23.1 women’s barbells misloaded

[budalazena]

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[shellyslioneyes]

@budalazena That’s some bush league type bullshit. Embarrassing. Come on now.

 

[hurtingsara]

@shellyslioneyes Kind of expected after the cycling event at the Games last year.

 

[lovejt209]

@budalazena Just embarrassing considering there was the head coach Bos present at site.

 

[bryan3215]

@budalazena Oof. Poor Laura, she put up serious reps too. Wonder how much she does with the heavier weights.

 

[charlesdidge]

@bryan3215 Probably better

 

[brendaj63]

@charlesdidge She had stated a couple of years ago at the games that she wished the pig flips were heavier to slow everyone else down. She’s awesome!

 

[n1gger]

@charlesdidge The cleans are at the end of the workout so I doubt it will affect her reps much. Still sucks though.

 

[tmaries]

@budalazena Yep called it

https://www.reddit.com/r/crossfit/comments/113ujxl/crossfit_open_231_discussion_thread

I can only guess, the scorecards were written in lb and since it was filmed in Spain the athletes, judges, back stage crew, etc were used to working in kg. It really wouldn't be that much more effort for HQ to include both measurement systems on the scorecard, not just in the equipment description.

 

[skelendke]

@tmaries I don't think they accounted for the female bar. They loaded it as if the bar was 20kg not 15kg.

I agree though, if they want to be an international sport then they should should include KG weights in the announcement.

 

[ecclesiastian]

@tmaries That's not relly an excuse, here in UK we use KG and it's always on the movement standard if not the scorecard what the minimum allowed weight in KG is.

When we were starting out it always caused a problem because it would be 43kg, well guess how many half KG plates we had at the time... so we all had to do 45 instead. Not a huge difference, but still an unlevel field.

 

[noel3124]

@ecclesiastian It does balance out though as dumbells are 35lbs which is 16kg and when we have double dumbell movements which is quite often they are shifting 32kgs and we are shifting 30.

 

[ecclesiastian]

@noel3124 Fair but further proves my point. There should be a standard measurement across the world. When/if it comes to 1RM lifts in the open / quarters some people will be beaten simply because of the conversion.

THe US use KGs for Olympic Weightlifting, why not CrossFit?

I realise at this point though the huge cost to affiliates/garage gym users if they had to change

 

[mdstehling]

@tmaries Not an excuse really at all. I don’t understand how this gets missed. Plates even in the US have KG stamped on them and if you’re a pro, you aren’t checking your weights?? Surprising misses all around.

 

[kakumei]

@tmaries I saw the scorecard today and I saw the KG amounts that were equivalent to lbs on the right side of the paper. I honestly thing it was a male vs female bar miscalculation.

 

[isaacs2311]

@budalazena Somewhere Hiller is so happy.

 

[kennybest]

@isaacs2311 Brian Friend has been documenting fuck ups recently

 

[jkhaemba]

@kennybest Pls let me know when he starts documenting Morning Chalk Up's editorial fuck ups too. Or maybe that would keep him too busy to cover CF.

 

[grace4nan]

@jkhaemba He left MChup.

 

[jwilson757]

@jkhaemba Lol at Morning Chalkup.

They were going to do a story on a noteworthy California CF box that held an online kettlebell comp via Competition Corner a few years ago that ghosted us when it came to mailing prizes to our podium finishers. They congratulated us on medaling via email like a week or 2 after the comp, asked for addresses to mail prizes, then ghosted.

Classy

MCU got all the documentation from us over an email thread (which we still have on file) and after a few weeks responded they didn't have time to run the story.

Translation - they buried it. Not sure why but that box and it's sister box especially are all over the MCU website.

-Ryan