Hi everybody, welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland and

Tommy Marquez here with you on a Friday afternoon.

And the big news, Tommy, we actually had big news break in this week is what happened

with Ricky Gerard, really unfortunate to hear that he will not be competing this season

due to a shoulder injury and this is certainly going to have some big ramifications as far

as the men's competition is concerned because I think coming into the season, a lot of

people had him, given what he did last year, penciled in for being a strong contender for

one of the three spots on the podium.

Yeah, I mean, what he did last year at the games, wearing the white leadership seat for

so long, I think just kind of added fuel to the fire of what was going to be an exciting

men's race, you know, we can dive into ultimately what happened in a second, but we got to

see little tidbits of it continue to build throughout the off season now, obviously, you

know, Justin Wins rogue, Ricky and Roman kind of had an off competition, you know, they

weren't like fully dialed up for it.

But then we saw Roman and Ricky going head to head with Pat Vellanar right there too at

Wada, Paloosa and it's and we started to get glimpses of, okay, well, what is another year

of development behind a an athlete and Ricky who's just getting him used to, you know, full

training and full prep for games now off of his suspension and Roman who's finally training

another full year with the intent of knowing that you're going to be at the cross games

and that you can't get a podium.

So, you know, the thoughts or beliefs of, hey, I can push Justin are now known facts to

them and how does that dictate, you know, the results, the following year and I think

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