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CrossFit's Dave Castro

Dave Castro Announces Top Training Camp Award at 2024 CrossFit Games

Dave Castro announced in a video on Thursday that a new performance-based award for the top training camp will be given at the 2024 CrossFit Games.  The details: CrossFit’s GM of Sport dropped the ... Continue Reading

Haley Adams CrossFit athlete

5 CrossFit Games Storylines You Should Pay Attention To

The CrossFit Games is about crowning the Fittest Man and Woman on Earth, and the storylines at the top are always exciting. This year, we’re all waiting with bated breath to find out if Tia-Clair ... Continue Reading

CrossFit women

Will One of These 3 Veteran Women Finally Get to the CrossFit Games Podium This Summer?

There are three CrossFit Games veterans in the women's division who have 10 combined top-10 finishes and 18 total Games appearances, yet have never reached the podium. OK, so between six-time Fittest ... Continue Reading

Dave Castro CrossFit athlete interviews

The Dave Castro Interviews: By the Numbers

Once the Semifinals are over and the CrossFit Games athletes are decided, it's athlete interview season.  In most cases, getting 10 or more interviews in the summer months is a large undertaking, ... Continue Reading

Emily de Rooy

Emily de Rooy Brings Youth to Australia’s Super Team Raw Iron CrossFit Mayhem Thunder

It’s not every day you’re asked to join a CrossFit super team filled with your idols.  But after competing as an individual at the 2023 CrossFit Games, Australia’s Emily de Rooy was presented with ... Continue Reading

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CrossFit Relaunches Online Retail Store Featuring Classic Apparel and Gear 

If you have been looking to fill your wardrobe with some new CrossFit gear, you are in luck.  The e-com portal will open in phases, the first of which will highlight T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete holding the flag of Turkey

25 Nations Will Be Represented at the 2024 CrossFit Games

One of CrossFit’s long-time goals has been to bring the sport to a global audience. But in reality, it just wasn’t practical.  Here we are today: Only the fittest 40 men and women in the world ... Continue Reading

Jack Rozeman

CrossFit Games Rookie Spotlight: Slow and Steady Growth Earned Jack Rozema a 2024 Games Invite

Jack Rozema was born to be an elite, competitive athlete. Growing up in Michigan, Rozema was a three-sport athlete in high school, playing football, wrestling, and baseball, keeping him busy all year ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Games cuts

CrossFit Games Cuts: A Brief History

The 2024 CrossFit Games cut schedule was released earlier in July, giving athletes, coaches, and fans a glimpse into what will unfold on August 8.  This came as no surprise to many, as cuts have ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Danielle Brandon

The 2024 CrossFit Games Will Only Feature Two Outdoor Events, According to Dave Castro

Everyone in the CrossFit space with any investment in the Games has been listening closely to Dave Castro’s athlete interviews during his Week In Review series on YouTube. Here, he shares details regarding ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Jell Hoste

Jelle Hoste Questions Dave Castro About Size Advantages During the CrossFit Games, Rookie of the Year Selections, and More

As Dave Castro’s athlete interviews roll on, more and more athletes (at this point, almost all of them) have been given around 10 to 15 minutes to chat with CrossFit’s General Manager of Sport and head ... Continue Reading

CrossFit's Dave Castro

2024 CrossFit Games Will Feature New Movements, According to Dave Castro

CrossFit's General Manager of Sport, Dave Castro, has taken on the hefty task of interviewing all 80 individual athletes from the 2024 CrossFit Games leading up to the big showdown in Fort Worth, ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Shelby Neal

Balancing It All, With a Little Help From Brent Fikowski: Shelby Neal’s Sophomore Season

It is hard to be a CrossFit Games athlete.  Throw in a demanding full-time job as an engineer into the mix and it seems almost impossible to qualify even once for the Games. North Carolina ... Continue Reading

1st Phorm Monster Games Results

1st Phorm Monster Games Results

The 1st Phorm Monster Games went down in Joplin, MO, on July 12-14.  Games veteran Jacob Heppner and Jason Ansley, the co-director of the Masters CrossFit Games by Legends, programmed the event, which ... Continue Reading

UPLIFT

How Mark Moss and UPLIFT Are Bringing Awareness and Raising Money for Suicide Prevention Through CrossFit 

Mark Moss’s grandfather committed suicide in 2013. And, like for many tragedies, there were remembrance walks.  These were events where people could gather to walk and celebrate the life of their ... Continue Reading

Pearce

Our 4 Favorite Friday Night Lights Moments at the CrossFit Games

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

Jim Luurtsema

“Trust in the Process”: How Jim Luurtsema Found CrossFit, Lost 200 Pounds, and Now Runs Marathons for Good Causes

Taking that first step and walking into a CrossFit affiliate can be intimidating.  It was especially so for Jim Luurtsema.  When Luurtsema was finally coaxed into taking a CrossFit class at ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Alexi Raptis

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

Annie Thorisdóttir 

15 Years of Fitness: A Tribute to the “Dóttirs” of CrossFit

Since 2009, at least one Icelandic “Dóttir” has competed at the CrossFit Games.  It all began with Annie Thorisdóttir throwing down in Aromas, CA, at the third CrossFit Games, competing before ... Continue Reading

METCON Rush

METCON Rush Flourishes in Its 9th Year as Elite Athletes Flock to Maryland Competition 

What started on a whim has turned into one of the most popular fitness competitions on the East Coast.  METCON Rush is in its ninth year and hosting its biggest roster yet, including former CrossFit ... Continue Reading

CrossFit athlete Fee Saghafi

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

Two CrossFit Games, One Weekend: Masters and Teens in Same Families Face Tough Decision 

The Crossfit community reacted strongly to the announcement of the 2024 Divisional Games, which places the Masters, Teens, and Adaptive divisions as separate, standalone events. In all the discussion, ... Continue Reading

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Jeff Adler

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Jeffrey Adler Announced as First Athletes to Compete at TYR Wodapalooza SoCal

On Tuesday, the TYR Wodapalooza team announced six-time champion Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and current Fittest on Earth Jeffrey Adler as the first two athletes set to represent the teams competing in California ... Continue Reading

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr

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

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