Breaking - Roman is injured (confirmed)

[lisa1971]

Broken foot - source: John Young on Barbell Spin

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[simpleone77]

@lisa1971 He's doing doubleunders on one foot. The dude's a beast.

 

[tennesseegirl1993]

@simpleone77 Also a bit of an idiot. There was no minimum work requirement

 

[juju05]

@tennesseegirl1993 That’s not what this sport is about.

 

[tennesseegirl1993]

@juju05 There’s plenty to love about this sport but this part is fucking brain dead

I’ve been at comps where there has been one guy left on the floor struggling with a clean and jerk he clearly cannot lift. He’s failed it 3 times and on his previous attempt he’s caught it in a zercher squat and nearly fallen headfirst with the barbell. Everyone is yelling at him to try again. No for fucks sake, last thing he should be doing is trying again

Roman doing those DU is exactly the same thing. What if he’d have hit his other foot with the heavy rope or tripped and fell on it? Could have affected any chance he has in the final event or even put him out permanently.

Stuff like this isn’t honorable it’s idiotic

 

[akingbade]

@tennesseegirl1993 It’s not honorable, but when your income and your family’s well being monetarily hangs in the balance- I get why (Roman’s case).

 

[tennesseegirl1993]

@akingbade How would whether he finished last by 8 rounds or last by 5 rounds have had any bearing on his family’s financial stability?

 

[juju05]

@tennesseegirl1993 They make money through sponsorships. Pretty sure this will get him some notoriety.

 

[tennesseegirl1993]

@juju05 Very tenuous but possible

 

[akingbade]

@tennesseegirl1993 I guess i assumed you were asking him to withdraw from the competition all together= 0 dollars.

 

[tennesseegirl1993]

@akingbade No absolutely not, my whole point was there was no minimum work requirement so he could have just stood there and not risked further injury for the same result

 

[angelmom1958]

@tennesseegirl1993 Im with you on this one. Cool content, but smart one? Idk

 

[backnspace]

@tennesseegirl1993 Idk. CrossFit has shown in the past they will remove athletes that don't "put in effort". That might only apply to some low tier semifinal athletes though.

 

[fearey]

@backnspace I think if there was longer left, or before a cut then it certainly would have been more contentious - or even if the last event was something he could actually do and would benefit from less energy used on event 11 somehow… but as it was CF knew he couldn’t do event 12 so they should have let him just stop

 

[lleahcim]

@tennesseegirl1993 Totally agree, this is the thing I really dislike about CrossFit this sect mentality that failure is not an option.

Plenty to love about CrossFit, but please stop encouraging this, it only makes it a disservice

 

[oddrob]

@juju05 It’s about going through workout with a broken foot just to show grit? That’s stupid.

I assumed there was minimum work required, if that’s not the case, that was completely unwarranted, dangerous and probably pushed just by this nonsense perspective.

Glad he went through it “unscathed”, but he could have seriously worsened his injury.

 

[shanelg94]

@lisa1971 There are altogether 26 bones in a foot. Sometimes, you can compete well with a broken foot bone, sometimes you can't compete at all.

 

[jayheart]

@shanelg94 He will be back. Really annoying that nobody was moving back those sandbags.