Sara's Setback, Enjoy Your Appetizer, and Europe Semifinal Preview
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Another Icelandic star is sitting out the season. Sara Sigmundsdottir is calling it a season after being diagnosed with Reactive Arthritis.
CrossFit's coverage of Semifinals on Friday has been called an "appetizer." But what exactly can we expect them to serve up? CrossFit Games Podcast host Chase Ingraham sheds some light on that.
Speaking of Semifinals, competion gets started this weekend in Europe and Asia. Sean, Tommy and Lauren talk about the top storylines they will be following.
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| 0:00.0 | One two three go. |
| 0:10.0 | three go. |
| 0:10.0 | What is happening everybody? Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. I'm Sean Woodland with Lauren Kalil and Tommy Marquez. How's everybody doing today? |
| 0:19.0 | Oh good, ready for some in-person competition. |
| 0:24.0 | Finally, finally. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll get to watch two-thirds of it live, which is good. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll hear more on that, but also if you haven't already when you hear this, go check out |
| 0:37.2 | Death Buy because I popped in for a surprise appearance to discuss some of that as well. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, there was a very good discussion on this week's episode of Death Buy about that. |
| 0:47.0 | So we are certainly going to go into some things and try to answer some questions like we try to do and provide some clarity on this whole thing. |
| 0:55.4 | Also gonna go go through other headlines and we want to preview the big semi-final going on |
| 1:00.9 | this weekend over in France the Europe semi-final. They'll be sending |
| 1:06.9 | 10 men, 10 women, and 8 teams to Fort Worth, Texas to compete in the Crossford games. |
| 1:14.4 | So a lot of exciting stuff is one of the best. |
| 1:16.0 | I love this time of year. |
| 1:17.6 | Three straight weekends of live competition, |
| 1:20.3 | qualifying spots on the line. It, I think sometimes I get more hyped up for semi-finals than I do games because I also like too now we have standardized programming sort of that common thread that runs through it's all who's gonna beat the event record and this person's gonna smash this one and being able to build that anticipation so |
| 1:37.2 | Really looking forward to a watching the best in the world throw down in person because that's what we all want to see more of. |
| 1:46.0 | That's what matters. |
| 1:48.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:49.0 | All right, before we get into it, want to thank one of our sponsors for today and that is |
| 1:54.8 | Garman if you're looking for a smart watch that does absolutely everything and I mean |
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