Patrick Vellner
De Rich Froning e Annie Thorisdottir a Mat Fraser e Tia-Clair Toomey - se cada nova geração de campeões vê mais longe do que a anterior, é porque eles estão nos ombros de gigantes. Quando Fraser declarou que se aposentaria da competição após a temporada de 2020, ele abriu as portas para uma nova onda de desafiantes. Em 2021, competidores novos e experientes marcaram o 15º ano dos Jogos com 15 eventos projetados para testar os limites do potencial humano e seu merecimento para serem chamados de mais aptos. Em meio às surpresas, contratempos e exibições impressionantes de atletismo incomparável, Toomey continuou com consistência e calma como um relógio em uma tempestade, enquanto quebrava recordes e garantia seu lugar como a atleta mais imbatível da história do CrossFit Games. Nos Jogos de 2021, testemunhamos o retorno de alguns dos grandes nomes do esporte e a ascensão dos novos iniciados - aqueles que carregarão o manto do Mais Apto da Terra para a próxima geração.
Himself
In 2017, the fittest athletes on Earth took on the unknown and unknowable during four of the most intense days of competition in CrossFit Games history. "The Redeemed and the Dominant: Fittest on Earth" captures all the drama as the top athletes resembling chiseled Grecian gods descend on Madison, Wisconsin, to face a series of trials. Hercules faced 12; they take on 13. Emotions run high as a throng of Australian athletes rise to the top. By the end of the competition, some learn tough lessons - that all that glitters isn't gold, or even bronze - and some learn that they're even stronger than they realized. The best among them enter the pantheon of the CrossFit giants and earn the right to call themselves the "Fittest on Earth"
The 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games were a grueling five-day, 15-event test to find the fittest man and woman on Earth. "Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness" follows the dramatic story of the top athletes who qualified and competed and offers an inside look at what it takes to be among the world's elite athletes, both in training and on the competition floor. The CrossFit Games challenge competitors to perform intense physical tasks, but the hardest part is sometimes mental. Athletes often learn the details of the events only minutes before they begin, and everyone handles the pressure differently. Which of these fierce competitors will rise to the top and earn the title of Fittest on Earth?
