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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Recap of Europe and Preview of Ociana and NA West · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale.
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  Well, no, not the Clydesdale.
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  I've done so many podcasts this week.
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  Can't even get the name right.
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  Welcome to Sunday Night
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  CrossFit Talk here on Clydesdale Media.
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  We are presented by Thickboy.
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  Go to thickboy.fit.
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  Get all your cool apparel there.
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  We're down one member tonight,
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  but it's okay.
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  We can play hurt.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll just talk more.
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  Our thoughts and prayers go
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  out to Jamie and her family.
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  She's had a little tough
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  situation this weekend, but all is good.
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  She's just exhausted from
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  what happened over the
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  weekend and we're letting
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  her hit the hay early so
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  she can recover and be good for the week.
• 0:40
  Yes, absolutely.
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  And Carolyn and I can talk
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  way long enough for anybody.
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  So we're all good.
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  Yes.
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  So how's your week?
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  Week is good.
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  Just been prepping for semis,
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  tripping away at school.
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  It's getting to the end of the year soon.
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  So the energy level for some
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  of the students as the
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  weather is getting warmer
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  is just like a little bit.
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  inconsistent, I guess,
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  from what I get day to day.
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  But yeah, no, school's going well.
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  And then, yeah, training's going well.
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  And then this weekend was a long weekend.
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  I got to see my older sister
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  for all you can eat sushi
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  yesterday that we went out to eat.
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  And then today we relaxed by
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  the pool because our condo
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  outdoor pool opened finally.
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  So
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  yeah it was beautiful here
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  80s yesterday and today um
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  but I had my physical on
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  wednesday all my markers
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  are going in the right
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  direction in a very good
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  pace so everything is
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  awesome in that direction
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  and then thursday night I
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  blew my nose and surgical
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  sponge came out and I was
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  like what in the hell is that
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  And I tried to get my wife to look at it.
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  She was like,
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  I am not looking at whatever
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  came out your nose.
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  And I'm like,
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  but I need you to see this
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  because this is weird.
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  So was it there like the whole time?
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  So it had to have been there
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  since October.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  When I had surgery.
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  Jeez.
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  Yeah.
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  So going to make some calls tomorrow,
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  see what all this means and.
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  can you breathe can you
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  breathe better now the
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  minute it came out I could
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  breathe so long and so deep
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  into my nose that's so
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  weird I mean it's good that
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  I came out yeah like I the
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  bad part was I was so
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  excited it came out like
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  everything was so cool that
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  I could breathe that I
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  threw it in the trash and
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  then spent the next two
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  days digging for it yeah
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  yeah it's been a fun weekend
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  With that,
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  but at least it was nice outside.
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  Set up a table in my garage,
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  just sat there and dug
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  through everything.
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  So that was fun.
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  The other thing I need to
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  announce is we have a
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  photographer going to West Coast Classic.
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  So it took some finagling
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  and some emails with Dylan and Sasha,
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  but I got a photographer in the stadium.
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  So we'll at least get some
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  cool shots from West Coast.
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  And it's a local LA guy,
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  so he doesn't have to pay for travel.
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  So he is just looking for an
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  opportunity to show his stuff,
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  and I want to give it to him.
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  And his IG is...
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  underscore e dot captures
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  underscore yeah go check
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  out his stuff uh it's
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  really good I think before
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  on instagram for sure yeah
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  so he's gonna um he's gonna
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  be there local guy uh
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  helping us out so wad
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  zombie seems to know him oh
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  he's a good dude
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  so yeah I've only met him
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  over the internet so but
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  his I looked at his
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  portfolio and it's awesome
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  yeah so he's gonna get us
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  some shots and uh that'll
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  be cool for wrap-up shows
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  next weekend um as we kind
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  of ramp up the coverage for
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  the north america semis
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  next week and then carolyn
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  gets to go the week after
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  that it's coming up fast I know
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  So they happened this weekend.
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  You're an athlete watching
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  these things go down.
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  And, um,
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  what were your thoughts of how the
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  workouts played out?
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  Well, it's just nice to see the, like, uh,
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  the visual of the floor layouts.
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  I know it can be different a
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  little bit region to region.
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  Um,
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  In terms of like the running
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  routes and just the lanes
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  and stuff can be maybe a
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  little bit different.
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  But just to see the workouts
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  play out was good.
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  I got to see, obviously,
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  what the top performances
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  are in each of the workouts.
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  For the most part,
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  no huge surprises on most of those.
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  And then I would just kind
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  of pick an athlete that would be, I think,
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  similar to me.
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  in certain aspects on each
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  workout just to kind of, um,
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  look at their strategy and
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  stuff and just try to learn from, uh,
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  you know, just watching, uh,
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  the YouTube all weekend.
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  Yeah.
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  I, um, I,
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  I have so many notes on what
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  happened this weekend that
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  I kind of jotted down as it was going on,
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  but, um,
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  I was talking to Sam Quant
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  just a couple hours ago,
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  and he said he doesn't even
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  watch the full workout
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  because it makes him too
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  nervous to kind of see it all.
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  So he's looking for bits and pieces,
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  like step up and step down.
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  How are they doing it?
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  Someone my size, how does it work there?
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  What are they holding on a row?
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  You know, things like that.
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  And then he goes, like, I just move on.
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  You watch the whole thing
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  because you're a CrossFit nerd.
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  Yes.
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  And rewind sometimes.
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  But yeah, I mean,
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  I'll watch the transitions.
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  I'll watch,
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  just try to learn anything
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  because I train by myself.
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  So I don't have any comparison.
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  So this is, you know,
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  my training camp that I get
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  to look at this.
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  Like these are opportunities
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  that I get that, you know,
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  I normally don't just training by myself.
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  Andrew says,
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  can you imagine the organizers
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  finding out after they have
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  to set up a run,
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  after they have the venue?
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  The run in Knoxville is
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  going to be strange because
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  the venue there is below ground level,
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  if I remember.
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  It is.
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  However, Andrew,
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  where the start-finish line
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  is and those temporary
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  stands are put up where the
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  family members got to sit,
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  right behind that are loading docks.
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  So I'm assuming that's the
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  out and in if you're going
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  outside to run.
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  That would make the most
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  sense because any other way
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  you'd be like fighting the
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  crowds up and down the stairs.
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  Yeah,
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  so we didn't get to see the run in
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  Europe.
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  Did you see any footage outside?
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  Yeah, when CrossFit did like a recap of it,
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  you got to see some of the
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  running outside.
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  So they ran for the most part on cement.
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  There was a little bit of
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  grass I think I saw on a
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  couple parts of it.
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  But it was on the recap show
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  that they did where they
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  would show more of the events.
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  I didn't watch much of the
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  Asia one because I felt
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  like that wasn't going to
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  be comparable in terms of their –
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  route um but just looking at
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  the europe one it looked
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  like it was mostly on
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  cement and then a little
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  bit of grass yeah I'm from
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  knoxville it might they do
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  have like an outdoor where
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  they had vendor village in
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  the last the last couple
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  times we were there and so
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  you could go out and up
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  that hill to that and then back down
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  And be on sidewalk, I think,
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  the whole time.
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  But I don't know.
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  I'm just guessing.
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  Draw Your Dagger says five
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  laps around the Jocko Go tent.
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  I've never been there,
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  so I have no idea what the
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  floor looks like.
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  So the floor there looks
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  like any basketball arena floor setup.
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  The seats are elevated above
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  the floor like...
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  I guess like the tennis stadium almost.
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  Although it's higher than that even.
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  And so you come in on the
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  second floor and the
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  spectators are all up there.
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  The athletes and media and
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  all that have to go
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  downstairs to get out onto the floor.
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  But yeah,
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  it's actually a really cool arena
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  for an event if they can fill it.
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  So
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  Let's walk through Europe real quick,
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  and then we'll finish up
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  with a little bit of Asia.
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  But as we walk through the events,
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  the event one,
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  Gabby McGowan wins it in a close,
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  close race with Amy Kringle.
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  I thought that was super exciting to watch,
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  even though we didn't get to see the run.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean,
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  it was exciting to look who would
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  come into the stadium.
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  I guess they're a little square.
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  thing first for the most
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  part it became Kringle but
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  you could see that each
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  round Gabby was getting
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  closer and closer and
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  Kringle went touch and go
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  from the start on let's say
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  like half of the reps and
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  then would finish up with
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  some singles and then it
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  would come out um and then
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  once Gabby did the touch
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  and go at the end I was
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  like oh this is going to be so close
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  And then they were,
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  they were both at their
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  capacity because they started,
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  both of them were breaking
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  and it was like, oh my gosh,
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  who's going to go?
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  Who's going to go?
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  And then Gabby took it and
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  it was an exciting finish.
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  Then on the men's side, that was it.
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  Was that Lazar?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Upanix won the first two events.
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  Forgot about that.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh, and that still didn't, wasn't enough.
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  Um,
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  And it didn't have,
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  it didn't have the drama.
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  The women did.
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  He pretty much led that throughout.
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  So I thought it was a cool event.
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  I thought it, you know, like you said,
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  the strategy of touch and
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  go or not seems to be play
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  a big role in this.
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  And it's just going to know.
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  And the men did not touch and go.
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  No, not at all.
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  So that's worth it.
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  Very different from the men to the women.
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  I think also you saw a lot
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  of people go out really hot and round one,
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  probably just to try to get
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  out of the pack.
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  And then as the rounds go on,
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  it kind of separates,
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  but I almost looked like
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  people that went out really
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  hot to just try to get
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  ahead on round one.
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  It just caught up to them.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, on rounds two to four,
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  were you surprised some
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  athletes got lapped?
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  Yes.
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  But there's some good
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  runners out there and some
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  less good runners.
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  So I guess it's to be expected,
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  but maybe not a full lap.
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  So then event two was the front squat one,
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  correct?
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  The double under one, Scott.
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  The double under one.
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  I see I skipped right over it.
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  No, no,
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  it's a front squat and toes to bars
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  for everyone.
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  I'm saying it's a double under one.
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  Okay.
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  So I don't think I have any
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  – I don't have any notes for this.
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  So Upanix wins that on the men's side.
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  Yeah.
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  What were your thoughts on
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  the women's side?
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  And I can pull up the – They're fast.
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  Like it's just good, fast results.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, that's a tough one for me.
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  I know it's a tough one for me.
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  I need good execution.
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  But people were still getting tired.
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  Like,
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  it seemed like the toaster bars
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  played a big role here on
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  whether you could push the
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  pace there or hold on
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  versus some people were
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  leaning over a lot and
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  breathing and recovering.
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  There's a lot of just heavy
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  breathing in that workout.
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  Because when you have that
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  heavy front squat, it's hard to breathe.
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  Then that toaster bar, you're closing –
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  you know, you're closing in.
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  So again, it's a little bit,
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  it can be hard to breathe sometimes.
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  And then if you're anxious
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  on double unders like me,
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  it could be trying to find
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  somewhere to breathe.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's,
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  that was a Laura Horvath win to,
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  just to remind people like, Hey,
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  I'm here.
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  Yeah.
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  I took seventh in that first thing,
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  but like, I'm still here.
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  Yeah, which I mean,
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  I don't think anyone
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  expected Laura to win the first one.
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  She's a good runner.
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  She's a great runner,
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  but you wouldn't put her as
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  the best runner in Europe.
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  Yeah,
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  and so she actually beat Gabby by
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  seven seconds.
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  And then Claudia Gluck, or Gluck,
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  I think they were calling
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  it over the... Well, it's Gluck,
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  probably in French.
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  Yeah.
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  And how cool was the crowd
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  for the French contingent there?
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  Yeah.
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  And I mean,
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  the announcer is from Quebec
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  and he was really pumping
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  up the French crowd every
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  single time Victor or Claudia were,
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  you know,
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  pushing towards the finish line or just,
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  you know,
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  getting back to whatever station
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  he was getting the crowd going.
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  And then on the men's side, this was
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  oldest first, and then Luca Vujac second,
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  and Michael Wieslowski third.
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  So, and that was a tight race,
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  two seconds between first
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  and second on that one.
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  So then we go to event three,
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  and Yella Hosta comes to
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  the party on the men's side.
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  Well, that's a 12-person workout.
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  You have, that's the echo bag one, yeah.
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  You have the Echo Bike,
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  which is a power output.
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  It helps if you're taller or
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  way more for power output.
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  Then if you're tall and you
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  can just jump up nice and
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  high on the legless,
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  and then you have a tall
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  box jumps with a step down.
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  So that's no surprise in
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  that Yella was dominant in that one.
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  Followed up by Luka Jukic,
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  who had a great weekend, and Enola Kai.
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  On the women's side,
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  we had a painful event for this.
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  Rebecca Venison comes down on the rope,
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  knee pops.
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  She's on the floor.
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  I know a lot of people are
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  talking about how long it
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  took medical to get there.
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  It was such a bad look.
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  But then it was explained that medical,
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  unlike other CrossFit events in France,
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  if you're at the venue is
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  in charge of all medical, not the event,
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  which to me is mind
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  boggling because general
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  medical would not be
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  sufficient in a sporting event.
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  Like if I'm having a soccer match,
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  I want people who know
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  injuries that happen in soccer.
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  Right.
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  Um, so she is laying on the floor.
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  I feel terrible.
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  They finally get to her.
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  She hops back up and
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  attempts to get back in the race.
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  does the bike does a rope climb attempts.
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  One box jump gets over second box,
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  jump steps down with the
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  injured leg and falls to the floor.
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  Someone said,
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  why'd she do it with the injured leg?
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  But she probably was worried
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  that she could support
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  herself on that leg at the
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  top of the box is my guess.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It seemed like forever for
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  the medical team to go on the floor.
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  Like she was just down on
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  the ground and like,
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  holding her knee.
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  Like she came down and you
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  could see the knees going
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  forward and in a twisting motion.
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  Like I texted Lex right away.
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  I go, that's an ACL like that,
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  that a hundred percent date.
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  Like it has to be an ACL just like the way,
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  cause that's typical of
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  like forward motion twisting.
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  And I was like,
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  the medical team was just like nowhere.
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  Like, even though it's the,
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  the venue that's holding it,
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  like there should be places
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  where they're strategically put, you know,
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  on each end of the floor,
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  to get there as soon as possible.
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  And if the medical team is
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  going on to the floor,
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  I don't think that the
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  athlete should be able to
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  continue like that event.
• 17:14
  Right.
• 17:14
  Cause the medical team is like in her lane,
• 17:16
  they're kind of helping her, et cetera.
• 17:18
  If they had to tape things up or whatever,
• 17:20
  like,
• 17:20
  I don't think that you should be
• 17:22
  able to continue.
• 17:23
  I don't think she should have continued.
• 17:25
  I thought that that was very
• 17:26
  dangerous to continue.
• 17:29
  Cause I was like, she's going to ruin her,
• 17:31
  her knee even more.
• 17:33
  Cause like,
• 17:33
  that's not a workout that you
• 17:34
  can fake it.
• 17:36
  You know, you can't like the,
• 17:37
  the knee is either there or
• 17:39
  it's not like those high
• 17:40
  box jumps are tough for the knee.
• 17:42
  And yeah,
• 17:43
  it just seemed like the medical
• 17:44
  team wasn't there enough.
• 17:45
  And I don't know what kind
• 17:46
  of clearance she got to
• 17:47
  just continue the event like that.
• 17:49
  It was very odd and a bad look.
• 17:53
  then when she went down off
• 17:54
  the box jump they were out
• 17:55
  quickly but man it like
• 17:58
  stretchers and stuff that
• 18:00
  you just don't even see
• 18:01
  normally at these events no
• 18:06
  yeah it was uh but like you
• 18:10
  the camera would kind of
• 18:11
  like they had that one
• 18:12
  camera and you could see
• 18:13
  her on the ground just at
• 18:14
  the beginning and it was
• 18:15
  like okay like put the
• 18:15
  camera away like make it
• 18:17
  look good for crossfit and
• 18:18
  like stop filming her and it
• 18:21
  you know,
• 18:21
  they just kept filming a little
• 18:23
  bit of where she was at,
• 18:26
  which I thought you
• 18:28
  shouldn't be filming or
• 18:31
  trying to keep her in the frame, right?
• 18:33
  Like give her the privacy,
• 18:34
  get the medical team on
• 18:35
  there and get that out.
• 18:40
  But wishing her obviously a good recovery.
• 18:45
  And that's,
• 18:46
  that's a horrible way to end
• 18:49
  the season and,
• 18:51
  she was doing really well.
• 18:53
  Yeah, and really well in that event.
• 18:54
  It looked very eerily
• 18:55
  familiar to the Scott Pancheck injury,
• 18:58
  but different circumstances.
• 19:01
  She just came down weird.
• 19:03
  There was no object on the
• 19:04
  floor that caused that to happen.
• 19:07
  And then Emma Tall ends up
• 19:08
  winning this event.
• 19:10
  So impressive.
• 19:12
  She was so impressive on the rope.
• 19:14
  It was like five pulls, boom, touch.
• 19:17
  Like there was...
• 19:19
  No struggle at all, which in my heat one,
• 19:23
  I was like trying to figure
• 19:24
  out whether I was going to
• 19:25
  put her Laura and I should have,
• 19:28
  I had her at first as my
• 19:29
  pick and then I switched it to Lauren.
• 19:31
  I should have known because
• 19:31
  she won the alpaca as well last year.
• 19:34
  She's so good.
• 19:35
  Upper body pulling.
• 19:36
  Very, very impressive.
• 19:38
  Yeah,
• 19:38
  I heard someone compare her to Alex Kazan,
• 19:41
  like as the two best upper
• 19:42
  body pullers there are.
• 19:45
  Bruce asked,
• 19:46
  would the stretcher get in the
• 19:47
  way of the other athletes?
• 19:48
  It was a backboard type stretcher,
• 19:50
  handheld.
• 19:51
  They just put her on it and
• 19:53
  carried her off the floor.
• 19:55
  It looked very like,
• 19:57
  and this is probably a
• 19:58
  reference only old people like me get,
• 20:00
  but like very old Keystone
• 20:02
  Cops stretchers.
• 20:03
  out get her take her off it
• 20:05
  just did not even look
• 20:06
  professional but that's
• 20:08
  that's what was there and
• 20:10
  you're right Karen don't
• 20:12
  show it get it off the
• 20:13
  cameras you know like show
• 20:15
  the other athletes like
• 20:16
  don't go a full shot like
• 20:19
  unless she's off the floor
• 20:20
  it just it just made it
• 20:23
  just made it look worse
• 20:24
  like she and especially
• 20:25
  when she was just laying
• 20:26
  holding her knee and it
• 20:28
  felt like at least 30 45
• 20:30
  seconds for anyone to even
• 20:31
  come in and see her
• 20:33
  And she was just still in the frame.
• 20:34
  And it's like, what is going on?
• 20:36
  Like,
• 20:36
  get someone to her versus like if you
• 20:39
  had just panned out like somewhere else,
• 20:42
  like you wouldn't have
• 20:43
  maybe noticed it as much.
• 20:44
  But I mean, it just puts I mean,
• 20:47
  maybe it's good that we
• 20:47
  notice and that type of
• 20:49
  medical response needs to
• 20:51
  get addressed for other semifinals.
• 20:57
  She signed a waiver.
• 21:00
  I'm not upset that she got
• 21:01
  hurt or like there just was
• 21:04
  better ways to handle it
• 21:05
  from an image thing.
• 21:07
  Like just don't put the
• 21:09
  camera on her writhing in
• 21:11
  pain and that's it for a
• 21:15
  long period of time.
• 21:17
  You know, there's a lot of,
• 21:19
  there's a lot of sports
• 21:19
  when someone gets injured,
• 21:20
  they don't show the injury anymore.
• 21:23
  Right.
• 21:23
  They just move on.
• 21:25
  Um,
• 21:26
  because then you're battling
• 21:27
  that is your sport safe is your,
• 21:29
  and that's something that
• 21:30
  CrossFit has been fighting
• 21:31
  for a very long time.
• 21:32
  And you don't want to keep fighting that,
• 21:34
  that same argument.
• 21:35
  Yeah.
• 21:36
  And like, it's, it's a sport.
• 21:38
  Like it's of course,
• 21:39
  like this wasn't a unsafe
• 21:43
  rope climb that made it dangerous.
• 21:44
  Like it happens.
• 21:45
  It's an injury that could
• 21:46
  have happened to anyone.
• 21:47
  And it just,
• 21:48
  maybe the knee was just ready to go,
• 21:49
  but it's just the response
• 21:51
  that seemed like it was
• 21:52
  just unprofessional.
• 21:53
  And,
• 21:54
  Of course,
• 21:55
  injuries and CrossFit just has a
• 21:56
  bad name.
• 21:58
  So it just made it, in my opinion,
• 22:00
  look worse.
• 22:03
  And we're going to talk more
• 22:04
  about the camera people in a second.
• 22:07
  But let's move on to event four.
• 22:09
  And someone said they're not
• 22:12
  calling them tests anymore.
• 22:13
  Apparently not.
• 22:15
  Because on the CrossFit game site,
• 22:16
  it is events.
• 22:19
  Event four was the first one today,
• 22:23
  which was something.
• 22:26
  Handstand walk.
• 22:27
  Oh, yeah.
• 22:28
  The row.
• 22:33
  Laura, so impressive on that row.
• 22:37
  When they when they zoomed into her pace,
• 22:40
  like everyone, I was just like, OK,
• 22:43
  it's like that is.
• 22:47
  as holding one good pace
• 22:48
  right there that most
• 22:50
  people aren't holding that
• 22:51
  are able to hold that and
• 22:52
  will handstand walk, um, at that speed.
• 22:55
  Like, um, what's her name?
• 22:58
  Why am I blanking?
• 22:59
  Solberg had such fast handstand walk,
• 23:03
  but she just can't match Laura's, um,
• 23:06
  power output on the, on a rower.
• 23:08
  Um, but she would,
• 23:10
  she would just get off the
• 23:11
  roll a little bit sometimes
• 23:13
  after Ella Wilkinson and,
• 23:16
  just would pass her.
• 23:17
  And then you had a better
• 23:18
  rower that would just maybe
• 23:19
  get a little bit ahead,
• 23:20
  but it's like she maximized
• 23:22
  her strength of that workout.
• 23:24
  I think if you're able to do both,
• 23:25
  you're going to be successful,
• 23:27
  but fast handstand walk
• 23:28
  will go a long way.
• 23:32
  And yeah.
• 23:34
  And Andrea Soberg actually
• 23:37
  came in third in that event.
• 23:40
  Yeah.
• 23:40
  Well, Gabby's a great, um,
• 23:42
  handstand Walker and has, um,
• 23:44
  better rolling power output.
• 23:48
  So there's a lot of talk in
• 23:49
  the chat about should the
• 23:50
  athlete be allowed to continue.
• 23:52
  And I understand that it's
• 23:53
  up to the athlete if they
• 23:54
  want to continue.
• 23:55
  However, I agree with Carolyn.
• 23:57
  If the medical has done
• 23:59
  something to assist her to
• 24:02
  be able to get back into the game,
• 24:04
  I don't think she should.
• 24:05
  At that point,
• 24:06
  there was outside interference.
• 24:08
  Just like in an online
• 24:09
  competition when you have
• 24:10
  someone touch your bar or
• 24:11
  touch your rope or you get
• 24:13
  a penalty for that.
• 24:15
  It's that event becomes done.
• 24:18
  Can she come back for the following event?
• 24:20
  That's to be determined with
• 24:23
  the medical heads and whatnot.
• 24:27
  But I think once the medical
• 24:28
  comes onto the floor and has...
• 24:33
  treatment of any sort or
• 24:34
  whatever I think that event
• 24:36
  becomes done like if the if
• 24:37
  the medical event or if the
• 24:38
  medical team like comes on
• 24:39
  the floor and the athlete
• 24:41
  goes no no it's okay and
• 24:42
  continues I think that
• 24:43
  would be different because
• 24:44
  then maybe they were just
• 24:46
  on the ground and then can
• 24:47
  get up but in this case I
• 24:48
  think it was event over
• 24:50
  like that's it right right
• 24:54
  so um so yeah laura wins
• 24:57
  that gabby second andrea
• 24:58
  soberg third what I was
• 24:59
  thinking when I saw andrea is
• 25:03
  You know,
• 25:03
  my idea of like the championship
• 25:05
  belts and like you find
• 25:07
  pick an event and you win the belt.
• 25:09
  Wouldn't it be cool to see
• 25:11
  Daniel Brandon on Andrea
• 25:12
  Solberg do a handstand race
• 25:15
  for like that belt?
• 25:17
  When you watch the two of them go,
• 25:19
  it's insane.
• 25:20
  So fast.
• 25:21
  So fast.
• 25:22
  There's other fast handstand
• 25:24
  walkers I'm sure we'll see
• 25:25
  in the upcoming weeks will shine.
• 25:28
  But that was very impressive there.
• 25:30
  That's just what popped into
• 25:31
  my head when I saw her go.
• 25:34
  And we're going to see like,
• 25:35
  and Victor Hoffer did the same thing.
• 25:38
  Tudor Magda is going to do
• 25:39
  the same thing at West Coast.
• 25:42
  It's going to be insane.
• 25:43
  But that would be a cool
• 25:44
  like for the belt race.
• 25:47
  For sure.
• 25:47
  Yeah.
• 25:49
  And speaking of Victor Hoffer,
• 25:51
  on this event, he finished first, right?
• 25:55
  Yep.
• 25:56
  Yellow host second.
• 26:00
  I guess I gave the handstand
• 26:01
  too much credit.
• 26:03
  I didn't see this happening,
• 26:04
  but his row was insane.
• 26:06
  That's the thing, right?
• 26:07
  If you can either have a very,
• 26:09
  very good row and a good handstand walk,
• 26:12
  or if you're a very,
• 26:14
  very good handstand walker
• 26:15
  and have a decent row,
• 26:17
  you can do very well.
• 26:19
  So I think he has good
• 26:21
  enough speed on the
• 26:22
  handstand walk and is
• 26:23
  obviously one of the taller
• 26:24
  athletes on the field that
• 26:25
  can just pull and maybe get
• 26:28
  that extra 10 seconds on 10
• 26:32
  to even maybe 15 seconds on
• 26:34
  the row to make up for
• 26:36
  possibly the lack of speed
• 26:37
  that would be there on the
• 26:39
  handstand walk.
• 26:42
  So then we go to event five,
• 26:44
  and this Bronislaw is just
• 26:47
  a freak with strength.
• 26:51
  He made that thing look so easy.
• 26:53
  He didn't look rushed on anything.
• 26:56
  He just methodically went
• 26:57
  down and killed every bar
• 27:00
  and broke the world record
• 27:01
  and set that at 525.
• 27:06
  um there was a lot of
• 27:08
  records broken I think for
• 27:09
  that for that workout
• 27:10
  compared to 2016 it was
• 27:12
  crazy well 2016 I think the
• 27:14
  winning time was 604 um and
• 27:17
  this was 525 and there were
• 27:21
  three three times a beat
• 27:22
  that winning time from
• 27:23
  which just shows how
• 27:25
  advanced and and ahead
• 27:26
  fraser was in 2016 the fact
• 27:29
  that he's you know just as
• 27:31
  good still as these competitors is crazy
• 27:36
  Yeah.
• 27:37
  Uh, yeah, flat out insane.
• 27:39
  So Kevin jurors was second.
• 27:41
  More Moritz fee big was third on that one.
• 27:45
  Um, and on the women's side,
• 27:49
  big surprise kind of,
• 27:54
  so every time I talk to Elisa,
• 27:57
  she talks about how much
• 27:58
  she loves Olympic lifting
• 28:00
  and she thinks that it is
• 28:02
  one of her strengths.
• 28:04
  And she proved that every bit today.
• 28:08
  And I almost went with her
• 28:10
  in Heat 1 because of that.
• 28:11
  But I'm going,
• 28:12
  that would be picking with your heart.
• 28:14
  That would be picking with your heart.
• 28:16
  Don't be stupid.
• 28:18
  And I went with Emma Tall on
• 28:21
  this and got crushed.
• 28:24
  Yeah, I mean, the way that she was just,
• 28:28
  you know,
• 28:28
  letting the bar bounce and then
• 28:30
  right away back into it.
• 28:33
  Super impressed again by her.
• 28:34
  And we knew that Laura was
• 28:36
  going to do all we knew that for over.
• 28:38
  I didn't know.
• 28:39
  Like I knew that was a good Olympic lifter,
• 28:42
  like even her clean and
• 28:42
  jerk at Waterpalooza was
• 28:44
  very strong when I was
• 28:45
  there watching last year or
• 28:47
  the year before when she was there.
• 28:49
  And she impressed me there.
• 28:51
  and but I didn't know
• 28:52
  sometimes some people are
• 28:53
  really good at cleaning
• 28:53
  jerks but maybe less good
• 28:55
  at the snatch it was really
• 28:57
  impressed uh impressive
• 28:59
  there what she did yeah she
• 29:01
  was impressive laura we
• 29:03
  knew was going to be great
• 29:04
  at that event um and then
• 29:06
  lucy mcgonigal proving that
• 29:08
  at a very young age uh her
• 29:11
  strength numbers are coming
• 29:12
  up and in a year or two
• 29:15
  she's going to be someone to watch
• 29:17
  Yeah, she had a rough first event.
• 29:21
  And then, yeah,
• 29:22
  she had a really good bounce today.
• 29:24
  Moved her way a little bit
• 29:25
  up today with the higher skills,
• 29:26
  the strength.
• 29:28
  She did better today.
• 29:30
  I should just, like,
• 29:31
  copy this and just paste it
• 29:34
  for every show because
• 29:36
  that's just what happens.
• 29:40
  I get beat by Lex every shot
• 29:42
  caller every time.
• 29:44
  Maybe she's the female analyst today.
• 29:47
  She should be John young again.
• 29:51
  There you go.
• 29:53
  Yeah.
• 29:55
  I tried to get her on the show,
• 29:56
  but family dinner comes in,
• 29:58
  gets in the way.
• 29:58
  I don't know.
• 30:02
  Um, so then on the men's, uh,
• 30:04
  or we did the men.
• 30:05
  So now event six, we finish up, uh,
• 30:09
  Emma tall wins this one.
• 30:10
  I was a little bit early.
• 30:12
  Um,
• 30:15
  And this was,
• 30:16
  this was surprising how much
• 30:19
  that dumbbell ate people alive.
• 30:24
  It was fun to watch some of them.
• 30:26
  Like you thought that
• 30:26
  they're gone and then boom,
• 30:28
  they have to put them down.
• 30:29
  They had to come back.
• 30:30
  Is it going to slip from
• 30:31
  their hands again?
• 30:32
  Um, it was, yeah, it was very,
• 30:36
  it was a nice race to watch.
• 30:37
  Good.
• 30:38
  It's great finale event.
• 30:39
  Um, and,
• 30:40
  it was just nice to see also
• 30:42
  different strategies.
• 30:42
  Like a lot of the females
• 30:43
  broke the ring muscle ups, uh,
• 30:45
  to have better grip for the,
• 30:47
  for their lunges.
• 30:48
  Someone like Emma tall just
• 30:50
  crushed that workout.
• 30:51
  I mean, if you look at events, um,
• 30:54
  three and six,
• 30:55
  I think they're very similar.
• 30:56
  Like you have the echo bike
• 30:57
  and something that's very grippy.
• 30:59
  And it was the same thing for this one,
• 31:02
  echo bike and grip.
• 31:03
  Um,
• 31:04
  So, yeah, Emma Tall crushed it.
• 31:07
  And then just some of the
• 31:08
  races were fun to look at.
• 31:10
  And there was a few people
• 31:11
  that were inside,
• 31:12
  like the what's the one guy,
• 31:14
  Chris Broussard, something like that.
• 31:18
  Colin Bossard.
• 31:19
  Colin.
• 31:19
  There you go.
• 31:21
  Like that was your dark
• 31:22
  horse for coffee pods and wands.
• 31:28
  And yeah,
• 31:29
  he had a struggle in that last
• 31:31
  one and really fell out of the top 10,
• 31:34
  which just sucks.
• 31:35
  You hate to see that.
• 31:37
  But then you also had the
• 31:37
  opposite with one guy that
• 31:41
  came third place and was, I think,
• 31:43
  14th going into the event
• 31:44
  and jumped into that.
• 31:46
  top 10.
• 31:47
  Um, so some good, good races.
• 31:49
  I mean, just shows that you have, you know,
• 31:51
  every event matters,
• 31:52
  every second matters.
• 31:53
  Um,
• 31:55
  and I thought some people were a little
• 31:58
  bit lazy getting to the
• 31:59
  finish line over the weekend.
• 32:00
  So that's one observation I had in,
• 32:02
  you know, those points.
• 32:05
  Yeah.
• 32:06
  So Lex just rubbing things in again.
• 32:08
  So yes,
• 32:10
  on coffee pods and wads around the
• 32:11
  whiteboard,
• 32:12
  my two dark horses were Colin
• 32:13
  Bossard and Amy Kringle.
• 32:16
  And I looked really,
• 32:17
  really smart until the last event.
• 32:24
  He did have a great first
• 32:26
  couple of days though.
• 32:28
  He did.
• 32:28
  He did really good.
• 32:30
  I just didn't know he had
• 32:31
  small hands and couldn't
• 32:32
  hold onto a dumbbell.
• 32:34
  Yeah.
• 32:37
  So yeah, I just,
• 32:42
  I keep trying to be as good as Lex.
• 32:44
  I just don't know if I ever will be.
• 32:46
  I was really, um,
• 32:48
  surprised to see the
• 32:51
  schedule of the Sunday.
• 32:53
  Like that's one thing,
• 32:53
  like they just want heat one, two, three,
• 32:55
  four.
• 32:55
  Um, they've,
• 32:57
  they normally recede for that
• 32:59
  fourth heat off.
• 33:00
  A lot of times you'll see heats one, two,
• 33:02
  three woman heat.
• 33:04
  it's one two three men and
• 33:05
  then sometimes they'll
• 33:06
  bring back even heats four
• 33:08
  and four but they always
• 33:10
  recede and this time they
• 33:12
  didn't so I'm assuming
• 33:13
  going forward on all the
• 33:14
  semifinals they're just not
• 33:15
  receding and I don't like
• 33:16
  that I think and I actually
• 33:18
  have that in my notes to
• 33:19
  talk about as like an
• 33:21
  overarching thing um and
• 33:23
  there's a lot of people in
• 33:24
  the comics since it had
• 33:25
  that I don't understand why they didn't
• 33:28
  I don't either.
• 33:29
  I don't think I've ever been
• 33:30
  to a semifinal where they
• 33:32
  didn't at least recede the last event.
• 33:35
  Just the last event.
• 33:36
  That's it.
• 33:36
  They always go at the end of
• 33:38
  each day and then the final event.
• 33:40
  Not sure why they went away
• 33:41
  with it this year.
• 33:42
  As a spectator,
• 33:43
  I want to know who's in and
• 33:47
  who's out and who's trying to get there,
• 33:49
  right?
• 33:49
  And when you reseed with 10 as your get in,
• 33:53
  you know everybody in that final heat,
• 33:55
  they have a spot going into
• 33:56
  that last event.
• 33:57
  And the middle lanes of heat
• 34:00
  before you know are trying to get in.
• 34:03
  It just tells the story better.
• 34:05
  Absolutely.
• 34:06
  And when you look at just
• 34:08
  the seating over all over the weekend,
• 34:09
  like day number one,
• 34:10
  you have a very specialist type workout.
• 34:13
  And then you're going to go
• 34:14
  into day two receding off
• 34:16
  of that one specialist type running.
• 34:19
  Let's call it a running workout.
• 34:21
  Then you go into those two
• 34:23
  events and you're only halfway done.
• 34:24
  So that last day when so
• 34:26
  much so many points are on the line,
• 34:28
  I think the receding is very important.
• 34:32
  Because that final event,
• 34:33
  you only had three events
• 34:35
  prior to dictate the final day seating.
• 34:39
  And so many moves happened
• 34:42
  on that last day that, to me,
• 34:44
  made no sense.
• 34:46
  Yeah.
• 34:47
  So I'm going way back to get
• 34:48
  some questions for you now
• 34:49
  that we've gone through all the events.
• 34:54
  Sarah Cooper,
• 34:55
  which event is Carolyn most
• 34:56
  excited for now that she
• 34:57
  has seen them all?
• 35:01
  Hmm.
• 35:04
  I don't know.
• 35:05
  Let me the handstand walk one.
• 35:10
  Um,
• 35:13
  the double under one with that advice
• 35:16
  is fingers crossed for a
• 35:17
  great double under day.
• 35:18
  Thank you.
• 35:21
  Yeah.
• 35:22
  I don't know.
• 35:22
  I don't have a particular
• 35:26
  one that I feel like I ha I
• 35:28
  like way more or something.
• 35:30
  Um,
• 35:32
  Hoping I'll be executing well on game day.
• 35:39
  Dex said the grip into from
• 35:41
  sending muscle ups was wild.
• 35:45
  Oh, yeah.
• 35:51
  And like the men,
• 35:51
  most of them were unbroken and then.
• 35:54
  they're obviously having to
• 35:55
  push the echo bike more.
• 35:56
  And then you have some
• 35:57
  people pushing the echo bike,
• 35:58
  but then breaking the ring
• 35:59
  muscles for the females.
• 36:00
  And then maybe make it up on the lunges.
• 36:02
  Like it's just what your
• 36:04
  strengths are on that one.
• 36:07
  But yeah, it's grippy.
• 36:09
  Very, very grippy.
• 36:09
  Nope.
• 36:13
  Well that,
• 36:15
  and then he asks ESPN plus schedule.
• 36:18
  Maybe ESPN plus doesn't
• 36:21
  really have a schedule
• 36:21
  cause it's a streaming service.
• 36:25
  In my opinion, maybe I'm wrong.
• 36:27
  I'm not a network producer,
• 36:31
  but you would think that
• 36:33
  they would be pretty fluid
• 36:34
  on that for streaming.
• 36:37
  It's not on a network.
• 36:41
  You would think that they
• 36:42
  would want both back-to-back final heats,
• 36:46
  like men and women,
• 36:48
  so that little part is back-to-back.
• 36:51
  I don't know.
• 36:52
  But that's a good point.
• 36:53
  Maybe it is ESPN.
• 36:54
  ESPN.
• 36:56
  I didn't think about that.
• 37:01
  So he said the real question is,
• 37:03
  will Legends be on ESPN Plus?
• 37:06
  I'm guessing an iPhone 5
• 37:09
  hanging from the rig.
• 37:11
  It's just tough because ESPN
• 37:13
  Plus is getting more popular.
• 37:15
  There's more and more.
• 37:16
  things going to that platform,
• 37:18
  but there's so many sports
• 37:20
  going on right now,
• 37:21
  like playoffs and stuff.
• 37:22
  So I just, it's,
• 37:23
  it's really good that CrossFit picked up,
• 37:28
  you know, that streaming with them,
• 37:30
  but it's just a tough time
• 37:32
  of the year versus the
• 37:33
  summer when it's like
• 37:35
  baseball and soccer.
• 37:38
  So a couple of overarching
• 37:39
  things I want to talk about
• 37:40
  before we go down,
• 37:41
  who made it and who didn't
• 37:42
  is Lucy Campbell was good.
• 37:47
  Very knowledgeable.
• 37:48
  She was awesome.
• 37:49
  Loved her.
• 37:49
  Yeah.
• 37:50
  I thought for like really
• 37:53
  other than doing the
• 37:55
  renegade broadcast last
• 37:56
  year with chase a little bit in Europe,
• 37:59
  um, and her,
• 37:59
  this being her first time at the desk,
• 38:01
  man, often running deep end, let her go.
• 38:06
  Oh, absolutely.
• 38:06
  I mean, she's very knowledgeable.
• 38:09
  She obviously knows how the
• 38:10
  workouts feel as an athlete.
• 38:11
  And she brought great points to like,
• 38:14
  to the analysis of the, of,
• 38:16
  The workouts,
• 38:16
  she had great things to say
• 38:18
  about the athletes,
• 38:20
  about the stimulus of the workout.
• 38:21
  I thought she did a phenomenal job.
• 38:23
  Really good addition to that
• 38:26
  European stream.
• 38:28
  And what I loved most is,
• 38:29
  and I talked about this
• 38:30
  with Brent Fikowski a while ago,
• 38:32
  and it was never like I
• 38:34
  would do it this way.
• 38:35
  It was,
• 38:36
  this is what you're presented with
• 38:38
  as an athlete and you have
• 38:39
  a choice to make.
• 38:40
  Let's watch it play out.
• 38:43
  And I thought that's what
• 38:44
  she was really good at.
• 38:48
  So like kudos to her.
• 38:50
  Now on the downside, camera guys,
• 38:54
  I have been I've been
• 38:56
  bitching for a very long
• 38:57
  time that I don't need to
• 38:59
  see up somebody's nostril
• 39:01
  during an event to get excited about it.
• 39:04
  I want to see more of the
• 39:05
  races like back up.
• 39:07
  Let me see three, four lanes at a time.
• 39:10
  But when a camera guy is
• 39:13
  moving the riser because
• 39:15
  he's so close and the
• 39:17
  athlete has to reset it
• 39:19
  because the camera guy moved it,
• 39:21
  that's a bad look.
• 39:23
  I miss that.
• 39:24
  When athletes are waving off
• 39:26
  the camera guy because
• 39:28
  they're trying to hit a big
• 39:29
  snatch and he's right in
• 39:31
  front of them setting up,
• 39:33
  that's a bad look.
• 39:38
  yeah I mean what other sport
• 39:40
  are the camera guys on the
• 39:42
  floor cameras have zoom
• 39:44
  lenses right like am I am I being stupid
• 39:52
  no like it's like I i just
• 39:54
  know that when I compete
• 39:55
  live like a lot of times I
• 39:57
  have to like try to block
• 39:58
  out the camera because but
• 39:59
  normally they try to stay
• 40:01
  in the corner but then
• 40:01
  they're probably in in the
• 40:02
  next lane and in the way
• 40:04
  there as the judge is
• 40:05
  backing up and stuff and
• 40:06
  there's kind of a like
• 40:09
  nowhere for them on the
• 40:10
  floor um but yeah like they
• 40:13
  could just use their zoom
• 40:14
  button and maybe show a few
• 40:16
  more athletes at the same time um
• 40:19
  but yeah,
• 40:20
  like you would see a few athletes
• 40:21
  just be like, move,
• 40:23
  move right before the snatch.
• 40:25
  And I was like, Oh, but I mean,
• 40:29
  it's a big snatch and it's
• 40:31
  distracting to have that
• 40:32
  camera right in your face.
• 40:34
  Um, and when you're moving equipment,
• 40:38
  you're,
• 40:39
  you're actually affecting the race.
• 40:41
  Well, yeah, I didn't, I see,
• 40:42
  I didn't see that part,
• 40:43
  but I think it was,
• 40:44
  I think it was Emma McQuaid, um,
• 40:47
  had her riser moved and,
• 40:50
  And that's just unacceptable.
• 40:52
  Yeah, you can't mess with the equipment.
• 40:55
  So NBA is in the same kind of venue,
• 41:00
  right?
• 41:01
  And they have cameras up top
• 41:03
  to see all the action.
• 41:05
  And then they have cameras
• 41:07
  along the sidelines, off the floor,
• 41:10
  getting the close-ups.
• 41:12
  And they do a great job.
• 41:16
  So I just don't get it.
• 41:21
  Um,
• 41:22
  and then one thing that I thought that
• 41:25
  was brought up that was,
• 41:26
  and I think it was,
• 41:27
  I think it was Lucy that
• 41:29
  brought it up is.
• 41:32
  everybody talks about how,
• 41:33
  why North America can't
• 41:35
  sell tickets and why it's
• 41:36
  so loud and raucous in Europe.
• 41:39
  But there are so many
• 41:40
  different countries in Europe.
• 41:41
  There's so much country pride,
• 41:43
  like France versus Spain
• 41:45
  versus the UK versus like,
• 41:48
  and that adds an element to
• 41:50
  this that makes it makes
• 41:53
  the crowd get into it so much more.
• 41:56
  Yeah.
• 41:56
  I mean,
• 41:57
  like people are bringing their
• 41:58
  country flags.
• 41:58
  Like you're not going to have,
• 42:01
  I don't know, Wisconsin flag there,
• 42:03
  like supporting, like, it's just like,
• 42:06
  I don't think it's.
• 42:07
  All we have is Canada, Mexico and US,
• 42:09
  right?
• 42:10
  Like you had the affiliate
• 42:13
  presence when it was
• 42:14
  regionals because people
• 42:15
  could drive to the event.
• 42:17
  It was close, like near, you know,
• 42:20
  regionally you had people
• 42:22
  and that's what made
• 42:23
  regional so fun is people
• 42:24
  would just drive to the
• 42:25
  event and they would bring
• 42:26
  the whole affiliate.
• 42:29
  And you just don't have that
• 42:30
  when you have these two
• 42:31
  North America events.
• 42:35
  And it's just essentially
• 42:36
  it's just the competitors
• 42:38
  and maybe a couple, you know,
• 42:40
  friends and family.
• 42:41
  But there's not as much of
• 42:42
  the affiliates traveling
• 42:44
  like there used to be in
• 42:46
  that type of support.
• 42:47
  I agree with you 1000%.
• 42:51
  So let's see who got their
• 42:54
  ticket punched in Europe.
• 42:57
  And that is Laura Horvath, Gabby McGowan.
• 43:01
  You got to zoom in.
• 43:01
  There we go.
• 43:06
  Okay.
• 43:07
  There we go.
• 43:08
  Laura Horvat, Gabby Magawa, Emma Tall,
• 43:10
  Karen Frejova, Amy Kringle.
• 43:13
  She looked really good.
• 43:14
  Phenomenal.
• 43:15
  Massive improvement over last year.
• 43:18
  Very impressive.
• 43:19
  Claudia Gluck, Linda Kiesman,
• 43:22
  Elisa Fuliano, Emma McQuaid,
• 43:25
  and Jacqueline Dahlstrom.
• 43:27
  Yeah.
• 43:30
  Any surprises for you on this?
• 43:34
  I wasn't familiar with Linda Kiesman,
• 43:36
  but when I clicked on her profile,
• 43:37
  it looks like she's been
• 43:38
  really close the last few years.
• 43:40
  So it's always nice to see
• 43:42
  someone that's been close, you know,
• 43:43
  make their way through.
• 43:44
  Obviously Kringle,
• 43:47
  we knew she was up and
• 43:49
  coming and has been close
• 43:50
  and same with Gluck that
• 43:53
  had a great Dubai
• 43:55
  competition this past year.
• 43:56
  And, you know,
• 43:58
  she's been getting closer
• 43:59
  and closer every year.
• 44:00
  So yeah,
• 44:01
  good to see that.
• 44:02
  I was surprised obviously with Manon.
• 44:04
  Um, she's one that I was, you know,
• 44:07
  I thought was even in that middle tier of,
• 44:11
  um,
• 44:12
  that region in terms of those
• 44:14
  qualifying spots.
• 44:15
  I didn't think that she
• 44:15
  would even be fighting for the,
• 44:17
  like the last spots.
• 44:18
  I know, like I, I,
• 44:20
  I know that she has higher
• 44:21
  potential than this.
• 44:23
  Um,
• 44:25
  Helga daughter,
• 44:26
  I knew she was going to be close.
• 44:28
  Sad to see no daughter will
• 44:32
  be at the games for the first time.
• 44:35
  So it's crazy to think about that.
• 44:38
  Um, Miriam had, you know,
• 44:39
  some good events and then
• 44:40
  obviously some of the higher skills on,
• 44:43
  on the last day, um,
• 44:45
  was a little bit hard, harder for her,
• 44:47
  but I thought that she
• 44:48
  still had a great showing, um,
• 44:50
  and we'll have a lot of
• 44:51
  potential in the next few years as she,
• 44:54
  you know,
• 44:55
  devotes a little bit more time
• 44:56
  to CrossFit and some of those skills.
• 45:00
  Um, you had, uh, another injury, um, Sarah,
• 45:04
  uh, uh,
• 45:05
  If you go all the way down,
• 45:07
  I think she's not even all
• 45:08
  the way down right there.
• 45:09
  20.
• 45:09
  No, go back up.
• 45:10
  Go back up.
• 45:12
  27.
• 45:14
  Keep going.
• 45:14
  27.
• 45:16
  Yeah.
• 45:17
  So she wore a belt on the
• 45:19
  handstand walk workout and
• 45:21
  she finished like dead last of that one.
• 45:23
  I was like,
• 45:24
  something's off with her
• 45:25
  because she would normally be in the mix.
• 45:27
  Alina Kiratava, whatever,
• 45:30
  how do you say her name?
• 45:32
  Sorry for the mispronunciation.
• 45:35
  And then she didn't end up
• 45:37
  finishing the competition,
• 45:38
  but she's still up there.
• 45:41
  So if you go across,
• 45:42
  she finished the event four,
• 45:45
  but I think she had a back injury.
• 45:48
  Something must have happened
• 45:51
  the day prior or that morning,
• 45:53
  maybe warming up even.
• 45:55
  Because, yeah, when you come up with it,
• 45:57
  when you come to the floor
• 45:58
  with a belt on a rowing and
• 46:00
  handstand walk workout,
• 46:03
  it's a little odd.
• 46:05
  So, yeah,
• 46:06
  don't know what what happened with her.
• 46:07
  But so I think what three
• 46:10
  three girls were not
• 46:13
  competing because Sarah Vitteson and her.
• 46:16
  So on the men's side,
• 46:18
  everyone ended up finishing.
• 46:21
  Which is what you hope to
• 46:22
  see that people can, you know,
• 46:24
  have a start and a finish
• 46:25
  to their semifinals and do every event.
• 46:30
  the men's side we have lazar
• 46:31
  jukic yellow hosta heinrich
• 46:34
  hyperlinen ano akai luka
• 46:37
  jukic victor hoffer bkg
• 46:41
  harry lightfoot callum
• 46:42
  clements with a major
• 46:44
  comeback at the end and
• 46:45
  moritz feebig aldis upenix
• 46:48
  wins two events and
• 46:50
  finishes one spot out that
• 46:53
  means you got strengths and
• 46:55
  you got holes that's that's
• 46:56
  what that says right it's uh
• 47:00
  So J.R.
• 47:01
  Howe said that this proves
• 47:03
  that the programming is spot on.
• 47:08
  Your thoughts?
• 47:11
  That there would be
• 47:13
  something that just kind of
• 47:14
  cancels out someone's first places.
• 47:16
  Yeah.
• 47:17
  I mean, yeah.
• 47:18
  I mean, anytime you get too first place,
• 47:20
  you're going to be close to
• 47:21
  the cut line regardless.
• 47:24
  But yeah,
• 47:26
  I still think there's a couple
• 47:28
  events that are similar in stimulus, but
• 47:33
  Yeah, he was so close.
• 47:35
  Luka was in the mix the whole weekend,
• 47:36
  and then Yona had a good last day,
• 47:39
  just not quite enough to
• 47:41
  make his way through.
• 47:42
  Yeah, and there's my Colin Bossard pick.
• 47:48
  6th, 15th,
• 47:50
  and then really kind of fell off
• 47:53
  on the last two events.
• 47:56
  Yeah, it's too bad.
• 47:59
  Yeah, I was impressed with Yele.
• 48:01
  He had a great weekend.
• 48:03
  Happy for Luca, Lazar's brother,
• 48:06
  to see them get back to the
• 48:09
  games together.
• 48:10
  He's had some close calls
• 48:11
  the last couple years,
• 48:12
  and he was sick one of the
• 48:13
  years or something like that.
• 48:15
  So nice to see him back.
• 48:18
  And then a few rookies are making it,
• 48:20
  which is nice.
• 48:21
  Yeah,
• 48:21
  and Heidrick Hypelainen with a
• 48:23
  blazing speed on that last event.
• 48:25
  It's crazy.
• 48:27
  He just held the dumbbells
• 48:29
  at the end for a farmer hole.
• 48:30
  Did you see that at the
• 48:31
  finish line he just held?
• 48:32
  Yeah.
• 48:34
  Then put them down.
• 48:34
  Yeah, that was a boss move.
• 48:37
  Yeah, very much.
• 48:38
  All right, let's go to Asia real quick.
• 48:43
  I'll be honest,
• 48:44
  I did not watch much of this, if any.
• 48:48
  But in my opinion,
• 48:50
  we already knew two of the
• 48:51
  people going on both the
• 48:52
  men's and women's side.
• 48:54
  It was just in contention
• 48:55
  for the third spot.
• 48:57
  On the men's side,
• 48:58
  Ivan Kurestev and Arthur Seminoff.
• 49:03
  Those were kind of the two we knew.
• 49:05
  A lot of people had Aunt Haynes in this.
• 49:09
  Nowhere to be found.
• 49:10
  It was Ilya.
• 49:11
  I think he was injured.
• 49:13
  Wasn't he injured?
• 49:16
  There's a lot of aunts there.
• 49:17
  14th, he finished the weekend.
• 49:26
  Um, but yeah.
• 49:29
  So those are your three men going forward.
• 49:33
  There's two men, right?
• 49:34
  Or three women, two men.
• 49:36
  I thought it was three and three.
• 49:38
  Is it three and three?
• 49:38
  Wow.
• 49:39
  I will check real quick
• 49:41
  while we're talking.
• 49:46
  Maybe you're right.
• 49:49
  Nope.
• 49:49
  You're right too.
• 49:51
  Yeah.
• 49:52
  My bad.
• 49:52
  Two and three.
• 49:54
  So it's only the top two.
• 49:56
  Ivan and Arthur.
• 49:58
  They're heading off.
• 50:00
  Then on the women's side, it was three.
• 50:02
  If they can travel.
• 50:06
  Sahir Kaya and Chung Young
• 50:09
  Choi were the first two,
• 50:11
  which we pretty much all
• 50:12
  picked to be the first two.
• 50:15
  And then Dewan Jung was number three.
• 50:19
  Yes.
• 50:19
  I mean...
• 50:22
  going in I think that's
• 50:24
  where she was ranked or
• 50:25
  pretty close to that so no
• 50:27
  real upset there in um in asia
• 50:33
  so overall I thought great
• 50:35
  first week of action uh
• 50:37
  lots of drama Yona not
• 50:39
  making it was a big shock
• 50:40
  to me um after dominating
• 50:42
  the first two um stages of
• 50:46
  the season uh Miravan roar
• 50:49
  I thought the way she came
• 50:51
  out winning the open I
• 50:52
  thought she would get a spot
• 50:57
  I don't know if I thought
• 50:58
  she was going to get a spot,
• 51:00
  but I was still very impressed by her.
• 51:02
  She's very new still to some
• 51:05
  of the CrossFit.
• 51:07
  I think it was someone on
• 51:08
  the broadcast that was
• 51:09
  saying just not long ago,
• 51:12
  180 was her max snatch,
• 51:13
  and then she's been seeing
• 51:14
  an Olympic lifter to try to
• 51:16
  work on the snatch and ring
• 51:18
  muscle-ups and some of the higher skills.
• 51:20
  So I think she's come a long way,
• 51:23
  and I think she will be one
• 51:25
  to watch in Europe in the
• 51:26
  next competition.
• 51:27
  few years.
• 51:27
  Cause she does have home run capacity,
• 51:29
  especially with, you know,
• 51:31
  some of her squatting capacities and, um,
• 51:35
  perhaps other movements too,
• 51:36
  that we saw in the open and quarters.
• 51:41
  Um, and then I,
• 51:42
  I think it can't be said
• 51:45
  enough what BKG has doing
• 51:48
  for his 11th straight
• 51:49
  qualification to the games.
• 51:52
  No athlete has ever done that before.
• 51:55
  Super impressive.
• 51:57
  Yeah, I mean,
• 51:59
  just to be able to compete at
• 52:01
  this high level for that
• 52:02
  many years is incredible.
• 52:04
  Not only physically,
• 52:05
  but just mentally to stay
• 52:07
  in the game is hard, right?
• 52:10
  So it's awesome.
• 52:13
  Happy for him.
• 52:14
  Just so everybody,
• 52:16
  like Ben Smith got to 11 straight,
• 52:19
  but one was by wild card.
• 52:22
  BKG has done it qualifying all 11 times.
• 52:27
  super super impressive and
• 52:29
  he had to battle his way
• 52:30
  back into that you know
• 52:32
  those top 10. uh Holly our
• 52:37
  stats and information
• 52:38
  person says Dewan has been
• 52:41
  third the last three years
• 52:42
  in semifinals um
• 52:49
  So next on the agenda is age group.
• 52:54
  Last time we talked, it wasn't final.
• 52:56
  We were waiting for the
• 52:57
  final submission Monday night.
• 52:59
  That happened.
• 53:01
  Our very own Jamie Latimer
• 53:03
  is sitting in a qualifying
• 53:05
  spot for the CrossFit Games.
• 53:07
  So pumped for her.
• 53:09
  Dex, if he's still in the chat,
• 53:11
  was one spot out but has moved up to...
• 53:16
  the final qualifying spot he
• 53:18
  is sitting in 40th last
• 53:20
  check nice nice job so
• 53:25
  super pumped for him and
• 53:28
  then uh super listener of
• 53:30
  the show corey leonard um
• 53:32
  had a great time nice job corey
• 53:39
  But learned a lot,
• 53:40
  and really his goals are
• 53:42
  for when he turns 50.
• 53:44
  Masters are not official now,
• 53:46
  Kenneth DeLapp.
• 53:48
  We have to wait until next
• 53:50
  Monday for the leaderboard
• 53:52
  to be finalized.
• 53:53
  And I know a lot of people,
• 53:54
  I know Jamie at least has
• 53:57
  one validated already.
• 53:59
  I know Rudy has two validated already.
• 54:03
  I haven't heard from Dex on any of that,
• 54:05
  but I know that he's
• 54:07
  watching with bated breath.
• 54:08
  See if he moves up a little
• 54:09
  bit more and secures it.
• 54:14
  So, yeah.
• 54:19
  But that is the schedule.
• 54:21
  Yeah, next Monday, the 28th.
• 54:23
  Maybe that's Tuesday.
• 54:26
  Next Tuesday, the 28th,
• 54:28
  they will be final.
• 54:29
  So we're waiting for that.
• 54:35
  And on that,
• 54:35
  I got to talk to Jamie Igea today.
• 54:38
  Man, what a ball of good vibes.
• 54:43
  I'm rooting for her.
• 54:44
  She is just so fun to talk to.
• 54:47
  And she's going to be in the
• 54:48
  West this weekend.
• 54:50
  And she could be competing
• 54:52
  at the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 54:55
  And we talked about that a lot today.
• 54:58
  But she's taking one step at
• 54:59
  a time and not really
• 55:00
  committing to anything
• 55:02
  beyond West Coast Classic right now.
• 55:06
  And then once that's done
• 55:08
  and she sees what happens there,
• 55:09
  then she'll commit.
• 55:11
  And I think it's really like,
• 55:13
  if she would by chance make
• 55:15
  the CrossFit games,
• 55:16
  she probably would not go
• 55:17
  masters in addition to that.
• 55:20
  Um, but it,
• 55:23
  I thought of Carolyn the whole
• 55:24
  time because we talked to
• 55:25
  women's basketball and its resurgence.
• 55:28
  And, um,
• 55:29
  when you look up Jamie to research her,
• 55:31
  she still comes up as USC
• 55:32
  basketball player.
• 55:34
  Um, not CrossFit.
• 55:37
  Love it.
• 55:37
  She's a, she's a great athlete.
• 55:40
  Yeah.
• 55:41
  I remember when I first got
• 55:43
  into the sport and I was
• 55:44
  competing and when she
• 55:45
  first made the games and
• 55:47
  she posted a picture of herself by,
• 55:49
  by like the water,
• 55:51
  she was like in her bikini and something.
• 55:52
  And she was like,
• 55:53
  I don't look like a games athlete,
• 55:54
  but like, you know,
• 55:55
  I perform and I'm an athlete.
• 55:57
  And I was like, that's how I feel.
• 55:59
  Like, cause I, every time I competed,
• 56:01
  like I never felt like I
• 56:02
  looked like everyone else.
• 56:02
  I just felt like I was
• 56:04
  athletic and I did CrossFit.
• 56:06
  And I love following her
• 56:09
  career over the years since,
• 56:11
  since her first time that
• 56:12
  she made the games and
• 56:14
  she's a sick basketball player.
• 56:18
  Yeah.
• 56:18
  And she said like,
• 56:19
  nobody gave her a shot
• 56:20
  because she was so short
• 56:23
  and she only got one
• 56:24
  division one scholarship
• 56:26
  and it was to USC.
• 56:29
  Like that's crazy.
• 56:32
  And she made the most of it
• 56:33
  played professionally in Europe and
• 56:36
  tried out for the WNBA,
• 56:37
  but there's so few teams.
• 56:39
  We talked about that too.
• 56:40
  Like the opportunities just
• 56:41
  aren't there for women yet,
• 56:42
  but they're coming.
• 56:43
  There's two teams coming one
• 56:46
  in the Bay area and one in Toronto.
• 56:48
  So Lex and I are very happy about that.
• 56:50
  We get, we each get our teams.
• 56:53
  Yeah.
• 56:54
  And Jamie,
• 56:55
  our Jamie says she uses Jamie
• 56:58
  Hygieia's posts as
• 57:00
  inspiration for some of the
• 57:01
  young women and her affiliate.
• 57:03
  Awesome.
• 57:03
  Love that.
• 57:05
  Because she is so cool about
• 57:07
  like body image and very
• 57:09
  open and transparent about that.
• 57:11
  So I'm super stoked that we had her on.
• 57:14
  She's been like a bucket
• 57:15
  list of mine to have on the show.
• 57:18
  And so glad we got to do that.
• 57:20
  And I think she's like best
• 57:22
  sideline reporter in the business.
• 57:23
  She's awesome at that too.
• 57:25
  Yeah, she's incredible.
• 57:26
  I was at Granite Games when
• 57:29
  she got challenged to demo
• 57:30
  the legless rope climb in
• 57:32
  her street clothes, and she killed it.
• 57:36
  Killed it.
• 57:37
  Such a boss move.
• 57:38
  She just has a great personality, and yeah,
• 57:42
  she'll be good.
• 57:43
  Yeah.
• 57:45
  Next, we're going to preview next week.
• 57:47
  We're heading to Oceania and to Carson,
• 57:50
  California.
• 57:51
  It has been so fun talking
• 57:52
  to athletes leading up to
• 57:54
  this who get to go on that
• 57:56
  tennis stadium floor.
• 57:59
  If you have been a fan of
• 58:01
  this sport for a very long time,
• 58:03
  that's kind of where it all began.
• 58:04
  I was talking to Sam Kwan tonight.
• 58:09
  He didn't even realize that
• 58:10
  all the events are on the tennis court,
• 58:12
  tennis stadium.
• 58:15
  Has he looked at his schedule?
• 58:17
  I don't know.
• 58:18
  I think he just,
• 58:19
  how does he not know he's
• 58:21
  just training and that's
• 58:22
  not part of what he needs
• 58:23
  to know at this point.
• 58:24
  Interesting.
• 58:25
  Yeah.
• 58:26
  Um, but,
• 58:27
  and then you talk to like Tristan
• 58:30
  Harrison who like it, this is his dream.
• 58:33
  This is a super bowl he gets
• 58:34
  to do and it's his one shot
• 58:37
  and he's starting his job
• 58:38
  as a nurse right after.
• 58:39
  That's awesome.
• 58:41
  And that like,
• 58:42
  that's the stories are so cool.
• 58:44
  And then you have like Jamie
• 58:45
  Hygieia who her first games
• 58:47
  are 2016 at Carson.
• 58:50
  She's going to go back on the floor.
• 58:53
  Like that's,
• 58:55
  there's so many cool little
• 58:56
  stories with this whole thing.
• 58:58
  I hope it just comes off as
• 58:59
  well as like I'm anticipating.
• 59:04
  And then we have Torian,
• 59:05
  the complete rock show of
• 59:07
  semifinals that has the fireworks,
• 59:10
  the flames, the smoke, the dancing,
• 59:13
  whatever's.
• 59:15
  What is it called when they
• 59:16
  drink out of the shoe?
• 59:17
  A shoeie.
• 59:19
  A shoeie.
• 59:21
  The performances, yeah.
• 59:24
  It's a vibe.
• 59:26
  Yeah.
• 59:27
  So super exciting weekend.
• 59:28
  We just got done with Europe.
• 59:29
  That was great.
• 59:30
  These two, man.
• 59:32
  Australia's going to be
• 59:33
  early in the morning.
• 59:35
  West Coast is going to be late at night.
• 59:36
  I'm getting no sleep next weekend.
• 59:40
  But we're going to do our picks,
• 59:45
  who we think is going to make it.
• 59:46
  And this was a lot harder
• 59:48
  for me this week than it was last week.
• 59:52
  Same here.
• 59:54
  in two ways.
• 59:55
  One,
• 59:55
  we kind of talked about this off the top,
• 59:57
  the way that the points are
• 59:59
  levied in and figured out who,
• 1:00:01
  what area gets the most
• 1:00:03
  invites to the games just
• 1:00:05
  seems off when you're
• 1:00:07
  trying to pick who is going.
• 1:00:10
  And you said it yourself, like in Asia,
• 1:00:13
  because young,
• 1:00:13
  young Choi was out hurt last year.
• 1:00:16
  And then she comes back and,
• 1:00:18
  it gave another person an
• 1:00:20
  opportunity to go to the
• 1:00:21
  games to get big points.
• 1:00:23
  And then Chung Young Choi's
• 1:00:24
  points are still big from
• 1:00:26
  the year before they get an
• 1:00:27
  extra spot when really
• 1:00:30
  there shouldn't be an extra spot.
• 1:00:32
  Yeah.
• 1:00:32
  And this is what Brian spin
• 1:00:33
  talked about last year on
• 1:00:35
  how Africa can get another spot or,
• 1:00:37
  or South America was you
• 1:00:39
  almost need someone to not
• 1:00:41
  make it or make it close
• 1:00:42
  and then get other people getting,
• 1:00:44
  you know,
• 1:00:45
  those games points and stuff,
• 1:00:47
  and then have them come
• 1:00:48
  back the following year.
• 1:00:49
  And then they get those points like that.
• 1:00:51
  That's for sure.
• 1:00:52
  I mean, in my opinion,
• 1:00:53
  what happened with Asia
• 1:00:55
  getting that extra spot.
• 1:00:57
  And then you have a place
• 1:00:58
  like Oceana who has Jamie Simmons,
• 1:01:01
  not competing to me,
• 1:01:04
  moving to the States.
• 1:01:06
  Kara.
• 1:01:06
  Yeah.
• 1:01:07
  car saunders going team uh
• 1:01:10
  emily deroy yeah emily
• 1:01:12
  deroy going team and uh
• 1:01:15
  gosh I can't why can't I
• 1:01:16
  think of her name ellie
• 1:01:18
  turner that's it ellie
• 1:01:19
  turner out this year and
• 1:01:20
  they still get four spots
• 1:01:23
  that just it's insane
• 1:01:26
  So let's start in Oceana,
• 1:01:28
  and it is four and four, four men,
• 1:01:32
  four women.
• 1:01:33
  I don't think the women should get four.
• 1:01:35
  I think the men maybe should get four.
• 1:01:38
  It was pretty easy to make picks for that.
• 1:01:42
  So we're picking four of
• 1:01:43
  each and a dark horse.
• 1:01:46
  I'll start with the men
• 1:01:47
  because I think it's
• 1:01:48
  probably consensus on the top three.
• 1:01:52
  It's probably Jay Crouch, Ricky Garrard,
• 1:01:55
  Bailey Martin.
• 1:01:56
  Yeah.
• 1:01:57
  In whatever order you want, but yes.
• 1:01:59
  Right.
• 1:02:01
  I think Jay has shown that
• 1:02:03
  he's ready and it's going
• 1:02:05
  to be tight between him and Ricky.
• 1:02:07
  Yeah.
• 1:02:07
  I think it'll be like those
• 1:02:08
  two and then Bailey just a
• 1:02:10
  little bit after.
• 1:02:11
  Yeah.
• 1:02:12
  So I have for my fourth Peter Ellis.
• 1:02:17
  I was almost with that one.
• 1:02:18
  I went with Zach Thomas.
• 1:02:21
  Any reasons why?
• 1:02:24
  no no particular reason I
• 1:02:26
  was between those two but
• 1:02:29
  my dark horse is luke dejon
• 1:02:32
  my dark horse is just for
• 1:02:33
  sentimental sake and it's
• 1:02:35
  rob forte you're putting a
• 1:02:37
  classic crossfit workout on
• 1:02:38
  the floor throughout this
• 1:02:40
  competition and who's
• 1:02:42
  better at classic crossfit
• 1:02:43
  than rob forte yeah and it
• 1:02:48
  I'm that's just what I'm
• 1:02:48
  going to be rooting for to
• 1:02:50
  be honest that's a total heart pick
• 1:02:53
  On the women's side, I have Maddie Sturt,
• 1:02:58
  Gracie Walton, Caitlin Van Zyl,
• 1:03:01
  and Georgia Pryor.
• 1:03:05
  I have those top three in a
• 1:03:08
  different order.
• 1:03:08
  And then Haley Adams.
• 1:03:11
  The other Haley Adams.
• 1:03:12
  The other Haley Adams.
• 1:03:14
  And then my dark horse is Julia Hannaford.
• 1:03:19
  Okay.
• 1:03:20
  My dark horse is Alethea Boone.
• 1:03:24
  I'm just going old school.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah.
• 1:03:26
  Workouts.
• 1:03:27
  I want to see the old school people play.
• 1:03:31
  So that would,
• 1:03:33
  and that's just what I'm rooting for.
• 1:03:37
  So I will let you lead off
• 1:03:39
  the North America West and
• 1:03:43
  we'll start with the men because I think,
• 1:03:47
  I think there's probably four for sure's.
• 1:03:53
  And then the five,
• 1:03:55
  the five got tight for me.
• 1:03:59
  Yeah.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah.
• 1:04:00
  I kept going back and forth
• 1:04:02
  between different people.
• 1:04:04
  So I have, uh, Brent, Pat, Justin quant,
• 1:04:10
  James Sprague tutor,
• 1:04:15
  especially with the snatch
• 1:04:16
  and the handstand walk.
• 1:04:17
  I think he's going to do great.
• 1:04:19
  I feel like this is Brandon Luck.
• 1:04:21
  It's here.
• 1:04:24
  William Leahy, the fourth.
• 1:04:27
  And here I'm back and forth
• 1:04:28
  between Cole Greyshaber and Colton.
• 1:04:31
  And I love Colton.
• 1:04:33
  I know he can win number two.
• 1:04:36
  I'm a little concerned with
• 1:04:40
  the Echo Bike 30-inch box
• 1:04:42
  legless roll climb one.
• 1:04:45
  and the first the running
• 1:04:48
  one which then puts them
• 1:04:50
  possibly in the not as
• 1:04:51
  great heat going into the
• 1:04:53
  last day if they don't
• 1:04:54
  recede but he's a gamer so
• 1:04:58
  I feel like I gotta go with
• 1:04:59
  colton he's just he gets it
• 1:05:02
  done when it needs to like
• 1:05:03
  I'm gonna put him in that
• 1:05:05
  last spot so I have velner
• 1:05:10
  fitkowski madaris quant
• 1:05:13
  same as you top four
• 1:05:17
  I actually have Colton
• 1:05:18
  because he is a gamer.
• 1:05:20
  He is like, he's just,
• 1:05:21
  you can't not pick him.
• 1:05:22
  Like he's just going to get it done.
• 1:05:24
  And there's workouts
• 1:05:25
  sometimes that you think
• 1:05:25
  he's not going to do well.
• 1:05:27
  And he does.
• 1:05:27
  And it's like, wow,
• 1:05:29
  it's not as tall person workout.
• 1:05:31
  This guy's just so fit.
• 1:05:33
  And he's going to hit a home run or two.
• 1:05:35
  Yep.
• 1:05:36
  Uh, so yeah.
• 1:05:40
  And he's not going to drop
• 1:05:41
  those dumbbells.
• 1:05:42
  That's just one of those
• 1:05:43
  workouts where he's just
• 1:05:46
  going to will himself to be
• 1:05:47
  better than others.
• 1:05:50
  Then I have Tudor,
• 1:05:51
  and I'm high on the Tudor
• 1:05:53
  train this year.
• 1:05:55
  He showed in the open and
• 1:05:56
  quarters a capacity for
• 1:05:58
  things he's never shown a
• 1:05:59
  capacity for before.
• 1:06:01
  And he has home runs with
• 1:06:03
  the snatch and the handstand walk.
• 1:06:06
  So I am really high on tutor this year.
• 1:06:10
  Then I have James Sprague
• 1:06:11
  and I was reluctant.
• 1:06:13
  I didn't,
• 1:06:13
  I didn't want to pull them out
• 1:06:14
  cause I just love the kids so much,
• 1:06:16
  but it's tight here.
• 1:06:18
  And then I have William
• 1:06:18
  Leahy and Scott Tetlow.
• 1:06:24
  Scott Tetlow telling me that
• 1:06:26
  he is for the first time in his career,
• 1:06:29
  not hurt.
• 1:06:32
  because he backed off his
• 1:06:33
  volume this year to see
• 1:06:35
  what that would do um
• 1:06:39
  that's why I went with him
• 1:06:40
  brandon luckett was around
• 1:06:42
  there as well I did not put
• 1:06:43
  him on this list and then
• 1:06:45
  my dark horse who I really
• 1:06:46
  wanted to put in the top
• 1:06:47
  nine was max krieg he was
• 1:06:49
  just on the outside last
• 1:06:51
  year and uh I i think that
• 1:06:54
  this is this is his year
• 1:06:56
  and I almost switched him
• 1:06:57
  and james sprague
• 1:07:01
  Yeah, I mean,
• 1:07:01
  I don't know if Cole
• 1:07:02
  Grayshamers counts as a
• 1:07:04
  dark horse when he's a games athlete,
• 1:07:05
  so let me try to pick
• 1:07:07
  another one for the men
• 1:07:09
  that will go as a dark horse.
• 1:07:11
  I will pick Sam Dancer.
• 1:07:15
  Wow.
• 1:07:16
  That's just like my raw forte pick.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah.
• 1:07:20
  Another athlete.
• 1:07:22
  Yeah.
• 1:07:24
  And you just never, like,
• 1:07:25
  Sam's going to kill that snatch workout.
• 1:07:28
  he's great on his hands.
• 1:07:31
  Like he's going to be good.
• 1:07:33
  Like he's probably won't be tutor,
• 1:07:35
  but as long as he's healthy,
• 1:07:37
  he's actually a really good runner.
• 1:07:40
  Yeah.
• 1:07:42
  I remember my first ever
• 1:07:43
  volunteer experience was when he,
• 1:07:47
  he was on the conjugate
• 1:07:48
  team and he snatched some
• 1:07:50
  stupid number like three 15
• 1:07:52
  or back when nobody was doing that.
• 1:07:55
  And the place went nuts, but he was,
• 1:07:57
  that was big Sam.
• 1:07:59
  He has become much worse
• 1:08:01
  felt in his later years and
• 1:08:06
  much better at a lot of things.
• 1:08:08
  So it'll be fun to watch him.
• 1:08:11
  On the women's side,
• 1:08:13
  there are four no-brainers here, right?
• 1:08:18
  Yeah.
• 1:08:19
  All right.
• 1:08:20
  Who are your top four?
• 1:08:22
  Let's start there.
• 1:08:25
  Ariel, Gazan, Rolf.
• 1:08:29
  i have abigail dome it there
• 1:08:31
  as the fourth bethany it
• 1:08:33
  just depends if she's
• 1:08:34
  healthy if bethany was
• 1:08:35
  healthy I would put her
• 1:08:38
  above domet and possibly
• 1:08:41
  above rolf although I think
• 1:08:42
  rolf is going to have a
• 1:08:43
  great weekend I think a lot
• 1:08:45
  of these workouts are
• 1:08:46
  looking really good for her
• 1:08:48
  so we are the same at that point
• 1:08:51
  and the reason I put bethany
• 1:08:53
  in there so many years I
• 1:08:55
  said no way is she healthy
• 1:08:56
  enough to do this no way is
• 1:08:58
  she healthy enough to do
• 1:08:58
  this and she always does it
• 1:09:01
  and I've once bitten twice
• 1:09:03
  shy putting bethany in
• 1:09:05
  there there's not a whole
• 1:09:08
  bunch of pulling from the
• 1:09:11
  floor I don't think that would
• 1:09:13
  Like those clean and jerks
• 1:09:14
  are light enough.
• 1:09:15
  It's the snatch.
• 1:09:16
  She did really well in that
• 1:09:17
  snatch ladder in 2021 at
• 1:09:19
  the West Coast Classic.
• 1:09:20
  She's a great runner and
• 1:09:21
  she's great on machines.
• 1:09:24
  Like she's got great aerobic capacity.
• 1:09:26
  I think she'll I think she gets it done.
• 1:09:30
  So from NASA,
• 1:09:31
  we have our top five is Ariel Gazan,
• 1:09:34
  Rolf Domet, Bethany.
• 1:09:39
  All right.
• 1:09:40
  Now we've got to finish it
• 1:09:41
  out with three more.
• 1:09:44
  I'm going to go with my girl,
• 1:09:45
  my demo team partner, Sydney.
• 1:09:48
  Son of a gun.
• 1:09:54
  I forgot her altogether and
• 1:09:57
  I would never forget her.
• 1:09:58
  Why did I do that?
• 1:10:00
  Yeah.
• 1:10:01
  I'm going to put Sydney in
• 1:10:02
  there as the next one.
• 1:10:05
  I have, uh, Rebecca Fusliay.
• 1:10:12
  And then there's four
• 1:10:14
  athletes that I think are
• 1:10:15
  very similar athletes.
• 1:10:17
  And I think one of them will make it.
• 1:10:20
  I don't know which one.
• 1:10:21
  Spiegel, Olivia, Kyra, and Kelsey Keel.
• 1:10:26
  Although I think, I don't know.
• 1:10:30
  Might go with,
• 1:10:32
  actually there's Devin Kim too.
• 1:10:33
  That's right.
• 1:10:36
  She has a back injury, I thought.
• 1:10:37
  That's why she came to the team.
• 1:10:38
  Yeah.
• 1:10:40
  That's why I didn't put her in there.
• 1:10:41
  I'm just kidding.
• 1:10:43
  Come on.
• 1:10:44
  She did way too good at the
• 1:10:45
  other events for there
• 1:10:47
  really to be a back injury.
• 1:10:48
  In the quarters?
• 1:10:52
  What heavy hinging did we have?
• 1:10:53
  I'm trying to remember.
• 1:10:56
  Wall balls, burpees, roll, climb,
• 1:10:59
  handstand, push-up, toes to bars,
• 1:11:01
  ring muscle-ups.
• 1:11:03
  I mean, that's not hurting her back.
• 1:11:05
  The snatch one was more grip
• 1:11:06
  than I think the snatch hinging.
• 1:11:10
  Okay.
• 1:11:11
  Clean and jerk.
• 1:11:13
  It came out last year.
• 1:11:15
  There was talk of removing
• 1:11:17
  her from the team last year.
• 1:11:19
  I think it was just a way out.
• 1:11:21
  Possibly.
• 1:11:22
  Possibly.
• 1:11:22
  And I don't think she's really as hurt.
• 1:11:25
  But that's just my opinion.
• 1:11:27
  I have no facts to back that up.
• 1:11:31
  I'm having trouble with
• 1:11:32
  these ones to pick my last one.
• 1:11:34
  This was tough.
• 1:11:35
  This was really tough.
• 1:11:36
  So my modified list.
• 1:11:38
  I think I might go with Kyra.
• 1:11:41
  Wow.
• 1:11:42
  Nice.
• 1:11:44
  Honestly,
• 1:11:44
  like when I watched her on the
• 1:11:46
  team last year,
• 1:11:47
  the most improved athlete I
• 1:11:48
  saw last year.
• 1:11:52
  The most improved by far.
• 1:11:55
  Yeah, she's gone a lot there.
• 1:11:56
  And she's got some good
• 1:11:57
  high-skill gymnastics too.
• 1:11:59
  I don't know what that means
• 1:12:00
  in the individual competition.
• 1:12:05
  But Spiegel and Olivia are
• 1:12:06
  home run hitters too.
• 1:12:08
  It's Kelsey Kiel.
• 1:12:09
  It's hard to pick between.
• 1:12:10
  I think they're very similar.
• 1:12:18
  So we were the same to Flores.
• 1:12:22
  I'm modifying my list to Sydney McElishan,
• 1:12:28
  Rebecca Fusile, and Hattie Canule.
• 1:12:37
  I like it.
• 1:12:39
  What's your dark horse?
• 1:12:42
  This one is everybody
• 1:12:44
  forgets about her and every
• 1:12:46
  year she hits home runs.
• 1:12:49
  And it's Emily White.
• 1:12:50
  That's my dark horse too.
• 1:12:53
  She's a really good runner
• 1:12:54
  and she's super strong.
• 1:12:56
  Yep.
• 1:12:57
  And everybody every year
• 1:12:58
  forgets about her.
• 1:12:59
  Yeah, that's my dark horse.
• 1:13:01
  And every year she almost makes it.
• 1:13:05
  Yep.
• 1:13:06
  Same one.
• 1:13:08
  Yeah.
• 1:13:09
  That one, my dark horses in the West,
• 1:13:12
  Max Krieg and Emily White,
• 1:13:14
  I feel really solid with.
• 1:13:18
  I'm not as familiar with Max, but.
• 1:13:23
  Yeah.
• 1:13:26
  I,
• 1:13:26
  I think Olivia got lucky with the
• 1:13:28
  programming last year.
• 1:13:29
  I mean, there was,
• 1:13:36
  I thought the programming
• 1:13:37
  last year helped while
• 1:13:39
  there were still smaller
• 1:13:41
  athletes that qualified that were just
• 1:13:43
  fit in general I think it
• 1:13:44
  did have a bias towards um
• 1:13:49
  taller bigger athletes so
• 1:13:55
  and I think I think rebecca
• 1:13:56
  has worked so hard on her
• 1:13:57
  strength I i think this is
• 1:14:00
  her time yeah there's
• 1:14:03
  there's some good picks in
• 1:14:04
  the west that you can that you can have
• 1:14:08
  But honestly,
• 1:14:09
  like looking at this and the
• 1:14:12
  athletes in that area,
• 1:14:14
  and maybe I'm just biased
• 1:14:15
  because I talked to a lot
• 1:14:16
  of them and it is like,
• 1:14:19
  there's no way that Asia in
• 1:14:21
  Australia should get extras
• 1:14:24
  and not have room for at
• 1:14:25
  least one more athlete in
• 1:14:28
  North America West.
• 1:14:31
  Yes.
• 1:14:32
  But then my argument would be Europe,
• 1:14:34
  North America East, like as well.
• 1:14:39
  Like, I don't think, I mean,
• 1:14:41
  some of the injuries that happened,
• 1:14:43
  they had a little bit less.
• 1:14:45
  Going in.
• 1:14:46
  I agree with you on North America East.
• 1:14:47
  They deserve one of those for sure.
• 1:14:50
  Maybe two.
• 1:14:52
  Give them South America's
• 1:14:53
  and Asia's and give Australia's to West.
• 1:14:55
  I'm okay.
• 1:14:56
  But Europe,
• 1:14:57
  I don't feel like there was
• 1:14:59
  nobody that didn't make it
• 1:15:01
  that that one spot was
• 1:15:02
  going to get in that I
• 1:15:02
  thought needed to get in.
• 1:15:05
  Yeah.
• 1:15:06
  At the end of the day.
• 1:15:08
  So maybe 10 was right in Europe.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah.
• 1:15:13
  Like when you saw the list, you're like,
• 1:15:15
  yeah, that's, that's a good 10.
• 1:15:18
  Like, I mean, really good 10.
• 1:15:19
  Right.
• 1:15:20
  Yeah.
• 1:15:22
  So, so those are our picks.
• 1:15:25
  Love them.
• 1:15:25
  Hate them.
• 1:15:26
  Make your comments.
• 1:15:28
  Um,
• 1:15:28
  lots of comments about Kelsey looking
• 1:15:29
  like a different athlete this year.
• 1:15:31
  I, I just want to see it on the floor.
• 1:15:38
  And it's probably,
• 1:15:40
  I probably have a bias
• 1:15:41
  today because the last time
• 1:15:43
  I saw her on the floor,
• 1:15:44
  she was struggling with a handstand walk.
• 1:15:48
  And what did I see today?
• 1:15:50
  A handstand walk that made a
• 1:15:52
  big difference in who made it in Europe.
• 1:15:55
  So that's probably why I
• 1:16:00
  didn't even put her in here.
• 1:16:01
  And I, I think she'll be close.
• 1:16:03
  Like, I think she'll be close.
• 1:16:05
  She's in the mix.
• 1:16:05
  Like there's a,
• 1:16:06
  there's a lot that are
• 1:16:07
  going to be in the mix, right?
• 1:16:08
  Like there's,
• 1:16:09
  from let's call it six to 15, right?
• 1:16:14
  Like there's some execution
• 1:16:17
  that's going to be going on and, um,
• 1:16:20
  some workouts,
• 1:16:21
  maybe some people are just
• 1:16:23
  better at like programming
• 1:16:24
  will be a factor.
• 1:16:27
  Yeah.
• 1:16:28
  And again, like I'm, we've,
• 1:16:32
  we have sponsored one team
• 1:16:34
  on this podcast and
• 1:16:37
  And Kelsey Keough was on that team.
• 1:16:39
  So I do really like her and
• 1:16:41
  I do think of the world of her.
• 1:16:43
  I just,
• 1:16:44
  that's just what was in my head today.
• 1:16:47
  If Devin Kim is healthy,
• 1:16:49
  I think she can be in the mix as well.
• 1:16:50
  She should be in the mix.
• 1:16:52
  I,
• 1:16:53
  I don't disagree with you on that either.
• 1:16:55
  There's just,
• 1:16:56
  there's some proof I need to
• 1:16:57
  see live before I go there.
• 1:17:03
  And Kenneth DeLapp says,
• 1:17:06
  so you're saying there's a chance.
• 1:17:08
  I can't believe you didn't pick Sydney.
• 1:17:11
  I did.
• 1:17:11
  I modified it in time.
• 1:17:12
  I thank goodness I let you go first.
• 1:17:14
  Oh my gosh, like her shirt is right there.
• 1:17:23
  We got you, Sydney.
• 1:17:23
  We got you.
• 1:17:25
  And her dad listens to this
• 1:17:30
  podcast and show.
• 1:17:33
  Oh man, what a moron.
• 1:17:35
  She's one of the best pullers in CrossFit.
• 1:17:39
  And I got this,
• 1:17:39
  I already knew that going
• 1:17:41
  into the demo team last year.
• 1:17:42
  And then I saw it and I was like, yeah.
• 1:17:46
  Well,
• 1:17:46
  and what's going to be exciting for
• 1:17:47
  me is I've talked to her coach and
• 1:17:51
  You've seen the video of her training,
• 1:17:53
  the running, her running, getting better.
• 1:17:56
  We're going to see right off the bat.
• 1:17:59
  How, how much better did her running get?
• 1:18:01
  And if it does,
• 1:18:07
  she's also in a field that
• 1:18:08
  has other runners that are not as fast.
• 1:18:12
  So that will also help her.
• 1:18:14
  I think if I'm being honest.
• 1:18:18
  Versus if you put her in Europe,
• 1:18:19
  let's say Europe is just
• 1:18:21
  has good aerobic capacity.
• 1:18:23
  Like you can get like,
• 1:18:24
  it's like the strength
• 1:18:25
  workout in North and North
• 1:18:27
  America is going to be different than,
• 1:18:28
  you know, in certain regions,
• 1:18:29
  they're just more known for
• 1:18:31
  certain things.
• 1:18:32
  West is top heavy.
• 1:18:33
  They are very top heavy.
• 1:18:35
  Bethany, Emily, Emily,
• 1:18:37
  which is why if you have a
• 1:18:39
  workout that you can go and
• 1:18:41
  get a top five,
• 1:18:42
  it is huge because for the most part,
• 1:18:44
  a lot of times it's like
• 1:18:45
  those same athletes getting
• 1:18:47
  top fives and then the rest
• 1:18:48
  are just kind of
• 1:18:49
  interchanging in that middle.
• 1:18:51
  So when,
• 1:18:52
  when you get that top five points,
• 1:18:55
  It helps you a lot.
• 1:18:57
  And like someone like, you know, Spiegel,
• 1:19:00
  Olivia with those snatch ladders,
• 1:19:02
  Kelsey Keel will get those points there.
• 1:19:06
  So it'll make up for possibly.
• 1:19:10
  They're also top five in like runners,
• 1:19:12
  right?
• 1:19:13
  Emily, Ariel took, what,
• 1:19:15
  second or third in the games in the 5K?
• 1:19:17
  Emily White has proven that
• 1:19:19
  she's a great runner.
• 1:19:20
  Bethany Flores beat most of
• 1:19:24
  the men at West Coast Classic in 21.
• 1:19:25
  Yeah, I was going to say,
• 1:19:26
  she won that workout by, like.
• 1:19:29
  Right.
• 1:19:30
  Like,
• 1:19:31
  they have some of the top runners in
• 1:19:32
  the sport.
• 1:19:35
  If, if extremes though, if they don't,
• 1:19:37
  right.
• 1:19:38
  But it's packed up there
• 1:19:39
  with those people at the top, like,
• 1:19:42
  like Emily Rolfe needs a win there.
• 1:19:43
  I think she can do well on a
• 1:19:46
  few workouts there.
• 1:19:48
  I don't disagree.
• 1:19:49
  I guess I'm just proposing this to you.
• 1:19:52
  Like, yeah.
• 1:19:53
  because it's top heavy the
• 1:19:55
  snatch ladder like kelsey
• 1:19:57
  keel danny spiegel olivia
• 1:19:59
  kerstetter yeah there's a
• 1:20:00
  lot like getting the win is
• 1:20:01
  going to be harder because
• 1:20:04
  it's a crapshoot between up
• 1:20:06
  to five people who are
• 1:20:08
  really good at that
• 1:20:09
  movement where like nobody
• 1:20:12
  was going to catch braun in
• 1:20:14
  europe right no yeah like
• 1:20:17
  that snatch ladder there's a lot of
• 1:20:19
  heavy hitters in North America.
• 1:20:22
  Right.
• 1:20:23
  And like, look at someone like, um,
• 1:20:26
  Fuliano, right?
• 1:20:27
  Like it could be just a
• 1:20:29
  smaller athlete that just
• 1:20:30
  has better capacity to just
• 1:20:32
  cycle a heavy barbell for
• 1:20:35
  multiple reps versus that one rep max, uh,
• 1:20:39
  strength.
• 1:20:40
  Yeah.
• 1:20:41
  I think that's,
• 1:20:41
  what's going to juggle it
• 1:20:42
  more than we think in the
• 1:20:44
  West is you have like that
• 1:20:47
  first event where there are
• 1:20:49
  five people that could win that.
• 1:20:51
  And it's going to be hard to
• 1:20:52
  be the one that wins it on that five.
• 1:20:54
  Cause they're also good snatch ladder.
• 1:20:58
  People are going to need
• 1:20:58
  that win when you get to that moment.
• 1:21:01
  And it's going to be tough
• 1:21:02
  to get the win with those
• 1:21:04
  five people fighting you for it.
• 1:21:06
  Yeah.
• 1:21:06
  And what heats are you going
• 1:21:07
  to be in at that point?
• 1:21:13
  So I think that's going to
• 1:21:15
  be fun to watch and see how
• 1:21:18
  much that plays a role in all that.
• 1:21:25
  So that is our preview for next week.
• 1:21:28
  We're going to ramp up.
• 1:21:29
  We're going to do more shows.
• 1:21:31
  I'll have on who can be on.
• 1:21:32
  I know it's a busy weekend,
• 1:21:34
  but I want to cover that a
• 1:21:35
  lot more than we did Europe
• 1:21:37
  because we did so many of
• 1:21:38
  the interviews and stuff like that.
• 1:21:42
  to finish up with I was on
• 1:21:44
  around the whiteboard again
• 1:21:46
  this week I took the
• 1:21:48
  victory I don't know how I
• 1:21:52
  felt like I was bad this
• 1:21:53
  week and thank goodness the
• 1:21:56
  last question was about
• 1:21:57
  media and I got to go off
• 1:22:00
  on the last question and
• 1:22:01
  make a valiant comeback
• 1:22:04
  yeah it's like you started
• 1:22:05
  slower and then you were
• 1:22:06
  picking up points you know
• 1:22:08
  yeah you were like a hoffer you know
• 1:22:12
  The first week I came out
• 1:22:13
  punching hard and leveled off.
• 1:22:17
  And this week I went the
• 1:22:18
  opposite direction.
• 1:22:20
  Got it done though.
• 1:22:21
  It's not, you don't ask how.
• 1:22:24
  So this week is the finals.
• 1:22:27
  So there was already, like,
• 1:22:29
  I think Brian Spinn won the
• 1:22:31
  first quarter.
• 1:22:33
  This is the second quarter,
• 1:22:36
  and there's three people left.
• 1:22:39
  It is me, it is Colton Mertens,
• 1:22:42
  and it is Kiefer Lamy.
• 1:22:47
  That's some heavy hitters.
• 1:22:49
  That's going to be some good chirping,
• 1:22:52
  too.
• 1:22:53
  You better have your A game.
• 1:22:54
  Yeah,
• 1:22:55
  I think I'm going to have to come out
• 1:22:57
  hot this week and see if I can hold on.
• 1:23:01
  That's going to be a good one.
• 1:23:02
  Yeah.
• 1:23:03
  It's moving to Tuesday
• 1:23:05
  because Kiefer and Colton
• 1:23:07
  might be busy starting Wednesday.
• 1:23:10
  Yeah,
• 1:23:10
  they got to do something this weekend.
• 1:23:12
  Right.
• 1:23:13
  Might have a little thing on
• 1:23:15
  the agenda the weekend after.
• 1:23:17
  And I'm hoping that that
• 1:23:19
  means that they are distracted.
• 1:23:22
  That gives me the opening to
• 1:23:25
  shoot through the gap and get the win.
• 1:23:30
  So that is this Tuesday, 3 p.m.
• 1:23:33
  Eastern time.
• 1:23:34
  Super stoked for that.
• 1:23:36
  See if we can take the W to
• 1:23:38
  then move on to, I think,
• 1:23:40
  the grand finale,
• 1:23:41
  which would be spin me and
• 1:23:43
  whoever wins the next quarter.
• 1:23:47
  Awesome.
• 1:23:48
  It's been fun watching.
• 1:23:49
  It's a great, I mean,
• 1:23:50
  I get that it's the same as the death by,
• 1:23:52
  but it's not.
• 1:23:53
  And it's,
• 1:23:53
  it's nice to have like the weekly
• 1:23:55
  winners come, you know,
• 1:23:56
  there's got the
• 1:23:57
  championships and then it's nice.
• 1:24:00
  Yeah.
• 1:24:00
  I think it's way harder than
• 1:24:02
  death by the time.
• 1:24:03
  The timer is huge.
• 1:24:06
  Yeah.
• 1:24:07
  If,
• 1:24:08
  if you have never done anything like
• 1:24:10
  this in your time for 60
• 1:24:11
  seconds to get all your thoughts out.
• 1:24:14
  Insane.
• 1:24:16
  And the first week, I think I rushed it.
• 1:24:19
  The second week, I started to tell myself,
• 1:24:21
  just slow down.
• 1:24:22
  It actually is a little bit
• 1:24:24
  longer than you think it is.
• 1:24:26
  And then it seemed to go better.
• 1:24:30
  But super stoked for that.
• 1:24:32
  And then I want to finish
• 1:24:33
  with a little brag.
• 1:24:35
  I'm super pumped about this.
• 1:24:37
  For my mom's birthday and mother's day,
• 1:24:41
  I got her tickets to the U S
• 1:24:45
  swimming Olympic trials.
• 1:24:48
  Where's that being held?
• 1:24:49
  Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1:24:51
  Awesome.
• 1:24:52
  So it's only a two hour
• 1:24:53
  drive for us from here.
• 1:24:55
  Um,
• 1:24:56
  they are putting the pool in the
• 1:24:59
  football stadium where the
• 1:25:01
  Indianapolis Colts play.
• 1:25:03
  That's cool.
• 1:25:05
  I just want to see how
• 1:25:06
  they're going to do that logistically.
• 1:25:08
  Cause that seems insane to me.
• 1:25:12
  But I am super pumped.
• 1:25:14
  My mom is one of the biggest Olympic fans.
• 1:25:19
  Every time the Olympics run,
• 1:25:20
  she watches every sport under the sun,
• 1:25:23
  including curling and
• 1:25:25
  fencing and jujitsu and all of it.
• 1:25:30
  She cannot get enough.
• 1:25:32
  I love the Olympics.
• 1:25:34
  And I was a swimmer growing up.
• 1:25:35
  So we're actually going to go do that.
• 1:25:38
  Um,
• 1:25:38
  cause I haven't been to a swim meet in
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  forever.
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  So this is going to be really cool.
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  And we got seats right on
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  the start finish line.
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  That's awesome.
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  So that's actually in mid June.
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  So right after semis,
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  that's going to be my
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  relaxation to kind of go with mom,
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  hang out with her and go
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  watch some swimming.
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  I like that.
• 1:26:00
  I was watching the gymnastics today.
• 1:26:03
  Okay.
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  The U S a girl's gymnastics.
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  I think it was a national
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  meet or something.
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  Qualifier.
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  Yeah.
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  Everything right now has got
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  to be like Olympic trials.
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  I know track and field just
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  happened like a week ago, I think.
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  And what the Olympics are in August.
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  Paris.
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  Yeah.
• 1:26:20
  Yeah.
• 1:26:22
  Yeah.
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  Right after the games,
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  we'll have something to watch.
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  That'd be cool.
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  I don't know how you had
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  time to watch gymnastics today.
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  Well,
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  I guess you didn't do all the three
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  interviews I did today.
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  Yeah.
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  It's like in the background
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  sometimes when I'm doing stuff.
• 1:26:41
  Yeah.
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  Normally I'd be doing like
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  schoolwork on a Sunday,
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  but it's a long weekend for us.
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  So I get tomorrow off to do
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  my correcting of math tests
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  and other things, programming.
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  Well, cool.
• 1:26:57
  Well, enjoy your day off tomorrow.
• 1:26:59
  I will.
• 1:27:00
  Everybody in the chat,
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  thank you so much for being here.
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  This was awesome.
• 1:27:04
  Glad we got to spend the night with you.
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  And we'll be back next
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  weekend covering the West Coast Classic.
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  Make sure you join us then.
• 1:27:13
  All the people I've been interviewing,
• 1:27:14
  I've been prepping them
• 1:27:15
  that we'll be reaching out
• 1:27:16
  to them to talk to them
• 1:27:18
  next weekend during our wrap-up shows.
• 1:27:21
  So we should have some of
• 1:27:22
  the athletes on during that,
• 1:27:25
  which will be really awesome to do.
• 1:27:27
  So with that,
• 1:27:28
  we'll see everybody next time
• 1:27:29
  on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 1:27:33
  Thanks, guys.
• 1:27:34
  See you soon.