A Conversation with Brent Fikowski and Pat Vellner
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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PFAA board members Brent Fikowski and Pat Vellner join Sean and Tommy to talk about the recent demands from the PFAA that were released following the conclusion of the CrossFit Games. They discuss why they feel Dave Castro needs to be removed from his position on the sport team, why they chose to release their demands prior to the conclusion of the investigation into Lazar Djukic's death and where they and the sport may go from here.
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| 0:00.0 | Join now by two men on the board of the PFAA Brent Fekowski and Pat Valner |
| 0:04.4 | guys thanks so much for for joining us where do we find you today we'll start with you |
| 0:08.3 | Brent yeah I'm home I'm home in a colonial DC Canada nice pat I'm home in the Colonna, D.C. Canada. Nice, Pat. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm in Tampa, Florida. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm actually for the Tampa Bay Games for this weekend. |
| 0:19.0 | Not competing, but just hanging out there and doing some fun stuff with organizers. |
| 0:23.2 | So, do some weekend. |
| 0:24.8 | OK, well, we obviously have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:27.0 | So we'll jump right into it. |
| 0:28.3 | And a lot of these questions that I think we want to get to |
| 0:31.0 | are the ones that we have been seeing the most online |
| 0:34.1 | and comments section things like that. So the first one I have for you is that you put |
| 0:38.9 | out your list of demands to Cross Fit and the first two that were on there the safety and the transparency thing I think everybody looks at and says yeah okay those makes sense |
| 0:50.8 | But then the third one asking or demanding the removal of Dave Castro. |
| 0:56.0 | Why make that demand when the investigation is not done? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, so for us, I think it's important for people to know that the demands that were made are not exclusive to what's happened this year at the 2024 Crossman Games. |
| 1:12.0 | It's not decided and singular to one |
| 1:14.8 | incident. It's not just about the death of Lazar. It's not just about even our |
| 1:18.8 | experiences in meetings with Crossford for the last few years. There's a lot of stories, you know, |
| 1:24.4 | some public, some private that demonstrate |
| 1:26.4 | a continued pattern of behavior and willingful |
| 1:29.8 | disengagement from a culture of safety |
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