1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,240 -[reporter] Do you think anyone can beat Mat Fraser? -Yes. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,880 [reporter] Do you think you could be the man to beat? 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,600 I mean, I think anybody can be beaten. Um-- 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,360 I'm not gonna count myself out. 7 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,680 I see it all the time, of people saying just... 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,920 "I'm gonna beat you, I'm gonna..." Okay, okay, it's-- 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,680 I'll be in Dubai. 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,840 [intense music] 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,160 [announcer] One event stands between four athletes. 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,400 And with one spread across the floor, 13 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,720 welcome back to the CrossFit Games! 14 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,760 [intense music] 15 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,240 Rumors. 16 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,480 [upbeat music] 17 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,520 Today, it's rumor mill time. 18 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,440 We're gonna be talking about some potentially huge changes 19 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,880 to the 2019 CrossFit Games season. 20 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,960 After the CrossFit Games in 2018, 21 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,240 there were rumors of changes coming. 22 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,160 No one quite understood what the changes were about 23 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,640 and how it would impact them. 24 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,000 There's gonna be a change. 25 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,600 What that change is, no one knew. 26 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:12,640 What's crazy is that we have a lot of details. 27 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,760 Just kind of a general idea. 28 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,040 And people had been going nuts. 29 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,000 What really changed between 2018 and today 30 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,760 is the method to qualify for the CrossFit Games. 31 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,080 [narrator] In the past a CrossFit Games season 32 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,960 was essentially three simple stages. 33 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,400 The first stage was the CrossFit Games Open. 34 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,800 From there the top athletes in each region 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,320 would qualify through regional stage 36 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,880 which was in a live competition around the world. 37 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,000 Top five men, women, and teams 38 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,080 would then qualify through the CrossFit Games. 39 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,360 Now it's much different. 40 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,520 [Mohammed] You have multiple options as an athlete to qualify 41 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,120 Whether it will be online qualify in the CrossFit Open, 42 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,360 you can qualify as a top 20 athlete, 43 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,640 or as a national champion. 44 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,960 You can also qualify through any of the sanctional events. 45 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,160 Sanctionals replaced Regionals 46 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,520 but also added more chances in more locations 47 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,240 for people to qualify for. 48 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,920 As an athlete you are no longer bound to your region. 49 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,280 You can compete and qualify to the Games 50 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,480 throughout any of these international sanctional events. 51 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,080 After that announcement 52 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,080 that there would be sanctioned events, 53 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,400 it was also announced that the very first sanctioned event 54 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,080 in CrossFit Games history was gonna be 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,760 The Dubai CrossFit Championship. 56 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,640 [Sara] I competed at the DCC 2016, 57 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,640 and it's by far my favorite competition. 58 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,360 It's sort of a well established competition already. 59 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,640 I think the last two years we had a lot of games athletes. 60 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,120 [Mohammed] Athletes enjoy coming to Dubai because of, obviously, the prize money. 61 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,920 But also because of the experience they have in Dubai. 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,360 Every time I've been here I had a blast. 63 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,760 The city itself, you're just looking around 64 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,960 and everything is a spectacle here. It's pretty wild. 65 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,480 I think this is not only big because of the money. 66 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,400 It's also big because of amount of big athletes that come. 67 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,360 So when you compete against such a high caliber roster. 68 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,320 And you come on top, that gives you bragging rights. 69 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,680 The competition got bigger and bigger. 70 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,400 In 2017 they had Dani, was third place at the Games. 71 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,000 They had Kara Webb, was second place at the Games. 72 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,280 Names are always getting bigger and bigger. 73 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,920 Unbelievable, they gonna come and test themselves 74 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,640 amongst the best in the world. 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,320 It's very similar to some of game stuff we have to do. 76 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,480 We can get outside, we can get to the mountains, 77 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,960 we can get to the snow, we can get to the ocean, 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,400 or we can be inside the gym. 79 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,200 It's almost like a mini Games. 80 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,320 I'll definitely compete in all the sanctional events. 81 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,480 I love coming here. Also, getting some sun in December 82 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:35,520 is always good. 83 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,160 [intense drum music] 84 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,280 [upbeat music] 85 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,120 It's the number of the game. 86 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,320 [reporter] Oh yeah? 87 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:53,640 Is that a good sign? 88 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,640 Yeah, it's a redemption. 89 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,840 [intense drum music] 90 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:13,800 The atmosphere on day one was actually really cool. 91 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,240 The setting for it was on a beach, 92 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:17,160 back dropped by Burj Al Arab, 93 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,560 which is arguably the nicest hotel 94 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,280 in one of the most photogenic spots in Dubai. 95 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,720 The first day at the Jumeirah Al Qasr Hotel 96 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:25,800 was very exciting. 97 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,240 It's a five star resort. 98 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,280 White sand, blue water. 99 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,320 [Jamie] I was happy 'cause I could lie in the sun 100 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,560 in between the events. 101 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,880 [chattering] 102 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,680 -It's a lot. -It's not like a pool. 103 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,720 -No. Not at all. -Not like on the picture. 104 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,240 It's pretty different than home. It's warmer. 105 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:46,200 At home it's like zero - minus five degrees, 106 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,440 it's like 27 here, so. 107 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,960 This is awesome, look at those waves. 108 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,440 It's pretty fun. 109 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:53,840 A little different than Iowa. 110 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,120 We swim in pool. 111 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,160 Yes, I see this first time. 112 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,240 I never see these waves. [laughs] It's crazy. 113 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,200 [reporter] Your first day swimming? 114 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,680 First day at least 115 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,920 swimming like outside my bathtub, I guess. 116 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,160 [reporter] Oh, damn. 117 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,880 Bathtubs count, but I don't know. 118 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,200 I'm pretty experienced, I figure it [indistinct] well. 119 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,640 Like time in the water, it's always different. 120 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,240 So I was taking progressively longer baths, kinda like an overload. 121 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:21,760 Like I start with 15 minutes, nice warm bubbles, 122 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,240 and then like move to progressively harder baths. 123 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,240 Like with less comfortable water and kinda just longer exposure. 124 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:29,720 So it got to a point where I can stay in the water for like 24 hours. 125 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Since then I think I'm pretty prepared. I got enough time in the water. 126 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,520 Some of these guys swim like an hour a day or something. 127 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,080 I think just with amount of time I had in comparison to them I'll be a lot more successful. 128 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,440 -[reporter] You got 'em at 24 hours. -Exactly, so how can I fail? 129 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,080 Do 21 reps where the cut of those are. 130 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,760 [woman] A little early start for me. 131 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,920 I'm old now, I have to like sleep in till eight. 132 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,440 -If I'm used to waves? -[reporter] Yeah. 133 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,200 No, there is no ocean in Hungary whatsoever, so. 134 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,640 [reporter] Have you done any ocean swim? 135 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,920 Yeah, little bit. 136 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,040 But not in this kind. These are big waves, but I'll be okay. 137 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,240 [woman] We're wondering if there's animals in there. 138 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:10,040 -Jellyfish. -Sharks. 139 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,200 I just told some people if you hear the bells ringing, 140 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,960 it's to keep sharks away. 141 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,320 Yellow is the shark line. 142 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,000 So sharks stay on the other side. 143 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,680 Oh, you told the sharks: "Hey, guys, yellow." 144 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,720 I would see a shark, I would just hit him. [laughs] 145 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,240 There's no sharks here. 146 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,760 [laughing] 147 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,600 [man] I feel like this swimsuit is so badass. 148 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,320 You know, like a superhero costume, a little bit. 149 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,800 Maybe not! [laughs] 150 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,400 Intimidating the bad guys. 151 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,520 -Oh my God, Kristof. -Of course no bad guys here. 152 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,680 When the athletes started to see 153 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,280 we were anchoring buoys out in water 154 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,400 they started to realize the water was a lot more 155 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,920 difficult than we had expected. 156 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,400 [intense music] 157 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,080 [Carmen] It felt like I was in a surf event or something. 158 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,800 The setup was so cool, and the waves were massive. 159 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,840 [Sara] We had the beach for ourselves and I said: 160 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:03,040 "How cool is it to start a competition on a beach?" 161 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,000 [intense music] 162 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,400 [man] It's 2159. 163 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,960 Double kettlebell snatch. 164 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,200 Double kettlebell front squat. 165 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,520 Followed by a 350 meter swim. 166 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,360 [intense music] 167 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,440 First thought was to jack your heart rate up real high 168 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,880 with kettlebells, and then you gotta get in the water 169 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,040 with the high heart rate. We'll see who's ready for that. 170 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,800 [announcer] An athlete we saw pull out of competition 171 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,280 at the Games last year is back in competition. 172 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,080 Sara Sigmundsdottir will be in lane number six. 173 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,280 [announcer 2] I'm really shocked that he still has a shirt on. 174 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,440 Okay, there we go. 175 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,680 We haven't really been talking a lot about Sara lately. 176 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,480 We've been talking about Laura lately. 177 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,360 [Carmen] That first bit with kettlebells, just get through it 178 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,240 and then it was just try not to drown in the water. [laughs] 179 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,520 [Jamie] Not always the biggest waves in Dubai, 180 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,160 and they were pretty big that day. 181 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,280 I've never seen the ocean like that. 182 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,000 in these two years I been here until that day. 183 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,760 [Jamie] That changed the event a lot. 184 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,520 If you're comfortable swimming in flat water. 185 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:11,040 It's complete change. 186 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:13,720 [Streat] I've never seen waves that big. 187 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,000 We swam a lot leading up to DCC. 188 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,040 But never, not even half the size. 189 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,280 People were just getting destroyed by it. 190 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,520 [Diego] There was a point where I thought to myself: 191 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:27,760 "How do we track those ten people in the water? 192 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,160 Like how do we know someone didn't go under?" 193 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,280 [announcer] Sigmundsdottir has her feet on the ground. 194 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,200 [Sara] It's cool to use your fitness in something 195 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,160 that's just in the nature. 196 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,680 Like you mix fitness with kettlebells, 197 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,760 and then you have to be like pure nature, 198 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:46,720 and it's pretty cool. 199 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,240 [announcer] Foot race between Briggs and Green, 200 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,560 and depending on who gets to the mat first, 201 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,160 it looks like Briggs will take it! 202 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,280 [Sara] Did you see me on the way back there? 203 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,080 Like the three waves that crushed me. 204 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,680 I thought: "Stay cool." Then another one. 205 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,280 -It was so hard. -[man] Yeah? 206 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,560 It was so hard. 207 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,360 I've never swim in waves before. 208 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,080 -[laughs] Oh, really? -Yeah. 209 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,160 So this was the first time. 210 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,320 They told me not to get panicked, so I stayed calm. 211 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,520 -[man] It's the best thing, just relax in water. -Yeah. 212 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,680 -Well done. -Thank you. 213 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,440 Now I know I don't have any glasses for next event. 214 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,680 [man] Two back to back swimming events 215 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,440 is a cool wrench to throw at them. 216 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,840 And they're always worried about, 217 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:41,520 OK, we got the first one out of the way. 218 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:43,720 Okay, you just got your teeth kicked in 219 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:44,800 and now we're gonna do it again. 220 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,960 [Tommy] Initially, the athletes thought they just had to 221 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 go for a traditional swim in event number two, 222 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,000 once they're done with the runner. 223 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,280 But then at the last minute, they threw in a kind of a twist 224 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,600 where they would have to take what's commonly known as 225 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,160 a lifeguard buoy into the water with them. 226 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,520 They would have to keep it with them when they swim. 227 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,720 [Diego] Those buoys have a strap 228 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,680 and it was a game time decision to cut the strap. 229 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,160 [chuckling] Oh, that's going to be a learning curve 230 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,000 for a lot of people really quick. 231 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,760 We didn't know about that we're gonna have to carry it 232 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,400 until right before the event. 233 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,600 So nobody really knew like how to use it, 234 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,840 or like what's the best technique was gonna be. 235 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,120 [Jamie] Yeah, that was a lot more difficult than it looked. [laughs] 236 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,680 [Sara] I love the waves. 237 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,000 But not when I have a life buoy thing with me. 238 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,640 That took my soul away. [laughs] 239 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,800 Thought I was a good swimmer, until I had the buoy 240 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,680 I was like: "buoy will help me to be 241 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,760 even a better swimmer." 242 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,160 But then it just messed it up. 243 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:57,880 [Jamie] You'd almost think it's maybe easier, 244 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,600 'cause you've got something to like float with, 245 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,280 but that thing was very slippery, 246 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,560 so I think a few people lost it out there 247 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,960 and then had to come running to shore to get it. 248 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,280 I felt like I looked like David Hasselhoff there for a minute. 249 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,920 You know, just grabbing the buoy and taking off. 250 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,720 Then I looked like a wet noodle when I lost it at the end. 251 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,480 The wave just came over, crashed and the thing just took off. 252 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:19,760 [intense music] 253 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,880 [Tommy] It's one of those things when sometimes athletes are forced to adapt. 254 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,240 Some do that really well and some don't and the ones that don't, 255 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,360 you'll certainly gonna hear about it. 256 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,280 [announcer] And now it looks like a foot race 257 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,400 -between Mat Fraser and Streat Hoerner. -And my buoy just slipped. 258 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,640 -[announcer] And Hoerner will lose his buoy! -Like, aw, no! 259 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:45,120 Fraser will get across the finish line about 10:13. 260 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:49,520 -I swallowed so much water! -[woman laughs] 261 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,360 [funky music] 262 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,480 [Sara] I love the ocean and I love the sun, 263 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,720 in Iceland you don't get that much beach. 264 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,880 So I was very happy to start the day there. 265 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,040 I love the beach. Probably favorite place to be. 266 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,080 So it was a very good first day of competition. 267 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,760 It was probably one of the best first days 268 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:13,960 in a competition I've ever had. 269 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,960 [woman] That is a wrap of day one 270 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,080 of the Dubai CrossFit Championship 2018. 271 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,240 We've spent a gorgeous day here on the beach. 272 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,480 We're gonna be in the desert tomorrow, 273 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,480 and then in the tennis stadium for the final two days of competition. 274 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,480 Keep it here for all the details. 275 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,040 [funky music] 276 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,920 -[reporter] Sara, how's Fiona? -She's a princess now. She survived the run. 277 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,720 -[reporter] You came up with the nickname Fiona? -[Sam] Yeah. 278 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,440 [reporter] Fun fact. 279 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,800 Sara's toe is named by Sam Briggs. 280 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,120 [Sam] Princess Fiona, because she wants to be beautiful, 281 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,560 but she's just an ogre. 282 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,720 I accepted that my toe is very ugly. 283 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,520 So, we've told the athletes to consider getting gaiters for their shoes. 284 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,760 Lot of people didn't know what the gaiters were, so I think they looked it up. 285 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,760 They bought gaiters, and came to Dubai. 286 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,760 And I think that's the first time they opened the gaiters. 287 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,240 They didn't realize that you have to get them sewn to your shoes 288 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,040 for them to really, really work. 289 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,520 -Gaiters. -[reporter] They go over what? 290 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,280 They go over your shoe. 291 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,000 I just don't know which way. 292 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,800 Aw, it doesn't go on my big fat shoe. 293 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,240 [Tommy] So day one you had two water events, 294 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,040 back to back, on the beach. 295 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,560 And now things are about to take a complete 180. 296 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,360 When you move on to day number two, 297 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,440 you go out to the desert for a long run. 298 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,240 [Mat] Four kilometers out, four kilometers back. 299 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,760 They're good runners. 300 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,240 Behind that, it's whoever 301 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,880 is the fittest will do well. 302 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,400 [announcer] The first 4K will be done with a tactical vest on. 303 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,200 20 pounds for the men, 15 pounds for the women. 304 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,240 [man] Three, two, one, go! 305 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,160 [intense music] 306 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,080 [Sara] I just heard so many bad things 307 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,760 about how hard it is to run in the desert. 308 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,760 Running with a weighted vest for me 309 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,920 is hard before and being in sand is even harder. 310 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,480 [Streat] Well, I knew from last year 311 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,120 we had to do a desert run. 312 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,000 And it was one of the worst things I'd ever done. 313 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,480 So yeah, I knew it was going to be really hard. 314 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,360 [Tommy] The thing about this is this is an event 315 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,280 you wouldn't traditionally see basically anywhere else. 316 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,200 Most events don't have access to a massive desert, 317 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,640 or a beach long enough to do something similar to this, 318 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,560 so it's an event where sure, athletes are used to running, 319 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,440 but the slight nuance and difference 320 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,240 were you have to run in a soft sand 321 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,960 is really a test that they're not used to. 322 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,640 [announcer] Mikaela Norman has come to the halfway point 323 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,200 verse with Sam Briggs 324 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,360 about 10 seconds behind her. 325 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,840 [Jamie] A lot of people wore gaiters over the shoes 326 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,920 to keep the sand out, that worked. 327 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,160 A lot of people didn't. 328 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,920 So I think a lot of them ended up 329 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,240 having to take their shoes off, 330 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,400 and just run barefoot in the sand. 331 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,160 I actually was thinking about taking mine off 332 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,760 'cause I had so much sand. 333 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,600 They just filled. 334 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,280 Like the front of my toes were just thick with sand. 335 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,000 [announcer] You can just see the elevation changes 336 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,080 along the run course. 337 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,800 [Diego] All false summits, right? 338 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,360 Because you get to the top of a dune, 339 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,920 and you think that's the top of the dune, 340 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,200 and then it just goes further out and up again. 341 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,560 And that's pretty heartbreaking. 342 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,160 [announcer] Mikaela Norman will take 343 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,600 Women's Event number three. 344 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,160 Brendan Willis has opened up a substantial lead 345 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,560 between him and second place, Roman Khrennikov. 346 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,920 And one thing we know is that Mat Fraser 347 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,000 does have some wheels on him. 348 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,840 Trying to sneak up on Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson, 349 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,760 but it looks like too little, too late. 350 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,000 [serene music] 351 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,600 [announcer] It was the battle of the elements out here in the desert. 352 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,160 A lot of things making it tougher for the athletes 353 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,560 than a normal 8K run. 354 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,120 I'm just so glad it's over. [laughs] 355 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,920 It feels like never ending. 356 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,640 Up and down. 357 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,640 You can't really like imagine how it is to run. 358 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,320 You have to run to know it. 359 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:30,840 I ditched my shoes about 800 meters in. 360 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,400 It was much better without shoes. 361 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,960 Way better without shoes. 362 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,040 Freaking Fred Flintstone over here. 363 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,880 [Mat] That was much more difficult than I was expecting. 364 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,480 So soft. 365 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,440 You want to run where there haven't been footprints, 366 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,600 so there's like that crust on top. 367 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,960 Even that. 368 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,120 Like out of every ten steps, you maybe get one firm one. 369 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,480 -Not so great. -[reporter] Not so good? 370 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,280 My back blew up. 371 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,800 I don't know, I bogged more than ran. 372 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,840 Is that where Sour Patch Kids come from? 373 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,040 You know what I mean? 374 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,320 Like what is that? 375 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:09,840 [intense music] 376 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:25,360 [upbeat music] 377 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,280 [Tommy] So things will shift now as we go into event four, 378 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,400 and we move into the tennis stadium. 379 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,000 A few big names on the women's side 380 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,560 had questions about some potential injuries 381 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,080 coming into the weekend. 382 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,480 Laura Horvath, unbeknownst to a lot of people 383 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,320 had been dealing with a back injury. 384 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,440 And it kinda bothered her leading up to the competition. 385 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:53,560 [reporter] Do you feel more pressure 386 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,000 because of what happened at the Games last year? 387 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,040 I don't know, probably. I mean, I try not to think about it, 388 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,840 but everyone's talking about it, 389 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,760 so it's kind of hard to like not think about it. 390 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,320 Everybody's like: "She finished second, 391 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:09,040 she should not made it here." 392 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:10,760 I mean, it is what it is. 393 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,160 It's December, so I'm trying to qualify for the Games, 394 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,840 which is in August, so I'll be fine. 395 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,280 [Sara] I broke my rib November, 2017. 396 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,080 I had it broken from the Games, 397 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,120 and I knew that it was broken in November. 398 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,520 My mindset at that time was just I'm back at the beginning. 399 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,360 It's so hard to have been here, 400 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,960 and like almost winning the Games into like, 401 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,840 will I qualify for Regionals? 402 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,920 And then first day at the Games, I break my rib again. 403 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,200 And it's like... I said it to my coach the week before, 404 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,160 the worst thing that can happen is that I break my rib. And we were joking about it, 405 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,880 because we knew it wouldn't happen, and then it happened. 406 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,480 And I competed at World's after that in November. 407 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,320 I had only been training for about 408 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,320 two weeks before World's 409 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,800 in Olympic weightlifting, so after November 410 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,400 I had four weeks to train more, 411 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,960 and I was just excited to see 412 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,520 what I could do in a competition. 413 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,160 [man] I think women's side is gonna be interesting. 414 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,880 'cause everyone sitting at the top 415 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,440 does not have real big number, 416 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,320 and the first thing we do is snatch, heavy. 417 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,880 So, Samantha Briggs it's damage control. 418 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,200 Jamie Green, it's gonna be a kind of damage control. 419 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,040 Stronger girls will get the chance 420 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,080 to really jump back up the leaderboard 421 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:26,240 when we get into those more classic CrossFit style workouts. 422 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,520 We've seen Laura come out, not do very well, 423 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,400 and then smash in event, smash in event, smash in event. 424 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,040 And I think there's a lot that can be made up there. 425 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,680 She's never had pressure on her. 426 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,360 Now there's kind of the expectation, 427 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,880 and that's a lot of pressure. 428 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,640 [man 1] Jamie Green as far as on competitive steam, 429 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,720 and she won this event in 2015 430 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,840 when no one had really ever heard of her, 431 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,240 and then she came back next year and won the open. 432 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,480 [man 2] I think she's got an incredible shot. 433 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,040 Stunner, mate, that's what she is. She's a stunner. 434 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,480 I'm happy with how the last two days have gone. 435 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,920 Obviously, this is not going to be my strongest event, 436 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,280 but hopefully shouldn't do like too bad on the next two events, 437 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:13,480 and then it'll make it interesting on the final day. Everything to play for. 438 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,520 I mean I think it's a good start, after two days. 439 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,800 First workout, I wanted to do a little better. 440 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,440 Because a little too conservative on the first one, 441 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,280 but then the other workouts we've had, 442 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:24,800 I guess we've had two other ones, 443 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,440 I felt like I capitalized pretty well. 444 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,480 I'm pretty happy with where I'm sitting. 445 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,360 I mean, it's like seven points out of first. 446 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,160 There's still seven events to go, 447 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,280 so it's a lot left, but I like my chances right now. 448 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,200 [Chase] Travis Mayer, Willy Georges, 449 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,800 and Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson. 450 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,920 Those guys that can push Mat for the weekend. 451 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,520 This is the day where Mat reminds everybody 452 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,480 of who Mat Fraser is. 453 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,840 They're gonna have to be perfect to beat Mat. 454 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,960 [Diego] Everyone comes to the snatch event, everybody wants to watch it. 455 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,720 And it's just like going to, to a baseball game, it's like you want to see a home run. 456 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,760 Like you don't want to see singles and doubles or triples. 457 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,120 You go to see home runs, and that's what this snatch event is. 458 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,160 [upbeat music] 459 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,640 [announcer] It will be a one rep max snatch event, 460 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,680 but a little twist is that we've kind of seen all weekend 461 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,560 is that there's only five minutes allotted 462 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,600 for them to get that one rep max. 463 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,960 Everyone loves a lifting workout. 464 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,840 It's like a lot of hype behind it. 465 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,600 Very entertaining for the crowds. 466 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,640 [Sara] You use that adrenaline with everybody, 467 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,960 and it just gives you so much. 468 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,400 I have a number in my head that I want to hit, 469 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,440 so I surprised myself by hitting almost six kilos heavier 470 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,000 than I'm hitting in World's. 471 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,800 So I was very happy with that event. 472 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,360 [heavy music] 473 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,880 [announcer] 136 good for Jason Smith. 474 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,520 [Diego] Everyone wants to see a very heavy lift. 475 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,480 It doesn't matter if you do it at your gym. 476 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,720 Can you do it when people are watching? 477 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,920 Can you do it when it can cost the event? 478 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,960 [announcer 1] Mia Akerlund going for a PR attempt of 104 kilo. 479 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,400 -[announcer 2] Oh, wow! -[announcer 1] Mia Akerlund has set the snatch record 480 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,640 in live CrossFit competition! 481 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,440 [announcer 2] The bigger sharks are starting to come up 482 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,160 -and start swimming. -[announcer 2 laughs] 483 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,080 [Mat] I had 136 loaded, and I knew that was the top weight, 484 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,120 so I knew it would get me a 100 points. 485 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,240 But it would also give the other two guys 486 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,640 who hit 136 a 100 points. 487 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,920 So I wanted to throw on one extra kilo. 488 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,600 [announcer 1] 40 seconds to go. 489 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,960 -[announcer 2] Oh, wow! -[announcer 1] But that's good for Mat Fraser! 490 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,320 [crowd cheering] 491 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,400 [announcer 1] So 137 for Mat Fraser 492 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,720 and a much needed confidence boost for Laura Horvath. 493 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,560 [announcer 2] Make no doubt about it. She needed that place finishing. 494 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,360 [Laura] I just beat our max snatch. 495 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,560 I got 93 kilos. I'm pretty happy. 496 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,800 [Mat] I had 136 loaded and then I was like, 497 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,400 nah, I was like, Jason's good, 498 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,360 I need to take points away from him. 499 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,280 Shit, man. Well done, dude. 500 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,680 The thing about Mat beating you is like you can't be mad at it. 501 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,160 Do you know what I'm saying? 502 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,240 If you get beat by him, well, he beat you 503 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,960 and you're like yeah, well, okay. 504 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,560 What you gonna do? Try again. 505 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,560 Yeah, it's the first time I go over like 85 since... 506 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,640 -Since 1960... -[laughing] 507 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,400 Yeah, it's also as like why didn't I put more on? 508 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,680 Yeah, and a little bit like on to the side. 509 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,160 Yeah, it's very weird. 510 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,320 I've never felt anything like that before. 511 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,800 Reach down, touch your toes as fast as you can. 512 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,120 How's that one feel? 513 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,680 -Yeah, it hurts. -That's good? 514 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,440 Get you on your back, face up. 515 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,360 I don't know, my back hurts so... I mean, I don't know. 516 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,440 Like yeah, from yesterday. 517 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,560 I just-- I can't bend over, it hurts so much. 518 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,120 I don't know how I snatched... 519 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,720 -[man] You got hurt now? -Yeah. 520 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,880 Before and after even, but it's not happening. 521 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,360 [reporter] I know you moved on and you like coaching like this, but do you miss this? 522 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,800 No, I miss, like this is the only event that I'm like, 523 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,560 oh, I kind of miss this, 524 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,160 but watching people run in the desert yesterday 525 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,280 made me realize why I stopped. 526 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,120 [laughing] 527 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,320 [reporter] Know where you are in the competition right now? 528 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:24,880 I think that last event bumped me up to first. 529 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,320 You know, it's still a tight race for like the top five or six, 530 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,840 but, coming into today, I think the top three of us 531 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,000 were separated by five points. 532 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,200 And then I think it was like through the top eight 533 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,480 was still a narrow points spread. 534 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,600 [Jamie] Event five was a 20 meter yoke carry, 535 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,760 straight into a 15 parallel handstand push-ups, 536 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,640 and then three rounds of 15 box jump overs, 537 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,840 and 10 ring muscle ups, and then you finish 538 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,640 with a 20 meter yoke carry again. 539 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,120 [Mikaela] I suggest the first round to be 540 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,880 a little slower on the box. 541 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,280 Put on the rings and then after that 542 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,800 you get onto the box and then you can speed up, 543 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,240 or slow down based on how you feel on the rings. 544 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,000 It's gonna be a little bit slower 545 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,720 on the handstand push-ups compared to the other girls. 546 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,960 She could speed up after that. 547 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,320 [woman] The yoke's heavy. 548 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,760 It's going to slow a few of the lighter girls down 549 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,280 who will move faster in the middle bit. 550 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,120 So it's going to be like a pretty good rest, I think. 551 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,520 [Sara] So I'd help my girls put the right height for the yoke, 552 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,280 and then I remembered, oh my gosh, 553 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,280 I have parallel handstand push-ups too. 554 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,040 So I ran to fix handstand push-ups 555 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,720 and then it's like three... 556 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,640 [announcer] ...two, one, go! 557 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:49,760 I was like, oh no! 558 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,000 Please don't make me disqualify! 559 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,640 [intense music] 560 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,080 [announcer] Laura Horvath, 561 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,800 who's moved up into fifth place, 562 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,080 made very easy work of that yoke! 563 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,280 [announcer 2] The thing with Laura is this particular event has specialties for her, 564 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,440 and some kryptonite for her. 565 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,600 The Achilles heel, and you just saw 566 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,560 that first rep was a strain. 567 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,880 That's one, she's got 14. 568 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,960 [Kristof] I don't think it's a family curse, 569 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,880 the handstand push-ups, but it doesn't go well for us. 570 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,000 [speaking Hungarian] 571 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,720 [Diego] There's a lot of people talking to Laura. She has her brother, she has her coach 572 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,840 and several other people throughout the weekend having a say. 573 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,240 Plus her own voice, right? 574 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,920 [speaking Hungarian] 575 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,240 [announcer] Sigmundsdottir is in second place. 576 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,520 About five reps behind Jamie Green. 577 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,920 Jamie Green who is third overall after four events 578 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,520 is running her way across the competition floor. 579 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,120 [announcer 2] Fraser will take event number five! 580 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,680 [announcer] And for Laura Horvath, 581 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,880 her chances of making it back at least to the podium, 582 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,280 are all but gone. 583 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,480 -[reporter] Laura, how'd it go? -[laughs] Not good. 584 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,560 I know my handstand push-ups are not great, 585 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,880 but I just did shitty. 586 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,480 I didn't do my handstand push-ups. 587 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,000 [Tommy] It's a pretty significant hole for Laura. 588 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,240 She finished second at the Games last year, 589 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,720 so she's in the conversation 590 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,600 to be a contender this year again, 591 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,120 but for the most part, if you want to win the CrossFit Games, 592 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,800 you can't have a hole like that. 593 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,880 You have to be pretty well rounded 594 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,440 in just about every aspect of fitness. 595 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,400 [speaking Hungarian] 596 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,880 I don't know how to put it. 597 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,520 I've worked so much on that. 598 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,320 I'm just not perfect. 599 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,320 [Tommy] So for Laura, it's something that's been a weakness 600 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,880 in the past, still a weakness now. 601 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,800 She's gonna have to dedicate the next few years 602 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,840 of development as kind of shoring up that hole as well. 603 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,320 [woman] So me, a fast row is like 155. 604 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,200 That's a really fast row for me. 605 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,800 And I remember watching Laura doing full bare bond, 606 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,840 and she was rowing my best row, 607 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,280 and she's like rowing that for like an hour. 608 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,760 I couldn't believe it. 609 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,480 I think she's pissed that I think she did it. 610 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,240 Did everything she can to go fast. 611 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,520 [intense music] 612 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,720 So event six was Acid Bath. 613 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,320 Which is now a very well known workout in CrossFit. 614 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,920 Pain. 615 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,720 Just pain, it's gonna hurt so bad. 616 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,920 [Tommy] Acid Bath is probably the most 617 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,560 appropriately named event of the weekend. 618 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,040 [announcer] This is how much pain can you take 619 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,560 and it's just straight grunt work. 620 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,680 Once again, Karin Frey. 621 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,320 We'll keep saying this name. 622 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,320 And Jamie Green has moved into first place 623 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,800 over Samantha Briggs by just four points. 624 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,800 A name that we do not see on the top 10 625 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,320 of the leaderboard is Laura Horvath. 626 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,480 [intense music] 627 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,840 [Tommy] Each one of the distances on these concept two machines 628 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,400 is just short enough to where you can give it 629 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,520 basically a full effort. 630 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,720 [Streat] That event is as much mental as it is physical. 631 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,440 You know how bad it's gonna hurt, 632 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,120 you know how bad you have to push 633 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,280 if you want to have a good finish on that, so yeah, 634 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,840 you get into the thick of things, and it's rough. 635 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,560 [Tommy] Your lungs start to burn a little bit, your muscles start to burn a little bit, 636 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,240 And before you know it, you've got this lactic acid burn 637 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,960 throughout your entire body. 638 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,600 [Jamie] I think more of time it's like 80% mental. 639 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,200 Especially like when you get to those top athletes. 640 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,840 Like everyone trains similar. 641 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,800 Everyone does long hours in the gym. 642 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,720 They have similar skill sets, but as [indistinct] 643 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,240 was those who can pull it out on the game day. 644 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,360 [intense electronic music] 645 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,560 [announcer] Fraser has one left, 646 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,600 but it's gonna be Khrennikov in lane 10! 647 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,840 [man 1] Everything in your body hurts, 648 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,360 and you can hardly even walk to the finish line. 649 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,000 [man 2] I've never experienced anything like that. 650 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,880 [man 3] My legs, literally, I couldn't even pick them up. 651 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,960 It was a bear crawl to the finish line. 652 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,720 [announcer] Laura Horvath blasting 653 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,160 the best time by 17 seconds! 654 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,360 [intense music] 655 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:48,640 [man] Someone get water. 656 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,360 Everyone was dead after that. 657 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,920 Yeah. 658 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,240 [Streat] I had somebody help me off the floor. 659 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,160 Like, that's not something I want people to see. 660 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,440 I literally could not walk off the floor. 661 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,360 That's how bad it was. 662 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,520 And then it just got worse. 663 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,320 I mean, guys were just laying in the tunnel 664 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,640 after five, ten minutes after the workout not able to move. 665 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,080 [Jamie] I think everyone was dead after that except for Laura. She was fine. 666 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,520 [audience cheering] 667 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,800 -You okay, hun? -No. 668 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,680 [groaning in pain] 669 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,440 [Diego] Laura comes in, crushes this event, 670 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,240 and then you see the men can't even walk. 671 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,160 And she's kinda just strolling off the competition floor, 672 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,640 so you know there's some mental toughness there. 673 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,080 Hi! 674 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,160 Yes! We got our picture with Laura! [laughs] 675 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,240 We were like 100 meters into the ski. 676 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,160 I was like Khrennikov, plus 12, 677 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,080 and I was like, "what?" 678 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,920 -He's going 10% faster? -[laughs] Yeah. 679 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,720 -I could tell my legs hurt. -Yeah. 680 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,840 But it was just like I couldn't feel it. 681 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,120 As soon as I stopped. 682 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,000 Yep, it all came. 683 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,320 Ah, my lungs. 684 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,840 [reporter] You gonna be a master next year. 685 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,880 -34. -Not doing bad for an old man. 686 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,400 -[reporter] And you? -28. I'm dead serious. 687 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,040 -I thought yo were [indistinct]. -Come on man, you're really old. 688 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,240 [laughs] 689 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,360 I mean, you're like masters next year. 690 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,480 I have another seven years of that. 691 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,040 Look how much better I could get in seven years. 692 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,760 Like you're already at your peak, like you're there. 693 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,880 Shit, seven years. 694 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:42,800 Seven years. 695 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,760 The only time I've ever felt like that, 696 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,280 or seen anything like that after a workout, 697 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,040 was at the Games, it was '14, right? 698 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,040 With the sled push? 699 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,600 And it was like people just couldn't stand up. 700 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,560 It was like one of those things like 701 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,120 the way I used to workout finishes is when the pain starts. 702 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,720 Oh, that was awful. 703 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,840 Did you just straight bear crawl across the finish line? 704 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,280 I almost had to as well. 705 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,840 [woman] I can't even imagine. 706 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,720 Like at that point it's just like... 707 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,160 Survival mode. 708 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,040 -Whatever you got to do. -Yeah. 709 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:23,280 Today was tough. 710 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,880 That last workout was just mean, it was... 711 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,240 No, like there was never a day of like, 712 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,040 I'm gonna beat so and so, 713 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,280 like me going on camera and talking about it. 714 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,160 There was like, I set a goal internally, 715 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,000 and then it worked. 716 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,880 And it's like, if you have something worth bragging about, 717 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,280 you don't have to. 718 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,120 You don't have to brag for yourself. 719 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,320 If you have something worth actually bragging about, 720 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,240 other people will do it for you. 721 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,280 [upbeat music] 722 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,000 So coming into the final day, 723 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,680 we got news that Laura Horvath 724 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,360 was pulling out of the competition, withdrawing. 725 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,720 [man 1] What's going on with Laura? 726 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,800 [man 2] She's at the doctor's now, 727 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,280 getting her back checked out. 728 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:30,920 It's early in the season. 729 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,640 Not a good time to be taking any chances. 730 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,560 My back blew up after the run. 731 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,160 And I mean during the run. 732 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,240 And I thought I was gonna be okay, 733 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,040 and I'm not so good right now. 734 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,880 That's a difficult decision to make 735 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,520 for a lot of these athletes. 736 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,080 They are training year round 737 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,640 for these very specific moments of competition 738 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,680 to where it very much feels like, 739 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:55,040 you know, the totality of their world 740 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,240 is in front of them at this competition. 741 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,800 To be able to acknowledge that 742 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,480 hey, this competition is over for me 743 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,400 and I need to do what's best and I need to pull out, 744 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,640 is something that they're not very used to. 745 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,200 [reporter] How were you able to get through the pain and win last night? 746 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:12,240 I don't know. I just... I don't know. 747 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,760 In the rope area it was painful just yanking onto rope, 748 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,600 but I just like I wanted to do the event. 749 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,760 After did not finishing the previous event, 750 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,720 I wanted to win this, so I just worked through the pain. 751 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,880 [Tommy] These are basically superhumans. 752 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,760 They are physically capable of things 753 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,280 that no other people on the planet are capable of. 754 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,640 And so to kind of bring yourself back down to Earth, 755 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,640 and have to acknowledge that something 756 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,720 as devastating as an injury is gonna force you to withdraw, 757 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,560 it's a tough decision to make. 758 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,000 [speaking Hungarian] 759 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,400 I've never withdraw from, 760 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,600 like pull out from a competition ever, 761 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,400 so it's a bad feeling, it's like... 762 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,240 I don't want that to happen to anyone 763 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,680 because it's like, not good emotionally 764 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:59,000 and physically it's not, yeah. 765 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,560 It's the worst thing you have to do when you have to stop a competition. 766 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,200 Like you worked hard for it, 767 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,200 and then you have to stop midway... 768 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,840 It's-- you feel like all your work is gone to waste. 769 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,520 I was upset, like gutted for her. 770 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,320 'Cause I know what that feels like. 771 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,160 It sucks when you're halfway through 772 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,720 and you gotta stop because of an injury, 773 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,560 but there's the good thing with the new system 774 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,960 that she can take a rest, recover, 775 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,760 and then come back in a few months to another competition. 776 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,080 [reporter] How're you feeling on the last day going into it? 777 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,880 Feeling good. 400 points up for grabs. 778 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,240 Pretty much the same amount of points open up 779 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,480 the last four days... 780 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,520 -Uh-huh. -...or three days. 781 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,400 Just going to try and capitalize on all the events. 782 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,720 Blast them, hopefully close the gap. 783 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,240 And, I mean, anything can still happen. 784 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,840 That's one thing I've always been good at, 785 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,400 is just let it go and just keep moving on, 786 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,120 and always try to see what can come at the end. 787 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,880 I've done it a few times at Regionals, 788 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,160 to get into the Games. 789 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,280 So hopefully I can pull it off here. 790 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,760 Last day of the competition. 791 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,520 It's gonna feel good. 792 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,680 It's going good. 793 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:09,120 [reporter] What's your hopes for the weekend? 794 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,920 -[man] Being top 10. -[reporter] Top 10? 795 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,560 Yeah, top 10 was the goal when we came here. 796 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,480 -Now what is? -But now is top three. 797 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,600 [announcer] The leaderboard is starting to take shape. 798 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,320 On the women's side, Sam Briggs, still alive 799 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,320 and in charge, with a 34 point lead over Jamie Green. 800 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,920 Sara Sigmundsdottir has moved into third, 801 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,320 but a name we probably don't know very well, 802 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,720 is Karin Frey who's sitting in fourth place 803 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,800 in striking distance and after a day 804 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,120 that we have four scored events. 805 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,680 [intense music] 806 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,680 [announcer] Event number seven is under way 807 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,280 as athletes spread across the competition floor 808 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,120 to tackle nine rope lines. 809 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,520 This is the final day of competition, 810 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,480 with four totaled events. 811 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,120 [announcer 2] Now this is great! 812 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,480 Fact that Mat's able to kinda lead the pack, 813 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,400 just like you said, these guys are going to need to take some chances 814 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,080 and I think they may be 815 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,360 overextending themselves by trying to follow Mat. 816 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,240 So there's leading the pack and then there is drawing pack out. 817 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,880 I feel like Fraser does a good job 818 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,360 of dictating the pace against other athletes. 819 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,920 [intense music] 820 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,600 [announcer 1] Mat plants the flag in event number seven, 821 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,320 and gets another event win this weekend. 822 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,840 And then Jamie Green, if she can hold on, 823 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,320 may be able to push herself just ahead of Akerlund 824 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,480 -by one spot, and she will! -[announcer 2 laughs] 825 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,960 So coming into the last day, the women's side of the house 826 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,360 was really, really tight points wise. 827 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,600 And there was four to five women 828 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,560 that were realistically within a shot of potentially 829 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,360 walking away with a win. 830 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,000 Nobody's gonna know, like... 831 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,640 Anything can happen, it's so close. 832 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,640 But for the men's side it was the opposite. 833 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,600 Mat Fraser was starting to run away with it. 834 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,480 He had multiple event wins. 835 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,800 He was starting to tie more of them together, 836 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,880 It looked like it was his competition. 837 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,040 [Travis] The goal coming in, I think, my mindset was to win. 838 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,240 But then throughout the competition, things changed. 839 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,800 There's still 300 points up for grabs. 840 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,280 Which is a lot of points, anything could happen, 841 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,320 so I'm just right outside of third, 842 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,520 so hopefully now it's just to get on the podium 843 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:39,920 and make some more money. 844 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,080 Diaper and milk money, is all that is. 845 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,440 [reporter] What's the next workout? 846 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,880 Sandbag carry, burpee box jump-over, 847 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,920 carry assault bike, and then back. 848 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,640 It's the workout of death. It's only gonna be-- 849 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:59,240 It's a three minute time cap, so you'll be going full blast for the whole time. 850 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,920 There's absolutely no thinking. 851 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,720 Are you willing to suffer or not? 852 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,600 That's it. 853 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,600 It's killer. 854 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,040 Three minute time cap, it's good. 855 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,680 [announcer] As you move to individual event number eight, 856 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,160 Sam Briggs had a 30 point lead 857 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,960 over second place, Jamie Green and it has changed. 858 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,120 Jamie Green, five points, now sitting in first. 859 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,720 A lot of things can happen with such a fast-paced event. 860 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,200 The smallest hiccup could be the difference 861 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,440 between 10 places. 862 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,320 [announcer] And we saw a painful event yesterday, 863 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,880 this is going to be basically the same realm. 864 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,120 The object here is pedal to the metal. 865 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,640 [Jamie] That was an awesome workout. 866 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,400 No one had time to practice it. 867 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:56,040 You sort of went into it, you knew it had to go well. 868 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,400 Normally on a bike, I'm a bit smaller. 869 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,560 So quite often I get behind on a bike. 870 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,240 This time, I was like, I'm not going to lose on a bike again. 871 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,000 [intense music] 872 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:17,320 [Jamie] And got to the burpees, I'd never felt my legs so heavy. 873 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,640 [announcer] And you can see what's happening with the leg. 874 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,320 [Sara] My legs just didn't want to jump. 875 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,720 It was the weirdest feeling I've ever experienced. 876 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,880 [announcer] Mat Fraser has moved ahead of everybody. 877 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,840 Jamie Green was first to the box, 878 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:37,640 but Sam Briggs, Sam Briggs has moved ahead of Jamie Green! 879 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,040 [announcer 2] Wow, all by himself. 880 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,520 [announcer 3] Mat Fraser another event win. 881 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,560 Sitting in second no more, 882 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,640 Sam Briggs has moved back into first place! 883 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,120 The worst an event is supposed to hurt, 884 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,320 the better Samantha Briggs does. 885 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,280 And she gets shot out of a cannon, 886 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,880 and gets herself a first place finish 887 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,280 and a much needed 100 points to put her back 888 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,200 into that top podium position. 889 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,880 [Diego] She just doesn't slow down. 890 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,080 Samantha Briggs has an incredible work capacity. 891 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,600 And it's just like the closer the race is, the harder she works. 892 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,640 A lot of athletes can take one or two events here and there 893 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,920 but where you really see the guys like Mat 894 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,640 and athletes like Dani, Sara, Laura, 895 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,680 all these people really make their space 896 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,200 as the weekend gets longer and the volume goes up. 897 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:28,720 When fatigue settles in, 898 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,320 when, you know, people are tired and hurting, 899 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,800 that's when these guys just kinda start 900 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,880 making and taking their lead. 901 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,400 You see Mat on the last day there, he's going up. 902 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,640 [announcer] Mat Fraser, back to back wins. 903 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,480 [commentator] He looks phenomenal. 904 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,760 Phenomenal for this early in the season. 905 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,600 I can only imagine what it's gonna look like towards the end of the season. 906 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,360 [Tommy] You might be able to beat Mat in one element of something, 907 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,800 you might be a better runner than him 908 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,360 or slightly better at the row, 909 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:54,920 or you might be able to lift 910 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,960 a few more kilos than him in one particular lift, 911 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000 but when you start to mix stuff together 912 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,480 like gymnastics, conditioning 913 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,480 and all the other aspects of fitness together, 914 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,360 this is where he really shines as the fittest man on Earth. 915 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,200 [announcer] I don't want to say, 916 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:12,040 I mean it's the very first event of the 2019 season. 917 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,280 I don't see anyone that can catch this guy. 918 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,360 I don't think it's a secret. 919 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,720 You know, I've been shown that like I have 920 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,880 an incredible support network around me. 921 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,960 Between Sammy, and then my manager, Keith. 922 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,040 They do anything and everything they can to help me 923 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,840 throughout the day, you know, 924 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,320 take as many responsibilities off my plate so I can focus 925 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,160 and put all my time and energy into training and competing. 926 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,440 I just want a cold shower. 927 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,080 Want to do the best I can. 928 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,000 And if I want that happen on the competition floor, 929 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,440 I have to do it multiple times a day 930 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,600 and training repeatedly throughout the whole year. 931 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,320 [intense music] 932 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,000 [retching] 933 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,480 -[Mat] Yo, that's my move. -[people laugh] 934 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:01,720 Yeah, don't take that. 935 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,280 When you have so many big guys here, 936 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,400 you have to give everything you have 937 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,680 to stay in that top, top five. 938 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,320 [reporter] Like what was the goal when you came out? 939 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,440 To win, was it to make it to the CrossFit Games? 940 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,000 To win some money in Dubai? 941 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,480 To win some money to go to Australia. 942 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,760 [reporter] You wanted to win some money to... 943 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,800 I'm doing the Australian Championship. 944 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,000 -[reporter] Oh, okay. -So it was to win to pay to go and compete there. 945 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,320 That was the plan. 946 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,160 [reporter] What's the plan now? 947 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,000 The plan is now to try [laughs] 948 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:37,800 and qualify for the CrossFit Games. 949 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,160 I did not expect to be like sat where I am, 950 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,760 but it's so close up there. 951 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,680 So, yeah. Playtime. 952 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:49,440 [intense music] 953 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,960 [announcer] We have 30 rep total of barbell workout. 954 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,680 It starts off with 15 snatches, and then 15 clean and jerks. 955 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:07,000 It's a six minute cap. 956 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,120 [announcer 2] And already over in lane number eight, 957 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,960 Dani Speegle has moved up into first. 958 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,080 [Sara] That was one of my favorite events. 959 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,600 It's only barbell, heavy barbell. 960 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,240 Could've been heavier, then I would've been happier. 961 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,480 [intense music] 962 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,520 [Jamie] Yeah, it's a hard one. Like you're at the end of a weekend. 963 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,680 They're pretty heavy weights. 964 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,920 It's one of those ones if you're a bigger girl, it helps lot. 965 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,960 [announcer] Sara Sigmundsdottir just hands in the air. 966 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,080 Billy Georges trying to hang on. 967 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,600 Mat Fraser has one rep. 968 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,080 Final rep for Speegle and she'll cross the finish line. 969 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,040 [announcer] That was very impressive by Sara. 970 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,160 She needed that event. 971 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,800 Again, one spot qualifies for the game. 972 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,440 And, man, these ladies are really putting on a show for all of us. 973 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,160 Best looking guy in the competition. 974 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,520 -Best looking guy? -Listen. He says I need to quit CrossFit and do modeling. 975 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,760 Physique, physique, body building. 976 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,360 -[woman] Interesting -Do you agree? 977 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,720 -I second that opinion. -Best looking man. Straight from physique competitor. 978 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,240 I might have to retire after this competition. 979 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,640 Change career paths. 980 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,680 Got that retirement fund set up yet? 981 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,400 Or are you just spending it all on cars? 982 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,120 [Tommy] One of the biggest draws for Dubai by far is the prize money. 983 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:35,960 Do you know about that 401K? 984 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,080 Dubai offers more prize money than any other sanctioned event. 985 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,040 It's not just for what your placing is 986 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:43,640 on the overall leaderboard. 987 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,560 You get prize money for your finishes 988 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,000 in every workout as well. 989 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:51,160 It's $3,000 for first in an event, 990 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,560 $2,000 for second in an event, and $1,000 for third in an event. 991 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:58,400 The overall placement pays out $50,000 for first, 992 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,520 $30,000 for second, $20,000 for third. 993 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,600 One of the unique things about the prize pot in Dubai 994 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,640 is that everyone leaves with something. 995 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,600 No one comes and leaves empty handed. 996 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,480 So the minimum amount you can make 997 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,320 for just coming to Dubai, just showing up, is $1,500. 998 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:14,760 All about diaper money. 999 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,800 [Streat] Even if you're not going to win 1000 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,560 or think to get a place in top 10, 1001 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,280 you have the potential of making 1002 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:21,640 a pretty decent amount of money. 1003 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,440 Just by if you're to win an event, 1004 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,520 or get top three in an event, so... 1005 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,520 Brought a big duffel bag. 1006 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,400 [Mohammed] The reason we make sure that everyone makes money 1007 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,320 is so they can continue to be a professional athlete and push harder. 1008 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,120 Athletes no longer have to worry about flying to Dubai, and coming to Dubai. 1009 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,720 They can worry about competing, they can worry about winning. 1010 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,120 There's a lot of athletes out there now 1011 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,080 who are just focusing on training, 1012 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,920 so they're not working as well. 1013 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,840 So that's a big attraction for people to come over. 1014 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,640 [Tommy] So we're coming to the end of the competition, 1015 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,520 and the organizers kind of had 1016 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,040 one more twist in their back pocket. 1017 00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,960 Just before the event, they announced 1018 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,560 that the final event alone 1019 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,480 was gonna be worth $30,000 to the winner. 1020 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,480 We timed it by 10, yeah. 1021 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,400 So it's $3,000, time 10 it's 30, yeah. 1022 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:10,640 Which is good, yeah? 1023 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,240 Isn't it nicer than 10,000? 1024 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,600 Which is more than most competitions 1025 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,480 have in total just for that last event out here in Dubai. 1026 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:19,920 Thirty grand. 1027 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,640 Pay off student loans with that. 1028 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,440 Thirty grand? 1029 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:25,440 That's decent. 1030 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:26,960 All for me. 1031 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,800 Straight to the gold and diamond broker tomorrow. 1032 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,000 [Sara] I want to be the best athlete 1033 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,360 because I want to show people what I can do, 1034 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,880 and I want to show girls that don't believe in themselves 1035 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,920 in a young age that they can work hard, 1036 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,520 and be where I am. 1037 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,840 It doesn't drive me to get prize money. 1038 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,080 [intense music] 1039 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,120 And I may be one of few people 1040 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,120 that doesn't like money. [laughs] 1041 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,000 [announcer] The 2018 Dubai CrossFit Championships 1042 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,880 is coming towards the end. 1043 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:02,200 It took nine events to get here, 1044 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,280 but only seven points are actually separating 1045 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,120 your top four athletes. 1046 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,200 Four women that were all within 1047 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:14,720 a decent points spread of walking away with the win. 1048 00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,360 You had Sam Briggs who had been towards the top all weekend long. 1049 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,320 You had Jamie Green who was right on Sam's tail. 1050 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,800 You had Sara Sigmundsdottir, 1051 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,600 who's been one of the favorites. 1052 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,120 You kind of had a surprise athlete in Karin Frey, 1053 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,040 who's been hanging tough in the top four all weekend long. 1054 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:33,080 And for Mat Fraser, he basically had the win locked up. 1055 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,080 He was so far ahead of everyone else, 1056 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,160 he could just put it on cruise control. 1057 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,240 But now with that $30,000 on the line, 1058 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,480 there's a tremendous amount of incentive 1059 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,560 for him to go out and just torch this event, 1060 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,240 and going full steam ahead to try 1061 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,400 and walk away with this $30,000. 1062 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,960 [intense music] 1063 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,760 [epic choral music] 1064 00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,000 [announcer] All four of these ladies have a different strength and a weakness 1065 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,320 and they need to play their game. You got to be very smart and aware of 1066 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,320 where you are and what you need to do. 1067 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,240 [announcer 2] There is a lot of things 1068 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,840 that still need to happen, so it's not just win or in, 1069 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,880 unless you're Sam Briggs or Jamie Green. 1070 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,320 If you're Karin Frey or Sara Sigmundsdottir, 1071 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,680 you need to win and have a little bit of help. 1072 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:19,560 [Jamie] That was a very long workout. 1073 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,120 It was a final and there was 1074 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,040 a lot on the line for the girls. 1075 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,080 So we were all on very similar points 1076 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,520 and it was almost like whoever won the workout, won DCC. 1077 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,440 [epic choral music] 1078 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,680 [intense music] 1079 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:37,280 [announcer] One event stands between four athletes, 1080 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:41,000 and one trip to the CrossFit Games. 1081 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:44,480 [Sara] I never look at leaderboards, so I have no idea where I stand. 1082 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,000 Was I fourth, was I fifth? 1083 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,760 [Jamie] It's not often that you get to go 1084 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,600 out there and compete when there's sort of like that much on the line. 1085 00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,800 And it was such a good workout that it sort of had parts where 1086 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,320 it's one person's strength, one person's weakness, 1087 00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,000 another person's strength here. 1088 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,880 [announcer 1] Green is one point behind Sam Briggs 1089 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,400 on the leaderboard. 1090 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,840 On the left, Sara Sigmundsdottir. 1091 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,840 [announcer 2] She needs to go unbroken on these wall bumps. 1092 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,360 [Sara] The only thing you can do is to learn. It's the best you can do. 1093 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,440 And if you do that, then you've reached your goal. 1094 00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,280 [announcer 1] Briggs is off the wall, onto the clean. 1095 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,480 She's ahead of Green and Sigmundsdottir. 1096 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,440 [intense music] 1097 00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,440 [announcer 1] We've had four events today. 1098 00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,920 Event number seven, first place for Mat. 1099 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,720 Event number eight, first place for Mat. 1100 00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,640 Event nine, first place for Mat. 1101 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:48,560 With two more sets, Mat Fraser will go four for four. 1102 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:55,720 Your 2018 Dubai CrossFit Champion, Mat Fraser 1103 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,680 is going back to the CrossFit Games! 1104 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,520 Sam Briggs is moving to the barbell for the last time. 1105 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,880 [Sara] Sam is just the [indistinct] fit type of human being. 1106 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,360 Her lungs can keep on going forever, 1107 00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,400 and she just always surprises you how good she is. 1108 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,480 [announcer 1] 20 meters for the lunges. 1109 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:25,280 [Jamie] Sam is insane and can train like hours on end. 1110 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,960 [Carmen] I never see her like struggling to workout 1111 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,600 like how other people struggle. 1112 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,480 She just keeps on going, and going, and going. 1113 00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:39,640 [announcer 1] And with one spread across the floor, 1114 00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:44,680 welcome back to the CrossFit Games, Sam Briggs! 1115 00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:46,440 [intense music] 1116 00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,680 And the first person to run over and congratulate her, 1117 00:53:55,720 --> 00:53:59,160 is Jamie Green just being one point 1118 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,880 away from qualifying herself. 1119 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,720 [inspirational music] 1120 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,520 [Sara] Enemies on the floor, when the clock starts 1121 00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,520 and then we're friends straight after. 1122 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,200 [announcer 2] At the top, out of the game, 1123 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:18,600 back in, barely making it, having to go masters, 1124 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,560 being injured, and then in this particular 1125 00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,920 brand new setup, the way that they do this, 1126 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,160 that you have one shot to get in, 1127 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,800 and she made it into the shot. 1128 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,800 [announcer 1] How competitive this guy is? 1129 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:41,840 He's getting better and stronger 1130 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:45,000 beyond what we can possibly imagine every year. 1131 00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,640 [announcer 2] But you're right. 1132 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,280 There's nothing that Mat Fraser cannot handle. 1133 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,760 Mat Fraser has now set himself up 1134 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,520 with an opportunity to fight 1135 00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,520 for his fourth consecutive title 1136 00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,640 at the CrossFit Games. 1137 00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,760 [Jamie] The last three years it's been amazing. 1138 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,800 It's been one of those cobs that's up there with the Games, 1139 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,960 so now the sanction is going to grow even more. 1140 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,040 [Mohammed] Four different days, ten workouts. 1141 00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,880 Then you got qualifications, 1142 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,920 Dubai CrossFit Championship 2018 has come to an end. 1143 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,440 But it's only the start of the partnership. 1144 00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,080 2019 will be even better. 1145 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:30,040 ♪ I be running with The wrong cash, cash, cash ♪ 1146 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,360 ♪ Let's go 1147 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:32,680 ♪ Pop it, pop it 1148 00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:34,440 ♪ Hit the floor 1149 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,280 ♪ Let it rain on you 1150 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:37,640 ♪ Then I go 1151 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,400 ♪ Look at, look at 1152 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:40,920 ♪ Palm trees 1153 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:42,600 ♪ Summer breeze 1154 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,280 ♪ You and me 1155 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,040 ♪ What you want 1156 00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:47,720 ♪ What you need 1157 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,400 ♪ Top down 1158 00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,000 ♪ No keys 1159 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,560 ♪ And say the wrong 1160 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,680 ♪ In a restaurant Slow down... ♪ 1161 00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:57,520 It's been pretty cool, like all weekend, 1162 00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:58,960 like really pushing. 1163 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,920 It wasn't over until the last workout. 1164 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,000 Like it was fight the full weekend, 1165 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,880 so it was really good. 1166 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,720 [reporter] And training wise, 1167 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,640 what does the next few months look like for you? 1168 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,360 Work on my weaknesses. 1169 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,880 Get this elbow strong. 1170 00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,480 And yeah, hopefully get ready for the Games. 1171 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:21,880 ♪ Get in 1172 00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,720 ♪ We're celebrating All night... ♪ 1173 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,440 Happy with second place. 1174 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,960 Obviously want to win, but it's out of range now. 1175 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,120 He is so good. 1176 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,080 You just cannot. 1177 00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:35,800 It's a good experience, you know. 1178 00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,480 Like after that competition, 1179 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,120 like what you need to work on, 1180 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,720 like how you stand compared to the other athletes. 1181 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,600 And, I mean, there are a lot of other opportunities 1182 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,040 to qualify for the Games, so 1183 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,200 I'm pretty happy with second place. 1184 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:50,720 And I can't be other than happy. 1185 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,360 Feel great. 1186 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,880 It's so good to be back competing. 1187 00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,960 [reporter] You're happy with placement you have? 1188 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,920 Oh, I am. I made a few mistakes throughout the weekend, 1189 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,280 so I'm happy that I still got there. 1190 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,440 [reporter] What was the best part of the weekend? 1191 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,440 It was the crowd. 1192 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,240 The goosebumps when you walk out to the floor, 1193 00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,240 you're so stressed to start a workout, 1194 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:14,880 and then you just hear your name. 1195 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,600 It's just the best feeling in the world. 1196 00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,000 [reporter] What now? 1197 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,120 What's your path now? 1198 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,240 Oh so now, I've only been training 1199 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,680 normally for eight weeks. 1200 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,560 So now it's just WaterPalooza. 1201 00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,600 So I'm just keeping on training. 1202 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,720 [reporter] You're going to WaterPalooza? 1203 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:33,680 Yeah, bro! 1204 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,120 And the vigil. 1205 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,640 Get some experience back in this body. 1206 00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,760 -Good luck to you. -Thank you. 1207 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,160 Feeling good, better than before the last workout. 1208 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,400 It was difficult to have four workouts 1209 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,560 on the last day and we've shot regularly, 1210 00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,080 but it was the same quarter outfit. 1211 00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:52,680 [reporter] So what now, what's the goal? 1212 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,320 Uh... Do the Open in France. 1213 00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,480 And maybe to get my qualification for the Games, 1214 00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:02,720 and after working sanctionals, and French full on. 1215 00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,160 He never ceases to amaze me, but I'm not surprised. 1216 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,760 And it never gets old, I will tell you that. 1217 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,480 It's so cool to watch. 1218 00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,320 I mean, he had already won. 1219 00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,600 Granted there was a lot of money on the line, 1220 00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:15,920 but still that hurt bad. 1221 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:17,560 That's so cool. 1222 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,400 Such a great competitor, you know? 1223 00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:21,840 So fun to watch. 1224 00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,440 Fun to be along for the ride, you know? 1225 00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:25,520 So cool. 1226 00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,800 -[reporter] Do you think anyone can beat Mat Fraser? -Yes. 1227 00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,640 Do you think you could be the man to beat? 1228 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,040 I mean, I think anybody can be beaten. 1229 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:39,880 And I'm not gonna count myself out. 1230 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,480 I mean if I do that, 1231 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,560 then I'm pretty much just admitting to losing. 1232 00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,720 And I wouldn't be a competitor and athlete 1233 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,720 if I didn't believe to some degree 1234 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:49,680 that anybody could be beaten. 1235 00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,520 It can take any event. 1236 00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,880 One thing could happen, you know? You never know. 1237 00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,800 And I think he just has to be pressured. 1238 00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,560 I mean, I definitely think whoever's gonna beat him 1239 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:04,320 has to be 120% on their A game, and cannot have any mistakes, 'cause he doesn't make mistakes. 1240 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,560 And that's one thing of why he does so well when he competes. 1241 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:13,040 So it's just being able to just capitalize on that and see how the weekend goes. 1242 00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:18,960 [reporter] Do you think this competition would be a good gauge to see where Mat is? 1243 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,960 Well, you're not trying to compare yourself to Mat as such, 1244 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,880 but to see where you're at as well? 1245 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:25,720 Yeah, I mean the fact that so many 1246 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,560 Games athletes come to this event. 1247 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,760 So I mean, you're looking at probably 25 out of 37 1248 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,440 have been to the Games on the male side, 1249 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:37,440 so it kind of gives you kind of a good head space 1250 00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,360 on where you're going to be at going into the season 1251 00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,280 based on how you probably do here 1252 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,560 because most of the people are starting to change 1253 00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,680 their training for events like this 1254 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,720 where there's a lot of money backing it 1255 00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:51,240 and performance side of it that didn't get you to the Games. 1256 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,320 Everybody's probably gonna be coming 1257 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,120 and bringing their best A game to show up here to earn the spot.