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Damn Diane
It’s Friday afternoon at CrossFit Nanaimo in British Columbia. The gym is oddly quiet for a competition. All eyes are intently watching Patrick Vellner blaze through Damn Diane, event 3 of the 2020 CrossFit Games.
He does his first set of deadlifts with speed and ease, before breaking up his first set of 15 handstand push-ups into two sets, just like he told his coach Michele Letendre he would do just minutes before the event.
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