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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

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

CrossFit Masters athletes

Study: One Year of Resistance Training Can Benefit Older Adults for Years Afterward

We often understand fitness as a “use it or lose it” thing.  If you stop doing it, it doesn’t really stay with you, meaning it’s a lifelong pursuit, something you can’t ever stop doing. The ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Games teams

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

CrossFit Games athlete with big legs.

How Big Are CrossFit Games Athletes’ Legs? We Got Answers From Justin Medeiros, Arielle Loewen, and More

As CrossFit enthusiasts, we love numbers. One-rep maxes, three-rep maxes, personal best times, reps, and rounds.  And when we watch the top athletes in the world, it helps put our own numbers into ... Continue Reading

Haley Adams CrossFit athlete

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

CrossFit star Julia Kato

Brazilian Julia Kato Finds a Path Back to the CrossFit Games 

What’s better than qualifying for your second trip to the CrossFit Games?  For Julia Kato, it was doing it in her home country, surrounded by friends and family after two years of living abroad and just ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Ant Haynes

Ant Haynes Talks About His UCL Tear at the 2024 Asia Semifinals

It was supposed to be his swan song year. Ant Haynes went into the 2024 Asia Semifinals thinking it would be his last as an Individual, ultimately hoping to qualify for this summer’s CrossFit Games for ... Continue Reading

Dreamtown CrossFit

Affiliate of the Month: Dreamtown CrossFit Owner Jason Berger Chooses Happiness and Health Over Wealth

Jason Berger had a financially lucrative job — but it came at a cost. As the owner of a transportation company, he found himself working 12 to 14 hours a day, and he soon grew to weigh 300 ... Continue Reading

Maddie Sturt and Jay Crouch

Aussie CrossFit Couple Jay Crouch and Maddie Sturt on Their PRVN Results This CrossFit Games Season 

Australian athletes Jay Crouch and Madeline ”Maddie” Sturt have each competed at four  CrossFit Games, but 2024 will be the first time this super fit couple will hit the Games competition floor in the ... Continue Reading

Austin Hatfield

CrossFit Games Rookie Spotlight: Austin Hatfield – Elite CrossFit Athlete by Day, Rabbit Farmer by Night

Austin Hatfield, who hails from Beckley, WV, was an athlete to watch from the very start of the North America East Semifinal, especially when it was revealed that outside of being an elite CrossFit ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete James Sprague

Reps Ahead Pro 3 “Redemption” Results: Sydney Wells, James Sprague, and Kyra Milligan Deliver Knockouts

On Saturday, June 29, redemption was earned. And knockouts were delivered. The Reps Ahead Pro 3 Showcase — the third Reps Ahead event with professional athletes — went down in Thornton, ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Ivan Kukartsev

“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

Aniol Ekai

CrossFit Games Rookie Spotlight: How Being a Better Human Made Aniol Ekai a Better Athlete

The hotbed of CrossFit was initially in the United States (especially California), but the strength of the sport in Europe is clearly on the rise.  One man who hopes to play a role in that future ... Continue Reading

The Djukic Brothers

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

Sean Woodland and Tommy Marquez

The Voice of the CrossFit Games

Editor’s Note: Sean Woodland announced earlier this week that he had been informed he would not be asked to call the 2024 CrossFit Games. We reached out to his long-time friend and co-host, Tommy Marquez, ... Continue Reading

Sean Woodland

Changing the Games: Sean Woodland Reflects on More Than a Decade of CrossFit Broadcasts

On his Instagram account earlier this week, Sean Woodland, the “Voice of the CrossFit Games,” shared that after 12 years, he was informed that he would not be calling the CrossFit Games this coming ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Lexi Neely

CrossFit Games Rookie Spotlight: Lexi Neely and Her Six-Year Journey to the Games

Lexi Neely thought she would have to put her CrossFit Games dream on hold for yet another year. She cruised through the Echo bike calories and 15 muscle-ups and was the first athlete in her heat to ... Continue Reading

Chris Shimley and Top Fuel CrossFit

Chris Shimley and Top Fuel CrossFit – Fueling Future Firefighters

In 2010, Chris Shimley began using CrossFit for off-season football training.  The Top Fuel CrossFit owner and head coach from Valparaiso, IN, went on to qualify for Regionals six ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Forged Iron

How Being Part of the YMCA Helps This CrossFit Affiliate Flourish

Like many affiliates, CrossFit Forged Iron came from humble beginnings. The Lynchburg, VA, gym first started operating in a 1,000-square-foot computer room with a low ceiling in 2013. At the time, it ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Athlete Georgia Pryer

CrossFit Games Rookie Spotlight: Former Gymnast Georgia Pryer Is “Enjoying The Ride”

Australia’s Georgia Pryer is gearing up for her first-ever CrossFit Games appearance after securing fourth place at the Oceania Semifinal last month.  Pryer attributes her success this season to ... Continue Reading

Reps Ahead 3

Reps Ahead Pro 3 “Redemption” Preview: 2023-2024 CrossFit Games Athletes Throw Down in Denver 

It’s redemption time.  The video review penalties following the 2024 CrossFit Games Quarterfinals are well-documented, and multiple Games hopefuls failed to reach the Semifinal stage as a ... Continue Reading

Kevin Oger CrossFit Adaptive Games

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

Victor Hoffer

From Demo Team to Games Rookie, Victor Hoffer Is Here for the Long Haul

It was no surprise when hometown hero Victor Hoffer won Event 4 — a couplet of rowing and handstand walking — at the 2024 European Semifinals That finish, paired with two other top-10 finishes through ... Continue Reading

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