The State of CrossFit | Noah Ohlsen | Work for Change 084
Work for Change Podcast
John Glaude
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we have the return of the 2nd Fittest Man on Earth Noah Ohlsen. Noah recently decided to decline his invite to the 2020 CrossFit Games due to the insensitivity of CrossFit HQ and actions that did not align with his values. We talk about his thought process during this time, and what it eventually was that made him make the decision.
We hope you enjoy this week's episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Work for Change Podcast. My name is Jean. I'm your |
| 0:07.6 | host this morning. Normally I'm joined here with my brother but he wasn't able to |
| 0:10.9 | make it for this intro, but we are both here we are |
| 0:13.7 | both in for this podcast and we're really excited for this episode on this |
| 0:17.2 | episode we are interviewing Noah Olson multi-year games athlete most recently got second place at the 2019 Crossfit |
| 0:26.4 | Games on the highest best performance of the of his games career and then this |
| 0:32.2 | year decided to step out due to a lot of the controversy that's |
| 0:36.1 | sounding around surrounding Cross Fit. We talk about all that. We talk about his thoughts, his reasoning, |
| 0:41.5 | why he decided to step out from the high of his career, |
| 0:45.1 | and what he was kind of hoping to see change through the Cross Fit season and through the CrossFit |
| 0:49.7 | organization. |
| 0:50.7 | We're getting to really deep things really early on the episode. So I really think you guys are going to enjoy this. If you guys do like it, be sure. Leave us a five-star review on iTunes if you can. Leave us a comment on Instagram. That'd be great. Leave us a comment on Instagram. |
| 1:03.0 | That'd be great. |
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| 1:06.0 | Just let us know that you support the podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | We really, really enjoy making it and we just hit 400,000 downloads. |
| 1:13.2 | We're almost at half a million, which is insane. |
| 1:16.2 | Just blows my mind. |
| 1:17.2 | So thank you for your support. |
| 1:18.6 | Thank you for continuingly showing up and being awesome. |
| 1:22.0 | Without further ado, here is Noah Olson. |
| 1:25.0 | Noah, thank you so much for joining us again. |
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