Ruck and Sprint Couplet—2019 CrossFit Games

[Music] individuals are now ready to start events number three here's what they are facing so every athlete going at the same time here and it's one of those rare occasions we saw this last year with a marathon row everybody is doing the same thing all right so we are underway ladies and gentlemen here we go all the athletes on the field at the same time 100 of them as we're gonna cut down to 40 here pretty soon as after last night's event we went from 75 down to 50. [Music] nicole sager out front for the men behind him is matt fraser in the white the overall leaders will be the only athletes wearing white tops so they will be the easiest to identify in this massive humanity this is the opening lap four total around this 1500 meter track that looks like lucas homburg who needs to start climbing his way up the leaderboard so tia tubey right now is the woman who is in the lead looking to regain the top spot on the overall leader board lucas hogberg didn't have the best score in the madison tri plus when they competed in that last year i'm wondering if it was one of the other movements that might have tripped him up there he was 23rd but coming out in the front right now this is their first trip inside the north park and they have to add a single 10-pound bag so hoeberg has done that he is off first so lucas hogberg got into the stadium the fastest about five minutes and 28 seconds it took him jason smith buckling up and here comes matt fraser still doesn't have that certain strap attached joshua wiktrap was also in that lead pack is now just about everybody getting their way back into the north park to end lap number one load their bags and then start lap number two we just heard from chase ingram who is out there talking to athletes and he said he actually spoke with sam briggs he said that the weight in the ruck actually favors to me more than it favors briggs now briggs can run but she said i'm not a big fan of putting a bunch of weight on and thinks that toomey is actually going to do better in this event than she would which surprises me because i feel like i see a lot of posts from sam briggs with weight vests but maybe she just doesn't do a lot with running she does a lot with muscle ups rope climbing maybe not as much with running there is your leader for the women and it is tia tumi who comes in in third place overall for the women finished first in the opening event 12th in event number two so that was about a six minute lap for lucas hofberg really impressive considering that he had just added another 20 pounds to his rock yeah you're only adding about 30 seconds to your time yeah off of the first lap lightest weight and the freshest that you're running right those are impressive splits [Applause] so emily rolfe was the woman that we saw creeping up on tia tumi she's out of qualified through the granite games i believe it's her first appearance at the crossfit games and look who's there on the left samantha now your usual suspects women who would think to do well in this event kristin holta sam briggs and emily roth have all closed the gap significantly on tia toomey as we are on lap number three david's daughter that weights just speak into their soul right there this is about to be a real exciting you're thinking you've got a whole another lap to go with with that what are we at 50 pounds now right this is lap three correct no this is the they're going through the five laps this is how fast they're running so that that 50 pounds lucas holdberg is in the lead final lap 50 pounds on his back and if you look at what happened with the teams earlier with the lead that lucas hogberg has it's it's highly unlikely that anybody's going to catch him at this point he's still running or running jogging-ish you know i mean i'm going to go with running he hasn't changed much at all he's been very very smooth in all of this i mean you see as the weight starts to talk to your soul a little bit more it changes your gait and so you see some of them they're shuffling i mean wrecking is resistance training of a different form you're just on the move while you do it right and so you're starting to see some of them their their their bodies are leaning forward to almost look down and stare at their feet and it's just they're trying to offset the load of that weight on their shoulders he's just plowing ahead looking great i think he just lapped one of the ladies matt's doing great too matt frazier has now kind of extricated himself from that pack of athletes that he was around willie george is right in front of him jason i love that you keep saying that the weight is speaking to your soul because i'm pretty sure the word is screaming at your soul matt fraser trying to reel in willy george and willie george in france when fraser had hair people used to mistake willie george in france for matt fraser every now and then is that a true story it's an absolutely true story and hogberg is getting ready to lap some of the female athletes that's danny spiegel i think paige samenza behind her as of the last lap i had scott panchik way down in around 40th so james newbury could find himself in second place overall here and depending on how much he beats fraser by if some couple more guys could get in there newberry might be on top of the overall leaderboard but we've got to see how this thing is going to shake out lucas hogberg is going to lock up the event win that is huge for lucas hogberg still looks calm cool and collected who had one of the biggest wins of his career here last year in the two-stroke pull which is ultimately the result that gave him the tie break to put him on the podium right in 2018 but lucas holberg wins event three for the men and earns 100 points and now we're going to start seeing some races to the finish line that's oldest upnicks behind him is chandler smith [Applause] as he comes across in second place here comes oldest ubnex who has separated himself from chandler smith so um that's looking at third place overall but this is a huge finish for chandler smith as well this this should easily move him right back up the leaderboard opnix is across chandler smith is across the smith in fourth place is going to earn 94 points [Music] and now fraser is across here comes jacob hefner now here's the pack of women who are in the lead this is going to be a great race to the finish so emily rolfe kristen holden and sam briggs [Music] right now as you're heading into that stadium you're thinking slowly increase your cadence slowly increase your stride rate get ready to start pumping those arms for the sprint finish well you want to be careful right you don't want to start your sprint too early because if you burn out one of these girls will surely take you emily roth pulling ahead of tia toomey meanwhile brent fakowski has come across the finish line he finished 14th for the men ralph toomey and then kristen holta how many times are going to see tia toomey involved in the sprint to the end in a running event so emily ralph is going to be first into the north park and she will make the turn for home tia toomey now starting to step on the gas a little bit [Applause] ralph makes the turn tilly behind her holta in third and it looks like emily rolfe is gonna earn her first career event win at the crossfit games toomey will be second it's holta in third here comes sam briggs and now sam briggs making it across the finish line and she is done so that's used for sam briggs and remember we talked earlier today about whether or not she'd be able to work her way up the leaderboard well there you go here comes catherine david's daughter and the other woman we were talking about in that conversation was sarah sigma's daughter have yet to see her catherine david's daughter the sled dog doing work she's gonna get across right behind her is bent smith we talked about him needing to have another good finish you see him ripping those rucks off when they finish they can't wait to get them off their backs right that's like scott patrick just got past there at the finish so scott panchak comes across and here comes our leader carrie pierce carrie pierce will not be wearing that white jersey after this event it's going to go back to tia toomey karen frayova just came across the finish line carol ann reason tebow takes 11th and here comes carrie pierce i think that's brooke wells and then amanda barnhart right behind them all right emily in an event like this where it gets harder as you go because you have to keep adding weight how do you find the energy to pull ahead toward the end um so i just tried to stick uh up to tia stay on her back the whole race and hopefully see if i had a better kick at the end you definitely did this is your first time here at the crossfit games given the fact that we don't know what any of the events are basically up until the moment that you do them how's the experience been for you so far oh awesome i'd rather not know um i'd rather go in blind and just hit it right away yeah why is that just don't need to stress about it you're we're do we're all doing it anyways that's good advice for everyone congratulations here this morning thank you very much [Applause] time to go fast event forwards the sprint couplet here on day number two of the 2019 reebok crossing games in madison wisconsin that's james newbury out of australia who currently sits in second place overall travis mayer is next to him and then jordan carl goodmanson after that arguably we constantly talk about what's the most grueling physical test of the crossfit games over the years i'm honestly going to have to admit that this one might be the most mentally grueling one having to do with that cut line your loss of points if you finish low uh cut all the different competitors all those different factors kind of playing in and now we're going to throw you out a two-minute event right right in front of a cut and it's that thing where you like you said mentally okay if i drop off the bar i'm losing points now if i drop off the bar i might not stay in the car you're done yeah grab your keys and head for the door pat bellner is inside the top ten and he's hoping to continue his climb up the leaderboard he too of the spring couple is underway saw a couple guys get off to a rough start one of them matt fraser he is in the back in the middle of the field right now but he's quickly making up ground time to beat 127.30 seconds and i want to say at the very bottom that that might have been brent fukowski first or samuel quan first of the rig and what he did was he used that sled push technique that neil maddox used in 2014 where he was crouched up to the sled and low whereas everyone's doing that full extended position i'm actually surprised that nobody remembered to do that right and samuel just destroyed everybody on that first sled push so noah olsen right now is your leader he's battling with samuel blunt james newbury a couple reps back gumminson and hogberg in that lead pack as well cole sager he's on the left side of your screen former football player he's no stranger to pushing a sled around noah olsen as we take a look at matt fraser who is inside five reps to go samuel quant is off fraser is off and now the race quant at the bottom of your screen noah olsen i think is in the middle of the field we'll have to get confirmation on that though 127 is the time to beat looks like it's going to go down samuel quad is gaining ground and i don't know if that was fast enough to beat mcleod's time it was not so noah olsen is going to take second in the event now matt fraser still on the field james newberry is right next to him so newberry is going to stay close to fraser as matt cannot get rid of the pesky australian coal sager adrian moonbladder scott patrick are all in now fraser's across here comes chandler smith chandler smith newberry is in so just a frantic finisher but matt mccloud is going to win the event and noah olsen in his career has not won an event at the crossfit games he's got a lot of seconds a lot of seconds and that one's certainly going to help him well here's the craziest part is like yes look at noah olsen's time but look at the times of your third and below when you're looking at the 145 mark because we had guys at least seven athletes in the first heat that were faster than that time so the first heat actually looked faster i agree with the second one i agree and and then also to your point chase you see some of those guys it looked like an empty sled and and they just pushed it entirely across without stopping and a lot of these guys made it look a lot harder they had to have multiple stops you're tired but you're stoked it is your first heat win at the crossfit games what does that mean to you i actually don't think it was my first heat win but i thought it might have been my first event win it was close it's been a good year so far i'm enjoying this games more than any other and we're just getting started yeah that's absolutely right uh second place in the event because we saw first place in the first heat but i mean you're still in great spirits and if this is such a great experience for you what's making it special or different from your previous games appearances yeah i finally feel like a veteran this year which is really cool i think because there are so many new people that we got to meet this year which was amazing people from all over the world so i'm just taking a step back and trying to enjoy it and still kick butt at the same time well congratulations thank you so much thank you guys love y'all what do you think these women learned if anything from watching the men be ready to suffer yeah and go well and it'll be interesting to see how many of the female athletes choose to go and broken on the bar muscle ups definitely don't attack the top end of that sled on this first push we will move down to 30 athletes following the sprint coupling we are underway 134.07 seconds is your time to beat it belongs to colleen fox 172 feet down on the sled and then 15 bar muscle ups 172 feet back the first few athletes finishing up that sled push brook wells in the middle of the screen looks to be one of them and now on to those 15 bar muscle ups and you just cannot waste any time in the fight the last heat we saw two 100s of a second i mean the difference between first and second danielle brandon she's up there with jamie green amanda barnhart laura horobat and tia toomey amanda barnhart had your fastest sled push across the field in just under 20 seconds so that makes sense because if you remember the chaos event from last year when barnhart got on the slug just demolished people on that thing i think she passed like six or seven people as tia tumi continues her bar muscle ups and now it's jamie green back on the sled danielle brandon is just about done the green whoa losing ground and if i had to guess i'm gonna say that's amanda barnhart amanda barnhart i hope i am right about this once again just doing some grunt work and amanda barnhart wins the sprint couplets jamie green is going to finish second danielle brandon we're going to take you seriously you finished third in the event at a frag cow is fourth keep an eye on now who's winning the battle between tia toomey and kristen holta the toomey is in i have not seen kristen holta's name come in so kia toomey looks like she's going to hang on to the overall lead good news for thor's daughter as she's in so is laura horvath carrie pierce now kristin holta but amanda barnhart my goodness she only had about a four second differential between her first sled push and her second that's incredibly small considering how we've seen athletes get stopped on that second sled push we talked about haley adams she's still on the field she and mackenzie riley riley's at the bottom of your screen so haley adams was fourth coming in that's most likely going to change now as she is towards the back of this second heat and mackenzie riley will be the last woman across the finish line and that'll do it for women's event four but amanda barnhart once again in the north park on something that just requires pure grunt work amanda from everything we've heard so far this event just hurts there's no better way to say it so going into it what did you have to do to make sure that you came out on top um honestly i wasn't expecting that why is that i don't know i just didn't know what to expect at all but the sled was pretty light so just kind of went hard tried to breathe through the muscle ups and then just pushed as hard as i could on the way back i got good leg powers so it's kind of my jam to say the least for sure now looking ahead to the weekend i mean knowing that this is the first type of event where we've seen cuts what kind of additional pressure does that put on you and your performance uh it's in the backyard my mind but i'm really trying not to think about it uh basically just do my best and if i do that i should end up where i where i belong congratulations yeah thank you you

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Length: 19min 56sec (1196 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 24 2020