Breaking - Roman is injured (confirmed)

[flowerofthefield]

@lisa1971 In the last event? Or from earlier??

 

[lisa1971]

@flowerofthefield Presumably the last event - but no-one has details

 

[larry3]

@lisa1971 I hope they let him compete, he will still podium even if he struggles

 

[puttincomputers]

@larry3 Seems unlikely, sadly. He won't be able to finish either event, which won't earn him any points. He only had a 1 event buffer over Pat and one and a half over Brent. He now lost both of those buffers with Brent and Pat finishing 1 and 2 the P-Bar traverse. Both would need to perform badly in the last event.

I feel so bad for the guy. Can't catch a fucking break and seems like such a great dude.

 

[puttincomputers]

He finished on the podium!!!

 

[lisa1971]

@larry3 Correct - apparently there is no minimum work requirement

 

[bengalinath19]

@lisa1971 That’s bs. There should always be a minimum work amount. I love Roman and it makes me sad he’s hurt, but let’s have some standards shall we?
I also disagreed when there was no minimum for pegboards and katrin just stood there and did nothing to go on and win overall.

But when they make mat do a minimum despite the inability for the field to pass him or Froning has to do 1 rope climb or he can’t be on the podium , it’s too variable.

 

[revjrm2047]

@bengalinath19 I always liked having minimum work requirements, too. It's dumb that you are getting so heavily downvoted just for having an opinion. Being able to meet a minimum work requirement in every event shows that the athlete is well-rounded and can be at least mediocre at everything (mediocre being relative to a Games-level standard.) I agree that it sucks that Roman got hurt, but that's just how sports go sometimes.

 

[markiplier]

@bengalinath19 Maybe CrossFit isn’t a very good sport. Just throwing that out there.

 

[kiravladimirovna]

@lisa1971 Guarantee he broke it by landing on the pile of bags under the last log

 

[keyboard0012]

@lisa1971 Omg this is sooooo sad

 

[soldout77]

@lisa1971 MCU just confirmed on their Instagram story

 

[kezi]

@soldout77 Why the hell is the Marvel Cinematic Universe commenting on the CF Games?!?

 

[atomis2790]

@kezi Scouting for new villains?

 

[namp]

@kezi Morning chalk up.

 

[hallbee66]

@soldout77 “Was seen on crutches” well that sucks

 

[abbysweet]

@lisa1971 It seems like a lot of injuries happening this year with top contenders (and even before the games).

 

[revjrm2047]

@abbysweet It seems to me more like a lot of people dealing with chronic stuff coming into the competition versus the events themselves causing a problem. If anything, I was thinking the events had pretty reasonable loads compared to the abilities of the athletes, and we haven't had any crazy events like Murph 2016 that were obviously taking multiple athletes out of competition with a single event.

 

[kimberlykay]

@abbysweet Yeah agreed. May be time for HQ to rethink some things.

 

[borikua]

@kimberlykay This was all on Roman. As an athlete you knew you had to go over the logs. You could control where you placed it and where you jumped.

Absolutely gutted for Roman but you can’t put this on HQ, they did nothing wrong.