There are very few constants when it comes to CrossFit, especially at the Games when the unknown and unknowable are on full display. The details: While the CrossFit Games team has been keeping ... Continue Reading
How Three-Time Games Qualifier Alexis Raptis Is Preparing for the 2024 CrossFit Games
Alexis Raptis has been competing in CrossFit since 2015. During her teen career, she took fourth in 2015 in the Girls 16-17 category before coming back and taking second in 2016. As an ... Continue Reading
Who’s Missing From the 2024 CrossFit Games Roster?
The 2024 CrossFit Games roster in the Individual division consists of a good mixture of veterans and rookies representing CrossFit's global reach, including athletes returning for a ninth, 10th, and, in ... Continue Reading
Event 1 of the 2024 CrossFit Games Is “Run Swim” — Light on Details, Heavy on History
“Four miles for time” of running and swimming. That’s what we know (and basically all we know) so far about the first event at this summer's CrossFit Games in Fort Worth, TX. The details: The CrossFit ... Continue Reading
2024 CrossFit Games Returns to ESPN for Second Straight Year — Check Out the Schedule
The 2024 CrossFit Games is returning to ESPN platforms, spanning all four days of competition. The details: CrossFit HQ announced on Tuesday the Games will be presented across ESPN, ESPN2, and ... Continue Reading
2024 CrossFit Games Demo Team Announced — Get to Know the Members
Yesterday, the CrossFit Games revealed the 2024 Demo Team. An annual summer ritual, sometimes a few days before and sometimes a few weeks before the start of Games week, CrossFit reveals “a team of ... Continue Reading
Is This the Final Year for Teams at the CrossFit Games?
The first year of team competition at the CrossFit Games was in 2009 at The Ranch in Aromas, CA. There was no Open and no qualification stage back then, so 96 teams registered for the inaugural ... Continue Reading
11 Athletes Looking for a Big Comeback at the 2024 CrossFit Games
Every year, the CrossFit season features a number of inspiring and epic comebacks that keep fans on the edge of their seats. In 2023, Bethany Flores made her highly anticipated return to the CrossFit ... Continue Reading
“Genuinely Heartbreaking”: CrossFit Games Vet Ant Haynes Reacts to Three of the Top Four Asia Semifinal Men Failing Drug Tests
As first reported by the Barbell Spin last week, four Semifinals athletes have tested positive for a banned substance this season so far. Among the names were three of the top four men from the Asia ... Continue Reading
All in the Family: How 6 Sets of Siblings Performed During the 2024 CrossFit Season
Families like the Andersens (Cody and Alex) and the Smiths (Ben, Alec, and Dane) have been competing since the early days of the CrossFit Games. Ben Smith, the eldest, even earned the title of Fittest on ... Continue Reading
The Adaptive CrossFit Games Prize Purse Is Smaller for the 2024 Season — Here’s Why It Matters
Just before the Individual and Team Semifinals kicked off in May, CrossFit Games announced the total prize purse for the 2024 season. The press release read: The release continued: “All 40 ... Continue Reading
6 Athletes Who Quietly Cruised to a 2024 CrossFit Games Spot
The top of the leaderboard and the bubble. For the second year in a row, those were the places we focused most of our attention during the seven 2024 CrossFit Games Semifinals. But in the three ... Continue Reading
Who Won the 2024 CrossFit Games Season So Far?
CrossFit Open > Quarterfinal > Semifinals. All 40 women and 40 men who will compete this August in Fort Worth, TX, at the 2024 CrossFit Games have competed in all 13 events from the Open ... Continue Reading
8 Way-Too-Early 2024 CrossFit Games Predictions
With three weeks of intense CrossFit Semifinals action behind us, we can finally take a breath. Ok, breath taken. Now, bring on the 2024 CrossFit Games! With less than two months ... Continue Reading
11 Fascinating Facts to Celebrate Cole Sager and Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson’s 11 CrossFit Games Qualifications
At the 2024 CrossFit Europe Semifinal, Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson (BKG) became the first CrossFit athlete to earn a trip to 11 consecutive CrossFit Games. The following week at the North America ... Continue Reading
A (Brief) History of the CrossFit Games
Love to hate it or hate to love it — and there’s really no in-between — CrossFit has undeniably become a fitness phenomenon over the last 25 years. With more than 10,000 affiliates in 2024, CrossFit might ... Continue Reading
The Open Report: Week 7 — The (Chalk) Dust Settles
Editor’s Note: “The Open Report” is a multi-part series by Mike Halpin that breaks down the current CrossFit Open registration numbers and examines their historical context. You can read the previous ... Continue Reading