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Scott Riff's - What is going on with Tia-Claire Toomey-Orr · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What is going on, everybody?
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  24.3 scores are being added
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  to the leaderboard as we speak,
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  and something interesting has happened.
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  The six-time champ posted a
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  score that is not
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  indicative of her fitness
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  or her capacity.
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  What is going on?
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  Welcome back to Scott Riffs.
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  Where has CrossFit missed the mark?
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  And I want you to listen
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  closely because she does
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  something very tricky here
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  that really pissed me off.
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  You are not presenting accurate facts.
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  You are manipulating what
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  you're presenting to suck
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  people into your narrative.
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  CrossFit takes notes or gets
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  out of the way.
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  One or the other,
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  because this train's moving
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  forward because of people like you.
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  I'm too much of an alpha at
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  times to want to conform too much.
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  And I would rather be all of me.
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  We are here for a special
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  edition of Scott Riffs.
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  I was looking at the
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  leaderboard today through
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  the help of my friend Lex,
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  who sent me a heads up.
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  But looking through the leaderboard,
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  I noticed that One Miss
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  Tiatumi posted her scores today for 24.3.
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  So let's go back in the
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  timeline a little bit.
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  Right before the open,
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  she was spotted coaching a
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  class with a brace on her wrist,
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  which then she came out and
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  said that she had suffered
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  some damage by pushing a stroller a lot,
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  like a carpal tunnel type thing,
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  and that just needed some rest,
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  and she was doing the open.
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  does the first two weeks of
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  the open uh nothing nothing
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  alarming at that point and
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  then we get to 24.3 she was
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  supposed to do the open
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  announcement with ariel
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  lowen it then comes out
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  that she is withdrawing
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  from that announcement uh
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  and her statement was that
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  she didn't feel like in the
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  condition she was with her
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  wrist she could give the
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  fans the show that they
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  deserved for an open announcement
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  So she was going to sit this one out.
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  CrossFit pivoted,
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  brought three other
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  athletes in to compete against Ariel,
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  including Sydney Wells, Roman Kronikoff,
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  and Jay Crouch.
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  24.3 goes off without a
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  hitch at Proven
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  Headquarters with tons of
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  people in attendance.
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  Awesome spectacle.
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  We then get the scores from
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  what Tia did this weekend.
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  And she posts a score of
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  seven rounds with a
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  three-minute tie break.
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  meaning she got through the
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  65 pound thrusters and the
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  chest of bars fairly quickly,
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  three minutes, five rounds.
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  And then she only got two
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  more rounds after that,
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  making it less than,
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  or she was three rounds from finishing,
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  not reps, but rounds from finishing 24.3.
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  So my question is,
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  What's going on?
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  Is it a fact of, hey,
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  I don't want to damage this anymore,
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  and I'm just going to stop and rest.
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  This is all I need to make top 25%.
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  Or is something seriously
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  wrong where she is unable
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  to complete those movements
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  currently with the way her
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  wrist is feeling and is
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  whatever shape it's in.
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  Before all the alarm bells sound,
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  she has 30 days before
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  quarterfinals to rest up,
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  to heal the wrist,
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  and to take on the
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  quarterfinals at the end of
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  next month or wherever.
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  We're 30 days away, whatever that is.
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  mid April.
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  So then once she gets to
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  quarterfinals though, that's when the,
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  the eye of the needle
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  shrinks considerably.
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  And if it's, if it's bothering her,
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  she's at risk of not
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  qualifying to semifinals.
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  There's only 40 spots available, um,
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  at the,
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  at the semifinal level and in
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  North America East,
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  it is a juggernaut of a semifinal.
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  There are so many big names.
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  Um,
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  it is going to be a tough
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  road to hold even to get
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  out of that semi-final let
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  alone and to get into it
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  and she is really going to
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  be at a breaking point in
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  30 days so again she has 30
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  days to rest recover get
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  that right but things could
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  go south really quick if
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  that is not um if that is
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  not healed in 30 days
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  The other thing I want to point out is,
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  you know, all offseason,
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  everybody has been
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  anointing her the next
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  champion of the CrossFit
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  Games because she is the six-time champ.
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  She is the greatest
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  CrossFitter we've ever seen in the sport.
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  But sports are sports,
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  and unpredictable things
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  happen all the time.
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  And I made this call out a few,
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  probably a month ago,
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  where everybody was
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  anointing her to be the next champion.
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  And I said, listen,
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  it's been two years since
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  she's been on the competition floor.
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  She's two years older.
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  A lot can happen in those two years.
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  And we don't know how she's
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  going to perform coming back from that.
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  Injuries happen.
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  We're seeing that now.
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  There's a good shot.
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  There's a good chance that
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  she is unable to compete
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  throughout this year,
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  and she may not win the CrossFit Games.
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  And even if she makes it through,
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  if she's not 100% with that wrist,
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  and anybody who's been
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  through injuries...
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  Once you have an injury,
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  you compensate with other
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  things in your body,
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  and then they tend to go in
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  the same fashion.
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  And so we need to be careful
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  in sports about anointing
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  people to the champion
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  before a season even starts.
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  At the end of this,
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  I want the best competition
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  possible at the CrossFit Games.
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  I don't want her to miss
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  this year's CrossFit Games
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  just so I can be right.
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  But I do think we need to be
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  more cautious about our
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  predictions and our
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  absolute predictions about
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  who is going to win and who
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  is not based on past performance.
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  Every year is a different year.
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  Things happen.
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  Unpredictable things happen.
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  And that's where we are now.
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  So if you go out and look at
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  the leaderboard, Tia Toomey,
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  seven rounds for 24.3.
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  Did not finish the workout by...
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  three full rounds so again
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  there's no video with her
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  submission so I don't know
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  why she stopped when she
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  stopped if it was a um a
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  decision that was made um
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  that she stopped at that
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  point and just get on to
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  quarterfinals or if it was
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  something where she just
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  could not go on any further
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  So she did complete 14
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  thrusters and 14 muscle-ups
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  in that second half,
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  but was unable to finish
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  the last three rounds.
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  With that, I'm going to sign off.
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  Hope everybody has a great week.
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  And Tia,
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  I hope you rest up and you're
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  ready for quarters,
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  because sports better when
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  we have the best
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  competition available for everybody.
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  With that, Scott Riffs, out.