Atalanta - 2020 CrossFit Games

atlanta the final event of the 2020 reebok crossfit games i honestly don't know what to say about that one maybe we can rename it yeesh i don't know what else to say and you're right sean but the more we look at it it's just a really a classic devastating test you're taking murph you're taking mary they've done murph twice at the crossfit games they did marry last year at the crossfit game so this is not actually unfamiliar to throw them in together and test these athletes with the end all ten athletes on the field at the same time and the two champions will be right next to each other in lanes five and lane six it'll be interesting to see maybe they have a little individual competition of their own right now sam quant and catherine davis daughter in second place overall and it's haley adams and justin medeiros who sit in that third and final spot on the podium right now atalanta is underway one mile run 20-pound weight vest for the men 14-pound weight vest for the women there are 602 scored repetitions in this event and this opening mile counts has won it it counts as one on our scoring table as we're looking what am i looking at is actually matt and tia just hanging back watching things unfold realizing they have an entire marathon of reps and movements to go and just letting them and letting those that need to duke it out for something fighting for podium style duke it out and one of those is carrie pierce if you looked at the numbers you based off her performances in murf and her performances in mary on paper carrie should be the favorite for this event on the women's side i would almost go as far to say she should be the favorite across the board men and women's side but it makes me nervous that she's jumping out to the front on the run the runs is not her strength she needs to save her strength for the meet that 100 200 300 and the fact that she's jumping out here in the front she's going to be pushed by haley and i don't know if that's going to be the best move for her especially when you have the champs tia and matt was sitting way in the back just coasting event 12 is presented by fit aid and this is as much a physical test as it is a mental one it is and it's because of the volume of work you have to do no one has ever thought about doing an unpartitioned merry version of murph with a weight vest so this is a unique test of strength fitness but most of all will because it is the end of a long long weekend in the quiet your mind what does that mean you have a long time and a lot of reps to get out of your own head and it's not it matters like they're mailing it in they have a full understanding of where the event is going to take shape and it's not the 100 handstand push-ups and it's not the 200 pistols but it's the 300 pull-ups and the last run oh yeah is where this event is really going to start to take shape i mean how many times have we seen even the crossfit games when murph was handed out who wins the mile you don't see him after that so what is going to happen we see here we see haley really pushing the envelope here she is pull me making a large distance between her and the rest of the field she has to make sure she's smart about that in her head but she looks like she's very comfortable where this isn't a joe scally moment in 2015. i don't want to throw anybody under the bus there but no you know i think he can take it he knows what he did haley adams making her way back to the competition floor carrie pierce behind her and then catherine david's daughter was in third david's daughter second place overall coming into this event she has just has to avoid a disaster here to hang on to second place if she finishes third or better for the women she's going to clinch that second place regardless of what the other athletes do so she's in the driver's seat as far as second place is concerned here comes haley adams 100 handstand push-ups now the rest of the field working their way back to the competition floor i'm honestly really impressed how everyone is being overly composed i mean they know it's a race granted matt and tea they can they can afford to hang back even though that's not necessarily their style it doesn't really matter if they have it clinched or not uh but the group as a whole really seems to not to be giving this this event the respect that it deserves yes they're not just going like okay i'm gonna get out there and get crazy they're being very respectful so that they can finish this strong and appropriately at the end justin moderos has just inverted himself he's in lane three he's getting to work on his 100 handstand pushes no moderos like hayley adams youngest man in the field sitting in third place and for order for him to give that up either jeff adler or noah olsen is going to have to beat him by at least two spots as carrie pierce is making quick work of the handstand push-ups and now she is in the lead oh he saw the same thing in mary i'm surprised she's even kipping at all because she did the entire mary event last year with strict hands-hand push-ups she's through 51 of the 100 handstand push-ups tiatumi your overall leader 15 reps back of kerry pierce but just making methodical work of these right now we said the miles the buy-in to the hundred handstand push-ups the hundred handstand push-ups is the buy-in to the pistols and then the pistols are the buying to the real work that's the 300 pull-ups they're going to have to do on the tail end the athletes who tested this were all either one when chrissy arrimo o'connell was sub 50 sub 50. and everybody else was under an hour which is faster than my normal murph of right pull-ups push-ups and air squats perry pierce is done with her 100 handstand push-ups and now on to the 200 pistols remember pierce is in fifth place overall if she wants to move up to third she's got to beat haley adams by at least two spots something i'd really like to see is sitting in the position she was on the leaderboard after 11 events and the first two events of today really did not play in her favor whatsoever it was a brutal sprint not the best swim so it's really easy to come in here and mail it in especially with the difficulty of this event but what does she do it looks like she took what these are two events combined that i may be the best at of the field bill like you had said earlier so i love to see her in this position that she's not taking the 12th event off she is going for it and she still has the potential to get up there in the top three let's send it down to nikki who is right by the competition floor there at the ranch something very interesting is happening down here you guys in lanes five and six matt and tia are training partners obviously and they almost appear to be attacking this workout like they were partners in their gym back home they're taking the same breaks doing the same rep scheme i can't quite hear them but it looked like they were kind of like looking over at each other talking hey okay let's get let's come down let's get back up on the wall again just really interesting to see them and both of their judges hands are in the air so frazier with five to go he's your leader for the men right now adler sits in second olson in third maderos and then sam quant and now fraser and toomey moving on to the pistols i think they shop at the same store too they train together and shop at the same store together carrie pierce continues the lead for the women through 49 now 50 of the 200 pistols sam quan who came in in second place overall looking to stay there he is going to finish on the podium but right now he is in fifth place for the men in this event but there he is just going the speed limit checking his side view mirrors maybe adjusting the rear view mirrors putting on this seat belt making sure everything checks out it's a long event you got a long it's we're barely to the 20-minute mark and this is gonna take nearly an hour so he's got a lot of room left to make up some ground on these athletes carrie pierce is into her final set of 50. and as far as the gender battle goes right now four of the women are ahead of the men right now jerry pierce is just about done with those 200 pistols one rep to go and she will now move on to the 300 pull-ups she has done a hundred handstand push-ups run a mile and 200 pistols in 21 minutes and i was so curious about what the first set was gonna look like are we gonna go set the five and man she just ten wow okay all right we're going with ten it's okay so matt and tia now are on their final set of pistols and they are just content to stay right next to each other and work as a team here i am very curious and excited to see what happens when they get to the pull-up bar yeah so i feel like well it's either gonna go two ways they're just gonna stay in cruise control finish the event together side by side or are they just waiting for the big part of this event which is the pull-ups carrie pierce is your leader 323 now 24 reps and counting when she gets to 601 she'll take off on her last mile haley adams who is in third place overall is in second place right now in this event and looking to become the first american woman to finish on the podium since 2014 at just 19 years old check back in on the men's race where matt fraser is through 178 of the 200 pistols jeffrey adler meanwhile has 50 to go as does noah olson so noah olson is two spots ahead right now of justin medeiros and remember that is what has to happen for olson to have a chance of finishing third but jeffrey adler came into this event in fourth so olsen ahead of him right now but he's got to continue to hold him off if he wants any shot of getting back onto the podium haley adams is just about done with her pistols and she will join carrie pierce on the pull-up bar and katrin davis daughter is catching up as well david's daughter has closed the gap with haley adams so three women on their sets of 300 pull-ups as matt fraser and tia toomey have now finished as well and they will move to the pull-up bar so now the race titans and that's good for kerry pierce if she's trying to get into that third place position on the podium you've got two former champions chasing down the one person she needs them to be matt fraser is your leader for the men he is through 10 of the 300 pull-ups noah olson is the only other man on the pull-up bar although jeff adler is getting close to joining him oh man fraser threw 20 of his 300 to me through 20. so they're just content to keep the exact same pace here and one of the things you can start to see where you see the fatigue is in that drop there's almost a snap in the shoulders you might not feel it in the first hundred like these athletes you're gonna start to see it by the second hundred and the two hundred in these athletes and the last hundred's gonna be rough here are the overall standings once again coming into this event catherine davis daughter has clinched a spot on the podium haley adams right now sits in third carrie pierce 40 points back of adam so she has to beat her by two spots in order to even have a chance to get on the podium and right now pierce is getting some help from the woman on the left of your screen catherine david's daughter david's daughter even with hayley adams right now on the pull-ups both into the 80s dave is out of through 88 adams through 85. the chalk ideally is to kind of keep them dry because if your hands are sweaty and it slips and that drops now you have a lot of movement you do not want movement of your palm on that bar haley adams looks like she might have a little blood on her hands right now oh right hand looks like and i've been there you just can't chop that enough you can't out chock the blood once it starts well look at carrie's grip look at how little movement there is when her hands are on the bar whereas you see is now it starts to happen for haley as she's going more to that fingertip grip which doesn't put as much palm on there because usually you rip those calluses right at the base of the fingers on the top of your palm not really the middle one but you want to stack that on there and try to lock in pierce your leader for the women in this event matt fraser your leader for the men through 139 now pull-ups and counting as he approaches the halfway point tia toomey right there with him she is in fourth place in this event for the women both toomey and fraser through 140 of the 300 pull-ups now carrie pierce with 100 pull-ups to go looking for her fourth career event win here and remember she beat everybody last year and mary including the men and chip doing almost 345 pull-ups at the time now it wasn't with a weight vest but it shows that she has the capacity oh yeah and the stamina to sustain herself in a high volume event like this so david's out are now chipping away at carrie pierce's lead and she is within 10 reps pierced through 220 pull-ups david's out of through 210. pierce back to work pierce is down to four reps at a time haley adams is in third but now tia toomey is starting to creep up on her and brook wells is way behind 127 reps off the pace being set by carrie pierce right now so pierce is down to fours started with tens catrin is staying with fives so every set they do she gains a rep which doesn't sound like a lot but when you're doing 300 shares apart from your 300 weighted pull-ups it adds up fraser and twomey now both threw 200 of their 300 pull-ups 28 career event wins for matt fraser and he's about to add a fifth crossfit games championship the best thing for hayley adams meanwhile is for kathryn davis daughter to get ahead of carrie pierce that would really take the pressure off of hayley adams although tiatoomi is lurking she is and haley adams is just you can see both of her hands now look like yeah it looks like both it looks like it's hard to tell if that's the grip or the tape but there's it looks like there's red on both grips oh now that he feels you don't shake your hands like that you're not pleasing just 20 reps to go now for carrie pierce 601 is the mark she's trying to hit and then it's one final mile run dave is out of now nine reps behind carrie pierce toomey meanwhile has passed hayley adams kerry still sticking with four on the left side of your screen cat going back up she's again hanging on to fives carrie pierce now with just seven reps remaining pop up don't rest that much for a set of seven if it's not gonna happen pop up do a four do a three and get out of there david's daughter creeping up now within four but pierce back to work geez just do singles now to get yourself out of that out you got to get out of that area and get back on the or get out onto the run there we go nice and that's it for carrie pierce one mile remains catherine davis daughter seven reps and she's got a high pierce she's got a run for her life now david's daughter is done and will try to track down carrie pierce tia toomey and hayley adams meanwhile are trading third place i love how carrie's going for it she's not holding back she's trying to get as much just and here's part of it too when you're talking about the game within the game breaking spirits one of those is if you're running up to someone waiting a few seconds and then sprinting by him so they won't chase you the other one is getting out of eyesight yep so they can't start of the run and that's what kerry did because there's a big turn coming off that 90 degrees from the rig and if katrin takes the corner and can't see kerry it might keep her from trying to chase her down in the very beginning pierce trying to go from fifth into third again she has to get at least one other person between herself and haley adams in this event in order to even have a shot to do that and right now she has two kathryn davis daughter who's chasing her on this run who has yet to come around the corner tia toomey who has passed hayley adams now in third is also helping carrie pierce look over her shoulder and sees catherine davis daughter finally round the corner haley is tough as nails oh she's a beast tough as nails i've seen so many athletes rip hands like that and go to their knees and cry in their milk and haley hasn't batted an eye she hasn't complained in fact she's doing bigger pull-up sets than she did when we saw earlier this girl is so dang tough meanwhile in the bottom right noah olsen who is in lane number one has tied matt fraser and now leads for the men he's through 295 and counting of his 300 pull-ups that's big for noah olsen olson coming in in fifth place overall 465 trying to do the same thing that carrie pierce is doing vault from fifth into the top three and olson right now has matt fraser at least he did between himself and justin medeiros olson on the run as he has done with his 300 pull-ups and matt fraser just got off the pull-up bar as well so olson makes the turn here comes fraser wow and toomey and fraser waited for tia and how big would that be for noel olson after everything he's been going through all weekend long coming off the second place finish last year almost leaving him for dead a few times along the last three days if he can find himself on top the podium it might not have been the stellar finish or event that he wanted but when everything's not going according to plan and you still have a performance like this this is a good booster for what maybe next year could potentially be for noah carey pierce is still ahead of catherine davis daughter and she still has david's daughter and toomey between herself and haley adams now noah olsen is on the run and looking a little labored here with his gate and pierce passing david's daughter so carrie pierce looking for a huge event win here carrie pierce looking to try to accomplish something that hasn't been done since 2014 and that's put an american woman on the podium hayley adams is finally on the run gutted through those 300 pull-ups that is a tough 19-year-old kid carrie pierce saving her best effort for last and looking to lock up 100 points and possibly a spot on the crossfit games podium for the second straight year has an event where she not only is going to win but also beat every other man to do the event amazing amazing a testament of fitness a testament of preparation a testament of will i am at all one of the most curious performances one of the most incredible performances i've seen at the crossfit games as far as i'm not talking about matt and tia their deal but in a single event just smashing through all of it just the entire thing carrie pierce just is going to will herself across the finish line and she will win event 12 and looking to get herself onto the podium and end a drought for the united states that has lasted since [Applause] 2014. 47 56.68 seconds if i had shown you this event and said that is the time that's going to win it there's no way either one of you would have believed me i said you misplaced the four to seven days it was supposed to take not 47 minutes carrie pierce will block up 100 points david's daughter and toomey are still ahead of haley adams and that would mean that pierce is not only crazy but also on the podium matt fraser and tia toomey have passed noah olsen the question now is where is justin medeiro says catherine davis daughter is going to cross the finish line david's daughter will finish on the podium for the fourth time in her career 75 points and i don't know how but all smiles right now for katrin davis daughter as she closes out her 2020 reebok crossfit games with a second place finish she goes sub 50 on event 12. we talk a lot about her trying to do comeback events within the games itself but this is a comeback year for katrin davis daughter he has left noah olsen behind him and he is running with his training partner and fellow champion tia toomey home stretch to me and fraser making the turn together one final right turn and then back to the finish line two of the most dominant individual performances that we have ever seen at the crossfit games and that's the distance that stands between matt fraser tia toomey and history [Applause] matt fraser rewrites history tia toomey continues to make it the perfect end to a nearly perfect competition the two greatest of all times stand alone they are the fittest on earth and the fittest in history and now noah olsen just trying to hang on to whatever hope he has of making it to the podium he'll get across in second place now that'll be good for 75 points 540 total points for olson right now which puts him 35 ahead of justin medeiros at this point now here comes hayley adams who is hoping to hang on to third place overall and it's looking like it won't happen but what a future ahead for hayley adams tell you what she showed up last year she grew up this year haley adams is here to stay oh she's gonna be around a long time too that good this early beast here comes justin medeiros looking to lock up third place and 55 points and he is in and that 55 point total runs maderos unofficially to 560. right now that keeps him in third place behind sam quant who came in with 590. now jeff adler will come in and he will earn for fourth place 35 points sam quant down to singles he came in with 590 so he'll earn 15 assuming he gives the full effort here and that'll give him 605 and should and this is all unofficial should keep him in second place overall jeff adler closing out his 2020 reebok crossfit games with a fourth place finish in the toughest event ever in games history and he will earn 35 points for that effort [Applause] brooke wells the final woman out on the course just two athletes left brook wells and sam quan and wells looks like she has a sizable amount of blood smeared on her shorts i mean we heard that from the demo team no one was left unscathed testing this event and it's bound to happen this isn't unfamiliar maybe if you're seeing it for the first time it might seem like a murder scene running down the last mile but this is just kind of par for the course it happens in events like this sometimes now brooke wells will close things out one hour 19.01 seconds for brooke wells are we the hour mark so disclaimer those watching this for the first time please do not try this at home please do not try this at home we want to make sure as we hit every 30 minutes we put it out there this is a superhuman event these are super human athletes and this is just an event that is not made for mortal men and women sam quant will take fifth in the event but it's going to end on a positive note for him because it's looking like he will finish in second place overall unofficially but sam juan a podium finish here at the 2020 reebok crossfit games good for that guy wow [Applause] he's a new dad he trains by himself he's dealing with the craziness of that life and here he is competing at the crossfit games and not only competing very well but also finishing on the podium your 2020 crossfit games champions matt frazier and tia claire to me congratulations on an incredible finish and an incredible weekend i want to start by asking you about this event specifically dave castro said this was going to be the hardest event in games history now that you've completed it do you agree um you know i think that every event has its own challenge you know i it definitely was a challenging workout um especially it being the last workout of such a long weekend but you know it i don't want to take away the challenge from other workouts either and so um you know it was a great test of fitness it was an honor to actually be a part of it you know being a hero workout and a spin off a hero workout um that is it's always an honor and you know you're not just doing it for yourself and your team you're doing it for a much bigger reason and that's what our sport is all about yeah i was actually going to say i saw at the very end you were cheering on some of the athletes who were still working and i think that we see in you as elite athletes what we aspire to in the gym every day when we cheer each other on what is it like for you to be a figurehead of the sport in that respect uh i mean it words can't really describe you know it's it's a huge honor to be a part of this community and just to stand on top of the podium at a weekend like this but also be a part of something bigger it's it's what everyone strives to work for and and you know strives to be better within themselves and i think that um you know we can't forget about that at the end of the day and uh for me you know being surrounded by all these people here and just after a year that we've had but we've all been able to come together and celebrate such a unique and and great sport and it's only just beginning um words can't describe how incredible that is four championships now under your belt and every type of test that we've seen imagined thus far how confident can you really say now you are the fittest woman on earth yeah um you know i i definitely feel very confident in saying that um you know it's it's a huge accomplishment something i'm very very proud of but i wouldn't be standing here today if it wasn't for my husband and coach shane my training partner matt fraser and and then our whole team and family and friends that are constantly there supporting us and being with us every step of the way um you know i've i've never spent so much time with two people shane and matt than i did this year and uh and i had an absolute ball and it's it's quite emotional i think that you know we've come this far and this is where we are well congratulations thank you thanks guys first congratulations matt on an incredible weekend taking a look at atlanta to begin it looked like you and tia were almost just back in your in your gym training together you were waiting for each other you know setting your reps together how much of that was your plan moving into this event uh you know as soon as the workout was was announced you know it's an absolute beast of a workout and it's so easy on something like that where it's unpartitioned as soon as you hit that red line you know it's hard to recover from it so you know t and i were our main concern was hit the minimum work requirement um and just get across the finish line because we had enough points so you know we we just went into it of like let's keep each other company to you know we train together every day we have a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses so it was like all right we'll hold each other accountable um so i ended up working out pretty well pretty well but yeah it was just uh it was comforting but i mean it was a special moment you know we've we spent countless days countless training sessions doing that exact thing together in the gym uh so you know one last one last one for the season you have so very consistently proven year over year and competition over competition that you are so leaps and bounds ahead of some of the other athletes in the field what do you think makes you different the way you train the way you prepare mentally and physically um you know i i don't know how to compare myself to other people you know i don't train with any of my competitors i don't see what they're doing in the gym out of the gym what i do know is that i have the absolute best support team you know when it comes to sammy at home you know taking care of me training partner and tia uh coach and shane matt o'keefe as you know manager agent friend uh as he calls himself the caddy on games weekend every decision i've made over the last five years has been is this going to better my performance so you make enough of those decisions day in and day out they add up now i feel like every time we do one of these interviews you're so focused in the moment you're only looking at the task at hand you're only looking at the one event that's in front of you now this competition is in front of or is behind you rather as our five championship titles what do you look forward to next um i don't know we don't have a return flight booked we don't know when we're going home we're uh i think sam and i are just going to take some time for ourselves um and uh roam the country and do a little have a couple life talks see what's next well well deserved congratulations thank you you

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Length: 35min 5sec (2105 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021