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This is the third week of a three-part series leading up to the Individual Quarterfinals for 2024, a stage of the season which is getting a lot of attention as being one of the most critical stages of competition when it comes to the programming and administration of it in the history of the sport.
This past week took us to Jacksonville, Florida for out first opportunity to be involved with the REPS AHEAD format. Prior to the competition day we had a chance to catch up with the athletes and the director of Reps Ahead in three separate podcasts, which, if you missed them, were quite good. James Sprague
This week we went through a bunch of candidates and decided to once again choose two talented athletes for the “Friend of the Week”, these two athletes also become the youngest recipients for this weekly honor. The future of Iceland are this week’s recipients for the week of March 28-April 1, 2024, Bjarni Leifs and
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography Last week we featured the European Men as we begin to display how much of a premium there are in certain competitive regions for Semifinal spots. In both North America and Europe this is the lowest number of available spots we have seen for Semis in the Quarterfinals era. In
Image Credit – Athlete’s Eye Photography A light week of competition after the conclusion of the three-week CrossFit Games Open put all eyes on the Spring Beach Brawl in Pensacola, Florida. It’s at this high-level competition that we found this week’s “Friend of the Week”. Brian Huynh is this week’s recipient for the week of
For years it has felt like the depth of the European men’s field has been increasing, and yet their opportunity at Semifinals has always remained about half of that compared to North America. This year, that continues to be the case (Europe get 40 spots to North America’s 80 at Semifinals, with a guaranteed minimum
Image Credit: SandClash While the world was largely focused on the Open, I was on the road in the Middle East covering two different CrossFit competitions in two different countries. One of the difficulties for competitions when scheduling is to try and navigate the Games season dates when they typically aren’t known until it’s too
For this week’s “Friend of the Week” we decided to go with two athletes considering they both accomplished something very significant in the CrossFit space, winning the CrossFit Worldwide Open. CrossFit Games veteran and European mainstay Jonne Koski and up-and-coming superstar Gracie Walton are this week’s recipients for the week of March 12-19, 2024. The
Image Credit – Eurasia Throwdown This week’s “Friend of the Week” comes from us courtesy of Brian Friend’s travel adventures. Brian found himself in Istanbul, Turkey covering the Eurasia Throwdown Final as part of his second stop in the “2024-25 B.Friendly Fitness World Tour” and found a diamond in the rough, one of the reasons
With the official start of the 2024 CrossFit Games season occurring last Thursday with the Open announcement, we decided that would be an appropriate time to unveil the B.Friendly Fitness “Friend of the Week”. The purpose of the “Friend of the Week” is to recognize athletes within the functional fitness community for their achievements not
