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Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). We round out the countdown today with the top five men from that era. 5. Josh Bridges “Nobody in the Crossfit world defines the word ‘icon’
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). Today we start with 15 and will work our way down to six. 15. Noah Ohlsen “Ohlsen made himself relevant and known from his first season
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you have not seen our “Ranch Era” top tens, be sure to check them out: Moving to the second location for the CrossFit Games, we have Carson, California where the “Fittest on Earth” gathered every summer from 2010 until 2016. The “Ranch Era” was
**Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend, and Mike Halpin** Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye If you missed part one of this two part series you can find it here. This two-part series is a collection of findings we’ve observed after filtering through cross-semifinal leaderboards for a couple weeks. We acknowledged certain disclaimers in part one about what
Image Credit: CrossFit LLC Every year at the CrossFit Games a new class of athletes show up and test themselves against the most difficult test and most robust field of competitors in the world. And every year, a group amongst them does rather well. With an exciting field of rookies making their debut once again this
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC This is the second in a series of articles that selects the best CrossFit Games athletes by era – with the era being determined by the location of the Games. The first era is “The Ranch Era”, consisting of the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 when the Games took place at Dave
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC This will be the first in a series of articles that selects the best CrossFit Games athletes by era- with the era being determined by the location of the Games. Therefore the first era is “The Ranch Era”, consisting of the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 when the Games took place
Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend and Mike Halpin One of the big changes to the 2023 season was the re-introduction of uniform programming for the final qualifying stage to the CrossFit Games (Semifinals) for both elite individuals and teams. One of the most appealing things about standardized programming is the ability to compare athletes
Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye This year at Semifinals, tests four and five occurred in a “back-to-back” format that we had been hoping to see in one of our preview pieces . There are several variables to consider when programming back-to-back events like those in a competition. By choosing to include back-to-back workouts you’re demanding the athletes
Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye We’re in the third year of the Open-Quarterfinal-Semifinal-Games season structure. This year does have a few nuances that are different, but the general path is the same. The question we’re after today is, is there any pattern that’s emerged so far about how well Semifinal winners can be expected to do at
