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Saving the games and saving the athletes
was not like the priority, right?
It'’s like saving CrossFit.
CrossFit games started as a back yard barbecue in 2007
and grew to an amazing spectacle
with hundreds of thousands competing every year.
It'’s broken right now.
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Well, we'’re in Coronaland.
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The whole world was shut down by COVID-19
and the fitness industry took a huge hit.
Eighty-nine percent of all gyms across the globe closed,
and 96% of all gyms in the United States closed.
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The event that inspired millions
wasn'’t about to cancel or postpone.
I just want to compete, and I want to be proud
of all my hard work.
But could they put on an event during a global pandemic
worthy of crowning the Fittest on Earth?
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[crackling]
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Yeah, it'’s pretty wild.
It'’s crazy, here we are
a few months away from the games.
A month ago, I was totally planning
to have the games in Madison again,
and then all this craziness happened with COVID
and the current climate of the world.
And we started talking about cancelling the games.
Some people suggested doing a small private event,
a small private event here, and we started exploring that,
and it looked like it'’s something we can pull off,
it looks like there'’s a chance we can do it.
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We won'’t have fans, we won'’t have jumbotrons,
we won'’t have so many of the things
we normally have.
We'’re gonna flex from Madison to here with limited time
to save the games essentially.
The message we'’re trying to send here
with still doing some sort of competition
is we'’re gonna fight,
our affiliates are gonna fight,
the community is gonna fight,
and we'’re gonna get through this pandemic,
we'’re gonna get through this craziness,
and we'’re all gonna come out of it much stronger.
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It'’ll be wild for the athletes, but there'’s one thing,
no matter how different everything feels,
we'’re still gonna find
the fittest man and woman alive.
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They'’re in for a fucking wild ride.
They'’re gonna enter this weekend,
it'’s gonna feel very different,
and they'’re gonna exit the weekend going,
"What the fuck just happened?"
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[indistinct chatter]
What up, dude?
Day One, baby, we'’re good.
Ready to get the show on the road. Year seven.
Have you taken your temperature this morning?
I haven'’t taken my own temperature,
but I'’ve taken other people's.
97.3.
Blast me.
96.8.
-Mat, how are we doing? -What up, what up?
-You sleep good? -Dude, eight hours last night.
-Eight? -Yeah.
You guys get good sleep?
You get some good sleep too?
I was in bed for a long time, yeah.
-Are you guys in the same room? -Yeah.
-Do you keep her up? -I'’d like to think I don't,
but I reckon I probably do.
-You think he does? -Yeah, he does.
Do you know all the events for today?
Not yet, no.
When you walk out, guys,
the shuttle straight ahead is for men
and the shuttle to your right is for women.
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Those athletes are showing up to the Ranch
for the first two events of a five-event day.
I don'’t think we've had a five-event day
at the CrossFit Games in a very long time,
so it'’s really exciting.
There is gonna be a push to test it
beyond what I think they even imagined,
they'’re expecting or how they expect to be pushed.
So I'’m really excited.
Have you competed at the Ranch before?
What'’s it like being out here at the Ranch
for the first time?
It smells like a farm.
The videos of the hill, they don'’t give justice
to the elevation.
I was surprised how steep it looks.
That'’s gonna be fun.
Rob made this little brush thing
that folds over the bar and he roughs it.
It works good.
[inaudible]?
What was that?
I'’m not doing that again.
Just one time.
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This is where it all started.
This is the birthplace of the CrossFit Games.
There'’s always hallowed ground.
You know, Lambeau Field in football,
Madison Square Garden in basketball.
The Ranch is that hallowed ground
for the CrossFit Games.
It'’s really cool to go back to the Ranch
just because of all the history there.
"The Ranch."
You know, for me, it'’s just another competition venue.
A lot of people do see it as like a nice tie,
return to home and all that,
and that'’s cool, and I'’m glad people do.
For me, it was just let'’s get this done,
let'’s make it happen, let'’s do it.
This year, the first day'’s events
were all of the events that the athletes competing
in the 2007 games completed throughout the weekend.
2007 reloaded is what will kick things off here
and it is an homage to that hopper event
that took place way back in 2007.
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[beep]
And with that, the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games
are underway at the Ranch in Aromas, California.
Like, the very first three, two, one, go,
and then everyone starts rowing
and just like the "whoosh, whoosh,"
and you'’re like, "Where'’s the music?"
There was no one.
There wasn'’t even music.
You could hear everything.
You could hear them breathing hard.
You could hear the weights hitting them in the shoulders.
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It felt like it was glamping in a way.
We'’re in the rugged, raw still ranchy atmosphere,
but then it had the beautiful bar
with the beautiful weights,
and everything was clean and pristine.
Athletes working through that 1,500-meter row
to start this off, and then it'’s five rounds
of the shoulder-to-overhead and the bar muscle-ups.
With only five, there is no room for error.
You got to protect that pace on the row
and then make sure you stay unbroken and efficient
on the later parts.
It'’s ridiculous to go fast on the row.
That'’s just a buy-in.
You just have to be able to get off the rower
plus or minus a few seconds of the other and you'’re good.
And Haley Adams will be the first woman off the rower.
She is on to her first round of ten bar muscle-ups
-and getting right to work. -When I heard the workout,
I was super excited because I really like
shoulder-to-overhead and low bar muscle-ups,
so I knew I could do well on that workout.
I was the last person off the row,
which wasn'’t too big of a surprise.
I was kind of expecting it.
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Fraser ripping through
those seven shoulder-to-overheads.
Thirty-two, he'’ll be done with his first round.
He is done and Mat Fraser now in front.
There was quite a bit of separation.
You could tell very quickly
who attacked the workout appropriately
for their skill set and who didn'’t.
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I like how Haley is still sticking with Tia.
Last year, I was still trying to take grasp of it
because I just couldn'’t believe
that I was just keeping up with them
and competing right next to them
and even beating them in workouts.
I looked up to them and I still do
because they'’re older than me
and they'’ve set the path to the sport.
Fraser is on his third round of shoulder-to-overhead.
He has yet to break any of these up.
And he is in the lead all by himself right now.
I really like the tempo that Medeiros is coming out with.
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Being a rookie at the CrossFit Games
and already trying to take it to the field.
To throw down with those guys in the very first workout
was--was crazy.
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Two women battle right now as Tia Toomey sits in first,
Haley Adams is in second.
And now Toomey is paying close attention
-to what Adams is doing. -That is the game
that you play when there'’s only five in the field,
is Tia was literally standing there
and waiting for Haley to finish her jerks
before she got up onto the bar.
It'’s the start of the weekend.
You don'’t want to go and sell yourself
if you don'’t really need to.
When you can grasp and pause in a workout
and feel where everybody is and visually see
where your competitors are,
you can see them on your left and right,
you know you got control of the event.
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Toomey back to the barbell for the final time,
is in absolutely no hurry here
as she has built a significant lead
over Haley Adams.
Fraser making the trip back to the barbell
for the final time.
Fraser'’s gone unbroken through all four sets.
Trying to do it again here in Round Five.
Failed the last jerk.
That was a surprise.
-Giving up. -Wow!
Rare no rep for Mat Fraser.
Wow!
I watched Mat do his last round.
He failed his last rep, and I was like,
"Oh, you know, what happened there?"
Oh, Toomey, like Mat Fraser, fails on the last rep.
When Tia failed the exact same rep,
it was just comical.
Go figure, we train together.
Yeah, we'’re definitely training partners.
They'’re too similar.
Or I'’ve done something where, like, "What did we do?
Did we just do too much strict press
with the left-hand side?"
I had no idea how dominant they were going to be.
Granted, it was at the field of five.
Would it have been different with 30? Yes.
Would the outcome have been different? No way.
Justin Medeiros will take second.
To be able to come out in that first workout
and kind of prove that to people,
like, "Hey, like, I'’m here to compete,"
was pretty awesome.
So now Haley Adams looking to take second.
Ended up doing pretty well, I got second
and ran my race and executed it perfectly.
Davidsdottir is done,
so Katrin Davidsdottir with a mini comeback
as she will take fourth place.
She'’s had a tough training year.
She hurt her back, she isn'’t gonna do
as much training as she normally would.
I was very timid on that workout
and I think I was aware that there was no music,
I was aware that it was only five of us there.
And I think I was anything
actually but present on the floor.
Brooke Wells will have to settle for fifth.
I felt like my body
was literally going into failure at the end.
I'’ve never struggled that much
with a 145-pound jerk in my life.
-How'’d that go? -Went well.
Shoulder-to-overhead a little bit tougher
than I was expecting.
I paced it well enough in the beginning
to buy myself a mistake.
After the first two rounds, that'’s all it was.
It was just me sitting, waiting.
Ugh, not so good.
Started off, was feeling really good.
Um, I don'’t think I made any mistakes,
I just think it was on around three
I failed the shoulder-to-overhead
in the middle and that just kind of was like
where the game changed for me.
Lot of us finished on the podium twice
after 30th place finish in the first event.
-You only got fifth, dude. -True.
My ankles are probably more swollen, Big Bertha.
Big Bertha, that'’s what your ankle is called?
Yeah.
She gets a little big sometimes.
She needs to calm down, though.
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Event Two, the corn sack sprint.
Three hundred twenty meters up the hill at the Ranch.
If you could think of one event
at the CrossFit Games, specifically in Aromas,
that most people talk about being the toughest,
most painful event ever,
it would be the hill sprint in 2009.
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There was so much hype behind this sprint up the hill.
I watched videos of people doing it before,
and you don'’t realize how big that hill is
until you see it for yourself.
This is one of the workouts that is very special
because you can only do it there.
A part of me was preparing for absolute hell.
So there might be, right about there,
really steep and really narrow.
Justin Medeiros trains this kind of thing all the time.
We'’ll see how he performs here.
Everyone knew there was gonna be a hill sprint,
a sandbag hill sprint in there.
Me and Adam did a lot of work on it, prepared for it.
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Mat Fraser in the white overall leaders jersey.
And 50 pounds in that corn sack,
and Justin Medeiros is out front early.
Running across the first parking lot,
I'’m in dead last.
Event Two for the women underway.
Tia Toomey, like Mat Fraser, looking to go two for two
to start things off here.
Sprinting 320 meters on a flat is very appropriate,
but doing that uphill,
you need to tame it down a little bit,
especially at the start where it'’s a little easier
and you are fresh.
This is nearly double the distance,
two-thirds of what the weight was.
It was 70 pounds back in 2009.
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You'’ve got to make your move here
to get ahead of everybody once you start the climb.
You know it'’s gonna hurt,
so you just have to accept that pain
and know it'’s gonna be over before you can even, like,
realize how much pain you'’re in.
Kind of went flat, up, flat,
and then it was just a steep hill
all the way to the finish.
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They said it was like 320 meters or whatever it was,
and I'’m like, "This hill is huge."
You have that bag on your shoulders
weighing you down, I mean, you'’re breathing so hard,
you feel like you'’re just not moving,
not going anywhere.
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Once you'’re at the base of that hill,
it'’s just all incline after that,
so it'’s like, all right, put the pedal down.
When we got halfway up,
Fraser was trying to box me out,
just taking the hill, I'’m right behind him.
I come up on the side, I'’m like, "Dude."
All I hear is, "Can I please pass you?"
I expected it to be Medeiros, but it was Kwant coming up.
And he was just so polite about it.
I was like, "I can'’t not let you by."
He thought I said, "Please move,"
and then he actually moved over for me
just '’cause I said "please."
Tia Toomey is out front and looks like
she might be widening her lead here.
Look how steep that incline is.
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We got to the trees where it started
getting a little bit harder,
and that'’s when I remember being behind Tia.
I wanted to dig and make a move
and really sprint up the last and the legs are just--
there was no sprint, there was no move,
there was no nothing, and everything kind of stayed
in one line after that.
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Mat Fraser looking to go two for two
as he is out in front.
Sam Kwant is in second, Noah Ohlsen is in third,
and it'’s Medeiros and Adler.
And Fraser is gonna go two for two on Day One.
Sam Kwant is gonna take second.
Fraser goes two for two.
Toomey goes two for two.
So the champions dominating early.
Now here comes Katrin Davidsdottir.
We are almost at the top
and I was right at Katrin'’s feet.
I was so close.
I think Haley dropped her bag.
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They told us that near the top, there'’s two trees
and it'’s basically gonna be single file.
And then she fell and she dropped her bag,
and I'’m like, "Perfect! I can get around her."
And I'’m like, "There'’s nowhere for me to go."
I'’m holding onto this tree with one hand
and my sandbag in the other,
and I'’m just holding on for dear life
and just kept falling over.
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Now Pearce will finish fourth,
and Brooke Wells is gonna take fifth.
Eventually, I just got on my hands and knees
and just started bear crawling up this hill
with the bag on my back.
I started in fifth place and kept that
almost until the very end, and then...
Right before the finish line, I got passed.
And Adler, at the last second,
just ahead of Medeiros.
That was a rookie mistake for Medeiros.
That left a very bitter taste in my mouth.
Those are lessons that you learn at the games
that can'’t be taught just through communication.
It can only be learned through experience.
I'’m glad it happened early on on Day One
'’cause I think it fired him up a little bit
and made him hungry the rest of the weekend.
Fraser just keeps piling '’em up.
21st career event win.
As is customary at the CrossFit Games,
Mat Fraser is starting to run away with things early.
That was the worst I felt after any event.
You'’re like a young puppy trying to figure out
its new legs, you know?
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Can'’t have him win all the events.
I don'’t want that.
I don'’t give a shit who finishes first,
I just want not him.
Get him.
That was pretty rough, though.
Really rough.
Just I'’m glad I didn't have anyone on my tail
'’cause it would've been hard to pick it up.
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I was doing a great job of boxing out Samuel,
and then he asked so politely,
"Can I please pass?"
I was like I can'’t not.
-But he finished first? -No.
-I didn'’t see the thing. -I'’m ready to have the games
just be five men and five women.
-Yeah? -It'’d be fun.
It was really cool seeing--
being able to hear the athletes
and being able to like hear their struggles
and almost hear their inner thoughts
during the events '’cause there's no music,
no spectators cheering on, it was deep.
What'’s it like with no spectators?
Fucking love it.
I fucking love it.
Why is that?
It'’s how we train every day, dude.
No one else listens to themselves out of breath,
no one else listens to the thoughts in their head.
They always have something to distract '’em.
Not Tia and I.
All right, so we got to hurry, we got to get over
to the other venue, they'’re gonna start
the, uh, total?
So this has been a completely unorthodox year.
We started the CrossFit Games
with a much larger field of athletes,
but because of what was happening with COVID
and gathering sizes,
we ran stage one of the CrossFit Games
as a virtual competition.
To add more things in flux
in this really fluid environment,
we'’re gonna change the formula
for how you qualify for the games.
Phase one was going to take us from 30 men and 30 women
down to five men and five women
that would head out to California
to compete in phase two which would be the finals
of the games.
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The challenge of phase one
was really making a competition
that was fair and equitable to all athletes
in terms of their place in the world.
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We didn'’t have competitors next to us.
We had no idea what the possibilities were
until the very end of the weekend.
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Cut to Event One of stage one of the CrossFit Games,
it'’s Fran, it's 21 thrusters, 21 pull-ups,
three rounds back to back.
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And Mat Fraser dusted the field.
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[laughing]
Mat Fraser'’s time is 3:08.
Second place, 3:55.
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My jaw dropped to the floor.
That was exciting to me.
So by then, I was hooked.
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Hi, everybody, welcome to
The Road to the Ranch Recap Show,
-I'’m Sean Woodland. -They had a desk show.
It'’s the first time we'’ve seen that since 2018.
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The final reveal for who made it in
to the final five was pretty exciting because...
-Whoa! -...for the first time
since the changes happened,
there was a clear line that was understood
by everybody going in as to who was moving on.
The top five men were Mat Fraser.
If I'’m signing up, you'’re fucked.
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What more can you say about Mat Fraser?
What he'’s done the last four years
winning four in a row, two second places after that,
no one'’s stood on the podium more than he has.
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Since he won the first event in 2016,
he'’s really been untouchable.
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Noah Ohlsen...
I was able to secure the second place spot.
Performed incredibly well in 2019.
Wore the leader jersey.
I mean, we hadn'’t seen someone wear the leader jersey
other than Mat for three or four years.
Then you have Justin Medeiros.
Justin Medeiros...
[cheering]
Took third place overall and was awarded
Rookie of the Year.
The problem is, is that that guy has typecasted himself.
He'’s gonna have to have that mullet
for the rest of his career.
Beyond surprised. It was wild.
You know, you can only get surprised so many times
before you'’re like, okay, you expect him to excel.
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Samuel Kwant, the guy had a fantastic rookie year.
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New dad on the scene.
You gotta cheer for that.
The only parent.
I was surprised to see his performance in stage one.
I'’m excited to see what he does in stage two.
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Jeffrey Adler made it?
Strong kid, new kid.
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With his strength and skill sets
and how he performs in open qualifiers
and online qualifiers, the dude is legit.
He just needs more live competition experience.
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Yeah!
Three hundred sixty-four days
till next year'’s hockey tryouts.
And then the top five women were Tia-Clair Toomey.
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The greatest female CrossFit athlete of all time
and it'’s not even close.
Every workout, she could potentially win.
I don'’t see anyone touching Tia this year.
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Brooke Wells.
Felt a little shorted about her performance in 2019
because she stepped on a line
which kept her from moving into the top ten.
And because of that, I think she'’s been holding
a really big grudge.
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I think this is the year
where she'’s put it all together,
and I'’m looking forward
to what she brings to the table this year.
[cheering]
Haley Adams might be
the toughest individual I'’ve ever seen...
-You TikTok much? -Mm-hm.
...as a 19-year-old.
She showed how tough she is in 2019
when in the ruck event was bleeding out of her back
and she climbed up to being top ten
at the CrossFit Games that year.
What'’s up, Haley?
She had a big ol'’ swollen foot when I saw her.
Didn'’t say anything to anybody.
If I'’m 19 and I'm not fit and I roll my ankle,
you'’re gonna hear about it.
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Katrin Davidsdottir, the old sled dog.
Talk about a workhorse, work capacity.
Good mindset, great skill set.
It'’s me against you.
Who wants it more?
I thought she was on the tail end of her career
at the highest level.
The only female to ever beat Tia-Clair Toomey
at the CrossFit Games.
Davidsdottir!
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Kari Pearce didn'’t surprise me
because she did really well last year.
Some of the best biceps and abs I'’ve ever seen
on any individual competitor.
I would argue is one of the best
female American CrossFitters ever.
Part Two, the in-person competition
of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games
starts on October 19th and goes through October 25th,
and we will see you in Aromas.
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They'’re gonna lift one at a time
every 45 seconds, trickling from fifth to first,
so you'’re gonna get a good idea of who has hit what.
You know, we already know Mat Fraser has so much strength.
Out of this field, he'’s one that has
the highest total from the last time
that we actually did this at the game.
I know I can beat his total from 2018.
What'’s your max best Caleb?
We'’ll see. We'll see.
-You have a son. -Yeah, yeah.
Six months old.
Almost six months old, yeah.
Been great, so I got to represent the dads
-right here in this one. -Does that make you
the fittest dad on Earth?
I guess so. Hey, I'’ll take it.
Heck yeah!
-The mantel is yours. -Yeah, there we go, yeah.
Mat, we'’ve got about 12 minutes.
We can start introducing the longer rest periods
to stimulate that.
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Going into Event Three, I was super determined
to flip this whole thing around
and make sure that I'’m not gonna let
the first two events define this whole weekend.
Brooke Wells leading things off.
She'’s currently in fifth place overall.
Two hundred ninety pounds on the bar
to get things started.
Tia was in first and she got to go after me.
And Tia Toomey wasting no time
setting the bar for the rest of the field,
twenty-five pounds ahead of Brooke Wells.
Going back and forth with Brooke on the total
was a lot of fun, just trying to figure out
what she was going to do and what her next move was.
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Good starting weight for Adler.
For me, weights are easy.
I don'’t have to think.
I just do it.
I remember in 2018 when we had this,
Tia and I were only five pounds off
from each other.
I actually know more of Brooke'’s numbers
from the total than mine.
315 on the bar for Brooke Wells.
This will be a third and final attempt.
[grunting]
Pearce and a successful 262.
Go out and hit solid numbers that we can for the first lift
just to have something in the bank.
That'’s the one workout during the weekend
where we were just like Tia and Brooke,
Katrin and Haley.
We'’re gonna be right in the middle.
Davidsdottir, she had a back injury
that held her out darn near the entire season.
I didn'’t know where I was.
I didn'’t know what numbers I was able to hit, what not
'’cause we hadn't done them.
335 with ease for Tia Toomey.
So Team Toomey will have a 20-pound lead
going into the strict press.
I knew she would get me on the back squat.
The plan was to try to make up for it
on the deadlift.
Adler is up, and he'’s chosen to do a 470
for his final attempt.
Look at how easy that was.
He could'’ve done more.
Although, he seems a little surprised.
Kwant'’s got 460 on the bar.
Now 445, again, it looks so easy.
I'’m surprised it'’s just a 15-pound jump.
My previous bar was 445 and I end up hitting 460.
I should'’ve went a little heavier
on that back squat.
That was my only regret for that one.
480 is still the weight to beat.
Fraser hit 475 on his second lift
and, now, 482?
I knew I'’d have the strongest back squat
and so I wanted to squeeze every pound out of that
that I could.
Fraser with that will have the heaviest weight so far.
Mat wanted to win that event as much as any event
but maybe more.
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Now to the strict shoulder press overhead.
The mullet is next as Medeiros has 175 on the bar.
It was pretty funny leading up into this year'’s games.
I was like, "If there'’s one event
that I could get dead last in,
it'’d be a max strict press."
I have to say, I honestly was expecting more on this lift.
I didn'’t know that the mics would catch
our voices that much.
We weren'’t trying to do mind games.
We'’re francophones and we speak in French to each other.
♪
[shouting]
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That should be a new... [inaudible]
This I'’m proud of.
210 for Mat Fraser.
And that is good for Mat Fraser.
So he goes two for two
with the heaviest weights we'’ve seen
[indistinct].
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We'’re gonna combine the back squat weight
with the strict press weight
as we move into the third and final lift,
that'’s the deadlift.
Tia Toomey matching Wells'’s 405
has put herself back 23 pounds ahead
of Brooke Wells.
I went to my coach, Dan, and I'’m like, "Okay,
what should I do," and he'’s like,
"You need to do 437."
And I was like, "I'’m not doing 437.
I'’ll do 430."
He'’s like, "No, you need to do 434,"
and so I was like, "I'’ll do 432."
This is a big lift for Brooke Wells.
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Oh, she'’s still moving.
-Inching it up. -Wow!
She went from a 405 to a 432
and that, to me, was just so impressive,
but I had the advantage.
I got to see what she did and I just needed to make sure
that I matched that.
I'’ll just get it, saves me having to load.
Now, Tia-Clair Toomey.
She'’s behind by four pounds.
Her third event win in a row.
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At 415, it will do it.
Even after the press, I was like 30 pounds behind Mat.
Here'’s the crazy part of it, he won the back squat,
he won the strict press, but the way Adler is lifting,
he might not win the event just because of the deadlift.
You know, I was keeping the math
to put on this sheet of paper
how much of a lead he had on each athlete.
As the deadlifts started to play out,
it got really stressful.
I tried to count the numbers.
If he had 26 on me and I did this much,
so I was trying to get Carol to count his weights,
tell me what I have to lift
so I can beat him, like I need to know.
Successful 550 lift for Adler.
This is the one he'’s hoping that can push him
over the top for an event win.
-Push, push, push! -Wow.
Holy cow.
Look at that.
567 pounds for Jeffrey Adler.
It'’s incredible that you can make that big of a jump
on a [indistinct] that you already had.
At that point, Jeff Adler had deadlifted 50 pounds more
than he had on his second.
So Jeff'’s done three lifts.
He'’s plus 50 on the deadlift to Mat.
But Mat had a 25-pound lead
going into the deadlift on Jeff.
And he just said, "What do I need at this point
to tie or win," and I said,
"You need 25 pounds to tie and 26 pounds to win."
Went to load 545,
but I accidentally loaded 535.
That'’s 34 more pounds.
And I know Keith was yelling at me, "No, no, no!"
And I was like, "No, no, no, it'’s fine.
I got this."
Lift.
535 on the bar for Fraser.
Wow.
Yeah!
You see afterwards is that Caroline, Adler'’s coach,
is like showing Mat the math of it.
So that would be 1237, and then he did 470, 207, 567.
so that'’s 1244.
Where am I?
Oh, I was...
Ah, I was off by ten pounds.
-Shit. Congrats, man. -Thank you.
Knowing Mat, the little that I do,
I would only assume that that really pissed him off.
In that moment, I'’m like, "495 plus 30."
What'’s that?
-I'’m the same. -No, I mean, I was...
Like, the fact that I got second,
dude, I was worried that event
I was gonna be like fourth or fifth
and so I PRed all three lifts.
-Yeah, me too. -Oh, yeah?
-Yeah. -Fuck yeah, man.
Very bad, so this one is yours.
Dude, the worst you can do, fifth place.
All top ten finishes, dude.
Handstand walk, hundred yards.
Should be a fun one.
-[inaudible]? -Find out.
♪
Handstand walking is--I consider it
a strength for me, it'’s something I really enjoy.
I feel like I can make a move on a lot of guys,
but I definitely have an interesting tactic.
So, interesting enough, that handstand sprint for me
was really Justin Medeiros'’ true kind of coming out party
as one of the elite in the sport.
♪
Mat Fraser went basically 90 of the hundred yards unbroken.
But Justin comes out and gives Mat
a run for his money doing the complete opposite.
Going short five to ten yard segments at a time,
kicking down, immediately kicking back up.
I'’m surprised he kicked out.
I thought he was very comfortable on his hands
and would do bigger sets.
As I was walking, I could see Brooke ahead of me.
I'’m like, "She's just--
like she'’s sprinting on her hands."
I could'’ve gone the whole football field unbroken,
but my strategy was to kick down
and make sure that I could be sprinting the whole time.
Brooke will take a break.
Pearce has yet to come down.
Justin has come down every single time
and he'’s still right in the mix.
He'’s still sitting actually in second place right now.
Brooke Wells just ahead of Kari Pearce.
Brooke needed that.
That was a huge win for her.
That was definitely the most excited
I think I may have ever been to win an event
just because of how the other events
had gone that morning.
Mat Fraser in his third event win,
and just behind him is Justin Medeiros.
Will the five-yard-at-a-time plan work in his favor?
It'’s the little nuances of being a competitor
that really set some people apart.
To me, that was a big signal of, like, okay,
-this kid could be a star. -That was good.
My shoulders and triceps are starting to blow up.
And I can see Brooke out of the corner of my eye
and she was just like running.
Running! That was awesome.
That was cool, that was a fun event.
You were pretty fired up coming off the floor, huh?
Yeah, I really needed that.
Didn'’t really have a good morning,
so I was really determined to get
some kind of comeback for sure.
♪
Where are we going? What are we doing?
End of Day One.
Going back to the Ranch for a trail run of sorts.
Do we know our distance for our trail run?
Do we know times?
Like, what do we know about it?
I don'’t believe that we do know either of those yet.
All it'’s listed as is trail run.
Details to be announced.
You got the trail runners on.
Yeah, I got the trail runners on.
I mean, I think we'’re doing a trail run.
That'’s what I'm-- that'’s my guess.
Everyone is kind of walking back and forth.
We'’re kind of waiting to get briefed,
not knowing what'’s going on.
Dave, I think, walked out with a giant whiteboard.
I think he let us stare at it for five minutes
before he said anything.
It'’s a run, it's a trail run.
So we'’re gonna start this event right up there
where we started the other event,
but not inside the rig, right outside the rig.
So that'’s the top floor.
You run down here, you run to my shooting range,
and then at my shooting range,
I just wanted to point this one out.
So this is the size some of these pigs get.
This is around 300 pounds.
And this was taken back by the shooting range.
So if you hear something in the bushes, don'’t worry,
but it might be a mountain lion.
And then there'’s, oh, snakes, I think, too.
There were snakes in there.
Once I measured it out, I saw that it was three miles.
And I was like, "Okay, I'’m not really happy
with the three-mile run.
I want something a little longer."
Then you'’re gonna come down from the shooting range
down this hill, get to the bottom,
come across the finish line.
And then it kind of just hit me.
One day I was like, "I should just have them turn around.
Why not run the whole thing and then turn around
and run it in reverse?"
And this one notion of every downhill
becomes an uphill was so fucking cool to me
and intriguing.
I'’m like, "I love it.
I'’m gonna have them run it in reverse,
and I'’m not even gonna tell '’em."
What we knew is one lap and that was it.
No idea how far or anything.
It'’s gonna be a fun workout.
It'’s gonna be nice out there, I guess.
I just want to be ahead of the women.
♪
Event Five.
The Ranch loop is underway.
Approximately a three-mile loop
through the hills and over the terrain
at the Ranch in Aromas, California.
They don'’t know exactly how far they'’re going.
They don'’t know the turns, the elevation changes.
For me, it was about getting out nice and fast,
having a really solid start.
I wanted to give those guys
a bit of a run for their monies.
We took off, my strategy was just sprint the downhills
and stay consistent on the uphills.
And it started out with the downhill,
so I took off from the get-go and kind of owned my strategy
and kind of went for it.
♪
Everyone is battling up this hill and going down,
and they'’re slipping, sliding.
There'’s dust everywhere.
We'’re really in the thick of it.
♪
There you go.
I'’ve ran some hills before, but a lot of those hills
aren'’t even runnable.
You got to--it turns into a power hike.
Super dusty and years and years of leaves piled up,
super slippery and, yeah, it was crazy.
Mat Fraser is way out in front.
The loop was this big, we started here,
went all the way here.
I'’m like, "I only have this much left,
so now it'’s time to kick it in."
I remember coming out of the woods, turning,
and then just seeing the size of this hill...
...and realizing like, "Oh.
That picture was not to scale.
Oh, shit."
I went out way too hot.
I'’m already hurting.
I was ready for a finish line at that point.
I started gaining ground on him
and he wasn'’t looking behind him,
and I was like, "Dude, I don'’t think he knows
that I'’m coming."
Like, I could catch him right now.
I kept getting closer and closer and closer,
and finally, I got neck and neck with him
and he'’s like--I thought he was gonna be like, "Oh, shoot."
Now Justin Medeiros has overtaken Mat Fraser.
So Medeiros out front but not by much.
It was really cool to see, like, a legend like Mat
and somebody, a rookie like Justin,
be at the games for the first time
and Mat was very composed and Justin was rubber legs,
doing everything he could to keep up.
Tia Toomey is your leader for the women.
When we last checked in with her,
things looked like they had tightened up a bit,
but, now, Toomey back out in front,
ahead of Haley Adams.
There is a twist awaiting the athletes in this event.
You at home will find out about it
the same time that they athletes do.
I think I caught on to where we were
maybe a little bit before Justin,
and then I just sprinted.
We took off down that hill and he'’s able to edge me out
at the very end, but it was definitely a twist.
So Fraser making the turn, Medeiros making the turn,
and now a sprint to the finish.
[applause]
Around, this way.
[laughing]
come in, turn around, run in reverse
the entire course backwards.
Listen, I'’m serious, I'’m not joking.
Start moving, run the whole course in reverse.
I'’m dead serious, run the entire course backwards.
And there you have it.
They'’re not done.
They just reached the halfway point.
♪
We sold out across that finish line.
I mean, Mat kind of took a knee, fell on the ground.
I was getting ready to frigging flop down.
And Dave'’s like, "Another lap," and I look at him,
like, "What? Are you serious?"
I'’m looking at Mat, Mat'’s super confused.
And Dave just kind of like grabs me and pushes me,
and I'’m like, "Oh, this is happening.
This is real."
♪
Then I'’m sitting there like, "Oh, shit."
You can only imagine like selling out
for a finish line like that and being told
that you'’re only halfway.
And I just figured it was the joke
that every CrossFit coach says in their career.
Your athletes finish a three-round workout
and you'’re like, "Oh, one more round, let'’s go."
And all the athletes are like, "Oh, are you serious?"
"No, I'’m kidding, go get a drink of water."
Tia Toomey and Haley Adams, they'’re gonna figure out
something is going on.
I know Mat so well, like the back of my hand well,
that he would not be warming down
and going back up this hill,
so there'’s something happening here.
We'’re selling it, you know, '’cause we thought
we were almost there.
Had a moment of panic, full panic.
They come like, "What'’s happening?"
And we were so tired, we weren'’t saying nothing.
No part of my mind right at first when I saw them
was like, "You'’re gonna do the whole thing again."
Toomey not even slowing down,
making the turn to head right back up.
As soon as I get to the finish line,
Dave goes, "You see what'’s happening here,"
and I was like, "What'’s that?"
And he'’s like, "You're gonna go and do this reverse now."
Uh-oh, I'’ve just gone out way too hot.
You can'’t rely on your fitness anymore.
Now you'’ve got to have your shit together
in a way you never thought possible.
I thought it was the best twist,
the coolest event.
I don'’t think they should ever do it again.
Hey, guys, we'’re running the entire course now
in reverse.
Go around, the same thing you just did but backwards.
Right when we turned around, she was on my right,
I was on the left and, yeah,
then she just gave me a little "pfft"
and I was like...
I don'’t know if she was shocked
or what she was thinking, and I kind of
just literally, I apologized to her,
I was like, "Kari, I'’m so sorry,"
but I shoulder bumped her on the way back.
I guess I was just in your way, "psh."
The first thing I thought, I was like, "Yes!"
And I was like, "That'’s my shot,
I can go get '’em."
♪
Mat Fraser is still the leader for the men
as he makes his way back
through this approximately three-mile loop.
It'’s a much tougher course in reverse
because the back half
has such steep inclines and declines.
The whole first half of the second lap,
my quads were cramped.
It doesn'’t matter how bad you want to keep going.
If your muscles just lock up,
you'’re just in the fetal position
in the middle of the woods hoping that somebody finds ya,
and there'’s nothing you can do.
♪
Katrin Davidsdottir has passed Tia Toomey.
Haley Adams is in the lead
and Davidsdottir is starting to real hurry.
[panting]
When Kat passed me, I was like, "She knew."
Katrin already started catching me and I was like,
"Oh my gosh, she must be feeling great
'’cause I feel like I'm dying."
♪
It was me and Haley for so long.
We didn'’t see Katrin in the beginning of this race.
I mean, she was way in the back,
but pushing the pace right now against Haley
who'’s a good runner.
We'’re like two-thirds of the way through the lap
on the way back, and Justin was like,
"Hey, man, if we get to the finish line side by side,
I'’m gonna run for it."
I was like, "Ugh, dammit, dude.
Why?"
I'’m telling you this much,
I ain'’t gonna be walking across that finish line.
If you'’re next to me, I'’m going.
And here'’s a twist.
♪
Mat Fraser is really fit.
[laughing]
♪
I just put the pedal down and grabbed the hundred points.
Just like in 2016, Mat Fraser is gonna win
the Ranch loop.
Medeiros, second place for him.
♪
Katrin Davidsdottir makes another comeback
and she does it in Event Five.
♪
I was high on adrenaline after, and I was like,
"That was my favorite workout ever at the games."
♪
Haley had rolled her ankle like a month before,
does this long, gnarly heel workout,
finishes in second despite this terrible ankle,
which she would never complain about,
but if you look at the photos, they'’re--it's gnarly.
And I'’m kicking myself because I think,
"I could'’ve crushed that workout."
That was such a great workout for me,
but I just didn'’t pace it right.
Now turn around.
Woo, that was--that was mean, but...
I think that'’s gonna go down
as one of the best little twists and reveals
-in games history. -If I was the athletes,
I wouldn'’t trust anything Dave told me,
not that I would normally as an athlete,
but I wouldn'’t trust anything he told me
for the rest of the weekend.
"Oh, it'’s five rounds?
Really? Bullshit."
So, I think it'’s a one time off.
It was the perfect opportunity to do it.
I absolutely love the Ranch.
Yeah, that was for sure the most brutal first day
I'’ve ever had at the Cross-Fit Games.
What was Mat'’s reaction?
He didn'’t believe me, he stopped,
and he actually knelt down.
Then he flipped me off.
Is that the first time anyone has done that
while you trust in the workout?
In this event, yes.
People have flipped me off a lot before,
but maybe not at the games.
6.12 miles.
So, that was good.
It was definitely...
To see his face, right when we finished,
he told us to go again.
I came across and he'’s like, "All right, go back, ha-ha."
And I...
Make sure that that was something
that he would do.
I crossed, he said it, and I was like,
"Yeah, fuck off."
Like, ha-ha.
And then when we came in again,
I heard him say something to me
about blah, blah, blah, finish.
And I was like, "No.
No, I'’m not doing a third lap."
And he was like, "This is the real finish."
-Oh, thank God. -Thank you.
I mean, I was in fifth place.
There are only five girls, so you kind of have to play
that game in certain events.
Like, why would I kill myself and make myself more tired
and expend more energy with getting a better time
for fifth place?
It'’s not gonna do anything, so...
Really good, yeah.
That turnaround was a goddamn blessing.
I missed some opportunities on the first lap
where I should'’ve attacked, or I attacked and didn'’t like
out of sight, out of mind attack
or wasn'’t reckless enough on the downhill.
I kept learning on the first lap
and I just needed more time,
so when he was like, "Turn around,"
I was like, "Yes."
Goddamn, when he'’s like, "Turn around, go,"
I was just like, "Pfft."
[laughing]
-You'’re shirtless over here? -Yeah. Another shirt soaked.
-Did you skip the ice bath? -I went in.
You went in the ice bath and you'’re shirtless right now?
Yeah, I live in Washington.
I got a heating pad and a sweatshirt on.
It'’s like the most...
Dads don'’t get cold, dude, nah.
We won'’t be able to come for the last event?
No, it'’s at the Ranch.
Maybe they'’ll make an exception to that.
-That'’s very stupid. -We should all boycott.
We did that once before, Noah.
I don'’t remember.
You did that once.
[laughing]
That thing.
I do remember, vaguely.
♪
As a community, I think we all needed something
that we could rally around, especially with how hard
everything had been when COVID hit.
Well, we'’re in Coronaland it'’s like COVID World,
so the vibe this year has been strange, weird.
COVID hit, threw everybody for a loop.
If we'’re in the sport of the unknown
and the unknowable and overcoming obstacles,
cool, we got another one this year
that probably will not be seen again,
from not knowing if the games were gonna happen
to not having any training buddies,
to being in your garage for three months.
COVID was absolutely devastating.
So as the news rolls in that more and more countries
are going into lockdown,
what that means is thousands of small business owners,
they can'’t train their clients in person.
And so the uncertainty and the just desperation
from the community was really, really intense.
So it'’s been a hard year with COVID
as being an affiliate owner
across the Big D in Dallas, Texas.
It used to be a labor of love
and now it'’s a labor of survival.
Our affiliate was shut down,
and my wife gave birth to our seven-month-old now.
So the same week, March 19th.
Eighty-nine percent of all gyms across the globe closed,
and 96% of all gyms in the United States closed.
We were shut down for seven months.
During that period, there was a ton of pressure on CrossFit
to throw in the towel
just '’cause everybody else was doing it,
but that'’s just not the spirit of CrossFit.
You saw the Olympics get postponed,
you saw the NBA season get postponed,
you saw the MLB season get postponed,
and suddenly, it started to kind of weigh in
that despite what I see
as a very steadfast CrossFit community,
that this thing is quickly ballooning out of our hands
and there may not be a season anymore.
Saving the games was not the priority, right?
It'’s like saving CrossFit.
In May of 2020, not only was the CrossFit community
dealing with the COVID thing and whether or not
they could--they could survive as business affiliates
around the world were shutting their doors,
here in the United States,
there was major social upheaval
after the murder of George Floyd.
Black Lives Matter!
Riots start happening.
Big conversations start occurring
inside the CrossFit community
and CrossFitters are coming out and saying,
"Hey, we want to hear from the global entity here."
And there was this intense pressure
through social media especially to say something.
And the problem was is CrossFit
is not a reactive organization.
Almost everything we publish is evergreen
and it'’s about fitness and nutrition
and things that are unchanging.
And we were just unprepared, I think,
to have any type of statement as a fitness company
about what was going on.
But the fact that there was just radio silence
really upset a lot of people
because, again, it doesn'’t take a lot
just to say, "We know there'’s a problem.
We understand we have work to do.
We support changing this,
and we'’re gonna try to find a way to do that."
That'’s all I think they needed to do,
but there was none of that.
[tapping of computer keys]
♪
[whistling]
♪
It was like a bomb went off in the community.
And that is when the media storm took over.
I knew there was gonna be anger from it.
I knew people were gonna be upset.
I didn'’t think it would erupt kind of like it did.
The fucking world is on fire, man, it'’s insane.
It'’s a hard time for affiliates
and for the CrossFit community.
I'’m out. My participation in the 2020 CrossFit Games
will be contingent upon major changes being made.
We both felt pretty strongly that we might be able
to make the game something better
and maybe make the CrossFit organization
that we both love something a little bit better
if we acted sooner, so we both made a decision
to say that we were out and boycott the games.
That moment kind of felt, to me, like,
"Hey, I can step up and not just talk here,
but actually do something
and hopefully create some change."
None of the athletes are going a'’roaming.
I will have a confirmation of that in a very short time.
I have a call with every games athlete tomorrow.
They all want to boycott.
You want things to be right and better
'’cause I want the games to happen,
I want Mat to win the games and do all he wants to do,
and I just want it all to go back to normal,
but it'’s broken right now.
I think all the athletes were mad.
They felt stabbed in the back in a lot of ways.
They were kind of the poster childs to this sport
that they waved the flag and been so proud of it,
to then have it almost come back and bite them
in a way that they definitely didn'’t feel represented them
or their sport or the community,
so I feel like they just felt bitter
and almost like betrayed.
There'’s this narrative, this false narrative
that all the athletes boycotted
and that'’s simply not true.
-A lot did. -I'’m very proud of my decision,
but it'’s also like a knife to my heart
when I think about the possibility
of not being able to compete.
I just want to compete
and I want to be proud of all my hard work,
and I just--I can'’t be proud representing a company
like CrossFit right now.
I was totally 100% ready to go down the leader board
and I would'’ve had no issue doing that.
If you want to truly boycott and make a difference,
tell them that you'’re showing up.
Show up to the competition.
And then when they go, "Three, two, one, go,"
sit on the floor.
Don'’t tell your enemy your strategy.
No, like, if you want to truly boycott,
hurt them where it counts, on the competition floor.
I don'’t think anybody thought
Greg was ever gonna sell the company.
And then all of a sudden, there'’s conversations
that you hear through the rumor mill
and Greg'’s talking to some entrepreneur
out in Colorado.
Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Roza.
It is a pleasure to be with everyone today.
When you read sort of the top line about Eric Roza,
the farther you got into it,
the more you thought, "This is best-case scenario."
He was a successful businessman
and owner of an affiliate himself,
and he just seems like a good guy.
We talked about his Fran time,
which was actually really impressive.
Your Fran time is really impressive.
Go ahead, tell the world what your Fran time is
because it'’s faster than mine, that'’s for sure.
You keep dwelling on a good number
or you can pick some bad ones to talk about too,
but yeah, after I turned 50, I did a 2:40 Fran,
which I was kind of psyched about.
The expectations are so unrealistic
of what people want from CrossFit.
But guess what, what CrossFit does for us
is so unrealistic, so we'’ve set our own expectations
by being this incredible alchemical force
in people'’s lives
for so many different types of people
that we'’ve set this bar that we do have this magic
and we are unrealistic.
So then the question was, "How do we live up to that?"
So my job wasn'’t to burst the bubble.
It was actually to really try to think
really expansively
about what we can be in the future
and then not get completely overwhelmed.
We have someone now who we can get behind,
who'’s gonna listen to us,
who'’s gonna try to do things the right way,
might make mistakes, but is gonna own up to '’em
and always strive to be better.
♪
Gotta get the hair primed and ready for day two.
You know, it'’s nothing luxurious
but gets the job done.
As you can see,
this isn'’t prime day two.
The first thing is I'’ve gotta take a shower,
gotta get the whole thing nice and wet.
Nice cold water to wake you up in the morning.
-We'’re getting there. -You are getting there.
-We'’re getting there. -Yeah, hm, yeah,
I like what you'’re doing, I like it.
Get all those knots out.
Does it matter the bristle?
Dude, I actually do a nice little Wet Brush.
Good old American Crew.
Keeps the curls nice and tight,
still lets the hair bounce a little bit.
Oh yeah, here it comes, coming alive.
Dude, here it comes!
All right, final touch.
Little hair flip.
Dude, how'’s it looking this morning, boys?
-Oh, looking good! -Looking good.
-Ready for Day 2. -Primed and ready.
Yeah, let'’s go!
Going into Day 2, we'’ve already got five events down
and we got a lot more events to go.
I mean, whatever happened on Day 1 could easily switch
and we start the morning with lunge toe-to-bar workouts.
Be a nice quick little sprint workout,
so I'’m excited to get that going
and then lift some weights after that.
♪
Day 2 of the CrossFit Games.
Right?
How are we feeling?
Pretty good.
Little stomach issues, but...
When I woke up Saturday morning, I felt like something
had definitely gone on the night before.
My stomach was very, very riled up,
couldn'’t really get much food down.
[indistinct remarks]
Better? Good.
I was worried about you all night.
Glad you'’re feeling better.
I actually was too.
I had sympathy stomach issues overnight.
I was so excited for that toes-to-bar/lunge workout
and I just could not get it together.
I was definitely--I feel like I was on a rollercoaster
of emotions that day just because I had
two horrible events, two good ones, and another horrible.
So it wasn'’t fun to like, end on a bad note.
So I was like, very determined to not let Friday affect me.
It'’s game day, finally, you know what I mean?
Like, that was the kick in the teeth
to get everyone started, I think.
Now it'’s just like, who wants to fight?
-Done all the workouts? -Yeah.
-Have you done all the workouts? -Mm-mm.
-Have you done all the workouts? -Yes, sir.
Is there any other surprises coming up?
Oh yeah, lots.
Is the biggest surprise dropped on '’em yet?
No.
♪
One day of competition down, two to go
as we start Day 2.
Individual event number six, the toes-to-bar/lunge.
It'’s a short, unbroken sprint event.
♪
All combined, everything I hate is all there.
Watching really fit people
and trying to be a really fit person is not the same thing,
because that event sucked.
That event was so hard.
When that workout got announced, I was like,
"Good, I'’ve been working on this."
♪
It was the first pure CrossFit
short, sweet, fast skill workout.
It'’s really important to me with a lot of these events
to never stray too far from who we are and what we are.
♪
Noah had to swing hard at that toe-to-bar/lunge workout.
For him to get any chance of being in the mix
for the rest of the weekend, like, he had to win that event,
and he came out flying.
♪
It is unbroken and that is the only choice, but not just that.
You have to be fast the whole time.
My plan going out in that one
was just go out as fast as I can,
make the cycle as short as I can.
I think I hit 15 and Noah'’s ref is like, "18, 19."
I was like, "What?
How are you that far ahead of me?"
♪
Noah Ohlsen first off the rig, followed closely
by rookie Justin Medeiros with Mat Fraser.
Oh my God, like, I had all this hope and expectation
coming into this of like, "I'’m gonna smash this workout,"
and then Noah is just that far ahead of me.
And it was really fun to see Noah and Katrin
try to take it to Mat and Tia.
♪
I just love a good competition.
I love a battle like that.
Davidsdottir first to the rig.
Noah Ohlsen, first to the rig for the set of 20 toes above.
♪
Hand in the air for Davidsdottir in lane number two
and she'’ll be first off the rig.
No break for Noah Ohlsen as he'’ll come off the rig first,
followed closely behind by your champ.
They'’re going faster than me.
I can'’t control them.
What can I control to make myself go faster?
And I was slowly just catching up to her.
I was able to have faster transitions within those sets.
On the second lunge,
I was like probably two or three meters behind him.
He stepped up and instead of stepping through,
he planted his foot and like took a breath
and that'’s when I went, "I got him."
Oh, there'’s a stumble.
Here comes Mat Fraser.
♪
I have 10 toe-to-bar and 10 yards of lunging.
The workout'’s done already.
Davidsdottir is done as she'’ll advance her kettle bells,
but Tia-Clair Toomey close on her heels.
But Tia drops the kettle bells in the middle.
I think as long as they get to the end, it'’s gonna be okay.
So that'’s a strategic ploy from Tia-Clair Toomey.
It came down to like the set of tens
where I was able to jump up on the bar,
get a few toe-to-bar in front of her.
♪
We have a lunge race to the finish.
Ten yards between your former champs.
♪
You can feel the adrenaline, the atmosphere,
and in moments like that where--
that'’s why you've trained so hard
so that you can experience that.
♪
Tia Toomey will win her fourth event.
I remember just like high-fiving Tia
and I was like, "That was awesome."
Mat is first to the rig for the final 10 toes to bar.
♪
We put the kettle bells down at almost the exact same time.
Fraser'’s off the rig.
Ohlsen just behind him.
Mat Fraser, hard charging to the finish line.
♪
Incredible.
That was finally my chance, I was in the lead.
I just needed to finish and capitalize,
and I really didn'’t make any mistakes.
Once again, I just got out-fitnessed,
which is a little bit harder to swallow
than making a mistake and getting outsmarted.
When you try that and Mat just stops you dead in your tracks,
I think that crushed Noah for the rest of the weekend.
That first set, were you doing two at a time?
[panting]
Why does that guy win everything?
-What'’d you say? -Dang it.
Why does that guy win everything?
Grr.
-Why are you so good, man? -Bro.
I was at 15 and your judge was like, "19!"
I was like, "How?"
I can teach you my ways once I retire.
Well, my ways just fucking won the workout, so.
I'’ll still teach you so you can win by more next time.
[laughing]
Kettle bells right next to them.
I don'’t know why they were doing--
and that'’s my point when I told you guys.
I'’m like, "You can put the kettle bells anywhere you want."
Hey, I'’m not arguing about what they did.
You'’re the only one who did it right.
[indistinct remarks]
Way to stay focused and engaged, hey?
That was awesome.
Shane, were you yelling, "Mongrel"?
-What were you yelling? -Mongrel, yeah.
-We know what mongrel is, right? -Mm-mm.
All right, it just means be aggressive,
be that mongrel dog who just doesn'’t let up
and just keeps fighting and fighting and fighting,
and I guess I'’ve said that a few times, I guess.
When you hear Shane yelling "Mongrel,"
what does that-- what do you hear?
I, um, get angry,
like, how bad do you want it?
I can get dirty.
It'’s really interesting, this year at the games
we had workout after workout after workout
over only three days
whereas we'’re used to like five days
and then there'’s a lot more heat,
so there'’s a lot more time between the events.
This year it was, "All right, come eight o'’clock,
it'’s go, go, go, go, go until the very last workout."
♪
Five will enter, one will leave.
as the CrossFit Games version of Thunderdome is underway
with Event 7.
And I love the way this is set up.
It'’s three rounds and we eliminate
one athlete every single time.
So we go from five to four to three.
♪
We'’re underway, Event 8, the Bike Repeater.
Down and back on the bike in the grass
with that legless rope climb.
♪
Very confident going into that workout that,
hey, like, if I stayed in my own lane,
I focused on what I needed to do,
I could get the result that I wanted.
Jeffrey Adler, who called the shot early,
staying pace with the champ.
♪
The first three bars were light enough
that I could just put it overhead anyhow
and get out of it fine.
My biggest concern was getting through that first round.
All those guys are very capable
of cycling that weight pretty quickly.
You can'’t have any hesitations, '’cause if you hesitate,
like, you'’re done.
♪
You just have to go as hard as you can,
get off the bike, ascend the rope,
get back on the bike, and go as hard as you can.
♪
It'’s all about the bike.
You really can make up or break your race on this bike.
That was not a rope climb event.
It was a bike event and it was a lot on the turnarounds.
When I dropped my bike, it was a full sprint
and just no hesitation, right up that rope.
Just boom, boom, boom, touch, fall down,
and then just sprint back to your bike.
♪
Fraser is done again,
as he moves in the third and final bar at 265.
That first round went well and then second round,
I knew I would squat from the first bar.
So 245, 55, 65.
All three athletes lined up for the bar at the same exact time.
Kwant will hit, Adler will hit,
and Noah Ohlsen will not advance
to the final round.
For me, it was about just settling into a pace
where I wasn'’t allowing them to gain on me,
but I also wasn'’t pushing it too hard
where I was absolutely annihilating myself
to finish the workout.
♪
Look at that turnaround,
we talked about the devil in the details.
That was a beautiful turnaround.
First round you see who'’s right with you
and it was just Medeiros, so I was like, "All right,
that'’s who I'm keeping my eye on for the whole workout."
By round five, six, seven,
I was like right behind Justin in third place and well, okay,
I'’ll just keep that pace and see what happens.
♪
Third and final round underway
to determine who will win Event 7.
265, just like boom.
It felt crisp, hit right in the slot.
Boom, good, drop it,
and I was like, "I don'’t need to wait for the 275."
That'’s as good as I've ever seen him work snatching.
The bar was flying up, he was just so clean.
I'’m sure the fact that Adler was like calling me out,
he'’s like, "I'’m winning this one,"
I was like...
"A'’ight."
Got to 285 and Mat was there before me,
but he missed.
♪
Dropped it in front,
that opens the door for Jeffrey Adler.
Then Round 7 and 8, Adler just hit another gear
and passed me and gave Fraser a run for his money.
♪
And Jeffrey Adler is starting to push Mat Fraser.
I have two rounds and he'’s like--
I can catch him.
♪
And it was in the eighth and I saw Adler.
I was like, "Huh, that'’s interesting."
I haven'’t seen him the whole time.
I was like, "Oh, I must be a full round ahead of him."
Jeff should be getting fired up right now.
Look at that, all right, Mat made the look.
Mat finally looked over at him
and now the race is on here.
♪
We'’re coming in for the ninth rope climb
and then I see both of our signs have nine on them.
I went, "Oh my God, we'’re on the same round."
♪
Oooh, dropped it in front.
That opens the door for Jeffrey Adler.
I see Adler walking up.
I don'’t wanna give him a chance to win.
The one thing he wanted to do
was to beat Mat Fraser in this event.
Make it or break it, like, it'’s now.
Fraser is to the rope at the same time as Jeff Adler.
Adler makes the touch and now it'’s Adler who is in the lead.
Rookie mistake, passed him on Round 9.
Just like in Fast and the Furious,
Adler made the push to pass him
but he was a little bit too soon
and Fraser dropped the hammer,
absolutely dropped the hammer on the final bike.
Mat gets to the bar first and he'’ll stand up with it
and Mat Fraser will win Event 7.
♪
He has regained the lead from Jeff Adler,
but not by much.
He didn'’t push Mat, he surprised Mat,
and then Mat went, "I was just going as fast as I needed to
to win the event, and then once I saw someone
catch up to me, I smoked everybody again."
♪
Fraser to the rope first.
Fraser makes the touch and Mat Fraser wins again,
his seventh event win.
Two seconds apart, that'’s not much.
I was close.
Toomey up to the final bar, 185 pounds.
She won the quarter final, she won the semi final,
and with this last lift, Tia Toomey will win the final
in her second event for Day 2.
Tia Toomey'’s gonna hang on to the overall lead
and win yet another event.
♪
You motherfucker.
[speaking foreign language]
What'’s your French code word for Mat Fraser
that we'’re not supposed to know about?
Oh, I'’m not telling you.
-It'’s nothing-- -It'’s nothing mean.
No, no, we'’re not mean to anybody, we'’re Canadian.
We'’ll tell you at the end of the weekend.
-Okay, okay. -Okay.
So you can go back and watch all the reels and be like,
"Oh, they'’re talking about Mat, they'’re talking about Mat."
You said you felt like... [audio trails off]
Yeah, on the first run.
When he says, "Dude, I almost had you."
I wanted to say that to Mat but I don'’t know
if he would understand the reference.
Maybe he'’ll do a mistake tomorrow, I don'’t know.
Hopefully I broke his back yesterday on the dead lift.
[indistinct remarks]
-My back, my back is broken. -Spinal.
Went okay, went pretty good, yeah.
I'’ll take--matched my PR,
which I never like to match a PR, but it'’s all right.
I'’ll take it, I'll take it.
You came off that second barbell
and Adler was on his last barbell.
What'’d you say?
You kinda were, "Time for you to go."
I was like, "You better hurry up, I'’m coming for you, Jeff."
Yeah, I almost had him, but it'’s good stuff.
It was a good race, I liked it, I liked it.
-Finished it, so I'’m happy. -How was that?
Good, I felt like myself, felt good.
Your energy levels are night and day from this morning.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
I hope you got all that on camera this morning too.
I just felt like SpongeBob before and after.
Five hundred years later.
Feel way better, way better.
-What are we eating? -Well, I just had an apple.
Well, here, I'’m not eating all of these right now.
I just pack in bulk.
I'’m eating just grilled chicken breast.
This and then my magical...
Lucky Charms.
That'’s the secret, you know?
I just went for the large, not quite the family,
but if it was four days of competition,
I might'’ve had to go for the family.
-How'’s it going so far? -It'’s going amazing.
-So cool to be here. -Yeah, so what'’s it mean
to pull the event off so far and like all the planning
-and now it'’s happening? -You know, I will tell you,
when we were working on the--
when we were working on the acquisition,
we told the investors,
"Don'’t assume there will be a CrossFit Games this year,"
and I was telling myself that.
Like, it'’s not failure if there'’s not a games this year
because who knows what'’s gonna happen with the disease,
who knows what'’s gonna happen with--
immigration was a big issue, getting athletes in,
and then this new construct, right, where we said,
"Well, what if we only get 10 people in person?
Do the rest at home, we can avoid all the local restrictions
and hopefully we'’ll have less immigration to deal with."
It turns out we got very lucky on immigration, right,
because we only had one foreign athlete who had to come in.
The other foreign athletes were based here already.
♪
The CrossFit Games was ironic
because I had actually moved away
from being really into the CrossFit Games.
I was very serious about my personal fitness,
but I wasn'’t as focused on the Open and like a lot of people,
I felt like it had been screwed up in 2019.
♪
And we need this, and I felt like the CrossFit community
in particular had just been just beaten down
and we had to do it.
We had to show grit.
Like, it just became this thing that I felt we had to do.
♪
This quest at the highest level of human performance
is not in opposition to the person
who'’s extremely deconditioned,
who doesn'’t know if they can handle
a scaled CrossFit workout.
It is actually in service to it and there'’s a continuum here,
and there'’s an arc, there'’s a storyline to be told.
♪
What are--do we know what we'’re doing at ranch tonight?
No, I think we'’re about to find out though.
I have no idea.
Just taping up for the last event on Saturday.
♪
Event 9 is called Happy Star
and I'’m sure it's gonna be pretty miserable.
It'’s four rounds for time.
They'’re gonna run four separate loops there
at the ranch varying in distance
and then thrusters and bar-facing burpees.
When Dave first announced what it was
and I was like, "More of these hill runs?"
I was like, "This is just dumb,
I don'’t wanna do this right now."
I was like, "Well, why not have each round
run a different route up the hill?"
And so we set that workout up with four different runs.
I called it Happy Stars.
Happy Stars is a kid'’s meal at Carl'’s Jr.
We had done so much hill running before that
that I was like, "Oh great,
we'’re doing another hill running event."
This is like a toughness workout.
♪
Event 9 underway,
and we start with that first run.
♪
Went out hot in that workout, around that first pillar.
Came back, hit my five in five.
♪
Brooke Wells is gonna get there first
and she will get to work on her burpees.
Five burpees over the beam here.
The fact that it started with lower reps and lighter weight
and then kept increasing weight and kept increasing the reps,
I was like, "Oh, that'’s a little spicy."
♪
Samuel Kwant, this is the first time we'’ve seen him
get out in front, push the pace a little bit.
Try to be in the lead on the first two runs, which I was,
and then that event got pretty gnarly.
That first round was a trap.
You'’re like, "I'm already a quarter of the way
through the workout," and it'’s like,
"Nah, not yet."
♪
And it gets nasty, you can see.
They'’re hopping over little ravines,
they'’re running through pockets of grass and dirt.
-Fraser done first. -Man.
Just blew the doors off those seven burpees.
I really liked that workout.
I like workouts that are a good mix
of cardio and then the burpees.
It'’s like, all right,
just shut off your mind and do some grunt work.
Lay down, get up, jump,
and then throw in a barbell.
He'’s pushing the pace of these thrusters.
Absolutely incredible.
Mat Fraser looking to sweep all four events here on Day 2.
♪
I really like this tenacious start
from Brooke Wells.
This is my chance to like redeem myself
for what happened on the second event.
I just decided to send it.
Brooke Wells is off on run number three.
Tia Toomey is in second place.
The hill run played a lot more of a factor than I thought.
Medeiros is looking absolutely crushed
behind the three men ahead of him.
I think Round 4, those guys got a little bit of separation on me
and Round 5, I was bringing up the back of the pack.
First half of that workout was just putting the pedal down.
The second half was being aware of where other people were.
You have death, taxes, and Mat Fraser at this point,
because it'’s a sure thing that he'’s gonna be on top
of the overall leader board at this event.
I think I was at like seven or eight burpees
by the time they even got back into the rig.
♪
Man, look at Brooke Wells just going for it.
She needs to, why not?
Brooke gave it to me on the last run
and she was just powering up that hill.
She'’s gonna have to push the pace,
this is where it all comes down to grit and fitness.
Don'’t get caught up her race, stay in your own lane
and just finish what you have to do.
You don'’t wanna over-exert yourself on the hill
and then not be able to perform those thrusters.
It was going really well, I maintained.
I was leading the event for about 90% of the time.
♪
And Brooke Wells fails a rep.
I just pushed myself to the limit way too soon
and I started red-lining on the last bar.
Brooke put it down again, oh my goodness.
♪
I really made sure that I slowed those burpees down
and just made sure that they were efficient
so that I wasn'’t fatigued too much.
♪
Toomey continuing to crank away.
Now just two reps to go before she will cross the finish line.
And Tia Toomey...
A clean sweep on Saturday.
Another first place finish
for the three-time defending champ.
But now Pearce is in and she will take second.
When I dropped the bar and I like ran across the finish line,
I like looked over and I was like,
"Okay, we got second, that'’s good."
Davidsdottir is across, that is huge for her.
Wells is done and she'’s gonna cross the finish line,
so she'’ll take fourth.
I went from like a first place to fourth.
I gave everything that I had.
I felt like myself in that event.
I felt like I just like went for it
and I was actually doing the best that I could.
Fraser is done,
and Fraser wins another event.
Now, Sam Kwant trying to lock up second place.
Very last round, me and Noah and Adler
got off the burpees at the very same time.
It was just whoever wanted it more
on those last set of thrusters.
Those got gnarly, I was hurting pretty bad on that.
-There he goes. -Kwant is in,
and that is huge for the man who came in fifth place overall.
♪
I wish that I would'’ve just tried and gone to failure,
because the worst thing that could'’ve happened
is that I dropped the bar, which I did anyway,
and would'’ve had to just pick it up and finish,
And Samuel Kwant does not seem to care
about his personal hygiene at this point.
He'’s just looking for a soft spot to rest right now.
So you saw Samuel Kwant who finished second.
That'’s the guy who finished first.
They just did the same thing.
Tia Toomey goes four for four on Saturday,
and there are three remaining,
and you wonder if she'’s gonna be able to keep
the winning streak alive on the final day.
♪
-You reckon that'’ll be fine? -It'’ll be fine,
but it'’s just got a smell to it.
Smells like...
What'’s been on your mind?
Whether or not this is my last year.
I think I really just need to have some time off
and evaluate like what Shane and I wanna do
as a family, you know?
-Does that mean kids? -Yeah, you know,
like we'’ve--man, we'’ve been together now...
...13 years.
And so, like, when you look at that,
it'’s--that's a long time,
and so it'’s--
I know I was ready to have kids like five years ago.
As exciting as it is to get into a new chapter of your life,
it'’s also pretty sad to close the doors
of your past, past chapter.
Even talking about it makes me think,
"Oh, but I don'’t know.
I don'’t know if I wanna do that."
-Oui, oui. -Hello.
-How are you guys? -How are you?
You seemed like aggressively targeting Mat.
Like everyone else was just sort of--
-I know, it'’s so funny. -Oh yeah?
You'’re like vocal about like, "No, someone'’s gotta beat him."
Yes, '’cause otherwise it'’s boring.
Like, and I don'’t wanna say that
in a bad way about Mat,
but even for him, like,
I would be curious to know, to ask him like,
"Is this boring you this year?
Like, are you pushing at all?"
Like, you compete for the challenge.
If you'’re not getting a challenge,
then like, what'’s the point?
Like, the battle is from second to fifth,
which is cool, '’cause we have an awesome battle
with the other guys and I'’m super happy,
but I wish that we were--
-Mat was a part of it. -Yeah, kind of.
Is he--don'’t take this the wrong way,
but it looks like he'’s on another level.
-He is, he is. -Oh my God.
That'’s--it's crazy.
I don'’t understand, I just don'’t.
What'’s your lead right now?
435 points.
So with the lead you have now,
are you comfortable with that lead?
No, because there'’s no rule
saying that they can'’t take it away.
Like, we could show up to the final and they'’re like,
"All right, now, stage three of the CrossFit Games.
Only the top two go, clean slate.
Go."
This could your final night before competition.
[chuckling]
You could potentially have only three more events
at the CrossFit Games.
You say that like I'’m gonna miss it.
That'’s what I'm asking!
I know I will miss it.
Um, but...
the real memories are made in training.
Those are the real memories.
I wish there was something I could frame from those days.
♪
It'’s the final day of competition
at the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games.
Time to do some swimming and stuff.
My favorite event by far was Swim '’N' Stuff.
I thought it was a brilliant event and I thought
it was something that took advantage of the smaller feel.
♪
Okay, we got a really cool one for you guys
this morning that I'’m excited about.
It'’s one of my favorites.
Four rounds, each round on a four-minute timer.
Three, two, one, go.
15 cal assault bike, swim the length of the pool,
10 GHDs, 10 slam balls, sprint across the finish.
After that, rest until the four-minute mark
and then you do it again backwards.
One round, two rounds, three rounds, four rounds.
Yes, so you'’ll do each variant twice.
Outdoors, new test, unique test.
I'’m very excited for the way it'’s gonna start off today.
We definitely were having a bit of a laugh before the workout.
Haley is all into TikTok.
Kat and I were like, "Well, you know what, girl,
we can do a few little TikTok dances ourselves."
But apparently we are old and we don'’t really know the moves.
No, I haven'’t seen anyone post that dance in so long.
That'’s like five months ago.
[beeping]
We are underway.
Now here'’s the key.
They will not know their cumulative time
throughout the event and their coaches aren'’t there
to help them out with that.
There'’s so many different elements
that this might not be a swim workout.
♪
You gotta send it on the bike but you gotta hold back
just a tiny bit and that'’s kinda, I mean, what I did.
So I think I was like the last one
or the second to last one to dive in the water.
Okay, I'’m way behind, I need to hurry up.
And Tia Toomey'’s actually gonna be the last into the water here.
I was still on the bike
and everyone had gotten off the bike and jumped into the water
and they'’re like 20 meters in front of me
and I was like, "Uh oh."
I went out way to slow in my first attempt.
The best swimmers need to take advantage
of the hardest part of this event
which is that straight 50-meter swim down the pool.
♪
Noah Ohlsen and Sam Kwant, the first two out of the pool
onto their GHDs.
They have to do 10 of these and then 10 slam balls.
And when you look at GHDs and an assault bike,
how often do you see anyone have the ability
to work out with those at the pool?
♪
The med ball slam was probably one of the hardest parts
of that workout just because you had come out of the water
soaking wet and you could not hold on to the slam ball.
It slips out of your hand and that'’s the danger
of coming to the slam ball wet.
Noah had a clean run, Mat slipped,
and that was the difference between
a first and second place finish
for the first interval of four.
All right, even though the bike is gonna get really tough,
I can still do this.
Davidsdottir and Adams are in.
Haley Adams with the fastest time
by fourth tenths of a second.
Haley used to swim, Tia'’s an amazing swimmer
and Kat'’s a good swimmer.
I wasn'’t sure I was gonna stack up against them.
Now they will rest until the four-minute mark
and they will do the event in reverse order.
Swim '’N' Stuff was a particular workout stimulus
going one direction and then at the turnaround point,
doing it reverse was just enough of a twist
to make it a different workout coming the other direction.
♪
Interval 2 is underway.
Remember, your cumulative time is your final score
and these guys don'’t know what their cumulative score is.
♪
There was no pacing.
We know that I'’m really at GHDs, swimming, and all machines,
so I just sent it, literally.
♪
Look at the speed from Haley Adams.
Haley'’s GHD sit-ups are in another world fast.
Right now they are all neck and neck.
Ohlsen'’s off, Kwant's off.
♪
There was a beach we were gonna use called Manresa Beach
we were looking at and a surfer was killed
by a great white on Manresa Beach,
and I was like, "Oh man, let'’s move it to a pool."
♪
Here comes Tia Toomey,
the best swimmer in the women'’s field
and it'’s not even close.
♪
If you'’re not going hard on that assault bike,
those calories just don'’t move.
You gotta go, there'’s no pacing here.
Sam did a phenomenal job, Sam hammered that assault bike.
♪
Fraser'’s across, Kwant is across.
Toomey is done and she is in.
And Haley Adams right her.
After the second round, I could tell all the other guys,
when they got out of the water and hopped on the bike,
they weren'’t cranking on it like I was.
I got a shot at this as long as I keep my breakfast down,
'’cause that was the only problem.
Two rounds in, you like what you'’re seeing?
Yeah, for sure, look at the pain and fatigue,
look at the body language.
Look how hard Mat'’s breathing.
This is exactly what needed to happen.
This next one is gonna be a gut check
and then the fourth one is nasty.
♪
With Sam Kwant right now,
your event leader Fraser in second, Ohlsen third.
The third round is where it just like, hit you.
You still gotta push the bike as if it'’s the end of the event.
There'’s no option here.
And then you start or finish with an assault bike sprint.
This crushed '’em, it was fantastic.
If you haven'’t been on the assault bike
or at least done an all out sprint,
it takes a second for it to register
and then suddenly you'’re just crippled.
♪
You'’re not gonna be able to breathe,
you'’re gonna be filled with lactic acid,
and now you have to jump into a pool and not drown.
Coming out of the bike, I had no air left in my lungs.
That was the first time I was like, "Oh God."
Tia Toomey is in.
Davidsdottir might pull ahead of Haley.
Yep, Davidsdottir went touch and go.
Kwant is done and so unofficially, his lead
will be 11 seconds on Fraser going into the final interval.
♪
Kwant just has to keep Fraser basically next to him.
Ten seconds is all he can afford to lose.
Tia Toomey is in the lead in the pool.
Haley Adams is looking to gain some points
on Katrin Davidsdottir and make that race
for second place overall a little more interesting.
This is it, this is the end of the event.
It'’s 15 cals on the assault bike,
it'’s a full send to the finish.
♪
Had to beat Mat in at least one of them.
He held on like really consistently
across all four.
♪
Fraser'’s in.
Kwant is in.
So Sam Kwant only surrenders two seconds,
so Sam Kwant is gonna win this event.
He'’s probably gonna find himself in second place overall.
Toomey'’s gonna win the event and she is in.
Now, Haley Adams is in so she'’s gonna pick up 20
on Katrin Davidsdottir as Davidsdottir comes across.
-Overall standings. -Whoa!
Top two remain the same.
Haley Adams now moves into third ahead of Kari Pearce,
but only by 20 points.
Second through fifth on the men and the women
is this giant tumultuous rollercoaster.
♪
That was the most painful workout
of the weekend so far for me.
Oh, man.
That was a disgusting combo
of like...
slamming the bike,
not being able to breathe in the water.
-Ow. -The third one,
the assault bike, I thought I was gonna drown.
Yeah, that was the hardest one for me.
Yeah, I was like, "This is it.
This is when it happens."
-How was it, big dog? -It was bad.
They'’re bad.
It'’s good though.
-Good job, buddy. -Thanks.
I just rather keep my breakfast down going to the last one.
Did you see what Tommy Marquez posted?
-No. -Oh my God.
-I was cackling last night. -Oh, the Fast and Furious quote?
-Yes. -That'’s--like when I came off
the line, that'’s the first thing I said.
Oh my God, I was dying laughing.
-Never get out of your car. -Too soon, Junior.
Are you fucking old enough to know Fast and Furious?
-Yes, I do. -The original Fast and Furious?
-The first one. -Not Fast and Furious 14
where they'’re jumping out of helicopters.
-The first one. -The real one.
I'’m pretty sure-- wait, what was that one?
-The one with the green Eclipse. -Oh yeah, yes!
"You almost had me?
You never had your car."
Uh, when Jesse drag raced
and he'’s like, "Too soon, Junior."
That was him when he passed me on the ninth round.
Some of the boys have said toughest event so far.
Oh really?
-Uh, nah. -Or the one that just felt
the worst afterwards.
Nah, I wouldn'’t say that, um...
That was a good one.
We'’ll have to wait until this very last workout today.
Does this last day of the games
feel like other last days of the games?
I think so.
Like, you know, you'’re excited.
Excited to see what the last workout is,
excited to like see friends and family,
have some time of a normal life of like,
having balance.
♪
Event 11 is the Sprint Sled Sprint.
Couldn'’t be simpler, Bill.
We'’re just gonna run down the field
and then we'’re gonna grab a sled, push that 100 yards,
and then sprint back 105 pounds through the back area.
♪
There'’s a pattern with people hating on certain events
that Dave actually likes, so Dave, naturally,
just brings them back, and the biggest controversy in 2019
was the Sled Sprint Bar Muscle-Up event
and the sprint event only because that was the event
that cut down to 10.
So what Dave did, he'’s like, "Okay, well, I'’m gonna take
the top two that everybody hated,
I'’m gonna put 'em together."
Can you tell me the significance from last year?
Oh, fuck yeah.
[laughing]
♪
Three, two, one, and it was just empty the tank.
♪
Sprinting, had some good experiences,
had some bad experiences, you know?
♪
You needed to have a good start but you wanted to make sure
that you had enough in the tank to be able
to push that sled as fast as you could.
I feel like we were all together pretty much on the first 100,
but then when we got on the sled,
that'’s really when it started to matter.
Tia Toomey, look at that power, that drive.
That middle sled sprint was where you either fell off
or made your move.
Yeah, I could see Tia out of the corner of my eye.
We were pretty neck and neck for a while on the sled.
Sled push, had some bad experiences
and some bad experiences, so...
Mat Fraser and Sam Kwant using that same technique
that we saw with Brooke Wells,
and they have taken the lead.
♪
I saw the guys pulling away.
I'’m like, "How's this happening, what'’s going on?
Like, I'’m pushing so hard."
Final sprint down the field.
I look at the videos and my legs just look like
they'’re not right, they'’re not right.
Bambi legs going on.
I'’m trying to like, extend and explode,
and it'’s like my ass cheeks are like, "Nah, dog.
We'’re out."
It'’s hysterical to watch '’cause you've just been like,
pounding forward and then everyone'’s kind of like...
Mat Fraser just ahead of Sam Kwant.
It'’s just gonna be will and determination
that'’s gonna get you over that line.
Toomey looks like she'’s opening up a lead on Brooke Wells.
But I knew she was breathing down my neck
and she wanted that first.
So Tia Toomey is gonna cruise to her ninth event victory.
Fraser looking like he'’s gonna hang on
but this is huge for Sam Kwant
as he looks to hang on to second place.
Left foot, left foot, left foot.
We hit the finish line, I dive my left foot forward,
Sam threw his right foot and the trip timer'’s on the left.
And that'’s gonna be a photo finish, wow!
I was just trying to give everything I had
and I think it was pretty darn close,
but I put the wrong leg forward.
Mat Fraser by four tenths of a second over Sam Kwant.
Justin Medeiros will take third.
Ohlsen in fourth and Jeff Adler in fifth.
♪
Mat, you won that by .3 seconds.
Woo!
One event remains at the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games.
Dave Castro has been billing it
as the toughest final event in history.
We'’re gonna move from Morgan Hill down the 101
to the ranch in Aromas, California.
The games began there in 2007.
They'’re going to end there in 2020.
♪
Well, we'’re taking a very significant hero workout, Murph,
and we'’re doing a really plussed up variant of it.
When he started to announce it and he'’s like,
"Oh, it'’s the hero workout of hero workouts."
And I was like, "Okay, obviously that has to be Murph."
Okay, the final event for the 2020 CrossFit Games
is Atalanta.
We'’ve introduced the name to you guys.
Now we'’re gonna fill in the details.
I wanted a name that was a little more lasting
and had something significant about it.
I thought why not go with some of the Greek heroes,
some of the mythological heroes.
When he announced it, I was like, "Oh no."
That was a pretty gnarly event and to throw the weight vest
on there, it just made it even gnarlier.
You potentially are on the podium.
-Yeah. -Does that mean anything,
to be [muffled audio]?
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, very cool.
Gotta finish this workout first before I get on the podium.
Yeah, I would like to be on the podium.
Kind of just comes down to like logistics, I think.
Think I just have to do my best.
I was feeling that really extreme fatigue in my body.
No, yeah, I said to Max this is the type of workout
that'’s crazy enough that like, anything could happen, you know?
I remember I went up to Noah and I was like,
"Noah, this should be a good one for you,"
'’cause he also did really well and he'’s like,
"Um, I don'’t think this workout is good for anyone."
I was very excited for that last event.
Anything that'’s just work.
This was weapons grade CrossFit.
This was something that you
as a normal person should never do.
The podium just got like, a little closer.
♪
Now, Tia and I, all the time with workouts,
say to each other in the beginning, I'’m like,
"Hey, you'’re not gonna go fast, are you?"
And she'’s like, "No, are you?"
I'’m like, "No, we'll both,
we'’ll both sandbag this together."
And then we start and then immediately,
we'’re racing each other.
Every day at training, they'’re turning up
and they'’re being present and then focusing on that day
and then maximizing that day, and I think--
sorry, I don'’t think, I know
the fact that they apply themselves daily
to that particular task and maximize that
has allowed them to show and shine under the lights.
♪
Doing it together like day in, day out,
we went through so much rubbish when it came to
not being able to have a gym to train out of.
We got through all the adversity together.
Why not finish it together?
♪
Are you watching a blowout?
Are you watching the most boring CrossFit Games ever
because it'’s a blowout?
No, you are watching the two greatest CrossFit athletes
to ever step on the floor
on both the men and the women'’s side.
You get to see this in person, you get to watch this live.
♪
Atalanta is underway.
One mile run.
Kari Pearce was a couple places out of podium.
Kari had to win the event.
I remember Murph back in 2016,
everybody just like-- pshh--they'’re off.
And so I like sprint and then I'’m like,
"I don'’t hear anybody."
I'’m like, "Anybody there?"
Mat Fraser and Tia Toomey running this together
right now and in the back.
And I'’ve never started a workout at the back of the group before.
I'’ve always pushed and elbowed my way
into the front of the line.
I knew I had to win the workout,
and then someone or two people had to be between me and Haley
for me to get on the podium.
Here comes Haley Adams.
One hundred handstand push-ups.
♪
I was very aware that Justin
was going to be the one that I needed to stay ahead of
in order to get up onto the podium,
because he was in third place going into that event.
♪
Noah had to win the event and had to beat me
by more than the spot.
So someone had to finish in-between us.
Kari Pearce is making quick work of the handstand push-ups
and now she is in the lead.
It'’s the final workout of the CrossFit Games.
The two champions, they'’ve already secured
their spot as the fittest on Earth,
and they'’re just taking their time,
taking in the moment.
We did sets of five of just, "You go, I go, you go."
As soon as she kicked down, I kicked up,
soon as I kicked down, she kicked up.
Kari Pearce is done with her 100 handstand push-ups
and now on to the 200 pistols.
I got off the wall like, in a decent lead
ahead of everybody else.
And now Fraser and Toomey moving on to the pistols.
Constantly like checking in with each other.
"How you doing? Yup, good, good, cool."
And as far as the gender battle goes right now,
four of the women are ahead of the men right now.
I heard my coach like, "Don'’t rest,
keep going, set a rhythm."
-Right to it! -And I was just like,
"I just wanna rest for a second."
Kari Pearce is just about done with those 200 pistols
and she will now move on to the 300 pull-ups.
And I was so curious about what
the first set was gonna look like.
Are we gonna sets of five and, man, she just--
-Ten. -Wow, okay.
All right. We'’re going with ten, okay.
When we got to the pull-ups, I felt like,
you know, this is ours now.
Davidsdottir has closed the gap with Haley Adams.
So 3 women on their sets of 300 pull-ups.
I just like kept chipping away
and then I was chipping away pretty fast.
♪
I think by the time we got to the pull-ups,
I had caught up...
and was probably in second place behind Mat.
Two champions, rep for rep.
About 100 pull-ups in,
when I realize I'’m not even halfway
and my hands are gushing blood
and I can barely hang on to the bar.
-Haley is tough as nails. -Oh, she'’s a beast.
Tough as nails, I'’ve seen so many athletes rip hands
like that and go to their knees and cry in their milk,
and Haley hasn'’t batted an eye, she hasn'’t complained.
In fact, she'’s doing bigger pull-up sets
than she did when we saw earlier.
This girl is so dang tough.
Quitting was not an option.
I just had to get a little bit more chalk than usual.
Kari gets a massive lead
on both the handstand push-ups and the pistols,
and her coach is just constantly screaming at her.
-Keep moving, mama! -Well, then Ben Bergeron
starts to use those too and Ben starts yelling at Katrin.
Kat, we'’re gonna leave no doubt!
And it starts to go back and forth between the two coaches
as they'’re yelling back and forth at their athletes.
At one point I was like, "Let Ben'’s words fuel you!"
Like, I was just like trying to pull anything I could.
Especially as I was getting farther on the pull-ups
and I could hear him say like, "Katrin'’s catching you!"
Davidsdottir now nine reps behind Kari Pearce.
It was kinda crazy that I ended up chipping away
at Kari Pearce in a pull-up workout.
So that was kinda cool,
'’cause she's like phenomenal at pulling.
I heard him say like, "Right when you finish
the pull-ups, you gotta go."
That'’s it for Kari Pearce, one mile remains.
-She'’s gotta run for her life. -And she is, and she is.
Like she'’s being chased down by a gun.
Go, go, go!
It'’s right there for you!
♪
Kari had left a little bit in front of me
but not too far front that I would let her go.
And I remember like, my legs weren'’t working.
I was just kinda letting '’em flush and in my head
I'’m like, "Do I go, do I not?
Like, do I catch her, do I not?"
Katrin Davidsdottir who just won the ranch loop
two days prior and crushed it,
and to Kari who did not crush it.
In no way, shape, or form did I think Kari
was gonna be able to hold off Katrin.
I know she was like catching up and I turn around
and I'’m like, "Okay, she'’s still not there."
I'’m like, "Maybe I can slow down,"
but I was like, "No, don'’t slow down,
like don'’t give yourself that out.
This is the last workout.
You can rest for months after this."
♪
She is running for her life.
She is running for a podium spot that she'’s never gotten before.
Noah Ohlsen has tied Mat Fraser and now leads for the men.
I was really committed to being aggressive
and finishing this thing with no regrets.
Ohlsen on the run.
Mat Fraser just got off the pull-up bar as well.
I said to one of the Games staff,
"Hey, am I first man on the run?"
And she said, "I think so.
Man, if you'’re in the lead right now,
I'’m pretty sure if you win this event,
you'’re guaranteed a spot on the podium."
♪
I remember when I finished my number 300,
and I came down and my ref was like, "Go, go, go!"
And I was like, "Chill."
Taking off my grips, taking off my wristbands.
I needed Mat to beat Noah.
He was kinda easing it back off
to like have that moment with Tia,
which was pretty awesome,
but I saw Noah leave on that run first
and I thought my chance was kinda, was kinda gone.
♪
Here come Fraser and Toomey,
and Fraser waited for Tia.
It was a special moment, like we had both already won the Games.
You'’re only gonna have a handful of moments
that you remember vividly.
Make this one of them.
Noah Ohlsen, your leader for the men.
Mat Fraser is creeping up.
You know, we'’re running and she'’s asking me like,
"Hey, is there anyone coming up behind us?"
I'’m the one looking, spotting and I'’m like,
"Nope, nope, we'’re good, we're good.
Just so we'’re clear, I don'’t care
about any other competitors.
We are finishing this mile together."
When I like, came around the last turn around,
it kind of like settled in that like,
"You won this workout."
She not only is going to win,
but also beat every other man to do the event.
Amazing.
And she will win Event 12,
and looking to get herself onto the podium
and end a drought for the United States
that has lasted since 2014.
That'’s just, that's just one of those moments,
you know, you'’ll always remember as a coach.
Like, that'’s just her digging and wanting something so badly
that she just wasn'’t gonna let anybody else take it from her.
So what Kari did
not only is the best performance I'’ve ever seen,
she solidified herself as the best
American female CrossFitter of all time.
♪
-Can you pour it on my head? -Yup.
Thank you.
[panting]
Good job, girl.
I like that workout.
[laughing]
When we got to the 800 meter halfway turnaround point,
Mat and Tia had started to catch up to me
and I was just kind of in desperation mode at that point.
I was pleading with my body to allow me to run faster
and push it and keep going.
I just was losing that battle.
Mat Fraser and Tia Toomey have passed Noah Ohlsen.
The question now is where is Justin Medeiros?
And with about 600 meters to the finish line,
my coach Max met me at the fence
and pointed to Mat ahead of me and he said,
"You need to beat him in order to get on the podium."
And in my mind I was like, "I know,"
and I'’m trying absolutely everything
to get my feet to move faster,
and I even made the conscious effort to try to get them to
and I just-- I literally could not.
♪
All I have to do right now is finish this run
and we go and we get our silver medal
at the CrossFit Games.
Katrin Davidsdottir is going to cross the finish line.
Davidsdottir will finish on the podium
for the fourth time in her career.
I won, I feel like I won.
That was my absolute best.
It was a very satisfying ending to my season.
I can'’t even wrap my head around
what Mat did to that final event.
He loafed the run, broke up the handstand push-ups
and pistols and pull-ups to make sure Tia was okay
during the whole thing and stayed at her pace.
At the same time, you have Noah Ohlsen
who is fighting his ass off to have to win
to get back on the podium,
and Mat Fraser sleep-walks through an entire event
and still runs down Noah to win it.
Toomey and Fraser making the turn together.
Two of the most dominant individual performances
that we have ever seen at the CrossFit Games.
♪
I'’m literally coming third in an event and I'’m like,
"You know what, this is okay.
Like, I love this, I'’m really embracing this experience
and I'’m gonna remember this forever.
I don'’t care where I place for this."
For them to have a moment
where they could do it at their own pace
and to absorb what they have achieved
was phenomenal.
♪
Mat Fraser rewrites history.
Tia Toomey continues to make it.
The perfect end to a nearly perfect competition.
The two greatest of all time stand alone.
They are the fittest on Earth
and the fittest in history.
♪
Haley, who was hoping to hang on to third place overall,
and it'’s looking like it won'’t happen,
but what a future ahead
for Haley Adams.
[indistinct remarks]
[crying]
♪
The placement is a little bit bitter,
but we'’re gonna analyze what we did good,
what we did wrong, and try to improve from that.
I mean, I'’m more determined than ever after this year
to be the best that I can be, because I'’m not proud
of the performance that I put on.
And that is like the worst feeling in the world
and I just wanna work so hard
so I never have to feel like that again.
And I had kinda no idea, I was kinda looking around.
I mean, gave my coach like a big old hug
and he'’s like, "Guess what."
Here comes Justin Medeiros looking to lock up third place.
Congrats, buddy, you earned it.
I tried to kind of hold my excitement down
and wait till it was real, but it was super cool
to be able to step on that podium for my first year.
Dude, I'’m super stoked about getting second place.
The goal was the podium and I'’m satisfied with it for now.
♪
I shed some tears at the end, because we did it.
We finally got to the end, and when I say we,
I mean all the athletes.
CrossFit finally were able to pull it all together
and create a competition for us,
and everything that we worked so hard for
throughout the year wasn'’t for nothing.
♪
The sky'’s the limit.
It'’s how far we can take it,
how far the community can take it.
Future under the new leadership, under the new team is bright.
We'’re gonna aggressively grow it.
In the ever-changing year that has been 2020,
two things have remained constant:
Mat Fraser and Tia Toomey.
They each add another championship to their total.
Four for Toomey and five for Fraser.
Happy '’cause like, we did it.
Everything over the last year, we got over it.
♪
But then also sad because it'’s over.
♪
This has been my life for two years.
Two of three faces that I see
99% of the days.
Like, I see Sammy every day.
♪
And then Shane and Tia most of the other time
are the only other people I see or interact with.
Realizing that that chapter of my life might be closed
was the part that was getting to me.
♪
What'’s hard to fathom is it'’s not just a weekend
where you see Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 14 events.
It'’s like I was saying,
it'’s like a 24-month for these guys,
an eight-year process, a 10-year process.
To know that it could be an end of an era there,
for those two athletes is...
I mean, I'’m excited, I'’m thrilled,
I'’m all that positive stuff, but it'’s sad.
It could be, it could be the last time that we ever see
a male and female dominate like them again.
♪
[fire crackling]
♪
Like so many others that wandered into a CrossFit gym,
I wasn'’t expecting to find my best friends,
business partners, wife, and countless life lessons.
I'’m leaving the sport older, wiser,
and fitter than I'’ve ever been.
I'’m diving into the next chapter of my life with the same
"Hard work pays off" mentality.
The only difference is the decisions I make
will be based off more than just my fitness performance.
I look forward to remaining a part of the CrossFit community.
I just won'’t be doing it from the competition floor.
[exhaling]
♪
So Tia'’s already the most accomplished female champion
that we'’ve ever had.
But with Mat'’s retirement,
the door is open for her to not just be
the best female champion we'’ve ever had,
but to be the sport'’s most dominant athlete of all time.
♪