@giftsigns Day 2!
I didn’t realize ahead of time that day 2 was only the lifting event so that was sort of a let down.
I mentioned in a comment above that I don’t love the mono jump rope but I also don’t hate it. I think it was a good idea to give the athletes plenty of time to know it was coming so they could practice it. It stinks that there were athletes who didn’t get a lift in at all.
As expected Karin Frey killed it! Anikha Greer did really well too. Dahlstrom never finished her double unders so she dropped even further down the leaderboard. Thuri Helgadottir did fairly well to move up to 9th overall. I’m curious to see how well Karin does tomorrow - is she gonna put the hammer down or keep the door open for Sunday?!
For the men, Koski had to do damage control to prevent falling down the leaderboard too much. He got 17th which moved him down to 4th place. Unfortunately for Jonne the men that did well in the lift were already near the top ten. The Dukic brothers stole the show with back to back top lifts and a huge brotherly celebration. I was definitely excited for them! Travis Mayer got a 6th place finish to move him in to 5th place. Giorgis Karavis had another good finish to solidify his 3rd place standing. The two events tomorrow have me excited to see how the leaderboard will change! It’s looking like an exciting top 5/6! I think luka will do well in the run and Koski will do well in event 5.
As for the teams, they had a similar format but only had to do double unders once per athlete. There still ending up being teams that never got to the lift which is unfortunate. Los Ninos are still in first place and both Training Culture teams are still in 2nd/3rd. Kristof Horvath outlifted all the men in the team and individual side with a massive 160kg/352lb clean and jerk. BUT unfortunately we never got to see it. Brian Friend made multiple announcements basically to the camera crew to get him on screen and they never did.
The whole day Friend was trying to call out lane numbers to get on screen but they failed to show the lift over and over. It made the event extremely frustrating. I saw more standing around than lifting because it seemed that there was no communication with the camera crew. It even sounded like Brian was exasperated. Hopefully tomorrow is better produced like day one. That’s all I got!
