cheering]

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Ugh! Whoo!

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I heard
the first heat scores,

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and I thought
it was pretty attainable.

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I don't know,
I thought the muscle-ups

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were harder than I thought
they were going to be.

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It's classic, like
the high stripes and stuff.

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I was able to get out
a little bit early,

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pay attention
to what people were doing.

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And hope that nobody
had a really late push.

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[interviewer]
How was that?

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-It was good.
-[interviewer] Yeah?

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Yeah.
It's just all muscle-ups.

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Like the pig
wasn't heavy at all.

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It was like, I wish it was,
like, heavier,

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so it showed them--
slowed like some athletes down

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a little bit more like smaller
athletes, but it wasn't hard.

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Hardest part was
the muscle-ups.

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To like make like reasonably
good, like, big sets.

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Not like threes and twos.

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[interviewer]
Annie, what was it like

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being back on the floor?

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It's amazing.
Fuck, it's amazing!

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[cheering]

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I--
I was really fricking nervous.

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Yeah.

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Like, I've been
so nervous because I also

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I don't know what to expect and
the preparation and everything.

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But I don't also want to
pull myself down by constantly

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saying I haven't had
proper preparation

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because then
I'm also undermining

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or under-talking myself.

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And that's also not--

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You can't do that
when you're here.

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You just gotta fucking go,
and believe that you can.

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It's so much your head.

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So it's been a mindgame for me.

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[Sean] Of all
the things that I think

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the athletes accomplished
this year,

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Annie Thorisdottir
being able to perform

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with the level that
she did throughout the entirety

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of the season so shortly after
giving birth to her daughter,

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I think is one of the most,

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if not
the most impressive things

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that I saw all season long.

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[ambient music]

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[Annie] The doctor told me
I would never be as strong

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as I was before.

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That's bullshit.

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I've gotten stronger
than I was because the goal

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isn't always just to flatline

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or be where
you were previously.

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It's to progress and become
better and better and better.

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And it's the same with this.

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I'm going to make it better
than it was before.

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[rattling]

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[Sean] 2021 is--
has been a really cool year

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because we've seen this
sort of changing of the guard

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where some of the athletes that

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we have been used
to seeing compete,

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some of the veteran
athletes are moving on

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and they're getting out
of the sport.

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And we see
this up-and-coming generation,

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these kids who have
been doing CrossFit since,

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you know, they've been
in elementary school.

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But then in the midst
of all this,

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you have the constant
that is Annie Thorisdottir.

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Currently, in second place
from Iceland, Annie--

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Thorisdottir.

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[cheering]

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[Sean] She's the only woman
who's ever competed

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in three different decades
at the CrossFit Games.

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[Tommy] Annie Thorisdottir is
the original queen of CrossFit.

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She showed up as a teenager
to the games in Aromas in 2009

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and won over the hearts of
the entire community struggling

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in the final event to
get her very first muscle-up.

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And then, over the next decade,

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we watched her grow
into this front runner

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in terms of being
the first two-time champion

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in the women's division,

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winning back-to-back titles
in 2011 and 2012.

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She hit the sport
at the right time.

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It was developing
along with her

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and she, in turn,
developed it.

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And there's plenty
of people out there

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that owe their inspiration
to seeing Annie and saying,

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"I want to do that."

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She really is one of
the most important figures

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in the women's division
of CrossFit.

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Fast forward to 2021,

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she's taken a year off
to grow her family

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and have her first child.

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Oh!

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[sighs]

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The good thing about,
after training,

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picking her up,
she feels so much lighter.

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[laughs]

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Because this little lady
is closing in on 12 kilos.

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Yeah.
We're big and strong.

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I had an incredible pregnancy.

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Had a baby girl.
I had a pretty bad birth.

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And struggled
quite a bit

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after my birth.

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[gentle guitar music]

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I was in labor for three days.

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Um, I was in push phase
for over three hours.

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Ended up in the surgical clinic

497
00:21:53,834 --> 00:21:56,880
just ready for, like,
an emergency C-section.

498
00:21:56,924 --> 00:22:00,014
Full numbing
in my body.

499
00:22:00,057 --> 00:22:02,233
And there were, like,
seven people holding me down

500
00:22:02,277 --> 00:22:06,063
while I was trying to
force that little baby out.

501
00:22:06,107 --> 00:22:09,937
Um, I tore really badly

502
00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:13,201
and lost insane
amount of blood.

503
00:22:15,769 --> 00:22:18,162
I don't think
I've ever in my entire life

504
00:22:18,206 --> 00:22:22,384
been as happy as when
I got Freya in my arms.

505
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,953
It's, like, impossible
to explain that feeling.

506
00:22:26,997 --> 00:22:30,174
And then it's so strange

507
00:22:32,046 --> 00:22:34,048
that you can drop
so far down

508
00:22:34,091 --> 00:22:35,745
a couple of days
or three days later

509
00:22:35,789 --> 00:22:38,008
and you feel like
you're supposed to be so happy.

510
00:22:38,052 --> 00:22:42,361
And I know other women
struggle with even, like,

511
00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:45,929
significantly more difficult
postpartum depression,

512
00:22:46,930 --> 00:22:49,629
but there's nothing wrong
with the way that we feel.

513
00:22:49,672 --> 00:22:51,631
We're not--
We're not in control of it.

514
00:22:51,674 --> 00:22:54,590
But we can change it by sharing
and talking about it.

515
00:22:54,634 --> 00:22:56,984
And then we can work
our way out of it.

516
00:22:58,681 --> 00:23:01,467
I wasn't even thinking
about potentially competing

517
00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:04,252
at any point there.

518
00:23:04,295 --> 00:23:08,648
It was just I needed
to gain myself again

519
00:23:08,691 --> 00:23:10,954
and start feeling
like myself again.

520
00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:14,175
And I did not start quickly.

521
00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:18,484
I started about six weeks
in with very easy training

522
00:23:18,527 --> 00:23:20,660
and I gradually increased it.

523
00:23:20,703 --> 00:23:27,188
And even three months
after, uh-- after birth,

524
00:23:27,231 --> 00:23:30,452
I still remember I could not
walk downhill with the stroller

525
00:23:30,496 --> 00:23:32,889
because of pressure
down on my pelvic floor.

526
00:23:32,933 --> 00:23:36,458
Like, it took me a very long
time to build up that strength.

527
00:23:39,635 --> 00:23:41,550
Every single year,
my motivation is different.

528
00:23:41,594 --> 00:23:45,293
And this year

529
00:23:45,336 --> 00:23:49,732
I did it
so much for myself

530
00:23:49,776 --> 00:23:51,908
and for my daughter

531
00:23:51,952 --> 00:23:54,694
and that was like
a newfound motivation.

532
00:23:54,737 --> 00:23:58,872
And for all moms out there,
to be honest,

533
00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:03,442
to gain control of my body,
control of my mind again

534
00:24:03,485 --> 00:24:08,359
and being able to do me again.

535
00:24:09,535 --> 00:24:13,843
♪

536
00:24:15,541 --> 00:24:17,586
[intense electronic music]

537
00:24:17,630 --> 00:24:21,764
[Adrian] So day one, we've got
this event at the lake.

538
00:24:21,808 --> 00:24:23,766
Everybody's taken
out of their comfort zone,

539
00:24:23,810 --> 00:24:24,898
or at least most athletes are.

540
00:24:24,941 --> 00:24:26,595
Getting to the North Park.

541
00:24:26,639 --> 00:24:28,945
We've got some grunt work
with event two.

542
00:24:28,989 --> 00:24:31,687
Fast forward a little bit more
and we're at event three

543
00:24:31,731 --> 00:24:36,126
which is just a pedal-to-
the-metal straight shot sprint.

544
00:24:36,170 --> 00:24:39,826
550 yards from
the back of the Coliseum,

545
00:24:39,869 --> 00:24:42,219
around the bend
and into the stadium

546
00:24:42,263 --> 00:24:43,873
at the North Park
across the finish.

547
00:24:43,917 --> 00:24:48,182
♪

548
00:24:48,225 --> 00:24:49,749
[Justin] I remember standing
at the starting line,

549
00:24:49,792 --> 00:24:51,228
and I don't remember
who was next to me,

550
00:24:51,272 --> 00:24:52,708
but I'm just getting elbowed.

551
00:24:52,752 --> 00:24:54,188
Like, we're trying
to see whose arm

552
00:24:54,231 --> 00:24:55,668
can get in front
of each other's,

553
00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:57,278
and I'm just getting pushed
to the back

554
00:24:57,321 --> 00:24:58,584
and three, two, one, go,

555
00:24:58,627 --> 00:25:00,107
I just got an elbow
to the chest

556
00:25:00,150 --> 00:25:02,544
and just pushed directly
to the back of the pack.

557
00:25:02,588 --> 00:25:04,764
And I was just like,
"Oh, no."

558
00:25:04,807 --> 00:25:07,418
♪

559
00:25:07,462 --> 00:25:09,508
[Brooke] I was extremely
nervous for this event.

560
00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:12,162
I have a track background,
so it's one of the events

561
00:25:12,206 --> 00:25:14,948
that I felt was going
to be very good for me.

562
00:25:14,991 --> 00:25:17,559
But I almost feel
like events that I know

563
00:25:17,603 --> 00:25:19,692
that I'm going to excel in,
I get more nervous for,

564
00:25:19,735 --> 00:25:21,215
because I'm like,
"Okay, you're going

565
00:25:21,258 --> 00:25:22,608
to be good at this
and don't mess it up."

566
00:25:22,651 --> 00:25:23,957
[Tia] I knew that Brooke
was going

567
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,915
to be putting up
a really solid time,

568
00:25:25,959 --> 00:25:30,137
so she actually ended up going
out in the heat just before me.

569
00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:32,139
[announcer]
Look at the lead.

570
00:25:32,182 --> 00:25:34,445
Wells has is put on
Daviddottir and Davidsdottir

571
00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:36,970
has a decent lead on the
rest of the field behind her.

572
00:25:42,889 --> 00:25:44,891
[announcer]
Guilherme Malheiros right now,

573
00:25:44,934 --> 00:25:47,067
who is out front ahead of both
Will Moorad and Pat Vellner.

574
00:25:59,732 --> 00:26:01,603
[Pat] Malheiros is faster
than any of us knew.

575
00:26:01,647 --> 00:26:03,474
I was running tight with him,

576
00:26:03,518 --> 00:26:05,651
and then I gave him
an aggressive corner move

577
00:26:05,694 --> 00:26:07,174
on that last corner.

578
00:26:07,217 --> 00:26:08,915
And, frankly,
I cut him off pretty much.

579
00:26:08,958 --> 00:26:11,918
But, uh, I didn't
feel that bad about it.

580
00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:33,548
[Pat] He basically pulled out
right next to me

581
00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:36,551
and hit the afterburners
and just roasted me.

582
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,292
I was like, "Ahh!"

583
00:26:39,989 --> 00:26:41,469
[announcer]
Wells makes the turn

584
00:26:41,512 --> 00:26:42,905
into the North Park
all by herself.

585
00:26:42,949 --> 00:26:44,428
[announcer 2]
Wells desperately needs

586
00:26:44,472 --> 00:26:45,952
a top three finish
in this event.

587
00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:47,388
[Brooke]
I realize that I'm in front,

588
00:26:47,431 --> 00:26:49,303
but I don't know, like,
by how much.

589
00:26:49,346 --> 00:26:51,174
I'm kind of just like,
"Oh, my gosh.

590
00:26:51,218 --> 00:26:52,872
Did I mess this up?

591
00:26:52,915 --> 00:26:54,656
Like I'm way too far ahead."

592
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,527
[announcer] And Brooke Wells
is going to do it.

593
00:26:56,571 --> 00:26:59,748
124.43 seconds.
That's the time to beat.

594
00:26:59,792 --> 00:27:03,273
[Tia] Not running with her
and being able to pace her,

595
00:27:03,317 --> 00:27:04,579
that was challenging.

596
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:06,276
[announcer]
Tia Toomey,

597
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,409
looking for her third
straight event win.

598
00:27:08,452 --> 00:27:10,672
So, you had to make sure
you're staying in your lane.

599
00:27:10,716 --> 00:27:12,500
Didn't get caught up
in anyone else

600
00:27:12,543 --> 00:27:14,981
and you were able
to execute that right.

601
00:27:15,024 --> 00:27:16,852
[announcer]
And Toomey may have done it.

602
00:27:16,896 --> 00:27:19,028
We're gonna have to go
to the gym. Adams is second.

603
00:27:19,072 --> 00:27:21,509
[Brooke] I mean, Tia got me
by a couple milliseconds.

604
00:27:21,552 --> 00:27:23,642
And I'm still
a little butthurt

605
00:27:23,685 --> 00:27:25,905
that we didn't get to do
that in the same heat.

606
00:27:26,732 --> 00:27:27,950
That would've been
a good battle.

607
00:27:27,994 --> 00:27:34,522
♪

608
00:27:34,565 --> 00:27:36,437
I'd say
that was pretty good.

609
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,352
It hurts a lot now.

610
00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:41,181
But that's the stuff
I love to do.

611
00:27:47,143 --> 00:27:49,580
I think that it was,
uh, my first event win

612
00:27:49,624 --> 00:27:51,452
at the Crossfit Games.
Let's see.

613
00:27:51,495 --> 00:27:52,888
[interviewer] Didn't you win
[indistinct]?

614
00:27:52,932 --> 00:27:54,585
Yeah, teenager, two.

615
00:27:54,629 --> 00:27:56,631
So, this is my third...
with money.

616
00:27:57,893 --> 00:28:00,243
I kind of, like, gave him
a dick move

617
00:28:00,287 --> 00:28:02,071
cut off at the gate
near the end.

618
00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:03,986
And then he just-- once
he got his feet on the turf,

619
00:28:04,030 --> 00:28:05,335
he just took off.

620
00:28:05,379 --> 00:28:07,424
So, our heat was pretty,
pretty epic, so.

621
00:28:07,468 --> 00:28:08,817
It was good.

622
00:28:08,861 --> 00:28:10,210
That-- that kind of event
has the potential

623
00:28:10,253 --> 00:28:11,820
to be a disaster
because it's so tight.

624
00:28:11,864 --> 00:28:13,866
So I'm really happy
with how it went.

625
00:28:14,475 --> 00:28:15,911
[interviewer] What was it like
competing here,

626
00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:17,217
uh, in this stadium?

627
00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:18,522
Dude, it's so awesome.

628
00:28:18,566 --> 00:28:20,307
I mean,
like I said before, dude,

629
00:28:20,350 --> 00:28:22,831
it's Wednesday
and like it's already packed,

630
00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:25,616
so I'm just so fired up
like for the week,

631
00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,314
the whole week,
like pretty much, man.

632
00:28:27,357 --> 00:28:28,881
And we got like hopefully
another event tonight

633
00:28:28,924 --> 00:28:30,752
that's going to get
pretty fun.

634
00:28:30,796 --> 00:28:32,449
So, Dave said he's excited
about it, so.

635
00:28:32,493 --> 00:28:34,538
I'm just so fired up
and happy to be here

636
00:28:34,582 --> 00:28:36,845
that it's just nice
to be in it now.

637
00:28:36,889 --> 00:28:38,412
Now it's just
kind of like focus,

638
00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:40,457
dial in, take it
workout by workout.

639
00:28:40,501 --> 00:28:42,372
And next thing you know,
we'll have 15 done.

640
00:28:44,679 --> 00:28:46,115
[plane whooshing]

641
00:28:46,159 --> 00:28:48,683
[panting]

642
00:28:50,032 --> 00:28:52,731
[throbbing electronic beat]

643
00:28:58,649 --> 00:29:00,086
[Adrian] Justin Medeiros.

644
00:29:00,129 --> 00:29:04,133
I think he represents
a young, upcoming,

645
00:29:04,177 --> 00:29:06,048
new blood of the sport.

646
00:29:08,181 --> 00:29:11,358
I'm really excited to see
what some of the younger guys--

647
00:29:11,401 --> 00:29:14,622
We got this superstar from
Brazil coming out of the wings.

648
00:29:14,665 --> 00:29:16,667
It'd be really cool
to see how-- how he does.

649
00:29:16,711 --> 00:29:18,147
[Sean] Gui Malheiros
is an athlete that

650
00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:19,322
we've been
watching for a while.

651
00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:20,454
One of those kids that came out

652
00:29:20,497 --> 00:29:22,021
from the teenage competition,

653
00:29:22,064 --> 00:29:23,544
and it's very clear
he had a ton of talent.

654
00:29:23,587 --> 00:29:26,155
It's a little hard
to make the transition

655
00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:27,853
from competing
against teenagers

656
00:29:27,896 --> 00:29:29,158
to competing
against grown men.

657
00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:30,594
But I think this was finally

658
00:29:30,638 --> 00:29:32,205
the year that he showed that

659
00:29:32,248 --> 00:29:35,295
he's ready to take
that leap to the next level

660
00:29:35,338 --> 00:29:39,038
and not only show up, but
also be extremely competitive.

661
00:29:39,081 --> 00:29:42,432
♪

662
00:29:42,476 --> 00:29:44,130
[Adrian] You've also
got this development

663
00:29:44,173 --> 00:29:46,175
in the women's field
where you're starting to get

664
00:29:46,219 --> 00:29:48,264
these younger athletes inject

665
00:29:48,308 --> 00:29:49,788
the new generation
into the sport.

666
00:29:49,831 --> 00:29:52,442
Hayley Adams kind of paved
the way for that.

667
00:29:52,486 --> 00:29:55,054
We'd known this
has been coming for a while.

668
00:29:55,097 --> 00:29:56,925
We've seen these talented
teenagers, you know,

669
00:29:56,969 --> 00:29:59,101
start competing
when they're 13, 14,

670
00:29:59,145 --> 00:30:01,060
and now we finally get
to see them compete

671
00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:03,105
with the best in the world.

672
00:30:03,149 --> 00:30:05,107
And the question was,
you know, how were they going

673
00:30:05,151 --> 00:30:09,111
to be able to hang with
some of the best in the world?

674
00:30:09,155 --> 00:30:11,505
Like what was that moment
going to be like for them?

675
00:30:11,548 --> 00:30:15,683
And Emma Cary and Mal O'Brien
absolutely proved

676
00:30:15,726 --> 00:30:18,904
even before they got to the
games that they had the talent

677
00:30:18,947 --> 00:30:23,212
to compete with, you know,
the top women in the sport.

678
00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:28,391
♪

679
00:30:28,435 --> 00:30:31,264
Justin Medeiros is a really
talented young athlete

680
00:30:31,307 --> 00:30:34,006
who exploded
onto the scene in 2019

681
00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:36,791
when he won the Filthy 150 to
qualify for the CrossFit Games.

682
00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,925
[Adrian] He's been
involved for a little while,

683
00:30:39,968 --> 00:30:41,404
probably longer
than most people realize.

684
00:30:41,448 --> 00:30:43,972
[Justin] Yeah, I started
CrossFit in 2012

685
00:30:44,016 --> 00:30:47,410
and I did it to train for
the sports that I was doing.

686
00:30:47,454 --> 00:30:49,108
I was doing wrestling
and football at the time,

687
00:30:49,151 --> 00:30:51,937
and I just
used CrossFit to train

688
00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,590
for those sports
to be a better athlete.

689
00:30:53,634 --> 00:30:56,550
And as time goes on
and I went into college,

690
00:30:56,593 --> 00:30:59,509
I quit all my other sports,

691
00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:01,816
and I decided to focus
just on CrossFit.

692
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,383
I was going to wrestle
at Boise State.

693
00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:05,428
And then they canceled
the wrestling program

694
00:31:05,472 --> 00:31:06,865
my freshman year.

695
00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:08,692
So I was kind
of full-time CrossFit.

696
00:31:08,736 --> 00:31:10,869
That first year,
my freshman year of college,

697
00:31:10,912 --> 00:31:12,174
I wasn't really sure
what I was doing.

698
00:31:12,218 --> 00:31:13,697
I've always done sport.

699
00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:15,438
I didn't really view
CrossFit as a sport

700
00:31:15,482 --> 00:31:17,049
because if you want to do
it as a sport,

701
00:31:17,092 --> 00:31:18,441
you got to be
at the CrossFit Games

702
00:31:18,485 --> 00:31:20,530
and I just was nowhere
near that level.

703
00:31:20,574 --> 00:31:23,490
[announcer] Hand is up on
Medeiros in lane seven with the
red trunks.

704
00:31:23,533 --> 00:31:27,320
[Adrian] In 2018,
he made his regionals debut.

705
00:31:27,363 --> 00:31:29,626
He didn't make a big splash
in that competition.

706
00:31:29,670 --> 00:31:31,541
But he was there
and he was in the mix.

707
00:31:31,585 --> 00:31:34,370
I started reaching out, I had
a different coach at the time.

708
00:31:34,414 --> 00:31:36,982
I was trying to find--
to surround myself

709
00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:39,506
with someone that I felt
that could help me get there.

710
00:31:39,549 --> 00:31:41,769
And Adam was that guy.

711
00:31:41,812 --> 00:31:43,249
And when I hopped
on the phone call,

712
00:31:43,292 --> 00:31:44,946
my first phone call
with him I was like,

713
00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:46,861
"Hey, look, I'm in college
for the next three years.

714
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:50,560
I don't know like if I'll have
this opportunity again to try

715
00:31:50,604 --> 00:31:53,868
to make the CrossFit Games
and I want to devote everything

716
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:56,044
I have for the three years
to make that happen."

717
00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:59,221
And he bought all-in with it.

718
00:31:59,265 --> 00:32:00,483
You guys know the plan.

719
00:32:02,572 --> 00:32:04,574
One, three.
Get them done.

720
00:32:04,618 --> 00:32:06,315
By the time you get
into six,

721
00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:07,969
you should be in that rhythm

722
00:32:08,013 --> 00:32:09,188
where every rep is
the same every time. Right?

723
00:32:09,231 --> 00:32:10,276
You ready to crush it?

724
00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:11,451
-Heck yeah.
-Let's go!

725
00:32:11,494 --> 00:32:12,974
-Let's go!
-Let's get it.

726
00:32:13,540 --> 00:32:16,369
[Adrian] Adam Neifer is one of
the most underrated coaches

727
00:32:16,412 --> 00:32:18,458
in the CrossFit world,
in my opinion.

728
00:32:18,501 --> 00:32:20,503
Let's go, Justin.
Attack.

729
00:32:20,547 --> 00:32:21,983
This is your round,
right here.

730
00:32:22,027 --> 00:32:23,811
This is the round
you gotta attack.

731
00:32:23,854 --> 00:32:24,899
Good.

732
00:32:26,205 --> 00:32:28,772
[interviewer]
How did it feel in Aromas

733
00:32:28,816 --> 00:32:30,644
actually
to see him up on that podium?

734
00:32:31,514 --> 00:32:33,212
It felt right.

735
00:32:35,301 --> 00:32:37,390
In a lot of ways,
it was like,

736
00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:39,087
it was really cool
to see him on the podium

737
00:32:39,131 --> 00:32:42,525
because it was proof
to him that he belongs.

738
00:32:42,569 --> 00:32:45,006
He's been involved in our sport
for a really long time,

739
00:32:45,050 --> 00:32:47,661
and he's been a fan
of all the athletes

740
00:32:47,704 --> 00:32:49,837
that he was competing with.
Right?

741
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,708
So, in some ways,

742
00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:54,581
even though like he-- he is
confident and he's like,

743
00:32:54,624 --> 00:32:56,887
"I know that I can hold
my own out there."

744
00:32:56,931 --> 00:32:58,498
You know,
he's competing alongside

745
00:32:58,541 --> 00:33:00,674
of his--
his childhood idols.

746
00:33:00,717 --> 00:33:04,199
So there is this like question
of, "Do I really belong?"

747
00:33:04,243 --> 00:33:05,984
And I haven't done yet.

748
00:33:06,593 --> 00:33:08,595
So where am I--
Where am I actually at?"

749
00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:11,685
And so his-- his trip
to the podium was like,

750
00:33:11,728 --> 00:33:15,036
yup, now Justin
knows what many of us

751
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,907
close to him
have known for a while.

752
00:33:16,951 --> 00:33:20,041
Like you belong.
You're capable of that.

753
00:33:20,085 --> 00:33:21,738
And we're just getting started.

754
00:33:21,782 --> 00:33:24,567
[interviewer] Can you win
the CrossFit Games?

755
00:33:24,611 --> 00:33:26,178
Obviously.

756
00:33:26,221 --> 00:33:27,527
I don't-- I don't think
there's any reason why

757
00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:28,919
I can't win the CrossFit Games.

758
00:33:28,963 --> 00:33:30,791
I don't know when
that's going to be,

759
00:33:30,834 --> 00:33:33,620
but I wouldn't be doing this
if I didn't think I could win.

760
00:33:33,663 --> 00:33:37,276
♪

761
00:33:41,845 --> 00:33:44,196
[announcer] For
the first time in two years,

762
00:33:44,239 --> 00:33:46,589
the athletes returned
to the Coliseum

763
00:33:46,633 --> 00:33:49,288
at the Alliant Energy Center
in Madison, Wisconsin.

764
00:33:49,331 --> 00:33:53,683
It's event four,
ten down to one of wall walks

765
00:33:53,727 --> 00:33:57,600
and heavy thrusters
at 135 and 185.

766
00:33:57,644 --> 00:34:01,169
This is just flat out
long grunt work.

767
00:34:01,213 --> 00:34:03,128
[Adrian]
People that underestimate

768
00:34:03,171 --> 00:34:04,825
wall walks just
haven't really done 'em.

769
00:34:04,868 --> 00:34:07,958
That movement is
no joke, but you craft that

770
00:34:08,002 --> 00:34:10,309
with something else
at an appropriate rep speed,

771
00:34:10,352 --> 00:34:11,875
now you got
a monster of a workout.

772
00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:13,660
[announcer] Tia Toomey is
in the next heat

773
00:34:13,703 --> 00:34:15,966
and Tia Toomey is trying to
stay perfect

774
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:17,794
on day number one,

775
00:34:17,838 --> 00:34:20,232
already three event wins
under her belt.

776
00:34:20,275 --> 00:34:21,929
[announcer 2]
And that's three event wins

777
00:34:21,972 --> 00:34:24,584
in three drastically
different tests

778
00:34:24,627 --> 00:34:27,456
and 38 other athletes
could not get

779
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,590
between Tia Toomey
and a first place finish.

780
00:34:32,766 --> 00:34:35,160
A collective groan
raised from the crowd.

781
00:34:35,203 --> 00:34:37,423
I think
I was looking forward

782
00:34:37,466 --> 00:34:38,859
to never having to do
that again.

783
00:34:40,643 --> 00:34:43,168
We saw it come out in
the open and everyone was like,

784
00:34:43,211 --> 00:34:44,386
"Wall walks?"

785
00:34:46,388 --> 00:34:48,956
I think a lot of Games athletes
have never really done them

786
00:34:48,999 --> 00:34:51,350
since their first time
being at CrossFit.

787
00:34:56,964 --> 00:35:00,489
It was super hard
and it was so warm in there

788
00:35:00,533 --> 00:35:02,709
and so sweaty
that like I had a towel

789
00:35:02,752 --> 00:35:04,841
and my hands were still, like,
sliding all over the place.

790
00:35:04,885 --> 00:35:09,107
♪

791
00:35:09,150 --> 00:35:11,239
Mal O'Brien
when she heard that

792
00:35:11,283 --> 00:35:12,675
they were going
to be wall walks,

793
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,199
I know was really happy
about this event

794
00:35:14,242 --> 00:35:15,852
because she did extremely well
in the open.

795
00:35:17,593 --> 00:35:19,029
[interviewer] Are you excited
to see this one announced?

796
00:35:19,073 --> 00:35:20,944
It's my favorite event
from the open.

797
00:35:20,988 --> 00:35:23,077
[interviewer]
Do you think you can win it?

798
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,125
Yeah.
I'm gonna go for it.

799
00:35:28,387 --> 00:35:30,040
[announcer]
Tia Toomey once again

800
00:35:30,084 --> 00:35:31,738
trying to become
the first person to ever win

801
00:35:31,781 --> 00:35:33,957
the opening four events
at the CrossFit Games.

802
00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:37,135
[announcer 2] Now, Mal O'Brien,
her goal right now is

803
00:35:37,178 --> 00:35:38,962
it's apparent that
she's trying to go unbroken

804
00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:41,226
on everything and touch and go
on the wall walks.

805
00:35:41,269 --> 00:35:43,228
[announcer]
Mal O'Brien continuing

806
00:35:43,271 --> 00:35:45,447
to hold off Tia Toomey.

807
00:35:45,491 --> 00:35:47,580
I've never actually sweated

808
00:35:47,623 --> 00:35:50,452
that much in a CrossFit Games
workout before.

809
00:35:50,496 --> 00:35:54,500
Sweating didn't,
you know, affect my placing.

810
00:35:54,543 --> 00:35:57,372
I just had to have
a moment where I was like,

811
00:35:57,416 --> 00:36:00,419
"Um, am I, like,
transitioning to like--

812
00:36:00,462 --> 00:36:02,986
like, is this like a female
thing happening right now?

813
00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:04,379
Like, what's going on?"

814
00:36:06,816 --> 00:36:08,601
[announcer] Scott Panchik
continuing to lead her

815
00:36:08,644 --> 00:36:12,213
through 46 of the 110
total repetitions.

816
00:36:12,257 --> 00:36:14,650
He is on his round
of eight thrusters.

817
00:36:15,738 --> 00:36:18,306
Yes, so, I've had three
knee reconstructive surgeries

818
00:36:18,350 --> 00:36:19,699
playing college football.

819
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:21,918
I was in
the middle of a workout.

820
00:36:21,962 --> 00:36:24,269
I was doing
double unders and snatches.

821
00:36:24,312 --> 00:36:27,054
And there was just this, like,
pop.

822
00:36:27,097 --> 00:36:29,535
[announcer] Watch what
that bar does to his body.

823
00:36:29,578 --> 00:36:31,580
As he's racking it
back to the shoulders.

824
00:36:31,624 --> 00:36:33,930
It's shaking him to his core.

825
00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:36,977
[Scott] But leading up
to the games, it was painful.

826
00:36:37,020 --> 00:36:39,980
It was challenging to train,
but I knew in my heart,

827
00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:41,547
I was the fittest I've ever
been.

828
00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:44,419
Coming into my 10th year,
competing in CrossFit

829
00:36:44,463 --> 00:36:46,421
and knowing in my heart,
I was like,

830
00:36:46,465 --> 00:36:48,771
"I have what it takes
to stand on that podium,

831
00:36:48,815 --> 00:36:50,991
and I have no idea if
my knee is going to hold up."

832
00:36:51,034 --> 00:36:54,255
[announcer] Mal O'Brien,
the first woman to advance

833
00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:57,258
to the second wall
and start her round of five.

834
00:36:57,302 --> 00:36:58,955
Tia Toomey
still in second place.

835
00:36:58,999 --> 00:37:01,001
You saw the time to beat
as it's the kids

836
00:37:01,044 --> 00:37:03,133
who are taking
over here at event four.

837
00:37:07,094 --> 00:37:09,836
For the women, we got to see
the emergence of a new star.

838
00:37:09,879 --> 00:37:12,621
At first it looked
like maybe Tia might

839
00:37:12,665 --> 00:37:14,580
run away with it again.

840
00:37:14,623 --> 00:37:17,539
And win all four
the first day one events.

841
00:37:17,583 --> 00:37:19,498
But Mal O'Brien!

842
00:37:19,541 --> 00:37:21,804
We saw her stare
right in the face

843
00:37:21,848 --> 00:37:24,938
of the reigning women's
champion and not blink.

844
00:37:24,981 --> 00:37:26,896
[announcer] One to go
for Scott Panchik on the wall.

845
00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:28,376
One left on the barbell.

846
00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:30,117
[announcer 2]
Scott looks phenomenal!

847
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,859
Panchik is in.
Scott Panchik wins, he won.

848
00:37:32,902 --> 00:37:36,645
[Scott] I haven't had
an event win since 2012.

849
00:37:36,689 --> 00:37:38,386
It was really special.

850
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:39,953
It was that feeling

851
00:37:39,996 --> 00:37:41,650
like getting in the end zone
one last time.

852
00:37:43,130 --> 00:37:45,698
[announcer] Mal O'Brien,
took a look at

853
00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:49,005
where Tia Toomey was and
she is right back to work.

854
00:37:49,049 --> 00:37:51,094
[Tia] It's awesome
to see how passionate

855
00:37:51,138 --> 00:37:53,271
she is and how driven she is.

856
00:37:53,314 --> 00:37:56,143
And it's really exciting
for the future of the sport.

857
00:37:56,186 --> 00:37:58,624
[announcer]
Score one for the youngsters!

858
00:37:58,667 --> 00:38:01,496
Mal O'Brien will win
event four!

859
00:38:03,193 --> 00:38:04,325
[cheering]

860
00:38:04,369 --> 00:38:06,719
Let's go! Yes!

861
00:38:21,124 --> 00:38:23,083
[Tia] Good job, Laura,
good job.

862
00:38:30,656 --> 00:38:33,702
Not good enough.
Only three today.

863
00:38:34,399 --> 00:38:36,314
Huh? Friday.

864
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,056
I didn't do too well
in the sprints,

865
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,624
but you go out
and hit a home run,

866
00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:44,583
nobody cares if you strike out.

867
00:38:44,626 --> 00:38:46,193
[laughs]

868
00:38:46,236 --> 00:38:48,935
[interviewer] How was that?

869
00:38:48,978 --> 00:38:50,850
Good.
It went really well.

870
00:38:50,893 --> 00:38:52,417
[interviewer]
How do you feel?

871
00:38:52,460 --> 00:38:54,941
I'm in shock.
I have no words.

872
00:38:54,984 --> 00:38:56,899
Oh, I was so excited.

873
00:38:56,943 --> 00:38:58,205
I was so excited.

874
00:38:58,248 --> 00:38:59,685
I was like--
I love wall walks.

875
00:38:59,728 --> 00:39:01,382
I know
they're kind of weird

876
00:39:01,426 --> 00:39:03,036
and new to CrossFit,
but after the open workout,

877
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:04,690
I was like-- I had
full confidence going in this.

878
00:39:04,733 --> 00:39:07,736
Trent ain't
gonna have no voice.

879
00:39:07,780 --> 00:39:10,565
MGK?
That's her boyfriend.

880
00:39:10,609 --> 00:39:13,046
He looks just like him.

881
00:39:13,089 --> 00:39:14,264
Yeah.

882
00:39:14,308 --> 00:39:15,396
[laughs]

883
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,312
I'm dating Machine Gun Kelly.

884
00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:21,271
No, he just needs
a few neck tattoos.

885
00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:24,013
And-- and then it will be.

886
00:39:24,057 --> 00:39:27,060
She's-- she's Megan.
Megan Fox.

887
00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:28,975
And he's MGK.

888
00:39:34,633 --> 00:39:35,721
[interviewer] Morning.

889
00:39:35,764 --> 00:39:36,983
[Justin] Good morning.

890
00:39:37,026 --> 00:39:38,201
[man] Good morning.

891
00:39:38,245 --> 00:39:39,333
[laughing]

892
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:40,682
[Justin] What's up?

893
00:39:40,726 --> 00:39:41,857
[interviewer]
How are you feeling?

894
00:39:41,901 --> 00:39:44,164
So good.
Yeah. Ready for day two.

895
00:39:44,207 --> 00:39:46,427
Or, kind of day two,
day three.

896
00:39:46,471 --> 00:39:47,950
Whatever you want to call it.

897
00:39:47,994 --> 00:39:49,952
-[man] Friday.
-Yeah, Friday. There we go.

898
00:39:54,914 --> 00:39:56,481
Eggo waffles.

899
00:39:58,657 --> 00:40:00,310
[interviewer]
What's in the Yeti?

900
00:40:00,354 --> 00:40:03,749
Agua this morning.
Gotta stay hydrated.

901
00:40:03,792 --> 00:40:05,141
Nothing too special.

902
00:40:05,185 --> 00:40:06,665
I guess iced, too, but...

903
00:40:08,275 --> 00:40:09,450
All right.

904
00:40:09,494 --> 00:40:11,278
-Ready, Adam?
-Do it, do it.

905
00:40:11,321 --> 00:40:13,628
Let's do it.
Get my fancy hat.

906
00:40:13,672 --> 00:40:15,021
[interviewer]
What's it like seeing yourself

907
00:40:15,064 --> 00:40:16,457
in all the elevators
and buildings?

908
00:40:16,501 --> 00:40:18,285
Weird.

909
00:40:18,328 --> 00:40:20,461
Sometimes I'm like, "Yeah,
it's definitely different."

910
00:40:20,505 --> 00:40:22,855
It's really cool,
but it's a-- a big change.

911
00:40:22,898 --> 00:40:26,815
Felt like it went like
0 to 100 really quick.

912
00:40:26,859 --> 00:40:29,470
Last year was like,
I was a nobody.

913
00:40:29,514 --> 00:40:31,385
And now coming here,
it's like,

914
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,692
but it's really cool seeing
everybody and seeing fans

915
00:40:33,735 --> 00:40:35,433
and people like wearing
my shirt around

916
00:40:35,476 --> 00:40:37,957
just like really feeling
the support of the community

917
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,220
and everything like
that's like really awesome.

918
00:40:43,223 --> 00:40:44,877
[Sean] There was definitely
a sense of coming home.

919
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,748
I think it was also
the fact that this was

920
00:40:46,792 --> 00:40:48,663
the first time
in a long time

921
00:40:48,707 --> 00:40:51,361
that the CrossFit community
had been able to get together

922
00:40:51,405 --> 00:40:53,102
en masse and sort of have
our annual celebration.

923
00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:55,540
We hadn't had any live
competitions for a long time,

924
00:40:55,583 --> 00:40:57,498
and so to be able to have
that experience

925
00:40:57,542 --> 00:40:59,108
that had been taken away
from us

926
00:40:59,152 --> 00:41:01,328
for a significant amount
of time,

927
00:41:01,371 --> 00:41:03,199
I think was really special
for a lot of people.

928
00:41:05,245 --> 00:41:06,725
[announcer]
And we have four rounds

929
00:41:06,768 --> 00:41:09,205
of four 20-foot rope climbs,

930
00:41:09,249 --> 00:41:12,252
followed by a 500, 400 skier
between men and women.

931
00:41:12,295 --> 00:41:16,038
And in that 42-foot sandbag
at 150 and 200.

932
00:41:16,082 --> 00:41:17,518
But it's
a little different bag

933
00:41:17,562 --> 00:41:19,389
than these athletes
are used to.

934
00:41:21,783 --> 00:41:23,437
[Laura] I really like
the programing.

935
00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:24,917
I think it tested like
everything that was like--

936
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,528
It wasn't, like, biased.

937
00:41:27,572 --> 00:41:30,226
Overall,
a very, very good test.

938
00:41:30,270 --> 00:41:33,012
It tested like
everything what CrossFit

939
00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:34,753
is all about like it
was heavy, it was fast,

940
00:41:34,796 --> 00:41:37,625
like it tested all
the things that we train for.

941
00:41:40,236 --> 00:41:42,412
[announcer 2] So if you
look at an event like this,

942
00:41:42,456 --> 00:41:44,763
also with Laura Horvath's
background,

943
00:41:44,806 --> 00:41:46,634
is that
she was a rock climber.

944
00:41:46,678 --> 00:41:49,376
Her grip and her pulling
strength is elite.

945
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,945
[Laura] I knew like I wasn't
going to, like, blow up

946
00:41:52,988 --> 00:41:55,469
or, like, die
in, like, 16 rope climbs

947
00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:57,863
because I do a lot
of rope climbs in training,

948
00:41:57,906 --> 00:41:59,734
so I just went for it.

949
00:41:59,778 --> 00:42:01,562
[announcer 2] Look for
Laura Horvath to actually

950
00:42:01,606 --> 00:42:03,825
make a big move every time
she comes to the rope.

951
00:42:06,915 --> 00:42:09,527
I look at things like that,
I kind of have an idea

952
00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:11,746
of who the people are that
you're also looking out for

953
00:42:11,790 --> 00:42:14,532
and ol' Fikowski's another
guy that-- that on paper,

954
00:42:14,575 --> 00:42:16,708
looks like a really
good event for Mr. Fikowski.

955
00:42:16,751 --> 00:42:18,448
[announcer 2]
All about the rope climb,

956
00:42:18,492 --> 00:42:20,363
16
20-foot rope climbs

957
00:42:20,407 --> 00:42:22,409
and watch Brent Fikowski's
technique.

958
00:42:22,452 --> 00:42:25,020
He won't even jump,
but he wraps his feet

959
00:42:25,064 --> 00:42:26,761
and then he pulls his heels

960
00:42:26,805 --> 00:42:29,503
immediately
underneath his hips.

961
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:31,026
Leading into that event,

962
00:42:31,070 --> 00:42:32,288
I wanted to win that event,
quite frankly.

963
00:42:32,332 --> 00:42:34,290
[announcer]
Brent Fikowski,

964
00:42:34,334 --> 00:42:37,772
who is on top
of the overall leaderboard.

965
00:42:37,816 --> 00:42:39,252
He had a great day one.

966
00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:42,385
[Brent] Great set
of movements for me,

967
00:42:42,429 --> 00:42:44,953
good time domain and I just
came out a little bit too slow.

968
00:42:44,997 --> 00:42:47,652
A couple of guys had a lead
on me in that first round.

969
00:42:47,695 --> 00:42:50,002
And then I closed
that gap on most of the guys,

970
00:42:50,045 --> 00:42:51,307
but I couldn't close it
on Pat.

971
00:42:53,745 --> 00:42:55,964
[announcer] Pat Vellner
who started the competition

972
00:42:56,008 --> 00:42:58,750
in 35th overall has worked
his way up to fifth,

973
00:42:58,793 --> 00:43:00,360
and right now,
he's your leader

974
00:43:00,403 --> 00:43:01,666
in this second of four rounds.

975
00:43:01,709 --> 00:43:08,237
♪

976
00:43:08,281 --> 00:43:11,806
And so coming to-- back
to the rope on the last round,

977
00:43:11,850 --> 00:43:15,157
I wanted to kind of get maybe
a rope climb and a half

978
00:43:15,201 --> 00:43:17,072
in the bag
before Brent got back.

979
00:43:17,116 --> 00:43:19,858
And then just get to this ski,

980
00:43:19,901 --> 00:43:21,686
and-- and just-- I was
just looking at the clock

981
00:43:21,729 --> 00:43:23,165
and we just count the seconds.

982
00:43:23,209 --> 00:43:25,385
And then I was
at about 20-second lead

983
00:43:25,428 --> 00:43:27,039
before he got to the ski.

984
00:43:27,082 --> 00:43:28,954
And he's not gonna ski

985
00:43:28,997 --> 00:43:30,999
20 seconds faster
than me for 500 meters.

986
00:43:31,043 --> 00:43:33,741
[announcer] Vellner to the
sandbag for the final time.

987
00:43:33,785 --> 00:43:37,919
And Pat Vellner will pick up
his second event win!

988
00:43:37,963 --> 00:43:40,748
And someone's
climbed out of the hole.

989
00:43:40,792 --> 00:43:43,708
[Laura] I really
wanted to win the event.

990
00:43:43,751 --> 00:43:44,883
And then I just went for it.

991
00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:48,582
[announcer]
Safe to say that she is back.

992
00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:50,453
Laura Horvath
wins event five!

993
00:43:51,237 --> 00:43:53,674
[announcer 5] Finish here!

994
00:43:53,718 --> 00:43:57,504
And in an event win
to Laura Horvath!

995
00:43:58,984 --> 00:44:03,336
And next in,
Katrin Davidsdottir

996
00:44:03,379 --> 00:44:06,687
with that cheddar chunk-up,
and across the line,

997
00:44:06,731 --> 00:44:08,471
Katrin Davidsdottir
will make it in.

998
00:44:09,255 --> 00:44:10,909
Oh, I almost had Pat.

999
00:44:10,952 --> 00:44:13,041
Pat went out hotter than
me, and I couldn't catch him.

1000
00:44:13,085 --> 00:44:14,695
I mean, I coup--

1001
00:44:14,739 --> 00:44:17,045
I fumbled a few rope climbs,
which maybe cost me

1002
00:44:17,089 --> 00:44:19,569
a little bit of time,
but overall it was really good.

1003
00:44:19,613 --> 00:44:22,572
So no complaints.
Good start to second day.

1004
00:44:22,616 --> 00:44:25,140
[cheering]

1005
00:44:26,576 --> 00:44:27,708
[interviewer]
You need more gummy bears?

1006
00:44:27,752 --> 00:44:29,188
No, I have a dried mango.

1007
00:44:29,231 --> 00:44:30,842
[thumping in background]

1008
00:44:30,885 --> 00:44:31,973
It's like the same thing.

1009
00:44:32,017 --> 00:44:33,540
[thumping]

1010
00:44:33,583 --> 00:44:36,456
Pretty much the same thing.
Sugar.

1011
00:44:36,499 --> 00:44:38,240
She just wanted gummy bears.

1012
00:44:38,284 --> 00:44:40,808
Gummy bears and Chipotle.

1013
00:44:40,852 --> 00:44:43,376
That's my diet
for the week.

1014
00:44:43,419 --> 00:44:46,031
Chipotle and gummy bears.

1015
00:44:50,122 --> 00:44:51,340
[Shane] Tia.

1016
00:44:51,384 --> 00:44:53,429
Tia can sleep through anything.

1017
00:44:53,473 --> 00:44:56,563
We had-- we had two storms
the last few days.

1018
00:44:56,606 --> 00:44:59,000
Two storms.
I heard everything.

1019
00:44:59,044 --> 00:45:02,047
I heard every bloody drop
on the window.

1020
00:45:02,090 --> 00:45:03,788
She wouldn't know
there was a storm.

1021
00:45:03,831 --> 00:45:05,572
[clattering]

1022
00:45:05,615 --> 00:45:09,445
Unreal.

1023
00:45:09,489 --> 00:45:11,273
[sneezes]

1024
00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:17,715
[laughing]

1025
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:20,413
Aw.

1026
00:45:20,456 --> 00:45:22,763
[interviewer] What do
you think of this event?

1027
00:45:22,807 --> 00:45:24,417
Yeah, I like this event.

1028
00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:26,245
I like this event
a lot.

1029
00:45:26,288 --> 00:45:28,813
There are not too many events
that I don't like, though.

1030
00:45:28,856 --> 00:45:31,380
You know,
if I don't like an event,

1031
00:45:31,424 --> 00:45:33,818
it's either because
I think it was too easy--

1032
00:45:33,861 --> 00:45:37,735
Well, I feel like we did this

1033
00:45:37,778 --> 00:45:39,432
to make it easier
for other people,

1034
00:45:39,475 --> 00:45:41,956
and it's like,
that's not what it's about.

1035
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,741
[interviewer] You want
the hardest stuff possible?

1036
00:45:43,784 --> 00:45:46,395
Yeah. I mean, well,
if we're going to, um,

1037
00:45:46,439 --> 00:45:49,094
preach and hold that title

1038
00:45:49,137 --> 00:45:51,792
and keep that title
at a premium,

1039
00:45:51,836 --> 00:45:53,359
we have to, you know.

1040
00:45:54,142 --> 00:45:56,449
[low solemn music]

1041
00:46:04,022 --> 00:46:05,458
[Adrian] If you're
going to make a claim,

1042
00:46:05,501 --> 00:46:07,721
of the Fittest on Earth,

1043
00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:09,157
which is a massive claim...

1044
00:46:11,638 --> 00:46:13,422
you have to make sure that

1045
00:46:13,466 --> 00:46:15,990
that test is well-thought-out,
well-planned.

1046
00:46:19,689 --> 00:46:21,517
And Dave was definitely
kicking around

1047
00:46:21,561 --> 00:46:23,345
this idea of 15 for 15,

1048
00:46:23,389 --> 00:46:25,652
meaning it's the 15th year
of the games,

1049
00:46:25,695 --> 00:46:27,219
we're going to have 15 events

1050
00:46:27,262 --> 00:46:28,829
that these guys
are going to have to face.

1051
00:46:28,873 --> 00:46:31,484
Just from
a logistics standpoint,

1052
00:46:31,527 --> 00:46:34,835
offering that many events
is going to be a challenge,

1053
00:46:34,879 --> 00:46:37,664
making sure that it's
not just a test of attrition.

1054
00:46:37,707 --> 00:46:40,014
You know, it's not about
who's the toughest athlete,

1055
00:46:40,058 --> 00:46:42,103
-it's about who's the fittest.
-Two more.

1056
00:46:42,147 --> 00:46:44,366
So there is going to be
some consideration about

1057
00:46:44,410 --> 00:46:45,933
how can we throw this many
events at people

1058
00:46:45,977 --> 00:46:47,674
and still allow them
to recover enough

1059
00:46:47,717 --> 00:46:49,110
to really put
their best foot forward?

1060
00:46:49,154 --> 00:46:53,375
♪

1061
00:47:04,430 --> 00:47:06,171
One of the core ethos
of CrossFit

1062
00:47:06,214 --> 00:47:09,348
is that you need to be prepared
for everything.

1063
00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:12,394
What you know
and can expect

1064
00:47:12,438 --> 00:47:14,266
and what you don't know
and you can't know.

1065
00:47:14,309 --> 00:47:18,661
Kind of cutting out
at 30 there, maybe do 40.

1066
00:47:18,705 --> 00:47:20,968
So, everyone
goes through two complete days

1067
00:47:21,012 --> 00:47:25,538
and then Saturday morning,
we're now 30, 20, 20.

1068
00:47:25,581 --> 00:47:27,366
[man 2] Yeah.

1069
00:47:27,409 --> 00:47:28,889
That's a huge part
of what distinguishes

1070
00:47:28,933 --> 00:47:30,848
our training program
from other programs.

1071
00:47:30,891 --> 00:47:34,373
It's not enough to train
specifically for the test.

1072
00:47:34,416 --> 00:47:36,375
The fittest athlete
is one that can adapt

1073
00:47:36,418 --> 00:47:40,248
and adapt quickly because their
general training supports that.

1074
00:47:44,035 --> 00:47:45,950
[Tia] Every day
I'm in the gym,

1075
00:47:45,993 --> 00:47:50,476
I am grinding and I'm pushing
myself to the absolute limit

1076
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:54,132
so that I am ready and prepared
for absolutely anything.

1077
00:47:55,046 --> 00:47:59,137
I am at the CrossFit Games
to break Dave Castro's program.

1078
00:47:59,180 --> 00:48:03,532
♪

1079
00:48:06,274 --> 00:48:08,146
So for that reason,
the CrossFit Games

1080
00:48:08,189 --> 00:48:11,758
will always have elements that
the athletes don't know about

1081
00:48:11,801 --> 00:48:14,456
until they're almost
on the competition floor.

1082
00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:16,632
And that's true from the
beginning of the CrossFit Games

1083
00:48:16,676 --> 00:48:19,809
all the way up until the modern
games they see in 2021.

1084
00:48:19,853 --> 00:48:24,379
♪

1085
00:48:35,738 --> 00:48:36,826
[announcer]
Here are your top five

1086
00:48:36,870 --> 00:48:38,524
of the overall standings,

1087
00:48:38,567 --> 00:48:40,395
just 15 points,
separating first from second.

1088
00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:42,093
I can't remember the last time
that was the case.

1089
00:48:42,136 --> 00:48:43,442
At this point,
Mat Fraser is running away

1090
00:48:43,485 --> 00:48:44,573
with the whole thing.

1091
00:48:44,617 --> 00:48:46,010
[announcer 2] Ask anyone,

1092
00:48:46,053 --> 00:48:48,099
say give me your for sure pick

1093
00:48:48,142 --> 00:48:50,797
who the new champion on
the men's side is going to be

1094
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,886
and you can't really
give a definitive answer.

1095
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:56,281
And we are getting an amazing
competition up to this point.

1096
00:48:59,371 --> 00:49:01,242
[Justin] The men's six is
probably one of the most

1097
00:49:01,286 --> 00:49:03,505
memorable events I think I'll
have at the CrossFit Games.

1098
00:49:03,549 --> 00:49:07,379
I was not a leader yet
in the competition

1099
00:49:07,422 --> 00:49:09,903
and the leaderboard
was starting to shake,

1100
00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:11,861
I had to say, "Okay,
these are the guys at the top.

1101
00:49:11,905 --> 00:49:14,690
These are the guys that
I'm going to have to beat."

1102
00:49:14,734 --> 00:49:16,997
And it turned out to be
Pat and Brent.

1103
00:49:19,608 --> 00:49:22,307
Saxon is now your leader
in the heat,

1104
00:49:22,350 --> 00:49:23,961
followed by Brent Fikowski,

1105
00:49:24,004 --> 00:49:25,571
Justin Medeiros
and Pat Vellner.

1106
00:49:28,008 --> 00:49:30,010
You can't zone out.
You can't switch off.

1107
00:49:30,054 --> 00:49:32,012
You have to make sure
you're staying engaged.

1108
00:49:32,056 --> 00:49:34,014
And on the fourth round,

1109
00:49:34,058 --> 00:49:36,799
Christie caught me off guard
a little bit,

1110
00:49:36,843 --> 00:49:39,411
but then Christie
just zips down her lane

1111
00:49:39,454 --> 00:49:41,804
and I'm like, "Whoa, hang on.
You shouldn't be there."

1112
00:49:41,848 --> 00:49:46,026
[announcer] Now, O'Connell is
shaking it close to Toomey,

1113
00:49:46,070 --> 00:49:48,855
should get to her bar first,

1114
00:49:48,898 --> 00:49:50,900
although Toomey has
the major strength advantage

1115
00:49:50,944 --> 00:49:52,424
when it comes to the barbell.

1116
00:49:56,210 --> 00:49:58,865
Uh, the last 200-meter run
coming back into the stadium

1117
00:49:58,908 --> 00:50:00,432
to hit the final bar,

1118
00:50:00,475 --> 00:50:01,694
and I'm looking up at
the clock

1119
00:50:01,737 --> 00:50:03,304
and it's, like, 15 seconds left

1120
00:50:03,348 --> 00:50:04,436
as we're coming
into the stadium.

1121
00:50:04,479 --> 00:50:06,046
I'm like, "Oh, shoot."

1122
00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:07,352
Like, I don't think we're gonna
have enough time

1123
00:50:07,395 --> 00:50:08,614
to hit this bar.

1124
00:50:08,657 --> 00:50:10,311
[Brent] And I feel like
we're running

1125
00:50:10,355 --> 00:50:12,574
quite fast. And, I'm like--
I'm like, I'm burning up.

1126
00:50:12,618 --> 00:50:14,185
Like, my whole body
is just on fire.

1127
00:50:14,228 --> 00:50:16,622
At this pace,
surely I'll have plenty of time

1128
00:50:16,665 --> 00:50:17,927
to get to that 315.

1129
00:50:17,971 --> 00:50:19,233
I'm running in the door
and the--

1130
00:50:19,277 --> 00:50:20,713
the announcer's counting down

1131
00:50:20,756 --> 00:50:22,497
and I'm thinking, "Oh, crap."

1132
00:50:22,541 --> 00:50:24,282
Like, I'm going to have to
run to this bar and rip it.

1133
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:29,461
[announcer 2] Now, you know,
Eramo's going to want

1134
00:50:29,504 --> 00:50:30,984
to push the pace
by this last bar.

1135
00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:32,333
There's-- You cannot make

1136
00:50:32,377 --> 00:50:34,335
a mistake with
this last clean.

1137
00:50:34,379 --> 00:50:36,642
[Tia] I knew that I didn't
need to hesitate at all.

1138
00:50:36,685 --> 00:50:40,341
I just grabbed that bar, lift
and then sprint across line.

1139
00:50:40,385 --> 00:50:42,343
Don't even focus
on what Christie's doing.

1140
00:50:42,387 --> 00:50:44,389
[announcer]
Same time as Toomey.

1141
00:50:44,432 --> 00:50:48,697
Tia Toomey hits it!
Tia Toomey, another win.

1142
00:50:48,741 --> 00:50:53,050
[announcer 2] She didn't even
hesitate to pick up that bar.

1143
00:50:55,704 --> 00:50:58,098
[Justin] Pat and Brent
both got there before me,

1144
00:50:58,142 --> 00:50:59,795
and I took
my time getting the bars.

1145
00:50:59,839 --> 00:51:01,754
I needed to know I needed
to make this lift count

1146
00:51:01,797 --> 00:51:02,972
if I wanted to finish
the workout.

1147
00:51:04,017 --> 00:51:06,454
[Pat] I went in, man,
my guts were rumbling

1148
00:51:06,498 --> 00:51:08,674
right before that workout,
and I almost shit myself

1149
00:51:08,717 --> 00:51:10,893
on that last bar
all over the floor.

1150
00:51:10,937 --> 00:51:14,332
So, I want total mashed
potatoes on the catch.

1151
00:51:14,375 --> 00:51:15,724
And I think it was--

1152
00:51:15,768 --> 00:51:17,900
it was preservation
of my pride.

1153
00:51:17,944 --> 00:51:19,685
[Justin] Right as
I started pulling the lift,

1154
00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:22,383
Pat and Brent both
failed it, right next to me.

1155
00:51:22,427 --> 00:51:24,385
[Brent] Both me and Pat
get shot out the back,

1156
00:51:24,429 --> 00:51:26,213
and then Justin's left

1157
00:51:26,257 --> 00:51:29,042
looking like the hero
jumping on the stage.

1158
00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:30,870
[laughs]

1159
00:51:30,913 --> 00:51:33,264
As we crumble to the wayside
and part the water for him.

1160
00:51:33,307 --> 00:51:36,484
[announcer]
Pat Vellner, right to work.

1161
00:51:36,528 --> 00:51:38,095
Vellner
not able to make it.

1162
00:51:38,138 --> 00:51:39,792
[indistinct] is in,
Fikowski can't make it.

1163
00:51:39,835 --> 00:51:41,750
Medeiros is standing up.
They have enough time.

1164
00:51:41,794 --> 00:51:43,491
And Medeiros is in!

1165
00:51:44,057 --> 00:51:46,712
[Justin] But it was the most
exciting that I felt like

1166
00:51:46,755 --> 00:51:48,627
in a CrossFit event ever,

1167
00:51:48,670 --> 00:51:50,672
just knowing that going
in that event,

1168
00:51:50,716 --> 00:51:52,544
like, those are
the two guys

1169
00:51:52,587 --> 00:51:54,937
I needed to beat
and I executed it.

1170
00:51:57,810 --> 00:52:00,639
You almost had a poo--
a poo disaster out there.

1171
00:52:00,682 --> 00:52:02,206
[interviewer] What happened?

1172
00:52:02,249 --> 00:52:03,816
I kind of had to go poo
before we corralled,

1173
00:52:03,859 --> 00:52:05,209
and then they're really
rushing us through.

1174
00:52:05,252 --> 00:52:06,949
So, it felt fine
for most of it.

1175
00:52:06,993 --> 00:52:08,734
But I came to the last bar
and I was like,

1176
00:52:08,777 --> 00:52:10,692
I think if I, like,
squeeze and catch this bar,

1177
00:52:10,736 --> 00:52:12,259
that's all over.

1178
00:52:12,303 --> 00:52:13,434
[interviewer]
And was it worth it?

1179
00:52:13,478 --> 00:52:15,044
I kind of just buckled under it

1180
00:52:15,088 --> 00:52:16,785
because I think
I didn't want to be sitting

1181
00:52:16,829 --> 00:52:19,005
at the finish line with
a bunch of shit in my pants.

1182
00:52:19,048 --> 00:52:20,789
Or on the floor, so.

1183
00:52:20,833 --> 00:52:23,836
You know, go to the bathroom
before you take the floor.

1184
00:52:23,879 --> 00:52:25,751
Man, this is amazing.

1185
00:52:25,794 --> 00:52:29,450
Like, I can't describe with
words like just being there

1186
00:52:29,494 --> 00:52:33,280
and feeling the energy
like is massive.

1187
00:52:33,324 --> 00:52:36,283
The guys, like, helped me
a lot. Thank you.

1188
00:52:36,327 --> 00:52:37,763
[interviewer]
Was that two-- two event wins?

1189
00:52:37,806 --> 00:52:39,243
Yeah, two event wins,

1190
00:52:39,286 --> 00:52:41,984
until now,
we have a couple more to win.

1191
00:52:42,028 --> 00:52:45,423
So, I'm here to win
all the events and that's it.

1192
00:52:45,466 --> 00:52:47,338
This is my job.
I'm not here to play.

1193
00:52:47,381 --> 00:52:48,904
I'm here--
I'm here to compete.

1194
00:52:48,948 --> 00:52:53,387
I've not gone heavier than 220
since birth.

1195
00:52:53,431 --> 00:52:55,346
I haven't dared to.

1196
00:52:56,651 --> 00:52:58,218
So that was amazing.

1197
00:52:58,262 --> 00:53:00,133
Now I'm like, "Maybe
I could have gone faster."

1198
00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:01,700
It felt pretty darn good.

1199
00:53:01,743 --> 00:53:03,571
I'm really happy.

1200
00:53:03,615 --> 00:53:05,051
[interviewer]
You got a new shirt.

1201
00:53:05,094 --> 00:53:06,531
Yeah, dude,
I do got a new shirt.

1202
00:53:06,574 --> 00:53:08,228
-Does it look good?
-Where'd you get it?

1203
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:09,751
Dude, I don't know,
someone gave it to me, man.

1204
00:53:09,795 --> 00:53:11,362
I'm like, I don't know.

1205
00:53:11,405 --> 00:53:12,841
Someone's got to fight me
to take this thing off.

1206
00:53:12,885 --> 00:53:14,495
So, yeah.
It's pretty awesome, man.

1207
00:53:14,539 --> 00:53:17,324
And it's something that,
like, you picture every day,

1208
00:53:17,368 --> 00:53:19,283
like-- like thinking
about the CrossFit Games

1209
00:53:19,326 --> 00:53:20,849
and just being like a kid

1210
00:53:20,893 --> 00:53:22,503
and seeing Mat wear it
for all those years.

1211
00:53:22,547 --> 00:53:24,375
Like, it definitely means
a lot.

1212
00:53:24,418 --> 00:53:25,898
Just definitely
got to appreciate the moment

1213
00:53:25,941 --> 00:53:27,726
that I'm here
at the CrossFit Games

1214
00:53:27,769 --> 00:53:29,249
being the best of the best
and wearing the leader shirt,

1215
00:53:29,293 --> 00:53:30,642
but we're only halfway through
the weekend.

1216
00:53:30,685 --> 00:53:32,252
We have so much more to go.

1217
00:53:32,296 --> 00:53:33,688
I mean, just as how
I'm in first right now,

1218
00:53:33,732 --> 00:53:35,124
I mean,
we're only halfway through,

1219
00:53:35,168 --> 00:53:36,691
things that switch up
so much.

1220
00:53:36,735 --> 00:53:38,476
So, just kind
of stay dialed in,

1221
00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:41,305
and take it workout by
workout and stack some weights.

1222
00:53:43,089 --> 00:53:44,743
Going into event number
eight was the first time

1223
00:53:44,786 --> 00:53:46,745
that I got to put
on the leaders jersey.

1224
00:53:46,788 --> 00:53:48,225
I remember
just like them walking up

1225
00:53:48,268 --> 00:53:49,574
and giving it to me
nice and folded.

1226
00:53:49,617 --> 00:53:51,837
Set down,
I had to go change into it.

1227
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,665
And I'm sitting there
and Adam's like,

1228
00:53:53,708 --> 00:53:55,536
"All right, come on,
like, let's go on a walk."

1229
00:53:55,580 --> 00:53:57,799
[Adam] We went for a walk and
got away from all the other,

1230
00:53:57,843 --> 00:54:01,673
you know, athletes and
coaches and athlete control.

1231
00:54:01,716 --> 00:54:03,370
And once
we got by ourselves, like,

1232
00:54:03,414 --> 00:54:06,330
"Okay, just hold on.
Like, just stop for a second."

1233
00:54:06,373 --> 00:54:07,635
He's like, "What?"

1234
00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:09,507
I'm like, like,
"Just hold still.

1235
00:54:09,550 --> 00:54:11,117
Let me get your picture."
Right?

1236
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,988
Like, we got to acknowledge
the moment that

1237
00:54:13,032 --> 00:54:16,731
you just got your first
leader jersey right?

1238
00:54:16,775 --> 00:54:18,516
You got to, like, sit there,
kind of had a moment,

1239
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:21,258
took some pictures,
just celebrated a little bit.

1240
00:54:21,301 --> 00:54:23,216
[Adam] By the way, not too many
people have gotten to wear

1241
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:25,827
that stuff. On the men's side,
there's been like a monopoly,

1242
00:54:25,871 --> 00:54:29,091
you know, with like Fraser and
Froning over the last decade.

1243
00:54:29,135 --> 00:54:30,963
I'm, like, freaking out
inside about it,

1244
00:54:31,006 --> 00:54:32,530
but, like,
I don't want to show it.

1245
00:54:32,573 --> 00:54:34,053
And he's just, like, allows me

1246
00:54:34,096 --> 00:54:35,533
to get out there
like celebrate it

1247
00:54:35,576 --> 00:54:36,969
a little bit,
get that out of my system.

1248
00:54:37,012 --> 00:54:38,666
But, it's like,
all right, back to work.

1249
00:54:38,710 --> 00:54:41,016
Like, number eight,
like, let's do this.

1250
00:54:41,060 --> 00:54:44,281
[Pat] We go from an
event where we had heavyweights

1251
00:54:44,324 --> 00:54:46,718
to no barbells,
no weights in sight.

1252
00:54:46,761 --> 00:54:48,328
We're going to do
a handstand walking course.

1253
00:54:48,372 --> 00:54:52,071
That was
a very frustrating event,

1254
00:54:52,114 --> 00:54:53,768
couldn't dial it in
at the right time.

1255
00:54:53,812 --> 00:54:56,467
And I-- Man, I wanted
to hide out there for a bit.

1256
00:54:56,510 --> 00:54:58,207
[announcer]
Pat Vellner and Brent Fikowski

1257
00:54:58,251 --> 00:54:59,731
continue to struggle here.

1258
00:54:59,774 --> 00:55:01,428
Vellner,
in the middle of your screen,

1259
00:55:01,472 --> 00:55:04,388
now under the parallel bars
and he is down.

1260
00:55:04,431 --> 00:55:06,041
But Annie Thorisdottir

1261
00:55:06,085 --> 00:55:09,610
is quickly gaining ground
on Brooke Wells,

1262
00:55:09,654 --> 00:55:11,090
but Thorisdottir's
going to break.

1263
00:55:11,133 --> 00:55:13,005
Wells and Adams
continue to work.

1264
00:55:13,048 --> 00:55:14,746
[announcer 2]
And there's no shocker here

1265
00:55:14,789 --> 00:55:16,008
that Brooke Wells
is doing what she's doing

1266
00:55:16,051 --> 00:55:18,619
in this event because she won

1267
00:55:18,663 --> 00:55:21,796
the 2018 handstand
walk course.

1268
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,495
♪

1269
00:55:24,538 --> 00:55:27,062
[announcer] Overall results
for event eight, Hailey Adams,

1270
00:55:27,106 --> 00:55:28,673
good enough for second place,
in that event.

1271
00:55:28,716 --> 00:55:29,804
Danielle Brandon picks
up the second

1272
00:55:29,848 --> 00:55:30,979
event win of her career.

1273
00:55:31,023 --> 00:55:32,633
Brooke Wells is third.

1274
00:55:32,677 --> 00:55:34,853
Tia Toomey, another top
five finish for her.

1275
00:55:34,896 --> 00:55:38,422
Justin Medeiros
will not win the event,

1276
00:55:38,465 --> 00:55:41,250
but he will take this heat.

1277
00:55:41,294 --> 00:55:43,818
Deja vu all over again
as his strategy

1278
00:55:43,862 --> 00:55:46,517
pays off for
the second straight year.

1279
00:55:47,822 --> 00:55:49,868
Now Fikowski is over.

1280
00:55:49,911 --> 00:55:51,783
He's not going
to take a break.

1281
00:55:51,826 --> 00:55:53,785
Fikowski gambled
a couple of years ago

1282
00:55:53,828 --> 00:55:56,875
on a handstand walk in 2019
and it probably got him cut.

1283
00:55:56,918 --> 00:55:59,530
But this one will pay off
and he is in.

1284
00:55:59,573 --> 00:56:01,706
[Brent] It's happened to me
a few times at the Games

1285
00:56:01,749 --> 00:56:03,229
in the last few years

1286
00:56:03,272 --> 00:56:04,796
that I'll have
a pretty substandard event

1287
00:56:04,839 --> 00:56:06,450
and then
they'll announce an event

1288
00:56:06,493 --> 00:56:09,104
and it'll--
my spirits will be lifted.

1289
00:56:09,148 --> 00:56:11,063
And that happened
again to me on Friday night.

1290
00:56:11,106 --> 00:56:13,370
[upbeat rock music]

1291
00:56:18,331 --> 00:56:21,682
So, this is
a classic CrossFit coupling.

1292
00:56:21,726 --> 00:56:24,990
You've got a descending rep
scheme so that as you start

1293
00:56:25,033 --> 00:56:27,209
to fatigue, you know you've
got a little bit less to do.

1294
00:56:27,253 --> 00:56:30,474
So it encourages you
to keep going hard.

1295
00:56:30,517 --> 00:56:32,258
So when
that event was announced,

1296
00:56:32,301 --> 00:56:34,216
I went back and talked
to the coach and he's like,

1297
00:56:34,260 --> 00:56:35,957
"We've got to drop the hammer."

1298
00:56:36,001 --> 00:56:37,481
He's like, "If you want
a shot at winning the games,

1299
00:56:37,524 --> 00:56:39,831
like this is--
this is where we take them.

1300
00:56:39,874 --> 00:56:41,310
Like this--
this has to be a W."

1301
00:56:41,354 --> 00:56:43,878
♪

1302
00:56:43,922 --> 00:56:45,010
[announcer] Justin Medeiros
right now

1303
00:56:45,053 --> 00:56:47,316
in 11th place in the heat.

1304
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,057
Good news
for Fikowski as Fikowski

1305
00:56:49,101 --> 00:56:51,756
looks to cut into
that 45-point deficit.

1306
00:56:51,799 --> 00:56:54,628
[Sean] He is not known
as someone who can just

1307
00:56:54,672 --> 00:56:57,065
put on the blinders,
stop the gas and go.

1308
00:56:57,109 --> 00:56:58,850
And the fact
that he won that event,

1309
00:56:58,893 --> 00:57:00,460
showed to a lot
of people that

1310
00:57:00,504 --> 00:57:02,244
this was a different
Brent Fikowski

1311
00:57:02,288 --> 00:57:03,594
than we had seen in the past.

1312
00:57:03,637 --> 00:57:05,160
At this point,
he's looking really good

1313
00:57:05,204 --> 00:57:06,771
as far as--
not only a spot on the podium,

1314
00:57:06,814 --> 00:57:07,946
but maybe winning
the whole thing.

1315
00:57:07,989 --> 00:57:09,556
[announcer] Brent Fikowski

1316
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,689
with now two more reps to go!

1317
00:57:11,732 --> 00:57:13,778
Class dismissed!

1318
00:57:13,821 --> 00:57:16,041
Event win
for Brent Fikowski

1319
00:57:16,084 --> 00:57:19,479
to close out day two.

1320
00:57:19,523 --> 00:57:22,569
And Amanda Barnhart
will take event nine.

1321
00:57:24,310 --> 00:57:27,269
Annie Thorisdottir
will come across

1322
00:57:27,313 --> 00:57:31,099
and it's Laura Horvath
in third place.

1323
00:57:33,145 --> 00:57:35,495
Oh, who's going
to fucking take this?

1324
00:57:35,539 --> 00:57:37,105
Shit!

1325
00:57:37,149 --> 00:57:39,325
I was sure I was going
to get on the last bike.

1326
00:57:40,152 --> 00:57:42,154
I really fucking wanted it.

1327
00:57:42,197 --> 00:57:43,547
[man 3] Great effort.

1328
00:57:43,590 --> 00:57:46,027
Fuck!
This was my event.

1329
00:57:48,290 --> 00:57:50,510
Everyone was like, "It's a
sprint," but it's not a sprint.

1330
00:57:50,554 --> 00:57:52,686
So I paced
the first two bikes

1331
00:57:54,296 --> 00:57:56,255
and then just tried
to send it on the last one.

1332
00:57:56,298 --> 00:57:58,736
I was like, all I had left
was on the last round.

1333
00:57:58,779 --> 00:58:00,346
But the first round was like,

1334
00:58:00,955 --> 00:58:02,740
"You're fresh,
don't go too fast

1335
00:58:02,783 --> 00:58:05,177
because then you're going
to screw up on the 15th."

1336
00:58:06,918 --> 00:58:08,528
Yeah, dude,
like I said, I mean,

1337
00:58:08,572 --> 00:58:10,443
wearing the leader shirts,
it's really cool and all,

1338
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:12,706
but, uh, no one really cares,
or at least I don't,

1339
00:58:12,750 --> 00:58:14,273
how many times
you wore it during the week.

1340
00:58:14,316 --> 00:58:15,796
I don't care
if I didn't wear once.

1341
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,450
But if I'm on
the top of that leader board

1342
00:58:17,494 --> 00:58:18,799
at the end of the weekend,
that's what matters.

1343
00:58:18,843 --> 00:58:20,322
So, just going out there
and executing

1344
00:58:20,366 --> 00:58:22,368
the best I can
in every single workout

1345
00:58:22,411 --> 00:58:23,804
and, uh, I feel like
I didn't leave anything

1346
00:58:23,848 --> 00:58:25,240
out there on the floor.

1347
00:58:25,284 --> 00:58:26,677
So that's
a good headspace going into--

1348
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,069
going into tomorrow.

1349
00:58:28,113 --> 00:58:29,506
Be able
to sleep good tonight

1350
00:58:29,549 --> 00:58:32,378
and, uh, crush
these last six workouts.

1351
00:58:32,421 --> 00:58:37,992
[muffled, low beating music]

1352
00:58:38,036 --> 00:58:40,342
[Adrian] So you can feel a lot
of things coming in to Saturday

1353
00:58:40,386 --> 00:58:41,866
morning.
You could feel the fatigue

1354
00:58:41,909 --> 00:58:43,911
of the athletes
starting to settle in.

1355
00:58:43,955 --> 00:58:46,740
You can see that
some of them responded to that

1356
00:58:46,784 --> 00:58:48,568
a little bit better
than others.

1357
00:58:48,612 --> 00:58:50,309
You know, some of them are
really hitting their stride

1358
00:58:50,352 --> 00:58:52,093
while others are starting
to have that gas tank

1359
00:58:52,137 --> 00:58:53,442
emptied a little bit.

1360
00:58:53,486 --> 00:58:55,140
And they're not quite sure how

1361
00:58:55,183 --> 00:58:56,620
they're going to make it
to the end of the competition.

1362
00:58:56,663 --> 00:58:57,969
[interviewer]
How are you feeling

1363
00:58:58,012 --> 00:59:00,014
after that whole day yesterday?

1364
00:59:00,058 --> 00:59:01,494
Good.

1365
00:59:01,538 --> 00:59:03,061
I mean, it was,
like, a lot of events,

1366
00:59:03,104 --> 00:59:04,453
but they
were all pretty short,

1367
00:59:04,497 --> 00:59:06,107
so it wasn't, like,
super taxing.

1368
00:59:06,151 --> 00:59:07,587
[interviewer] How do you
feel after yesterday?

1369
00:59:07,631 --> 00:59:09,502
-How does your body feel?
-Uh, good.

1370
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:13,201
Now I'm starting to get warm
like this-- this master body.

1371
00:59:13,245 --> 00:59:15,029
It needs some warm up.

1372
00:59:15,073 --> 00:59:18,076
But I feel like ev-- I feel
better every day

1373
00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:20,469
because my body needs
some good warm up.

1374
00:59:20,513 --> 00:59:22,297
[interviewer] So if you could
choose how many days

1375
00:59:22,341 --> 00:59:24,212
there were at the games
to compete,

1376
00:59:24,256 --> 00:59:25,910
the longer the better
for you?

1377
00:59:25,953 --> 00:59:28,956
Yeah. I mean, four--
four days is enough,

1378
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,220
but I wouldn't mind
a week either.

1379
00:59:32,264 --> 00:59:34,135
This is the [indistinct] ride.

1380
00:59:34,179 --> 00:59:35,746
[interviewer] What's happening
right here?

1381
00:59:35,789 --> 00:59:38,487
We're just mobilizing
the hip, you know?

1382
00:59:38,531 --> 00:59:40,664
it's the minimal effort
technique.

1383
00:59:43,667 --> 00:59:46,278
[interviewer] How many, uh--
how many bowls of Chipotle

1384
00:59:46,321 --> 00:59:48,019
are on the menu today?

1385
00:59:48,062 --> 00:59:49,890
I think o-- one is going
to be enough.

1386
00:59:49,934 --> 00:59:51,370
-[interviewer] Just one?
-Or maybe two.

1387
00:59:51,413 --> 00:59:53,024
We'll see. We'll see.

1388
00:59:53,067 --> 00:59:54,721
[interviewer] What number
of years have you guys

1389
00:59:54,765 --> 00:59:56,288
gotten
to compete together?

1390
00:59:56,331 --> 00:59:57,855
-Together?
-[interviewer] Yeah.

1391
00:59:57,898 --> 01:00:01,641
-Okay. '12. You were not '13.
-I wasn't '13.

1392
01:00:01,685 --> 01:00:07,038
I was not '14, '15, '16,
'17, '18, '19, '21.

1393
01:00:07,081 --> 01:00:09,388
-[Annie] Eee!
-[Katrin] Seven years.

1394
01:00:09,431 --> 01:00:11,042
[interviewer] That's a lot
of years.

1395
01:00:11,085 --> 01:00:12,870
That is a lot of years.

1396
01:00:12,913 --> 01:00:14,480
And we'll always band
together regardless

1397
01:00:14,523 --> 01:00:15,655
if we're both here or not.

1398
01:00:15,699 --> 01:00:17,526
[Annie] Yeah.

1399
01:00:17,570 --> 01:00:20,660
[slow pensive
instrumental]

1400
01:00:20,704 --> 01:00:23,663
[Adrian] Event 10 was a couplet
of toes-to-bar running.

1401
01:00:23,707 --> 01:00:26,797
Started with 30 toes-to-bar,
run a mile and a half.

1402
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,887
30 more toes-to-bar,
mile and a half.

1403
01:00:29,930 --> 01:00:33,020
30 more toes-to-bar,
get to the finish.

1404
01:00:33,064 --> 01:00:35,022
So there's been many years
where CrossFit Games

1405
01:00:35,066 --> 01:00:37,459
have incorporated
cuts to the field

1406
01:00:37,503 --> 01:00:39,810
at various stages
of the finals.

1407
01:00:39,853 --> 01:00:43,596
This year is no different.
So cuts are interesting.

1408
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,685
I think
it's pretty controversial.

1409
01:00:45,729 --> 01:00:47,600
Uh, some people love 'em.
Some people hate 'em.

1410
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:51,952
♪

1411
01:00:51,996 --> 01:00:53,562
[Pat] I was really nervous
about that event

1412
01:00:53,606 --> 01:00:57,436
because I had run
a lot early in the season

1413
01:00:57,479 --> 01:01:00,178
and I ran myself into some--
some knee tendinitis.

1414
01:01:00,221 --> 01:01:02,267
My-- Showing my age.

1415
01:01:02,310 --> 01:01:04,399
[Justin] My strategy
is going to that one is

1416
01:01:04,443 --> 01:01:06,010
I'm going to run this first
mile and a half

1417
01:01:06,053 --> 01:01:07,664
like I don't have
another one after it.

1418
01:01:07,707 --> 01:01:09,535
And I sold
out on that first lap,

1419
01:01:09,578 --> 01:01:11,406
sittin' in
a really good position.

1420
01:01:11,450 --> 01:01:13,278
[announcer] You could be
the best runner in the world.

1421
01:01:13,321 --> 01:01:15,715
And if you bonk on the
first one and a half miles,

1422
01:01:15,759 --> 01:01:20,546
drop yourself 20 spots,
lose 60 points, you're out.

1423
01:01:21,416 --> 01:01:23,288
[Brent] That did not
go as well as I'd hoped.

1424
01:01:23,331 --> 01:01:26,291
Um... You know, running--

1425
01:01:26,334 --> 01:01:28,032
Man, where
do I even start with that?

1426
01:01:28,075 --> 01:01:29,686
Just slow.

1427
01:01:30,817 --> 01:01:32,558
Just good old fashioned slow.

1428
01:01:32,601 --> 01:01:34,342
[laughs]

1429
01:01:34,386 --> 01:01:36,301
[announcer] And that face says
it all 'cause

1430
01:01:36,344 --> 01:01:38,782
he's keeping a good
face in front of the crowd.

1431
01:01:38,825 --> 01:01:41,698
But now that we're
behind the bleachers,

1432
01:01:41,741 --> 01:01:44,265
it's startin' to get real.

1433
01:01:44,309 --> 01:01:47,573
Holte. This is
a great event for Holte.

1434
01:01:47,616 --> 01:01:49,618
[Kristin] Originally,
I was planning on last year,

1435
01:01:49,662 --> 01:01:51,316
was going to be my last year.

1436
01:01:51,359 --> 01:01:55,581
But then COVID happened
and I just missed out

1437
01:01:55,624 --> 01:01:58,932
on qualifying for the
Stage two CrossFit Games.

1438
01:01:58,976 --> 01:02:03,023
And I felt like that
was not the end that I wanted.

1439
01:02:03,067 --> 01:02:05,460
[Annie]
So after competing in 2019,

1440
01:02:05,504 --> 01:02:10,161
I got cut at the games,
um, just on the border.

1441
01:02:10,204 --> 01:02:13,207
I was really
disappointed and irritated.

1442
01:02:13,251 --> 01:02:15,122
And I felt like I was
so much better than that.

1443
01:02:15,166 --> 01:02:19,692
Now we're at the games
and I did not want to get cut.

1444
01:02:19,736 --> 01:02:22,739
I wanted
to try to be in final heat.

1445
01:02:22,782 --> 01:02:26,481
I knew that was maybe
too ambitious of a goal.

1446
01:02:26,525 --> 01:02:30,398
[Kristin] My mantra for
this games was, uh, no regrets,

1447
01:02:30,442 --> 01:02:33,271
so I wanted to go out
in every single event knowing

1448
01:02:33,314 --> 01:02:35,403
that I gave
it my absolute best.

1449
01:02:35,447 --> 01:02:40,278
♪

1450
01:02:43,194 --> 01:02:44,412
[announcer]
Breaks to the end zone.

1451
01:02:44,456 --> 01:02:45,587
It'll be Vellner first!

1452
01:02:45,631 --> 01:02:47,372
Hendricks second!

1453
01:02:47,415 --> 01:02:52,029
Looks like Mayer
in third. BKG.

1454
01:02:52,072 --> 01:02:53,726
[interviewer] How
was the run, Brent?

1455
01:02:53,770 --> 01:02:55,206
Oh, slow.

1456
01:02:55,249 --> 01:02:58,252
[chuckles] I mean,
that's all I could give.

1457
01:02:58,296 --> 01:03:00,994
I was trying to go faster.
Just, I don't know.

1458
01:03:01,038 --> 01:03:02,517
I've just got to--
got to work harder

1459
01:03:02,561 --> 01:03:04,868
this off-season on running.

1460
01:03:04,911 --> 01:03:08,785
I don't know. It's funny.
Thought-- It's frustrating.

1461
01:03:08,828 --> 01:03:11,613
I made-- I feel like I've made
progress in my running

1462
01:03:11,657 --> 01:03:15,356
this off-season, and in that
event, it just didn't show, so.

1463
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,619
-[interviewer] Did you make it?
-I think I did.

1464
01:03:17,663 --> 01:03:20,622
They have the, um--
the rankings for

1465
01:03:20,666 --> 01:03:23,408
the event but they don't
have the points updated yet.

1466
01:03:23,451 --> 01:03:25,584
So I got 17th in that event.

1467
01:03:25,627 --> 01:03:28,935
So, like, I know that that--
If I don't make the cut,

1468
01:03:28,979 --> 01:03:30,807
that's something that
will haunt me forever.

1469
01:03:30,850 --> 01:03:32,809
I'm out. No.

1470
01:03:32,852 --> 01:03:37,117
[gym din]

1471
01:03:38,597 --> 01:03:41,339
-[man] How did it go?
-Didn't make it.

1472
01:03:41,382 --> 01:03:43,384
-Didn't make it? What?
-Yeah.

1473
01:03:43,428 --> 01:03:46,039
[man] Did the guys
right around you get you, or--?

1474
01:03:46,083 --> 01:03:47,606
Fuck, man.
I thought you were...

1475
01:03:48,389 --> 01:03:49,869
No such thing as safe.

1476
01:03:49,913 --> 01:03:51,828
[man] Where'd you
finish in that event?

1477
01:03:51,871 --> 01:03:53,394
19th.

1478
01:03:53,438 --> 01:03:57,703
[gym din]

1479
01:03:57,746 --> 01:03:59,531
[interviewer]
I think they updated it.

1480
01:03:59,574 --> 01:04:02,447
Yes! I'm so happy.

1481
01:04:02,490 --> 01:04:05,406
I never thought I would
be happy to be in 17th.

1482
01:04:05,450 --> 01:04:09,323
Like, my goal coming in
was a lot higher than that.

1483
01:04:09,367 --> 01:04:13,327
Um, but I feel like I
just won the CrossFit Games.

1484
01:04:13,371 --> 01:04:15,895
Like, I have five more
opportunities to fight

1485
01:04:15,939 --> 01:04:18,419
and that is the best feeling.

1486
01:04:18,463 --> 01:04:20,247
[male interviewer] Chandler,
what's going through your mind?

1487
01:04:22,815 --> 01:04:24,991
Uh, it feels pretty
empty right now, I guess.

1488
01:04:34,044 --> 01:04:37,221
♪

1489
01:04:37,264 --> 01:04:39,440
[Adrian] So after we've
made the cuts in the morning,

1490
01:04:39,484 --> 01:04:41,399
we're moving back into
the coliseum again.

1491
01:04:41,442 --> 01:04:43,575
We've got event number 11.

1492
01:04:43,618 --> 01:04:46,708
We've got as many reps
and rounds as possible,

1493
01:04:46,752 --> 01:04:48,667
which is often
shortened to AMRAP.

1494
01:04:48,710 --> 01:04:52,453
So we've got an AMRAP
of 11 minutes to do as many

1495
01:04:52,497 --> 01:04:56,196
as you can of one
trip up the pegboard,

1496
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:59,156
seven overhead squats
with a dumbbell

1497
01:04:59,199 --> 01:05:02,724
and then 15 double-unders
with a heavy rope.

1498
01:05:02,768 --> 01:05:05,858
[Laura] I really like that
it was a lot of peg boards.

1499
01:05:05,902 --> 01:05:08,905
Previous years, it was like,
okay, three, five, then now you

1500
01:05:08,948 --> 01:05:11,951
could do as many basically
as you could in a workout.

1501
01:05:11,995 --> 01:05:14,736
They added up because
the runs were, like, so fast.

1502
01:05:14,780 --> 01:05:17,870
So basically the overhead squat
and the double-under was, like,

1503
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,656
a "rest" for your biceps to
climb up on the pegboard again.

1504
01:05:23,223 --> 01:05:25,138
[announcer]
Laura Horvath on the right.

1505
01:05:25,182 --> 01:05:27,097
The last time she
did a pegboard event,

1506
01:05:27,140 --> 01:05:29,403
she beat Tia Toomey in it.

1507
01:05:29,447 --> 01:05:31,884
And that
was the final event in 2018.

1508
01:05:31,928 --> 01:05:34,539
[Tia] That pegboard
was very slippery.

1509
01:05:34,582 --> 01:05:37,194
I don't think I've ever
experienced the pegboard

1510
01:05:37,237 --> 01:05:39,761
that slippery before,
so I don't know if it

1511
01:05:39,805 --> 01:05:41,328
was the humidity or not.

1512
01:05:41,372 --> 01:05:44,201
You really had to fight
for every single peg

1513
01:05:44,244 --> 01:05:46,986
that you're doing because
your feet were just

1514
01:05:47,030 --> 01:05:49,119
going to slip from
out underneath you.

1515
01:05:49,162 --> 01:05:52,296
And if you're slipping,
your workout's done.

1516
01:05:52,339 --> 01:05:53,862
[announcer] Fikowski
is actually moved up

1517
01:05:53,906 --> 01:05:55,734
ahead of Vellner.

1518
01:05:55,777 --> 01:05:58,867
And what I'm watching
is Justin Medeiros

1519
01:05:58,911 --> 01:06:01,609
has already tripped up
a few times on double-unders.

1520
01:06:01,653 --> 01:06:03,960
[Justin] I remember starting my
first pegboard and just like--

1521
01:06:04,003 --> 01:06:05,570
I was just kind of blindsided.

1522
01:06:05,613 --> 01:06:07,006
I was not prepared
for how slippery the board

1523
01:06:07,050 --> 01:06:09,226
was going to be.

1524
01:06:09,269 --> 01:06:13,752
[announcer] Justin Medeiros in
this heat right now is in 9th.

1525
01:06:13,795 --> 01:06:15,536
He is towards the back.

1526
01:06:15,580 --> 01:06:17,712
[Justin] My legs were dangling.
I was just using my arms.

1527
01:06:17,756 --> 01:06:20,759
And it was one that I had
to figure out, like, as I went.

1528
01:06:20,802 --> 01:06:22,717
[Brent] I was nervous
going into that event.

1529
01:06:22,761 --> 01:06:24,981
And I have a pegboard
at my house and I was

1530
01:06:25,024 --> 01:06:27,505
slipping on that thing
like you wouldn't believe.

1531
01:06:27,548 --> 01:06:29,898
The peg board at my house,
the wall is like,

1532
01:06:29,942 --> 01:06:31,683
I don't know,
maybe it's greased up

1533
01:06:31,726 --> 01:06:33,946
or it's this really slick
plastic and the pegs are loose.

1534
01:06:33,990 --> 01:06:36,340
And it's a bit of a death trap,
quite frankly.

1535
01:06:36,383 --> 01:06:38,255
And then I got out there
and I was sticking

1536
01:06:38,298 --> 01:06:39,865
to the thing like Spider-Man.

1537
01:06:39,908 --> 01:06:41,127
[Pat] If you fall
off a pegboard

1538
01:06:41,171 --> 01:06:42,650
and there's last round,

1539
01:06:42,694 --> 01:06:44,609
you just gave up five places.

1540
01:06:44,652 --> 01:06:46,393
There needs to be
controlled aggression in

1541
01:06:46,437 --> 01:06:48,265
a workout like that because
there's a very fine line.

1542
01:06:48,308 --> 01:06:51,572
And-- and if you if you trip
over it, it's gonna be rough.

1543
01:06:51,616 --> 01:06:53,052
[announcer]
Justin Medeiros will tie

1544
01:06:53,096 --> 01:06:55,359
for 10th unofficially.

1545
01:06:55,402 --> 01:06:58,014
That is good for 55 points.

1546
01:06:58,057 --> 01:07:00,668
Pat Vellner
will finish 5th

1547
01:07:00,712 --> 01:07:04,455
and pick up 25 on Medeiros
in the process.

1548
01:07:04,498 --> 01:07:06,848
It was an opportunity
for him now that we're in

1549
01:07:06,892 --> 01:07:09,851
the back third
of the competition to push

1550
01:07:09,895 --> 01:07:12,593
the pace and put some
pressure on Justin.

1551
01:07:12,637 --> 01:07:15,640
And so even though he
wasn't going to win the event,

1552
01:07:15,683 --> 01:07:19,687
he was able to keep Justin at
arm's length, put some distance

1553
01:07:19,731 --> 01:07:22,038
between them on the leaderboard
and gain some points to

1554
01:07:22,081 --> 01:07:25,954
hopefully try and maybe take
home that white leaders jersey.

1555
01:07:25,998 --> 01:07:31,873
[intense strings instrumental]

1556
01:07:35,616 --> 01:07:38,010
Event 12 fan favorite.

1557
01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:40,447
We've got a one rep max.

1558
01:07:40,491 --> 01:07:42,493
All the focus is on
the lifters.

1559
01:07:42,536 --> 01:07:45,104
High pressure, high stakes.

1560
01:08:04,689 --> 01:08:06,952
[announcer] Malheiros,
no problem at 270.

1561
01:08:06,995 --> 01:08:09,172
[announcer 2] He is so strong.

1562
01:08:10,999 --> 01:08:14,873
[Annie] I actually went into it
with the mindset of trying to

1563
01:08:14,916 --> 01:08:17,789
pull as much energy
from the crowd as I could.

1564
01:08:17,832 --> 01:08:19,138
♪

1565
01:08:19,182 --> 01:08:20,444
[cheering]

1566
01:08:20,487 --> 01:08:22,315
[announcer 2] Very nice!

1567
01:08:23,534 --> 01:08:25,623
[announcer]
Annie Thorisdottir moving on.

1568
01:08:25,666 --> 01:08:28,539
It's crazy how much you
can get from people,

1569
01:08:28,582 --> 01:08:31,150
how you get this,
like, extra power

1570
01:08:31,194 --> 01:08:33,152
in your heart to get going.

1571
01:08:34,022 --> 01:08:36,373
[sighs] That felt good.
That felt good. That felt good.

1572
01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:39,376
♪

1573
01:08:39,419 --> 01:08:41,595
[Adrian] This event came down
to not only

1574
01:08:41,639 --> 01:08:44,468
physical prowess,
but mental focus.

1575
01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:49,821
[cheering]

1576
01:08:53,303 --> 01:08:55,174
You could really see
the pressure

1577
01:08:55,218 --> 01:08:56,697
on a lot of these athletes.

1578
01:08:56,741 --> 01:08:58,699
Some of them handled
it better than others.

1579
01:08:58,743 --> 01:09:00,875
Interesting to watch
the different approaches.

1580
01:09:00,919 --> 01:09:02,442
You had some athletes
that would come out

1581
01:09:02,486 --> 01:09:05,228
and they were just
caged animals.

1582
01:09:05,271 --> 01:09:09,188
♪

1583
01:09:14,715 --> 01:09:16,413
Then you had others that would
come out and it

1584
01:09:16,456 --> 01:09:19,155
was almost as if they
were not really there

1585
01:09:19,198 --> 01:09:20,678
in that environment.

1586
01:09:20,721 --> 01:09:22,897
The level
of calmness and detachment,

1587
01:09:22,941 --> 01:09:24,508
it was really strange to watch

1588
01:09:24,551 --> 01:09:26,423
because it was probably

1589
01:09:26,466 --> 01:09:32,211
the-- the most intense event as
far as who's looking at you

1590
01:09:32,255 --> 01:09:34,996
and the margin of error
that you have to deal with.

1591
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,086
♪

1592
01:09:40,001 --> 01:09:42,961
[announcer 2] Now Wells,
in her last one, missed

1593
01:09:43,004 --> 01:09:44,876
the first one out front.

1594
01:09:45,964 --> 01:09:47,966
-Ah-- Ow!
-[announcer] Ooh.

1595
01:09:48,009 --> 01:09:49,359
-[crowd "Oohs"]
-[announcer 2] Hey. Hey.

1596
01:09:49,402 --> 01:09:50,621
-Oh, my God.
-[announcer] Uh-oh.

1597
01:09:51,970 --> 01:09:55,234
[Brooke]
My elbow's [indistinct].

1598
01:09:55,278 --> 01:09:58,281
[announcer] And Brooke Wells
is going to be tended to

1599
01:09:58,324 --> 01:09:59,804
by the medical team here.

1600
01:09:59,847 --> 01:10:05,113
[slow pensive instrumental]

1601
01:10:05,157 --> 01:10:06,811
[Tia] I knew Brooke was going
to get this

1602
01:10:06,854 --> 01:10:09,248
because I was like,
"Yep, she can easily hit 190.

1603
01:10:09,292 --> 01:10:10,684
She's got this in the bag."

1604
01:10:10,728 --> 01:10:12,643
And then all of a sudden,
something,

1605
01:10:12,686 --> 01:10:14,862
a noise happened
and I was like,

1606
01:10:14,906 --> 01:10:17,125
"That's not okay.
She didn't get it."

1607
01:10:17,169 --> 01:10:20,868
And I look up and
then all I see is her elbow.

1608
01:10:20,912 --> 01:10:25,786
[Brooke shrieks in pain]

1609
01:10:25,830 --> 01:10:28,006
[announcer] Please welcome,
Laura Horvath!

1610
01:10:29,573 --> 01:10:30,835
[Brooke squeals]

1611
01:10:32,140 --> 01:10:34,534
[Adrian] Absolutely
one of the hardest things

1612
01:10:34,578 --> 01:10:37,711
in that moment because
I'm right in front of her.

1613
01:10:37,755 --> 01:10:40,279
I know Brooke,
I've known her for years.

1614
01:10:40,323 --> 01:10:42,194
There's nothing that I can do.

1615
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:44,152
I'm not qualified medically
to-- to help her at that point.

1616
01:10:44,196 --> 01:10:46,285
The only thing I can do
is make sure

1617
01:10:46,329 --> 01:10:48,374
that we've got help on the way.

1618
01:10:48,418 --> 01:10:49,897
So there's these few moments

1619
01:10:49,941 --> 01:10:51,551
that just seem like
an eternity.

1620
01:10:51,595 --> 01:10:53,597
And I'm sure more so for her,

1621
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:55,294
where she's standing there
with the elbow.

1622
01:10:55,338 --> 01:10:57,818
She's asking me for help
and there's nothing I can do

1623
01:10:57,862 --> 01:11:00,168
except wait for our
medical team to respond.

1624
01:11:03,650 --> 01:11:06,871
[Brooke] I've had elbow
issues since about 2016.

1625
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:10,614
Just, like, overuse issues,
tendinitis, things like that.

1626
01:11:10,657 --> 01:11:13,791
And then, um,
going to the 190 bar,

1627
01:11:13,834 --> 01:11:16,141
I just pulled it,
got under it and then honestly,

1628
01:11:16,184 --> 01:11:18,361
like, kind of
blacked out after that.

1629
01:11:18,404 --> 01:11:21,364
I mean, I felt my elbow
pop immediately and so I kind

1630
01:11:21,407 --> 01:11:24,236
of just fell to the ground,
held my elbow.

1631
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:26,369
Medical rushed on,
pulled me off.

1632
01:11:26,412 --> 01:11:28,675
Um, they took me to the tunnel.

1633
01:11:29,850 --> 01:11:31,765
I'm standing in
the tunnel with, um,

1634
01:11:31,809 --> 01:11:34,115
Sean [indistinct],
one of the medical guys.

1635
01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:36,074
Thank God for him.

1636
01:11:36,117 --> 01:11:37,510
[Adrian]
Thank goodness for those guys.

1637
01:11:37,554 --> 01:11:39,120
They-- They
truly are world-class.

1638
01:11:39,164 --> 01:11:41,297
And the team of doctors
that we've got there

1639
01:11:41,340 --> 01:11:43,908
looking after these
athletes is-- is top notch.

1640
01:11:43,951 --> 01:11:45,649
She gets taken
back for treatment.

1641
01:11:45,692 --> 01:11:47,346
Uh, you know,
we had an imaging machine

1642
01:11:47,390 --> 01:11:48,782
available, which is great.

1643
01:11:48,826 --> 01:11:50,393
[Brooke] We get in there,
he X-rays it.

1644
01:11:50,436 --> 01:11:52,482
He does,
like, a lidocaine shot.

1645
01:11:52,525 --> 01:11:54,832
And then once it's numb,
they were able to

1646
01:11:54,875 --> 01:11:56,790
pop it back in place.

1647
01:11:56,834 --> 01:11:59,619
And I'm like, "So does
this mean that I can compete?"

1648
01:11:59,663 --> 01:12:02,100
And the doctor is like--
he literally thought

1649
01:12:02,143 --> 01:12:03,841
that I was joking and I'm like,

1650
01:12:03,884 --> 01:12:05,495
"No, really, like,
it's back in place.

1651
01:12:05,538 --> 01:12:07,323
Like, am I good to go?"

1652
01:12:07,366 --> 01:12:09,760
But I'm still, like, not okay.
Like, I'm still crying.

1653
01:12:09,803 --> 01:12:12,197
And... But at that point,

1654
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:14,417
I wasn't concerned
about my elbow.

1655
01:12:14,460 --> 01:12:16,723
Like, I just wanted
to finish the games.

1656
01:12:17,420 --> 01:12:18,769
So...

1657
01:12:23,164 --> 01:12:24,992
But then, um...

1658
01:12:30,607 --> 01:12:33,784
It was just so cool
to see the support that I had.

1659
01:12:33,827 --> 01:12:36,743
[applause & cheering]

1660
01:12:36,787 --> 01:12:38,789
[announcer] That does not look
good for Brooke Wells.

1661
01:12:38,832 --> 01:12:40,704
They're gonna escort her
off the floor

1662
01:12:40,747 --> 01:12:42,836
and she's going to get
a-- a standing ovation, but--

1663
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,230
[announcer 2] Standing O
for Brooke Wells, you guys.

1664
01:12:46,753 --> 01:12:49,582
[Tia] I looked into
the crowd where my parents

1665
01:12:49,626 --> 01:12:51,454
and where Brooke's
parents were sitting.

1666
01:12:51,497 --> 01:12:54,239
I had seen Sydney,
her sister, her mum,

1667
01:12:54,282 --> 01:12:58,069
all of her family run
and go to-- to Brooke.

1668
01:12:58,112 --> 01:13:00,767
So I knew, "Okay, well,
Shane's out the back.

1669
01:13:00,811 --> 01:13:03,640
Shane's gonna be able--
able to look after her.

1670
01:13:03,683 --> 01:13:06,643
And I don't know what's
going to happen

1671
01:13:06,686 --> 01:13:09,080
or what
the future holds right now

1672
01:13:09,123 --> 01:13:11,299
on whether or not she
can continue,

1673
01:13:11,343 --> 01:13:14,564
but I'm going to make sure that
I win this for her.

1674
01:13:14,607 --> 01:13:16,783
-[slow pensive instrumental]
-[announcer] Tia Toomey!

1675
01:13:16,827 --> 01:13:19,438
[announcer] Tia Toomey looking
to be the fifth woman

1676
01:13:19,482 --> 01:13:21,309
to move past 190.

1677
01:13:21,353 --> 01:13:23,573
She will make that.

1678
01:13:23,616 --> 01:13:24,922
I don't know.

1679
01:13:24,965 --> 01:13:27,620
I was so happy when I hit,
like, 190

1680
01:13:27,664 --> 01:13:29,666
and then I hit 195.

1681
01:13:29,709 --> 01:13:34,714
And then when I hit 200,
like-- It was incredible.

1682
01:13:34,758 --> 01:13:37,064
It's probably one
of my all-time favorite moments

1683
01:13:37,108 --> 01:13:38,979
at the CrossFit Games.

1684
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:43,549
[announcer] There it is.

1685
01:13:43,593 --> 01:13:45,856
And Annie Thorisdottir has it!

1686
01:13:48,859 --> 01:13:51,122
[Pat] Brent
went before me and missed.

1687
01:13:51,165 --> 01:13:53,341
So that was, like,
a huge opportunity for me to

1688
01:13:53,385 --> 01:13:55,779
come and try to--
to get some points on him.

1689
01:13:55,822 --> 01:13:59,304
And-- And in a snatch that's
a huge, huge momentum shift.

1690
01:13:59,347 --> 01:14:01,785
[cheering]

1691
01:14:01,828 --> 01:14:03,569
[announcer] Vellner has it.

1692
01:14:03,613 --> 01:14:05,223
[cheering]

1693
01:14:17,931 --> 01:14:20,064
[announcer] Malheiros'
ninth lift of the night.

1694
01:14:20,107 --> 01:14:21,282
For the win.

1695
01:14:22,283 --> 01:14:25,243
[cheering]

1696
01:14:25,896 --> 01:14:28,464
[yells]

1697
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:33,033
[Adrian] Annie made it,
Tia made it.

1698
01:14:33,077 --> 01:14:34,774
They both missed the next one.

1699
01:14:34,818 --> 01:14:36,341
And then they had
the shootout for the finish.

1700
01:14:36,384 --> 01:14:37,821
So right up to the end,
that was

1701
01:14:37,864 --> 01:14:40,519
kind of defying expectations.

1702
01:14:40,563 --> 01:14:45,176
[announcer] Three squat
snatches at 145 pounds

1703
01:14:45,219 --> 01:14:46,830
to determine the winner.

1704
01:14:48,875 --> 01:14:50,660
[Tia] She is an
incredible athlete.

1705
01:14:50,703 --> 01:14:52,879
And it was a true honor
to be standing there

1706
01:14:52,923 --> 01:14:55,316
right beside her,
going up against her.

1707
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:59,973
And as I walk on over there,
the crowd just started

1708
01:15:00,017 --> 01:15:02,149
to get to
a whole 'nother level.

1709
01:15:02,193 --> 01:15:05,022
And I was like, "Wow, like
this is-- this is electric.

1710
01:15:05,065 --> 01:15:08,112
Like, this is-- this
is what-- what it's about."

1711
01:15:08,155 --> 01:15:10,767
♪

1712
01:15:10,810 --> 01:15:16,555
[announcer] Tia Toomey
wins event number 12.

1713
01:15:16,599 --> 01:15:20,298
♪

1714
01:15:20,341 --> 01:15:22,909
[Jami] Like,
your face is just--

1715
01:15:22,953 --> 01:15:24,737
-[Annie] Oh!
-[Jami] That was amazing.

1716
01:15:24,781 --> 01:15:26,522
-That was so much fun.
-Look-- Look at that.

1717
01:15:26,565 --> 01:15:28,915
I just-- The camera's
not great, but, uh...

1718
01:15:31,701 --> 01:15:32,876
-[laughs]
-Look at this face.

1719
01:15:32,919 --> 01:15:34,007
Look at this.

1720
01:15:34,051 --> 01:15:35,356
[laughing]

1721
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:36,836
[interviewer]
Can I see it?

1722
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:38,359
Oh God, that's hilarious.

1723
01:15:38,403 --> 01:15:39,970
I had no
idea I looked like that.

1724
01:15:40,013 --> 01:15:41,406
-[man] She stands it up--
-[Jami] You were like--

1725
01:15:41,449 --> 01:15:43,147
I should be way more,
like, "Yeah!"

1726
01:15:43,190 --> 01:15:46,367
[Jami] No, that was,
like-- [chuckling]

1727
01:15:46,411 --> 01:15:49,153
I went to tie break!
I messed up at--

1728
01:15:49,196 --> 01:15:50,894
Right before
we went to the bar, though.

1729
01:15:50,937 --> 01:15:52,635
I'm like-- She's
standing next to me, I'm like,

1730
01:15:52,678 --> 01:15:56,073
she can cycle fast,
but I just stand it up quickly.

1731
01:15:56,116 --> 01:15:59,206
I worked on my bounce. I'm
like, "I'm gonna take this."

1732
01:15:59,250 --> 01:16:02,035
-[Jami] Good, good.
-And then I didn't have it.

1733
01:16:02,079 --> 01:16:03,602
[laughing]

1734
01:16:03,646 --> 01:16:05,430
And then I was like,
"Well, now it's over."

1735
01:16:05,473 --> 01:16:06,779
But it was so close.

1736
01:16:06,823 --> 01:16:08,172
How crazy is that, Annie?

1737
01:16:08,215 --> 01:16:09,956
[Annie] Yeah,
that's pretty sick.

1738
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:11,958
That's pretty sick.

1739
01:16:12,002 --> 01:16:13,481
[Tia] So...

1740
01:16:13,525 --> 01:16:17,355
We just had the
snatch event and, um,

1741
01:16:17,398 --> 01:16:19,618
I think it was on the 190 bar.

1742
01:16:20,532 --> 01:16:22,403
You know,
Brooke was looking super solid

1743
01:16:22,447 --> 01:16:24,667
in all of
her snatches and everything.

1744
01:16:25,189 --> 01:16:29,193
And, um,
she popped her elbow out.

1745
01:16:30,281 --> 01:16:34,764
Um, I don't really know what
the extent of it is

1746
01:16:34,807 --> 01:16:37,114
but it removed her
from the competition,

1747
01:16:37,157 --> 01:16:39,638
which is really sad because she

1748
01:16:39,682 --> 01:16:41,292
just doesn't deserve that,
you know?

1749
01:16:41,335 --> 01:16:42,989
No-- No one does.

1750
01:16:43,033 --> 01:16:47,777
She's put in so much--
so much work this season.

1751
01:16:47,820 --> 01:16:50,344
This was
gonna be her best year yet.

1752
01:16:51,737 --> 01:16:54,261
Mm, she
just does not deserve that.

1753
01:16:54,827 --> 01:16:57,351
[meditative instrumental]

1754
01:16:58,657 --> 01:17:00,398
[Adrian] Yeah. It's--
It's always hard in an event

1755
01:17:00,441 --> 01:17:01,921
where you have an injury.

1756
01:17:01,965 --> 01:17:03,880
You know, thankfully,
we don't experience

1757
01:17:03,923 --> 01:17:06,447
a high incidence rate
at the games.

1758
01:17:06,491 --> 01:17:10,103
And I think that if we're
doing our job right, we won't.

1759
01:17:10,147 --> 01:17:12,628
Because the goal isn't
to try to see how much

1760
01:17:12,671 --> 01:17:15,674
these athletes can take, the
goal is to test the fittest.

1761
01:17:15,718 --> 01:17:19,330
And so when something
does happen like that,

1762
01:17:19,373 --> 01:17:21,114
obviously it's hard
for the spectators.

1763
01:17:21,158 --> 01:17:23,334
I think it's really
hard for the competitors

1764
01:17:23,377 --> 01:17:25,162
because
that's now in their mind.

1765
01:17:25,205 --> 01:17:26,859
Um, but on an internal level,
you know,

1766
01:17:26,903 --> 01:17:30,602
it really does start
to bring questions into

1767
01:17:30,646 --> 01:17:34,911
the staff about,
"Are we doing the right things?

1768
01:17:34,954 --> 01:17:37,391
Did we prepare enough?
Did we test this enough?"

1769
01:17:37,435 --> 01:17:42,005
You know, "Are we--
Are we providing a platform

1770
01:17:42,048 --> 01:17:43,528
that isn't asking too much

1771
01:17:43,571 --> 01:17:44,834
of the athletes?"

1772
01:17:44,877 --> 01:17:46,400
You know?

1773
01:17:46,444 --> 01:17:48,533
If you really care about
what you're doing and you

1774
01:17:48,576 --> 01:17:52,145
care about the outcome,
I think it's impossible to see

1775
01:17:52,189 --> 01:17:56,584
a situation like that and not
start to just question whether

1776
01:17:56,628 --> 01:17:57,716
or not you did everything

1777
01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:58,804
you could to prevent it.

1778
01:17:59,675 --> 01:18:02,068
♪

1779
01:18:06,594 --> 01:18:10,511
[Tia] Last day. It's been
a really good games. Yeah.

1780
01:18:10,555 --> 01:18:13,514
Like, in terms of programing,
I think it was

1781
01:18:13,558 --> 01:18:15,734
well thought out
for the athletes so that

1782
01:18:15,778 --> 01:18:17,867
they can perform
at their absolute best.

1783
01:18:18,998 --> 01:18:22,349
These things,
this is the attention to detail

1784
01:18:22,393 --> 01:18:25,222
that I give a lot
of credit to Dave for.

1785
01:18:25,265 --> 01:18:26,789
[interviewer] Have you
looked at the leaderboard?

1786
01:18:26,832 --> 01:18:28,791
Uh, yeah. I have looked
at the leaderboard.

1787
01:18:28,834 --> 01:18:31,881
[interviewer] How do you
feel about that 200 point lead?

1788
01:18:31,924 --> 01:18:34,622
Eh. It means nothing.

1789
01:18:34,666 --> 01:18:37,364
There's 300 points
still up for grabs.

1790
01:18:38,670 --> 01:18:39,758
We gotta go, girl.

1791
01:18:39,802 --> 01:18:42,195
We are extremely late.

1792
01:18:42,239 --> 01:18:44,023
[Tia] What's the time?

1793
01:18:44,067 --> 01:18:47,723
7:31. Brief's at 7:30.

1794
01:18:47,766 --> 01:18:51,683
-No, it's not. Brief's at 8:00.
-Thank goodness.

1795
01:18:51,727 --> 01:18:53,250
[interviewer]
Check-in's at 7:30, right?

1796
01:18:53,293 --> 01:18:54,991
Yeah. Check-in's at 7:30.

1797
01:18:55,034 --> 01:18:57,210
That's technically when
you're meant to be there...

1798
01:18:58,559 --> 01:19:00,126
So we're late.

1799
01:19:00,170 --> 01:19:02,999
[Tia] Angel
and Curtis, they [indistinct].

1800
01:19:03,042 --> 01:19:04,522
'Kay.

1801
01:19:04,565 --> 01:19:05,653
[interviewer] Technically,
she could sit out

1802
01:19:05,697 --> 01:19:07,307
these first two events anyway.

1803
01:19:07,351 --> 01:19:08,744
If she wants to make it closer,
yeah, that'll--

1804
01:19:08,787 --> 01:19:10,484
that'll make my
heart race a little bit.

1805
01:19:10,528 --> 01:19:13,009
[indistinct] should
have me bloody on the screen

1806
01:19:13,052 --> 01:19:14,706
and see if my heart rate's up.

1807
01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:17,796
[father] All right, doll.
Time to go to work.

1808
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:19,624
-All right?
-[Tia] Love you, Dad.

1809
01:19:19,667 --> 01:19:21,060
[father] Yeah, love you, too.

1810
01:19:22,670 --> 01:19:24,629
[mother] Good luck, Tia.
[indistinct] so hard.

1811
01:19:24,672 --> 01:19:26,457
-[Tia] Love you.
-Love you, too.

1812
01:19:28,154 --> 01:19:29,721
-Kill it.
-[Tia] Mm-hmm.

1813
01:19:30,896 --> 01:19:32,419
[Laura sighs]

1814
01:19:32,463 --> 01:19:33,986
-[interviewer] Good morning.
-Uh, morning.

1815
01:19:34,030 --> 01:19:35,727
-[interviewer] How you feeling?
-Uh, great.

1816
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:36,989
[interviewer] What do you
think about this next event?

1817
01:19:37,033 --> 01:19:38,425
I like it. I like it a lot.

1818
01:19:38,469 --> 01:19:39,818
-It's going to be good.
-[interviewer] What part?

1819
01:19:39,862 --> 01:19:41,602
Like, the whole thing.

1820
01:19:41,646 --> 01:19:44,127
We've been doing two-two-three
intervals for a while,

1821
01:19:44,170 --> 01:19:45,693
a couple so
we are prepared for this.

1822
01:19:45,737 --> 01:19:48,827
And then it's just good.
I like GHDs.

1823
01:19:48,871 --> 01:19:51,221
Burpees are just like,
there to get rid of them.

1824
01:19:51,264 --> 01:19:53,745
And then
it's all about the yoke.

1825
01:19:53,789 --> 01:19:55,181
[Rich] Something to think about

1826
01:19:55,225 --> 01:19:56,748
so-- in case I don't
get to see you.

1827
01:19:56,792 --> 01:19:58,097
You're gonna--
On the curve,

1828
01:19:58,141 --> 01:19:59,707
don't throw
it all the way over.

1829
01:19:59,751 --> 01:20:01,100
Throw it to the back half edge
as you're comin',

1830
01:20:01,144 --> 01:20:03,015
-swipe it down with you.
-[Haley] Yeah.

1831
01:20:03,059 --> 01:20:05,365
'Cause then you can see where
it's at and it's [indistinct].

1832
01:20:05,409 --> 01:20:08,804
[gym din]

1833
01:20:08,847 --> 01:20:10,414
[trap instrumental]

1834
01:20:10,457 --> 01:20:12,329
[Sean] The journey that began
back in February

1835
01:20:12,372 --> 01:20:14,505
is in its final day.

1836
01:20:14,548 --> 01:20:16,246
Number 13,
somethin' old, somethin' new.

1837
01:20:16,289 --> 01:20:18,161
[announcer] Tell ya what, Sean.
If you said

1838
01:20:18,204 --> 01:20:19,902
I was going to have a roll in
the hay this morning,

1839
01:20:19,945 --> 01:20:21,686
this is not what I
wanted to show up to see.

1840
01:20:21,729 --> 01:20:23,731
GHDs, the Curd is back.

1841
01:20:23,775 --> 01:20:27,300
And that heavy yoke that
we haven't seen since 2018.

1842
01:20:27,344 --> 01:20:29,563
♪

1843
01:20:29,607 --> 01:20:32,175
[beep]

1844
01:20:32,218 --> 01:20:34,873
So first event
on Sunday

1845
01:20:34,917 --> 01:20:38,181
was a Strongman, uh, kind of
two-two-three interval workout.

1846
01:20:38,224 --> 01:20:40,487
And I think we didn't
really know what to expect.

1847
01:20:40,531 --> 01:20:42,750
The yoke was pretty
heavy on the turf.

1848
01:20:42,794 --> 01:20:44,404
You sink into the
ground a little bit,

1849
01:20:44,448 --> 01:20:46,102
so it was
a little harder to move.

1850
01:20:46,145 --> 01:20:47,581
[announcer] The yoke,
a familiar implement

1851
01:20:47,625 --> 01:20:48,931
to the CrossFit Games.

1852
01:20:48,974 --> 01:20:50,802
But this weight is not.

1853
01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:52,456
Only two times in history,
the athletes have had

1854
01:20:52,499 --> 01:20:54,371
to carry a yoke that
weighs over 600 pounds.

1855
01:20:56,634 --> 01:20:58,070
Event number 13 was
one of those events

1856
01:20:58,114 --> 01:20:59,463
I was super looking forward to.

1857
01:20:59,506 --> 01:21:01,030
I mean, uh,
just having the sandbag,

1858
01:21:01,073 --> 01:21:02,727
throwing it over hay bales,

1859
01:21:02,770 --> 01:21:04,424
I mean, it's just--
feel like you're out, like,

1860
01:21:04,468 --> 01:21:06,122
in the country, just, like,
throwin' stuff around.

1861
01:21:06,165 --> 01:21:08,211
So it was an event that
I was super excited about.

1862
01:21:08,254 --> 01:21:10,082
I mean, we were gettin'
hay all over ourselves in

1863
01:21:10,126 --> 01:21:12,911
the tossin' event,
but it came down just to see

1864
01:21:12,955 --> 01:21:15,174
who could move
that yoke the fastest.

1865
01:21:17,568 --> 01:21:19,744
[announcer]
You can't run with this.

1866
01:21:19,787 --> 01:21:22,399
[Sean] Toomey out front,
at the bottom of your screen,

1867
01:21:22,442 --> 01:21:24,531
Horvath is on
the right of her.

1868
01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:27,447
15 seconds to go in this
window.

1869
01:21:27,491 --> 01:21:30,102
Horvath now pulling
even with Toomey.

1870
01:21:30,146 --> 01:21:33,453
Toomey continuing to work. She
has yet to put that yoke down.

1871
01:21:33,497 --> 01:21:36,239
Yeah, Tia was running with
that yoke on that first round,

1872
01:21:36,282 --> 01:21:38,632
just possessed to get
into the finished line.

1873
01:21:38,676 --> 01:21:40,547
[Sean] Four seconds to go.

1874
01:21:40,591 --> 01:21:42,636
[announcer] Gotta
get past the black.

1875
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:44,987
-[horn sounds]
-Oh, no!

1876
01:21:45,030 --> 01:21:48,816
[chuckling] Oh! No!

1877
01:21:48,860 --> 01:21:51,080
I thought she was gonna
do it on the first round.

1878
01:21:51,123 --> 01:21:53,430
Internally, I was hopin'
that she didn't just because I

1879
01:21:53,473 --> 01:21:56,650
knew that the test was supposed
to be harder than that.

1880
01:21:57,913 --> 01:21:59,740
And I think we kind of
broke the programing on that.

1881
01:21:59,784 --> 01:22:01,612
I don't know--
I don't know who--

1882
01:22:01,655 --> 01:22:04,876
who they had testin'
it but they weren't us.

1883
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,313
[Sean]
Pat Vellner continues to work.

1884
01:22:07,357 --> 01:22:08,967
Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson
is on his yoke

1885
01:22:09,011 --> 01:22:11,622
and Gudmundsson
is going to win the event.

1886
01:22:11,665 --> 01:22:13,363
[announcer]
One more for Tia Toomey.

1887
01:22:13,406 --> 01:22:14,930
Just have to put that
curd up and over.

1888
01:22:14,973 --> 01:22:18,150
Go on, Tia!
Go on, Tia! Run, run, run!

1889
01:22:18,194 --> 01:22:20,413
[Sean] Tia Toomey
sprinting to the yoke,

1890
01:22:20,457 --> 01:22:22,241
a couple of feet left.

1891
01:22:23,329 --> 01:22:25,462
Win number eight

1892
01:22:25,505 --> 01:22:27,464
for Tia Toomey!

1893
01:22:27,507 --> 01:22:31,207
We got Annie Thorisdottir
and Kristin Holte on the left.

1894
01:22:31,250 --> 01:22:33,905
Annie Thorisdottir trying to
erase that 10 point deficit,

1895
01:22:33,949 --> 01:22:35,298
moving to third.

1896
01:22:36,212 --> 01:22:38,518
Medeiros is catching up.

1897
01:22:38,562 --> 01:22:41,608
Vellner is in but Medeiros
is right behind him.

1898
01:22:41,652 --> 01:22:45,221
So Vellner will only pick
up five points on Medeiros.

1899
01:22:45,264 --> 01:22:49,399
♪

1900
01:22:59,322 --> 01:23:00,758
That was good.

1901
01:23:00,801 --> 01:23:02,455
I like to make my life hard,
obviously.

1902
01:23:02,499 --> 01:23:06,155
So I decided
to do an extra round.

1903
01:23:06,764 --> 01:23:08,896
I just needed one more second.

1904
01:23:08,940 --> 01:23:10,681
I could have done it in one.

1905
01:23:11,421 --> 01:23:13,162
One more second.

1906
01:23:14,337 --> 01:23:15,642
That's another one.

1907
01:23:16,382 --> 01:23:17,905
You won, buddy.

1908
01:23:19,298 --> 01:23:21,648
That's an Icelandic strong man,
right there.

1909
01:23:24,260 --> 01:23:26,001
Huh?

1910
01:23:26,044 --> 01:23:27,350
I said, "I don't know what
they're feedin' you, bud."

1911
01:23:27,393 --> 01:23:29,047
-[Pat laughs]
-It's workin'.

1912
01:23:29,091 --> 01:23:31,876
[Pat] I think the battle
in second was still there.

1913
01:23:31,919 --> 01:23:34,792
Um, and then those first
two events of Sunday,

1914
01:23:34,835 --> 01:23:37,055
I pulled away significantly.

1915
01:23:37,099 --> 01:23:40,972
So I knew that going
into the last day,

1916
01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:43,192
I had made up significant
points on Justin,

1917
01:23:43,235 --> 01:23:45,455
on the Snatch and on
the Pegboard Workout.

1918
01:23:45,498 --> 01:23:48,240
I think he had about an 80
point lead on me before those

1919
01:23:48,284 --> 01:23:51,200
events and we had to
chewed it down to about 40.

1920
01:23:51,243 --> 01:23:54,029
So, you know, I figured if
I could do that in two events,

1921
01:23:54,072 --> 01:23:57,162
in three events, maybe I
can-- I can steal one from him.

1922
01:23:57,206 --> 01:23:59,077
You know who you have to beat.

1923
01:23:59,121 --> 01:24:00,861
Like there's-- there's
no other way to look at it.

1924
01:24:00,905 --> 01:24:02,472
Um, if you're going to try to
win, it's like,

1925
01:24:02,515 --> 01:24:05,083
that's the guy you gotta
steal points from all day.

1926
01:24:05,127 --> 01:24:08,086
Um, and boy,
he didn't make it easy.

1927
01:24:08,130 --> 01:24:09,870
Yeah. So you have,
like, no expenses?

1928
01:24:09,914 --> 01:24:11,742
[Justin] I ended up
going back to Boise

1929
01:24:11,785 --> 01:24:14,049
and I'm moving in with my
friends that just got married.

1930
01:24:14,092 --> 01:24:15,746
[laughing]

1931
01:24:15,789 --> 01:24:17,530
Yeah. So why don't you
help me out.

1932
01:24:17,574 --> 01:24:20,011
Just bump down,
stay where you are right now

1933
01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:22,100
and, uh,
I can save some more money.

1934
01:24:22,144 --> 01:24:23,710
[Pat] You've still
got 30 points on me,

1935
01:24:23,754 --> 01:24:26,104
at least, so you're not
making my life very easy.

1936
01:24:26,148 --> 01:24:27,236
That's the plan.

1937
01:24:27,279 --> 01:24:29,586
Buddy, I got a fucking baby.

1938
01:24:29,629 --> 01:24:31,153
Oh!

1939
01:24:31,196 --> 01:24:32,676
-I got a baby.
-[laughing] Pulling that card.

1940
01:24:33,677 --> 01:24:35,461
-Man, I'm still in school--
-[Pat] Have you seen him--?

1941
01:24:35,505 --> 01:24:36,984
[Justin] I'm still in school.

1942
01:24:37,028 --> 01:24:38,508
I'm trying to pay off--
I have seen him.

1943
01:24:38,551 --> 01:24:40,510
He's pretty cute.
Takes after his mom a lot.

1944
01:24:40,553 --> 01:24:43,295
I'll show you some photos
before the next event.

1945
01:24:44,122 --> 01:24:45,428
Just remember,
you're stealing his lunch

1946
01:24:45,471 --> 01:24:47,604
-right out of his mouth.
-[laughing]

1947
01:24:47,647 --> 01:24:50,085
Hey. Well
done in that last event, babe.

1948
01:24:50,128 --> 01:24:51,521
-Thank you, babe.
-[man] How was that?

1949
01:24:51,564 --> 01:24:53,218
-That was great--
-Could've done it in one?

1950
01:24:53,262 --> 01:24:54,654
[Tia] Dude, it was so close.

1951
01:24:54,698 --> 01:24:56,003
I just needed one more second--

1952
01:24:56,047 --> 01:24:57,353
[man] Could you have done
it in one?

1953
01:24:57,396 --> 01:24:58,702
Like, if-- if you
could take it back?

1954
01:24:58,745 --> 01:25:00,356
-Um, I think I could, yeah.
-Uh-huh.

1955
01:25:00,399 --> 01:25:02,140
-Yeah, I think I could--
-I-- I felt like you were--

1956
01:25:02,184 --> 01:25:05,056
You got to the-- I reckon
it was that last third,

1957
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:07,406
you were just, like,
sizing up where you would

1958
01:25:07,450 --> 01:25:09,669
finish rather than,
"Pin the ears back, let's go."

1959
01:25:09,713 --> 01:25:12,063
-[Tia] Yeah.
-Yeah.

1960
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:15,327
Ah, well, that was
pretty cool, hey?

1961
01:25:16,502 --> 01:25:18,591
[Justin]
Start-- We start like this.

1962
01:25:18,635 --> 01:25:23,683
So we can start and you
have to go here, like, kick up.

1963
01:25:23,727 --> 01:25:26,556
One. And then,
like, you step down.

1964
01:25:26,599 --> 01:25:30,647
The-- The rep is credited
once your head goes down again.

1965
01:25:30,690 --> 01:25:32,083
[man] Got somethin'
in your hair, dude.

1966
01:25:34,259 --> 01:25:35,739
Yeah.
All that stuff.

1967
01:25:35,782 --> 01:25:37,262
[man 2]
Takes someone with a mullet

1968
01:25:37,306 --> 01:25:38,829
to know how to
take care of a mullet.

1969
01:25:38,872 --> 01:25:40,526
'Kay, I think we should just,
like--

1970
01:25:40,570 --> 01:25:42,180
I think we should
just start practicing.

1971
01:25:42,224 --> 01:25:44,139
I think that's,
like, the most useful.

1972
01:25:44,182 --> 01:25:46,402
[Adrian] Event 14 had
two elements:

1973
01:25:46,445 --> 01:25:48,621
one that is super familiar
to these athletes

1974
01:25:48,665 --> 01:25:50,536
with the dead lift done at

1975
01:25:50,580 --> 01:25:53,191
a pretty heavy weight for--
for an event like this.

1976
01:25:53,235 --> 01:25:55,150
But manageable for most
of them.

1977
01:25:55,976 --> 01:25:59,980
And then we had a new element
that was on the other end

1978
01:26:00,024 --> 01:26:04,159
of the spectrum: really high
skill, something that most of

1979
01:26:04,202 --> 01:26:07,988
them probably had not trained
in that specific way before.

1980
01:26:08,032 --> 01:26:10,513
And that was a freestanding
handstand pushup.

1981
01:26:11,253 --> 01:26:13,907
[speaking
Scandinavian language]

1982
01:26:18,173 --> 01:26:19,696
[interviewer]
What was he saying?

1983
01:26:21,088 --> 01:26:25,919
It's a secret. It's our
Norwegian-- He's Swedish. Yeah.

1984
01:26:25,963 --> 01:26:28,052
Yeah, we
can't give away all our...

1985
01:26:28,095 --> 01:26:30,185
[chuckles] But, um...

1986
01:26:30,228 --> 01:26:31,751
[interviewer]
Tell me after.

1987
01:26:31,795 --> 01:26:33,579
I'll tell you after.

1988
01:26:34,580 --> 01:26:36,234
They're going to be good.

1989
01:26:36,278 --> 01:26:40,151
Heavy dead lift. It's new
for everyone so it's good.

1990
01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:41,979
What did you want to say?

1991
01:26:42,022 --> 01:26:43,198
[man] Tell 'em I've been
waiting

1992
01:26:43,241 --> 01:26:44,547
for this event for 12 years.

1993
01:26:44,590 --> 01:26:46,070
-[laughs]
-[interviewer] Which event?

1994
01:26:46,113 --> 01:26:47,593
This event.
This handstand pushup event.

1995
01:26:47,637 --> 01:26:48,942
[interviewer] Is this
something that you would

1996
01:26:48,986 --> 01:26:50,422
-have loved to have done?
-Oh, yeah.

1997
01:26:50,466 --> 01:26:52,032
I've been practicing
these thinkin' they were

1998
01:26:52,076 --> 01:26:53,556
going to come to the games
for-- for a while.

1999
01:26:53,599 --> 01:26:55,775
So I'll tell 'em later.

2000
01:26:55,819 --> 01:26:58,430
♪

2001
01:26:58,474 --> 01:27:01,041
[Kristin] Yeah, I was so
excited when Dave

2002
01:27:01,085 --> 01:27:03,348
announced the freestanding
handstand pushups.

2003
01:27:03,392 --> 01:27:05,524
[Tia] They
finally bring it out.

2004
01:27:05,568 --> 01:27:08,788
Like, you know, we've been
waiting for years for this.

2005
01:27:08,832 --> 01:27:10,225
[Pat] The freestanding
handstand pushups

2006
01:27:10,268 --> 01:27:11,661
was, like, way
out of left field.

2007
01:27:11,704 --> 01:27:13,271
I've-- That's a circus trick.

2008
01:27:13,315 --> 01:27:15,012
I've done that-- I did,
like, two years ago for,

2009
01:27:15,055 --> 01:27:16,405
like, one workout for fun.

2010
01:27:16,448 --> 01:27:18,450
And I haven't done it since.

2011
01:27:19,277 --> 01:27:21,366
[Kristin] I think it's
really cool when something

2012
01:27:21,410 --> 01:27:23,020
new comes up.

2013
01:27:23,063 --> 01:27:26,545
Uh, and I really thrive
when there's something

2014
01:27:26,589 --> 01:27:28,591
you have to
figure out on the go.

2015
01:27:28,634 --> 01:27:31,811
I wish we'd just--
They just announced it and we

2016
01:27:31,855 --> 01:27:33,335
just had to do it right away.

2017
01:27:33,378 --> 01:27:35,075
Because then no one
could practice it and...

2018
01:27:35,119 --> 01:27:38,731
[Sean] Event 14,
the second to last event

2019
01:27:38,775 --> 01:27:41,125
of the 2021 NOBULL
CrossFit Games,

2020
01:27:41,168 --> 01:27:43,083
freestanding handstand
pushups

2021
01:27:43,127 --> 01:27:45,042
for the first time in
CrossFit Games history.

2022
01:27:45,085 --> 01:27:47,479
[announcer] It's a core
stability, taxing movement and

2023
01:27:47,523 --> 01:27:50,221
then you throw a 405 pound
dead lift in there

2024
01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:51,875
for 30 reps.

2025
01:27:53,224 --> 01:27:54,399
[Laura] It was,
like, a variation of

2026
01:27:54,443 --> 01:27:56,009
[indistinct], I guess.

2027
01:27:56,053 --> 01:27:57,707
So like, handstand,
pushups and dead lifts.

2028
01:27:57,750 --> 01:27:59,926
[Justin] Yeah. I think
the dead lifts were at 405.

2029
01:27:59,970 --> 01:28:04,235
And I'm pretty sure I did no
dead lifts to warm up.

2030
01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:05,628
-Shoot.
-[interviewer laughs]

2031
01:28:05,671 --> 01:28:06,759
I could hear that fall.

2032
01:28:06,803 --> 01:28:13,462
[mic popping]

2033
01:28:13,505 --> 01:28:17,074
Okay. There we go.

2034
01:28:17,117 --> 01:28:20,033
[announcer] Tia Toomey
has a 216 point lead

2035
01:28:20,077 --> 01:28:22,035
on Laura Horvath.

2036
01:28:22,079 --> 01:28:25,125
Kristin Holte hangs on to
the final spot on the podium.

2037
01:28:25,169 --> 01:28:28,215
But Annie Thorisdottir,
a former two time champion,

2038
01:28:28,259 --> 01:28:31,131
is just five points back.

2039
01:28:32,350 --> 01:28:33,873
[Annie] My goal going in there,
I was like,

2040
01:28:33,917 --> 01:28:36,789
just gonna fly
through the dead lifts.

2041
01:28:36,833 --> 01:28:38,530
and then I was going
to think about just,

2042
01:28:38,574 --> 01:28:41,577
"Don't listen to the
audience and just think

2043
01:28:41,620 --> 01:28:44,101
about staying calm and
centered throughout."

2044
01:28:44,144 --> 01:28:47,365
[announcer]
Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

2045
01:28:47,409 --> 01:28:50,716
Annie Thorisdottir
is out front.

2046
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,328
And here come Kristin Holte.

2047
01:28:53,850 --> 01:28:55,330
[Kristin]
I was just in my zone.

2048
01:28:55,373 --> 01:28:57,680
I had no
idea where the others were.

2049
01:28:57,723 --> 01:28:59,551
[announcer] Annie Thorisdottir
got a no rep

2050
01:28:59,595 --> 01:29:01,466
'cause her hand wasn't on the
line when she came down.

2051
01:29:01,510 --> 01:29:03,990
That has allowed Kristin Holte
on the right to close

2052
01:29:04,034 --> 01:29:07,254
the gap and now Holte
dead even with Thorisdottir.

2053
01:29:07,298 --> 01:29:09,735
[Annie] I had no idea that
Holte was so close to me.

2054
01:29:09,779 --> 01:29:12,477
I thought that she was further
back which is good because then

2055
01:29:12,521 --> 01:29:16,351
I stayed calm and like,
went through it properly.

2056
01:29:16,394 --> 01:29:17,787
[announcer]
Final rep for Thorisdottir.

2057
01:29:17,830 --> 01:29:19,354
She takes a quick break.

2058
01:29:19,397 --> 01:29:21,094
Still ahead of Holte.

2059
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:23,793
[crowd erupts]

2060
01:29:23,836 --> 01:29:25,882
[announcer]
Long, live, the queen!

2061
01:29:25,925 --> 01:29:28,580
[heavy rock plays]

2062
01:29:28,624 --> 01:29:30,756
14 reps to go for Pat Vellner,

2063
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:32,279
the first
man to that final set.

2064
01:29:32,323 --> 01:29:34,151
And it's a type of
movement where the energy

2065
01:29:34,194 --> 01:29:35,848
doesn't help you,
you know?

2066
01:29:35,892 --> 01:29:38,068
Like-- We got near the
end and everybody's yelling.

2067
01:29:38,111 --> 01:29:39,722
And, you know,
that's great when you're

2068
01:29:39,765 --> 01:29:41,419
about to
pull a super heavy lift.

2069
01:29:41,463 --> 01:29:43,421
It made it-- I feel
like for both of us it made it

2070
01:29:43,465 --> 01:29:45,292
so much harder and
everybody got all hyped up.

2071
01:29:45,336 --> 01:29:47,382
And then we're gettin' charged
up and now we can't do it.

2072
01:29:47,425 --> 01:29:49,166
[Sean] Five reps now to
go for Pat Vellner

2073
01:29:49,209 --> 01:29:50,776
and another no rep
for Medeiros.

2074
01:29:50,820 --> 01:29:52,735
[announcer] Vellner
just got a no-rep.

2075
01:29:52,778 --> 01:29:54,867
[Sean] Vellner has gotta
finish ahead of Medeiros

2076
01:29:54,911 --> 01:29:56,739
if he wants to shrink
the lead.

2077
01:29:56,782 --> 01:29:58,175
And now a no-rep for
Medeiros as Vellner continues.

2078
01:29:58,218 --> 01:30:00,307
♪

2079
01:30:00,351 --> 01:30:02,092
He thought he was done.

2080
01:30:02,135 --> 01:30:05,182
Vellner is done.
Vellner will win.

2081
01:30:06,357 --> 01:30:08,751
Again, take some points.

2082
01:30:08,794 --> 01:30:10,405
Uh, fleece Justin
for a couple more points.

2083
01:30:10,970 --> 01:30:12,885
But I needed-- I needed help.

2084
01:30:12,929 --> 01:30:14,539
And there was nobody else,
just Justin were out

2085
01:30:14,583 --> 01:30:15,975
nippin' at my heels.

2086
01:30:20,850 --> 01:30:22,765
[Sean] Holte is in.

2087
01:30:24,114 --> 01:30:27,422
And they will be tied in
points for third

2088
01:30:27,465 --> 01:30:29,902
going into the final event.

2089
01:30:29,946 --> 01:30:31,904
Your top two
on the leaderboard.

2090
01:30:31,948 --> 01:30:36,126
The only two men to finish
the event inside the time cap.

2091
01:30:36,169 --> 01:30:39,999
Pat Vellner has one event
left to beat Justin Medeiros.

2092
01:30:40,870 --> 01:30:43,002
[Jami] Badda-bing, badda-boom.
That's how it's done.

2093
01:30:43,046 --> 01:30:44,743
[Annie laughs] Badda-bing,
badda-boom.

2094
01:30:44,787 --> 01:30:47,485
I have no idea
what just happened.

2095
01:30:47,529 --> 01:30:49,487
Well, I kept my cool.
I kept my cool.

2096
01:30:49,531 --> 01:30:51,228
[man] That was so good.

2097
01:30:51,271 --> 01:30:53,099
[indistinct] when you go
that no-rep, the women no-rep.

2098
01:30:53,143 --> 01:30:54,753
Yeah, I was like, "Wait, what?"

2099
01:30:54,797 --> 01:30:56,102
[man] Yeah.

2100
01:30:56,146 --> 01:30:57,408
"You can't
do anything about it."

2101
01:30:57,452 --> 01:30:59,628
-[laughing]
-So good, so good.

2102
01:31:03,719 --> 01:31:05,590
[male interviewer] Ah, you did
what you needed to do

2103
01:31:05,634 --> 01:31:07,374
but you can't
control other people.

2104
01:31:07,418 --> 01:31:08,941
That's the thing, hey.

2105
01:31:10,377 --> 01:31:12,510
I mean, I can't complain
about today's finishes.

2106
01:31:12,554 --> 01:31:13,903
I'm doing
everything I need to do.

2107
01:31:13,946 --> 01:31:15,513
It's no big deal,
that's good for him.

2108
01:31:15,557 --> 01:31:17,297
He's doing great, so.

2109
01:31:17,341 --> 01:31:18,734
I don't want him to...

2110
01:31:19,778 --> 01:31:21,476
Like, I need him
to stumble

2111
01:31:21,519 --> 01:31:23,695
and I don't really want him to,
you know?

2112
01:31:23,739 --> 01:31:26,916
Like, I think he would need to,
like, get hurt to not,

2113
01:31:26,959 --> 01:31:28,744
to not win.

2114
01:31:28,787 --> 01:31:31,660
And that's not what you ever
want, so. It is what it is.

2115
01:31:31,703 --> 01:31:34,401
I should have been better
for most of the weekend.

2116
01:31:34,445 --> 01:31:37,317
Um, that's what happens when
you show up on the third day.

2117
01:31:37,361 --> 01:31:39,972
It's not-- Like,
it's not a bad weekend either.

2118
01:31:40,016 --> 01:31:42,366
It's a little frustrating
'cause I feel like,

2119
01:31:42,409 --> 01:31:44,107
I certainly,
with the events we had,

2120
01:31:44,150 --> 01:31:46,544
I didn't do everything I could.

2121
01:31:46,588 --> 01:31:49,808
But, the way she goes,
sometimes people are better.

2122
01:31:49,852 --> 01:31:51,506
[slow pensive instrumental]

2123
01:31:54,987 --> 01:31:56,075
[interviewer]
What are the emotions

2124
01:31:56,119 --> 01:31:58,077
going into the final event?

2125
01:31:58,121 --> 01:31:59,775
Well, now it's just focus.

2126
01:31:59,818 --> 01:32:01,646
So I think the emotions
are gonna come after.

2127
01:32:01,690 --> 01:32:03,605
[laughing]

2128
01:32:03,648 --> 01:32:06,477
Probably, they're all coming at
the same time.

2129
01:32:06,521 --> 01:32:09,175
[interviewer] This is
the last event, [indistinct].

2130
01:32:09,219 --> 01:32:11,134
Yes.
Ever.

2131
01:32:12,788 --> 01:32:16,443
I'm going to be sad
but I'll make it a good one.

2132
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:20,273
I cried a little bit
before I actually went

2133
01:32:20,317 --> 01:32:22,667
onto the floor
on the last event.

2134
01:32:22,711 --> 01:32:28,107
Just knowing that it's, like,
the last time that I would feel

2135
01:32:28,151 --> 01:32:32,982
the adrenaline and feel,
like, the energy

2136
01:32:33,025 --> 01:32:38,727
from the crowd and have those,
those girls beside me.

2137
01:32:38,770 --> 01:32:44,907
And, like, feel like we're in
this battle, this war together.

2138
01:32:44,950 --> 01:32:48,780
Um, from we start across
the games on day one,

2139
01:32:48,824 --> 01:32:51,087
it's like we're in
this battle together.

2140
01:32:51,783 --> 01:32:56,135
And even though we lost a few
soldiers on the way this year,

2141
01:32:56,179 --> 01:32:58,921
we're all still,
like, a part of it.

2142
01:32:58,964 --> 01:33:03,882
And just going out there
on the last event and being

2143
01:33:03,926 --> 01:33:07,320
really appreciative of,
that I'm able to do this.

2144
01:33:07,364 --> 01:33:11,368
♪

2145
01:33:11,411 --> 01:33:14,197
[Tommy] Not long after the
games, Kristin Holte

2146
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:17,853
revealed to everyone that it
was going to be her final year.

2147
01:33:17,896 --> 01:33:19,898
And that she was retiring.

2148
01:33:19,942 --> 01:33:24,120
It was kind of the, the closing
of a chapter, competitively,

2149
01:33:24,163 --> 01:33:28,428
in the history of the sport for
another generation of athletes.

2150
01:33:29,255 --> 01:33:31,475
Yeah, it definitely
feels like a little bit

2151
01:33:31,518 --> 01:33:34,783
of a starting of a new era,
for sure.

2152
01:33:34,826 --> 01:33:37,002
You know,
there's like me and Vellner

2153
01:33:37,046 --> 01:33:39,526
and Bjorgvin and those guys
and we're not quite done yet.

2154
01:33:39,570 --> 01:33:41,833
And then there's this new era,
younger guys.

2155
01:33:41,877 --> 01:33:43,748
We've got like,
the Dukic brothers,

2156
01:33:43,792 --> 01:33:47,230
we got Medeiros, we've got, uh,
Saxon Panchik and, you know,

2157
01:33:47,273 --> 01:33:48,884
they're right there with us.

2158
01:33:48,927 --> 01:33:50,625
Um, and it's funny,
when I first made the games

2159
01:33:50,668 --> 01:33:54,150
in 2016, I remember,
like, being excited

2160
01:33:54,193 --> 01:33:57,457
to compete against
Ben Smith and Josh Bridges.

2161
01:33:57,501 --> 01:33:59,285
There are not many
athletes that I think

2162
01:33:59,329 --> 01:34:01,157
have transcended more
than one of those,

2163
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:03,681
kind of like,
kind of like five year periods.

2164
01:34:03,725 --> 01:34:05,509
You know,
like Graham Holmberg was able

2165
01:34:05,552 --> 01:34:08,468
to do it, I think a bit,
Ben Smith for sure.

2166
01:34:08,512 --> 01:34:10,383
And Scott Panchik probably
better than anyone,

2167
01:34:10,427 --> 01:34:13,169
has sort of transitioned
really between kind of like,

2168
01:34:13,212 --> 01:34:14,953
two and a half,
three of these sort of changing

2169
01:34:14,997 --> 01:34:17,303
of the guards and has
continually been at the top.

2170
01:34:17,347 --> 01:34:19,479
I mean, he won two
workouts this weekend.

2171
01:34:20,219 --> 01:34:23,658
[Tommy] We also had the
retirement of Scott Panchik.

2172
01:34:23,701 --> 01:34:27,662
And that was kind of a
group of athletes that had kind

2173
01:34:27,705 --> 01:34:31,230
of really cut their
teeth as the sport was really,

2174
01:34:31,274 --> 01:34:35,713
really exploding in 2013,
2014, 2015.

2175
01:34:35,757 --> 01:34:41,937
And so as they step aside now,
there exists some openings

2176
01:34:41,980 --> 01:34:43,852
for a new batch of
athletes and a new

2177
01:34:43,895 --> 01:34:47,072
era of professional
CrossFit Games athletes

2178
01:34:47,116 --> 01:34:50,946
to step in and really
flourish in the spotlight.

2179
01:34:50,989 --> 01:34:54,863
And I think it was fitting that
we got to see that in the form

2180
01:34:54,906 --> 01:34:59,215
of some of these young athletes
that had breakout seasons.

2181
01:34:59,258 --> 01:35:03,523
You know, Guy Malheiros and,
and Emma Cary and Mal O'Brien

2182
01:35:03,567 --> 01:35:07,310
showcasing that, "Hey,
even though these athletes,

2183
01:35:07,353 --> 01:35:10,617
they're stepping aside,
the sport is in good hands.

2184
01:35:10,661 --> 01:35:12,532
And we can take it from there.

2185
01:35:22,804 --> 01:35:28,157
[chattering]

2186
01:35:30,420 --> 01:35:31,813
I know he wasn't thinkin'
about that--

2187
01:35:31,856 --> 01:35:33,031
I know, that's why--
When he came over,

2188
01:35:33,075 --> 01:35:34,859
I was like, "Dude, what the--?"

2189
01:35:34,903 --> 01:35:36,687
He's still got a thirty
point buffer and there's, like,

2190
01:35:36,731 --> 01:35:38,428
no way on his last event--
Unless he, like, drops dead.

2191
01:35:38,471 --> 01:35:41,387
Like, so I was just like,

2192
01:35:41,431 --> 01:35:43,215
"Dude, you're
fuckin' robbing me here.

2193
01:35:43,259 --> 01:35:45,565
Like? It's in absolute
terms.

2194
01:35:45,609 --> 01:35:47,176
Like, I'll pay you
five grand of my bonus.

2195
01:35:47,219 --> 01:35:49,526
Like, we can
both make more money."

2196
01:35:49,569 --> 01:35:51,920
Yeah. They said I got a no-rep

2197
01:35:51,963 --> 01:35:53,748
but my judge
didn't move me back.

2198
01:35:53,791 --> 01:35:55,488
[Pat] Oh.

2199
01:35:55,532 --> 01:35:57,664
So then I-- I did fourt--
I did-- When I got to the end,

2200
01:35:57,708 --> 01:35:59,231
I was on my 13th rep.

2201
01:35:59,275 --> 01:36:01,712
But I needed one more
so he told me to go back.

2202
01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:03,235
How you doin'?

2203
01:36:03,279 --> 01:36:04,628
[interviewer] I'm good.
How are you doing?

2204
01:36:04,671 --> 01:36:06,238
Good.

2205
01:36:06,282 --> 01:36:08,240
I can't believe
it's just one more event.

2206
01:36:08,284 --> 01:36:10,112
[interviewer] Did you expect to
be where you are right now?

2207
01:36:10,155 --> 01:36:14,203
No. I am significantly
higher than I expected to be.

2208
01:36:14,246 --> 01:36:16,683
So maybe I should have gone
in with the mindset of being

2209
01:36:16,727 --> 01:36:19,382
higher and then maybe I
would have shot for even more.

2210
01:36:19,425 --> 01:36:26,345
But I am very proud of my
effort no matter what happens.

2211
01:36:29,609 --> 01:36:31,829
[interviewer laughing]

2212
01:36:31,873 --> 01:36:33,744
[Laura] I guess
I felt good about that,

2213
01:36:33,788 --> 01:36:36,529
that Kristin was, like, 100--
more than 100 points back.

2214
01:36:36,573 --> 01:36:38,662
But I also didn't feel
good because Tia was,

2215
01:36:38,705 --> 01:36:40,272
like, 200 points ahead.

2216
01:36:40,316 --> 01:36:42,274
So I was, like,
I can't really do anything.

2217
01:36:42,318 --> 01:36:45,625
Like, I'm not going to
lose my second place finish

2218
01:36:45,669 --> 01:36:48,454
but I also have
no chance catching Tia.

2219
01:36:48,498 --> 01:36:51,806
So it was like, like, I
don't know, not a good feeling.

2220
01:36:51,849 --> 01:36:53,677
She's just so good.

2221
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:56,201
And then, she's just like--
she gets here and she knows if

2222
01:36:56,245 --> 01:36:58,203
she doesn't get injured,
she's going to win.

2223
01:36:58,247 --> 01:36:59,944
And then
everyone else is just like,

2224
01:36:59,988 --> 01:37:02,294
competing for second place,
which sucks.

2225
01:37:02,338 --> 01:37:05,907
I guess we just have to,
like, level up to her level.

2226
01:37:08,431 --> 01:37:11,129
[Sean] Tia Toomey has a date
with destiny

2227
01:37:11,173 --> 01:37:13,828
here in the final heat
for the women

2228
01:37:13,871 --> 01:37:16,308
in the very last event,
the 15th event

2229
01:37:16,352 --> 01:37:18,354
of the 2021 NOBULL
CrossFit Games.

2230
01:37:18,397 --> 01:37:21,923
And if you're watching,
just sit back and enjoy

2231
01:37:21,966 --> 01:37:25,013
the athlete that is
Tia-Clair Toomey.

2232
01:37:28,277 --> 01:37:30,105
How do you beat Tia Toomey?

2233
01:37:30,148 --> 01:37:33,804
Um, the answer right
now is you don't.

2234
01:37:33,848 --> 01:37:35,719
♪

2235
01:37:35,762 --> 01:37:40,332
You don't beat Tia Toomey.
She is so good.

2236
01:37:40,376 --> 01:37:43,074
And has constructed
her life to where

2237
01:37:43,118 --> 01:37:45,772
this is her singular focus.

2238
01:37:45,816 --> 01:37:50,038
♪

2239
01:37:50,081 --> 01:37:52,910
[Adrian] It's unbelievable
where you can look at a field

2240
01:37:52,954 --> 01:37:56,131
with so much talent and
in many cases you can find

2241
01:37:56,174 --> 01:37:59,656
an athlete that has obvious
strengths and weaknesses.

2242
01:37:59,699 --> 01:38:02,267
But with Tia-Clair Toomey,
you cannot look at her and say,

2243
01:38:02,311 --> 01:38:04,661
"Oh, she's good here
but she's weak here."

2244
01:38:04,704 --> 01:38:06,619
That's not the case.

2245
01:38:06,663 --> 01:38:10,406
It's, "She's exceptional here
and she's only very good here."

2246
01:38:10,449 --> 01:38:13,409
The spread between her
strengths and "weaknesses,"

2247
01:38:13,452 --> 01:38:16,542
it's almost nonexistent.
It's truly remarkable.

2248
01:38:16,586 --> 01:38:19,763
[announcer] Tia-Clair Toomey!

2249
01:38:19,806 --> 01:38:22,635
So if you want
to beat Tia Toomey,

2250
01:38:22,679 --> 01:38:24,376
that is
where you have to start.

2251
01:38:24,420 --> 01:38:26,378
You cannot part time this.

2252
01:38:26,422 --> 01:38:28,859
You have
to dedicate your life to it.

2253
01:38:28,903 --> 01:38:31,949
And then you need to surround
yourself with people who are

2254
01:38:31,993 --> 01:38:34,125
gonna make you better,
who are going to probably

2255
01:38:34,169 --> 01:38:36,171
beat you into the
ground on a daily basis,

2256
01:38:36,214 --> 01:38:39,304
who are going to expose
your weaknesses all the time.

2257
01:38:40,088 --> 01:38:42,829
Understand that, "Okay,
I cannot hide from this.

2258
01:38:42,873 --> 01:38:44,962
I need to make my
weaknesses my strength.

2259
01:38:45,006 --> 01:38:46,398
And I need
to be fanatically

2260
01:38:46,442 --> 01:38:49,358
and maniacally dedicated
to being the best.

2261
01:38:49,401 --> 01:38:52,622
And even that,
as good as Tia Toomey is,

2262
01:38:52,665 --> 01:38:54,058
may not be enough.

2263
01:38:54,102 --> 01:38:59,194
♪

2264
01:38:59,237 --> 01:39:01,500
Tia Toomey has all
but wrapped up her

2265
01:39:01,544 --> 01:39:05,461
fifth straight title
of Fittest Woman on Earth.

2266
01:39:05,504 --> 01:39:07,593
Laura Horvath,
solidly in second place

2267
01:39:07,637 --> 01:39:09,944
but still has a little bit
of work to do to stay there.

2268
01:39:09,987 --> 01:39:11,771
The battle for the final
podium spot

2269
01:39:11,815 --> 01:39:13,686
is going to take place
between Annie Thorisdottir

2270
01:39:13,730 --> 01:39:15,036
and Kristin Holte.

2271
01:39:15,079 --> 01:39:16,646
Win, you're up there.

2272
01:39:16,689 --> 01:39:18,474
[announcer] In the
sport of CrossFit,

2273
01:39:18,517 --> 01:39:20,693
it takes everything
to get to the top.

2274
01:39:20,737 --> 01:39:23,609
It's taken us 15 events
to get here and we have

2275
01:39:23,653 --> 01:39:25,829
a Game seven version

2276
01:39:25,872 --> 01:39:28,658
between Annie Thorisdottir
and Kristin Holte.

2277
01:39:28,701 --> 01:39:31,182
And it's coming down to this.

2278
01:39:31,226 --> 01:39:33,619
[Annie] A lot of things
were going through my head.

2279
01:39:33,663 --> 01:39:36,579
Now, all of a sudden,
podium was realistic but I

2280
01:39:36,622 --> 01:39:40,148
still knew that Holte is really
good at chest-to-bar pull ups.

2281
01:39:40,191 --> 01:39:42,237
When I go in there,
I'm just like, "Okay,

2282
01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:45,283
I'm not going to focus on Annie
or any of the other girls.

2283
01:39:45,327 --> 01:39:46,937
I'm just going to focus on me.

2284
01:39:46,981 --> 01:39:48,678
Like, I want to have
a good experience.

2285
01:39:48,721 --> 01:39:50,593
I want to know that I
did everything I could.

2286
01:39:50,636 --> 01:39:52,464
And if she's better than me,
that's okay."

2287
01:39:54,075 --> 01:39:56,512
[Sean] 600 meter row to start.

2288
01:39:56,555 --> 01:39:59,645
And then those 90
chest-to-bar pull ups.

2289
01:39:59,689 --> 01:40:03,214
[Justin] I mean, after the
600 meter row, everyone got off

2290
01:40:03,258 --> 01:40:06,348
at the same exact time
and started their chest-to-bar.

2291
01:40:06,391 --> 01:40:09,525
For six bars for pull ups,
you had to do 15 reps at each.

2292
01:40:09,568 --> 01:40:11,483
And this, every time,
every time you drop

2293
01:40:11,527 --> 01:40:13,355
after 15 pull ups,
you look to your left,

2294
01:40:13,398 --> 01:40:15,226
look to your right and
see where everyone's at.

2295
01:40:15,270 --> 01:40:17,098
And just, keep trying to like,
chip away because, you know

2296
01:40:17,141 --> 01:40:19,317
when you get to that barbell,
it's a sprint to the finish.

2297
01:40:19,361 --> 01:40:22,842
♪

2298
01:40:22,886 --> 01:40:25,932
[Sean] Justin Medeiros just
needs to stay

2299
01:40:25,976 --> 01:40:28,239
with Patrick Vellner,
doesn't need to win.

2300
01:40:28,283 --> 01:40:30,937
Just don't let Vellner
beat you by too much.

2301
01:40:30,981 --> 01:40:33,897
[Pat] That event, I knew
Justin had a rip on his hand.

2302
01:40:33,940 --> 01:40:35,812
And I was like,
"Eh, maybe he has some

2303
01:40:35,855 --> 01:40:37,509
trouble with the pull-ups."

2304
01:40:37,553 --> 01:40:39,511
And after about three bars,
we were nice and tight

2305
01:40:39,555 --> 01:40:42,036
and it was clear that
that wasn't the case.

2306
01:40:42,079 --> 01:40:45,126
[announcer]
Justin Medeiros is no stranger

2307
01:40:45,169 --> 01:40:47,824
to high-stakes final events.

2308
01:40:47,867 --> 01:40:52,524
♪

2309
01:40:52,568 --> 01:40:54,744
[Justin] And I'm like, four
sets of chest-to-bars in

2310
01:40:54,787 --> 01:40:57,138
and still goin' unbroken and
kind of right then, I was like,

2311
01:40:57,181 --> 01:41:00,271
"Yeah, there's no chance
I'm losing this event."

2312
01:41:00,315 --> 01:41:03,100
And like, I just remember
everything that was playing

2313
01:41:03,144 --> 01:41:05,059
through my mind, just like,
"Stay consistent, stay smooth.

2314
01:41:05,102 --> 01:41:06,625
Like, this
is your race to lose.

2315
01:41:06,669 --> 01:41:08,453
Like, you're in front of Pat.
Like, slow down."

2316
01:41:08,497 --> 01:41:11,239
And I got-- I finished the
first set of back rack lunges.

2317
01:41:11,282 --> 01:41:13,371
And I popped it over my
head and went straight into

2318
01:41:13,415 --> 01:41:15,112
the front rack lunge
without dropping the bar.

2319
01:41:15,156 --> 01:41:18,028
And the whole crowd
just got so loud.

2320
01:41:18,072 --> 01:41:21,075
It was this
big adrenaline rush.

2321
01:41:21,118 --> 01:41:24,165
[Sean] And Justin Medeiros
got right to it,

2322
01:41:24,208 --> 01:41:28,386
going unbroken and
trying to leave no doubt.

2323
01:41:30,345 --> 01:41:33,043
[Justin] Like, I crossed
the second lunge line

2324
01:41:33,087 --> 01:41:34,958
for front rack
and I dropped it.

2325
01:41:35,001 --> 01:41:37,482
I just remember looking to my
left and looking to my right.

2326
01:41:37,526 --> 01:41:39,354
And no one was there.

2327
01:41:39,397 --> 01:41:41,486
And I was like, "Dude,
I have 30 feet

2328
01:41:41,530 --> 01:41:44,010
and I'm the fittest man
on earth."

2329
01:41:44,054 --> 01:41:49,494
♪

2330
01:41:57,415 --> 01:41:59,722
[Sean]
Business in the front.

2331
01:41:59,765 --> 01:42:04,074
Party in the back
and fitness all over!

2332
01:42:04,118 --> 01:42:08,992
Justin Medeiros is the
Fittest Man on Earth!

2333
01:42:11,212 --> 01:42:13,214
[Justin] Crossed the finish
line and looked up

2334
01:42:13,257 --> 01:42:15,216
and then my mom and my dad
were standing there.

2335
01:42:15,259 --> 01:42:17,827
I had no idea that they
were going to be

2336
01:42:17,870 --> 01:42:19,437
right there at
the end of the finish line.

2337
01:42:19,481 --> 01:42:22,048
Two people that had
those seats went and found

2338
01:42:22,092 --> 01:42:24,442
my parents in the crowd,
told them that they

2339
01:42:24,486 --> 01:42:26,227
wanted my parents
to have those seats.

2340
01:42:26,270 --> 01:42:27,924
And switched seats with them.

2341
01:42:27,967 --> 01:42:29,621
So my parents got a
front row seat to,

2342
01:42:29,665 --> 01:42:31,493
like, watching me win
the CrossFit Games.

2343
01:42:31,536 --> 01:42:34,800
♪

2344
01:42:35,758 --> 01:42:37,368
[Sean] No surprise here,

2345
01:42:37,412 --> 01:42:39,936
Tia Toomey first
to the 135 pound barbell.

2346
01:42:39,979 --> 01:42:41,894
[Tia] By the time I got
through to my chest bars,

2347
01:42:41,938 --> 01:42:43,548
I was already in the lead.

2348
01:42:43,592 --> 01:42:45,594
So I was like, "All right,
you know, this is it.

2349
01:42:45,637 --> 01:42:48,423
You can rest for as
long as you want after this."

2350
01:42:48,466 --> 01:42:51,948
[Sean] From relative
unknown in 2015

2351
01:42:51,991 --> 01:42:55,169
to the greatest ever in 2021.

2352
01:42:55,212 --> 01:42:59,608
Dominance-defined,
history made, legacy left

2353
01:42:59,651 --> 01:43:02,001
for the fifth straight time,

2354
01:43:02,045 --> 01:43:04,917
Tia Toomey
is the Fittest Woman on Earth.

2355
01:43:05,483 --> 01:43:07,355
[Annie] Once I got to
the bar ahead of her,

2356
01:43:07,398 --> 01:43:10,053
I was like, "Okay, you
just need to keep your calm

2357
01:43:10,096 --> 01:43:12,273
and make sure that you finish
this event without, like,

2358
01:43:12,316 --> 01:43:14,405
failing on the over-head
walking lunges or something.

2359
01:43:14,449 --> 01:43:15,624
[Sean] She's gotta
stay ahead of Holte.

2360
01:43:15,667 --> 01:43:17,147
She's doing that right now.

2361
01:43:17,191 --> 01:43:18,844
That is
the battle for third place.

2362
01:43:18,888 --> 01:43:20,368
♪

2363
01:43:20,411 --> 01:43:22,805
The only woman
to ever compete in three

2364
01:43:22,848 --> 01:43:25,634
different decades at
the CrossFit Games.

2365
01:43:25,677 --> 01:43:28,637
She's a
former two time champion.

2366
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:32,075
And she's about to put
herself back on the podium

2367
01:43:32,118 --> 01:43:35,252
for the
sixth time in her career.

2368
01:43:37,036 --> 01:43:38,777
And here comes Kristin Holte.

2369
01:43:38,821 --> 01:43:41,737
[announcer] And what
a great weekend for Holte.

2370
01:43:51,268 --> 01:43:55,620
[Annie] Yes. I have absolutely
worked my ass off this year.

2371
01:43:55,664 --> 01:43:59,624
And I'm not going to take away
anything from myself there.

2372
01:43:59,668 --> 01:44:03,672
But I did not think that
this would be a possibility.

2373
01:44:10,331 --> 01:44:14,291
[Kristin] It will be
amazing to finish off

2374
01:44:14,335 --> 01:44:18,991
on the podium but I don't think
that would make me any happier.

2375
01:44:19,035 --> 01:44:23,474
Like, third or fourth place
or sixth or seventh or 10th.

2376
01:44:23,518 --> 01:44:28,305
Like, I want to go out with the
good feeling and knowing that

2377
01:44:28,349 --> 01:44:32,831
I am giving my absolute
best in every single event.

2378
01:44:32,875 --> 01:44:35,573
At the age of 35,
I'm still competitive.

2379
01:44:35,617 --> 01:44:38,141
I'm a master athlete
but I'm still up there.

2380
01:44:38,184 --> 01:44:41,405
And I've proven to myself
and everyone else that

2381
01:44:41,449 --> 01:44:45,061
I'm-- I feel like I'm a
complete CrossFit athlete.

2382
01:44:45,104 --> 01:44:48,369
[Sean] Fikowski looking
to stay on the podium.

2383
01:44:49,326 --> 01:44:52,111
Now, Vellner is in.

2384
01:44:52,155 --> 01:44:56,768
And Fikowski, looking
to earn the bronze medal.

2385
01:44:56,812 --> 01:44:58,422
Yeah. I mean, the last...

2386
01:44:58,466 --> 01:45:00,119
The last section of the
over-head walking lunge

2387
01:45:00,163 --> 01:45:01,947
uh, was very hard.

2388
01:45:01,991 --> 01:45:04,733
And as I
got closer I remembered, um,

2389
01:45:04,776 --> 01:45:07,605
my actually, my-- I'm sorry.

2390
01:45:08,302 --> 01:45:09,694
Oh, man.

2391
01:45:09,738 --> 01:45:13,916
-[cheering]
-[yells]

2392
01:45:13,959 --> 01:45:18,877
♪

2393
01:45:24,318 --> 01:45:25,797
[sighs]

2394
01:45:25,841 --> 01:45:27,408
You know, you make--
You make a lot of, uh,

2395
01:45:27,451 --> 01:45:29,888
I dedicate
a lot to this training, right?

2396
01:45:29,932 --> 01:45:31,934
And then sometimes
you're sort of faced with

2397
01:45:31,977 --> 01:45:33,544
these tough decisions.

2398
01:45:33,588 --> 01:45:35,241
And you don't sort
of realize what you've been

2399
01:45:35,285 --> 01:45:37,374
missing until you're
faced with tough decisions.

2400
01:45:37,418 --> 01:45:40,421
And, you know,
you kind of want to, like,

2401
01:45:40,464 --> 01:45:45,295
just bring something back to
just see, like, see, you know?

2402
01:45:46,514 --> 01:45:48,646
Um. So, yeah.

2403
01:45:48,690 --> 01:45:53,999
Just to have a little
rectangle medal of all things,

2404
01:45:54,043 --> 01:45:55,914
uh...
[laughs]

2405
01:45:55,958 --> 01:45:58,830
But a medal nonetheless,
just to bring back

2406
01:45:58,874 --> 01:46:01,616
just to show that, you know,
you did it for something.

2407
01:46:01,659 --> 01:46:03,748
Even if-- You know.

2408
01:46:03,792 --> 01:46:05,446
Not that you do it for that.

2409
01:46:05,489 --> 01:46:09,363
But it's just, like, yeah.

2410
01:46:15,456 --> 01:46:17,371
[Annie] Yes, I won
the CrossFit Games twice.

2411
01:46:17,414 --> 01:46:19,808
And there will nothing top
the experience of winning

2412
01:46:19,851 --> 01:46:21,418
the CrossFit Games
for the first time

2413
01:46:21,462 --> 01:46:23,420
and then making it back

2414
01:46:23,464 --> 01:46:27,032
from my back injury was another
extremely emotional moment.

2415
01:46:27,076 --> 01:46:29,295
But I wasn't even
planning on being here.

2416
01:46:29,339 --> 01:46:31,341
I didn't think I could compete.

2417
01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:33,256
-[cheering]
-And I podiumed--

2418
01:46:33,299 --> 01:46:36,738
[cheering]

2419
01:46:36,781 --> 01:46:40,437
I have-- I have probably
had one of

2420
01:46:40,481 --> 01:46:42,744
the hardest
years of my life, but I've also

2421
01:46:42,787 --> 01:46:46,704
had one of the best years
of my life at the same time.

2422
01:46:46,748 --> 01:46:49,315
So thank you, guys.
You're freaking amazing!

2423
01:46:49,359 --> 01:46:51,840
[cheering]

2424
01:46:51,883 --> 01:46:54,364
I-- I definitely
chose the right sport.

2425
01:46:54,408 --> 01:46:57,193
[laughing]

2426
01:46:57,236 --> 01:47:00,239
♪

2427
01:47:09,118 --> 01:47:12,164
[Laura] This year, I--
I came here to win.

2428
01:47:12,208 --> 01:47:14,906
I came here to take first
place and that didn't happen.

2429
01:47:14,950 --> 01:47:17,518
And then, I know I should
be happy because I,

2430
01:47:17,561 --> 01:47:19,345
like, came back.

2431
01:47:19,389 --> 01:47:20,999
It's like a
comeback or whatever.

2432
01:47:21,043 --> 01:47:22,740
But it's like bittersweet.

2433
01:47:22,784 --> 01:47:25,177
If you go for first
place then you can't be

2434
01:47:25,221 --> 01:47:27,005
happy with second place.

2435
01:47:27,049 --> 01:47:28,877
It is still amazing.

2436
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:32,881
I am happy but I am just, yeah,
this is not what I wanted.

2437
01:47:32,924 --> 01:47:36,972
[intense strings
instrumental]

2438
01:47:37,015 --> 01:47:40,279
[Pat] Yeah. On the one hand,
super frustrating.

2439
01:47:40,323 --> 01:47:42,499
[chuckles] But on the
other hand, it's--

2440
01:47:42,543 --> 01:47:44,458
It's cool to see and it's fun
to be a part

2441
01:47:44,501 --> 01:47:46,155
of moments like that.

2442
01:47:46,198 --> 01:47:49,245
So I had a lot of ups
and downs and I-- I had some

2443
01:47:49,288 --> 01:47:51,290
trouble keeping things
between the lines at times.

2444
01:47:51,334 --> 01:47:54,511
So, um, you know, that's
not how you want to win it.

2445
01:47:54,555 --> 01:47:57,819
I think he-- he definitely had
a more consistent performance.

2446
01:47:57,862 --> 01:47:59,429
And, uh, earned his title.

2447
01:47:59,473 --> 01:48:01,649
I wish it wasn't me
getting dunked on,

2448
01:48:01,692 --> 01:48:03,738
but you know,
I'm in the poster.

2449
01:48:03,781 --> 01:48:06,915
[laughs]

2450
01:48:06,958 --> 01:48:08,656
[announcer]
Ladies and gentlemen,

2451
01:48:08,699 --> 01:48:12,747
I give you our new,
male champion.

2452
01:48:12,790 --> 01:48:17,491
Justin Medeiros.

2453
01:48:17,534 --> 01:48:19,841
[cheering]

2454
01:48:23,932 --> 01:48:25,542
[Adrian]
Man, I think Medeiros

2455
01:48:26,674 --> 01:48:31,026
has all the elements to
be the next repeat champion.

2456
01:48:31,069 --> 01:48:32,984
You know,
we had the Froning era,

2457
01:48:33,028 --> 01:48:34,638
we had the Fraser era

2458
01:48:34,682 --> 01:48:37,119
and I think Justin
is primed for that.

2459
01:48:37,162 --> 01:48:39,904
♪

2460
01:48:39,948 --> 01:48:41,689
And I don't think
there's any way,

2461
01:48:41,732 --> 01:48:43,995
any words you could say
to prepare yourself for that.

2462
01:48:44,039 --> 01:48:47,564
But just knowing that, like,
it's going to be worth it.

2463
01:48:47,608 --> 01:48:49,697
And I think that was
one of the things I did think

2464
01:48:49,740 --> 01:48:52,177
about through the whole
2020 and 2021 season.

2465
01:48:52,221 --> 01:48:53,527
Like, I'm going to put in

2466
01:48:53,570 --> 01:48:55,485
the work now not knowing what

2467
01:48:55,529 --> 01:48:56,573
the end result is going to be,

2468
01:48:56,617 --> 01:48:57,661
but I know that end

2469
01:48:57,705 --> 01:48:59,576
result will be worth it.

2470
01:48:59,620 --> 01:49:01,360
And, uh, just kind of be able
to go through the whole week

2471
01:49:01,404 --> 01:49:03,188
and not having any regrets
and seeing that

2472
01:49:03,232 --> 01:49:05,843
all pay off just fires me up
for what's to come.

2473
01:49:06,365 --> 01:49:08,150
♪

2474
01:49:08,193 --> 01:49:10,892
[Adrian] I think
in a lot of ways 2021

2475
01:49:10,935 --> 01:49:13,895
was a real passing
of the torch type of year.

2476
01:49:13,938 --> 01:49:15,592
You know,
obviously on the men's side,

2477
01:49:15,636 --> 01:49:17,333
we had a new champion.

2478
01:49:17,376 --> 01:49:19,248
He'd been kind of in
the wings waiting

2479
01:49:19,291 --> 01:49:21,685
for the moment
and now it arrived.

2480
01:49:21,729 --> 01:49:24,383
I think
also more broadly, 2021.

2481
01:49:25,428 --> 01:49:29,345
kind of marked the return
to business as usual

2482
01:49:29,388 --> 01:49:34,002
for the games where business as
usual is pushing the envelope.

2483
01:49:34,045 --> 01:49:36,004
Business as usual is,
"How do we take this

2484
01:49:36,047 --> 01:49:38,310
sport to the next level?"

2485
01:49:38,354 --> 01:49:40,791
Business as usual is,
"Let's make the test

2486
01:49:40,835 --> 01:49:43,185
as legitimate
as we possibly can."

2487
01:49:43,228 --> 01:49:46,580
And that just means we can get
back to doing what we do best.

2488
01:49:49,539 --> 01:49:51,193
[reporter] As you
take in this moment,

2489
01:49:51,236 --> 01:49:54,675
what do you want your
legacy to be remembered as?

2490
01:49:54,718 --> 01:49:57,982
I don't know right now because
I'm still trying to create it.

2491
01:49:59,157 --> 01:50:01,638
-Yeah.
-[cheering]

2492
01:50:01,682 --> 01:50:03,945
[reporter] We have seen you
as a competitor,

2493
01:50:03,988 --> 01:50:07,122
as a pillar in our community
and also as an inspiration.

2494
01:50:07,165 --> 01:50:09,646
What does being that kind
of role model mean for you?

2495
01:50:09,690 --> 01:50:11,256
I think it means everything.

2496
01:50:11,300 --> 01:50:13,519
You know?
Um, anything's possible.

2497
01:50:13,563 --> 01:50:15,652
I mean, I'm standing
here today and showing you

2498
01:50:15,696 --> 01:50:17,480
guys it's possible.

2499
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:20,701
[reporter] Tia,
will we see you out here

2500
01:50:20,744 --> 01:50:22,746
on the competition
floor again next year?

2501
01:50:22,790 --> 01:50:24,400
[Tia] Absolutely.

2502
01:50:24,443 --> 01:50:26,097
[reporter] Congratulations.
Thank you so much.

2503
01:50:26,141 --> 01:50:29,100
Thank you. Thank you so much,
everyone. Thank you.

2504
01:50:29,579 --> 01:50:34,976
[slow pensive instrumental]

2505
01:50:37,282 --> 01:50:40,546
You don't see an athlete
like Tia Toomey in any sport

2506
01:50:40,590 --> 01:50:43,637
who has this much talent,
in this many areas.

2507
01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:46,291
Usually, you know,
athletes who transcend

2508
01:50:46,335 --> 01:50:48,903
their sports, they're
just good at that sport.

2509
01:50:48,946 --> 01:50:50,861
They're just good at
basketball like LeBron James

2510
01:50:50,905 --> 01:50:52,471
or Michael Jordan.

2511
01:50:52,515 --> 01:50:54,299
Or just good at hockey
like Wayne Gretzky.

2512
01:50:54,343 --> 01:50:57,041
But Michael Jordan and
LeBron James are not, you know,

2513
01:50:57,085 --> 01:50:59,783
winning NBA championships
and then all of a sudden going

2514
01:50:59,827 --> 01:51:02,656
and competing in another sport
and making it to the Olympics.

2515
01:51:02,699 --> 01:51:04,179
And that's what Tia is doing.

2516
01:51:04,222 --> 01:51:06,572
Tia has transcended
the sport of fitness.

2517
01:51:06,616 --> 01:51:09,706
She has elevated the field.

2518
01:51:09,750 --> 01:51:12,840
She has set a new standard that
people now need to shoot for.

2519
01:51:12,883 --> 01:51:15,669
But then at the same time,
she's been able to take that

2520
01:51:15,712 --> 01:51:18,715
athletic talent that she has,
go into a completely different

2521
01:51:18,759 --> 01:51:23,851
discipline like bobsled and
maybe compete in the Olympics.

2522
01:51:23,894 --> 01:51:26,201
And that's-- that's
just something that you

2523
01:51:26,244 --> 01:51:29,117
do not see regardless
of the athlete in any sport.

2524
01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:30,814
♪

2525
01:51:30,858 --> 01:51:32,424
[Tia sighs]

2526
01:51:32,468 --> 01:51:35,950
It's worth all that hard work.
It really is.

2527
01:51:35,993 --> 01:51:39,040
At the time, you second guess
it and you wonder if it really

2528
01:51:39,083 --> 01:51:42,217
is and you really question
a lot of things in your life.

2529
01:51:42,260 --> 01:51:44,436
But it was worth it.

2530
01:51:45,133 --> 01:51:47,135
Ladies and gentlemen,

2531
01:51:47,178 --> 01:51:53,968
I give you our most dominant
CrossFit athlete of all time!

2532
01:51:54,011 --> 01:51:59,103
Tia-Clair Toomey!

2533
01:52:00,148 --> 01:52:02,280
-This is my wife.
-[man 2 laughs]

2534
01:52:02,324 --> 01:52:05,196
If this is the final year
that Tia Toomey competes,

2535
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:08,069
I think we all
need to make sure that we take

2536
01:52:08,112 --> 01:52:13,683
time to appreciate what she has
been able to do in her career.

2537
01:52:13,727 --> 01:52:16,120
But also appreciate what
she is going to do during every

2538
01:52:16,164 --> 01:52:18,862
event that she competes in,
in 2022.

2539
01:52:18,906 --> 01:52:20,908
You are probably not
going to see this level

2540
01:52:20,951 --> 01:52:24,389
of dominance again in
this sport for a while.

2541
01:52:24,433 --> 01:52:27,871
So make sure that you're paying
attention because you're--

2542
01:52:27,915 --> 01:52:30,482
You're witnessing
something extremely special.

2543
01:52:30,526 --> 01:52:33,355
[interviewer] Is
2022 her last year?

2544
01:52:35,836 --> 01:52:41,624
[music bursts]

2545
01:52:49,763 --> 01:52:52,243
[narrator] Trailblazers don't
simply tread new ground,

2546
01:52:52,287 --> 01:52:54,332
though, of course they do that.

2547
01:52:54,376 --> 01:52:57,509
What trailblazers do is show us
that it is possible to do

2548
01:52:57,553 --> 01:53:00,686
the undoable, that it is
possible to see the un-see-able

2549
01:53:00,730 --> 01:53:03,646
and that it is possible
to be the unbelievable.

2550
01:53:03,689 --> 01:53:07,215
What trailblazers do is
make the first ascent

2551
01:53:07,258 --> 01:53:10,044
with all its inherent risk,
all its inevitable stumbles,

2552
01:53:10,087 --> 01:53:12,568
all its requisite exploration.

2553
01:53:13,743 --> 01:53:17,791
What trailblazers do
is draw better maps.

2554
01:53:17,834 --> 01:53:19,793
And when they are done,
they come down from

2555
01:53:19,836 --> 01:53:21,620
the mountain knowing the
next generation of climbers

2556
01:53:21,664 --> 01:53:24,580
have already
begun their treks.

2557
01:53:24,623 --> 01:53:26,060
They come down knowing
that those

2558
01:53:26,103 --> 01:53:27,844
who are closer to the
base than the peak

2559
01:53:27,888 --> 01:53:29,803
get to carry
in their packs the priceless

2560
01:53:29,846 --> 01:53:32,414
maps that have been drawn
for them with blood

2561
01:53:32,457 --> 01:53:34,982
and sweat and tears
and dark nights

2562
01:53:35,025 --> 01:53:37,245
and cold mornings
and doubt and screams.

2563
01:53:37,288 --> 01:53:39,029
And the deepest of breaths.

2564
01:53:39,073 --> 01:53:41,553
Like Froning
and Fraser before her,

2565
01:53:41,597 --> 01:53:44,382
Tia-Clair Toomey is
a trailblazer.

2566
01:53:44,426 --> 01:53:48,691
She is a course-setter,
she is a bar-raiser,
she is map-drawer.

2567
01:53:48,734 --> 01:53:50,301
She has made it to the
peak and because of that,

2568
01:53:50,345 --> 01:53:52,521
we can now see more
clearly what is up there.

2569
01:53:52,564 --> 01:53:54,697
What summits have
not yet been reached?

2570
01:53:54,740 --> 01:53:59,354
What routes have not yet been
forged? And what ascents have
not yet been mapped?

2571
01:53:59,397 --> 01:54:02,357
She has made us see that ahead,
there are mountains

2572
01:54:02,400 --> 01:54:04,881
and mountains and mountains.

2573
01:54:04,925 --> 01:54:06,665
And all there is to do...

2574
01:54:06,709 --> 01:54:07,971
is climb.

2575
01:54:08,015 --> 01:54:14,064
[music climaxes]

2576
01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:21,115
[gentle piano fades]

2577
01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:28,035
[strings instrumental]

2578
01:54:49,447 --> 01:54:54,888
♪

2579
01:55:18,041 --> 01:55:23,046
♪

2580
01:55:48,202 --> 01:55:54,599
♪

2581
01:56:15,969 --> 01:56:22,279
♪

2582
01:56:44,780 --> 01:56:47,565
♪

2583
01:57:06,628 --> 01:57:11,546
♪

2584
01:57:33,133 --> 01:57:39,661
♪

2585
01:58:04,773 --> 01:58:11,649
♪