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May 22, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye North America West, Oceania, and South America For the men, week 2 of Semifinals has 14 available qualifying spots for the NOBULL CrossFit Games, nine spots are allocated to the North America West field, three spots are allocated to Oceania, and two spots are allocated to South America. South America Men’s
May 22, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye North America West, Oceania, and South America For the women, week 2 of Semifinals has 15 available qualifying spots for the NOBULL CrossFit Games, 10 spots are allocated to the North America West field, three spots are allocated to Oceania, and two spots are allocated to South America. South America Women’s
July 11, 2023By Barclay Dale
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Yesterday we posted “A Decade of Consecutive Games Qualifications” chronicling the careers of Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson, Cole Sager and Noah Ohlsen as they make their tenth consecutive trip to the Games this month. Alongside these men, Katrin Davidsdottir became the fourth woman in CrossFit women’s history to record ten qualifications to the
July 31, 2023By Brian
The men’s competition is slated to take place from Thursday, August 3 through Sunday, August 6. There will be two days of competition before an initial cut down to 30. There will be an additional day of competition for those 30 men, then a final cut down to 20. The top-20 men will then finish
May 8, 2023By Brian
Several European Semifinal Athletes Compete In Greece, but Is It A Good Idea this Close to Semis? Image Credit: Athlete's Eye Six European semifinalists podiumed at the Athens Throwdown over this past weekend. The competition is a month out from Semifinals and therefore begs the question: What impact does competing a month prior to a
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
June 9, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Between May 17 and June 5 I was home for about 50 hours. Otherwise, it was airplanes, hotels, and CrossFit Semifinal competition; my favorite time of year. While on the road I made some observations that I wanted to document. They are somewhat wide ranging. Enjoy. 1. The Athletes are Amazing Have
May 22, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye North America West, Oceania, and South America Fifteen of the 38 team spots to the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games will be earned this weekend; 10 of those spots will come from North America West, 3 will come from Oceania, and 2 will come from South America. South America Teams Field In
August 11, 2023By Brian
It’s no secret at this point that Jeff Adler was a volunteer at the CrossFit Games back in 2016, and that in the seven years since he’s ascended all the way to the top of the podium at the CrossFit Games. And if I’m being honest, as good as I knew he was becoming, I
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