Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of talking elite fitness, Sean Woodland, Tommy

Marquez, Lauren Clill, and the official friend of the show, Brian, friend here with you.

As we continue to barrel towards weekend number one of semifinals. And today we are going

to focus on the individual competitions for the men and the women in North America east.

Obviously earlier this week, some big news happened with Malo Brian saying that she's

not going to compete at semifinals. You're looking for our reaction on that. You can find

it on YouTube. The four of us went live on Tuesday afternoon to talk about that. So today

we're going to focus more on who is in the field for the men and for the women. So let's

just start with the women's side because I think coming in and Tommy, you're not talking

about this. We said that, you know, you could have, you know, you could have the eventual

cross against champion coming out of this semifinal. And you know, that's still a possibility.

Like there's this is still a very talented women's field. How many, is it 12 spots that

are up for grabs here? 12, man, 11 women, 12, man, 11 women. So 11 for the women. And

we're going to do what we did for the team side of things. And we're going to sort of

break these athletes down and put them into tears. All right. So our first tier, we're

calling this the hardware store. This is, these are athletes who are, you know, they're

feeling the pressure, but they are not concerned about not making it to Madison. And if and

when they do make it to Madison, they not only expect to do well, but also push for

a spot on the podium. So obviously, you know, Malo Brian leaves a big void there because

I think many people had her penciled it at the top. Who now is the number one favorite

to win this semifinal, not only win the semifinal, but be in this hardware store category.

I open that up to the floor. No, it's interesting. I had three names originally penciled in this

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