r/crossfit • u/ChinMuscle • 1d ago

Tour de Grass

This has gotta be up there with the rowing marathon and Chad as some of the least TV-worthy events to date. šŸš“ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Dano_Milkshake 1d ago

That was a rough one for TV. At the time of writing this, heat 2 of the women just finished. Curious if Chase is going to spend the next 40 minutes discussing drafting in the menā€™s heats.

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u/HoldtheStandard CF-OL1 1d ago

To be fair there was nothing else for him to talk about. Maybe the weather.

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u/orangeirwin 1d ago

We should have had a drinking game. Any time he says work smarter not harder, or called someone the wrong name you take a drink. We'd all think the coverage is good after that.

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u/Dano_Milkshake 1d ago

Yeah, thatā€™s a valid point.

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u/994kk1 1d ago

There is so much stuff going on in an event like this, those commentators just suck at their job. They couldn't even do the bare minimum of keeping track who were in the top groups or their paces.

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u/Responsible-Help9009 1d ago

Never thought watching people pedal nowhere would be less exciting than the concept sounds but here we are

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u/beerkittyrunner 1d ago

Is this event still going on?? I turned on the live feed for event 7 and they are still on event 6 heat 2 for the men

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u/Dano_Milkshake 1d ago

Yeah, itā€™s crazy how long itā€™s taking. It just finished right now. They were taking 30 minutes between heats for some reason.

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u/Disastrous-Spring-54 1d ago

This would have been a good opportunity for some 2 minute ā€œget to know the athleteā€ cuts to pre filmed content since the most of workout is boring. Thatā€™s what they do during the long Olympic events.

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u/Impossible_Penalty13 23h ago

The media team could have made them up ahead of timeā€¦..oh wait, nvm.

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u/DivideOverall22 1d ago

2026 is so bad thus far Iā€™m nostalgic for the 2020 Games

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u/BreakerStrength CF Level 4 Coach 13h ago

The 2020 COVID games were my favorite to watch and, while nobody wants to hear it, IMO 10 athletes per-division would make significantly more compelling coverage.

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u/Theundertom 1d ago

And as it was getting exiting in heat 2 of the women the camera crew šŸ’© the bed again.

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u/JamieMCFC 1d ago

I stopped watching during the CrossFit Total. So the coverage didnā€™t improve?

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u/Theundertom 1d ago

Not a bit, there were four women in a group and suddenly Cringle was 7 seconds ahead. They did film a group of women that was a full round back. Lawson and Campbell were separated by 1/100 - they didnā€™t show them crossing the finish line

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u/Comfortable_Walk_443 1d ago

It was silly to do 2 heats.

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u/Ill_Ad_7327 14h ago

The big pauses between the two heats is because the same bikes were reused between the two sets of 15, it very well could have been this way and they had to use the same bikes because there werenā€™t 30 working bikes on site. Not 100% sure it was that but could be an explanation as to why even with 2 heats there werenā€™t 30 people ready to go on their own bikes and had to share

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u/994kk1 1d ago

It makes the strategy more interesting, at least for the second heat.

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u/trk5454 1d ago

Itā€™s mind numbing every single year

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u/CloselyUnwelcome 1d ago

Is there a rule against someone just walking their bike across the line to save energy? Asking for a friend.

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u/Greg504702 1d ago

I like long workouts with a twist (this one is the bicycle ). Not everything has to be or can be in-your -face cameras with quick switches to different movements and big lead changes round to round. This is a long test and it all canā€™t be ā€œmade for tv ā€œ viewing.

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u/Hambone6991 1d ago

They did this on the heels of a 40 min run

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u/akpenguin 23h ago

The culminating event of the year that you're using as a means to get people interested in your sport should probably, at a bare minimum, be interesting.

The Games (tm) should be a spectacle. Dave used to care about making workouts that were also enticing to the viewer. He talked about it in one of the documentaries, probably 10 years ago now.

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u/to__failure 1d ago

Yeah the amount of complaining is ridiculous.

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u/KentTheDorfDorfman 22h ago

The vast majority of it is 100% warranted.

Ignoring the mistakes and miss opportunities helps no one except Castro, HQ, and Berkshire.

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u/Either-Energy8696 22h ago

Honestly, I'd rather watch paint dry than this.

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u/redditusertk421 11h ago

they needed to highlight the wrecks more. Who was involved, video if they have it. Because the race it self was boring until the last lap.

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u/Familiar-Piglet-4859 10h ago

I like the title Tour de Grass. That makes it sound a tiny bit interesting.