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It is exactly one week until the 2017 CrossFit Games kicks off. Get pumped up for all the action by turning the volume up on one of our Road the Games Spotify Playlists featuring curated training playlists from Alessandra Pichelli, Emily Bridgers, Carleen Mathews and Margaux Alvarez.
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GAMES WATCH
Everything you need to know about watching the CrossFit Games. The events page continues to fill out with more details, especially in the Masters and Teens (M/T) divisions. The Saturday Masters 50+ event is a 2-rep max front squat, a movement that has never been tested at the Games for max weight. Dave Castro releases the makings of another team event including muscle-ups, GHDs, assault bike and deadlifts. We’d fully expect muscle-ups to be synchronized. MYSTERY UNKNOWN… Rogue teased some interested cylindrical packaging (possibly the outer shell of a barbell tube) with Katrin Davidsdottir’s signature sled dog logo.
Spealler Status Update…After finding out last week that he has a bulging disc L4/L5 and L5/S1 is immobile, his Games status was questionable. Chris told us yesterday that he plans to compete. “Going to head out there and do the best I can. If I need to pull out with the back getting aggravated I will.”
FUN FACT: Thought Madison was a bad choice and would be a total bust? More tickets have been sold for the 2017 CrossFit Games than any other in its 10-year history; with more than 60,000 spectators expected to attend.
MAD TOWN ROUNDUP
2017 Pan Am Watch… Mattie Rogers took home three silvers and clean and jerks 133kg, just 1kg under her own senior American record. The 17 year-old phenom Harrison Maurus takes bronze in the clean and jerk at his first ever senior event. Originally a backup, Angelo Bianco lit up the stage and earned silver with a 188kg clean and jerk and silver in the total.
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WATCH: Setting Goals with Katrin Davidsdottir
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HEAR: Matching Tattoos
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THIS WEEKEND, about 120 athletes are competing in the third annual “Battle For the Flag” event at CrossFit Mt. Juliet in Juliet, TN. The money raised will be will be used for equine-assisted counseling for combat veterans and their families. Battle Flag Ranch is a nonprofit that provides free short-term respite to and high-impact retreats for combat-weary veterans and their equally weary spouses and families.
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CJ Cummings is an undisputed star of USA Weightlifting. He’s currently riding a winning streak of more than a year, dating back to June of 2016, and just recently won his fourth consecutive youth or junior world title in the 69 kg. division. His streak started when he became the first U.S. weightlifter since 1994 to set a world record.
He’s also just 17 years old.
He’s nearly unbeatable at the youth world level and currently holds the world record in his weight class, but out of the gym, Cummings is just a regular teenager who spends his summer days at the pool with friends, eating French fries and working a part-time job.