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Event 2 Elite / CrossFit® French Throwdown 2019

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Event 1 Elite / CrossFit® French Throwdown 2019

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Three Things to Pay Attention to on Day 1

Day one of competition kicks off in less than 12 hours. Five hundred and forty total athletes assembled inside the Vélodrome National this afternoon to get checked in and briefed.  For a full ... Continue Reading

Sanctional’s Final Stop In France

Welcome everyone to the Last Chance Saloon, a tempting Parisian tavern where weary travelers and thirsty fitness fanatics can take their best shot a claiming one last piece of glory and earn their place ... Continue Reading

Inside the Athlete: Elliot Simmonds

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International Qualifier Coalition Forms to Unify Sanctionals Season

On the heels of our report last week of more streamlined changes to the Sanctionals qualification process next year, more good news was just announced for elite athletes competing next year. The ... Continue Reading

Inside the Athlete: Elliot Simmonds

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Saxon Panchik Deserves a Wild Card

Reaching the elite ranks of any sport is incredibly difficult. Perhaps even more difficult is managing to stay amongst the elite in a sport that’s in a state of flux. In the last five years, only 33% of ... Continue Reading

The Final Saga in CrossFit v. NSCA Legal Battle: “THE RACE IS OVER”

Well that’s the state of play according to CrossFit, Inc. who filed a motion for terminating sanctions last Thursday. If granted, that would effectively end the years-long legal battle with the National ... Continue Reading

From Home to Horn: How One Box is Supporting their Own While Deployed

The story. Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Piazza and his wife, Sara, opened CrossFit Virtus in Gonzales, LA in 2011. They named it CrossFit Virtus, because Cecil remembered learning about virtuosity during ... Continue Reading

Italian Showdown Revamps Their Qualification Process

Earlier this week, we reported on how the qualification processes for Sanctionals next season are starting to shape up. Now the CrossFit Italian Showdown has recently joined the ranks of ... Continue Reading

How Elite Athletes Qualify for Sanctionals in the 2019-2020 Season Is Already Changing

Now that CrossFit has released the full 2019-2020 Sanctionals season calendar we know when and where the 28 Sanctionals will be held. The key question: How will Sanctionals handle the ... Continue Reading

The 2019-2020 CrossFit Games Season Calendar is Here

Last weekend, CrossFit released details on the 2019-2020 CrossFit Sanctionals calendar, including the specific dates and locations for 27 of 28 Sanctionals. The Rogue Invitational date has yet to ... Continue Reading

Test your Luck with the CrossFit Filthy 150 Lottery

It’s not everyday you get a legit chance to step on the floor of a sanctioned event to compete with your friends. Imagine if instead of showing up just to watch some of your favorite athletes, you’d get to ... Continue Reading

Plant, Bloom, Test

I played college football. Honestly, I wasn’t particularly good as a player or teammate. I was more focused on being a star rather than diving into the work. Arrogance stained my career. Sadly, this also ... Continue Reading

Territory Rolls Out Compostable Packaging

Speaking of cool things in Southern California... Territory is a meal delivery company that uses creative local chefs and licensed nutritionists for clean eats that they drop off at your box or deliver to ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Releases Rosters for 10 of 14 Games Teams

With this weekend's Sanctionals out of the way, the 2019 CrossFit Games team rosters are nearly complete. Only the winners of CrossFit French Throwdown have yet to be determined. Dubai CrossFit ... Continue Reading

How to Watch CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown

Another weekend of sanctioned events is underway. Thirty-eight male and female athletes and 19 teams square off in Apeldoorn, Netherlands at the CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown where one male, female and team ... Continue Reading

Final Event in Brazil Offers Spectators, Athletes an Exciting Finish

Going into the final event of the Brazil CrossFit Championship only 14 points separated the top two male athletes, Will Moorad and Saxon Panchik.  For the women, the race for the Games invite was even ... Continue Reading

Final 2019-2020 CrossFit Games Season Calendar Coming June 1

While announcing the final three Sanctionals for the 2019-2010 CrossFit Games season, CrossFit also revealed that the final calendar will be released this Saturday, June 1.  In a previous ... Continue Reading

Athletes and Teams to Watch this Weekend at the Granite Games and Lowlands Throwdown

There are only nine remaining CrossFit Games spots left to be determined, and six of them will be up for grabs this weekend at the Granite Games and CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown. Time is running out if ... Continue Reading

A Brief History of CrossFit Games Special Invites and “Wildcards”

One of the many changes to the 2019 CrossFit Games Season was the advent of four individual “at-large bid” invites to compete at the Games. Per Section 4.06 in the 2019 Rulebook: “CrossFit Inc. reserves ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Shutters Facebook, Instagram Accounts Amid Data Privacy Concerns

CrossFit’s decision Monday to deactivate all Facebook and Instagram pages indefinitely was fueled by growing data and privacy concerns with the social media giant, Greg Glassman revealed on a call with the ... Continue Reading

Games, Health and CrossFit Instagram, Facebook Pages Taken Down “Indefinitely”

Monday afternoon, Armen Hammer reported that the CrossFit Instagram account appeared to have been taken down, showing “User not found” when attempting to access their page. What was first ... Continue Reading

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