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July 7, 2023By Mike Halpin
Written by Mike Halpin TDC is back! Heading into the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games next month, Castro, who has been back with CrossFit for a bit now is now leading all facets of the spectacle as the General Manager of Sport. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @thedavecastro Based on social media
July 6, 2023By Brian
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC The CrossFit Games have moved locations a couple times during their history. We’ve broken down the history of the Games into different eras based on location. We started with the “Ranch Era”, and if you haven’t seen our top ten rankings for men and women
June 30, 2023By Brian
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’
June 29, 2023By Brian
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
June 28, 2023By Brian
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
June 26, 2023By Brian
**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
June 26, 2023By Brian
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
June 21, 2023By Brian
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
June 14, 2023By Brian
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
May 29, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Europe and Asia Final week of Semifinals! For the women, week 3 will see the final 13 qualifying spots for the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games distributed; 11 spots are allocated to the European women’s field, and 2 spots are allocated to the women in Asia. Asia Women’s Field The class of the
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