Friday — 2025 CrossFit Games

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This year’s Games will mark the 19th year of worldwide competition, bringing the world’s most elite athletes to Albany, NY, to crown the Fittest on Earth from Aug. 1-3 2025.

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We are at Jennings Landing, which usually hosts the Alive at Five Summer concert series and is now hosting the fittest on Earth. Today’s coverage is presented by the United States Border Patrol being an agent of strength. Happy Friday everyone. I am Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway, Bethany Flores, and Mike Arsenal will be on site as we are getting set to kick off event number one, run, row, run. This one’s not going to disappoint. We have a four mile run into a 3k row and then ending with a two-mile run. It’s going to be fun. Going to be fun. At Jenny’s Landing though, we have the course and we’ve got loops, not just a straight for mileer. Yeah, I really like the idea that there’s loops here. This really introduces early on in our weekend the fact that gamesmanship is important. They’re even going to get an opportunity coming off that 3K road to look back at the competition and see where they stack up. Adrian, what is your tempo recipe for success here? This is a long event, but they have to know their road pace sandwiched right there in the middle of these two long runs so that they can be disciplined and they’re going to be able to dictate the outcome in the workout more based on that run effort. And like I mentioned, discipline is important. They’ve got to have it very early. There’s a lot of emotion tied up in the start of the CrossFit games, and they want to save the desire for that final two-m stretch where they bleed out all they got. Well, with the start, let’s talk about start order in the start list. There are going to be three waves of 10 for the women and three waves of 10 for the men. And they’re going to be seated by their open finish. Now, one of those athletes who you think is going to do well, Haley Adams, is actually in the back row. Yeah, that’s right. It’s interesting. We got a lot of chatter about, hey, does the open matter? The open matters even here at the CrossFit games. And Haley’s going to be towards the back of the pack, but we like her. We watched her grow up within the sport of CrossFit. She’s a 2019 Rookie of the Year and she’s got a pedigree and a history, Chase, that shows us she’s a highle performer at a test just like this. And she performs well in event one, but someone who performs well all the time. Tia Clair Tumi. We know her. We love her. She’s going for her eighth title and of course she’s one of the most dominant athletes in the field. Let’s go down to Mike Arsenal. That is event number one. Well, Chase, 16 times in CrossFit Games history, the men and women have competed in the same event with the same specifications, often at the same time. And in six of those instances, a woman has been the overall winner. Why do I bring that up? Well, seventime champion Tia Tumi is arguably the best endurance athlete we have in this field, but she finds herself in an unfamiliar position. The men are first, then the women, and they’re ranked by their open placement. And Tia had an uncharacteristically weak open performance. So, she’s currently ranked 56th out of the 60 athletes. So, she has uh quite a bit of ground to make up if she’s going to be female number seven to win a dual event. Thank you, Mike. Let’s talk about some athletes that are going to be looking over their shoulder for Tia Clair Tumi. That one of those is Jeff Adler. Yes, Jeffrey Adler. He is going for his second title. No man has lost the title and then got it back. So, we’re excited to see that. Another one of those athletes who does well in the endurance, but will the jitters be there for him? And that’s Ricky Gard. That’s a really great question, Chase. But here’s what we know about Ricky. He had a sub fiveminute mile last year. He’s going to come with ferocity. And we’ll see how it plays out. [Applause] And the 2025 CrossFit Games are underway as we are getting set for run row run and more looks more like sprint row sprint. Jeff Adler right off the back. Now what’s important there there’s a couple of tight turns right at the very beginning. 60 athletes right at the start. it it’s good for you to maybe like get out ahead just to get some clear air. Yeah, there’s no doubt about the fact that Jeff had thought about this opportunity early. Ricky coming in right on his tail. These athletes identify from not only their own training paces, but also the history within competing against each other where they want to settle to start a race like this. But Chase, you nailed it. It’s tight positions. You want to get yourself in a position for success early so that then you can just stick to what you plan to stick to throughout the race. Jeff Adler T. Did I just see Tia Tumi right at the front of the Yeah, of course you did. She’s right there at the at the front with the guys. Uh that’s why we know her. We love her, right? She’s right there. But who is she behind? Jeff Adler and Ricky Gard. It’s almost like you guys set this up so well for athletes to look for. Well, Jeff Adler and Ricky Gerard are definitely looking over their shoulder. Tia Clair Tumi, your seventime cross the games champion right there with them. And it all it took all but 300 meters for her to get to the back of the pack to the front amongst all the traffic. Yeah. All the other women are just saying, “Well, see you on the other side, Tia.” Yeah. And that’s a that’s a bit of of a consideration from a competitive standpoint, right, Bethany? Like there is a strategy in which of course you show up with the desire to maximize your points and the outcome but you also have to run your own race. That is the number one uh rule in life. Know thyself. So with this it’s easy to get caught up in the race but you don’t want to burn out in the first four miles. And that’s a very good point because we have a long way to go. We’re just 2 minutes into event number one. and the speed at which these athletes came out. Obviously, they’re not going to keep that pace right from the beginning. But Adrian, how do you keep calm with the chaos first event games? All the buildup your entire year has led up to this single moment and all of a sudden everybody just starts sprinting right from the start. Well, I’ll tell you right now, if you’re a youngster in the field, more so meaning a lesser experienced athlete, you can easily get drawn out of a tempo or pace that you plan to establish because these vets will pull you right out of that. So, the reason part of this recipe for success is discipline early and desire late is because you really have to go into this test with that mindset in order to give yourself a chance to succeed late. Yeah. I feel like a lot of the veterans are like normal stuff here. Everyone’s sprinting. Go junior. You got it. Get out there. But I think a lot of the veterans are thinking, okay, I want to stay with the pack, but I don’t want to get caught up in the race. And so, got to find that middle ground of not getting too far behind, but staying right there with that. I mean, you guys have been competing for a very long time. Event one traditionally has been a little bit longer. It could be a bike. We’ve seen runs. We’ve seen swims. We’ve seen the crit race and everything like that, but looking at this landscape here, we’re running along the Hudson River. It’s 50 to 60°. Could you have picked a better location to have an event? It’s amazing. Um, so beautiful. I was actually commenting on that before we started. And just running near the water right there with that brisk cool air, you know you’re going to get some good times. Jeff Adler, Ricky Gerrard, Roman Krennicov. Three athletes that all have stood on the podium. Jeff has stood on top of the podium. Roman’s finished second. Ricky’s finished third. Leading the charge here. Tatumi has fallen off the pace a little bit from these top men. We got a pack of four as we were just four minutes in. Now, we mentioned earlier there’s a twomile run loop. So, be they’ll be doing this loop three times in a a longer run setting. What do you guys prefer? Do you prefer an out and back, a loop, a just a quick four mileer? What’s the benefit or downside here of having these loops? You know, to me, especially as we watch the the leading pack, of course, I I think it’s a huge advantage to running loose, and I think it’s because it gives you that opportunity to see where other competitors are and also be able to throttle up or throttle down appropriately. We think about the CrossFit games, and you’re you’re thinking about your durability through a series of tests, not just this one event. If this lead pack gets an opportunity to see, oh, the next group is 10 seconds back, 15 seconds back, they can throttle down and be able to gamify essentially the efforts that they’re putting into this. Yeah, I’m going to have to agree. You’re going to see most of those athletes look down at their watch to see their paces. And on that two-mile loop, they are going to check their paces to see where they’re at. So, without that loop, it’s hard to know kind of where you’re at and where everybody else is at. So, it’s definitely nice to have loops going Well, speaking of nice, we talked earlier about the weather this morning here in Albany, New York. 57°, low wind, humidity is high, but with the cool air, you’re not really going to feel it as much. 3 days ago, it was over 90° here. So, these athletes got very lucky with the weather this morning. They did. And and even as on our way to the facility this morning, it was like we’re going to see some really fast run times with these conditions. It’s it’s a perfect recipe for some PR running times. Now, is that a perfect recipe for a trap? It could be. It’s definitely Adrian pointed this out before we got on here on the air, but you’re going to get a little sore by running a little faster than you normally do. I tell you what, if this is a two-mile loop, that’s 605 for the turnaround point. That is bad. Now, what’s Chase, I got to call this out real quick. We looked literally, we said 615 at the turnaround mark. Jeff Adler looks at his watch, immediately throttles back the pace. Ricky’s like, “Whoa, what’s going on?” He slows down with him, right? Like, and and this is part of the the the gamification of a run like this and the endurance side of things where you’re like, “Okay, let’s check let’s let’s keep each other accountable. We know what’s about to happen. This last two miles, I’m running away from you, but right now we got to check ourselves and make sure that we’re sticking to this plan.” Yeah. What Bethany, what’s it feel like? You hit that the mile mark. I feel great. You see the time you’re like, “Whoopsie.” Been there, done that. I think 2018 was like that as well. The 800 meter runs that we did. We were like, “Oh, no.” But High School Musical’s coming in. We’re all in this together. So, stay with your pack. If someone else starts slowing down that you know is fast, well, you should probably follow suit. You see your top three. You’ve got Roman, Ricky, and Jeff. Is uh Roman getting a little 5K call back from uh 2023 in this moment? You’d like to think so. You would like to think so. you’re Chase is referring to a wonderful rivalry that we saw take place between Jeff and Jeff and Roman back in 2023. Unfortunately, we watched Roman have to withdraw due to a foot injury and didn’t really get to finish the CrossFit games the way that we had hoped and aspired to to watch that throw down turn into, but him and him and Jeff were still going neck and neck at that point of the 5K run. So, this is an opportunity here for Roman to uh to step up and see what he’s got. Athletes are working their way back about a mile out and a mile back. Again, we said the laps are two miles long. They’ll do two of those as we start with this fourmile run. As Jeff Adler is looking over his shoulder at Ricky Gard, another interesting talking point for this specific event is that we’ve known this for a really long time. We’ve known what this would include, the distances. Of course, the athletes didn’t know the details on the on the route itself. However, when you have that much time, Bethany, how many times have you done this event? Are you breaking it up a bunch of different times into interval formats? I mean, it’s almost like to an athlete’s detriment. They’ve done this too long. Yeah. When you know the workout for a little too long, it starts you start beating your head against the wall. But a lot of these athletes are going to test it out and then do intervals of this. Um, obviously they’re going to run outside, too, just because the terrain, it can mess with you. We saw uh Adler kind of roll his ankle just a tiny bit a second ago. So, it’s it definitely makes a difference running track compared to on the cement terrain. Although, I have actually rolled my ankle on a track. I’m I’m not boasting my athletic prowess right now with that statement, but I feel like I’ve had to come clean with that one. It was one of my more embarrassing moments as a quote athlete. And Adrian, you nailed it. Is that this is the earliest event announcement we’ve ever had at the Cross. This event was announced May 20th. They have had over two months to prepare for this. This was during the qualifying stages. So, people knew what the event was before they even qualified for the CrossFit Games. Yeah. that makes it unique and it and it makes it a little bit more of a psychological hump for a lot of these athletes, especially not necessarily the ones that we’re watching take the lead and and roll from the front. These guys have been pumped about the announcement from May May 20th. However, there’s a pack towards the back that have been dreading this day and are now having to live this experience out uh knowing that they’re going to be in a deficit from the points perspective. Um so it it’s it’s it’s unique when you know a test this long, but we’re watching it. These guys are nailing it to a tea so far as they get ready to make their way back towards those rowers. We have Jeff Adler, Ricky Gerard starting to pull away a little bit with that chase pack headed up by Ron Krennikov. Two other athletes with him. We’re trying to figure out who these top five are going to be. But Jeff and Ricky as Ricky takes a look back. Yeah, I’m excited to see what their two-mile pace is at. What they’re going to do, too. Are they going to reel it in a little bit more or are they going to speed up after these first two miles? Right. So, I just got word. It’s Roman, Hatfield, and Bosard. So, your top three so far as Jeff and Ricky are got about a 30 meter advantage on the chase pack headed up by Roman Krennikov. But Austin Hatfield and Colin Bosard are in that chase group. Austin Hatfield took 10th last year as a rookie at the Cross of Games. But a lot of chatter out there is that this guy has potential for not just podium but maybe a win here at the Cross of Games. Yeah, he’s what what we’ve seen from him and from a mentality perspective, it seems like he’s got all the pieces there and this is going to be a great weekend and opportunity for him to actually be able to put that on display. Having a strong start in a long endurance event like this with the capacity that we’ve seen from him when he gets into what we would categorize as traditional CrossFit, this is going to be a great way for him to start the weekend. All right, we have Jeff Adler, Ricky Gard at 11:37 on the first lap split, followed by Roman Krav, Colin Bosard, and Austin Hatfield. Huge gap about a 9second gap between them. You have Jay Crouch and Tia Clair Tumi. So, training partners, proven crew, fellow Australians, and and for them right now there’s comfort in this. knowing each other’s running paces. They train together in the buildup to the CrossFit games. This makes a very nice and familiar experience for these athletes to start the weekend. They can push one another. They can pace off one another. It’s it’s a great spot for them to settle into the second loop. And then, of course, uh understand that the rowers are looming. So, Calli and Souza, Jason Hopper, Harry Lightfoot, Sprag is in the mix there. Your second place female is Amy Kringle followed by Lucy Campbell and Haley Adams. Yeah, that’s pretty impressive. Um, we have some fast times going on. I will like to see how they do on that last two miles after the 3K row. That’s right. Tia Claire was at 1206. Amy Kringles about 17 seconds behind her with Lucy Campbell and Haley Adams 7 seconds behind them. So, same gap spread we’ve seen at least for the men and the women’s side between the top leaders and the chase pack. Yeah. And this is where 13 minutes into event one, reality starts to set in. And I and I mean that from a perspective of, hey, it was all fine and well. Adrenaline dump was strong. We kicked off the CrossFit games. We were all excited. And now we’re left to the psychological and physiological tolerances that we’ve established all year through our training. And so now we’re going to start to see who paced that first lap right. Um and and if there’s any significant change in the chunks of distance between the leading group and the following packs or not going into the rowers. Yeah, you’re going to find out a lot about yourself after that first uh uh did you pace the correct for and then because of all the training that you’ve had leading up to it, if you did push too hard, can you just hold on? And that’s a tough spot to be in, Bethany, when you when you have that reality hit you um emotionally that I I overshot the coverage here, right? Like I put myself in a tough situation and I’ve still got another 45 minutes left of this test. How do you reconcile that type of feeling? How do you fight back from that? You got to go back to all those really, really hard training days and weeks and months that we’ve had. Um cuz you know a lot of these athletes have pushed to that point where they’re just like I’m done. I am done. And you kind of have to just rely on training at that point and kind of be nice to yourself. Can you say some kind things to yourself even when it sucks really really bad? Um I think that your headsp space is going to be the most important thing. Um as you’re fighting through some really hard times on the run. approach past the 15minute mark as we are on our second two-mile lap to kick off this fourmile run and they will make their way to those echo rowers back at Jenny’s landing. Jeff Adler, your 2023 Crossit Games champ. We have three Crossit Games champions on the men’s sides in this field. Your last three with Jeff Adler, James Sprag, and Justin Maderas. Couple that with three other men that have stood on top of the podium with another three or four that have podium potential. This is one of the most stacked fields we have ever had for the men in the history of the Crossing Games. Yeah, I have to say for all the viewers out there tuning in, we are extremely fortunate and blessed to be here to cover this heat. I mean, this this whole entire weekend is going to be amazing. However, we’ve never seen a field of men stacked quite like this. And it literally, we say this in many different instances, but it could be anyone’s gold medal at the end of this 3-day competition. Now, we’ve seen Jeff Adler leading right from the start with Ricky Gard in his back pocket the whole way. I don’t know if that’s more of Jeff dictating the pace or Ricky just saying, “I’m just going to stay with you, but you’re going to do all the pace work.” Ricky is notorious for baiting a leader into the position where they feel like they have complete control and then he just hits you with this final surge within the last 300 meters of an event depending on how long it is and he’s got the capacity to do that. Not all athletes can play this game, but when you have that aerobic fitness and you’re in your back pocket and then you know you’ve got the power to have that final stride and kick at in any given time of a race, it it it’s going to make Ricky an extremely high level threat to Jeff throughout this entire thing. That is 101 of being an athlete right there. Uh it’s impressive what he can do when it it’s go time, game time. So I’m excited to see the end of this even though we’re right at the beginning. Still a long ways to go. Oh, and Chase, you brought up Justin Maderos, and we know that in the years past, there’s almost been a shift in mentality for him coming into this year where he’s openly and publicly stated like, I’m I’m kind of letting go of my expectations. I’m having fun competing. And the reason I bring him up is because running was always one of those things that when he has a good running year, his fitness shows here and even the arena at a different level. So, I’m interested to see how this plays out for him in event. And we saw what he did in the hills of Aromomas, California. Now, they didn’t have much water out in Aromomas, but they do have some here out on the course. And more on that, let’s go down to Mike Arseno. Yeah, these athletes need to fuel with a long event like event number one. Six miles of running, 3 kilometers of rowing that will be coming up very shortly. So, we have a couple tables set up here with a selection of drinks. We have one athlete is going to take down some baby food as we move throughout this event. But, Bethany, I’m curious. You’re a great resource to have as an active uh professional CrossFit athlete. What would your strategy be? What would you be consuming uh during event one to keep yourself fueled so your performance level stays high throughout the duration of this event? Yeah, I think you have to know yourself. Do you have a sensitive stomach? Do you have an easygoing stomach? And then that’s going to decide what you use as far as carbs go. But for me, it’s easy digesting carbs, quick, easy carbs that you can just use that you know work for you, too. Um, and so that’s going to be different per athlete and what works. appears. It’s like a short. Yeah, I like that. I I I love to use the same kind of strategy. I think it’s really important for us to consider, you know, a couple things like is there electrolytes in in those drinks that they’re they’re taking down and then also, you know, in the training building up. I mean, there’s probably a lot of athletes that love endurance sports tuning in to watch these big strong athletes. Our athletes carry a large amount of lean body mass and that’s also a different consideration when they’re out there doing these long endurance events than even traditional smaller framed endurance athletes, right? So, they’ve got to stay hydrated and they’ve got to make sure they’re getting enough electrolytes to be able to perform at a high level all the way through. Well, another thing is like you I hope you’ve prepared for something like this. Today isn’t the day to just start pounding gooze or or something that you’ve never tried before. Yeah, I was going to I was going to talk on that and it’s so important. It’s not about today, but what did you do yesterday? What did you do the day before? And what have you been doing during training? Because it’s not just one event they’re doing. This is a marathon. They got nine events they’re competing in. mile loop. And this is what is looming at Jennings Landing. It is the Rogue Echo rower and is built for anyone looking for a reliable smooth ride. Whether you’re just getting started or chasing your next PR, it’s a precision calibrated flywheel delivers consistent resistance. And the quick release foot straps make it easy to get in and out. When you’re done, it folds up and rolls away on oversized turf tires. So no matter where you’re training, the official rower of CrossFit and the CrossFit games, something to that point is that it is never been used at the CrossFit games before. It’s a very recent thing that has been created by Rogue. Have either one of you guys tried the Echo rower itself? I got to be honest, I’ve never never used one. Not yet. Not yet. So definitely something is like, hey, listen, if you’re not used to this piece of equipment, they say it’s very close to what the Concept 2 rower has been. has been at a traditional I mean a staple piece of equipment not just here at the cross of games but in crossite affiliates all over the world and you know if you’ve never been on one of those it may play a little bit in into the how that 3k goes under I mean I think that’s a part of the crossfit games and the beauty of it right you have to be an athlete and if you’ve never used it before you got to figure it out on the fly um personally I’ve never used it as either so I would be very intrigued by the rower and how it it works. Ricky Guerrard and Jeff Adler still in the lead. The chase pack had Roman Krennikov, Austin Hatfield. just now and Colin Bosard. But it looks like Roman has separated himself from that chase pack as Jeff Adler. Basically wearing Ricky Gard for a backpack this entire four mile run. And and now the discussion is, hey, hey man, what are you going to row? H how hard are we really getting after it here? We know what’s what Roman’s going to row and that’s fast. Regardless of what everyone else is going to choose to do on that rower, Roman Krenneov has been built for things like bike urging. Listen, you don’t row a 248 1k and just accidentally and even your slow is fast. So at that point when you sit down for a 3k in the middle of six miles of running, you’re going to pose a threat to a few men who are only four to five seconds ahead of you. Now, the question we had earlier is that there’s a six miles of running. It’s the third longest distance of running we’ve had on the individual side of the cross of games, but we have this 3k row when the race is this tight. Roman Krennikov’s already catching up to Jeff and Ricky. How much is this row going to matter when we’re talking about maybe getting a win here at the Cross of Games versus just having a successful run in the first event? For me, I don’t think it matters too much. Um, you’re not going to make up a ton of ground on the 3k row. U, we might see Roman get off first, but that two-m run is where the money is made. So, that’s going to be the most important part. You want to stay up. I mean, the good thing is they can all see each other’s monitors and they can kind of look over if they want to take a little sneak peek and see where everyone’s at, but it’s not going to matter as much as that two-mile run at the end. Yeah, I agree. I think when when we get when we watch these athletes settle into the row and and any CrossFitter watching this is going to understand this, the juice is not always worth the squeeze, folks. when you sit down on the rower and you’re going 5 seconds faster of a 500 meter split than someone sitting beside you because of all the more time that it provides as an advantage when you exit the rower. One pause, one miscue on your run, just slightly too fast on the rower and you’re going to drop off that pace and we’re just getting way more time on these running efforts. Your top three athletes coming into the Rose rowing transition area and it’s first come first serve. However, the men Oh, Ricky just had a misstep there. My goodness. Now, another thing is that the rowers were preset for all athletes, meaning the damper was at a five and the foot pad holes were at a three. Ricky didn’t change anything on the foot pad. Obviously, for a 3k row, Bethany, how much does it matter to have that set up for what you’re comfortable with? I think for me, it’s not going to matter as much as what you think. Um, you can kind of adjust as you go. We saw Ricky as he started rowing kind of adjust that damper up a little bit, but I think the most important thing is it’s a veteran move. Just get on the rower and start rowing. Speaking of veterans, Tia Clair Tumi is the first woman in. She’s fourth overall. Kayen Souza looks like he’s fourth for the men, followed by Colin Bosard. So, Tia Clair Tumi on the rower here right at the 25minute mark. James Sprag looks like Chris Ibara and Jason Hopper are for the men. So Tia, we’ve said this before alone on the course right now for the women. [Music] Now it’s nice here. I’ll say as Amy Kringle comes in. What’s nice here for the women is they get to face the Hudson River where the men get to face the crowd. But uh wear rocking sunglasses. How about Zeni? 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[Music] Adrian, we spoke earlier about the depth of this field on the men’s side and the number of champions. We have three champions over the last three years. One of those men is James Sprag, who is your 2024 reigning and defending Crossit Games champion. That’s right, James coming in fearless mentality. really knows that he’s got something to prove. Coming into this year, even as a defending champ, some people have counted him out, almost gave him a little bit of, “Yeah, he won it, but it was 2024.” And so this year, James comes in with a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Even after racking up wins at Watalooa and some very big events with some stout competition, I know that he’s focused and comes in with that grit mentality that he won the CrossFit games with last year. Uh, another athlete talk about pressure or a lot to prove. Jason Hopper burst on the scene back in 2022. Won the MAC back in the day and there’s been a lot of pressure I think put on him and maybe put on himself about being maybe a podium contender. Yes, we’ve heard over and over again he wants it. He wants to win. He wants to be on top. Do you see that veteran move right now that he’s doing? looking over at the rower and seeing what the other paces are around him. It’s not a bad idea, but he wants to win this this weekend. Harry Lightfoot just to his left working on his 3k row. His men are approaching the run the 1300 meter mark. Haley Adams, you should just eyeballs everywhere. Everyone’s seeing, hey, what’s the row pace? Where are we all just going to sit at at this row pace? Yeah, and Haley’s one of those women who is going to be able to row strong enough to put herself in a threatening position. And I think this is the key with the row for all these athletes that are coming in around that top seven mark with on on the side of each sex is that they want to exit the rower fast enough just to propose a threat on those athletes ahead of them for the final two two miles. Again, we are using the Rogue Echo rower, which is the official rower of CrossFit and the CrossFit games as Lucy Campbell back at the CrossFit Games for the first time since 2022. And the reason has been is that wrist injury that took her two years to recover from and now she’s back here at the Crossing Games. Yeah. A lot of doctors told her that she wasn’t going to make it back, that she couldn’t do this anymore. And so, I love those stories. I love it when they’re like, “I’m going to prove you wrong.” Um, and do you see what she’s doing right now? That’s kind of a veteran move. She’s got the towel on because this rower, it gets sweaty. Um, you can actually get blisters on the rower with the handles when you start sweating a lot. And you can tell they’re sweating a lot. It’s humid out there, but we’re excited to see what she does this weekend. She is fit and she is ready to go. I mean, talk about resilience. Two years again, just to recover, there was no, she wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to hold a barbell in her hand, let alone stand on the competition for the CrossFit games. And Lucy’s a wild card this weekend that has podium potential. No doubt, Chase. She’s she doesn’t have a lot of glaring holes. And that’s what you’re looking for in an athlete that has this kind of grit, tenacity, and consistency is that can she bring it together on a long event where she can really have an opportunity to create a buffer between her and others in regards to points and establish through the weekend. This is going to be big for Lucy. Tclumi leading the charge for the women. Seventime Cross Games champion looking for eight. Amy Kringle just to her right is closing the gap on Tia. Less than a 100 meters between the two of them. Lucy Campbell sitting in third. Lucy Campbell came back to competition in the off season. Won her first event. Came out walooa this year earlier won that as well. Roman Krennikov who is probably the best rower in the field and has less than 1,000 meters left. So Roman who is sitting in third after the four mile run closed the gap significantly on Jeff Adler and Ricky Gard within about 3 seconds and that’s what we expected from Roman. So now now the story line builds as Roman coasts into his final 1k here on the row. Is this going to lend himself any type of advantage over these two great runners that are ahead of him? Not that Roman can’t run, but is it going to be enough to put Ricky and Jeff back behind him? Just got to wear that Amy Kringle. I mean, you can just see her in the back in the pink cranking on that row. She was significantly behind Tia on the run and she is closed within 50 m on the 3K. Now, the question is Bethany, we said, is the row going to matter? It can matter. You don’t want it to matter in the wrong way. Correct. And you know, I was thinking about it with Amy. She is a really good runner. So, I don’t know if she can get ahead. And that’s a key aspect. And that’s a key thing to consider. It’s like the rich get richer in some circumstances where a good runner can risk it more on the rower because they trust themselves and they’ve proven to themselves time and time again, not just in training, but in competition that they can run well under fatigue. So, that could be something as an advantage for her. And Amy’s fearless, too, when it comes to just going out and kicking butt. So, I’m excited to see how this two-mile run ends up. You’ve already started with a four mile run, two two-mile loops. So going out for the third time, you start to pick up for you guys. You go out there, it’s like, I know I now get an idea of the elevation changes, maybe the turn, that puddle of water on the left at that stop sign. Are you using those markers out there to help pace you out on the on the competition field? Oh, absolutely. You’re you’re going to be much more familiar even as they came back into that second loop of the first block with the four miles. You can see a different composure, a relaxation from the athletes. Now, as we get ready to exit the rowers though, it’s the consideration of this hill that they’ve got to climb and they got to get ready to see where the rest of the competition is as well. See some athletes looking left and right. But, uh, that poker face and maybe wearing the sunglasses, so you can’t really see what I’m looking at. Enter to win one of 10 pairs of eyewear from Zeni Optical. Customize your style and get the frames that you need. Jeff Adler on the right side of your screen, your 2023 Cross of the Games Champ. Roman Krenneov took second that year, was wearing the leader jersey when he broke his foot on the third to last event on Sunday. And Roman Krenov’s hand in the air with 50 meters left to go as he looks to be the first athlete off the rower. And Adrian, you said, look, it goes uphill right away. You take the turn over the burn, but you get to look down and see where everybody is at first. Yeah. And so Roman’s gonna try to gather himself, build some speed up and around this turn because he’s going to run into an incline that he’s actually got to climb and it’s going to give him some advantage to doing that. But then he’s going to get a clear shot and a view of who’s still on the roader. Well, there’s clear shot and then there’s being able to see who you’re clearly chasing. The advantage a lot of times in foot races, especially on a course like this, is to get out of eyesight of the person trying to chase you. Yeah. You want to get as far as possible, as quickly as possible. It’s called the heartbreak and you want to break some hearts right away. Uh so building that gap between you and your competitors, super important. Ro Krenov, your leader for the men. Past the 35minute mark. A twomile loop left to go with Jeff Adler now trying to chase him down. [Music] They’re getting a little bit of a a decline right now. So they’re they’re running down being loose with their running. Um that way they can be ready to go on that flat. Kneov [Applause] has a the basically the biggest lead we’ve seen out here on the course. Obviously, you’re going to pace a four mileer out buy in than a little bit more than your two-mile finish, but they we still have that turnaround point. So, you’re not only you’re going to get a better idea of where people are at, who’s chasing you down, cuz at the moment, you just got to hope, you’ve got enough in the tank to keep that lead. Again, this is where we’re really starting to see the recipe to success come together, right? Like did they stick to the disciplined paces early in the race? Was the four mile to plan? Was the road to plan? And now this is where desire simply sets in. Romccic off far right side of your screen about a 30 meter gap between him and Jeff Adler. A bigger gap than Adler had on Roman on that first two-mile loop. and Roman closed the distance on the second one. Hand in the air for Tia and Kringle. So, Kringle has made up almost 10 to 15 seconds on the row as Justin Maderas gets off the rower. Look, I know you said Amy’s fearless, but man, it’s different than not being afraid of a nurse shark and a great white shark. So, you know, you’re off the rower with the seventime cross of games champion with a two-mile race to the finish line. You just got to go. It’s time. It’s It’s go time. This is your time to shine out there, Amy. So, you got this. You could take it one of two ways, right? You could take it as is like, “Oh, this is, you know, I’m racing the best and this is intimidating or I have an opportunity to do something very few people have done in this sport, and that’s beat Tia Clair Tumi at in an event, at anything.” Yeah. Beating her at anything is a statement at large. and for her to get off the rower with this intensity and of course the the audacity to think like, okay, hey, here’s the champ. I’m trying to run her down. I’m going to make a statement here in event one. Um it’s it’s a wonderful thing to see. We’re here to watch athletes compete and that’s what they showed up to do. Hand in the air for Lucy Campbell. So Lucy still holding on to that third place position as the hand in the air goes up right for Haley. [Music] You’re watching that body language from some of these athletes. Lucy getting off trying to find her foot stride and foot strike. [Music] Tia is on the right side of your screen. Tia has pulled ahead of Amy just a little bit, but we still look two miles is a long way to go after 35 minutes of rowing and running. Haley Adams off the rower. Fourth overall in this event for the women. And on the left side of your screen, Roman Krennikov making his way to the turnaround point. That’s going to be huge. You get a real good idea of who’s chasing him, how far away they are, and depending on how close or how far, it might be a boost of energy for you at that turnound. Absolutely. And this goes back to that heartbreak that Bethany alluded to earlier, that distance between you and the person ahead of you. If you get an opportunity to get around that loop just ahead enough to prove that, hey, I’m out of I’m out of your distance. You’ll have an opportunity then to be in complete control of the race outcome. Run, row, run. We’ve already done a fourmile run. I say we, they four mile run, 3,000 meter row, and they’re working on their final two-mile run. Roman Krennikov leading the charge as he’s getting close to that halfway turnaround point. Right side of your screen, Daniel Brandon, Matty St with hands in the air for their 3K row. Approaching the 40minute mark as Danielle Brain on the right side of the screen is done. She got off that roller with a pretty fast transition right into a quite fast run. So that from a body language perspective shows a lot of positivity. Same with Maddie. Yeah, they’re feeling good. Yeah, which is impressive after four miles of running and a 3k row and they’re going up an incline. So it’s impressive that they’re just getting after it like that. Right side of your screen, your overall leader for the women, Tia Clair Tumi. Looks like she’s extending the lead on Amy Kringle. And that’s one of the things with Tia is of course self-awareness at an extremely high level all these years of competing her chasing number eight this weekend. But Ray when she started to run it was the stride difference stride cadence that I noticed that stood out between her and Amy. Tia being a little bit shorter with her stride but more frequently getting her feet back to the ground and Amy trying to elongate her stride. Now it seems to be paying off really well for Tia in this backstretch. left side of your screen. Roman Krennikov trying to hold off Jeff Adler [Music] as we are at the turnaround point. So Roman’s going to get a good idea. Who’s chasing how close? And Jeff Adler has closed the gap significantly. There we go. And we saw this in 2023. Roman looking for a little redemption from the 5K against Jeff Adler. One mile back through that finish line. Tia looks alone on the right side of your screen. Let’s go down to Mike Arseno who’s on the course. Thanks, Chase. Yeah, we’re seeing a great race on the men’s side, but the women’s side is a little bit more competitive than we may have originally thought with Tia neck and neck there with Amy Cringle. Bethany, question for you as someone who’s competed against Tia. What is the mindset when you’re up against a seventime champion champion, a woman who appears to have no holes in her game? So, mentally, what are these other female athletes going through as they approach competing on the same floor in the same event with an athlete like Tia? I think it depends on the athlete. If you’re a little bit more on the rookie side, I think, you know, sometimes you have to go for it. I think that’s exactly what Amy did in this situation. She went for it on the rower. But a lot of the veterans, they know how impressive it is and so are the rookies. And you want to be as competitive as possible. Everyone wants to get on the podium. Um, but at the same time, like I said at the beginning, know thyself and where you’re at. Starting to see the leaders or at least top athletes pacing each other. Tia has passed her first male athlete off the rower. Not often we have the men and women doing the exact same workout. Oftentimes we’ll see that in event one. I love that though. I love it when we do uh the same exact thing because you can just see not that I’m all about pro women, but it’s really cool to see where the women stack up against the men with the exact same uh workout. But one thing we that Cross games does so well is just that balance between both across the field. I think it’s one of the most balanced sporting events we do have in the space. Roman Krennicov left side of your screen. Jeff Adler trying to chase him down. Now what might be interesting is that this double back course is not a lot of room. Mhm. I’m curious what that last straightaway is going to look like trafficwise with people coming off the rower and two athletes barreling down to the finish line. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, we can even start to get a depiction of that right now as we start to see athletes passing by side by side. There’s not a ton of room on that sidewalk. And if Adler’s not careful and cautious enough to have that awareness in the final stretch of what that’ll look like, he’s going to have to make his push earlier than he might anticipate if he plans on passing Roman. Looks like Roman has now turnt that lead just a little bit since that halfway point. [Music] But Jeff Adler, I mean, talk about a guy that has transformed since he first came on the scene. You can tell me back in 2018, 2019, Jeff Adler would be one of the best runners in the sport. Yeah. and and a lot of that is of course his coach and partner Carol Lam Lamre and then also working and partnering with Chris Henshaw through his years and his development of his running as a skill and also the development of his aerobic capacity. Yeah, I think that was pretty impressive to see uh when he started getting a lot faster and running a lot more. And there he goes. Wow, Jeff. Oh man, that is a not only did you just pass him, but pass him with speed. Oh yeah. Almost as if Roman decelerated. That’s how fast Jeff accelerated around him. Which at this point in a race to have that kind of kick control and power in your stride that is practiced and predicted. Can Roman respond? Jeff Adler takes the lead. Not a lot remains distance-wise for these athletes. We’re just past the 45minute mark. Hather is past Roman. You can see Roman’s got someone chirping in his ear trying to run with him on the sideline. Try to stay with Adler. The real MVP there. Whoever that is just supporter, coacher, cure, whoever that is. It’s like we’re getting a great mix of some fans and some coaches along the path giving people shout outs, giving people times to hit and split saying, “Hey, so and so’s behind you here, so and so’s there.” That’s a great help when you’re out there in the middle of a grind. Jeff Adler makes his move [Music] and leading the charge. Ron Krennikov does not have enough room. And your 2023 CrossFit Games champ one of the 2025 CrossFit Games. And here comes the We’re impressed, but we’re not shocked. Roman Krennikov takes second. [Music] Ricky Gard will round out your top three. And we may be seeing this and saying this all weekend long. Gerard will take third. What a pass by Adler. Just a cat and mouse game out there. Yeah, it was phenomenal. Literally like like we mentioned, it was practiced and predicted. He knew exactly what he needed to do to end up in first place. Tatumi leading the women. What a gap between your top three. runner heads off the road. Let’s make some noise for her folks. Tiaz making her way. It might be the last time we see her in a color other than red and white this weekend. It’s Austin Hatfield is trying to hold off Jay Crouch. So Drake Jake Crouch has made a bit of a move on the second half of this event. Great start for Austin Hatfield. He started very very slow last year at the cross. the place outside of 30th and to take a top five in event that usually gave him a bottom five is huge for Austin Hatfield. Absolutely huge even for he and Jake Krauss coming across the finish line now. But for Austin Hatfield to understand what events are known, what is coming up in the coliseum, this is a great way to start the weekend for him. [Music] Callen Souza. [Applause] Wow. Get a top six finish. James Spray looking over his shoulder. Your 2024 Across the Games Champ. James Spray just said a half iron man a few months ago leading into the games this year. Great way to prepare for a long event just like this, which we know, hey, at some point we’re going an hour or close to an hour at the Cross Game. It’s important to test these long time domains outside of the scope of what we normally see in that 12 to 15 minute range. And that’s a great way to prepare for James. Jason Hopper should be good enough for eighth. Good start for Jason Hopper. Jason Hopper, I feel like is one of those that rides the momentum wave based off his performance on the weekend. So, not a bad start for Hopper. Yeah, I agree. I think it through the ups and downs of the weekend and this is something that highle competitors can control very well but Hopper tends to ride that high if it can be established and this should get him off on a good foot too. Chris Ibara will take ninth. Good start for Chris Ibara. Terry Lightfoot makes his way to the finish line. And there you see Tatumi. [Applause] A long one. [Music] Cheers. Huge gap. Huge gap between her and Amy Pringle being crazy. A life will finish. Tia Cla Tumi, her 10th deer at the CrossFit Gameser has won a third of the events as she’s entered and add another one to the list. Your sevent time crossing games champion on the path to eight takes event number one. Well, high five to rookie Ty Jenkins, which what a way to start. Good start for Justin Maderas, your 2021 and 2022 games champ. Amy Kringle will take second. Great start for Kringle this weekend. Yeah, we’re going to be talking about Amy Cringle throughout the weekend. I have a strong feeling of that. She’s here to compete and she’s showing it right there to start this event one. Colin Bosard is in. And another cheers continuing folks. Rookie this year, Isaac Newman. What do you say? Good start for the rookie. 44 unofficially. When you see the athletes pumping up the crowd on the entry, they’re they’re they’re fired up about their finish. Don Pepper stood on the podium last year in second place. [Music] One of those athletes we are looking at this weekend to not only repeat a podium finish, but possibly stand on top of it this year. won the games three times as a teenager. We have six games champions now competing in individual competition this year between the men and the women. And then also Luc is in Zenon’s done and here comes Lucy Campbell. to Lucy Campbell. Welcome back to the CrossFit Games at the third place finish for Lucy Campbell. Tutor Magda coming in. Haley is looks like she’s running away from the cops. Yeah, she’s cooking. There’s nobody behind you. You don’t have to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Pump your brakes. Right. And if you’re a coach or a fan, if you know what you’re saying, hey, let off the gas a little. These contractions can cost you throughout the course of the weekend. We got a lot of work left to do. Haley out here seeing ghost. But that’s a good finish for Haley Adams. It’s a good mental win though. I think when you do that, it’s a good mental win for yourself. Looks like she’s trying to hold off. Ariel Lohen. Ariel Lohen closed the gap pretty good. Her running has gotten significantly better. That 5K that she did a couple years ago. Yeah. Not only is her running getting better, but she’s getting stronger. So, we talk about checking the boxes. There’s there’s Bill Ley across the finish line, the Achilles injury that he had, the turnaround that Bill Ley has had in the last year from that, as you said, rupting his Achilles trying to qualify for the games last year, qualifies in the same year. It’s incredible. Von Roar. Mayor Von Roar is in. Yeah. Background in endurance sports. Von Roar the winner of the CrossFit Open. We wondered how would she perform in competition live in a field like this. That’s a great way to start the CrossFit games in 2025 for her. Maddie Stir is in. Where is Danielle Brandon? I thought she was fourth off the road. MS is inatty [Music] [Applause] Matty Sturd and there’s Danielle Brandon Abigail and Gracie Jenny Mure Abby Dman [Applause] to finish up and Jen no one around her she will close it out with a time of 5347 Seven. [Applause] Peter Ellis. [Music] Backto back CrossFit games. Trips. Coming in, folks. The man out of Australia. Here he is. Make some noise for Peter Ellis. Yeah, we we talk about the psychological and physiological adaptations that are taking place out here. Even when you compete, not just when you train. But Bethany, it’s like when you’re bringing in the tail end of a race like this, you’re not necessarily as pumped as everyone else that finished ahead of you. So, you’re more tired and you’re a little bit emotionally beat up. How do you how do you balance that? Is now your your efforts and attitude have to be on almost to event two. You just got to it’s the next one, next uh next workout mentality. Um you can’t worry about what just happened, but you just got to move on to the next one. Lydia Fish just crossed the finish line. So, that’s a top 10 finish for the rookie. in the background. We are approaching the 55 minute mark. Now, the team competition will be coming up after this sit doing basically the same exact thing, but it’s the collective total time of the athletes. There’s not going to be a time cap to stop the individual. So, everybody reluctantly is going to have to finish this race on the individual side. That’s right. It’ll be the wild west out there. Addy Cano’s in. [Music] [Applause] last year. These are all amazing times though. Like it’s incredible what they’re doing out there. That’s a great point. I was like, listen guys, as you guys watch it at home, go hit the run. Let let us know. But it seemed like forever ago, but Jeff Adler made that huge pass on Roman Corinov taking the event. He’s down with Mike Arseno. mention. Well, Jeff, just working through a little leg fatigue there on event number one, 100 points, tremendous performance. Your running ability is without question, but your tactical ability on running events is very impressive. So, can you take me through each piece of that? What was the strategy on the first run, the row, and then the second run to enable you to have that finishing kick to take down Roman at the end? Uh, I mean, on the first like four miles, my goals was just to lead the pack and see what the pace was. Uh, and then if I could slow down, I would. If I couldn’t, then I would just keep the pace. And the boys held up more than I thought, which would gave us a really great race. Uh when I saw Roman was only 10 seconds behind, I knew he would catch up on the Rowan pass, but I was okay with that knowing that I can I can run pretty quick. But I almost threw the towel in on the turn of the second mile, but uh I mean, got to got to go for the 100 points and get as much as I can now because I’m going to lose some in the in the weekend somewhere, so might as well make the most of it. Well, how do you flip that switch mentally? Because it would be easy to not put the hammer down. You just get five less points than the event win. So, what is it about your inner drive that allows you to create that kick? I mean, I I was thinking about later in the weekend if there’s a tie break, if there’s something like that first place, that 100 points can be really valuable. So, might as well take it if I can and then uh maybe uh pull it back when I when I need to throughout the weekend. Well, great start to your 2025 CrossFit games. Rest up. We’ll see you for event number two. Thank you. That’s something so important there, especially this weekend with the field that we have for the men, the programming that we have set for the entire weekend. Those four points could be vital come Sunday. Oh, every point. Every single point. And it was a complete shock to me, Chase, to for him to say, “I almost packed it in. I almost threw in the towel.” It did not look like that whatsoever. as he rounded that turn, that had to be the moment where it was like, “Okay, I’m I’m going to stay close enough.” And then when he made that choice to pass, it was it was clear as day what was about to happen. That’s the beauty of these athletes, though. They make it look effortlessly, effort, effortlessly, and it’s just easy for them, but it’s really hard. They’re suffering inside. We go from one champ to another. Mike Arseno is down with Tatumi. close. Well, Tia, a great start on your march to potentially an eighth CrossFit Games title. Just saw you debriefing with Jeff Adler there a few minutes ago after the race. What kind of notes were you guys sharing? Well, I was just explaining to him at the end there that uh at the start because I had such a horrible open finish. I was at the very very back. So, I like shot out of the gate and when we’re coming down around the boom down the little hill, I realized like, oh, like I’m actually at the front of the pack like with the boys, so like I can actually like calm down. And then Jeff was saying, yeah, I just remember like previous years I’ve like gone out so hot and he’s like, “Please do it. Burn the boys out for the rest of the weekend. I don’t care.” Like, so, you know, we were just kind of laughing about how hot I went out at the start. Well, that continued throughout the entirety of the four miles. You were on the rower well before the rest of the female athletes, although Amy did close the gap on you on the row. Were you aware of that and did that concern you at all knowing that you had two more miles left to run? I mean, it’s definitely something that I was aware of. Like, she she made up, I think, like 300 m on me and, you know, I knew that that very well could be a possibility for some of the athletes that may be stronger rowers as opposed to stronger runners. I just knew that like as as long as we got off the row the same time, um I I’m more often than not could actually probably run a little bit harder than than the rest of the field. So, um, honestly didn’t let it catch too much. I like just stayed to the game plan. Um, I can’t control how fast or slow they go. So, it was just a matter of staying in my own lane and and making sure like, you know, when the commentators calling out where we were, just being engaged on where they are and we got off at the same time, which gave me a really solid position to like run out the heavy legs and get get back in the lead. You’ve had a major endurance focus on your training uh throughout this CrossFit game season. I’m curious. Do you think 2025 TIA would have fared better than any other version of yourself on this event? Yeah, I think so. I definitely think that my running is stronger than what it has been in the past. Um, and that’s just purely like you said, I have been running a lot this year and it’s it’s definitely been a nice change for the body. Um, and you know, we’ll we’ll see for the rest of the weekend if it if it has uh, you know, changed anything else in my um, abilities, but um, I definitely think that I would have given previous TIA athlete a run for her money. Well, it paid off with 100 points here in event number one. Tia, congratulations. Thank you so much. Congrats to Tia Cla Tumi. Here’s a number for you. 55 55 event wins at the CrossFit games as an individual for Tia Clair too. That that number doesn’t even seem rational. Yeah, that’s scary. I think it’s also scary that she said that her running is stronger than it was in the past because she was already significantly way better than most people. So, it’s just it’s scary what she does. It really is. And it’s also interesting to see is that she almost got out of her own game plan because she was so frustrated of where she was and that she took off so early a little bit outside. Actually 42 wins. Sorry. 42 42 and again which is still ridiculous. Completely irrational again in my own mind. 42 event wins. Um as of course we’re watching these champs be champs. They’re already on to their cooling down. They’re getting their mind and their body prepared for event event two to come. But even in that interview, Tia alluding to the fact that you don’t have control over what other competitors do. Jeff shared the same thing. Hey, I wanted to see what the boys would do. The boys came out to compete. They held faster paces than I thought. I almost packed it in, right? But what you’re getting a layer into, which Mike is so good at unveiling this this mindset, these athletes as he gets into these interviews, is that there’s levels even to the achievement that we see here. It’s not just physical prowess. These athletes that we often see at the top of the podium are also the most intelligent and self-aware in the competition field. See Jeff Hadler and Tatumi talking to Dave Castro, the director of the cross games who concocted this event as on the right side of your screen. I believe that’s Bronnis Lava Language. Should be your last male athlete still out on the course. Any Chase, anyone still looming on the course, as we understand, True Fitness has a compromise, right? Anyone still looming on that course is really excited about maxing out their back squat. Let’s just be honest. Let’s just call it what it is, right? It’s give and take. It’s a It’s a little and a little take. And anyone that’s still out there is likely really excited about the back squat. Oh, yeah. Um and and they knew this wasn’t going to be their cup of tea. But Bronnisaw got some of the best looking calavs I’ve ever seen in sports overall. And so he’s happy to get that that run all repped up. Big Braun is in qualified earlier this year. 36 years old. He’s competed in the Masters division as well. It’s amazing. Amazing to have that qualification under your belt to be in the 35 to 39 age group category in the the pursuit to be the fittest on earth and then be able to still punch your ticket here in this division. It’s phenomenal. Now you can see the teams on the left side waiting in the wings probably looking at body uh body language and posture and just uh All right. How bad how bad was it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. If they know anyone that’s coming off the field, Absolutely. We’re doing that with every heat that goes on every workout, we’re like, “What do they look like? What’s going on?” People will tell you, too. They’re like, “That’s awkward.” No, that was great. It’ll be easy. You ever walk off and be like, “Oh, so bad.” He’s like, “It was fine. I was I was just fine.” You can’t always trust them when they say it’s easy either. Yeah. Last athlete on the course. [Applause] You tell me something. This is your final competitor. [Applause] [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, [Music] is it me? That was Louisa Marquez. And ladies and gentlemen, keep that applause coming. Big round of applause. So that’ll wrap up the individuals as two champs just having a casual conversation like they didn’t row enough earlier, right? As the individuals will wrap here. And Jeff Adler, took the games in 2023 did not compete in 2024. And he is back on top. Jeff Adler first place should be Roman taking second overall with Ricky in third. And what a way to kick things off. It was an amazing way to kick things off. People look at this event and they’re like, “Oh man, this is going to be long and arduous.” No, it was exciting all the way through. Even seeing Ricky stumble there into the rowers. This was a competition. Even who could get settled into this road pace in the 3K right in the middle the most efficient and effective way. We saw Tia Clair Tumi come out hot, but we saw Roman Krennicov take the lead through that long row, which we expected a little bit, but it was Jeff Adler knowing, trusting, and being very predicted in the way that he passed Roman there in the final stretch for the big dub to start the event. And Adler takes it for the men. But on the women’s side, we thought it would be a much bigger gap, but it turned out to be a pretty good race. Yes, we had Amy Kringle right behind Tia Clair Tumi once we got off the rower. But the champ being the champ. And she got to the rower first after those four miles of running. And are we impressed? Absolutely. Are we shocked? No. But we see right here as Amy Pringle gets off and starts passing her just for a second. And then Tia’s like, “Not in my house. Absolutely not.” And we see she comes right through the finish line walking through. Give a little high five to rookie Tai Jenkins. As you said earlier, Tia Cla Tumi gets her 42nd event win here at the CrossFit Games. The next closest individual female is Annie Thor’s daughter at 14. That is the dominance we see here from Tia Cla Tumi. We are not done with Jennings Landing. The teams will be up next, but the individuals are done. Stay tuned for team action here for the 2025 CrossFit Games. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Broken reclaimed [Music] Since I work at I I own an auto shop and I work alone. My wife works at front desk. I work the shop. Crossfit is my social time. And I think that’s a that is true for a lot of the people that come there because it’s, you know, they’re my friends. They’re my family. And you know, we welcome everybody. Our wall in the front is, you know, you come and visit. You you’re going to come and see us and you’re going to get to sign your name on the wall. CrossFit is family. It is. It’s one of the side effects. You get in good shape. My wife signed me up without me knowing, “Oh, by the way, you’ve got level one, 1st of November.” And I’m like, “We got too much going on.” And she’s having SI surgery next Wednesday on her back. And I’m like, “We got too much going on.” I says, “Tell them no.” And she says, “Oh, no. I already paid for it. It’s not refundable, so you have to go.” Okay. And then when when coach heard that, you know, well, this is good. He says, “Cuz you know, you’re one of our older participants here, been here forever. You,” he says, “this will, this will encourage more people to come. It’d be nice if everybody in the gym was a level one.” And then just keep going up. You know, I read the bios on our instructors down here last night. That’s incredible. Makes me jealous. I wish I was 20 years younger. It’s It doesn’t matter what you do in life, you learn. If if if you go through a day that you do not learn something, I don’t care what it is, that day to me is that day is a waste. That is my philosophy of life. Every day you have to learn something. I’ve done automotive repair for 51 years and I’ll have somebody come in and say, “Well, I did this this way.” You look at Hey, hey, hey. That’s the best of I’m just the best. Best smoke. Best up. [Music] That’s the best way I shall. [Music] Heat. Heat. Hello. [Music] Hey. [Music] [Music] Hey, Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] It is team time here at Jennings Landing in Albany, New York. Ready to kick off the team competition at the 2025 CrossFit Games. My name is Joel Godet joined alongside the former CrossFit Games athletes Bethany Flores and Adrien Conway. Bella Martin are eyes and ears down on the competition floor or the competition course as we get set here for event number one. It is the run row run and it is the longest run Bethany Flores in team competition history. Yes, it is. They are doing a fourmile run into a 3k row and then a two-mile run to finish it off. This is the exact same course we just saw the individuals compete on. What did you learn? What did you glean from what that path looks like? Well, you’re going to have to pace those first four miles. It is a long, long race. And then find a nice even pace on that meter or the 3k row. And then you got to go on the two miles. It starts with that four mile run. That is two miles out and two miles back on our Jennings Landing running course. If you keep running, by the way, you will go straight to Buffalo, New York, right across the upstate. Then the 3K row, you’ll go back out for one more mile out and back before you finish for your first event at the games. All right, a recipe for success that’s brought to us by Tempo Meals. Bethany, what’s the key? The first one is pace to race. If you’re not pacing it at first, then you can’t race at the end. And then the second one is time to shine. This is the Wild West. You do not have to stay with your team on this one. So, the endurance athletes, it’s time to shine. And with that Wild West, we have 20 teams competing here at the 2025 CrossFit Games. And it’s a little bit of a different look and feel. Super teams, yes, but it’s got a little bit more of a local flavor. CrossFit Oslo is the favorite coming in. And it is made up of a team of people from Norway with the exception of Tola Moreno, but we’ll get into that. Uh, Camp Rhino CrossFit, the group from Las Vegas, lane 15, Camel City out of North Carolina. And then CrossFit Proven, the young guns in lane 11. Let’s go down to the third member, fourth member of our crew, Bella Morton. The athletes that I’m watching here are going to be coming out of AOD Blueprint, specifically Carrie Hewitt and Harry Keen. The reason being, they’re one of those athletes that were taking on the hybrid fitness racing trend all off season, continuing their training leading up to the games. They saw success in it, so we’ll see if it pays to play on that Oregon the Run on a course that’s not always the same. We’ll see how it goes. Bella, thank you. Our coverage today presented by the United States Border Patrol. Be an agent of strength as we get set to start things off. Athletes stand by. Ta Morako right side of your screen with CrossFit Oslo Butcher Lab right next to him and then CrossFit Undivided in the middle right at the front of the pack. That’s an interesting crew to keep an eye on out of Long Island. But Bethany and Adrian, right off the start here, this is the first time ever that an entire team has run simultaneously at the CrossFit games without being tethered. What impact does that make? I think it’s it’s a little bit more fun to watch. It’s the Wild West, like I was saying, but it allows those endurance athletes to finally shine out there, and so they’re going to take advantage of that and take what’s theirs. Adrian, how does it impact you when usually you’ve got somebody tied to you with a rope? you can encourage the athletes that are behind you. Right now, you’re leaving them behind you. Yeah, it’s tough. And two things can be true, Joel. I think that the athletes who can shine are going to take full advantage of that and set a strong pace. The athletes that are going to find themselves toward the back, however, sometimes are now absent of that encouragement or that accountability that helps them push that threshold that they have to sustain in order to give their team an opportunity as success. So, we’re going to see how strong is the mental fortitude for those athletes that are carrying, you know, no pun intended, the heaviest weight of the team by bringing up the backside. Yeah, it’s definitely a give or take with that because I’m sure when they’re tethered, there’s like a dreading thing. They’re like, “Oh my gosh, stop pushing me along.” But at the same time, there’s that mental side, too, that’s like, “Okay, I have to stay with my team the entire time.” This is a four mile run to begin. Two miles out, two miles back. And at the turning points, gets a little bit difficult to make some passes because you will have competitors going in opposite directions on both side of this course. Kind of have to pick and choose your moments. Yeah, with a lot more people on the field to play, it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when they have the turnaround. Um, there’s definitely a lot of water out there as well. Bethany, let’s talk about the amount of people that are out there, though, because you love drafting when you run. So, are you finding some bodies to get behind here? Absolutely. I love drafting. Uh it’s definitely something that comes from my running background, but use people around you. Use a group. So if you see people that are kind of running the same pace, why not get behind them and just kind of use them a little bit? Adrian, you all talked about during the individual competition that this event was announced back on May 20th. Before some people had even qualified on the individual side, semi-finals were still going on. And so teams have had a lot of time to train this, game plan this, strategize this. We talked about the fact that you’re not tethered to your teammates so you can kind of release the hounds here at the front. If you’re a team, you’ve qualified, you’ve known this event. How do you go about training this from the standpoint of bringing up the people that might be at the back and how you encourage them, how you get their minds trained the right way when they might not have a teammate right next to them. Yeah, there’s a lot of practice and communication of course that goes into it. From a preparation perspective, we’re looking at really optimizing each individual’s preparation. And so what that means is that of course as a team competition, it’s important to work out together to learn each other’s body postures and body movements and communication. However, when it comes to this specific test, the athletes had to spend that time developing their own capacity so that then wherever they started at, they could make some increases in gains or in this case reduction of times on the run in the row in order to give their team the biggest output when it comes to the points on a leaderboard. Obvious question mark here, how do you score this thing if you’re not tied together as a team? It’s an adding up of your individual scores. So the people at the front, people in the middle, people at the back. You just add those numbers up. Whoever’s got the lowest number wins. Campbell City is towards the front. That’s Evan Rogers. All green with the neon yellow wrist wraps as well. Former Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer, current firefighter out of Camel City CrossFit in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He’s used to running 60 feet. No, 90 ft. 60 feet 6 inches as if you got hit. Uh 90 feet to get to the bases. This is a little bit different. Yeah, very different. Very different body posture, composure. I mean, and what I see right now from him, he’s looking very composed. So, it’s not like this is a whiff for him where we’ve seen this notoriously on the team side where teams often choose to go team Joel because they have more imbalances than a lot of the individual competitors. He might have some really high capacity in certain aspects and a little bit lower in others, but this seems to be right up his alley in regards to he’s nailing a really relaxed, composed body language at least here in this first mile or so. [Music] It’s good morning for a run. Was 57 degrees when the individuals started this morning. We are in the 60s here as the teams get going. Yes, nice and brisk. So, that means that we’re going to see some really good times on the run. What is a good time for you guys as you strategize this out knowing you’ve still got to row and run again? That’s that’s a good question and I think that really brings up the topic of self-awareness a lot for these team members. It’s like no matter how bad you want to support your team and like I’m going to sell my soul for my squad, I’m going to do whatever I can to get the fast time. It’s like, no, no, this isn’t that kind of race. In fact, a lot of the effort that you garner early is going to set you up for failure later. So, for us, I mean, we we saw some of these individuals come in literally around the mid40s, 46 minutes being the fastest time, and I think that we’ll have some teams here follow probably just a couple minutes behind that time range. Bethany, how many 40-minute workouts are you doing in training? I don’t know, maybe like one or two a week. And so especially well I I don’t know with the running you’re only going to do probably one long run a week but they knew this workout very far in advance so you know they were hitting this workout over and over again. 6 minutes in we’re looking for that turnaround. That’ll give us our mile pace. Saw the individuals Jeff Adler went in 605 for that first mile. Ricky Gerard right on his tail. Very impressive. They actually slowed down. Yeah. Once they saw that, they’re like, “Oh, oh, that was a little too fast.” And here we are coming into the turnaround. Not all that much slower than the individuals at 627 for that initial turn. And there are a couple of women right behind on the chase pack here. We saw Tatumi right at the front of the pack on the individual side. And and I can I can relate to what some of these athletes probably are experiencing as an opportunity. When I was on the team side, we loved pursuing the highest level of all things, but when we knew we were going to get to do an event that would exactly align with the individuals, we were always like, you know, maybe we can beat a few of the individuals that finished at the top of this one and we want to show our stuff here. even on the team side really being able to put on an exhibition of their fitness and capacity on this run row run event I think is uh really unique in regards to we love to see events when they align from category to category or across many different age groups even which we’ve seen in the games past. So this is a really cool opportunity for these team athletes to see exactly how they stack up amongst the fittest on earth. Yeah, this is a great opportunity for those endurance athletes. Like you said, this is kind of like their really first chance to be able to do that cuz they’re not tethered to anybody. So to be able to see where their runs stack up with Indies, pretty exciting. Several teams to keep an eye on here early. Bella talked about that blueprint AODD squad out of England between OJ Keane and Carrie Hwitt who compete in fitness racing training through just the CrossFit methodology but they are endurance athletes. Invictus is an interesting one to keep an eye on especially on the women’s side because Emily Rethwell was an all-American middle distance runner at PointLoma Nazarene a division 2 school out in San Diego. She’s always been one of the better runners as uh team’s competitor in CrossFit and even on the Indie side, too. Like she has always done very good with the runs. So, I’m excited to see where she stacks up by the end of this race. Little bit of a check over the shoulder here as Evan Rogers has now pulled himself in front from Camel City. Can you game plan a little bit if you know you’re a better runner? How much of this is I have to run my own race? And how much of this might be okay, I’m faster than some of my teammates. Our score is our total. If I’ve got a couple of teammates that might be towards the back of the pack, yeah, I’m good, but I need to be better than good today because I need to make up for something. That’s definitely um something that you’re talking about beforehand, your game planning. Um, and I’m sure a lot of his teammates like, go for it. Especially with Evan up there in the front, if you’re good at this, go get us as many points as possible. Rack it up. Get some good times. You’re not pulling that trigger though until probably the second run. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Cuz again, still you have to you have to stay in your own little window, right? But that threshold for everyone. So competing on a team, there’s a lot of times you are going to take the floor and you’re going to feel like you can be the relaxed portion of the team because you’re so fit that you know, oh, I’m going to have to slow down a little bit for Adrian. Oh, I’m going to slow down a little bit for Josh or Emily, right? Like you’re considering the fitness of your other athletes and you’re like, for me, I’ll just need to pace so that they can succeed. In this instance, everyone took this field with the highest level of urgency possible because Bethany, I really need you to get your personal best. So then I can do my personal best and then we’re going to see where it all settles. So Joel, that was a great question and a great way to tee up the the topic of all these athletes are going to come down to selling their soul at the end regardless of clearly what everyone else is. So even these two men that were watching the lead, it’s like do they want to win and beat each other? Yes. But also, if you’re the leader and you can win by a minute, you got to try to win by a minute because every second counts. Evan Rogers continues to be the lead man here out of Camel City. I do believe that that is OJ Keane drifting behind him and that was one of the people that Bella Martin highlighted off the top out of blue uh blueprint AOD in England. OJ Keane is 35 years old. He started CrossFit as a methodology, not just competing, at the age of 30. Wow. Didn’t set foot in a gym until he was 25. It’s never too late. Never is. And his teammates say that he looks like a Greek god. Which, come on, that’s right. Yeah, I think that’s amazing. And I think we see that a lot on the team side. We hear these different stories. I mean, of course, we get it on the individual side as well, but we really get a really beautiful depiction of our community when we look at the team side. Athletes from different backgrounds, different ages, different ethnicities, all coming together for a common goal, and I think it’s a great way to fire people up. And Keen’s plan, by the way, is to compete in Columbus at the age group CrossFit Games in a couple of weeks. Uh he’s one of several Masters athletes that have qualified both here on teams and to go to Columbus later this month. We’re going individual and I want to be able to compare the two. Yeah. There’s also six women from the 35 to 39 masters which is so impressive. So impressive. We love to see that. Yeah. We talk about of course in our methodology we’re trying to build our fitness through our years, right? And that’s how we measure health. It’s fitness through our years, not just our current state and status. So while we want to build as much fitness as we can right now, we want to sustain it. And I think all these athletes that we’re talking about that are into the 35 to 39 and of course beyond in our age groups are a really great example of that. And for them, a lot of them psychologically this might just be a touch-up opportunity for them to go and win the CrossFit games in their age group here in the next month or so. Dylan Hamming is third here wearing 303 with the red hair pulled back in a bun. He’s out of Eighth Day CrossFit veteran teams competitor. 1707 Keen and Rogers. They are in a dead tie coming off of that first loop. Then hamming at 1708. Nikita Yundov out of the Rhino CrossFit team. Trains out in Las Vegas. Yeah. And I I got to saw Nikita throw down a good amount as an individual in some competitions this year at the semi-final level at NorCal and also at the TFX. And what a tremendous amount of fitness. you’re seeing some of these athletes that are certainly still some of the top athletes in the entire world just choosing to go team instead of pursuing it on the individual side. I think he ranked 33rd in the worldwide ranking for the open this year. Nikita, that’s pretty impressive. And the way the season was structured this year allowed for a lot of individual athletes to wind up going team. Nik Yundov was one of the people that said, “I’m in this as an individual and if I don’t get my individual goals, I’m on a team and a lot of teams had alternates that were ready to go if somebody qualified to the individual side.” Yeah, I heard a lot of those stories at the semi-final level. It was like, “Hey, I’m here. I’m going to go all in as an individual.” Of course, if I get that opportunity to be a top 30 men or women in the entire world at the Cross of Games, I’m going to take that. But also, my eyes and my mind are also with my team. if that opportunity doesn’t present itself. And that’s what we’re seeing here at the CrossFit games is this was this was some of these athletes backup plan and now they’re all in trying to get their team on the podium at the CrossFit games. Well, and Adrian, you’re a former team champion. Team is a great way for a lot of these athletes that maybe have not qualified individual to gain games experience on their route. Yeah, I tell athletes that are coming up in through our space to look for any opportunity you can to get on the biggest stage possible. And for many, it is teaming up with others, whether it’s locally or regionally. Of course, this year they were allowed to create quote unquote these super teams. And it’s these athletes are garnering not only competition experience, but they’re getting a behind the curtain perception on how are these elite individuals preparing? What do they do? What is it like? What is it like when you show up at an event 30 minutes early and you got to stand in a corral and then just 3 2 1 go for a six mile run in a 3k row, right? Like all of these things. Bethany, you recognize this, but when you’re CrossFit Games individual as a rookie, it’s all so brand new. But if maybe you get a year or two of experience on a team, it might lend itself as a bit of an advantage in the competition field. It definitely helps. We’ve seen a lot of uh athletes do that over the years, go team for a couple of years and then switch over to indie and they always have a really good rookie season for their individual years because they’ve had that experience. They feel more comfortable. They don’t feel uh less than out there. They’re not scared. They’re ready to go. [Music] Rogers, Keen, and Hamming or Rogers, Hamming, and Keen across your screen are the top three here. That is from Camel City, Blueprint, AOD, and Eighth Day. Leading the way to come back to Jennings Landing where they will hop on the rowers. Every athlete will do their own 3K row. So, you’re responsible for 12K as a team. Not great at math. I think I got that one. Nailed it. Yeah. Got it. My whiteboard briefs are always interesting. Uh I feel like everyone’s whiteboard briefs are pretty interesting. This is the introduction to any class. You get up there in front of the whiteboard and you’re trying to be descriptive. Maybe you’re adding in how many pull-ups are going to be in the workout total or how much they’re going to run. And we’ve all whiffed a time or two with our math there at the whiteboard. You can see Evan Rogers checking over the shoulder. He’s trying to keep OJ Keane a little bit behind him. Quick checks of the watch. always watching pacing for being a baseball player. This is amazing. He’s been working hard on some long-distance endurance running. Evan Rogers played four years at Division 2 Mars Hill. My man hit 19 homers as a senior. So, he doesn’t even run the bases. He just he just jogs them. He tries. That’s why he’s got the endurance. He’s flexing. Yeah. Yeah. And as we settle into this second lap here, I think this is again where we we talked about this with the individuals, but this is where the rubber meets the road, uh, for lack of a better example where experienced runners are really showing. And these guys that have in the top three that have really broken away from the rest of the pack have clearly settled into a comfortable yet uncomfortable pace, right? And when I say comfortable, I mean it’s manageable, but of course, they’re all at the top end of their threshold. uh looking to come back to that row or real in a really strong position to road there hopefully what is a a very predicted pace what is that pace typically you thinking well for the men earlier we saw them get off that rower uh faster than than 12 minutes um and so we can assume that a lot of these guys and we talked about this a little bit earlier Bethany where it’s like we we don’t know how competitive you really want to push to be on the rower um we saw Roman Kren Ranikov make a pass. He passed two individuals. He passed Ricky Guerrard and Jeff Adler, but then Jeff Adler was a able to reconcile that on the back half of the run. So, so much of this time is spent on this run. We can expect these guys to be off the rower in just under around 12 minutes total time and then they’ll be right back on the course. Yeah, you’re going to make up way more time on the run than than you are on the row. So, almost having a more relaxed pace on the rower is going to help you with that last two miles of just kicking butt and taking names cuz those last two miles are going to be tough, especially when you’re going a little bit uphill right at the beginning. You just have to you got to go for it. 18 minutes in here to this first four mile run. Just for perspective, again, reminder that your total team score is your total team time. And we do have some athletes that have finished lap one here coming back into Jennings Landing. So, as you’re looking at a handful of athletes that are probably coming to about 3/4 of the way through this opening run, they’ve maybe got a full almost lap advantage on some of the rest of the field. So, the math will be interesting at the end of the day. Yeah, it’s we’re going to see such disparity here from the leaders to the final finishers. It’ll it’ll be quite wild. But again, it’s just an example of what you get when you’re competing on the team side, right? Like there was a a a great amount of variability on the individual side when we’re talking top 30 in the world, men and women. So on this, it’s going to be even greater. And and yeah, like you’re mentioning Joel, it will be quite a bit of math to try to math to see exactly how this all shakes out. However, um it’s going to be exciting because I think there’s going to be, you know, some of these teams, what I’m getting to is that some of these leaders in the front are the ones that know they have to run really fast because some of their runners are going to really struggle. What is interesting though, and we’re here on the second turn, so three miles in for these gentlemen, Dylan Hamming, who right now is running in third for eighth day, is their strong guy. And he is running third right now. So, either Dylan Hamming has put in a lot of work or he’s he’s been telling us he’s really good at the wrong things for a couple of years. Yeah, he’s lying to us. Look at this. This is some that’s some good paces right there with the run. Yeah. And you love to see it, right? That’s the development of an athlete in in a proper way. if if he’s been having a strong history in strength development and he’s got a really good resume and what he’s built through his years, then finding this test out months ahead of time really lends itself as a great advantage to him. I mean, we can understand that a lot of athletes can kind of peak their what we would categorize as anorobic threshold right around that 8week mark. It doesn’t take much longer than that to reconcile where you’re currently at and really optimize it. And so hopefully someone like him has been able to do that because he doesn’t have to do the same type of strength training like all the other athletes leading into the game so he can lean into that weakness really hard and let it shine here. I’m good. Thank you very much. Hamming is a CrossFit legacy. His father Steve competed as a Mast’s athlete. Not only that, he won back in 2014. Wow. I love to see it when athletes do that though. I love it when they’re really strong at something and they decide to work on their weaknesses over and over and over again and make them a strength. It’s really impressive. Kind of go into strength maintenance mode. Yep. And then everything else gets lifted up. Must be nice. Those are some when it’s nice and you got really good strength numbers and you can kind of put your hands behind your head and relax a little bit on that and just work on the running. Yeah. And it’s it’s a beautiful thing. We’ve we’ve seen it we we categorize this in CrossFit as like the blackbox theory where we’ve sent athletes into a training program where it might be biased or it might be slightly leveraged on what their weakness is and then somehow through like an 8week cycle they come out and they’re better at even the things they were good at already right like and it makes no logical explanation but it’s like they they find a way and our our body responds in such a way that that overall increase in GPP or general physical preparedness allows you to be a better specialist at times. Quick note, by the way, this is an open public course. So I they just ran past what is clearly a group of people that are trying to go canoeing. They’re probably very confused. But to your point, Adrian, that’s some good genetics right there when that happens. Really good genetics. OJ Keane in the green bottoms on the right side. No shirt out of Blueprint. AOD. Blueprint is the affiliate in Worcester, England. AOD is the training program. Adapt or die is what AOD stands for. And you might not know a whole lot about CrossFit Blueprint. They are one of the most well-represented gyms at these CrossFit games because they’ve got a team. They have an individual male and an individual female. Amy Kringle and Harry Lightoot. three days of competition. When you get a camp like that that shows up at the CrossFit games, it’s it’s amazing to see. But what you’ve known then is that every day leading up all year long, they’ve had opportunities to look each other in the eye, compete head-to-head, right? to develop this type of not just fitness but competitive nature that really tends to shine at the biggest stages because they’re so conditioned to those circumstances like oh they know how to lead they know how to follow they’ve gotten their butt kicked in training but also hey they hopefully have taken some dubs as well and what’s interesting is it’s a secondyear games team half of it uh back in 2021 Harry Keen and Helen Nutter competed at the games and they had a phenomenal first event and they wound up in the final heat and they said, “H, we have arrived. We’ve got this.” And then they got smoked. And they wound up at the back of the pack. And then the third event, they had to turn around because they wound up back in the first heat and compete again almost right away. So, it can be very humbling when you come to the CrossFit games. And that’s a good experience to have. That’s resilience right there at the finest level, right? You got to you got to find it. You got to dig deep. You got to be ready to rock and roll. Did either one of you guys have one of those moments? Oh, yeah. I think the first year at the games I got a little slap in the face. So I was like, “Oh gosh.” Yes. Mine came in the form of a swim, paddle, swim event in 2015 where we were on the prone paddle and had to swim uh a mile uh out and back uh after swimming 250 meters around a dock, right? Like and so it’s it’s like I was out there in the in the ocean looking side to side. I’m like, I’m I’m pretty far from everyone else. And uh this isn’t where I wanted to be. It wasn’t a terrible finish for me, but it was humbling to be out there in the ocean. And actually, part of me was afraid for my life, to be honest with you. I’m like, what’s what was that under my foot? I don’t don’t know what that was. But great white. Yeah, great white. No doubt. Well, it’s just like the things that you’re really good at, people are 10 times better than you. And it’s just a very humbling experience. I think for everybody at some point in their career when they get to the games, they’re like, “Wow, I thought I was really good at this and then you see other people that you’re competing against, you’re like, I got some work to do.” Yeah. And that’s the beauty of the evolution of the sport of fitness, I believe. And CrossFit offers this opportunity. It can be for anyone. The beginning stage, the CrossFit Open is for anyone across the world that can understand what it is, how to sign up, and throw their name in the hat, do their best. What this allows it to be is that we see these names come we’ve never seen. Who’s this guy? Who’s this person? Who’s this woman? And they come out of the woodworks because everyone has the opportunity. And so, yes, it leans you to think like, “Ah, I’m one of the best in the world at this.” And then all two years later, you’re like, “No, no, this person’s got me now.” And I didn’t even know who they were. Rogers, Keen, and Hamming coming in. So, 256 for Rogers and Keane. 257 for Hamming. Quick note on the rowers. Different than the individuals. Yep. Individuals was first come, first served on the rowers. All set to the same damper and the same foot settings. For the teams, these are all preassigned rowers, which means they had the opportunity to adjust their settings ahead of time, give or take a couple extra seconds saved. They all are. They all are on Rogue Echo rowers here. And those are built for anyone looking for reliable, smooth rides, whether you’re just getting started or chasing that next PR. It’s got a precision calibrated flywheel. It delivers consistent resistance. Those quick release foot straps make it easy to get in and out. When you are done, it all folds up and rolls away on oversized turf tires as well. So, no matter where you’re training, that official rower of CrossFit and the CrossFit games, the Rogue Echo rower is there for you. I think another note, too, is that they got to set their damper and their foot settings, not like the individuals. Individuals had to just come in and just make do with what they had. So, that’s kind of a nice setup. All right, here’s the question, guys. You knew it was coming. What is the right damper setting on these rowers? How are you doing it? Well, here’s what I’ll tell you. Roman Krennikov wrote about a 10 damper when he sat down and adjusted that thing. He was the first one off. So, you can you can go by what we saw. That’s what I like to learn from. I I’m personally a pretty high damper row. I row about an eight and a half, almost a nine. Um, historically, what works for me is fewer strokes and a more powerful cadence. What about you, Bethany? Uh, I think it’s changed over the years for me. I used to be at like an 8 9 10 and then the last couple of years because of some back issues I’ve actually rode at a five. Um and it’s and it’s worked for me. Emily Wthwell is the first woman to arrive Invictus. That was to be expected. We talked about her all-American running pedigree. Shawn Early on the right side is one of the men from Invictus. Anthony Yim on the left side is from the Young Guns of Proven. Now, Invictus is one of those interesting teams here because Emily Wthwell best runner in the field. Sean Early is clearly back. We saw Phil Muscarella return as well. Danny Spiegel has a ton of strengths in in CrossFit. Running is not one of them. So, this for her is how much damage control can I tackle? Although, my team is going to help make up some slack. I will say though, she was looking pretty good this year. I saw her picture on the team. She was looking pretty lean, so she might surprise you today. Yeah, that that can certainly help in preparation. Of course, we understand that. And and and here again, this is what I really love about event one, and it’s structured scoring is that these athletes are dying for all the seconds. And also, from an individual to a team perspective, Danny Spiegel could pack it in quote unquote as an individual and say, you know what? Hey, I’m going to take last on this cuz I’m going to go win the back squat. Right? in this circumstance, she can’t do that because because it’s total math. She’s not just taking a placing. She is accounting for dead time. So, it’s not like she can just coast in and be okay with where she wants to be. So, I I love that element that it’s really constant pressure for all these athletes that are in the field. Bella Martin is down by the rowers. Joel, there were a couple things that we watched in the individuals that I’m seeing here on the teams that might play to their disadvantage. So, we were looking at their paces on the rowers. The top guys were anywhere between 145, 147 throughout the entire 3K on the row, but they could see each other. They were right next to each other. They could pace off of each other. But for us, we’ve got some of our teams on one side, some on the other. So, they’re luck of the draw here. If the person next to them wants to hold on to that 145, 147 pace, which is exactly what we’re already seeing for those first guys on the rowers. Bella, thank you. or if you’re in a team that maybe you’re a faster runner and there’s no one else around you, you don’t have another monitor to look at. Yeah, we see we saw that a lot with the individuals. They were peeping over with the the girls and the men. They wanted to see what their competitors were doing. So, run your own race number. Not this time. They do have their other teammates. So, if they have similar rowing paces, maybe they can use each other for this. Yep. You’re looking at maybe the favorites coming into these CrossFit games. Victor Helsingoff is in the front. Tola Moraco right behind him with the Zeni sunglasses on. That is CrossFit Oslo Kger. The two women just behind them on the right side of your screen. That’s Oda Lundakam and Kristen Holta, the oldest in the field. And she’s been on the team since Tuesday, subbing in for Ingred Hodenir because of an injury. But Kristen Holta competing at the CrossFit games after a couple of year break. She had retired. She was the alternate on this team at 39 years old. Not a bad not a bad substitute to call up. Hey uh what what are you doing next weekend? Can you come with us? And uh I think we got a good shot of winning the crosser games by the way. Pas on the far left side of your screen in front of that zeni flag. Yeah, pretty stacked team. They’re going to overall um really have a great output here from this specific event. I mean, I expect them to do very well, of course, this weekend being one of the favorites, but they’re going to they’re going to have a very impressive overall and total time. It was funny right when we saw Tola come on the screen, I I noticed him look at his heart rate monitor and his row pace and then he kind of gave almost like a confused look. I’m thinking his heart rate’s probably higher than he anticipates and maybe he still feels fine, right? But you we’ve all run into that at some point. There’s look at Kristen Holta. If you’re new to the CrossFit competitive space, first appeared at the CrossFit Games in 2012. This is her ninth appearance, first on a team. She was second worldwide in the Open, 35 to 39 years old this year. Seventh overall of everybody. It is her first appearance since 2021 here this year. Can I just say that’s pretty wild. That’s impressive. She has a child, two years old. this two years old, full-time job. Full-time job. And for her to come back and do that during the the the worldwide ranking of the Open, that’s scary. Yeah, it is. It is a beautiful thing that we’ve seen through our sport too, the development of it, is that there’s a time and place where you need to put in a lot of hours and accumulate a lot of volume to build the fitness needed to compete at a high level. And then once it’s there, there’s this beautiful balance of like living life, training less, peing at the right time where it’s like this is elongated athletes careers. And I think she’s a wonderful example of that is like she’s probably honestly still shocking herself at the fitness she’s able to sustain through her years and through the changes in life. It’s awesome. It’s a good description of less is more at the end of or the, you know, tail end of your career. And we’re seeing that right there. four mile run, 3K row, and then a two-mile run to cap this. So, everybody will get back off of the rowers and do one more out and back before they hit the end of this event. Your team score is the total time added up for all four of your competitors. Evan Rogers on the right side of your screen. He led on the run coming in for Camel City CrossFit. A lot of athletes wearing these new sunglasses out on the course from Zeni, our new eyewear partner, Zeni Optical. Zeni makes performance eyewear that is lightweight, impact resistant. It’s built to stay put even through sprints, throws, all the sweat that comes with it. Plus, Zeni offers a ton of customizable options. So whether you’re on the competition floor or out for a weekend run, Zeni has something that fits your style and your face. Use code crossfit for 10% off. me. Christine Best from CrossFit Undivided, full-time school teacher, has also qualified for the Masters Games coming up in a couple of weeks. One of six, one of six women. One of six. Five on teams, one individually. Carolyn Po, that is Sydney Smith from a team that has a lot of expectations coming in 11:24, second consecutive year competing. The gym out of Marriotta, Georgia, came in 13th a year ago and they actually did compete in person, which a lot of these teams have not because of the online semiinal, but 1124 did go to Syndicate Crown and win. And I think that can be a huge advantage when you come to Albany here to show up and compete in person. If all year what you’ve done was online and you punched your ticket online and while it’s still team competition, it’s a very very different vibe when you got a judge and you’ve got the circumstances and situations that are going to appear here at the at the CrossFit games live and in person. So, I think that’s great for them to to have provided that for themselves, that more experience together on site to throw down. You really can’t replicate that in-person competition feeling. So, for them to have that, like you said, it’s good. I mean, your heart rate just goes up differently, doesn’t it? Push harder. Yeah, push harder. You get you get Dwayne Johnson goosebumps. Speaking of that forearm, we got Nichollet Toriiani right here in 172. eyes closed. Is that normal? Bethany, do you eyes closed on your rower? Um, personally, I do not. So, that’s a little scary. Scared me right now. Get getting a look at Camel City here again. Evan Rogers in front of us. Lee Sher just behind him. I will say this, you are the two CrossFit Games athletes. I’m just like a Joe Crossfitter. I do sometimes just push my monitor down because I don’t want to see it and I just want to run. Coaches think it’s nuts. Listen, I I’ll be honest with you. I’ve wanted to do it. I just can’t. Right. I can’t think about it. And yeah, you you think about it and and the reason it’s important as we’re watching all these athletes hit their threshold pace is that you really have to still be in tune and it makes it more uncomfortable when you see what’s happening on the monitor. Maybe your time drops, maybe your rises. Oh, here we go. Dylan Hamming first off of the rower for eighth day CrossFit. And he did the old towel trick to keep his hands from getting too sweaty on the handle. Yeah. Off he goes. [Applause] Yeah. The reason they’re going to do the towel is you can get rips on your fingers from doing that. And it’s a long weekend. So you are going to be on the bar when you come into the arena. And if your hands are already ripped up, it’s not going to be great. [Music] So Dylan Hamming, who we said, hey, maybe hit a great first run, crushes the row, and that as a powerful athlete. While this is a monoructural test, this is about cardio. If you’re a power output person, that row is really going to play into your favor. Similar to what we saw from Roman Kov and the individuals on the men’s side. And then we saw the same thing even with the women. You know, Tia Tia sat down and got to a what we assumed was a pretty blistering pace on the row only to watch uh Amy Kringle really make up significant ground up to 300 meters on her. So yes, it does pay off and it is a very high power output expression on that rower. That was an 1110 3k row for Dylan Hamming. 1126 for OJ Keane and 1152 for Evan Rogers. Jeff Adler was 1120 on his route to his event one win for the individuals. Roman Krennikov had the best row at 11 flat 1103 for James Sprag, the defending CrossFit Games champion. So we are I mean for 1110 Dylan Hamming You’re in the group. Oh yeah. Yeah, he’s right there. And again, we’ll we’ll see that throughout the team competition. You guys are going to be covering it all weekend, but you’re going to see some of these single modality movements like the the back squat opportunities where athletes can compare themselves individuals. You’re going to see some of the capacity on these teams is right there with the individuals. And it’s that well-roundedness or that polishness of their overall fitness that sometimes they lack in comparison at that highest level. I want to go back to that power conversation though with the rowers where Heming is really able to excel, put himself out in front. Why does the power output and the strength come into play more so than it just being a strictly monoructural test? Say that in so where the power comes into play versus just your cardiovascular engine. Yeah. I mean, well, here’s a here’s a great example of it is that they already ran four miles, right? So they’re already very much in what we would categorize as an aerobic state or under fatigue. So when you get to that rower, a lot of times it’s not about just even strictly the power you can express or your conditioning. It’s like what you have left in reserve. So these athletes that are already strong. If they pace that front front run very well, that’s when they can really express their power at the highest level. Because what we’ll see there too, Joel, is that there’s some strong athletes who by the time after a four mile run get to the row, it’s not a strength for theirs anymore. Even though if it was 500 meters for time it would have been. So so much of that is that we’re watching Hamming put on a huge exhibition of excellent pacing for his own capacity right now. [Music] Hamming Keen Rogers are your top three. Victor Helsinghoff from Oslo Kriger is right in behind them. Then Nikita Yundov Samuel Pacquin out of CrossFit Letter Repair. Sean Early out of Invictus, Angelo Dechgo, first time we’ve mentioned CrossFit Mayhem, Alex Albro out of CrossFit Pstanda, one of the more veteran men in the field. Those are your top competitors right now at the front of the pack. This is our Zeni event description. Four mile run, 3K row, two mile run. What’s left on this two-m run? Whatever you got left. I do like seeing him still out in front because I was like OJ is gonna catch him. But we’re gonna see when they do the turnaround where they’re at with these two miles left if Dylan can stay in front. Yeah, it’s funny. We’re almost watching exactly what we saw from the men’s races on the individual side. This is Roman in the front. This is Jeff in the back. And of course, now we’re referring to to Hamming and OJ here in this specific situation, but it’s like that distance is very synonymous with what we saw in regards to separation. And yeah, we’ll really start to see around this turnaround how they faced it. Various hands are in the air on the 3k row. There’s a small competitive part of me that is like, can I get back from my run before everybody’s off the rowers? And to be honest, the answer is probably going to be yes. Yeah, there’s there’s going to be some people still in those rowers, I would assume, uh, when these guys round the corner and make the make the turn all the way back to that final straightaway. All right, so here’s the critical piece that we’ve been talking about. We’re looking at your individual leaders, but this is a team event, the first team that has advanced completely off of the rowers. So, you know, all have the lowest times, although there might be some fluctuation with highs and lows for some other squads. But the first team to get all four off the rowers, Oslo Cri. And that’s as we as we discussed, right, a favorite. They’re they’re led by some really savvy veterans both on the team side and individual side. It’s like that that lends itself as such an advantage even in a test like this of of self-awareness. Start the weekend. And of course, we know now we’re getting a taste of really how wellrounded they’re going to be all weekend. [Music] Hands are in the air for various rowing athletes coming to the end of their 3K with another 3,200 m of running still to come here. Here’s one of the biggest advantages to competing on a team is that when something really starts to suck, and I mean painful, is that you know you got three other people leaning on leaning on you, you know, and it’s different as an individual, right? cuz it’s like ah it’s four points here or it’s three points there if you’re really falling down the leaderboard. But in this circumstance situation you’re like no my my three closest people are relying on me to sell my soul on this run regardless of where I am cuz I know every second counts and it’s all being added together. So that is an advantage that you get on the team side. It can push you to some amazing physical feats. That’s how you won the game. Yeah. Honestly, that’s that’s that’s part of it is is that uh the camaraderie and the the leadership and teamwork that all come apart of what we’re going to watch this weekend. Um it’s a huge aspect of of the training and of course everything that we see on the competition floor uh throughout the weekend and it’ll show in different ways, but yeah, that’s a huge part of it, Joel, and that’s that’s what always drew me to competing on the team side. Yeah, I really like that aspect that you don’t get in the indie side. People are counting on you. They need you to do well on these events. And in your mind, you’re holding that burden on your shoulders, which you can use as fuel. Use it as fuel. Don’t see it as a bad thing. Use it as fuel. And hopefully, we’re seeing Dylan do that right now. Final mile here. Dylan Hammond goes for the water cup and half ingests it and half wears it. Got to stay cool out there. Pull your body down. It’s crazy though. OJ is legitimately putting the Jeff Adler strategy into play here. Like he’s just he’s just sitting back right now. He’s already closed the gap and now it’s like, okay, I’m gonna go ahead and let Dylan take a lot of this lead and then probably try to make a move here within the next quarter quarter to a half mile. And with that last turn, we now know exactly how much room is left. They are on their final mile. So you’re looking at a 47ish minute finish for these guys if they can hold it. Wow. Rachel Clausing is on the left side of your screen, one of the two women for this eighth day club. Danielle Dunlap would have been on the rower to her left, so she’s already back out for her run. And then Jordan London is their fourth member that Clausing recruited from South Carolina’s CrossFit Rapsity team of years past. And again, your score is your total time. So this is where elementary math checks in. Mean, median, mode, right? Uh, you can have everybody finish around the same time and get one score. You can have several outliers and even get a better score than that other team. My brain just melted, but that one got me. But here comes Keen with the pass. Y Yeah, take advantage though. Like even though you may not be one of the top teams, if you’re a really good runner as an athlete, this is your time. This is your camera time, you know, take advantage of it. Well, but this is what we also talked about earlier, right? If you are an exceptional runner, this is the stretch where you hit the gas and try to pick up as many seconds as you can. Yes. That’s what we’re seeing OJ do right now. He’s kind of passing Dylan, so we’re going to see how this race ends. But I can see Mr. Veteran OJ giving a little kick at the end to finish her off. Again, OJ Keane running shoulderto-shoulder with Dylan Hamming here, making his first appearance at the CrossFit Games. Has also qualified as a M’s CrossFit athlete. Has been inside of a gym for the last 10 years of his life. Not before. He walked in a gym for the first time at 25. It’s not fair that he looks like that. He’s been doing CrossFit for five years and he has been like a sponge to water. He’s got to thank mom and dad for some good genetics there and then putting them to use but a veteran in the sense of he’s a runner. Yes, he’s done some other races and qualified at a high level. He’s competed in the world championships of some other competitions. when it comes to endurance racing. So, he’s not shy to all this running. It’s a walk in the park for him or sprint in the park. Almost had a collision between Keane and someone going the other way. He’s not small. He’s not small. You know, OJ Keane does not skip shoulder day. Neither of them. Neither of them. There’s some big dudes out in front, let me tell you. And this is that’s part of the beauty of CrossFit and what it is, right? It’s like we we want you to be a great runner and we want you to run fast but only fast enough that you’re still gaining strength and we want you to be really strong and we want you to be big and strong but only big and strong enough that you’re still pring those one mile time trials or 5ks in this instance. Half mile left for these two gentlemen and we’ll see when they start to really hit the switch. I mean does Keen even pull away further? does hamming say I’ve been playing a little bit of possum and try to hit some gas late although it looks like he’s starting to he’s already lose a little steam Keen is stretching yeah he’s starting he’s already starting to kick a little bit he’s like bye Jeff Adler won the individual side men’s and women’s 4615 so that time has come and gone but you are still looking at team competitors that are going to finish individual It could have been in the top 10 finish line. Yeah, for sure. These guys are going to be close to top 10 times. I mean, we got Harry Lightoot that came in at 4936 at 10th overall on the men’s side. And so, these guys are looking at an output where wow, that would be extremely impressive even if they were going to be on the the individual side. And then Tatumi was the best woman at 4948. That sentence was unnecessary beyond is the best woman. And look at this absolute kick that we’re seeing here. I mean, this is phenomenal. He’s accelerated his his pace as of the last 150 meters in a ridiculous format. Just getting faster and faster. Looking behind him, looking over his shoulder, making sure Dylan’s not out of sight. And it doesn’t seem like he is. Got a pretty big gap. How did that even happen? I mean, he’s a I mean, he just stepped on it. He is a football field ahead of Dylan Hammock. Ladies and gentlemen, football pitch. He’s from England. It was once you started to mention the times, Joel, he like he heard it. He he was he had the earpiece in. He’s listening to the commentary. OJ Keane, 35 years old, a M’s athlete, is going to put up the best individual time of all the teams. And in 4857, he puts up a top 10 individual time at the 2025 CrossFit Games. Great start for Blueprint. Good start for eighth day. Hammock will come in second. And like you said it, people still owing. Here comes Hamming officially in 4923. That’s still a top 10 time. Still an impressive time. Right to the ice. Yeah, even though it’s cool out there, those bodies are warm after going for 50 minutes plus. So, cool the body down as quickly as possible. Eighth Day is trying to have its best finish ever in its fourth trip to the games. They were fifth last year and a true affiliate team. They are Michiganders with the exception of London, but over the last four years it’s it’s been a local bunch. And Joel, to your point, maybe the competitive mindset sit in, who knows? But got someone on the rower still. Someone still on the rower. Now this is interest. I mean Hamming is clearly walking to cool down. And here comes Rogers who was at the front of the pack. Helinghoff is on the right from Oslo Kger. Do you kind of cool down by walking? Look. Nice push. And it will be Harry Lightoot saying not today. Not only does he he beat Rogers, he leaves him in the dust. 5047 for Helingoff. Do you do your cool down by walking in reverse here and maybe trying to go find your other teammates on the run course? Do a little encouraging. I I absolutely would. And that would have been something on my mind even in the return as of the run. Like as I’m heading back to this finish line, I’m like, “Hey, I’m spotting where my team is. I might be giving them a gesture, a nod or a yell like, “Hey, let’s go. You got this. Push, push, push.” Like whatever that communication might look like. And then once I finish, I’m I’m searching the course. I’m like, I’m going back to try to find where my squad is. And I don’t know if there’s, you know, rules. Of course, there’s certain limitations. The athletes are going to be held in a specific area, of course. But gosh, if they get that chance, I’m going back to root on my dogs. No doubt about it. Kristen Holta is the top female as Angelo Deico comes in. He’ll be fourth overall, but the top man and top woman in this event for the teams. Both Masters athletes 35 and 39 years old. First score across for Mayhem is going to be just over 5150 with Jico 52. And here comes Yundov for Rhino. We’ve had some athletes run faster last two miles than they did second two miles if that makes sense. So they’re the miles three and four when they came back in. I mean, Helinghoff did that in 1345. He ran his last two miles in 13 flat. Here is Yandov. A little cramp for Nikita over there. And the first woman to come across will be Kristen Holta on the left side of your screen. Sam Deester from Mayhem. Sam De Mester. That’s a good sign. So Mayhem now has two and the first team to bring two people across the finish line. Yeah, that’s what you like to see when you think about accumulation as the overall score. That’s really important. Raph Durant is going to come racing across as well. So the Rhino team going to have a phenomenal start. Yim is through proven early is through Invictus. We just mark and I see our first female now making her way down. Mrs. Greater Heights ascends Casey Strong, the captain in front. And then Kristen Holter will be the first woman to come across from Oslo. And they will have two done. Casey Strong has to go back. He just lost his timing chip. What? Because your timing chip is your bib. His bib came officially, so he has to go back. It cost him a couple of seconds. At least there wasn’t a bunch of people around. That would have sucked even more, but still that sucks. Mike Needleman on the right side, Jordan London from eighth day. So, they’ll have two coming across at this point. Blueprint has another finisher. That’s Carrie Hewitt who we talked about like OJ Keane, phenomenal fitness racer. And here comes London Dunn from Eighth Day. Mike Needleman in from the Long Island team out of CrossFit Undivided. 54 minutes and I think did we There’s Lugman coming across for Invictus. I think we saw Rachel Clausing coming up here as well. So, she’s had a good kick and that’s a really good sign for eighth day. Phenomenal time still coming in. These women are all still coming in just outside of the top 13. Oh yeah, that’s Clausing on the right side. So, eighth day has three finished athletes at the 5420 mark. Dylan’s like, “Yes, he’s happy.” Oda Luna uh Uda Lunikam also finishes for Oslo. Here comes Tolmako. Oslo Kger. They are going to be in a phenomenal spot. Blueprint team. And here comes Keen, not to be confused with OJ. This is Harry spelled differently. He is the captain for that blueprint AOD team. So they are in great shape regardless of how he feels in this exact moment. He’s hurting. [Applause] Crossing the finish line. We had a Tola come across too. Y is done. He came about 10 seconds ago. Oslo is done. All four of them have come across. And honestly, if I’m to Moraco, I mean, that man is the strongest person out there. Yep. And he just did that on a run. That’s a good finish for him. He used to run with TA all the time. He was behind me. I’m just kidding. Does that impress you? It It does. It really does. He started working on it in 2021 in Vegas. He was working on his endurance cuz he knew that was a weakness of his. Figured one of these teams is going to work out for Tola eventually. He has been Mr. Ringer in recent years competing on Peak 360 Iceland CrossFit Recuik East Nashville Proven Back Bay. This is his seventh appearance at the games. The most veteran male in the field. Yeah, he’s tied with um another athlete, Albro. Yes. From Prestanda. The cup evades him. Lot of medals. Can he hold it? It’s the best thing. The cup. You win the cup, you keep it for a year, drink out of it, have bowl of cereal out of it. I’ve done all those things. Is this experience? Oh my gosh. Yeah, absolutely. That’s why you win it. Got to bring it to the party. Bren Kurlin just ran off of your screen from training. Think tank. And that is Christina Aggerback, another one of our M’s athletes from CrossFit Butcher Lab. Aggerback is an OG in Denmark. [Applause] She competed at the games back in 2018 on a team. There are people that are competing in these games that in 2018 were in middle school probably. [Music] Ivon Gaiton from Q21 competed against Ivon. He’s been around for a while. And that 262 is Ome Rashev the 24y old for the Rhino Dogs. So they have at least three finishers. I didn’t see Lenn Lam and Tikka come across, but the Rhino Dogs have three scores in the books. As we close in on an hour, there is no time cap for the teams, training think tanks, Gustavo, Ero. All of this matters. It all becomes math. four right before that 58 minute mark. Once again, this event is for completion. So, no time officially see the next wave of athletes cross the finish line here. We got a couple females now and blueprint AOD. Okay, so now this is where things get interesting. That was just Helen Nutter 192. So this is Ava George in the pink for proven. So Helen Nutter is going to be the final to come across for AOD in a 58ish time. That is going to bring down a little bit the scores of the other three. But were her teammates high enough that the math maths and things work out in AOD’s favor? Jordan Adcock from CrossFit Body Blueprint, not to be confused with CrossFit Blueprint. If you put them into your GPS, you’ll go to different times. Be a little confused there. One is in New York, one is in Britain. Here comes Hannah Hardy from CrossFit Franco. Brandon Luckett is their coach. He competed on the last CrossFit Franco team. [Applause] We’re starting to get to that point where we’re starting to see these athletes who have already felt that internal pressure of knowing I’m going to be one of the slower athletes on my team and they’re bringing up the back half really having that internal drive of like I’ve got to finish fast to give us a good chance. But you also don’t know kind of how these teams were thinking about their position coming in. So maybe some of these athletes know it’s not great in the scheme of things, their time, but maybe it’s great for what they were aiming for. Hey, like I overshot my expected performance for sure. Or maybe they didn’t. This is the first of four announced events that these teams will be competing in today. So we saw Danny Spiegel there trying to close out things for Invictus. Four announced events that these teams will be competing in today. So you got a long one in right under your belt. you got to get back to work. And this is where we’ll really start to see fitness. Fitness, right? Because they’re not just going to run six miles and then row a 3K and be done for the day. These athletes are going to have several events looming to follow where they’re going to have to be asked to recover very quickly, fuel up, get their core attempt down, and be ready to rock and roll in just a short while after this. All right, so this is still up for change based on how scores impact things while people finish. But at the moment, CrossFit Oslo with a total team time of 3332 is in first. Blueprint is in second at 33558. So that 58 minute time by Nutter does pull the score down enough that Oslo was able to sneak in. Moraco had their slowest score at 54 minutes. Camel City best time Evan Rogers 5054. They’re in third. Camp Rhino is in fourth. Awesome start for the underdogs crew. And then Butcher Lab out of Denmark. 343. Their total time is in fifth. Putting it down. Danielle Dunlap from And Invictus just jumped. So Rhino actually got pushed down to fifth. Invictus is now in fourth at 339. Phil Muscarella 5229. Shawn Early just behind him. Emily Rwell, we talked about her running prowess at 54. And then Danny Spiegel finishes in just over an hour, which again, as we talked about, like for Danny Spiegel, good race. Yep. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. I mean, I did say that at the beginning that she was looking good. So, that’s a good finish for her. And a fourth place finish, if that’s what holds to be, is worth 85 points. We’re going to take that one. 100 for first. And we drop things down by five. following up that hot foot race. Got about four athletes sprinting to the finish line. Medical team there watching everyone’s body language even as they finish across the finish line. Like they’re right there for people who are showing signs of like collapse or that they can see or might be suffering from heat exhaustion or dehydration, whatever it is. We’ve seen people cramping. They’re there to grab them. It’s it’s just refreshing to watch them see, okay, someone needs attention or someone doesn’t. Let the ones that don’t pass on by. But it’s it’s great. That was Dr. Sean Rocket on the left side of your screen, the official CrossFit team doctor as well and affiliate owner. Yeah, people are uh they’re pushing hard. That’s what happens at inerson competitions. You do things that you probably those gears that you can’t get into during training. You get into them at competitions. It’s a superpower, but it also hurts. It’s devastating. Yeah. Yeah. There’s a pain cave. [Music] arms driving to try to come across that finish line here in 63 [Music] 22 is the unofficial time for an Sophie Tashro who is looking forward to the lifting this weekend any kind of it she is an Olympic level lifter running damage control and training think tank is now a complete team as Faith Stewart comes through [Music] And this is Griffin Raleigh. And this is a tough pill to swallow early for Undivided, who had some podium and championship hopes early. We’ll have to see how Raleigh’s score impacts the total. Griffin did tell Bella Martin out there that he is kind of seized up a little bit on the first run, so he’s been fighting through. And CrossFit Thor does finish in 6413. And now it’ll be recovery mode for a former individual games athlete. And that’s a really, really hard situation there, Joel. It’s like you’ve got expectations for success. You run into muscle cramps or seizing up in, you know, the first three miles of what you will know eventually accumulate six miles of running. There’s some realities there that you must face. And then you just have to simply adapt and do the best the best you can with what you got. Crossfit Hendersonville seeing its first female come across with Kenzie Campbell, the Mayhem team that trains out of CrossFit Hendersonville. It’s being an athlete, right? If things go wrong and they don’t go to plan, can you adapt and can you overcome? Athlete 101. Some might say adapt or die. That’s true. Yep. AOD. Still some athletes out there on the course as CrossFit Prestanda will get a finish here from Angelica Bangston who was a late replacement for the former Olympian Lisa Anderson after she was hurt. So Bangston, one of the Mast’s athletes competing, six women masters athletes competing at the games. She’s met by Antonia Kotalinsky and Christristanda is a team with podium aspirations. Got a mixture of spectators, teams, coaches, and some people that were walking around Albany and saw something cool and wanted to come on over. Let’s take you back to the start of the race, though, and take a look at our highlights presented by Road. And here is the start of the race. It was a little bit bigger than the individual as we can see. And you just got to get out there and go up in front. We saw OJ and Dylan getting there as OJ actually makes his way to the rower first. Dylan started making a move though because he is a pretty strong athlete. He had a lot of power. And we saw Oslo with the women. They are keeping pace which we were really impressed about. And then OJ with Dylan. They were battling it out, but I think we saw OJ King start pulling away right at the end. As a veteran runner, we love to see that our first OJ Keen at 35 years old finishes and then you can see the bib fall. And then we got Kristen Hold is the first female athlete across the finish line. and her teammate Tola Moraco helping Oslo finish with an overall event win. Blueprint right in behind. Great start. Camel City Camp Rhino CrossFit. We got some teams that have thrown down the gauntlet here amongst our top five, but it is CrossFit Oslo Kriger that is in the overall lead. All right, as a 38-year-old myself, I can say this. Let’s go down to Bella Martin with the two individual best runners in this team event. The spring chickens of OJ Keen and Kristen Holton. Joel, I’m here with two legends at this point. OJ, we’ve been standing around for a while. You look pretty solid and recovered. Now you were out the door from the jump with Dylan. It was a race to the end. Not something you usually want for a 40minute test, but congratulations. Top 10 time for the individual males would have gone to you. Were you watching those guys in the beginning or did you just run your own race? uh just run my own race. Um running and rowing are probably two of my stronger movements. So kind of just hoped I didn’t just cross that line on each um stage of the event basically and then had enough at the end. We were talking about your team early on with being very good at this based on your hybrid racing performances this past year. Is that something that you think played well to your team’s advantage? I mean, second team overall in this event sounds pretty good. Uh yeah, I think sometimes we doubt ourselves or at least half the team doubt themselves a bit more like strength athletes, but we always seem to do quite well in the running events, no matter what it’s paired with. So yeah, should probably be a bit more confident going into it as a whole. And you’re training for not only the team CrossFit games, but the Masters CrossFit games as well. Are you going to take some of those learnings, especially a event win for yourself here going into the end of August with you? Yeah, I think it hope it should build a bit of confidence. It’s my first um CrossFit games as well. So, yeah, pretty stoked. Speaking of another Mast’s athlete herself, Kristen, I’m excited to see here a little bit of a surprise. Most of these teams have been practicing this event since it was dropped. You just got thrown into the mix. How did event number one go based on your limited training for this one? Yeah, luckily I’ve been running quite a lot, so I felt confident doing that. We kind of thought it was going to be like share the row, so didn’t love that I had to roll the 3K by myself, but I I like to run and it was just like trying to push myself as much as I can. It’s really fun to see you on a team as well. Your time would have been also one of the top 10 times for the females overall. Is that something to you that builds confidence that you can bring back to your team knowing that hey, you can still hang with those individual females, which is a tough field. Yeah. Well, on workouts like this, I should, but the rest not. Like, I’m not training that volume anymore. Uh, and I don’t I don’t feel like I need to to prove myself that I belong there. I’ve been there. Um, done that, and now it’s just fun to be a part of a team and share this experience with the three others, guys. Well, it’s been really fun to share it with both of you. Top one and two teams, event number one. Long day left, but we’ll see you guys later. Bella, thank you. 35-year-old OJ Keane, 39-year-old Kristen Holta. To paraphrase, one of the great literary films of all time, Old School. Our competitors keep getting older, but we stay the same age. Age is but a number. Phenomenal start to the team competition here at the 2025 CrossFit Games. Women’s event number two is coming up next. 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But for the first time, we are in MVP Arena as we get set for individual event number two for the CrossFit Games. I’m Chase Ingram. Alongside with me is Adrian Connory. Mike Arsenal will join us shortly. We’ve already had one event down, but outside that one event, there’s a lot that’s happening this weekend. What are your overall thoughts coming in for this weekend? Gosh, man. Two that come to mind is the parody on the men’s side of the field. We have got three previous champions. However, we’ve got a Don Pepper, a Jason Hopper, a Roman Krennikov, an Austin Hatfield. The list goes on of men that could potentially stand on the podium this weekend. And then, of course, Tia Chasing number eight. And the question is coming up is like not necessarily is eight even in contention. Is is eight going to be the final run? Is eight enough? Is eight going to be enough? I hope the answer is no. I’m sorry. I just I love what you do. But the men’s standings, we said it’s tight at the top and some familiar names that we will be seeing all weekend long. your 2023 crossing of games champ Jeff Adler takes the win. Roman Krennikov in second. Ricky Gard look down the list. Jeff Adler, what a start this morning. But it wasn’t the smoothest run from start to finish. No, it wasn’t necessarily the smoothest run in regards to a prediction like overall leader from start to finish, but it was what we expected. We had some men come out really fast. Jeff Adler openly admitted he was testing the field. He was going to see what the boys were capable of in regards to a pace they could hold and tolerate. But it was Roman Krennikov who overtook the lead and then was out to a substantial 50 meter lead at some point and Jeff just started reeling him in. And it was right there at the turnaround where it was obvious that it was getting much closer than Roman might prefer. And then it was very predicted and practical the way that we saw Jeff take the lead in the final stretch to wrap it up. Now what we saw on film is different what was happening in Jeff Adler’s head and he spoke more of that with Mike Arseno. When I saw Roman was only 10 seconds behind, I knew he would catch up on the Rowan pass, but I was okay with that knowing that I can I can run pretty quick. But I almost threw the towel in on the turn of the second mile, but uh I mean got to got to go for the 100 points and get as much as I can now because I’m going to lose some in the in the weekend somewhere. So, might as well make the most of it. And here is why Jeff Adler needs to make the most out of the opportunities that he’s given. Three CrossFit Games champions, your last three in a row. Justin Maderas with two, Jeff Adler, and James Sprag are on the field. And as you said, Adrian, you’ve got three more podium contenders. You’ve got four more athletes that are in the mix, the top 10. So when you can squeeze out four points, you better put it in the extra gear because those four points might matter on Sunday. That’s right. We talk in CrossFit terms. We’re thinking like, “Hey, every minute counts in every workout.” No, no, every second counts. from a very literal perception this weekend and all these men are going to be fighting, clawing, and gnawing for every opportunity they can to maximize that point total. Now, as we shift from the men to the women, it was a foregone conclusion. We thought that Tiatumi is on her way to her eighth CrossFit Games Championship. She does take the win, but it wasn’t as easy as we thought it would be with Amy Kringle and Lucy Campbell hot on her heels. Yeah, it was an amazing race. Right out of the gate, we started looking. We noticed the athletes were going to be placed based on their open finish. It put Tia a little bit in the back. She notably got out to a really hot start catching up to even the front of the men’s leaderboard. That’s where she wanted to be. So, she got to the rower with a substantial lead on Kringle. But then it was Kringle’s continual effort on that rower that allowed her to close the gap on up to a 300 meter lead. And then she was right there on Tia’s heels heels throughout until we got to about that one to.5 miles left. Tia put on the afterburners and of course there was no looking back with that endurance background that she’s got. Now we know that Tia has been focusing on that endurance background and she spoke more to that and what that could possibly mean for her weekend with Arsenal. I have been running a lot this year and it’s it’s definitely been a nice change for the body. Um and you know we’ll we’ll see for the rest of the weekend if it if it has uh you know changed anything else in my um abilities. But um I definitely think that I would have given previous TIA athlete a run for her money. [Music] Couple of guarantees in life, death, taxes, and Tia Clair Tumi winning the CrossFit game. Seven time games championship consecutive as far as her time that she’s been there. We had one year off when she became a mother. Nine podium appearances. 42 care career event wins for Tatumi. There’s a lot to be said for her career, yet she’s still finding ways to talk about more things as we go in year in and year out. Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s an amazing career what she’s been able to build. 42 is a number that is absolutely astonishing. People not familiar with our space won’t respect it and understand the fortitude and the consistency that that’s demanded through her years. And it’s funny, she’s already acting like she has more growth in her pedestal, like to to get where she wants to be based on maybe that performance and what’s looming. But she’s focused on endurance and now we’re going to get a test here to come shortly. We’ve got nine more looming of course on how can she really encapsulate it all for the rest of the weekend. And we got a long weekend left to go. Here’s what we have left on the docket for today. We have individual event number two for the men and the women followed by teams. They’ll take event two, three, and four. And we’re going to close things out here in MVP Arena with event number three. with that popular at least from the man behind the program until we got barbell complex. Can Tia keep her win streak alive? Individual event number two coming up. [Music] Results lead to the good life. What is the good life? Increase fitness, increased health, joy, positivity, anything that’s going to get you out there and make the world a better place. And we use CrossFit. What if 2 days could redefine your health and your life? Welcome to your CrossFit level one seminar. Our goal is to give you guys a better understanding of our definition of CrossFit. 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Adrian, we’ve got individual event number two. All crossed up. All crossed up. It is. We’re opening this thing with 20 wall walks. Then we get to 10 dumbbell shoulder overhead with a single arm. 20 double under crossovers. 30 toes to bar. Another 20 double unders. Then they’re back to that dumbbell shoulder overhead. And then they sequentially work through one each time of the movements remaining. Again, it’s 100 pounds for the men and 70 pounds for the women that work. A lot going on. But what is your tempo recipe for success? It’s who’s got the BC doubleA’s. And what I mean by that is the balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility. These are all going to be tested elements within this specific event. And then this is a pressure check. You’re either going to be a diamond or you’re going to bust under the pressure that will be present on the competition floor. Now, with that dumbbell, there is a very important piece of this puzzle when it comes to the dumbbell standard. Let’s see who’s going to be in that first heat. We’ve had a receding after every event, which is not as common as we’ve had in the years past, which is a big big deal when it comes to the overall competition. And in lane number four, we’re more on Caroline Po. Let’s go down to Mike Arseno. Thanks, Chase. Caroline is actually the oldest competitor in the women’s field at 35 years old. She’s also the only woman who competed as an individual back in 2018 when the East Regional was held here at MVP Arena. She actually wasn’t aware of that stat when I told her in the warm-up area and she went wideeyed and said, “Wow, I can’t believe that. I didn’t know that.” that and she was just so proud of herself of her longevity in this sport as she’s retired as a professional hockey player, but her CrossFit career is still bright and she’s still very competitive here as one of the top 30 fittest women in the world. and we’ll see for the rest of this weekend if she can make that climb up into one of the higher heats. And Po actually getting a back fill from the NorCal Classic because Alex Kazan’s unfortunate in or injury. Olivia Kursed sitting in 28th, but this is where she’s going to start to climb up the leaderboard. [Applause] Individual event number two, the first time we’ll have action inside MVP Arena as we were at Jennings Crossing earlier this morning with event number one. Now, that had six total miles of running, a 3K row. We’re starting this off with a 20 wall walk buyin. Yeah, these wall walks a very challenging movement we saw introduced into the CrossFit space all the way back in 2021 in the Open. uh very unforgiving. It is one of those movements that’s often looked at as a scale. Hey, this could be a scale for handstand walking. No, no, this is a test all into itself as these athletes make their way from tape line to tape line to solidify one complete repetition. And it is a traumatic test to the midline and also the shoulders, which we have a lot of after the buyin. Claudia Gluck making her second consecutive trip to the cross of games is out early. They’ll do 10 wall walks on one board and then they’ll advance forward for their final 10. And then once they’re done, the race is on. And Adrian, there is not a lot of time to get the race done because this is a tight time cap of 10 minutes. Yeah, it’s a tight time cap chase. And this is why there’s a lot of pressure involved in this specific event. The way it’s laid out and all crossed up is really simple. It’s can you get out ahead and stay out ahead. There’s not going to be a lot of room for athletes to make up ground if they have a significant deficit coming off of the wall. Now, all those things considered, that crossover double under could be a problem, and we’re going to see that executed at a high level when it comes to skills. That is the announcement that opened up everyone’s eyes. As you said, the double under crossover has returned for the first time since 2022 as Claudia Gluck is off the wall along with Olivia Kursed. Kursetter one of the strongest athletes in the field when she was a teenager winning the CrossFit games. There was a one rep max back snatch at the CrossFit games. She had the highest total more than the individuals that year. Yeah, her physical capacity goes beyond a lot of people’s even imagination for a young woman, especially her age. And it’s and it’s really going to come down to her learning to seize the moment. And we’re going to watch her continually climb the leaderboard this weekend if she can. Now, the question for everyone, have you learned how to do double under crossovers since they debuted in 2022? And the answer is yes. Claudia Gluck on the left, Olivia Kursed on the right with Anukica Greer in the green. your top three. Gluck is done and she will move to the rig for 30 toes to bar at the same time with Olivia Kursed. Athletes going unbroken on that first round. Really really an amazing thing to see watching the EL evolution of just a few years ago that that movement being a huge stopping point for almost everyone on the track. Anukica Greer on the far left in the green. And her and Kenter had a very tough finish in event number one. Olivia Kerscenter on the right got 28th. Anukica Greer got 27th. But that’s really the worst event on paper at least going forward that we know so far. We do know there’s a one rep max back swat and both of these ladies will fare very well in that event tomorrow. Ketter being one of the first athletes to break there. But then right back up to the toes the bar. I think this is important. There’s going to be 60 of these in the workout. Some athletes will be able to do them in really large chunks, like we just saw Gluck do, drop down unbroken for 30, and others are going to drop down more often and take shorter breaks. Back to the second set of double under crossovers for Claudia Gluck. Built for speed, control, and performance. Whether you’re chasing your first double under or crushing workouts like a pro, there’s a Bitus rope for you. Grab yours now and level up your training. The luck is done with her 20 double under crossovers as she will advance to the dumbbell. 70 lbs on the dumbbell. Now with this shoulder to overhead, there’s a very important nuance when it comes to the standards of which they’re being held to today. Yeah, you got to keep that other hand away from the working arm, which means once you get it up to your shoulder, the working arm is the only one that’s able to really make contact with the dumbbell, even rerracking it with the use of the other hand will result in the athlete having to bring it all the way to the ground. body of luck opting with the left arm. There is no mandate as far as how you use it, how many you do on each side, but if you do break, you must switch arms at the bottom. So that dumbbell has to come back to the ground. Kirster is done with her second set of 10. 20 more double under crossovers for Kirster and Gluck. Anukica Greer at the top of your screen in the green as Gluck will have her first miss. This is where we start to see that accumulation of fatigue and the grip in the shoulders. Chase, the double in a crossover debuted in 2022, but there’s only 25 at the end of a gymnastic medley event, and very few got to it. Even fewer got to accomplish it. But it’s a no surprise to see the comeback a couple years later and see how well athletes have figured out this movement on the second set of toes bar 30 reps. Are you surprised to see more people struggle on this on the second round? And on paper it seemed pretty benign. Yeah, I I I would say no. I I I understand that because of the intensity of especially the wall walks that really start this event. I think it’s unique in regards to once that moment finishes although you feel good for the next 90 seconds or so that blood accumulation and workload really starts to accumulate a ton on your grip and your shoulders and so one the breaking up of the total bar was expected here on these final 30. But now we’re really going to see how well did they manage their self-control early so that they could shine late. Claudia Glux still holding on to that lead. Had a few misses on her last set of double in her crossovers. And there is another one. 20 reps here until we get to the final 10 shoulder to overhead. Anukica Greer still holding on to that third place position. Now she’s actually moved into second and could be fighting for a first place position. as she is trying to track down Gluck. Huge opportunity here. Claudia Gluck left arm on the last set. She may be going all right on the third, but Anukica Greer is trying to chase her down. And that’s what we were talking about, Chase. You got to lower it to the ground. Gluck takes the heat. At a time of 706.90, Greer will get second. And it looked like Greer was going to chase her down, but a little stumble. And then once that hand comes in and makes contact, that dumbbell has to come back down to the ground. Chris Setter is in. [Music] Time cap on this event is a very tight 10 minutes. Lexi Neely. Next athlete trying to finish. Lexi Neely in her second crossuit games. Actually had a event win last year in pushpull 2.0. [Music] Two minutes before we hit the 10-minute time cap. Times in the upper left corner of your screen. Lexi Neely is in [Music] Christina Lividadakus qualifying out of the Rebel Renegade games out of South Africa and in the top three. This is what we didn’t see, the managing of the pausing and the waiting and transitions. And that’s some of the difference that really starts to accumulate, especially in an event with so many transitions like this. Handful of reps left to go representing the country of Zimbabwe. Talk about the global reach of the CrossFit community. The few countries that are being represented for the first time here at this year’s CrossFit games. As we have just one minute left to go. Lisa Marquez gets her final rep. Louisa did a great job at saving that last rep there, stabilizing under the load. Carolyn Po, as Mike said earlier, the only athlete in this field on the individual side that actually competed in this arena back in the old regional days. as she will make the switch at the bottom. Again, you cannot switch at the top. If you’re going to switch arms, that dumbbell has to come to the ground, which really makes you start to calculate, is it worth the switch? 15 seconds before the time cap. [Applause] Maya Mesa and Maria Camila Cano trying to finish a four. We had that 10-minute time cap. And a lot of the speed you’ll see these athletes will be dictated by the double unders. Claudia glut 706.90 your new time to beat for heat number one. Well, we didn’t know what to expect with this one. We knew it was going to be about pressure and execution and that it was all the way out from the beginning. It was Claudia Gluck who was the first off the 20 wall walks made her way to the dumbbell showed that it wasn’t going to present much of a problem. In fact, with those crossover double unders chase, we only saw her break them a hand just under a handful of times and she made slight work of the toes to bar each and every round for the 60 within the workout. She was able to regain her composure as Anukica Greer really came up close on her tail here in the finish, but she held on to the dumbbell for unbroken reps and is now officially the event two leader. Claudia Gluck unofficial time of 706.90. Two more heats to come. Heat two coming up next. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] The fish heads are out here inside MVP Arena As heat one is done, heat two for the individual women taking the floor. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with with me is Adrien Conway. Mike Arseno is down on the floor as we get set for all crossed up. All crossed up. We saw it go down once. This will be the second time. We’ll see if an athlete can beat that 706 time established. It’s 20 wall walk buyin and then we’re going to get through a chipper style format of 30 total shouldered overhead with a 70 lb weight and 80 crossover double unders and that also includes 60 toes the bar. We’ve already seen the double under crossovers stop some athletes in their tracks. Your lane assignments for heat number two down in lane number three. Your vision fuels victory athletes to watch Brooke Wells making her 10th and final CrossFit games appearance. 10th and final. We take that light-heartedly chasing this space because some athletes get ahead of themselves saying, “Hey, this could be my last.” And they surprise us. However, Brooke, a tenured athlete we’ve seen grow up in this sport. Tremendous physical capacity and what a bright light within our space through her years. Alexis Raptis got 14th in this morning’s events of the run row run and it does very well when things get inverted. Alexis on the comeup in our space looking to really get onto that podium and this could be a step in that direction today. Stand by. Heat number two, individual event number two underway. 10 athletes chasing the time to beat set by Claudia Glug 706.90. We are starting with 20 wall walks before we get to the rest of the event. Claudia Gle was done in a minute and 42 seconds. See Hattie Cano and Brooke Wells. [Music] Jen Mure and Lydia Fish. Saw those Nemo Fish Heads out in the stands a little bit earlier. That is the Lydia Fish fan base as she makes her rookie debut here at the Crossy Games. [Applause] Fish is done. Matthews will do 10 at one wall, 10 at a second wall. Digital scorekeepers at the front of the lanes as Lydia Fish gets rep 12 just past the one minute mark. We saw this in the last heat. This is where a lot of that accumulation of fatigue begins. It’s 20 consecutive wall walks is a long time under tension for the upper body, the triceps, the shoulders. And of course, these women are doing it with urgency. They want to get on to the rest of this chipper as quickly as they can. And like we saw in the last heat, once the lead was established, there was not a lot of back and forth nor opportunity to pass athletes by if they don’t struggle with the crossover double under. Alexis Raptis, two reps left to go. Alexis Raptis in her rookie debut made a name for herself when she took echo press and she is first off the wall along with Lydia Fish 10 shoulder overhead 70 lbs on the dumbbell. You cannot use your other hand at any point in time from the floor to overhead. If you do, you have to put the dumbbell back down to the ground. You’ll notice a few different preferences here. Some ladies more of a pronated palms forward grip like we see from Alexis and Lydia holding more neutral so the dumbbell and the head of the dumbbell rests away from her body. It all depends on what works for you. Athletes now advance to the 20 double under crossovers and Lineia Fish doesn’t get a rep in before he hits her first miss. The same with Alexis Raptist. Any part of your screen is Syria Mayha. If you don’t know that name, not only is she a rookie, but she won the in affiliate semifinals this year and probably one of the biggest question marks coming into this weekend. Where did you come from? Who are you? And how are you going to fare here on the floor at the CrossFit Games? That’s right. It’s a big difference, especially when we see someone we’re unfamiliar with hit a home run in a test like the online semifinals against the world and then they get to come here in person. We really get to see how they operate and how they compete headto-head. Fish fans out there, the Nemo Heads. There’s a still close between Alexis Raptist, Lydia Fish as we are past the 330 mark. Again, this is heat two of three. The previous heat, Claudia Gluck set the time to beat at 706.90. After the toes the bar, Gluck was done at the 330 mark. So, Gluck well ahead of the pace, 25 seconds ahead of Lydia Fish as Fish advances to her second set of double under crossunders. And we’ll see how these double under crossunders go because that first heat nailed those 20. There were six athletes who went made through almost completely unbroken. And here in this second heat, we’ve seen even the top three leaders messed up once, maybe even twice in that first set of 20. Lydia Fish in the far right side of your screen has a clean run as she will advance to the dumbbell. Left side of your screen in lane number one. It’s Lucy McGonagal, team champion, making her individual debut on the left side of your screen. Now, Lydia Fish, this is one of those events when you look at how to be competitive in the sport. All the boxes must be checked if you want to be on the podium or you want to be a champion. Lydia Fish is very, very good, borderline elite at things like gymnastics and endurance. It’s the weightlifting portion where she’s going to take the hits. Yeah. And so that means, hey, in in a unique combination of things in this circumstance where a 70 lb double is totally manageable for her, she’s really got to go for it all. That means she’s got to do the best she can to lead out front, which she is, and hold on so she can get the best placing as possible. Lydia Fish is done. Now, aside from her first set of double under crossovers, she has been near flawless. She was 25 seconds behind the pace set by Claudia Gluck. She has now closed that time to 15 seconds as Lucy McGonagal over in lane number one is keeping pace with Lydia Fish. Two rookies leading the charge here in heat number two. Two different styles of toes to bar two. McGonagal keeping a longer lever with her legs a little straighter. Starting to soften the knee now. McGonagal breaks a lot more at the lower leg. Kind of kicking towards the rig. This is going to get McGonogal a faster cycle rate and probably off this rig much much sooner as it looks like she just went unbroken. Pulling away from the field. Lucy McGonagal on your left, Lydia Fish on the right. Top part of your screen. We’re just at the 6minute mark. Time to beat 706.90. Just one minute till we hit the time step by Claudia Gluck. Lucy McGonagal has pulled ahead of Lydia Fish. McGonagal’s first at a toz bar took her just over a minute where Fish is about 108 and 102 for McGonagal. So only a half a second slower as McGonagal has now taken the lead. This is where they start to feel that pressure chase. They know where each other are and they feel the presence of the judges. Can they hang on? McGonagles to the dumbbell. Two reps in. Fish has yet to pick it up. She’s now four reps behind. McGonagal has about 10 seconds to get that time to beat. So, she was behind early, but she has closed hard late. Lucy McGonagal takes the heat and sets the new time to beat. Great finish there for Lydia as well. Tough break when you lead kind of the whole heat and then someone comes and snags you right at the end, but a great finish nonetheless by her. Both times are under the time set by Gluck Fish. Out touch Claudia Gluck’s time by 14100s of a second. Addie Cano on her final five reps. She’ll take a break. One of the few that we’ve seen to actually break intentionally and switch arms in the middle of a set. [Music] Can you in right at the 8 minute mark 2 minutes before we hit that 10-minute time capsi who qualified this year out of the Mayhem Classic. She will take a break and that might open the door for Brooke Wells. And that’s that unique part about the rule. Fee stabilized the dumbbell with one arm and that may force her to put it all the way to the floor. Siri on the right side is trying to sneak in, but Fee will stay just ahead of Brooke even with the break. Able to hold on. Responded well to that pressure moment. Mayhem is done. [Applause] Cindy Molition who had to pull a rabbit out of the hat at the TFX Invitational on that final event just to get here. Suny Young Choy and Alexis Raptis as Rapus is seem to be struggling a bit with that dumbbell. And one thing to note too is that you see the dumbbell dropping. If it drops from overhead, not only will that not count, but you you’ll have to do the rep over again. And that is going to be very important when we see those tight races at the finish line in later heats. Yeah, absolutely. We knew how how big it was going to be from a tight race perspective as we got Troy across with 30 seconds left. But when we watch this final heat coming up, that’s certainly going to be something because it’s going to be a matter of seconds for likely several athletes and they’re going to have to be mindful of that that rule to uphold that. Last athlete on the competition floor, rookie Jen Mure, [Applause] representing Scotland. Scotland being the new home of the Rogue Invitational. They’ll be back this year for the second time. and Lucy McGonagal will take the heat set of the new time a beat of 7 minutes 19 seconds. Wasn’t leading early off the bat, but seemed to get that rhythm later in the event. Yeah, she really did a great job and it was a great showcase by by both of the both of the rookies. You know, it was Lydia Fish who held on to a lot of the lead early. Um, but she was also led by a veteran. It was Alexis Raptis that was the first off the dumbbell. Lydia Fish was there side by side seizing the opportunity on some snafuss there on the first block of double unders. Crossover double unders to be specific. But it was Lucy McGonagal who pressured her late and was able to hold on even with a slight miss of the lockout on that final push. She was able to save it and stand it up and come across the finish line in first place. It was a great showing. Great competitive heat by these two. Lucy McGonagal in her individual debut here at the 2025 across the games. 7 minutes.19 seconds. Lydia Fish 706.76 and Claudia Glux time of 706.90 will round out your top three. One more heat remaining. Your top 10 after event number one up next. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Third and final heat of individual event number two for the women about to be underway as the 2025 crossing games makes their way inside MVP Arena. I’m Chase Singham. Alongside of me is Adrien Conway. Mike Arsenal will be joining us shortly as your top 10 after event number one. Surprise, surprise. Tia Clair Tumi sitting on top of the leaderboard with 100 points. Amy Kringle sits in second. And welcome back Lucy Campbell as she rounds out your top three. But what happened in event one can change drastically in event number two. This event is presented by Bites, the official grip and jump rope of the 2025 Cross Games. That’s right. It’s all crossed up Chase. They’re going to open with a 20 wall walk buyin into accumulation chipper style of 30 shouldered overhead with a 70 lb dumbbell, 60 toes to bar and 80 crossover double unders. Have they done their homework? Have they done? You’ve got three years and they announced it early. What is your tempo recipe for success? Hey man, we’ve got who’s got the BCAA’s which stands for balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility. It’s all going to be tested with the dumbbell and the jump rope and then of course diamond or bust. We’ve seen heat times be within 6 seconds of each other and it’s going to get tighter as the race continues. Now we see the rope, but let’s talk a little bit more about the dumbbell. Let’s go down to Mike Arseno. Every rep has to be completed with one hand. So, from the ground to the shoulder, overhead, good rep. Overhead, good rep. Anytime the second hand is incorporated, the dumbbell must be returned to the floor. You can’t pick it up with two hands. Has to be one hand drive over the shoulder. Good rep. Any again, anytime the second hand is in there, the rep counts, but the dumbbell has to be dropped to the floor. Oh, all right. Big Mike, are you just tossing around the 70 like? All right. I see you, Mike. Your lane assignments for heat number three. your top 10 receding after the event after heat number one. And we talked earlier about the comeback of Lucy Campbell with our vision fuels victory athletes to watch. This is a story that is going to be a thread throughout the entire weekend as Lucy Campbell will be in lane number four. She’ll be right next to your seventime cross the games champ Tia Tumi Ariel Lohan is to her left as Lucy Campbell on the right side in all green makes her return to the cross the games for the first time in 2022. Lucy Campbell qualified out of Wadlin Fest. She’s really had a great year chase as a whole, right? like seeing her compete at major competitions like Wat Palooa in a very very stacked elite field that gave me some some pregame jitters for what she was going to show us this season. And of course, she’s here ready to throw down and in her individual debut at the game. She actually got two event wins, one in rinse and repeat and Jackie Pro. Though we haven’t seen Lucy in a while, she is no stranger to competition and success on the competition floor. Tia Clair Tumi as you guys all are used to seeing in the leader white jersey as she took event number one. Danielle Brandon, another athlete we got to keep close on our radar, Chase. She’s she’s shown she’s got the physical capacity and also that psychological tenacity to fight for a a a spot at the top. But the question is, can she put it all together? Can she hold it all together through the ups and downs of the weekend that’s going to come? Can you take that tenacity and as you said, funnel that into the right direction? Because we’ve seen it bite her in the past, but we’ve also seen it drive her in the past. Daniel Brandon is done at the same time of Tia Clair Tumi. Tumi in the all-white leader jersey. Danielle Brandon will pick up the dumbbell first. And that’s what you like to see that bravery, that audacity to challenge the champ there. Danielle got off the wall slightly behind Tia, but she was the first on purpose to pick up that dumbbell. Time to beat upper left corner of your screen set by Lucy McGonagal. 7 minutes 19 seconds. And here is our first view of the double under crossovers for these women. She’s keeping her arms close to her body. She looks composed. There’s not a bunch of erratic movement taking place in her upper body or her legs. And that composure is what will pay off with the 60 reps left of that crossover double under movement. Daniel Brandon advances to the 30 toes to bar. There are two sets of 30 to bar in this event. Daniel Brandon in lane number nine at the bottom of your screen currently leading Tia Clair Tumi. Time split for Lucy McGonagal. She was done at the 353 mark as we are just past the three-minute mark here for heat number three. [Music] 30 toes a bar. Daniel Brandon on the far right side of your screen takes a break. Tia Clair Tumi stays on as in lane 67 and eight. You’ve got Amy Crangle sitting in second. Haley Adams and Mirramar Vore in lane number eight in the green won the open and Tia Clair Tumi went unbroken. And even with that unbroken, Daniel Brandon put herself in a position to be directly tied with Tia with an intentional break. Tia back on the rope. 20 double under crossovers. Back in 22 when these made these debut, it was only 25. Vitus jump ropes are the official jump ropes of the CrossFit games. Built for speed, control, and performance. Whether you’re chasing your first double or crushing workouts like a pro, there’s a valus rope for you. Grab yours now and level up your training. [Applause] Declare Tumi on the left. Daniel Brandon on the right. 70 lbs on the dumbbell. You can switch hands, but you got to switch at the bottom. Tia very methodical with her reps, showing good lock out and composure. Danielle being a touch more aggressive, for lack of a better way to describe it, in her cycle rate, which makes it close at the top. You’ve got to make sure the judge sees the lockout clearly, but it’s allowing her to stay close and be rep for repre with the champ. This is where we see all those choices previous in the workout. How does it play out now? Can Tia hang on and go for 30? Was that a part of the plan? Can Danielle Challenger with one short break? Danielle Brandon in the first set at 30 got to the toes of bar ahead of Tia. Took one break. Tia went unbroken and got off at the same time. And here we have lane six, Amy Kringle just hanging around in the top three again with potential to hit another point home run here. Tia makes Tia makes her first break. Daniel Brandon broke once already. Amy Kringle is still hanging on. [Music] Daniel Brandon will take her second break. Cringle her first. Tia Clair Tumi. Tia with a hand in the air. [Music] And Tia just about maxed out everything she could to do that in two sets. Tia Clair Tumi is ahead of the pace by Lucy McGonagal. She has 20 double under crossovers and 10 shoulder overheads left with a minute and 10 seconds to do it. Danielle Brandon on the rope. Tumi’s done. Advances the dumbbell one more time. [Applause] 10 shoulder overhead. Just 70 lbs. Three reps in for Tia. 50 seconds before the time to beat. Here comes Danielle Brandon. There’s that cycle rate. Tia’s going to have to hold on because Danielle Brandon looks very strong overhead. And you’ve seen it year after year. Tia Tumi gets backto back event wins to start the 2025 Crossit Games and Amy Kringle looks dangerous. Very Daniel Brandon will take second all times underneath that time to beat by Lucy McGonagal. As you see Mattie Stur, Ariel Lohen, and Lucy Campbell trying to get to that dumbbell for the last time. Miriam von Roar has won the Open backto back years and making her debut at the CrossFit games. We are now pass the time set by McGonagal, Fish, and Gluck. So ties from heat one and two now a factor in this third heat. [Applause] Ariel Lohen coming across here. Dumbbell not presenting too much of a challenge for any of these women so far. Some switch is happening. Gracie Walton dumbbell very outside the shoulder so far. Much more difficult to do. Absolutely. And you wonder is she avoiding a pain point? Is there an injury? Is there something that might be because we know from all logic something’s lighter the closer it is to your mid the middle of your body, your midline. Haley Adams, who is fourth this morning, now just trying to get a top 15, top 20 finish. Again, literally 30 athletes competing at the Cross of Games this year. It changes the way we have to approach every workout chase. There’s more urgency. There’s less points available. When you look at the whole scope of the weekend, it’s it’s going to be crazy. Haley Adams is in. And that will do it for heat number three. And for the fourth time in her career, Tia Claire Tumi wins the first two events of the Cross Games. Yeah. And we we’d love to say, “Wow, what a surprise. The champ is out for blood.” But she’s always out for blood, Chase. And she started this thing fast and furious. First off the wall walks, but Daniel Brandon was right there with her for the vast majority of all crossed up. They were rep for rep. But it was late that Tia allowed her stamina and endurance and that bit of fortitude that she just carries as the champ. That moxy, the ability to look left and right and know exactly where she needs to be when she needs to be there in order to get another event win. And with your leader, Mike Harson. Well, Tio, we talked about your endurance focus after event number one, a much different event here, 6 minutes and change. So, how are you feeling about the focus on endurance, but still able to put a performance like that in a shorter time domain? Well, my coach is Shane, so that’s all I got to say. I mean, no, like we train when we decided to come to the CrossFit games knowing what we were signing up for and um my team have definitely helped me leave no stones unturned. So, what went into that decision? What was the ultimate catalyst in deciding to come back here and compete for an eighth title? Well, all you guys. So, T, I have a stat for you. You have 43 event wins in CrossFit Games history, which is more than triple the second most winning female in CrossFit Games history. When you hear a stat like that and you add up all your accomplishments, what is your first thought? I mean, it’s pretty cool. Um, but I’m not about to stop now. All right, two for two. Thanks, T. Congratulations. Thank you. No stopping in sight, at least for this weekend. And this is the 91st white jersey Tia has worn in an event as she takes event number two at a time of 623.98. Daniel Brandon takes second and Amy Kringle backto back top three finishes to start the weekend. That’s how you do it. [Music] Individual action for the women in event number two. It will be the men’s turn for their first action inside MVP Arena. Coming up next, [Music] down. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Down. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hello, [Music] come [Music] Where are you? Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Here’s [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Forest. [Music] Welcome back inside Arena for the 2025 Crossit Games. Today’s coverage is presented by the United States Border Patrol, being the agent of strength. I’m Chase Singham. Along with me is Adrien Conway. Mike Arsenal will be joining us shortly on the floor as the individual event number two for the women is done. But it is the men’s turn to take on All Crossed Up. All crossed up. Did they do their homework? We’re going to find out. It opens with 20 wall walks as a buyin. Then chipper style format. They’re going to accumulate 30 dumbbells shouldered to overhead with 100 lbs in a single arm, 60 toes to bar, and 80 crossover double unders. What are your tempo recipe for success? Well, the question with the recipe to success is who brought the BCAA’s? That stands for balance, accuracy, coordination, and agility. And they will all be tested from the dumbbell to the jump rope. And then also we are going to talk about the pressure check dumbbell or bust. These rest this this race is going to be extremely close and we’re going to see can they rise to the occasion. Your lane assignments for heat number one as we reseeded after event number one. So these are your bottom 10 on the leaderboard after one event. and from making his appearance for the 10th time. Let’s go down to Mike Arsenal with more about Yonikoski. Thank you very much, Chase. Yes, his 10th appearance at the CrossFit Games, but Yona missqualifying last year, and he told me going into last year, he actually felt like he was in the best shape of his career. He just chocked up his inability to qualify to a bad weekend in qualification. Now, this year, he trained the same. He didn’t make any changes to his methods. However, he said he has competed a lot. So, we only had uh three weeks to really ramp up his training and try and peak for this weekend. So, we’ll see if that impedes him as he tries to continue to climb up the leaderboard throughout the rest of the weekend. Our vision fuels victory athletes to watch Colton Mertens, who has made a splash in the last couple of years, not necessarily for his performance on the floor at the games, but what he’s done to get here. That’s right. And we saw him. He was a qualifier out of the Mayhem Classic this year. Did a great job. He has to seize the moment here in workouts just like this to make up for what we saw this morning. [Music] Heat one individual men’s event number two underway. And Adrian, as you said, Colton Merren got a tough 26 place finish in event number one as you see Callum Clemens and Bill Lehey going ahead. Bill Lehey making his individual debut as Mer is basically doing burpees up a wall at the speed at which he’s doing these first 10 wall walks. That that’s it’s truly amazing. And what we’re seeing right here is his ability to stay firm through his midline, keep his belly firm, keep his belly button pulled in towards the spine as he literally almost like a plyometric bounces away from the ground just like you described it perfectly chase as a burpee up the wall. [Applause] Looks like Burton is done as they will do 10 wall walks at the first wall and advance into the next. And one of the fastest wallw walk splits on the women’s side is right around 142 as Colins is got about six reps left and he’s just past the minute mark. Yeah, it’s an amazing speed and albeit a little bit of a shorter distance to travel for a shorter statured athlete. But the question remains here for him. When you push so hard and build that amount of fatigue, do these crossover double unders then present a unique challenge for you the further that you go and all crossed up. Golden Merren in the center part of your screen has one rep left to go as we’re at the minute 30 mark. And before we get to that rope, we will move to the dumbbell. 100B dumbbell, 10 should overheads as Burton is done. Hot on his heels is Bronoslavitz. That is not what I expected from Bronoslav to be quite honest. Like he was equally doing burpees up the wall. Look, we got two thick boys here with spelled with three C’s between Mens and Bronnislavowitz as Peter Ellis has moved to the dumbbell at the same time. Bronnislav and Mertens are done. 20 double and across and Merin’s rope just broke. And this is why you take the floor with two ropes. The idea is that you always have that backup ready on the first pass. Merin’s rope just fell apart. And I don’t think he has a spare. Ah, now typically athletes will bring out two. I don’t know if Bertens did. Now Mertens, who unfortunately had put himself in the lead. Now the problem here is that the extra rope that he did get is not his own personal one. So now he has to adapt to a new rope he hasn’t trained with before. And with a movement like this that can be so finicky in regards to a centimeter here, a centimeter there, that is a huge disadvantage coming in the latter part of this event. Mens will advance his rope ahead of the rig. Most athletes have brought them to the rig and in the midst of all that, Bronos Valenitz is still holding a lead in this first heat. 30 toes to bar. Very composed and methodical by Big Braun here. Just running his own race very casually. as we have four total sets of 20. Bronoslav is done with that set as they’ll move the dumbbell for the second time. 10 showed overhead at 100 lbs that Ronoslav is making look like 10. It’s just a push press for him. It’s offensive. At home, if you’re watching this, that’s offensive. We’ve used historically 50 lb dumbbells in the open and those feel heavy when you get tired. and he’s just making slight work of 100 pounds in a single arm. Ronislav is the oldest competitor in the men’s field at 36 years old. [Applause] 20 more double under crossover overs. Now, Brlav is known more for his size and strength than anything, but he’s got some skills and some tricks up his sleeve. That’s right. And that’s the name of the game in our sport. We want to lean into our strengths and continue to develop our weaknesses. We want to be as well-rounded as we can. We mentioned those BCA that balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility. These athletes spend a tremendous amount of time not just training to build capacity, but practicing skills, and that is how they get to this level. It’s a balance of both sides. Bronos pulling well ahead of the rest of the Heat as we are just past the 5minute mark. If you look at the top of your screen, that is the number of reps the athlete is on, followed by the number of reps the rest of the field is behind as Bronoslov is 17 toes to bar in on Callum Clemens who’s over in lane number five. Colton Mans. Colton Mertens, however, who had just a the last thing you would want to happen in an event like this when you’re currently sitting in 26th place with his rope breaking apart, has moved back into third. And when you see someone like Colton taking his time at anything, chalking his hands, he’s the he’s got 30 reps unbroken on his mind. I was like, the word of the day is Colton Mertens was leading early. His rope fell to pieces on his first dumble on it. I don’t know if it’s cuz he landed it on the first rep or it just completely fell apart. Bronoslov on the right side of your screen has his first miss of any set. Now his second as he takes a second to compose himself and now a third. MS takes a break. So, Callum Clemens, who’s just outside your screen, still in second, has an opportunity. Well, maybe not. Bron Law pick up the dumbbell. It’s, you know, let’s just call it what it is. Aside from Bronnis Law’s arm falling off his body, he should get these 10 as he’ll take his first break. Callum Clemens has also moved to the dumbbell. Bronnislav is done. Bronnislav is in. And Bronnislav has the time to beat 659.25. [Applause] Callum Clemens [Applause] making his second individual debut backto back here at the Cross of Games in the decade man. Yona is on the dumbbell. Colton Mertens has clawed all the way back with a chance to get third on the right side of your screen. Slowing down a bit for Yonikoski. Can Mertton squeeze in? And he might have just fallen behind as a time of 7:47. And when you look at that, it’s about 48 seconds. about the same amount of time or close to that he lost with that rope malfunction. Yeah, what a comeback by Colton there. What a way to stay focused and continue to to trudge along even though he he broke the rope and of course didn’t have one readily available cuz he lost easily 40 to 45 seconds in that Peter Ellis working his final 10 should overhead. Again, it’s 100 pounds on that dumbbell and some people make it look more like it should other than Branoslavs. Yeah. Yeah. Some people actually have to use their legs to to jump it overhead. Rona made it look like a minor inconvenience with his 10 shoulder overhead. Time caps 10 minutes as we have two athletes left on the floor as Toby Buckland is working through his final 10 reps. Toby out of the United Kingdom [Applause] qualified to the Rebel Renegade Games as Mortz Feebig is still on their toes to bar and to me that just screams trouble on the doubles. Yeah, trouble on the doubles as you even watch him drop down. Understanding the time slipping away. The lack of urgency, folks, isn’t because he doesn’t want to try. It’s because he knows what’s still to come and he’s got to stay focused and fresh enough to execute that high level skill and progress his way to the dumbbell. Morris took 25th this morning in event number one and his 20 seconds as he moves back to his rope for the double under crossovers. [Applause] 5 seconds remaining 3 2 1 as Pig will get capped. Ronislav will set the time to beat 659.25. Now though Run takes the time to beat the stories of Colton Mertens. Yeah, Chase. It was it was all with Colton out the gate, especially we watched him doing these wall walks as if they were burpees of the wall as you appropriately described them. It was nothing but aggressiveness and speed out the gate. Even even so, a very quick almost push press, push jerkes. But it was here where the jump rope just completely fell apart. We wondered, did he step on it? Did he land on it? It was neither of those things. It simply just came apart as he began this his third rep of those crossover double unders. Maybe a loose setting on his rope set this into uh action, but it doesn’t matter. He was still able to regroup and have a solid finish. But it was Bronosav a Linkovich that led the rest of the way completely making very little work of that 100 lb inconvenience. Almost strict pressing that thing throughout the workout. But like we mentioned about Colton, he was able to regroup and still come with a very close finish there to Yona Koski. But I think Koski out edged him right there. Bronoslav will take the heat in heat number one setting the sub7minute time. Now the average of those double unders were about 25 seconds. It took Mortens a minute and 12. Heat one is done. Heat two for the men coming up next. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] You got One heat down, two heats to go for individual event number two for the men as the 2025 crossing games are inside MVP Arena here in Alb, New York. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway and Mike Arsenal as we are getting set for individual event number two presented by Valites. The official grip and jump rope for the 2025 Crossit Games. All crossed up chase. It opens with 20 wall walks. They’re going to buy in with that and then they’re going to get to the accumulation in chipper style of 30 shouldered overhead with a 100 lb dumbbell, 60 toes to bar and 80 crossover double unders. Your laying assignments for heat number two. We’ve got a games champ. We’ve got a games podium finisher. Two teenage champions and your vision fuels victory athletes to watch. Your twotime cross the games champ. Hey man, it’s a packed house in this heat and this is what we came for folks. Maderos historically is good at these crossover double unders. This leads me to assume he’s going to come out aggressive on these wall walks and we’ll see how it plays out on everything else. Justin currently sitting in 12th overall and sitting in 15th is a man who was on the podium last year and a team champ himself and looking to be a champ overall, Don Pepper. That’s right. He’s got a winners mentality and mindset and we’ll see it all come to fruition here as we enter the arena highstakes competition. Heat number two underway for individual men’s event number two. The time to beat 659.25 sent by Bronnis Lava Leawitz in heat number one. Three total heats for the individuals as we receeded after event number one. And as you said, there is champion pedigree in here to a degree unlike we’ve seen. Just Maderos back-to- back individual cross of games championships. Ty Jenkins team champ. Don Pepper team champ. Tutor Magda team champ. Six total CrossFit Games team champions between the men and the women this weekend as Jess Maderas moves into his second set of 10. Yeah. And we knew we here’s what we expect when we see athletes and we kind of have an understanding that they might have an advantage somewhere within an event. It allows them to freely move more aggressively within those other aspects of the test itself. So Justin trusting that his jump rope will spin the way he expects it to can be a bit more aggressive here on these wall walks. And clearly he’s not alone as these other men right now are rep for rep with him. Tutor Magda over in lane number 10 we mentioned earlier had won the games as a teenager along with two other athletes in this field. Tutor Magda just took one right from the top ropes. as he still manages to get about 134 the same time we saw Colton Mens off the wall. Tutor Magna bottom part of your screen working to his first hit of 10 reps of shoulder overhead. Justin Madaras in the center lane no shirt green shorts along with Don Pepper. Don Pepper won the CrossFit games three times as a teenager. stood on the podium in second place last year and is one of about eight guys in the field that can win the whole thing. And we watch both Don and Justin have a have a misrep on these crossover double unders to start. Will they be able to make appropriate adjustments to stay composed? Tutor at first to advance and went unbroken on that set. done with his first set of double under crossovers. Now to the rig for 30 to zabar tudaka on the right. Jess Maderas in the center screen and Don Pepper. 30 Toes bar. As we saw from the women’s heats earlier and even in heat one. It’s about who can control the fatigue accumulation. As we enter this first set of toes to bar, it’s really tempting for athletes to kick up and go 30 unbroken. It’s not necessarily one of those races where you have to in order to win the heat or even come out with the top time, but if it breeds that personal confidence for athletes, that can be a big precursor for the success on the back half. What’s important on the back half is we get a clean run. None of your three leaders have had a clean. Tutor had the mistake on the wall walk. Justin and Don both missed on the double inner crossovers. Maderos has moved into the lead ahead of Magna and Pepper. Justin looking smoother on this second set here. Does some of the pre- fatigue of the wall walk really affect that first set? No doubt. And in it just being the first set affects it as well. I’m sure everyday gym members can relate to this. You rip off your first 10 double unders. You mess it up five times. You want to chuck it across a room and all of a sudden you hit a 50 set of unbroken reps. Jess Maderas who made his individual debut at the 2020 CrossFit games for five athletes took to the hills of Aromas California and made a name for himself. We weren’t sure what that meant getting a top three finish in his rookie debut. Then he went to rip off two consecutive crossame champions. Since 2022, we have not seen the Justin Madaras we thought we were getting back in those 2122 winning years. And we talked about momentum coming in, his his running ability as we get a great shot of his clan and and family. What a support crew we know the madness of the mullet brings to the CrossFit games every year. But he even started out this weekend about where I think he considers a favorable position in a 12th spot in a predominantly running event and that’s given him some good momentum here going into event two. Alone on the toes bar as Tudtor Magda over in lane number 10 in the far right side of your screen joins him. Don Pepper is done. Holland Boshard is vying for a top three position in this heat as Justin Maderas looks calm and in control as he takes his first break on his second set of 30. Time to beat 659.25 in the upper left corner of your screen by Bronos Lava Languits. He was done with the toes to bar at 557 and Maderas is 30 seconds ahead of that pace. This is where that champions mindset comes into play. Chase feeling the pressure of the high skill here. Can he answer the call and stay smooth and unbroken to keep his lead? Set a great time to beat. Last set of crossovers for Justin. Final 10 reps. Not very many athletes have a strong overhead position like Justin Maderas does. And Madaras looks like the Maderas of old. [Music] Justin Maderas sets the new time to beat at 606. And we have not seen that tenacity from Justin for quite some time. Tutor Magnet trying to hold off Colin Bossard and Don Pepper. He’ll move to the dumbbell for the last time. Bossard has actually moved in front. Colin Bosard in the maroon trying to hold off Don Pepper and Tutor Magda. [Applause] And Don Pepper snipes Bosard by a tenth of a second. Tutor Magnet 2 seconds behind them. We’ve talked about it, Chase. Those small adjustments that you can make midworkout that accumulate throughout the course of the weekend in a field this competitive, that’s going to matter. Enrico Zenon’s in Justin Madera 606.81 53 seconds faster than Bronnis last time. Important to know they will recede after every event. And Justin Maderas if he wants to try to get a third needs to be in that final heat going into Friday night. Nick Matthews in You see some of the athletes really starting to have trouble with that dumbbell. Saw Jorge there at the bottom of our screen actually switch arms after one repetition. Tuning it again, not be able to control the descent of that dumbbell. It’s Isaac Newman. Ty Jenkins, [Applause] two rookies here along with Jorge Fernandez. Jorge Fernandez is on that Invictus team, has a Crosset Games Championship under his belt for the team as this is his first year as an individual and just having a massive amount of trouble with that dumbbell. more so with the return than it is the overhead. Yep. And that’s a unique skill. I mean, it’s unfortunate for all of us viewing that these athletes all make it look so easy, right? This is a 100 lb dumbbell and these athletes make it look like it’s 50 lb. And that leads us to believe like, oh, well, it’s not that hard. No, no. This would punish most people and in fact make us all sit down on the floor when our legs are under the fatigue of a six mile run in a 3k row that we already went through today. So these men have put on a clinic in regards to technique and execution. Thiago Lucus will cross the finish line. The man from Portugal. We got a back fill late to the CrossFit games. But it is Justin Maderas, your twotime champ said the new time to beat in heat number two at 6:06. Highlights brought to you by Rogue Fitness. Hey, and highlights we have we talked about Justin Mados. talked about this heat being really stacked with that champions mindset. Previous teen athletes, previous podium athletes, Justin Madero’s a two-time CrossFit Games champ, though. And knowing that he’s got the skills to pay the bills with this jump rope, he came out aggressive. He had a few early errors that actually surprised me. But like we mentioned, he settled himself. He settled into the mechanics and consistency and then was really able to finish strong with the intensity that we know he’s got in droves. We talked about building momentum and he did that with a 12 place finish early this morning. And now we see that the champ is back and he wants to be back on top of the podium. And then that wasn’t it. We saw Don Pepper. We know what he wants to do when he shows up to compete and that’s win. And he edges out Bosard by 110th of a second with that champions mindset of hey which foot got the chip? That one. And we talked earlier after event number one with the move that Adler made just to squeeze out four more points. And with the field that we have and what we have left from a programmer perspective, those are going to matter. Justin Maderas takes heat number two. Will it stand for one more? Heat number three coming up next. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] [Music] Welcome inside MVP Arena here in Alb. New York as event number two for the men. Third and final heat for the 2025 CrossFit Games is about to be underway. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway. Mike Arsenal will be joining us on the floor shortly. We’ve had one event down and your 2023 games champ looks to be in championship form. Yeah, he’s in rare form. What we know is that he came to battle and he came to get on top of the podium. It was in 2023 at semifinals at the Atlas Games. I saw Jeff Adler compete and he said, “I came to win and I won.” And it looks like he brought that same kind of mindset to this competition. It was a back and forth early between him, him, Ricky, and Roman. And it was Jeff that was able to make that final push, which was again very practical and very predicted on his part in order to take that W. Jeff Adler sits on top of the leaderboard after one event with a four-point lead over Roman Krenico. Ricky Guerrard sits in third. These are your top 10 men after event number one. Individual event number two is presented by Valites. The official grip and jump rope of the 2025 CrossFit Games. He has the skills, but do does he have the double unders? And that’s going to be an important question to answer because in this workout in order to have success, you got to ask yourself who brought the BCA’s and that stands for balance, coordination, accuracy, and agility as they will all be tested by those two implements, the jump rope and the single arm dumbbell. And then this is a pressure check, man. Diamond or bust. What’s it going to be on that final 30 2010? And can you seize the moment? Well, you’ve seen some You got that 100 lb dumbbell in the background. More on that standard. Let’s go down to Mike Arsenal. Well, thanks Chase. I don’t have the 100 lb dumbbell in my portfolio, so this will have to make do. But for a clean rep has to be fully overhead and locked out. Once you bring it down and if the hand touches, the rep is good, but the dumbbell has to return to the floor. So again, the rep is good as long as only one hand is involved. But as soon as you return to the shoulder and a second hand touches the dumbbell, you have to go to the floor before you can complete another good rep. Thank you, Mike. And fantastic overhead position for you, sir. Good on you. Your third and final heat for the individual men for event number two. Vision fuels victory athletes to watch. It’s the man Austin Hatfield who’s sitting in fourth overall. Better known as the former rabbit farmer who has now turned full-time fitnesser. And and he is all of those things, man. He ran well this morning. We know he will squat well later in the weekend. And now, how will he place it all together? The man who wore the leader jersey almost to the finish line in 2022. Roman Krennikov sitting second overall. Heat number three underway. Jeff Adler face to face with Roman Krenico. These two have history. Roman is going to try to see if he can get the best of Jeff this year. 20 wall walk buy in to start. And and again, shame on us for only watching this visually. And if you’ve never done a wall walk, go try one right now in your living room. You don’t need the tape lines. You don’t need anything. Put your hands on the ground, then walk your feet up the wall. Maybe take your socks off. Apologize to your mother later or your wife, sir. But guys, this is extremely taxing on the midline and the shoulders. And that’s going to come into play with the grip fatigue and the blood that goes into the arms. That’s going to certainly interfere with the shouldered overhead, the double under, and the total bar. And you bet. Yes. This was all considered when they designed this test. Jason Hopper leading early. Athletes will do 10 wall walks on the first wall and finish up with 10 on the second wall. We’ve seen about a minute 35 is the fastest split time here. However, we haven’t seen the first person off the wall be first person across the finish line yet. It’s true. You got to pace it. Just so you know, you got to make sure that you save the right amount of energy in order to execute strong towards the end. Time to beat upper left corner of your screen. Justin 606.81. Justin’s off the wall at 136. Hoppers off the wall at 135. [Music] Jason Hopper looking over at your 2024 individual men crossing games champ James Spring and it is a crowded house at that dumbbell 10 reps 100 lb Chase there’s a lot of the guys in this heat that are pausing at the top longer than in the last heat I don’t know if they recognize that intentionally or not but that’s a lot of time loss that can really add up. Ricky Gerrard has moved up to challenge Jason Hopper. He’s in the center lane. Yellow shoes. Bitus jump ropes are the official jump ropes of the CrossFit Games. Built for speed, control, and performance. Whether you’re chasing your first double under crushing workouts like a pro, it’s a Bitus rope for you. Grab yours now and level up your training. Jason Hopper, Ricky Gard on the rig for the first time. 30 toes to bar. Ricky Gerrar joined by James J Crouch and James Spray. Just Maderas holds the time to beat. He was done with the toes to bar at the 3 minute 19 mark. We are just at the 3minut mark. Time in the upper left corner of your screen. Jason Hopper looks very comfortable, very composed. Chase, he’s very connected to his kip swing as his heels go behind his body. He’s exhaling, inhaling as he kips up towards the rig. That’s exactly the composure that you hope for early in a workout like this where it’s going to be strongly tested towards the end. James Spray in lane number two in the green. But it is Jason Hopper keeping his composure and trying to keep pace with Ricky Gard. Hopper with a little trip and that could be a byproduct of choosing to go a little bigger and go risky with unbroken toes to bar reps. Ricky Gerrard moves to the dumbbell for the second time. Let’s see how long his lockout is. Not long. More of a push press almost too. This is where Ricky had an advantage on that first set of dumbbell shoulder overhead as well. It looks like Ricky opting for the left arm. We’ve seen a lot of different strategies when it comes the dumbbell you’ll hit three times. We’ve seen some go maybe strong arm, weak arm, strong arm in sets of 10 or splitting it up in the middle or the dumbbell chooses for you. That’s right. Ricky there tried to pass by the next set of 20 crossover double unders, but it looks like they’re going to make him stop and do them anyways. It’s probably a good idea. Do the workout as prescribed. Jake Crouch to his left has now moved into second over Jason Hopper. And Ricky Gerard, [Music] had to serve a 4-year ban after the 2017 games. Came back in 2022 and wore the leader jersey all the way up into the final day there as that is Ricky’s goal. He’s made the podium in the past. He’s been third and Ricky is one of those athletes who has the ability to win it all. Is this the year for Ricky? Time will tell. We’re at the 5minute mark. Just Madera’s time of 606 still stands. He was done with Toabar at 521. Crowd’s the first to break. Okay, Ricky breaks. Will Hopper go unbroken here? Jason Hopper on the right side of your screen still holding on. Jay Crouch and Ricky Gurard are only separated by about a rep. Yet they are about 5 seconds behind the pace set by Justin Maderas. Ricky Garage sits third overall with 92 points. These two athletes are training partners. Go way back. Been training together in Tennessee at the Proven Compound. 606 the time to beat. Is there enough time for Ricky? 10 reps at 100 lb. 10 seconds before the time to beat. There’s a window. [Applause] Final rep for Ricky. Can he get in? 606.46. He does it. Ricky Gerard takes the event. Wow. Jay Crouch is in second. He’ll take third overall in the event. Jason Haer still has an opportunity for a top three finish in this heat. Hopper’s in. Great finish there for Hopper. Should be good enough for a top five overall finish. Harry Lightfoot making his second appearance. Heck of a finish for Harry after this morning’s run. And Jeff Adler is still on the floor. Adler’s in. brought us out of the Lego. It’s time from heat number one at 659 has an impact. James Sprag is in. We said earlier after the first event, we’ll keep saying it, the talent pool is so deep, the points are scarce. And with Maderas taking second, Ricky getting the first place. Your top three guys now sitting outside right in the top 10. And Ricky Gard, third place in event one, first place in event number two, and he may be dawning the white jersey again in event number three. Highlights presented by Rogue Fitness. And the chances are likely, Chase, you nailed it. Third place and into a first place, but it was Hopper early in this, hanging on big, going 30 unbroken on the toes, the bar, and what looked to be a very composed and collected body language. Came back to bite him. He ran into a little bit of a rope snapoo there, and that’s where Ricky was able to garner a little bit more of the advantage. And then it was this second set of toes to bar where Jay Crouch came on strong to challenge his training partner out of the proven camp. But it was Ricky who was able to seize the moment and hang on tight. He had a wonderful shoulder to overhead throughout the entire workout. Almost push pressing that 100 pounds every rep and by.35 seconds he was able to sneak on in. Your results for event number two Ricky Gard as you said.35 seconds. separated him and just Maderas and Ricky Gerrard is back and down with Mike Arsenal. Ricky, what a race to take 100 points here in event number two. You won by less than half a second over Justin Maderas, who was in a previous heat. So, how aware are you of previous performances? Were you listening to the announcers of where you were overall in that event? Yeah, as far as I knew, it was 6:04 was the time to beat when we came out. That wasn’t official. to when I picked up the last 10 dumbbell, I knew I had to go for it and get over the line as quick as I could and to get him by half second. I mean, that’s the points that count at the end of the weekend. So, yeah, I’m stoked for that. We kick the workout, the event off with wall walks. How often do they show up in your training? Um, yeah, a fair bit. It’s more like a movement we see in the open. So, to see it here at the games was pretty cool. And 20 reps is no joke. So, it was um the the first set of dumbbells is the hardest one, but I was happy to get the 10 out. Once I did that, I knew I’m on it. Let’s go. Your overhead position looked very strong throughout each facet of that event. Is mobility and the ability to be flexible and put yourself in good positions? How much of that is a focus in your training leading up to the games? Yeah, for sure. Um, this movement just works out good for my my strengths. I don’t have the best mobility, so I think that’s why it helped me to just punch it back up and it wasn’t like too wobbly. Um, but yeah, I was stoked with the effort and stoked to come away in first place. Well, third and first to begin your competition weekend. Congratulations. Thanks very much. Thanks, guys. Ricky Guerrard takes event number two and we may see two Australians dawning the white leaders jersey later tonight. But up next will be the team competition. Raent Conway, Mike Arseno. Live action from MVP Arena continues after this. [Music] The 2025 CrossFit Games are brought to you by CrossFit, forging elite fitness. [Music] You can’t talk about power output without talking about intensity. Now, intensity is just power output. That’s the only thing we care about when it comes to measuring intensity. The more power you produce, the higher your intensity. If it was heart rate, if heart rate was important, if heart rate produced power output, I could, let’s say I got a gun out and I pointed this gun at your head. What happens to your heart rate? Goes up. Are you doing any sort of fitness producing any power? No. If I told you that we’re going to lock the doors and do Fran at the end of the day, what happens to your heart rate? Goes up. Are you producing any amount of power? You doing any sort of fitness? No. Exactly. Right. If I put you in a sauna, you’re going to sweat. That’s not intensity. All we care about is intensity. And high intensity is power output. High intensity means high power output, which is why we use functional movements because they maximize or one of the best ways to produce high amounts of power. So intensity is just power output. The next question is then okay well why is intensity so important that it’s built into the definition of the program. Why do we love intensity so much? Intensity is the independent variable most commonly associated with maximizing the rate of returns on variable adaptations. That simply means that intensity is the best way to get results and to get results quickly. Any fitness program that is absent of intensity is also absent of results and absent of results in a time frame that makes sense to you. You want the results pretty much as quick as possible. Agreed? Now, this isn’t max intensity. This is not smashing your head against the wall every day going to the gym. It’s not max. It’s just high intensity. It’s just trying to get as much work done as possible. So, intensity is just the way to get results. and to get results quickly. We love intensity because intensity gives us results. What we need to understand with intensity is that it needs to be relative to an individual’s physiological and psychological tolerances. It means that intensity is going to look different for each individual that comes into your CrossFit gym. Let’s say like take two extremes, right? Take like take like Tia Clair Tumi and take my grandmother, right? Should they both be in a CrossFit class? Yeah, they should, right? Because my grandmother needs just, you know, some functional competence where Tier CLU is looking for sort of functional dominance, right? But these movements are natural. They’re essential. They’re safe. So my grandmother needs to be doing thrusters and pull-ups just as much as Tia does. Just the end goals are different. Right? Now, let’s say they’re both in your class, right? Let’s say let’s say that Tia does Fran in like what are we saying like 2 minutes maybe 2 and a half now if she’s like semi-retired fair so two and a half minutes 2 minutes for T right my grandmother’s Fran um is going to look a little bit different right she’s probably going to have like maybe a PVC pipe with like maybe a med ball or a low box to squat to she’s going to squat down to that box with the PVC pipe she can stand up she’s going to press it overhead she going to do any one of those her pull-ups may be like maybe like a a jumping pull up. It might be a ring row. It might be me sort of offering my arm out as she sits on the box. She holds my arm and stands and pulls the chin up over the bar. She’s going to do 21 of those. She’ll do 15 159. As long as both athletes are working to the sort of limits of their physiological and psychological tolerances, they will both continue to get adaptation from the program for a long period of time. We want my grandmother to push for intensity because we know that’s where the results are. Tier Clair Tumi wants the results to go and compete at the CrossFit games. My mother wants the results to maximize her fitness to keep her out of the nursing home in her advancing years with me. So both athletes need intensity and they both need exposure to the program. It just looked a little bit different. It just simply means that we have to scale the intensity back for the individual. Someone’s brand new into your gym. Someone’s brand new into your gym, they need to probably be introduced to intensity slowly, some good mechanics first, a little bit of consistency in the gym. And once they have good mechanics, they move well and they’re in the gym consistently, then we can sprinkle in a little bit of intensity as they go with me both in intensity because they both maximize results. We just need to scale it to the individual in front of us in the gym based off what they need. 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We have one test in the books. uh CrossFit Oslo Kryger coming away with the victory and the 100 points. Great start for the British team out of Blueprint CrossFit coming in second. And then Camel City, the first American crew. There are 13 American teams in the 20 competing. CrossFit 1124 did have some big hopes and aspirations. They take the zero with that 20th place finish. So some work to do here on event number two. This is the conga line. start to see the worm for the first time. The workout’s going to be a 10-minute time cap, 15 wall walks, 75 synchro double unders, 30 synchro toabar, 75 synchro double unders, 30 synchro toabar, and then ending with the 30 worm cleans. Our event description brought to you by Malitz. We are Valas and we are not made, excuse me, we are made, not born. Our lane assignments 10 teams in this opening heat. CrossFit proven the young guns out of Nashville in the center of the floor, lane five. Crossfit Greater Heights out of Texas in lane six flanking with our representatives from Latin America in Q21 in lane four. Let’s introduce you now to the third member of our crew, Bella Martin with our victory with our vision fuels victory athletes to watch. My eyes here are looking at L repair mayhem. They’re a team that known and they’re boasting about how talented they are at gymnastics. And for a workout like this that doesn’t have very high skill gymnastics. These two athletes that I’m going to watch are Audrianne Perry and Felix Lame. Those two are the stars on the team for the gymnastics and they’re going to hold their team up until we get to that finish line. So, expect to see them at the front. But just a few lanes over, I’m also looking at that Texas team, the Greater Heights team that’s trying to be the fittest team in Texas in history. specifically looking at Sydney Waltz. She’s got that NCAA all around gymnastics history. She also coaches gymnastics. So, I tell you what, if there’s anyone to watch, it’s going to be those two. We’ll see what happens along the finish line. Guys, Bella, thank you. The 12th Kentucky Wildcat to ever qualify for the NCAA championships as an individual. Finished ninth in the all-around. That CrossFit Greater Heights team represents a gym that’s been here with athletes that have competed here from CrossFit Overtake and from CrossFit Einhorn. A lot of experience and we are underway. Pairs here to go through these wall walks to start things off. 15 wall walks. They do not have to be synchronized. When these pairs finish, they will advance to the synchronized double unders. The next pair can begin. The gatekeeper the whole way is going to be the speed of your first pair. Absolutely. These wall walks, they’re going to add up very quickly. So, like I said, um you want to break these up quickly and swiftly. That way, you don’t burn out right at the beginning. Women walking to the pink line where their hands have to cross, men to the blue line. Everybody has to make it 10 in to the wall at that red line. We talked yesterday, we joked yesterday about how quickly you can do wall walks in a minute if that’s the only thing you have to do. Yeah. That’s the only thing you’re going to do. I I I think that if they were just just doing the wall walks, they could probably do six or seven in a minute, but probably not the best idea with a lot of things on the line after this. Hands are in the air for a host of these judges. They’ll put five fingers up when there are five reps remaining. There are 930 total repetitions in this event. 510 for each pair of athletes before they get to the worm when the team will complete 30 reps together. So now on to the synchronized double unders and it is that greater heights crew that sends their first pair over to the double unders. First Arturo Torres making his way out to the jump rope. Lar Mayhem is at the front as well with CrossFit proven. Greater Heights now three reps off pace. Although with double unders reps can be made up in a gif. And they can all set up their jump ropes. So that was nice in advance. So they could all go out there, put their jump ropes down so they have a place for each teammate to go out there and do their double unders. And the good news is that if your rope breaks, see Colton Mertton from the individual side, just grab one of your teammates jump ropes. Yeah. Better than scrambling around trying to find another one. And Larair does move on to the toes to bar first. You bring your own rope uh rope with you as you advance. Looks like Body Blueprint has also made their way forward. Left side of your screen. That is a team that did not train together much at all coming into the games. Jordan Adcock, who’s in the pink on the left side, lives in Georgia. The rest of the team lives up in New York. Body Blueprint is in Westchester, about an hour and a half south of here in Albany. A reminder that PB Fit is the official peanut butter and protein bar of the CrossFit Games. We are working on 30 synchronized toes to bar. If you’re an individual competitor or an individual athlete at your gym every day, you do Toast Bar at your own pace. What’s it like doing Toast Bar with somebody next to you? Uh, let me tell you, it’s really tough. Not only are you trying to coordinate, you’re trying to breathe. You’re trying to get your reps in so you don’t have a misstep and a no rep because it is costly. And Lever Pair is indeed the first team to send their first pair forward. Even with the double unders too, having to synchronize that and look at each other while doing double unders task. You got to time up your jump first and foremost and you got to look each other right in the face. [Music] I think it was Rachel Clausing that told us from eighth day CrossFit they do a whole bunch of team training kind of getting to know you games and one of them is just to stare into each other’s eyes for 60 seconds and fall of a box too. 30-inch box. That is some uh that’s some trust right there. These athletes are working with Valite’s jump ropes. Those are the official jump ropes of the CrossFit games. These are custom ropes for these competitors. They got brand new implements out there. And there is your look at the synchronization. You’ve got to wait, look at each other, communication, then go. Yeah, it’s tough. It’s not an easy thing. I I think people can take that for granted. So it’s not an easy task doing anything synchro and trying to go as fast as possible. Larair moving their way forward. Felix Lame is on the right and Sophi Tashro is on the left going with the the wide toes to bar. Sometimes a little bit easier for them if they don’t have as much flexibility in the hamstrings. Maybe they’re going to give a little little straddle to make it a little bit easier to get up there. Back to body blueprint. Joe Pierro on the left. Joe the electrician. He is a full-time master electrician. He does CrossFit during the day. He said basically my job is CrossFit without a warm-up. And then I go to the gym and I warm up and do more CrossFit. And if anything breaks at the gym, especially ropes, you might be able to fix it. Real good with conduit. We do have a 10-minute cap here, and we do expect the cap to be very tight. Correct. With all the the demo teams doing this workout, there was a lot of uh time caps, so we’re going to see who can beat it and who’s going to get time capped. We are more than halfway past that time to or that time cap, excuse me. The worm is 30 reps. You got to get everything else done before you get there, though. Body blueprint, Jordan Adcock on the right, Joe Pierro on the left. Yeah. You see how Jordan’s doing it with her legs a little bit closer together. A little bit more flexibility in her hamstrings. So, she can do it that way. It’s 11:24 on the right. That’s taking a break. joined by Larair and that has now fallen off the pace. Jessica Androsk reps left is the female in pink for 1124 working with Riley Good in lane 10. Andros a games rookie. Good was here a year ago and former gymnast too. Androsk a former gymnast. You could tell by her to bar those hamarings were very flexible. at Sunni Brockport in New York State. 3 minutes and 20 seconds until the cap. You’ve got to get both pairs through this last 30 set of toes to bar and then over to the worm CrossFit Larair Sam Pacwin on the right. Affiliate owner Audrey and Perry Dup was on the left there. And now you’ve got Josh Hong for Body Blueprint on the left with Nikki Toriani on the right. Toriani is a games veteran with CrossFit Milford. Josh Hong is a games rookie. That’s going to be really tough going straight from the toabar right into the cleans. It’s kind of nice for that first pair that kind of gets a little bit of a break. I was saying is that a little bit of strategy when you set up who goes when? It has to be right. It has to you have to take that into account. Okay. Now remember, this is a team that does not train together almost ever. They’ve got to go to the worm and it’s 30 worm cleans. 15 per side. 15 on one side. Advance 15 on the other. They’re doing pretty good. I’m liking the coordination. Good teamwork. And it looks like Jordan Adcock is the caller. Yeah, she is the team captain. biggest experience there having competed on several teams before dating back to 2015. Yeah. She’s been to all the different places. Yeah. Everywhere. Yeah. With the exception of the ranch. But Jordan Adcock in the back in the pink on the left of your screen has competed in Carson, in Madison, in Dallas or in Fort Worth, excuse me, and here in Ald. That’s some good experience. Going to get some angry letters from some Texans after that. 90 seconds left to go before the time cap and we still need somebody to advance a worm. [Music] The time to beat is going to be a rep number to beat with a minute and 20 seconds remaining here in the first heat and 16 cleans left for Body Blueprint out front. Very [Applause] close. One minute left to go. [Music] [Applause] 662. [Applause] Pastanda is the last team to come off the A-frame with the toes to bar. So, everybody has now made it to the worm. Body blueprint has been joined on the worm by Larair Hendersonville undivided on that second set of 15. [Music] 15 seconds left to go. We are not going to get any finishers in this opening heat. It’s a tough time cap. It really is. But every rep is going to count right now because there is another heat right after. [Music] And 266 is going to be the number to beat out of this opening heat. Does the time cap being a factor play into your strategy now, especially if you’re in heat 2, having just seen all 10 teams get capped? Yeah, absolutely. You’re going to going to have to move fast on those other parts. Maybe a little bit quicker than you want to, but it’s going to be it’s going to be a hard time cap, but I think some of the teams can do it. Some of the teams in the second heat. Let’s take a look back at how it played out. That’s brought to us by Rogue. Well, here we are starting with the wall walks. Um, like I said, you want to break those up nice and quickly and swiftly because they hurt really bad and there’s a lot of synchro work. Right here we have toe to bar, which like we were talking about, you want to stay synchro, it’s hard. You’re breathing heavy. It’s a hard one. And we have body blueprint right here showing off that they can do those tote bar synchro with no problem. And finishing up on the clean worm. They had uh a little bit of a break right before they started, but they finished up and they got as many reps as possible. It was a tough one though with unfortunately having to time cap. Heat two, 10 more teams to wrap us up for team event two next. [Music] [Music] Today’s coverage of the CrossFit Games is presented by the United States Border Patrol. be an agent of strength. MVP Arena host site of the 1992 Royal Rumble and today hosting the CrossFit Games alongside seven times games athlete Bethany Flores. Bella Martin down on the floor. My name is Joel Godette. This is heat two of team event number two. Our first event was the run row run outside at Jennings Landing in CrossFit Oslo. Maybe the favorites coming in racking up the full 100 points. Crossfit Blueprint though a second time games team throwing down an early gauntlet. We just saw a good performance out of CrossFit Body Blueprint in the first heat coming in with 30 points in 15 overall. All right, let’s take a look at the description brought to us by Valites. We are Valites and we are made not born. And it starts with those wall walks, Bethany. Yes, there’s going to be a 10-minute time cap. 15 wall walks into 75 synchro double unders 30 synchro totaba bar 75 synchro double unders another 30 synchro tota bar and then ending with 30 worm cleans take a look at our recipe for success that is brought to us by tempo meals the first one is going to be respect the wall walks break early so you don’t burn out and number two team work matters one rep could be costly on the worm. So, make sure that you’re staying in sync cuz that time cap is short. Let’s go down to Bella Martin with our vision fuels victory athletes to watch. Bethany, I love that you mentioned the wall walks and how that’s going to be the strategy for these teams to win. For the wall walks, they don’t have to be synchro. And for a workout with 10 minutes as the time cap, it pays for those athletes that can fly through the wall walks without having to worry about getting no repped or being synchro with a teammate that maybe is going to take a little bit longer, but can keep up on the rest of the elements here in the workout. We saw in the last one, the wall walks, not quite a factor. They’re just flying through them. Bella, thank you. Our top 10 teams from our first event are in this second heat, including CrossFit Mayhem. last time competing as a team together here this year for this quartet. Zoe Jones and Sam Deester in the front. Molly McGrandy and Angelo Deico who has been a staple since he was a teenager at the games. Our teams to watch brought to us by Vision Fuels victory. But Camp Rhino, they had a great first event and you’ve trained with some of these guys before out there in Vegas. I have. Rap Durand is a guy with experience. He is. And he’s kind of like Jordan Ahok, right? Like has been to California, Madison, uh, Dallas, Fort Worth, and now here. 10 minutes on the clock. No one finished in the opening heat. 15 wall walks. It is 225 repetitions for each individual athlete. And then they will meet as teams for 30 worm cleaning jerks at the end. Wallwalk’s first appearing for teams at the CrossFit games in 2021. It was one of the most epic event finishes probably of all times for teams at the games. That was when Rich Froing and CrossFit Mayhem Freedom came from behind at the very last second to overtake Pro One Montreal and grab an event win. They’re going to have to move if they want to finish this underneath the time cap. We saw in the first heat it was rough. It was really rough. Is there a key? You talk about respecting the wall walks because people look at this movement sometimes when it pops up in class and it’s like us just a wall walk, but how do you do this efficiently and quickly? You kind of have to plop down so you can so you don’t waste your arms. And it’s not that comfortable, but if you plop down from the top, you’re going to save a little bit of your arms. And then if you jump up with those feet like some of those athletes are doing out there, you’re also going to save your arms. So, it’s all about saving the triceps. Camel City right now at the front of the pack. Although Oslo and Franco’s close on the heels. When each pair finishes, the next pair will follow behind. The gatekeeping right now belongs to the first pair. So, they can advance whenever they’re done. But if the team behind them happens to get done before they’ve advanced, well, then the team is stuck. CrossFit Invictus, center of screen, Phil Muscarella facing us. Emily Rethwell, who was the fastest woman on the run row run this morning, was the other piece of that Invictus pair. And let’s just talk about how weird it is to face your partner and do double unders like that. Uh, not the most comfortable thing, but these guys are professionals out there. So, it’s like Kristen Holton not looking directly to I wouldn’t I wouldn’t got to look past and Oslo Kger. Wow. Cruising. Moracyo. Holta right to the bar. They’re out to finish. They are out to finish this workout. No problem on those toe to bar. Invictus right behind them as well. Shouts to Kristen Holta by the way. 112 on the left side of your screen. One of the greatest individual female competitors in CrossFit Games history. But she was an alternate for this team. Ingred Hodenmir has an injury. She goes down. And last Tuesday, Kristen Holta said, “I will step in and compete for the team.” She trains. She wasn’t training for this. Team comes out, gets an event win, and is leading the pack already. The silent ninja right there, she is incredible. And with a baby, two-year-old, two-year-old, built for speed, control, and performance. Whether you’re chasing your first double under or crushing workouts like a pro, there is a Valas rope for you. Grab your Valites jump rope now and level up your training. 75 synchronized double unders, then 30 synchronized toes to bar, then 75 more synchronized double unders. And it is Oslo Kriger and Invictus leading the way right now. Camel City has also joined in 17th out of the semifinals, but it’s a group made up of two women going to the Masters CrossFit Games, the age group games at the end of the month. Stevie Dinger and Caroline Klutz Dinger is jumping rope right now across from us with six women total going to the Masters Games athletes. That’s pretty That’s pretty cool. Five on teams. Carolyn Po here as an individual and will be a master in Columbus. Hit the four-minute marks. We have six minutes left to go. I think somebody is going to finish after no one got in under the time cap in the first heat. Probably multiple. I can see it. I can see it. Bethany, as a competitor, when do you start to watch the clock versus just head down and grind? Honestly, I never watch the clock. I probably should have a little bit more, but this is probably around the time that you’re going to do it or when they get off the toe bar, they’re probably going to look at the clock and start yelling at their um fellow teammates. Hey, get over there. Get to the toe bar. Let’s talk about some of the strategy you’re seeing on Toast Bar here cuz Kristen Holta was looking straight ahead. Tola Moreno was staring at her, so he is going on her pace. That’s a good way to try to synchronize. I’m just going to go off you. Yeah. Yeah. One person look ahead. I mean, I’m sure she’s still using her perfules, you know, to try to stay in sync as well with Tola, but yeah, just having one person look over the other person lead probably the way to go. [Music] That is one large fast twitch muscle in Maraco. He’s probably like, I can’t wait to get to the clean worms. Let’s go. You just take those yourself, Tola. We’ll watch. He can at least made half of it. Probably probably could. The worm coming up weighs 365 lbs. The whole team will handle it. Camel City on the left. Oslo has half of their team done and on to the worm. They will wait there for Helsing off and Lunikv. Each individual competes 225 reps and then the 30 worm clean and jerks. 15 on one side, 15 on the other. Campbell City is having a tremendous showing. Yeah, they are in second place right now. 17th out of the semifinals with only three previous CrossFit Games appearances on the roster. Going up toe-to-toe with an Oslo Kryger team that has been to the CrossFit games. They combined 15 times. And can we talk about Evan and his run this morning? That was a That was a good run. He got what? Third. Dominated. Evan R. Dominated. He did so good in that first four miles. It was so fast. Three and a half minutes left to go until the cap. Time to beat. Four reps to go. Can they do it? No one finished. They had four reps left. Body blueprint in that first heat. Mayhem is in lane two on the left side of your screen. Now, Invictus and here’s Campbell City. One ref to go. A little bit of a misstep on the miscount. And now here comes Campbell City. First team to advance all the way to the worm. So, they’ll begin on their 15 worm cleans on the left side. Helinghoff and Lundfound on the right side of your screen there. Still have five reps to go on the toes to bar so Camel City can put some space between. Wow. Talk about a good showing. That’s pretty impressive that they are coming out in the head. Bethany, what’s it like as a competitor when you have a lead? Maybe you didn’t expect to have a lead. You want to hold it, but you also want to pace yourself so you don’t burn out. Correct. You’re shocked, but you got to just keep your head in the game. One rep at a time. Be where your feet are at. That’s the most important thing. If you start getting ahead of yourself and start thinking, “Oh my god, I’m so excited.” Oh, Oslo just got a no rep. You can see their judge on the right side of your screen as we look at Camel City. See if anybody tries to go touch and go. No, everyone’s dropping worm. Oh, I stand corrected. Yeah, we do have a little bit of touch and go. Got to make up some ground. That’s Blueprint touching and going on the right side of your screen. And Blueprint came in second this morning on the run row one. They got that good cardio. Them lungs. One rep left. So they’ll clean the worm here. This is smart. Clean. Now advance it. That’s a bedroom move. You don’t want to have to clean it again for no reason. Yeah. And they’ll switch sides. They’ll also switch who is where on the worm. Changing the position. That’s interesting. Maybe for fatigue reasons, I’m assuming. And the segments all weigh the same. You know, if the two men’s segments are both 100 lb, two women’s segments are 70. But I don’t know. Does it take a different kind of load to be in the front? I guess so. Maybe just a little bit heavier cuz the women are about the same height. So, I was going to say maybe that could make a difference on how heavy it feels for the guys, but we got a minute to go. Time to beat is cap plus four, which is 11 reps here in this final 15 of the worm cleans. Evan Rogers looks like he wants to be anywhere but here. Yeah, he’s looking a little toasty, but you can do it. Butcher Lab on the right side of your screen starting to make up some ground. Oslo with 30 seconds left now. Has five reps left as the hand has gone up for Campbell City. And Oslo’s cycle rate is faster. Are they going to go touch and go? Well, they’ve got 20 seconds to go. And I think Oslo’s pretty comfortable with its pace. Oslo Kger has surpassed Camel City with one rep remaining. Wow. 8 seconds. Worm is down. Moraco’s on the platform and Oslo Kger has gone back to back. Wow. That was a good race. That was a good race. Camel City almost had it. No European team has ever won the CrossFit Games. And Oslo is about as European as it gets. Tola Moraco obviously is from the United States, but in the history of that gym, he is the first American and third non-Nwegan to ever compete on a CrossFit Oslo roster. They have built something in Norway. Let’s take a look at the replay from our event number two presented by Rogue. Well, starting off with those wall walks, they were tough, but all those teams got through them pretty quickly. As we moved on to the double unders, we saw that Invictus was ahead, but I think that slowly changed over the course of the totaba bar. We saw Oslo slowly creeping up and Tristan and Tola were hanging in there with some really fast paces, but we saw Camel City start to get ahead right at the end. And honestly, I thought they were going to win. But sometimes some veteran teams with some veteran athletes on there, it definitely helps out and they came home with the win. Let’s go down to Bella Martin Oslo. Congratulations on your eighth ever team event win. That puts you in the fourth overall team in history. What does that mean to you to be part of that team here at the Crossplay games this year? It’s very good and it’s very cool. Man, a few words to your team was the one of only to finish this event today. What did it take to get you guys across that finish line as the only team? Yeah. So, uh, the other day in the warm-up was the first time we actually used a worm, all four together. We had a last minute, uh, fillin, so we had to adjust on the fly. We actually planned to do touch and go and it just wasn’t going well. So, we switched to singles and luckily we were able to finish out strong. Tola, I love it. You said a last minute addition. This team is already full of stars. 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Our coverage today presented by the United States Border Patrol. Be an agent of strength. Bethany Flores has been to the CrossFit Games seven times. Bella Martin are eyes and ears down on the floor. My name is Joel Godet. The rest of our awesome crew here in the Capitol region. We’ve got back-to back events three and four for these teams to tackle and CrossFit Oslo trying to maintain perfection wins on Congaline and run row run. Camel City CrossFit 17th out of the semifinals is your surprise sleeper of the day. Crossfit Undivided had some podium hopes. They are fighting from behind right now in 15th overall. All right, let’s talk about this event description. Back-to-back events presented by Satba, the official sleep partner of the CrossFit Games. Bethany, how do these things work together? Yeah, so this is going to be 200 points up for grabs. We have female female and male male pairs. We’re going to go five minute max reps on the pegboard straight into five max reps on the barbell complex. The barbell complex is going to be a squat snatch plus overhead squat. It’s going to add up very quickly. Team event three is going to happen first and then team event four is going to come after and then it’ll be simultaneous. We’ll explain it as it happens. These are the lane assignments for event 34. Uh starting with the young guns at a CrossFit prove and I say young guns cuz it’s the first time at the games for that whole crew. They’re in lane five and they made big moves with a sixth place finish in Congaline event number two. Our vision fuels victory. Athletes to watch. Starting with CrossFit Lapair. This is a team that hypes itself up on gymnastics. Has a great weightlifter as well. But CrossFit 1124 is someone else to keep an eye on because you’re dealing with a couple of people who have some pretty good gymnastics, including the MeatNugget. Jessica Androsk on the left side of your screen. Rebecca Divine also really good gymnastics and a team that had a tough event one. Divine has the only CrossFit experience as an age grouper for this team out of CrossFit Hendersonville Mayhem training team that is competing out of that Hendersonville affiliate. The meat nugget. Small but mighty. That might be the best nickname in CrossFit. I love it. stand by. All right, so event number three is underway. The women are doing their pegboard ascents. When they’re done after 5 minutes, they’ll go on to event four, which is the barbell complex, and the men will begin event three, which is the pegboard ascent. Just for some perspective, the pegboard is 180 in from floor to top. That means you’re climbing about 8 feet. If you’re starting at that green line, it’s about one story of a climb. Let me tell you, this pegboard, it is not easy. I’ve been on it multiple times in competitions. That plexiglass very slick. So, it’s not fun to climb. So, why is it hard? It’s slick. It’s hard. You have to use your upper body, especially for women. You know, I hate saying this, but women, we’re a little bit weaker in the upper body, right? It’s going to burn out a lot quicker. So, this is a really tough movement for everyone, but specifically the women. It’s not a easy movement and they can’t do partial reps. Yeah, I say your score for event three is the combined pegboard asense of the men and the women on your team. Here’s the deal. If you go all the way to the top, that is one rep. If at some point you decide, I don’t have enough in me to get back to the top. Your team can declare, “We’re done.” And then you climb to the orange line, those are partial reps, and they will serve as tie breakers with anybody else that you tie with. A partial rep, however many you rack up though, is never better than one full rep. So if I get a thousand partial reps and another team has one full rep, they still win. Yeah, exactly. But you have to decide as a team that you really want to do that. I think it is important to at least do one or two partial reps because when it comes to the barbell complex, there might be close numbers, really close numbers. And so to be a little savvy, you might want to do some partial reps. You’re seeing different strategies and different speeds. Look at the way that an Sophie Tashro is just attacking these peg boards. She went up, came back down, went right back up. Very little break. now caught a little bit on the in and out of the peg, but when she is smooth, this is absolutely no issue for her. Now, Audrianne Perry Dupi again, you can tell that this is a group that is confident on the pegboard, right? It takes coordination, too. Like, you really have to get the off. It’s kind of like running opposite foot to opposite arm. And if you’re not doing that, it’s really easy to have a mishap and well, fall. You can also see they have to get below that green line before their feet touch the mat. If they don’t, it’s going to be a no rep. Sydney Smith from 1124 going to work. Most people that are training peg boards at home in their gyms and their affiliates are also not doing it flush against the wall and against plexiglass. It’s usually off the wall and your feet are on a wooden surface or something else. Yeah. What changes when you have to use this implement to the games? So slick. Um, it’s going to depend on your shoes, too. Your shoes actually matter. If you have a little bit more of like a running shoe on the plexiglass, you’re not going to have as much of a grip. So, being mindful of that, of what type of shoe that you’re using for the plexiglass, very important because it’s very different than training on wood. And we just saw a no rep. You just talked about you have to get below the green line before your feet hit. Yep. It’s easy to do. I mean, you’re fatigued. Five minutes is a very short but long time. So you’re gonna fatigue out pretty quickly and it’s really easy to do that and just want to drop. Le repair pair on the right side of your screen and Sophie Tashro right now. 12 reps for le repair. That is the most followed closely by greater heights at 11. We’ve also got 11 completed reps for Q21 the Argentinian team. It’s really cool to see the evolution though from a couple years back and women not being able to do this and not everybody on the team being able to complete a a peg board. So even on the individual side, we saw that a lot. A lot of stairs, just staring up the board. S T A R E S. Yeah. Waiting for the time to to be done. Not this time. This is CrossFit Q21. Really cool story for that affiliate out of Buenos Andres in Argentina. They have an eightperson team and they all compete together. They all train together and then at the end of the day their coach Ricky decides which four make the team. It is a group. They work towards it. They have a culture. Ivan Gaiton 284 has been to the games on the best ever Latin American team. Crossfit big friends in 2017. He joined Q21 last year. He almost had to do like a red shirt a year in residency. he couldn’t be on their competitive games team cuz he hadn’t adapted yet to what Q21 was. I kind of like that. It build it really builds the team and the camaraderie. All right, 5 minutes is done and it was Larair that was in the lead with 15 total reps. So, the women are now on to event four and that is the barbell complex. a squat snatch and an overhead squat at 95 lbs. The men are on event three with the pegboard asense and Rebecca Divine going touch and go here for Hendersonville. She’ll switch out. Bethany, how do you attack this? Switching out when you do 95. It’s a light weight for everybody. So, you’re going to see multiple reps going on, but at the same time, you do not want to burn out. This is 5 minutes. It’s a, like I said, short, long period of time. So, know thyself. Know how many reps that you can do before you start feeling the burn. But the snatch is not easy. That overhead position, it’s not easy for everybody. So, you might see some athletes struggle just because that overhead position is a little hard. Looking at let repair on the right side of your screen and Sophie Tashro, Canadian Olympic aspirations 2024 Worlds at 59 kg was ninth. So 95 pounds of a squat snatch ain’t nothing. Looking pretty uh pretty smooth out there. Pretty easy. I love seeing good form. I love seeing good form. It’s always nice and appealing to the eye. I believe they call it virtuosity. Beauty and doing the simple things. Well, yes. Goes a long way. This is CrossFit’s CrossFit Greater Heights women. as we’ve gone back to the peg boards. Fun fact with the Greater Heights overtake, they want to be one of the best teams in Texas. That is their goal. I think they’re doing pretty good. The number to beat there is sixth place. Best team ever from Texas. This team don’t stop back in 2019. Pegboard Descents are at 21 right now. Number to beat is 24 from the men at Le Repair as they continue to add to that total that Peran Dupi and Tashro really built up. I’m excited to see how many reps these women get. Well, it’s interesting on that note. Would you rather be the men or the women here? Because the women set the number to beat, right? And then the men have to like if your women build you a lead and you lose it, it’s a lot of pressure. It’s a lot of pressure. I don’t know. Do you want to go first? I like to just get it out of the way. I want to just grip it and rip it. I want to be done. I don’t want to have to think about the pressure of anything. I want to be the first person to get on that barbell and just be done with my reps and do a good job, too. This is Festanda. Angelica Bangston just switching out with Antonio Kotalinsky now. 14th place finish in event number one, the run row run. [Music] These are your leaders. Let pair currently leading in event three on the left side of your screen and Panda leading on the right side of your screen. [Applause] 90 seconds remaining. Prestand is actually in a really good spot because it is in I think fourth by my eye in event three right now with Alex Allegro and Victor Lens back at the pegboards. Yeah, they’re at 25 reps on the pegboard. [Music] Let pair is leading on the pegboard. You can see that at the top of your screen. They are in third on the barbell complex. This is Hendersonville. We have 40 seconds left to go in our second 5minute window. That will give us the winner of event three and then the men will advance to the barbell and that will dictate event four. 30 seconds remain. And Larair is going to win. They have too many peg boards of a lead. They’re up by two pegboards with 20 seconds to go. Yeah. [Applause] So, Prestanda, we just had a fail. Setting the number to beat here on the complex [Applause] 33. Yes, that is a win for Larair. They make some big moves. is a fourth and a first on events two and three. And now we’ve got five more minutes. The men are on to the barbell complex. Squat snatch, overhead snatch, and the question will be whether or not Tola Moreno will go unbroken for all five minutes for Oslo all by himself. We will see a lot of a lot of touchandgo reps here. Probably a lot more reps just in general with the men. Feel like 135 for them is a pretty lightweight. This is Griffin Raleigh that we just saw in the red for undivided. They get a look at Lensman again. 135 for these athletes. Not particularly heavy. And we’ve seen people do at least a couple of reps before they change out. Minimize transition time. All right, but we still have to take into account they just got done with another workout 30 minutes ago. Things are hurting and they just did they just did 5 minutes of peg work. We haven’t mentioned this yet. Yes. How’s your grip? It’s hurting. You know, they do have a little bit of rest because they’re, you know, alternating reps over there. But your grip is probably on fire with five minutes of pegboard. So holding on to that barbell and doing some touch and go reps for the snatches. It’s not an easy task. And we just did 60 toe to bar as well. And the wall walk definitely playing your rip as well. Got a grip and rip though. [Music] Riley good for 1124 needing a great performance on the left side of your screen. his second appearance at the CrossFit Games for the 32-y old. Victor Langsvette now on the right side of your screen. Tyler Cook on the left. He’s the gym owner of 1124, a 36y old, one of the elder statesmen, one of the Masters athletes here competing on team. I love seeing that. I love it when I see the Masters athletes out there just killing it annihilating other people that are probably 10 years younger. [Music] We are at 68 reps for 1124. I think they’re three reps ahead of Pressanda. No rep for good. [Music] This is the longest five minutes ever. I just looked up at the clock and said, “Oh, 15 seconds.” No, 2 minutes and 15 seconds. I I think they’re feeling the same way. Definitely. Those guys are probably looking over at the clock, especially people near the clock, and just being like, “Oh, oh my gosh, it’s the longest five minutes of my life.” If you’re new to CrossFit, you ever walk into the affiliate, you go to the whiteboard and say, “Five minutes, that’s it.” It’s always a trap. Simple doesn’t mean easy, folks. It’s always a trap. And these guys know it. They’re professionals. They know what this feels like. They know how hard they have to go. They know when they need to rest. Hendersonville. That is Dalton Rogers. A lot of them know, too. This is the the final event for the day. So, I think it’s a rest after this. So, it’s time to it’s time to go. Gas pedal down. We’re over the 70 threshold for Hendersonville. Mike Needleman gets his 70th rep for Undivided. 81 though is the number to beat for 1124. This would be a massive setup for 1124 in the opening heat of events three and four. [Applause] still have another heat to come, but 33 is the number to beat on event three. [Applause] 87 now with inside a minute to go is the number to beat on event four. I think uh the meat nugget helped a little bit on this. Would you say so? Certainly on the women’s side. Mhm. Jessica Androsk who is 32 meat nuggets tall. That is an official unit of measurement that we have been told. Short in stature, strong in power. Strong and mighty. 15 seconds. 1124. Needed a massive showing and it’s going to get it. Now it’s going to have to wonder if that number holds up. It’s full sin mode right now. The last 5 seconds. Yeah. Look at Albro trying to get one more rep in. 92 is the number for Pstanda, which is Swedish for performance. And Albro just put one on. Wow. [Applause] You know it hurts when your teammates have to take your knee sleeves off for you. hurt. Five minutes of pain. Tyler Cook literally just saying it hurt. It hurts so bad. Or to quote Roman Krennikov hard. We have a lot of names for 1124. We got Slender Tender from Sydney Smith. We got MeatNugget from Jessica. And we got the dipping sauce with Tyler Cook and Riley. Those are some great names. Uh, good is on the left, Cook is on the right. They also refer to themselves as Timone and Pumba. They have matching tattoos. I wonder where I They’re not wearing a shirt and I can’t see them. Let’s take a look at the events for heat one of event three. Letter pair. 33 is the number to beat Q21. I mean, 30 seems like the the number right now. We’ll see what heat two looks like. Yeah. How many get over 30? I think a couple more are going to get over 30 in the second heat. Event four, 95 is the number to beat. Two teams get over 90. And then Greater Heights 71 after a very good showing in event three. We’ve got another heat coming. Number [Music] two, today’s coverage of the CrossFit Games presented by the United States Border Patrol. Be an agent of strength from MVP Arena, the home of Jerry McNamera. here in Albany, New York. It is the 2025 CrossFit Games. Alongside seventime CrossFit Games athlete Bethany Flores out of PAC CrossFit, Miss Bella Martin from CrossFit Mayhem. My name is Joel Goddet out of Resilience CrossFit Medfield, the rest of our crew. Glad to have you with us here in New York. We have two full events in the bag and two full wins for CrossFit Oslo. The team from KGER training growing down the numbers to beat a 15-point lead over the Upstart from Camel City who was 17th out of the semifinals. Let’s take a look at our event description brought to us by SATA, the official sleep partner of the CrossFit Games. We got two things going on at the same time. It’s wild wild west over here. 200 points up for grabs. We have 5minute max reps on the pegboard followed by 5 minutes max reps of a barbell complex which is going to be a squat snatch plus a overhead squat. Take a look at our recipe for success. That’s brought to us by Tempo. Number one, know your numbers. Recovery is king. If you start burning out on those pegboards, it is not going to be pretty. And then number two, be savvy. Those partial reps, they can come in handy. So have your women maybe hit a part a couple partial reps just for the tiebreaker times at the end. Number to beat on the pegboard is 33. Number to beat on the barbell is 95. Let’s go down to the third member of our crew, Bellamort. We saw it in the last heat. The girls are who set the pace and can get the lead and hopefully their guys can hold on. 1124 did it. They took event number four heat one win. We’ll see if the guys can hold on. This one’s going to get even spicier, guys. The ladies set the pace. The gentlemen just have to hold on. Bella, thank you. Lane Simons CrossFit Oslo been on the podium several times since debuting at the CrossFit Games in 2021. Never come away with gold. Currently in first place, middle of the floor in lane five. Blueprint had a great showing in the run row run right now in podium position in lane six. Let’s take a look at our vision fuels victory athletes to watch and it is the group from CrossFit Blueprint out of Worcester England. Carrie Hwitt, Helen Nutter, Harry Keen, and OJ Keane. They all follow the AOD training uh program adapt or die. CrossFit Blueprint also sending two individuals to the games this year. It’s a big time affiliate. And we are underway. Five minutes of pegboard asense for the women here to start off event three. And as we talked about in the first heat, that pegboard from ground to top is 180 in 15 ft. Essentially one story. You are basically climbing 8 ft yourself from green line to top. It’s tall. It’s really tall and slick. Let me tell you, I’ve been on the peg board a couple times and that pegboard is slick with the plexiglass. Let’s talk about the first time you ever climbed a pegboard, Bethany Flores. What happens when you get to the top? Don’t look down, guys. Do not look down. I do not recommend, especially if you’re afraid of heights. How do you get efficient at this movement so that it’s not slowly working yourself up huge time under tension, but really flying? Yeah, it’s it’s all about coordination really. You have to think kind of like running. Right arm, left leg, left arm, right leg. If you don’t have that coordination down, it’s really easy to have a mishap and ball from the top. Emily Rethwell switching out with Danny Spiegel for Invictus. Longtime individual games athlete, very familiar with the pegboard from her time on the individual side. Oh yes, we’ve seen her many a times at the CrossFit games. veteran herself, Uno Lindfam, competing on a team for Oslo, right side of your screen. She has had a phenomenal individual year though, competing at competitions all across the world. Really the breakout for CrossFit Oslo. When we spoke to Kristen Holta last week, she said, “Listen, that is an individual games CrossFit fit athlete if she continues to put in the work.” She’s been coached by Kristen Holta and Matilda Oyen Garnes throughout her career. Pretty good toutelage. It’s nice to have on your team. Rachel Clausing for eighth day. When things start to click for you, what happens in your head? You start to break out as an athlete. Yeah, I think you kind of just get into a flow state. Really, it’s really important as an athlete to be able to do that because once you start overthinking, that’s where you start making mental mistakes and once you start making the mental mistakes, it’s really hard to get out of that hole. So getting in the flow state, not overthinking things, super important. Five minutes of pegboard ascents. The number to beat is 33. I don’t know. Our leader right now is is at eight. That’s eighth day CrossFit with half the time left. I think we might see heat one and heat two on a similar playing ground. We’ll find out here. very momentarily with the time cap only being five minutes halfway home. Danny Spiegel you see staying very compact, short and choppy. How’s that help you? I feel like that’s a comfortability level. It’s it’s comfortable for her to stay short and choppy. Keep the biceps nice at a 90° angle. Um I feel like if you see an athlete get a little bit more comfortable, they can kind of sway side to side. more rock climbers do that and it allows them to have that flow and a little bit of flexibility when they’re getting up the pegboard which helps them a lot. Does rock climbing help you for this? Like if you just go climb rocks, will you get better? Yeah, I think so. There’s actually a lot of rock climbing gyms too that you can go to and boulder and I will say this is very grippy even with the breaks that you’re getting with your partner. But those if you don’t if you don’t do that stuff, it adds up. Lo just missed the hole with the peg. Did a real good job to hang on and not fall from the top. That’s called a better move right there. 100 words of fitness, by the way. Regularly learn and play new sports. You go rock climbing, you’re going to get better at pegboard sense. It’s all in the methodology. Think about lower bath on the individual side. Very good rock climber. Mayhem is on the left side of your screen. They’re now at 14 as your overall leader. Molly McGrandy on the ascent. [Music] And they do have to get below that green line before their feet touch the mat. So if you don’t see that, it’s going to be a no rep, which at this point is going to be very costly. Lar’s women had 16 wall walks at the turn. The men able to add 17 for that final of 33. So 15 right now for Mayhem. I we are quite literally looking at a repetition of heat one. [Music] That’s why those partial reps might matter a little bit. Although it’s interesting cuz I don’t see anybody having gone to partial reps. Remember you could declare for partial reps if your full reps give out. That serves as a tiebreaker but and I don’t think anybody went to it. I mean, even just doing one right at the end would have been helpful, right? The women are released. They are on to event four. That is the barbell complex. 95 lbs. Squat snatch overhead squat. The men have now picked up the mantle on event three. 18 is where Mayhem stands. 25 seconds into the men’s five minutes. Housing off on the right side of your screen from Oslo. They are in seventh place overall. That grip for the women is probably catching up on the barbell complex. So, that’s definitely going to be a factor with the squat snatch, overhead squat. And you’re going to see that. I asked you earlier, would you rather go first as the men or the women based on how you set the tone for the event? But the men are going second here. You’ve also just been standing there for 5 minutes. How do you get going again? You’re a little cold. Uh, you know, these guys have practiced so many workouts and have had so many team workouts where they probably stood around on purpose for this moment. And so, I don’t think that bothers them too much. And plus, they have the crowd around them. They’re excited. They’re not thinking twice about that. Emily Wthwell going touch and go here. And now she’ll switch out for Danny Spiegel on the barbell. Danny Spiegel probably going to hit some multiple reps on there. [Music] 95 lbs for Danny Spiegel. Pretty light. Yeah. Sam De Mester below that green line for mayhem. As we go back to the women, Emily Rothwell back on the bar. We’ll see how many she goes for. I don’t know, Bethany. Are you doing this on feel? Are you doing this on a set number? Are you doing this if you’re Danny Spiegel knowing that 95 lbs is nothing for me? Personally for me, I always go go off of feel, but you know your body. And honestly, they just got done with a 30-minute workout. So, their rep schemes actually might change as they go. Their legs might be burning up. Their grip from the workout before might be hurting. And the peg board, so feel is probably the way to go. Looks like it was just a double. I think Invictus is going back and forth. Refa I think just went for three. So, this might be based on feel. Yeah. You can see those are the best athletes. Best athletes do in says, “All right, let’s go. The best athletes have a game plan going into it and then they’re willing to change things if things don’t feel that great. Angelo Deico not coming down on the peg board. You’ll probably see that a lot more on the guy’s side than the girls. It is always impressive to see though. I want to see someone go legless. Extra points. Extra points for that. The very end. Mayhem is at 30. The number to beat is 33. We’ve got 2 minutes left to go. Well, we might have a new winner. We might have a new winner on that one. That would be a first event win for Mayhem, which they need. They need that big time. Meanwhile, look at this overhead form for Panila Christensen. That is a narrow grip. Wow. I am impressed. That is a very beautiful overhead squat. If you can do it, you can do it. These are your top two teams on the barbell complex right now. Oslo on the left. Shouts to the Nordic countries because you’ve got Denmark’s Butcher Lab on the right, one of the oldest affiliates in Europe. And that’s one of the OG European Crossfitters. And Christina Edgarback, 34 years of age on the right, switching back out for Christensen. [Music] One minute left to go. We will have our winner on the peg board and we’ll know the numbers that the guys are following up on with the barbell. [Applause] Mayhem in first with those 34 pegboard ascents. Your barbell leader is on the right with Butcher Lab. So, we have passed that number 33. Yes, that is an event win for CrossFit Mayhem. Can you see me? He stopped. Angel was just like, I’m good. I’m not going to do another one. Honestly, that’s really not. I mean, it’s not a bad idea. You watch the field right now. Second place is Camel City with 31. And with 10 seconds left, you’re done. These guys aren’t getting a rest going into the 5 minutes on the barbell. So, it was kind of a smart idea to get at least 15 20 seconds of rest. So, that is Mayhem coming in in first. Larair actually holds in second and then Camel City 32 reps unofficially will be in third on event three. Camel City is going to be sitting in podium contention going into Saturday. And now the men are on to event four and Butcher Lab is going to work. Aerbeck and Christensen set the number for them. Oliver Toa and Tomas Stroyer are now going to work for the Danes. I was just at their affiliate a couple of weeks ago. How was that? Very nice. Under construction. Yeah, it’s in the meat packing district. I got some pastries on the way home. So, I’ve heard about the meat packing district. That’s crazy. Hey, never low on protein. [Applause] Taking a look at Josh Mattis. This is the crossed Franco’s team switching out for Jordan Kerr. So 135 for these guys is probably pretty light, but you are going to see them switch. I don’t know. We saw with the ladies it was like three, four, five reps. The guys might be doing a little bit more. I know this guy’s going crazy on this, but Kerr is basically muscle snatching that and then squatting. Must be nice. Okay. Well, the the norm the normal people out there, they’re going to be splitting those reps up. Not to though. As you take a look at Butcher Lab, they are holding on to a three rep lead on CrossFit Oslo. And the thing with CrossFit Oslo is they have the single best weightlifter in CrossFit, certainly on the team side. I mean, here comes Tol Moraco who will perform unbroken squat snatches and overhead squats for the next three minutes. He’s going to do him single arm here in a second. You used to train with Tamarako. What is it like to watch him lift heavy weight? It’s pretty insane. It just it comes so naturally and his form is impeccable. So, we all wish we had that. You know what’s interesting though? Strategically, just a couple of reps at a time. So, he’s staying fresh early, right? Which makes sense though because there it is a lighter barbell, cardio is involved. Endurance isn’t always his friend. So, even though it is a lighter barbell, it’s going to add up. And you’re going to feel all of that right in your heart, in your chest. 2 minutes 10 seconds left for the guys. 74 reps for Oslo. The number they’re chasing is 95. And you can see Ta is moving a heck of a lot better than Victor Helinghoff here. He can move. Yes, but this is clearly a lighter weight for Ta Morako. And he’s trying to buy Helen off a little bit of a longer rest. And it it might be light for him, too. It’s just the position overhead is not a very comfortable position for everyone. And so for him, maybe clean is a better position. Butcher Lab still holding on to the lead. Two rep advantage. There’s just something in me that thinks with about 30 seconds left to go, Color Morac is going to Someone’s about to pull out some touch and go reps. He going to go plaid. A lot a lot of touch and go reps. More than we’re seeing right now. The women from Butcher Lab desperately cheering on their male counterparts trying to bag an event win. It’s all about how bad do you want it right now. Butcher Lab was eighth in event one, third in event two. It’s a very good showing for them. Very good showing. We could have three European teams in podium position at the end of day one. We’ve got 40 seconds left to go. Oslo is trying to catch Butcher Lab. Only behind by two reps. It’ll be close. 30 seconds to go. We’ve got a fullon Nordic fight. [Music] Stroyer going with Moraco. 20 seconds left to go. Let’s see if Toma puts this bar down. [Applause] Oliver To is back in. Tola switches out. Helenov’s got to go. It’s a two rep lead. Touch and go on the right side for Oliver Toaft. 5 seconds. Butcher Slad holds on. Wow, those legs are crushed. So are the souls. Souls are gone. That was a great showing. Now 95 was the number to beat from 1124. And that actually will supersede what we just saw in heat two, 94 reps. So, you get lost in the battle between who’s on the floor and 1124 winds up sneaking the event win. Wow. Mayhem with that event three win, too. Mayhem was huge. 34 reps. Big 100 points for them. It’s going to be a big 95 points for Butcher Lab. Taking a look at Oliver Tuft’s calf. Let’s take a look at the replay presented by Rogue. This was a tough workout. We had 5 minutes of pegboard with the women starting on the pegboard and we had a lot of lead changes at at first and then we saw the women with Butcher’s Lab really just taking over on the overhead squat in the barbell complex while the men simultaneously were doing the pegboard asense. And let me tell you, Mayhem pulled out a win and I was very surprised about that, but they needed that. But when it came to the barbell complex, Butcher Lab came in and stole that wing. Oslo did try. They were right behind them with only two or three reps right at the end, but Lab killed it. Take a look at our results for events three and four. Crossfit Mayhem this iteration. Not Rich Froing’s CrossFit Mayhem Freedom teams. This CrossFit Mayhem teams third event win. All of them day one at the last three CrossFit games. Lar Pair hangs on in third. 1124 needed those 100 points. They get them with 95 total reps. Then Oslo right behind Butchers. Butcher Lab and Oslo each got 94. That was a tie. Let’s go to Mayhem and Bella Angelo. Event number three, winner. In a bit of a different fashion, you guys decided to stop with 15 seconds left to go. What’s going through your mind as captain for those? Uh, we had a pretty good idea. This is a good event for us. So, I was watching the leaderboard up at the top, making sure if if we are winning, just stop, shut it down. I think we had three or four reps on second place. We’re not going to they’re not going to catch us in 30 seconds. It’s a very bold and confident claim. This is your last year competing with this forome here. What does it mean to you as the Mayhem team captain to put this together this weekend? Uh, I mean it’s really special. Like obviously we, you know, we spend pretty much every training session together all year long. Uh, these are probably some of my best friends. So yeah, I mean it’s super special to all of us. And a note for the community that have been here for the last few years. What do you have to say to them? Uh, I mean obviously we’re just happy to be here, happy for all the support we get. And uh, yeah, I mean we just love being out here and having people support us. Thanks, Angela. Thanks, guys. Bella, thank you. It is a win in event three for Mayhem. 11:24 with a win in event four. Full standings, full leaderboards, full everything’s games.crossfit.com. The individuals are back out on the floor next. They’ve got event number three, so stick around. Chase, Adrian, Mike Arsenal. We’ll be back in just a few moments. [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, say hi to Dana. The 2025 CrossFit Games are brought to you by Rogue. Don’t weaken, the official equipment supplier of CrossFit and the CrossFit Games. Bites. We are Bites. We are made, not born. The United States Border Patrol. Be an agent of strength. and Satva, smarter luxury sleep. [Music] I don’t know if I can describe 6 p.m. in one word, but if I had two words, it’d be controlled chaos. [Music] Each of our classes has its own unique characteristic. The 6 PM class is a little unique in that it used to be a class that we had a hard time filling and over the last year or two it’s become our only capped class because we’ll now have upwards of 23 to 26 27 members in that class. So we kind of become its own little family. Some of the groups in 6 p.m. they’re either highly competitive or they’re kind of just starting out. It is controlled chaos. It is chaos. Everybody just kind of understands how busy that class is and everybody loves it so much and wants to be a part of it that they help me kind of control all of it. Nobody’s ever interfering with each other. Everybody works really well. Everybody shares a barbell if they need to. If we have to run two full heats on a workout with like a 10-minute delay, it’s not a big deal. They’re so good about just listening. They actually listen, unlike some other classes. [Music] We do kind of a a social beer club once a month where a group of us will go out and visit a local small business, try them just get get outside these four walls. Maybe someone from the 5 a.m. class may meet someone from the 700 p.m. class where they usually wouldn’t. That gives them an opportunity to find camaraderie and family and home. I do. And keeping a nice tight core. We’re going to go five straight arm pullovers. 6 p.m. class is unique in that I think it’s kind of a really cool cross-section of not just our gym, but I think of kind of society. You have a couple of our coaches that may attend that class. And then you have some people that didn’t really know CrossFit from anything before they joined here and now they’re definitely get outside their comfort zone. We have young kids who are just trying to move and stay healthy. You have kind of the three fire breathers in there as well that like to go headtohead and enjoy that push that they give each other. Little friendly rivalry, a little uh competition every day. Me, Brandon, Dustin. We have this thing where we’d always send like a Matt Fraser, you know, meme over to whoever won the workout that day. Progressed into what if we did a leader jersey. Whoever won the workout that day would wear the shirt the next day and everybody else would have to look at him wearing the dang leader jersey and then you know do Matt Frasier pose. So we always kind of know who top dog in the gym is. Usually me almost never Brandon but you know I’m just the old guy trying to just hold on to whatever I got. I was lucky enough to win yesterday. So I am wearing le jersey today and still this is my social interaction and I’m just you know proud to have these guys buddies and they uh they want to compete with me. They want to compete next to me and against me. So yeah really appreciative of these guys. He’s got to do his laundry again tonight. A lot of the uniqueness of our gym and our classes is the way each class becomes its own family. They don’t miss a class. They show up for each other and they support each other through everything. Cancer survivors and all those things in that class. It’s a microcosm of not only Incendia, but I think it’s a microcosm of society, which is really cool. [Music] Heat [Music] up here. [Music] Everything. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Down. Down. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Hey, [Music] hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Hey, [Music] really [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Friday night at the CrossFit Games. Does it get any better? Welcome to Albany, New York. We are inside the MVP Arena getting ready for individual event number three. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrienne Conway and Mike Arsenal. And it is the women’s turn. We’ve had two events down and one event to go. Today’s coverage is presented by the United States Border Patrol. The athlete kits are provided by Bites and they went all out for the athletes this year. providing shirts, shorts, shoes, wrist wraps, anything you could possibly think of. Backpacks, making our athletes not only act like the fittest, but look like the fittest athletes in the world. Thank you to Bites for making us look so good out on the competition floor. Climbing couplet, 20 total reps, Adrian, how bad can it be? Oh, it can be a lot worse than you might assume with a 4321 descending rep scheme of pegboard climbs and a barbell complex of squat cleans plus a front squat. And oh, by the way, the barbell gets heavier, isn’t it? What is the tempo recipe for success here? You know, it’s quite straightforward and we’re going to focus on the pegboard. It’s a quick climb equals big reward. You’ve got to be accurate and you’ve got to be quick up and down the board and it reduces time under tension. Got those pegs ready for their pegboard ascends. More on that. Let’s go down to Mike Arseno. Well, Chase, with a total of 10 climbs in this event, there invariably are going to be some failed reps. So, the athletes have extra pegs if necessary. So, they have two to start with on their wall. And if they happen to traverse the wall and not get a completed rep and the pegboard stay in the wall, they can come back to their chalk bag where they have two extra pairs. So, each athlete has a total of six pegs that they can utilize throughout this event to counteract any potential failed reps. Lane assignments for heat number one of total of three for the individual women in lane number five out of Canada. Cindy Molition who qualified out of the TFX Invitational and it came down to a squat clean to get her here. That’s right it did. And we know she’s familiar with the barbell. She’s got a listed max of 250 lbs plus on a clean and jerk. So the question isn’t going to be the barbell for Sydney. It’s going to be how well does she fare on these peg boards with all the volume looming. Individual event number three on their way for the women for heat number one. Four pegboard descents. Starting in that green designated starting line. Both pegs must fit into the top two holes of the pegboards before they begin their descent as they’ll be doing all of the same reps as the men. And the time cap has extended to allow I would say everybody an opportunity to finish. That’s right. They and and and that’s the beauty when you consider testing for the fittest. One thing has to be certain is that you you at least provide the opportunity for equal work to be done when possible, which means that you don’t want to create an unfair advantage for someone who would just say, “Hey, I’m tapping out. I’m going to leave out the last round.” No, no, you got to keep working and earn that fatigue that tends to accumulate throughout the course of a weekend. And this event balances out a pretty solid day of competition. We started things this morning. We had six miles of running, 3,000 meters of rowing. In event number two, we amped up the skills. We had some wall walk and high volume. We had the double under crossovers back for the first time since 2022. And now we got some, I would say, high difficulty pulling gymnastics with some heavy barbell work. Yeah, it’s a really great combination here. And and I think there’s some unknown variables here with this pegboard that a lot of our athletes, even those watching at home, may take for granted. Say, “I’ve got a pegboard in my gym. I’ve climbed it a time or two. Simple as pie.” Well, even if you’re strong enough, these pegboards are different. That plastic texture where the feet are sliding now. It’s not just your friendly brick at your affiliate. It’s not the wooden stables on the side of a a traditional wooden pegboard. And oh, by the way, when it’s a flat surface and it doesn’t come away from the wall that you’re climbing, it also adds more complexity and accuracy that’s needed in order to get up and down. Your early leader is in lane number three, Christina Lividadakis out of Zimbabwe. It’s her rookie debut at the Cross of Games, qualified at the Rebel Renegade Games in South Africa. got that one and only spot from the Africa semiinal. Now Adrian, what’s important is that this complex has to be done obviously with two backto-back reps. If you fail one, you got to do them both again, but also receiving the bar in the squat position on the first clean. It’s vital. Yeah, that’s right. You’ve got to receive it in one smooth, fluid action on the way down. The athletes aren’t permitted to do a power clean and do a front squat, per se. They’ve got to catch it on the way down, receive the bar, stand through that squat, and this front rack position and and clean weight didn’t present a problem at all to Elizabeth Tacus there. However, it’s the accumulation effect as we watch her go back to touch that green start mat and then come to start her three pegboard. Now, the reason why the athletes have to go back and hit that start mat is that it makes the field even across the board. The peg boards are offset, but the barbells are in a row. So, it allows for everybody to be going the same distance as Liidodakis climbs up for her set of three. Not alone, however. Couple joining her on the pegboard. And this is this is that round we we’ve had the opportunity to sit in with both Boss and Dave and talk about the structure of these workouts. And they were saying the round of three is where a lot of the rubber is going to meet the road for these athletes. Can they pace it appropriately? Did they go too fast out the gate? We’ll find out soon. Keeping pace with Levidakis is Syria Maya in lane number six. Qualified out of the in affiliate semifinal. Relatively unknown coming into this year. Really just done a lot of local comps in her area. One of the first athletes from Albania, from Albania to Albany. She’s keeping pace with Lividadakus as she goes up for her second climb of three. Now, the barbell weight is going to increase. The reps might decrease for the pegboards, but the barbell is going to go from 145 for the set of four, 165 for three, 185 for two, and finishing at 205 lbs. Maya up for her third and final climb in this round of three. So, she is moving ahead of Liviaakus if she can complete the climb. And I really like what she’s doing, Chase. She’s adjusted her climbing technique just a little bit to help her navigate the fatigue that’s building up in her upper body. She was once keeping herself much closer to the pegboard. Arms been at 90. Now, she’s allowing her elbows to relax a little bit. This shortens the distance that she can travel every time she pulls a peg out and puts it back in. But it’s making sure that she stays quote unquote safe and allows her to reduce the chances of missing a rep. And one important thing about the pegboard different than say a rope climb or a legless rope climb is there is a descent line that they need to control down to is almost as difficult as getting up there. Mayhees done onto her second barbell. The weight goes from 145 to 165. One squat clean into one front squat equals one rep for the complex. Good sign there for Mayhem. No, no hesitation addressing that bar. Taking a second here between reps. And this is smart here pacing out the barbell complex. Maria cano on her first round. First clean [Music] one. Copasur. She’s been to the games previously on a team. She’s representing Colombia. Both athletes doing a great job at finishing the pool. They’re clean, catching the bar high in their throw. This allows them to keep that bar up as they make that second rep in the front squat. May has done walk back to her start. Mato is done as well. Moving on to the set of two. Two pegboard ascents, two squat clean complexes, weight moving up to 185. Cano on the left, Maya on the right. and Mayha back to that tight position again as we mentioned trying to keep her body and hips as close as she can to where the peg is entering and exiting the board. Cano was the national champ from Colombia. So she was part of that national champ crossings back in 2019. Now making it back, I would say in a new format. 7 minutes in. Plenty of time for the time cap for these individuals. The time cap is 15 minutes. Mayhem making her way out for her second climb in the round of two. See Lexi Neely and Cindy Molition at the bottom just shaking out their arms trying to recover. And Dave Castro said it is that a lot of athletes are going to get stopped in their tracks. Yep. And our question was is that was 10 really as much as we really thought it was going to be. Yeah. And we see an athlete like Meha who’s been consistent throughout this event. Of course, we expected some slowing. There’s been some pausing. However, in transition, she’s even jogging to the barbell here for rep number one. The pace has slowed, but consistency has been the name of the game for her. 185 lbs on the bar. First clean is good. First front squat’s good. First rep is good. Mayha takes a peek over. Cano’s not got there yet. It looks like Lexi Neely is now moving into second place. Mayhem on the right on her final complex and she’ll get it at 185. One rep left to go on the peg board. One complex left on the barbell. And this is where Mayhem wants to have that urgency for the women to come. that’s going to come to take the uh the take the floor on the second and the the final third heat are going to be competing to chase her time. It’s now not necessarily heard versus just the other women on the floor. One final ascent for Syria. [Music] Lexi Neely is done. She’s working her way back to the rig. Cano still stuck on the bar as Mahara Mayha finishes her last climb. She’s got to get down below the green as we approaching the 9minute mark. Last climb is done. That’s where you almost want to hold your breath for the athlete. You know the fatigue and the tension that’s there in that grip and a 205 lb barbell waits for Syria. Takes a look over her shoulder. Lexi Neely was trying to track her down, but she’s still at the top of her pegboard. One squat clean, one front squat. The clean is good. And the engineer from Albania takes the heat. 941. Lexi Neely to the bar. First clean is good. Front squats even better. She’ll be in right about the 10-minute mark. Cano a bit slower on the 185 bar. We’ll see how the 205 fares. Less than five minutes remaining. [Music] She got it. Going to have to fight for it. Keep those elbows high. Can will get it. Three athletes in in this first heat. Wow. Here comes Christina. Led early in the round of four, faded a little later. Oh yeah, no problem for Christina. [Applause] And Adrian, the way this event is put together, as you see, Emily do Roy has just crossed the finish line as well. They said, “Yes, you can get stopped in your tracks, but you can get stopped in your tracks two different ways.” That’s right. And that’s why it’s a beautiful couplet. We like it because it challenges athletes on different ends of the spectrum. Some athletes might be highend on bodyweight gymnastics as Michonian makes their way across the finish line. They’re going to excel on the pegboard. And then we’re going to have some athletes that might be carrying a whole lot of fitness on that barbell. And when they get their chance to, with the ease of that barbell, you can almost guarantee that it was the peg board that gave Nicolition most of her issues in this event. That’s right. Sunyong Choy working her way up as we have about three athletes that are just standing and looking at the pegboard at the moment. And that’s a tough place to be in. And as we see Troy working her way down, there’s an urgency and you can see the focus on her face. There’s a a a certain amount of fatigue, Chase, that that one just can’t simply account for if you’ve never climbed a pegboard that when you get to the top, you should feel a sense of relief. However, it’s not true at all because you know how difficult it is to descend back down. Caroline Po in a staring contest with a pegboard at the moment as Seyan Choy works to her bar for the final time. Suny Choy out of the Republic of Korea. This is her fourth time competing at the CrossFit Games. Troy is in. We have a little over two minutes before we hit that 15minute cap. Caroline Po is trying everything she can to get to the top of that pegboard. And once fatigue sets in, it gets tough. Chase even to remove them from the board because you got to lift up to pull them out. And that’s something that a lot of viewers might not might not know the the familiar feeling to Mariana just trying every trick in the book as she is not going to get that climb. She’s got time to potentially give herself a moment to recover and get a shot. She’s going to have to use those spare pegs and of course in her chug chug bag, she can continue that climb, pull those ones out on her way up and continue to go up and down. Now Po, this is the third bar at 185. And with the speed and ease these reps are going, obviously clearly we can see where the struggles are. And again, just a great couplet to highlight two different things on either side of the spectrum. And just like CrossFit, you want to be the best in the world, you got to be the best at everything, not just one. That’s right. Leave no stone unturned. And that’s what makes this sport beautiful and difficult at the same time. It’s what keeps us all engaged for decades on end. Now, some of us, is that we’re always trying to grow and learn something new. Do we want to get stronger? Yes. We need to build our endurance. Yeah. But we got to learn new skills cuz we never know what life will present for us. And especially these athletes at the CrossFiter games. They never know what the test maker will design. There’s a helpless feeling for some of these athletes where you just kind of like into a barbell you can’t lift. There’s really only so much effort and energy and will will get you if you don’t have the ability. You just got to stand there and take your hit. And we talked about this. We understand and Castro talked about that this year. He understands there’s going to be tests where this is absolutely necessary. It is what evolves the sport. It is what evolves us as athletes to push forward and explore new things. And we saw this in 2015 when pedal to the metal first came out. We saw pegboards for the first time and the difficulty we saw there. We saw with the double under crossovers. Now look where we’re at. Syria 9:41 has set the time to beat as we have two heats remaining. Highlights presented by Rogue Fitness. Well, the Ascending Couplet presented a few different types of challenges, mainly the pegboard though, and it was a little bit of back and forth between this whole entire heat. I would say that there were six athletes that came out to a pretty strong start in the first four and four, but then it was Syria who took a decently convincing lead early and she held on to it late showing the fortitude and bar position to grind through that 205 all the way to a heat win. [Music] Your results of heat number one 941 flat by Syria Mayha from Albania takes the heat as we have two more heats remaining. Heat two coming up next. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. I love I love [Music] the car. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Friday night in the arena here in Albany, New York as the 2025 Crossit Games continues. Heat to the individual women. Taking the floor here at MVP Arena. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway. [Music] This event is presented by Tupoo, the official weightlifting belt of the CrossFit Games. The name climbing climbing couplet. The game gymnastics weightlifting. That’s right. We get complex with the pegboard climbs. 4 3 2 1. And it matches with the barbell complex of squat cleans and front squats. And it gets heavier as we go, ending with a barbell at 205 pounds. Your lane assignments for heat number two, receding at every event. And our vision fuels victory athletes to watch. Lane number five, Abby Diamond, who qualified second out of the Mayhem Classic, competing in her third consecutive CrossFit Games. That’s right, third consecutive chase. She placed 23rd in 2023 and 15th last year in 2024. Does that put her into the top 10 this year? We’re going to find out if she sits one spot out in 11th. Right now, we know how important it is to get in the top 10, especially going to day number two. And Gracie Walton out of Australia, second career cross games appearance, took a win in Firestorm last year. Let’s see if she can make some moves here in event number three. Heat two underway. Four pegboard ascents. into four squat clean front squat complexes at 145 lbs as Abby Dit works her way up on her first pegboard climb. Gracie Walton on the left, Claudia Gluck on the right. Do not sleep on Claudia Gluck in an event like this. And if you watched and you know anything about climbing the pegboard, Chase right there as we mentioned her, she did a touchandgo pegboard climb to start this thing. That tells me that she’s all business. And what I mean by that, folks, is that they got the opportunity to remove their hand and stand still between reps. She chose to just put those pegs right back in the board and climb again with two backto-back consecutive reps. Claudia Gluck had a great performance last year at the CrossFit games and an event like this where you got a little pull, you got a little squat, this a good combo for an athlete like Glut. Lane number two, Fee Sagafi won the Mayhem Classic to kick off the games qualifying season. And Adrian, talk about the benefit of basically all the way back in May, punching your tickets and giving yourselves months to prep for the games. Months to prep for the games. Fe’s got to be a fan favorite here. One of the most one of the brightest lights in our space. Again, I referred to a few athletes that way, but it’s she she uh she has a great mindset and attitude, and the advantage to her punching her ticket early allowed her develop and focus specifically on strength and power as one of her weaknesses coming into the CrossFit games. And guess what? We’re going to test that as we navigate these barbells in this event. No surprise to see her up the pegboard first, but let’s see that complex. And it looks good for the first rep. Time to beat 9 minutes and 41 seconds. I’m not sure how much longer that’s going to stand after this heat. Fisagafi looks fantastic at the moment. Yeah, and when it comes down to it, you’re watching her body language. Look at the bar position. She keeps it close to her body. It’s a smooth jump right to that front rack position and it’s effortless out of the hole every time from the bottom of those squats. And that’s what you love to see from an athlete that’s building confidence every time she goes back to that pegboard. She knows she’s got an opportunity to pull further away from the field. He’s basically off the bar as everyone gets to the bar. Feigafi on her three rope clients. Now, one thing for Fee is that she is one of the shorter athletes and she actually starts a hole below the starting position because she can’t reach them when they get to that that point. You you’re right about that, Chase. So, the green line’s going to be the standard where everyone has to start below. And she’s not going to out out kick her coverage by trying to reach higher. She’s literally just climbing an extra length and it’s not slowing her down whatsoever. As you notice how smooth her descend is, she’s skipping holes or rungs on the way down. And that again reduces time under tension and that was one of our keys to success here. Quick climb, big reward. Alexis Raptis on the right side of your screen trying to keep pace with Feigafi. This is Raptis’s fourth consecutive per uh games as an individual. She’s been as a teen two years prior to that. At one point in time, Alexis Raptis wore the leader jersey back in 2023. Yeah, a great great athlete competing, looking to have her opportunity to stand on top of that podium. Utilized a bit of a different technique to climb that pegboard as it looks like she’s getting down off the pad to take a rest. Claudia Glut. Look at her jumping to the peg. So Fee opting to start low so she can get a good grip. Glut is just dropping and jumping up to the pegs. Tell you what, if you ask me to climb one peg lower at the top, I would take that all day every day. Yes. Lock comes off the pegboard and that is a tough tough no. As Angelo De Chico would call it, that is an expensive rep. Very expensive. It’s It’s the same equal cost as a legless rope climb. And if you compete in this sport, if you train in a gym, you know how costly that is. That’s one to ruin your workout. Piece of coffee on the bar. We’re going from 145 to 165. Dropping from four reps down to three. You tell me, watch Feisty from three years ago and that bar does not move as well as it does today. No, she’s been able to be very diligent with her coach Matt Torres at Bruce Strength to focus and develop her weaknesses and it looks like it’s paying off tremendously for her. Third rep is done for Fee as she is handling business out here on the competition floor. Guck was keeping pace, but we saw that no rep. What would traditionally cause you to come off the rig? It typic it typically comes down to Ah, yeah, that’s tough. Gosh, Chase. So, it looked like really she started to put the peg inserted into the board and it wasn’t in far enough, right? She she literally started to lean her body weight into it. And when that happens, it’s going to punch right out. And of course, she’s she’s paying a steep price for it now. And she had done all the work. That was on the descent portion as Feigafi on the left is starting to pick up the pace on the pegboard trying to beat 941. One rep of two done for Fee. We’ll say this all weekend and and I and I sorry to cut you off, bro. We’ll say this all weekend. These athletes make this look so much easier than it is. Even though struggling on the pegboard, you have no idea of the accuracy and the focus that it takes just to diligently get that uh wooden stick up and down that pegboard for one successful climb up and down. And shout out to Fee cuz she is climbing an extra foot every single climbing and going down every single time. [Music] This FE is done with a round of two. advancing to the third bar. Wow, she’s feeling good. Two reps at 185. And there’s the smile we’ve been waiting for. Yep. [Music] Figopy done with her climbs at the 615 mark. Taking a little bit of a breather. Talk about no reps on the pegboard. A no rep here is rough. Second place, Alexis Raptis hasn’t even started her second set of pegboards. And Feasti was done 30 seconds ago. Wow. This is this is this is what she we categorize as as the flow state chase. This is where it feels good. It’s almost like an out-of- body experience. I watched Fee say something to herself before she even addressed the bar. Who knows what it was, but it had to be positive with how she’s fairing right now in this couplet of high difficulty. I mean, wow. She’s riding it high. Sagafi is down to the seven minute mark and she has two total reps left to go. One on the peg board, one on the barbell. Olivia Kurset over there in lane number one. Shaking her arms out on the climb. [Applause] Time caps 15. Time to beat 941. We have over 2 minutes to get there. Now, I’m not saying take your time for you. You got a whole another heat of pipe hitters in the third heat. So, let’s uh you look good. Let’s get on our horse and start making some moves. And this is where you really have to seize the moment. We talked about pressure in the last event as a as a recipe to success, but it’s really going to come to play all weekend here as we know the heavy hitters are just lying in wait seeing what the time to beat will be. So, they can go in full attack mode. So, he even has to seize the moment there. And it’s nothing for her. Feasty taking a look in the stands as she walks to the barbell. [Applause] See Olivia Kursider off to the left shoulder. Tell you what, with a crowd cheering you on and you on alone, that’s the boost you need to hit this final rep. 205 lbs. And with over a minute to spare, Cece takes heat number two. That’s how you make a statement. That is how you make a statement wrapping up day one at the Crosser Games right there. [Applause] We’re approaching the 9minute mark. Now, as we approach the 9-minute mark, the tip of the cap to serve for the second best time depending on who gets off the pegboard next. One climb for Kursetter. She can make it. She can definitely get to that bar in time. Yeah, Kursetter showcasing some great efficiency here on the pegboard as well. She’s on a wise thing. If you notice, the thumb behind the peg allows you to make sure it’s in there far enough each time. Yeah, we got to get we got to get on the horse. We got 10 seconds to try to beat that time to beat. And heat number one. [Music] Kersetter competing in her second individual games. Won the team division twice [Music] as she will finish at 955. We still have five minutes left in this event. Claudia Gluck on the left is done. Alexis Raptist as well. We got our first race on the barbell. 205 lbs. One clean one front squat. [Applause] Gluck in full attack mode would get into that barbell. And remember, Claudia Gluck is only in this position because of falling off the pegboard. It wasn’t necessarily an ability ability issue, but an execution error. Yeah, what a great way to rebound for her. Final squat for Rapus, and she’ll get it. [Applause] Anukica Greer is in. Brook Wells in lane number eight on her third bar as Jennifer Mureer in the top right part of your screen walking back to the pegboard for the final time. Second rep good for Wells. Wells competing in her 10th game. And in the top part of your screen, Abby Dummit just dropped off the top of the pegboard. Yeah, we’ve said it and we’ve said it again. This this akin to a legless rope climb when it comes to the expensiveness of a misrep. It’s costly to your entire performance. Then you get in your feels and you’re feeling bad for yourself. We saw a great example of bouncing back from Claudia Gluck. But there’s a point in this event for everyone where it’s like you got to make some hard choices on standby and rest and meet yourself where you’re at or take a chance and roll the dice. And many of these athletes we still see working, they’ve rolled the dice and it’s cost them. Add a Cano. She’s on the barbell for the final time. Second appearance for Cano. Ladies and gentlemen, can Jen Mure out of Scotland, rookie debut at the CrossFit Games. [Applause] She’ll be inrooks. [Applause] Brook Wells just one foot away. Oh man. That is That is as close as they come. That is Hey, you got to call it like you call it, baby. You got to call it like you see it. And it was close. I I feel that way sometimes calling it too when someone’s getting close to something like maybe I’m not going to say it. I’m not going to say it. She’s okay. Darn it. You hate to see it for anyone. However, part of that is did she keep too much of her weight on top of the pegs and did she try to lean back a little bit too soon? Abby do is just see that’s why I stopped talking. I hear you. Cuz I I felt it coming. I hear you. I I couldn’t I couldn’t do two in a row. Hey, and and they’re laying their heart on the line and their body, of course, to try to get these reps. The beauty is they trust. They know they got the pad underneath them. They know they got the extra extra set of pegs if they need it, but they know that they’re running out of time. And on this pegboard climb, every rep is going to count. Watch Brooke here pull her leverage back just fart a little bit too much. And that grip on the pegs, while it’s protective of the skin, it does increase the the circumference of your hand. So, it’s like it makes it harder to hold on to at times. My question is I I see people climb with grips on a pegboard. And the cost benefit there. Yeah. Here here here’s what be a lot of my advice is use them early to protect your skin and save some of your grip. But late when you’re at a point of fatigue, you need to feel you need to have that sensory awareness from your skin on when your grip is going, when you can hang on, when you need to move on, cuz you lose that when you’re using grips only. Not unlike wrapping a thumb without a pull-up bar versus not having it on there. Exactly. And we see DA now on this climb, she’s not using hers. [Applause] Dom will get the final rep. That’s big. And that’s a big rep. That last pegboard is a big rep. But do was still in the third bar. So that is a tough finish for Brooke Wells and Abby Dit. You can see Hadeno and Fisagafi giving Abby a little pep talk at Fisafi. Wow. Transformed. Highlights by Rogue Fitness. Highlights indeed. Fisa Goofy. And again, a lot like we saw in the last seat. All these women started strong the round of four, but Fee started stronger. In fact, she led this thing from start to finish the entire time knowing that as one of the shorter athletes in this event. She legitimately climbed an extra foot up each and every repetition in order to set her pigs. Just one setting lower and she had no problem. Look at the time she’s been putting in her strength and power. Those clings were nothing to her. Good times. At this point, this could be an event win. Who will come to try to take it from F feet? 8:33 the new time to beat. Syria Mayhem’s time of 9:41 still stands as the second best time and Olivia Kurset are the only other athlete under 10 minutes. Two heats down final action for the individual women coming up next. [Music] ladies. Friday night in MVP Arena for the 2025 CrossFit Games here in our new home, Albany, New York. Today’s coverage presented by the United States Border Patrol. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway. Mike Arsenal will be joining us shortly. We’ve had two events down and Tia Tumi is on her normal rampage that sometimes we take for granted. We certainly can’t take it for granted, Chase. But it’s Tia doing Tia things as we should expect, but it’s greatness that we’re witnessing nonetheless. She wraps up two for two on the day so far. Can she make it three for three is the big question mark with the skills looming. Your standings after two events. Tia Clair Tumi perfect for today. 200 total points. Amy Kringle sitting in the top three. Daniel Brandon in third, but Lucy Campbell, two representatives out of Great Britain in the top four, sitting at 156. This event’s presented by Tupood, the official weightling belifting belt of the CrossFit Games. The name is climbing couplets. And I think Dave might have been right. This one has some stopped in their tracks. It is a 43 2-1 descending rep scheme of pegboard climbs and a barbell complex with squat clean thrusters and front squats that ends all the way at 205 lbs. Adrian, what is your tempo recipe for success here? Well, quick climb big reward. That means if they can reduce time under tension, they’re going to fatigue their body less and of course reduce the overall time. And too fast too early could be a problem and it could lead to a failed race late that infers the pegs and the barbell. your lane assignments for heat number three. Your top 10 after two events over there in lane number 10, rookie as far as an elite individual, Lucy McGonagal. And for our Vision Fuels Victory athletes to watch, let’s go down to Mike Arseno. Thank you very much, Chase. Yeah, Lucy, the youngest individual competitor at just 18 years old. She has an impressive competitive pedigree, however, though with four consecutive podium finishes in the age group competition as a teenager. So, she’s used that experience in her first appearance here in the big show, a fourth place in event two to put herself in the final heat, equating herself very well thus far with the top individual female athletes in the sport. And there is Willow Tumi or looking on as you can see saying mama on the jumbotron. You got to love it. Tell you what. Hey, listen. That trumps every event win she’s ever had. Bro, look. Adrian, there’s pre-workout and then they’re seeing your baby on the jumbo screen saying your name. Different levels. Different different levels of happiness and fulfillment there. Untouchable. Untouchable. Time to lock in four pegboard ascents. Four squat clean front squat complex is at 145 to start off. Heat number three and see Cla Tumi’s two for two for the day. Can she make it three for three? You know she’s got the fitness for it, that’s for sure. As we watch her work through these pegboard climbs, good technique. You identify, you see her keep her body close to the board, but she even breaks between each and every one of these climbs. We saw some of the women from the last heat risk it with some touchandgo reps early. Tia steps back, lets her arms relax. She’s going back to work. A lot slower approach than we’ve seen some other athletes do as Amy Crangle sitting in second overall. She got second place in event one, third place in event two. and is only 12 points behind Tatumi for first place overall. Now, watching Kringle do what we categorize as a gather climb where she steps a couple pegs up with one arm and then simply matches it with the left. That’s a unique way to climb to try to preserve as much pulling force as possible as this workout goes on. It also tells me that she doesn’t believe that she’s the strongest climber. So, she’s doing her best to do two things. Stay in the race, but also meet herself where she’s at. Lydia Fishy, the young rookie [Music] out of Chipal Falls. A lot of fish head fans in the crowd. We saw that earlier in event two. She’s done with the pegboards now. That is more her bag. The question is, and there you see the fish heads and the uh the shame shame for not wearing the fish head. Could be could be a little sister. Probably probably I absolutely will not wear that. He’s like, “All right, we’ll put you on the jumbotron.” And Tia struggling a bit at the top here and she still has two more holes to get to. Wow. Look at that patience though. That right there. Your ability to troubleshoot that moment. Wow. That is uncommon. Now, what did that do as far as arm fatigue right going into the rest of the event? You see her shake her head. She’s literally annoyed with herself. Whatever went whatever went wrong there. She She’s a little frustrated about it. She’ll regroup. Now, Lucy Campbell, who’s sitting in fourth overall, just 12 points out of a podium position, is trying to keep pace with Lydia Fish. Now, this first barbell, Lydia looked pretty good. Weight being 145. So, Fish is done. Haley Adams still on the pegboard. However, now these bars are going to get significantly heavier. We’re increasing by a total of 60 lbs by the time we get to that final barbell as Tatumi looks all but annoyed about the situation that she’s just put herself in. Amy Kringle still on the peg board. Lydia Fish one climb of the set of three down. Yeah, Lydia still looking really strong to have created that kind of buffer between her and the pack and then have one rep down now in between her and Tia. This is a good place for her especially at this movement with the understanding and expectation these bars could get a little challenging for her chase when it comes down to the two and the one. Now the question here is did Tia just have a mistake or was there a fatigue element that played into that near failed rep for Tatumi? And I tell you what, it starts to look a little labored when we get to the top of that pegboard for Tia Clair. Yeah, it looks like what she expects from her legs is a little bit more traction from her shoes. It’s like as she steps into the pegboard, she’s reaching for a hole that she expects to be there. However, she’s sliding down it a bit. She needs to lick the bottom of her shoe like a basketball player. Like lick her hand, touch, right? Yeah. Cuz cuz that’s clearly a lack of traction there. I think she accidentally chocked her shoes and immediately was screamed at. I was like, “No, that is the opposite of what I wanted you to do.” There was a year where I remember Crafty Scott Panchchek brought a wet towel out to the competition floor and would step on it like a basketball player going out to the court. Yeah. And you know how it is, especially with this plexiglass. It’s like there’s there’s a lot of dust and chalk up there on the floor. If your shoes aren’t creating the traction that you expect, as we watch Tia make her next descent here, it’s almost like if she’s not watching very closely that as she takes that step, it just doesn’t take her up the way she expects it to. Lydia Fish on the left side is done with her set of three. Now, will she be able to continue to have this confidence in the barbells the way Fee did in the last seat is the question. Tupoot is giving away a trip for two to the 2026 CrossFit games. Airfare, lodging, and two full weekend passes are included. Visit toufu.com/2026 to enter. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Terms and conditions apply. Oh, that’s a hell of a deal right there. Yep. Go get that. Go get that thing so you can hit these heavy barbell clean complexes that I know everyone’s going to be programming next week at the gym. Tia Tumi and a lot of this I think her inability to gain a good footing and it’s absolutely blowing up the upper body. Yes. It’s because you got to make it right some way and the only way she can is not overwork with her arms. Another thing too if anybody’s novice to the pegboard when you first start and you do one where you get stretched out of position when you’re trying to fight against it kind of caps you for the rest of the event. Absolutely does. It absolutely does. It’s again the resistance in the way down the way that you’ve got to fight for every grapple to continue to climb upward is much more of a a strong contraction than you want to give up. Visagi’s time of 8:33 is starting to look pretty good as Lydia Fish on the left side of your screen is up her first of two climbs. Figafi was done at the 607 mark. [Music] Lucy Campbell working her way back to the pegboard. We know that Lucy spent two years rehabbing a wrist injury that required a surgery that had to remove bone in her wrist to level it out. Doctors weren’t even sure that it would work. Some doctors wouldn’t even perform the operation. And after making her games debut in 2022, Lucy Campbell is back. She has two wins under her belt. Most notably being Walooza this year where she took first place. Lydia Fish on the left side is done. One minute to Feigafi’s time. Wow. Figafi is on a verge of her first CrossFit Games event win. But Lydia finished. The question mark was the weight. We’re at 185 lbs. Like it’s nothing. Like it’s nothing. Uhoh. looking very smooth. The time from the barbell that you got to spend on the pegboard helps too, right? Your heart rate’s a little bit lower than you might assume, but she’s moving textbook here for the squat. Second rep is done for fish and the fish heads are on their feet. cheering for the rookie Lydia Fish. Lydia Fish had to qualify to the last chance qualifier where only one spot was available. Leah Fish really made her debut at Crash Crucible there in Spartanberg. Lydia Fish on the left. Now watch Lucy Campbell. One of the biggest issues she’s had is the ability to even receive the bar with two hands. It’s difficult enough to clean 185, let alone with one arm. Adapt or die. You want to talk about the heart of a competitor. Lucy Campbell’s got it 10fold. Lucy Campbell gets two. She’s got one pegboard climb left and one clean. But Lydia Fish, she’s not going to get the time to beat P. Sagafi will win the event. But can she beat Syrian May time of 941? 205 lbs on the bar. First clean is good. First front squad good. Welcome to the Crossing Games, Lydia Fish. [Applause] Lucy Campbell starts her last climb. We have not said the name Tia Clair Tumi in about four minutes. Lucy Campbell has now moved into second overall. Campbell was in fourth overall coming into this event at 156. Now that’s 44 points back of Tatumi. But with our scoring, 44 points is the difference between first and 12th. Tatumi on the bar. Tatumi on the third bar as Lucy Campbell. Wow. hits her last clean. Wow. And that has got to feel good. 1032 Tatumi, [Applause] you know, making her way back to the ring and to consider the struggles on the pegboard. These athletes had one opportunity to practice this movement modality. They got a chance in some walkthroughs. There is no pegboard in the back. They don’t get reps in the back. So, whatever shoes they had, whatever preparation they had two days ago, they haven’t touched this since, not even in the warm-up area. So, this is another obstacle that when you make it to the CrossFit games, you got to get dialed psychologically and know how to prepare and execute on a on a on a modality or movement that you haven’t touched hardly at all. Matty Stir onto the final bar. Mattie Stir first got to the Cross of Games at 19 years of age as Tatumi makes her final ascent. Now Stur finished in 14th overall in the event. Ariel Loens in. Ariel Loan is tied for seventh now. The three athletes that Tia really had to look out for were Danielle Brandon and Amy Kringle. They’re still on the rig, but with Tia Tumi finishing up 205. She hits 16th. That’s 10 spots on the leaderboard between Lucy Campbell, who is the only athlete of those top three that is in a position to beat her. Sixth place is 80 points. 16th place is 42 points. This is why we play the game. Tia may actually still be holding on to that leader jersey going into tomorrow. But the gap is significantly closed within 10 points potentially. And that athlete is going to be Lucy Campbell. Haley Adams on the barbell. This is just the second bar. We saw a lot of struggle from Haley with barbell work, but in this event, that’s not the issue. It’s the pegboard. Danielle Brandon and Mirram von Roar are just standing on the pad staring at the pegboard. And this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this in the event. Dave alluded to the fact that this was going to stop some athletes in their tracks. Chase, you and I talked about this off mic like, “Yeah, man. I don’t know.” Right? They’ve been training them. They’ve been training them. They know this is coming. They have to know for years this was coming. And here we see it stopping them dead in their tracks. Not all because this has been a high level of success for athletes like Fisagopy and many others. Never underestimate Dave Castro. Maron Roar onto her third barbell. We have over a minute remaining. One remaining under feafy finished at 833. Absolutely destroyed this event. Lydia Fish took second. Sierra Maya a top three finish coming out of heat number one, which you love to see. Love to see those early times to beat and winning times out of early heats. It’s such a difficult thing to do. Haley Adams makes her way. Tuck those heels. Count it. Tuck those heels. Amy Kringle, who just had an incredible start to the weekend with a second and third place finish, is at a absolute dead stop as she has not even got out of the round of three pegboards yet. So Kringle will get last in the heat potentially a near last place finish. And so we what we thought could have been a disastrous I would say disastrous in terms of talking to you. She may have survived another day. She may have survived another day. And that’s who we talked about to start this heat. But it was Miss Lydia Fish with all eyes on her. any other fish in the stands. Of course, our support crew, as we noticed early, Tia running into some trouble. It looked like a lot of shoe slippage on that pegboard, which we talked about. This is a foreign surface. A lot of athletes train on something very different when they’re training pegboards in their affiliate. But Lydia Fish was able to seize the moment. She certainly did not have on the wrong pair of shoes today. And she was up and down that pegboard like it was nothing. Round after round, staying composed. We thought, “Hey, maybe 205 will be an obstacle for her.” Not today, said Miss Lydia Fish on her way to an event win. Lydia Fish takes the heat as the Fish Heads are out in force, but it is Feafy with nearly a minute faster time than Lydia Fish gets her very first win of her cross games career. And she’s down with Mike Arsenal. Well, Fee, rarely can you have a dominating performance to win an event at the CrossFit Games with the caliber of these athletes. That’s exactly what you did here in event number three. What does it mean to you that this is your first ever CrossFit Games event victory? This competing at the CrossFit Games is such a gift. I don’t take it for granted any time I get to qualify. And the fact that I won an event is it’s a gift from the Lord. That is not mine. It is his work, his power, his love, and I just get to be someone that shines it through. And if you’re cheering for me, you’re cheering for the Lord out here. He’s so good to me. Now, your excitement, your joy competing on the floor, it’s contagious. And I know it’s not just you that has allowed you to get to this position. You have a support system that has actually watched you compete for the first time. What does that support from your family mean to you? It’s the most special because they I actually don’t always get them in the crowd every competition that I do. And my dad, my sister, my mom, they’re all here. They’re wearing their free fan shirts and I love them so much. They work so hard and they I don’t get to be with them because I live in Florida and they live in Cleveland, Ohio. I maybe get to see them once a year now. And I love you guys so much. I just love seeing you in the crowd. Well, we can see where that joy comes from. Fee, congratulations. What a performance. Thank you. What a special moment for Fei Sagafi. Even more so, if you watch the Road to the Games episode of Fei Sagafi, which all of them were fantastic, but to have dad in the stands cheering her on, you guys know how big of a deal that is for Fee Sagafi. Congratulations to Fei Sagafi on her first event win. The individual men coming up next. Since I work at I I own an auto shop and I work alone. My wife works the front desk. I work in the shop. Crossfit is my social time. And I think that’s a that is true for a lot of the people that come there because it’s you know they’re my friends. They’re my family and you know we welcome everybody. Our wall in the front is, you know, you come and visit, you you’re going to come and see us and you’re going to get to sign your name on the wall. CrossFit is family. It is. It’s one of the side effects. You get in good shape. My wife signed me up without me knowing. Oh, by the way, you got level one first of November. And I’m like, we got too much going on. She’s having SI surgery next Wednesday on her back. And I’m like, we got too much going on. I says, “Tell him though.” And she says, “Oh, no. I already paid for it. It’s not refundable, so you have to go.” Okay. And then when when coach heard that, you know, well, this is good. He says, “Cuz, you know, you’re one of our older participants here, been here forever. You he says, “This will this will encourage more people to come. It’d be nice if everybody in the gym was a level one.” And then just keep going up. You know, I read the bios on our instructors down here last night. They That’s incredible. Makes me jealous. I wish I was 20 years younger. It’s It doesn’t matter what you do in life, you learn. If if if you go through a day that you do not learn something, I don’t care what it is, that day to me is that day is a waste. That is my philosophy of life. Every day you have to learn something. I’ve done automotive repair for 51 years, and I’ll have somebody come in and say, “Well, I did this this way.” And you look at that’s a better way to do that. You learn something. Uh, I really liked the way they broke things down here. They break it down. You know, Cal is an incredible instructor, but they broke things down even at a greater level. Andy, widen your stance. Good. Michaela, push your knees out and lift your hips up a little bit better. Ready? Go. That was way better, babe. Good job. But the way they broke things down yesterday, it was very interesting. Uh the front squat was amazing. I have never cleaned a front squat because I have bad shoulders, no rotator cuffs, no bicep tendons. A lot of times in a front squat, I’ll come off the rack and I’ll set it on my shoulders and I’ll just I can balance. I can lift 200 lb doing a front squat that way. I can’t do 55 this way. But the way they broke it down, I was up there, man, I could do more. I could, you know, learn something and that’s cool. So, yeah, I’m not apprehensive anymore. This is Everybody should take this course. You’ll get something out of it. And I sure as hell have. My My folks made it to their mid ‘9s and never did nothing. When dad was my age, he was on his second pacemaker. I’m not, you know, I have lung problems. I used to smoke when I was young. Uh, I owned a martial arts school for many years. I should have done this instead of that. I wouldn’t have bad knees, plates in my feet, uh, pins in there, plates in my head. Uh, you know, I don’t need that. This this is it’s more controlled fitness than going out and say beating the hell out of somebody. Uh, if it’s fun, but this is fun as well. So yeah, [Music] [Applause] keep it moving. That’s so good. Nice work. [Applause] 714. [Applause] [Music] Good job. You can stay right there. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Music] All right. [Music] [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey, Let’s go. [Music] Mario. [Music] Are [Music] you here? [Music] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Wow. [Music] Strong. [Music] I think you feel [Music] me. feel. [Music] [Music] Don’t. [Music] Hey. [Music] I [Music] feel heat. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Welcome back to Albany, New York. We are inside MVP Arena for the 2025 CrossFit Games. Coverage presented by Border Patrol. My name is Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway and Mike Arsenal. It is now the men’s turn to take on event number three as this event is presented by Tupoot, the climbing couplet. 4 321 descending reps of pegboard climbs and a barbell complex that includes squat cleans plus a front squat that ends in 305 lbs. A lot of weight on the bar, a lot of peg boards to climb. We just saw the men take this on as this is your heat one start list as these are your bottom 10 athletes after two events we recede after every event and our vision fuels victory athletes to watch all eyes are on Colton Mertens and for all the wrong reasons. You’re not lying. We had a bit of a mishap in the last event. Colton’s rope exploded on him for lack of a better description and it cost him significantly. He looked like he had such a strong start, but the question is how will he re regroup with the opportunity here in this couplet to have some strong movements and a chance to make up a lot of headway for him. [Applause] Heat number one, individual event number three on their way for the men. And you mentioned Coltton Merton struggles as you see Yonikoski, the 10year man, loses a peg up at the top. I’m going to stop talking about I think this is what’s best at this point. We’re just going to not talk about the person that the camera’s supposed to. Look, I’m going to do what all you guys been asking me to do for the last hours. Just shut up and let him climb a pegboard. All right. If you guys have been with us, we had a couple of those with the women and so the announcement is feeling a little shy at this point. Yeah. I’m like I’m just going to say there’s a guy. Hey, we’ll we’ll stay focused and stay in the zone. The old Chris Collinssworth. I don’t even mention Thiago’s name. That was not on me. You fell on your own. That should give you confidence. Jack Rosema, your early leader in this heat. But let’s talk a little bit about why that’s happening. Chase athletes rushing through their either climb or descend where the peg is not getting far enough in to make contact with the back of that pegboard and it pulls out once they surrender their body weight into that wooden peg. Rosema to the barbell first. And no real surprise, if you got a wrestling background at Ohio State, you are no stranger to a peg board. Somewhere all the old wrestlers over the age of 50 are saying finally. That’s right. Very excited and happy about the presence of this at the CrossFit games. The test for the fittest on earth. The barbell complex is one squat clean and one front squat equals one rep. The first weight on the bar is 235. Jack Roseman in the center lane in all black. Colton Mertens to the left in lane number three. A little slower on the pegboard. We spoke earlier is that Mertens was one of those athletes that could be vying for a top 10 position. He’s never finished great at the CrossFit games, but he always has home run talent. But a jump rope mishap in the previous event knocked him down. and he’s currently sitting in 25th place overall. Jack Rose, your early leader on the right side of your screen. No urgency there for Mer as he stops to get his chalk. Walks casually to his stop mat. Jack Rosma like the resume. He’s an attorney in the United States Army rank of captain with no rest at the bottom of these pegboards. So, it’s not an unintelligent decision when we watch him make one. It’s calculated. He’s doing this on purpose. He’s very confident in his ability to navigate those pegboard climbs. Bolton M’s on the left. Peter Ellis in the middle. Jack Rosma is done with his set of three as he advances to the next bar. Barbell weight moves from 235 to 265. And we just haven’t seen this kind of speed compared to the women’s times earlier, navigating the the first seven climbs up and down, which is also another reason why we’ve got a faster time cap for the men. Same amount of work required, a little bit of reduction in the time cap here at 10 minutes. And we expect to see that also from the performance perspective with an increased time overall to completion. Neck Rosema looking left and right to see if anybody is going to challenge him for this position in the heat. And he may be back to the peg board before anyone’s off. Three complex is done. Starting the round of two. All athletes must touch their starting mat at the end of each round. With the pegboards being offset, it evens out the total distance these athletes have to travel per round. Peter Ellis addressing that bar. No problem for him. Peter Ellis on the right side of your screen as you mentioned sitting in second place in this heat as we are past the 4minute mark and Jack Rosma touches touch and I say no touch and go baby on the pegboard. Yeah, I guess when it comes to a term with the pegboard, it’s like you’re touching and going only to the minimum requirement there below the green and then you’re right back up. My goodness. Rosema is done as Merens in the back part of your screen finishes his barbell. So, it looks like he’s moving into second place over Peter Ellis. But it is the Jack Rosma Show here in heat number one. two cleans clean complex is at 285. One thing we haven’t mentioned yet, Adrian, is the barbell is the shorter barbell. And if you’ve never used it, there is a bit of a I would say at these weights, a more dramatic effect on the clean. That’s right. And one of the biggest things that you’ll notice is that the bar doesn’t give you the same kind of whip. So, as the athletes jump through that middle transition where the bar becomes weightless and they pull under, it just doesn’t give the same rise. They’ve got to meet it in a different position. Time caps 10 minutes. Jack Rosema is at five and he has one clean or one pegboard and one complex left to go. As you see him wiping his shoes off for the pegboard. Yeah, he gives it the old wipe me down before he gets back up on that pegboard. His shoe selection includes the gum bottoms of whatever version he chooses to rock. Wise choice. Good sticky typically tacified bottom of the shoe. [Applause] And wow, Rosema is absolutely dismantling this event. Mirian at the 6minute mark. Not often do you get to be alone by yourself in a good way on the competition floor here at the CrossFit Games. Final queen. Final front squat. 305 lbs on the bar. First rep is good. Second rep’s better. Jack Rosma sets the tie to beat. [Music] 609.10 for Jack Rosema. And looking at his pacing, we were curious. Are we going to do singles on the peg board? Obviously singles on the barbell. There was a lot of consecutive reps for Jack Rosema. Not only is the time going to be a pressure factor for athletes in the next two heats, but the way he got that time. Oh yeah. Yeah. There’s some athletes in the back right now looking side to side each other with their eyebrows raised. Chase, they’re like, “Oh, okay. This is that kind of race.” Yeah. It’s going to be that kind of race if you want to beat this first established time. Colton Merton’s back to the bar for the final time. And the Iron Hog will take the second best time in this heat as Colton Mens has a long way to go. Fortunately for him to have something like that happen on day one in event one with 10 potentially full scored events for the weekend, but with we said earlier to start the day off with the depth of this field, there’s just not a lot of there’s not a lot of room for little errors. There’s no room for big ones. Yeah, it’s very true. It was just going to be hard for him to make up for that deficit that was created there. But even that smooth, calculated execution that we saw as we watched Peter Ellis address his bar here at 305, it was what Mertens needed to at least reestablish some momentum for himself. Smooth, clean for Ellis there. Strong front rack position, kept those elbows high and he’ll come across at approximately a 739. [Music] Jorge Fernandez on the right qualifying out of the NorCal Classic. [Music] He’s Toby Buckman onto their last rep. One pegboard ascent. One squat clean front squat complex as Buckland is up to the pegboard first. Buckland choosing almost the peg for peg climb one after another. We’ve seen some of the men, many of them choosing to skip pegs on their way up. Yanukoski’s in. Koski last year was on the verge of 10 consecutive CrossFit games. He’d won the open and quarterfinals. The question was he going to do a clean sweep. Came into semi-final sick at the French throwdown last year. Broke the streak, but he’s back this year after winning the last chance qualifier. Yeah, and last year almost caught us all off guard. We’re like, what is going on? And then once we found out, he was a little under the weather. It explained a lot. It’s a hard part of the sport. Joey Buckland took first at the Rebel Renegade Games down in South Africa. He’s out of the United Kingdom, but he trains out of Dubai. And Toby Buckland is in. Jorge Fernandez on his final squad. Three athletes left on the floor. 40 seconds remaining in the event. The time cap is 10 minutes for the men as Bill Ley sets up for his final complex. Easy work for Bill. Bill gets in just ahead of Thiago Luces as Morris Feebig and Enrique Moretta are still left on the floor. Feebig is done. This is the second bar for Enrique. And we’ve seen it the last four heats in total that if you’re towards the back of the pack in an event like this, it’s not the barbell, it’s the pegboard. It’s the pegboard. And that man had no issues whatsoever. The pegboard. These highlights presented by Rogue Fitness. As an Ohio State wrestler, I’m going to go ahead and assume Jack Rosma took Dave Castro’s description of this workout as hard and simply said, “Good.” And he took it and ran with it. The pegboard climbs were nothing for Jack Rosma as he went touch and go, just below that minimum work requirement every single time, not resting. Really wise choice on making sure that he kept his shoes clean of chalk, gripping that pegboard every single time, reducing the upper body cost for all the repetitions. And of course that 305 he caught a little bit low. Nothing he couldn’t save though on his way right now to leading the way in event number three. Kick off the cross for games. 609.10 for the United States Army attorney and former Ohio State wrestler Jack Rosema sets the time to beat. Heat two coming up next. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Thank you. Feel [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] One heat down, two heats left to go for the individual men as we are inside MVP Arena as the CrossFit Games has moved to Albany, New York. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway, Mike Arsenal. Joining us later on the competition floor. [Music] This event’s presented by Tupoot, the official weightlifting belt of the CrossFit Games. And this is called Climbing Couplet. That’s right. And it’s a descending rep scheme of 4321 pegboard climbs and a barbell complex that includes a squat clean plus a frost squat. And that end weight is 305 lbs with a shorty bar. And what is your tempo recipe for success? Well, quick climb and big reward is the first focus here. If they can ascend and descend that pegboard quickly and efficiently, it reduces fatigue and increases their time output. And too fast too early can be a problem and lead to failed reps slate even on this barbell with the complex. Your lane assignments for this second heat of three. James Sprag, your 2024 Crossit Games champ in lane number five. Your vision fuels victory athletes to watch. Yeah, look, Sprag finds himself right now 11th overall. He is in a position he does not want to be. When you’re a defending CrossFit Games champion, you feel like you need to be in the top 10 at all times in order to give yourself an opportunity. We’ll see if he can dig out of this deficit. I think this could be a good opportunity for Sprag with a man that he has known since he was a child and now competing together as grown-ups. It is Tutor Magda over there in lane number seven. And a Mag Magda, another athlete with with raw capacity. Someone that we’re just waiting to see. Can he put it all together to be a threat and to be in the top 10 at the CrossFit games and execute at the highest level which it demands? We know he can lift. We know he’s got skills. And we know he’s got fitness. Can he throw it all together? [Applause] Heat number two underway. 4 3 2 1 pegboard ascents and a barbell complex with ascending weights and descending reps. James Sprag, your 2024 cross the games champion, currently sitting in 11th place overall with 124 points, looking to try to get back inside the top 10. But that’s not what he wants. He wants to reclaim that victory he earned last year at the Crosset Games. and Chase, they are starting absolutely bananas. I mean, James Sprag is touching and going right below that green line. Tutor Magda touching and going below that green line. They are going rep for rep and headtohead right now as we get a great shot at both of them uh ascending for their final climb of round one. I just like to say congratulations to Tutor and James. I said nothing until you got below the green line. Four complexes at 235. One squat clean, one front squat. And if you don’t know, tutor Magna, the guy can move some weight. And this will be where strategically if he can keep James at bay on that pegboard just enough to even stay close on the bar, he will be able to lend himself an advantage when it comes to the barbell work. And one of James Sprag’s biggest weaknesses was glaring last year at the Cross of Games, and it was strength. There was a clean complex and he couldn’t even get past the 295 lb bar. This event ends at 305 lbs. He’s been working on his strength. We’ll see if that pays off towards the end of this event. Tutor Magda is done and back to the rig. Athletes must walk across their mats and touch their starting mat. The pegboards being uneven. This gives everybody the same distance to travel across the floor. Tutor puts a shirt back on. Reason for that? Well, it’s wise work. You’re catching the bar in the front rack position. The last thing you want is it sliding down a wet surface, which often is our sweaty torso. So, it’s wise of him to do this. And of course, he’s taking his time to make sure his shoes get that good grip. Again, vet move watching the other athletes that have had success do it earlier in the day. James Frag, however, is already one peg board in. See Callum Clemens on the left side of your screen. This is Callum qualified backto back times. Tutor Magnet on the far right. This is also his second time, but he had a couple years in between his first appearance and today. James Sprag in the center lane in the maroon. One climb left to go as we are on the round of three. Callum Clemens on the left side of your screen. Wastes no time going right back up the pegboard. Tutor has one left to go on the far right. James Sprag is descending on his final rep as Callum Clemens is finishing up his second of three. Does he go back up? He does, but Sprag is done. Tutor Magda just ahead of Callum Clemens. Sprag starting to separate himself here early. 265 lbs on the bar. Three reps. And this is where James is going to apply his pacing to make sure that he doesn’t blow up on the barbell. You notice he looked left or right to check in on who was in his peripheral there. Gave him some time to take some rest. Sprag taking a moment before he hits his last rep. Tutor Magna in the bottom right in all black. Chris Ibara and Callum Clemens to the left of James in lanes two and four. Sprag is done. On to the round of two. We saw him touch and go in the four. Does he chance it here on the double? Well, we’ll see when he decides to address his shoes. Right, that last one, he jumped up, got a quick climb, then came down and cleaned his shoes. Will he do it now? If he does it now, that means there’s a chance he might try the touch and go. I won’t say anything. Two reps for Sprag. And notice this is where it pays to be rangy. Look at that gain in the distance traveled by one arm reach for James where we’ve seen shorter statured athletes have to go peg by peg as they climb. James Prag takes a break. One rep to go. 609’s the time to beat. Less than 2 minutes before we set that time by Jack Rosma in heat number one. And this is the difference here. If we can visualize or play back Rosma’s pace, it was like full speed every time he got to that pegboard touch and go. No doubt about it. [Music] The distance that James covers on the way up is incredible. Sprag is done. Tuda on the far right. One rep left to go. Still holding on to second place over Chris Ibar and Callum Clemens. Coming up to the fiveminute mark. 285 lbs on the barbell. One squat clean. One front squat. One more rep for Sprag. Great clean complex there. That was a confidence builder for James here. Tutor Magda coming to the barbell. Sprag is done, but he only has 50 seconds to go. And he’s going to need to keep that pace to keep Tutor at bay here. He’s going to be one rep ahead of Tutor in just about 15 seconds. Chris Ibara in lane number four actually starts his first rep. Tutor is done. James Sprag has just 30 seconds remaining. We talked about seconds being vital in this weekend’s CrossFit games with the caliber of men we have in the field. Points scarce to come by. Does James take a chance? He can do it. 10 seconds remaining. 305 on the bar. It might not be a win on the scoreboard, but that is a win for James Spray as an athlete. Absolutely it is. Absolutely it is. You talked about him struggling with a 295 lb barbell complex. Ends a workout at 305 with a shorty bar. Tutor Magda’s done. [Applause] 305 first squat cleans good. Second front squat in Magnaz in the time of Jack Rosema 609.10 survives another heat. Callum Clemens on the left and Rico Zenon on the right. Clemens is done. Zenon’s done. [Applause] Looks like Peter Ellis. So, we have a three athlete race. Make it four cuz Chris Ibara is done as well. Who’s going to pick up the bar first? Who’s going to pick it up too soon? It’s going to be Callum Clemens on the left. One clean’s done. Peter Ellis has a shot, but it’ll be Clemens. Ellis and Zenon. [Applause] Ibara. What a save for that one. It didn’t feel great, but it got the job done. Hey, I’ve seen words of across the game. Shout out Josh Bridges. Shout him out. He did get the lift, though. He got it. I would have never got it. Just over two minutes away that 10-minute cap. We have Bronosavowitz and Isaac Newman. And over there in lane number one, you also have Nick Matthew Palen Souza making his way up. Suza had a great performance to start the day off in that run row run. is Isaac Newman. Let’s work on his final climb. 90 seconds remaining. Still plenty of time. All athletes but one is working on their final pegboard ascent. Ronav language is still in a set of two as Kelly Soua works on his final barbell complex. [Music] That is good for Souza. One minute remains. Isaac Newman making his way to the barbell for the last time. Isaac Newman who qualified at the Torium Pro in fifth because of so many athletes had qualified already out of that chalk it up semiinal. Chalk up the chest, baby. That’s what we needed. That’s what we needed right there. Nick Matthew trying to sneak ahead of Isaac Newman and he’ll get in. Told you Chase. It works every time. Yeah, it’s always more chop. 15 seconds remaining. Bronoslavitz hasn’t got past the round of three. So that’ll do it for heat number two. James Sprag got the Heat win. Good enough for the second best time overall. Papa Sprag looks on. Him and his dad actually completed a halfiron man in the offseason together along with James’ brother. Check out these highlights by Rogue Fitness. And highlights they were we we targeted James Frig early in this saying, “Hey, returning fittest man on earth doesn’t want to be in 11th place.” And his goal was certainly to punch his way back into the top 10. It was he and Tutor Magda that were going rep for rep almost the entire first two rounds. And then it was James Brag that was able to create separation on those pegboard climbs, using his range to ascend and descend quickly and showing that improved strength and power on this barbell. 305 was nothing in 2025 for James Brady. He wants to be back in the top 10 and he’s showing it. 61.92 is good enough for the Heat, but not good enough for the best time overall. 10 athletes remain. Third and final heat coming up next. Can any of them take down Jack Rosema? We’ll see. [Music] [Music] [Music] Friday night at the 2025 CrossFit Games is here. We are inside MVP Arena in Albany, New York. I’m Chase Ingram. Along with me is Adrien Conway and Mike Arsenal will be joining us shortly. Two heats of men down. Third and final heat coming up as your top 10 after two events. Your Sappa sleeper moment is not the Australian we thought we were going to talk about. It’s Mr. Jay Crouch. It is Mr. Jay Crouch. And what a show he’s put on through two so far here at the 2025 CrossFit Games. He finds himself sitting in second place, a well-rounded athlete, and he’s got to be chomping at the bit chase to even take the floor for this climbing couplet that awaits him. But what a day Mr. Crowd has had thus far. Jay Crouch sits in second place, 16 points behind Ricky Garden for the first time in Crosset Games history. We have two Australian men holding on to the top two spots of the leaderboard. And there is a tie for points for third. Roman Krennikov holds the tiebreaker currently over Jason Hopper. And another double tie, four points behind. And we talked about points matter. Those four points matter to Jeff Adler. This event’s presented by Tupoot, the official weightlifting belts of the CrossFit Games. Climbing couplet one more time. One more time in the final time for tonight. 43 2 1 reps four time of pegboard ascents and a barbell complex that includes a squat clean plus a front squat. And it’s going to end at 305 lbs with a shorty bar. Anything changed to your tempo recipe for success? Nothing changed. It all remains the same. It’s a quick climb and a big reward. They’ve got to be quick up and down the pegboard. It saves them time, but it also saves them energy for later in this workout. And too fast early and failed race late is going to be the result on the pegboard and the barbell. Let’s go down to Mike Arseno with more about what happens to those pegs when they get stuck on the pegboard. Well, a quick up and down the pegboard is easier said than done. We’ve seen a lot of failed attempts by men and women thus far in this event. And so all athletes will start with two pegs just underneath the green line. That is the starting position. If we do have a failed rep and the pegs are staying up higher on the pegboard, they do have in their chalk bucket a lot of chalk chalk bricks, but also four extra pegs that they can utilize if necessary to complete the full 10 reps in this event. Your lane assignments for the third and final heat. Your top two on the leaderboard will be in your center lanes. As we just saw earlier, your vision fuels victory athletes, Jay Crouch sitting in second place. Yeah, he’s one of those athletes, Chase, that’s got quote unquote it to me. He’s very well-rounded and he’s in an atmosphere with the proven crew where he gets to train with the fittest on earth and he’s learning to compete at the highest level. Third and final heat, individual men’s event number three. In the center lane, Ricky Gard for the first time since 2022 is dawning the leader jersey once again. We’ve had some conversations about Ricky in this particular event. Chase, you described him best as a gorilla up and down that pegboard. We know he enjoys climbing. It’s something that he excels at. We already see him making fast work of these first four, choosing the touchandgo method, not making contact with the pad at all with his feet. Right when those pegs get below the green line, he’s on his way back to the top of the peg board. Harry Lightfoot keeping pace with Jason Hopper. Not a lot of separation on the peg board yet, but we’ve heard it is the round of three that separates the men from the boys. And it is Jason Hopper, Harry Lightfoot, Jeff Adler, Jay Crouch, and here comes Justin Maderasing out your top five in this heat. [Music] One squat clean, one front squat equals one rep. They’ll do four of them at 235 lbs. Jason Hopper leading early. We saw the same thing in event two where he faded late. Hopper just smooth as butter on that barbell. I got to compliment his clean pulling position, finishing through the barbell, shoulders behind the bar. That effort right there, the efficacy in his barbell movement is going to save him energy later in this workout. Jeff Adler walks back to his starting man. All athletes must touch the starting pad before they start their next pegboard ascent. Four repetitions. This is where the event gets real. Jeff Adler, your 2023 CrossFit Games champion. Three of them in the field. The other one’s Jess Maderas. He’s got two under his belt. Jay Crouch on the right side of your screen staring down Jason Hopper. And Hopper is just so fast up and down that pegboard. Adler had a lead on him at first and now he’s taking that away quickly. Austin Hatfield just got on the peg board for his round of four as he shakes his head on the way to the barbell. Jason Hopper in the lead still. Here comes Jeff Bther to his left. Three cleans at 265. [Music] Jeff Adler took the first event of the day. Jason Hopper sitting tied for fourth with Roman Krenneov in points. Roman Krenneov has the tie breaker which gives him that third place position. Jason Hopper finished fourth last year at the CrossFit games. He’s been eyeing that podium for several years. That’s right. And if this is going to be the year, it’s a workout just like this where he has to make a big statement. Ricky Gard just getting off the pegboard. So, Gerrard is falling back in the back half of this pack as Justin Maderas is moving back to the pegboard for the third time. Two reps left to go. adjustment Darius about to start his first rep. Just in front of him is Jeff Adler finishing his first one as Jason Hopper on the far right side of your screen closing out his second climb. Approaching the 4-minute mark, time to beat 609.10 by Jack Rosma. Here comes Jason Hopper. And you love to see it, the urgency go to the barbell. This is that moment in which we saw Fisagafi start to really pull away as well on the women’s side, but Adler is quick on his heels as he approaches his barbell as well. Hopper saddles up for a 285 lb complex. Tupoot is giving away a free trip for two to the 2026 CrossFit games. That includes airfare, lodging, and two full weekend passes included. Visit tupu.com/2026 to enter. Jess Maderas gets his first rep at 285. Two champs side by side in 21 and 22. Adler and 23. Roman Krennicop’s done. One rep left to go. Harry Lightfoot trying to sneak up in lane number nine. Jason Hopper, your current leader in this heat, has a minute to go to maybe get himself an event win. Wow. Last pegboard is done. Adler Maderas Corinov has moved in to second. Where did Roman come from? Jason Hopper 305 clean is good. Front squad’s good and another a big win for Jason Hopper. Roman’s in. Adler has to take a step back and Madaras is in. Jay Crouch on the right picks up the bar before Adler. Adler just lost about 20 seconds on that last clean. I did not see what happened to Adler, but he stepped away from the bar and three guys blew by him. That finish for Jay Crouch. [Music] We said it’s so close for points on the leaderboard. Crouch had 176. So, he had a 16-point buffer between Hopper and Krenneov as Ricky Gerrard, who was sitting in first, is trying everything he can to stop the bleeding. We talked about we had an Australian female on top of the leaderboard and an Australian male on top of the leaderboard. Going into tomorrow, we may have the same exact thing, but it may be a different name for the men. Jay Crow sitting in second place. And here comes Pepper. Heads up, Ricky. Points are precious at the 2025 Crossit Games for the men. Pepper runs up ahead of Ricky. Four more points gone and there is a chance Jake Crouch could be wearing the white leaders jersey for the first time in his career. [Applause] Hatfield struggling on these pegboards. Chase, I do my homework. I’ve been I’ve been watching some things and listening to some things. Now he takes he says, “Hey, Rich still spanks me around in a couple workouts. Pegboards and bench presses is a couple of them.” And I’m thinking, well, who wouldn’t Rich smack around in workouts like that? A, but also is it because it’s something that he really needs spent some time working on. And that could be showing a little bit here in this couplet. Little bit more exposure, a little more time under tension on the pegboard for Mr. Hatfield might be on the menu here in the coming months. Hatfield who is sitting in sixth overall tied with Jeff Adler. [Applause] You have Colin Bosard [Music] trying to finish out here. And Hatfield is only on the second bar. [Music] We’ve seen some athletes Chase take some pretty big hits and still be able to finish in some pretty miraculous ways. This is going to be one of those moments for Mr. Hatfield that he’s got to shake off real quick if he wants to find himself on that podium this year. [Music] One minute before he hit that 10-minute time cap. [Music] [Applause] And every these one, every one of these repetitions is going to matter here. So, if he can get to that pegboard and get two down, it’ll go a long way. Colin Bosard finishing up his second rep in the round of two as we have 15 seconds remaining. I don’t know it’ll be enough time for Hatfield to sneak in that extra rep. And we saw the same thing on the women’s side. There might not be a lot of shifting, but there will be a lot of compressing. Yep. as Jason Hopper gets another event win in his career. James Spray gets third overall in the event. Should put him in the top 10 going into day number two, which is vital with the competition that we have here this weekend. And it may be less of who’s going to win the most, but who’s going to stumble the least as we show these highlights by Road Fitness. Well, and it was a clinic by Hopper all the way from the start. He ascends the pegboard quickly, but it’s this does it send there literally about a three-atch process where he only puts the pegs in twice in order to get below the start line every single time is where he’s able to really create tremendous separation. And throughout this, the barbell was nothing. But look at the secret weapon. We saw people with the towels doing all kinds of different things. Hopper knew, hey, I got to walk to my placard. Let me put my towel there and step on it just like a basketball player would before entering the game. And it showed to be a huge advantage in separator there. That’s a veteran move. You got to find different ways to create separation between you and the field. Mr. Hopper said, “Hey, this one’s mine for the taking, boys. I’ll take these 100.” Your results of event number three, Fast and Furious final heat. Jason Hopper will take the win. Roman Krennikov in second. Harry Lightfoot just edges out Justin Maderas by a tenth of a second. But all eyes on Jay Crouch and the leaderboard. Let’s see how that handles it. Mike Arsenal is down with your winner, Jason Hopper. Jason, your third career event win. And this event buried a large percentage of the male competitors and you cruised through the entirety of that event, both movements. Why were you able to put forth such a dominating performance in event number three? Well, Dave said this was going to be the hardest workout of the week. and he said he wanted me to come in last. So, I had a little extra motivation. [Applause] Eighth, fourth, and first are your placements through the first three events. Desperate uh desperate tests we’ve seen so far in this first day of the 2025 CrossFit Games. How would you assess your performance thus far? I’m very proud, happy. This is the best uh day one of the CrossFit games I’ve had in my career. Um so, hopefully ride that momentum. Big momentum, guys. So, going to ride that wave. Well, there’s a good chance that your hair might match the color of your shirt. Hey, what do y’all think? What do y’all think this year? Keep it. All right. It’s a thing. My wife doesn’t like it. I’m not going to tell you to listen to your wife or not. That’s your call. I should. I probably should. I probably should. You probably should. Jason, terrific performance here on day one of the competition. Two more to go, but you’re setting yourself up for a big weekend. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you all. your rogue don’t weaken moment of the day. And it’s not a moment. It is a man. And that man’s name is Jay Crouch. He’s putting on a clinic chase from what we know in order to find the fittest. It’s not he or she that wins the most events. Overall, it is he or she that performs statistically best across a series of tests. Now, we’re only three deep out of 10 scores that have been announced, and Mr. Jay Crouch is on his way to doing the right thing to be the fittest on earth so far. We have a long weekend left to go, but day one belongs to Mr. J. Crouch. Looks like Dave Cash is getting a Jason Hopper autograph after that event win. To close things out for day number one, and we still have a lot of action left to go. Let’s take a look [Music] as Jason Hopper walks off. That will do it for us here in Albany, New York as we have individual action, team action, and plenty more of it to come over the next two days. For official results, go to games.crossit.com. For agent Conway, Mike Arseno, I’m Chase Ingram. Good night. See you tomorrow. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] You got to call [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey down. [Music] Heat up here. That’s the best way. Hey,