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January 18, 2025By Brian
As always the field for TYR Wodapalooza is flooded with talent from all around the world, from the community divisions, all the way to the elite, groups of friends and training partners converge, this year, for the first time ever, on Miami Beach, for the biggest fitness festival of the year. Our focus today is
January 9, 2025By Brian
A top heavy mens field, and the deepest talent pool of elite women’s field post-Covid have been announced and are ready to tackle year one of TYR WZA in a brand new location, Miami Beach! Competition Format As has become the norm these last few years at TYR WZA, the elite athlete schedule gives them
December 4, 2024By Brian
For over a decade the Dubai Fitness Championship has stood sentinel as one of the most premier offseason earning opportunities for elite athletes in competitive fitness; and this year is no different. Due to the constantly changing landscape of the sport, including the Rogue Invitational coming to Europe this year, the recent introduction of the
December 2, 2024By Brian
Photo Credits: CrossFit LLC Just a couple of weeks after one of the best men to ever do it (Brent Fikowski) retired, one of the great female champions in our sport officially brings an end to her competitive career in CrossFit as well. Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir stole the hearts of the CrossFit world during the 2015 and
November 14, 2024By Brian
After the first ever European Rogue Invitational, Brian is heading to Serbia for the second edition of the Belgrade Games. Originally scheduled for September, the 2024 Belgrade Games was postponed two months following the passing of Lazar Dukic at the CrossFit Games this summer. Accordingly, in addition to being a big competition for the community
November 12, 2024By Brian
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye In six years of the Rogue Invitational there have still only been two female champions, that comes as no surprise to anyone, but the totality of what Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horvath have achieved over that span, and in particular this year, is somewhat mind-boggling when you actually take a moment
November 10, 2024By Brian
Photo Credit: Truth Films The sixth version of the Rogue Invitational has concluded, and with it we now have the sixth unique Rogue champion. There are still only two women to have done it: There are now four men who have managed to do it: Letting Results do the Talking All week we’ve been keeping
November 10, 2024By Brian
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye This is the third consecutive year the Rogue Invitational has had at least nine scored events, and exactly three of them happened on Day 2 of competition in each of those years. In each of the last two years there were four athletes who managed all single digit (ninth or better)
November 9, 2024By Brian
Photo Credits: Fury Photography In the history of the Rogue Invitational there have been only seven occurrences, out of a possible 194, in which any single athlete has had all single digit (9th or better on all events) place finishes at Rogue: It’s happened four times for the men: And three times for the women:
November 8, 2024By Brian
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye The first day of competition began with one long and one relatively short event: Although the time caps were different, the margins for error, for the men in particular, ended up being incredibly small, and costly for some. In event 1 for the men: This becomes especially interesting when compared with
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