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Brazil’s 21-year-old phenom could bring strong CrossFit representation from South America the Games has never before seen.

The 2021 CrossFit Games are underway for the top 40 men and 40 women from around the world. The athletes, who qualified through Semifinals, have gathered in Madison, Wisconsin, to compete for the title Fittest on Earth. Day 1 at the competition saw individual athletes tackle four events which included a long swim and longer paddle, the return of the Pig flips, sprints, and wall walks. The women’s field was reduced to 36 athletes and lost some top podium contenders, following the news of Bethany Shadburne and Kari Pearce testing positive for COVID-19 and being medically removed from the comp...

Archive piece from 2019. Patrick Vellner is tantalisingly close to being anointed with a truly one-of-a-kind title. The 28-year-old CrossFitter and Reebok athlete from Red Deer, Alberta, is currently listed as the second-fittest person on earth, per CrossFit’s standards. That’s on the heels of two straight years finishing in third place (he’s been on the competitive CrossFit scene since 2015). And yet, despite his 12-pack abs and ability to deadlift 595 pounds, Vellner actually kind of looks like a normal, down-to-earth dude you’d sit next to at a bar on a Saturday night. (I witnessed...

The 2020 HYROX World Champions will have a hand in picking their challengers for HYROX Dallas. Last updated on January 7th, 2021 In December of 2020, Hunter McIntyre and Lauren Weeks won the HYROX World Championships, which took place in Hamburg, Germany. Now, both McIntyre and Weeks are hand-picking their opponents for HYROX’s Feb. 20, 2021, Dallas, TX event, which is taking place at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. That’s right. The current champs are working with HYROX to pick nine other athletes that they think will pose the greatest threat to their fitness throne. Specifi...