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[Katrin] I think I was
born competitive.

Like, since I was a little kid,

like, you could always
challenge me to something,

and I'd always be sprinting to
the next lamp post,

like, trying to beat
someone to it,

or if I didn't have anyone to play with,
I'd just put a clock on the floor,

and just time myself
in hand stands

and then try to beat that time.

[Ben] I loved the idea
about CrossFit athletes,

and how they were, like,

the ideal athlete is someone
who can do everything,

kind of like a super-athlete,
right?

Run, bike, swim, lift weights,
do gymnastics.

It was cool to implement
all of those things

into one training methodology.

[Sara]
Like, this is my whole life.
[Chuckles]

Like, I wake up in the morning,
and I'm training.

Then I'm coaching.
Then I'm training again.

Then I'm coaching.

If I go to a party or something,

everybody is asking me
about CrossFit.

And I think, "So this is just
my whole life now."

[Dan] When your goal is
winning all year long,

and then you don't win,
you don't meet your goal,

it hurts, like, it sucks.

There's no getting around it.

And there would still be
a piece of me inside

that even if I got second,
I would be slightly upset.

You know what I mean?

And that's...

That's just the way it goes
when you're competitive.

That's the way it goes
when you're a competitor.

[Mat]
It's a really big fear,

that even if everything goes
picture-perfect,

all year, training goes
perfectly, I stay injury-free,

all the events go perfectly,

and I still don't get the
results I want,

it keeps me up sometimes.

I'm thinking, like, "Well,
you're just not good enough."

I think... I think that's a
pretty big pill to swallow.

[Sam]
The worst kind of feeling for me

was the up and comes there's a
max clean-and-jerk

and warming up, I couldn't
even clean 155.

So, 70 kilos.

I couldn't even clean 70% of
what I was capable of.

And that was the worst that I'd
felt. I felt deflated inside.

It was kind of all the work that
I've done, all the hard work,

not qualifying for the Games,
I've worked so hard,

and I just... I saw my opens
just fall away from me.

[Announcer #1]
This is the 2014
European Regional.

[Announcer #2] Ten
rounds for time of one
rope climb and a sprint.

Now, the rope climb is legless,
which makes it a
whole lot harder

than when you're allowed
to anchor your feet on
the way up the rope.

Katrin Davidsdottir,
who led after day one,
had a disaster on event five,

24th place in that event.
She drops all the way down
to seventh.

It was heartbreaking to see what
happened to Davidsdottir.

She didn't just kind of die
physically, like strength
of her forearms,

and pulling, but kind of
mentally, as well,

she's just... was on the ground,
under the rope. Still had
time on the clock.

[Announcer #1]
No go again,
and she is devastated.

[Announcer #2]
Right now, it probably feels
like her world is coming apart.

[Katrin]
It was... I mean, it was
heartbreaking.

That's what I do all year.

And I wanted to go to the Games.

But thinking about
it afterwards,

I think it was the best thing
that could have happened to me.

[Announcer #1]
Fourth and final heat.

Making their way out to the
floor at the 2015
Meridian Regional.

You can't be afraid of failures.

I don't think you're gonna
succeed in anything

if you're afraid of
failing at it.

You gotta be willing to
take the risks.

[Announcer #2]
She called her shot,
and she will finish it off!

Katrin Davidsdottir!
-[Announcer #2]
Oh, man! She's got to be happy

with that performance
right there. That is amazing!

[Ben]
You know how you should
run your race.

You have to run your race,
and you have to go out there,
and you have to execute it.

[Announcer]
Unreal! Lightning quick!
This is an incredible pace!

Can he pull this off?

I genuinely enjoy pushing
myself, just seeing how
far I can go.

[Sean]
Finishing second on a broken
foot, are you kidding me?

[Announcer]
Sigmundsdottir! And that is a
new event record!

Of course, I want to win it.
Everybody wants to win it.

[Announcer #1]
On the last bar, this is it!

Could Bailey get an
event record?

[Dan]
I believe that I can do it.
I know that I'm capable.

I know that I'm good
enough. It's just the
matter of doing it.

[Announcer #2]
You're watching event records
fall! By that man! Mat Fraser!

I think about getting that
title every day.

That's why I show up to
the gym every day.

Is thinking about
getting the title

of being called the
"Fittest Man on Earth".

What does it take to get to
the CrossFit Games?

Man, to get to the CrossFit
Games, especially now,

it takes a commitment that's
hard for most people to fathom.

[Justin]
To be an athlete
at the CrossFit Games,

you have to be among
the most disciplined
and committed individuals

on the face of the planet.

[Dave]
You don't know
what you're gonna see.

You don't know what
you're gonna hit.

You don't know what you're
gonna have to do.

So you have to prepare
for everything.

And this is the true way
to build this-- to build Batman.

To build this ultimate warrior.

Just to get to Regionals, much
less the CrossFit Games,

is an amazing, amazing
accomplishment.

Just to be the top 100 in the
Open in your region.

I don't care if you take dead
last at the Games,

if you walk onto the field,
having earned a spot to
go to the Games,

you are an untouchable
cyborg of fitness.

[Tanya]
There's pressure, I feel like on
the Games athletes nowadays,

like, literally, the day after
the Games end,

for the next season.

There's not a day where
they're not turned on,

Where that goal of
making to the Games

isn't at the forefront
of their mind.

In lifestyle factors, these
people are sacrificing
a great deal.

I can tell you that no matter
how they're training,

they're training a lot.

[Dave]
These guys are dedicating

multiple hours
throughout the day,

training and working on
deficiencies, and recovery...

365 days a year.

For the athletes that are
already at that peak level,

and for multiple years on end

for the athletes that are
trying to get there.

If you're that dialed in, like,
so far advanced, you
can really...

It can really crush you,
you can be burned out.

I like to see when the athletes
can still be a little relaxed,

they can give themselves
that time off.

I've been trying to learn
the "Whip and Nae Nae".

This one I have a hard time
with, but I can definitely...

[Mic rattles]

Oops.

[Gasps]

[Meows]

It's like one long thing,

-or is this part of your shirt?
-What is that?

-Has that just been on there?
-Yeah.

We got to take it from the top,
or what?

-Does my hair still look good?
-Oh, yeah.

-Hi, I'm Katrin Davidsdottir.
-My name is Ben Smith.

My name is Annie Thorsdottir.

My name is
Ragnheidur Sara Sigmundsdottir.

Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson.

I'm Kara Webb from Brisbane.

-Noah Olsen.
-Brooke Ence.

-Lindsey Valenzuela.
-Samantha Briggs.

-Matthew Fraser.
-Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

My name is Dan Bailey. I'm 20--

I'm not 20. I'm 31. Jesus!

We are on my boat, which is also
my home, my residence.

This is where the
fitness happens.

But there's not a lot
of snatching

or a lot of high-technical
Olympic lifting going on
out here, so...

Here at home, or when I'm in
Iceland, I live with
my grandparents.

I've lived with them since
I was, like, 16, so...

Makes me feel light as a
feather for a whole day, but...

Oh, you're there.

-Sam?
-Yeah?

What's happening?

I'm just getting naked.

I'm getting
cryogenically frozen.

We won't talk about the
state of my nipples.

My nipples are gonna be so hard
when I come out of here.

Think they could cut
diamonds right now?

I think I'm cutting a hole in
this booth, 'cause I'm circling.

You are not a car!

Yeah, I kind of want
a hairless cat.

Just to have one.

No, I don't think, Marsten,
I would ever lotion my cat.

But that's creepy
and disgusting,

and you shouldn't tell people
you want to lotion a
hairless cat.

I would not know my own age

if my parents and my wife did
not tell me that it
was my birthday.

I really wouldn't.

I'm gonna be one of those old
people that just forgets
how old he is.

What are you guys doing?

We're making an awesome
slip-n'-slide, bro.

America!

We're doing, like,
a swim-and-run race.

Like a mini-biathlon.

Games training.

-Doing a mighty fine job, Mat.
-Thank you.

In case you have to, like,
tighten bolts or something in
the middle of the workout.

You look like a narwhal.

Like a narwhal with
a magic horn.

Turn to the side for a second.

Exactly like the movie "Alien."

Max! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey, Max, come here!

[Noah]
Oh, God!

Ain't anything crazy to it.

Ain't nothing to it
but to do it.

Turns out a razor
blade is better

than me trying to pull it off
with my fingernails.

If I'm at the HQ, I usually
leave them on Tony
Marquez's desk,

you know, occasionally just
sprinkle them in his coffee.

[Laughing]

There you go! Good boy!

Jump!

Gross!

This past year, and the year
prior, Dave Castro
got Instagram.

[Dave]
...we introduced the
Clean Speed Ladder.

It was such a fan-favorite,

that this year on Friday night,
we're bringing it back.

The Games... We release some
stuff ahead of time,

but even the stuff we do
release is usually...

We're not filling in the blanks.

There's still some question
marks to what we release.

This time with snatches.

-Last year...
-Oh, [Bleeps]

They announced the workout
for the individuals.

Yeah.

-Murph.
-Murph.

The first announced workout
for the individuals

at the 2015 Reebok
CrossFit Games is...

Murph.

Should probably do Murph.

Without fanfare, without
any celebration,

you just put a little workout up
on the site and let
the chatter begin.

Maybe end it at 285.

I still feel like...
I still feel like--

I think it's gonna go heavier.

Maybe the last round,
225, 245, 275,

and, I don't even know, it's
like 500 pounds in
the last part.

I think I just...

I really love, and I've come to
love, the feeling of success,
right?

To look up there and see your
girlfriend just super-proud

and see your parents cheering
for you, and your
friends and family.

And that's kind of why
I strive to do better,

'cause I would always feel like
I really let people down

that came out to support me and
want to see me succeed.

This is probably been the only
thing, really, in my life

that I think I fully threw
myself entirely into.

And I committed myself one
hundred percent

to sort of make my mom and the
rest of my family proud,

and to see it through and go...

"Yeah, I really did kind of make
something of myself."

I think my favorite part of
competing in CrossFit

is, like, the sense of
accomplishment.

It doesn't matter what else
I did in the day

if I had a good day of training.

I would leave here, like,

"Okay, I accomplished
something today."

Like I bettered myself today.

[Camille]
Every time I'm in the middle of
the test and the event,

I always have this moment
when I ask myself,

"Why am I doing this?
This is really hard.

"This is ridiculous."

And then, once it's all over,
you, like, can't wait
to do it again.

And I think that's the way we
all feel about CrossFit

on the day-to-day basis, right?

You go to the gym, like, "My
God, this is terrible."

"I'll come back
tomorrow at 6:00."

And I think that's the feeling
I have towards competing.

For years, I never thought that
I could ever be this
caliber of an athlete.

It seemed so out of reach.

And it wasn't until when I
watched the Games in
2013 that I, like,

told my friend that I was
there spectating with,

"I want to do that."

And, at that point, I didn't
know if I could do it.

But I was willing to try.

[Sara]
The sport I did before CrossFit
was... swimming the most,

but I tried every sport,
but I, yeah...

I quit after maybe six
months in everything.

I didn't find myself in
anything... until I
found CrossFit.

I want to be "The Fittest
on Earth." That...

If I can do it,
everybody can do it,

because... yeah, I was a lazy
chubby girl who just
started in CrossFit,

and now I'm going to the Games,
so...

If you work hard, you can do it.

Is this my last best chance to
win the CrossFit Games?

I think that I'm probably
approaching the end of my
individual career.

But never say never.

Yeah, I can podium.

I think I can podium because I
know I'm good enough.

I won the Open before.
I won my Regional.

I think that gives me a
fighting chance for sure.

And this is what I train for
all year around.

[Katrin]
It's a long weekend. It's a
long grueling weekend.

It's a long year.

You can't go riding the
leaderboard roller-coaster.

You can't be focused on
other competitors,

if they're good at this or that.

Like, nothing of that is
gonna help you.

It doesn't matter where you
finish at Regionals.

All that matters is what
happens on Game Day.

You know, who can bring it when
you go out there to the Games?

Who can be on every single
workout and not... not show
any weakness...

Not show any sign of slowing
down, that kind of thing.

That's all that matters,
you know.

Just takes one week, and you can
make your dreams happen.

It's... it's pretty cool.
It's a cool feeling.

And then the fact that you
finished fourth in Regionals
doesn't matter.

[Jordan]
Coffee is needed.

We've got, like, three
hours till we swim,

so I don't know if
we're up for it.

That's more than enough time
to drink coffee.

-Poop.
-Poop.

-All of that.
-Maybe poop outside.

Get the pre-wad poops
out-- everything.

I'll be, just, right
through the water, then.

Yeah, I'll be lighter on
that board. For sure.

I really don't know how to
feel about this event.

I don't know how I'll place.

I don't know if I'll be top
ten or bottom ten.

I couldn't give you a guess. But
I'm gonna try to go fast.

-Forcing ourselves to eat.
-Forcing ourselves to eat.

Because we know we're
gonna need it.

I'm not hungry at all.

[In French] People didn't know
what I was talking about
"le paddleboard"...

-What's it called?
-Sunscreen.

Sunscreen. 50+ on.

It was so cold that I had the
hairdryer. Trying to heat up.

I had the hairdryer because my
bikini was still wet
from yesterday.

-So I'm standing
there trying to dry.
-So that was our morning.

All righty!

[Mat]
When we were all lined up...

we're all, like, getting ready
to sprint into the water,

all I'm thinking is, like,
"Shit. I suck at sprinting."

[Man]
Let's go, Fraser!

Stand by!

[Air horn blows]

[Announcer]
We're under way
with the opening test

of the 2015 Rebook
CrossFit Games

here at Hermosa Beach.

[Mat]
I had a front-row seat
to him just eating it.

Yeah, he wiped out hard.

I just ate it.

Whop!

[Lindsey]
There's feet in your face.

You know, you can feel people
right on your shoulders.

It's legitimately like a
fight for space.

[Sam]
I ended up having
to adopt a position

where I was biting on the
front of the board

to stop my chin from rubbing.

I got a rash on my cheek.

[Mat]
It was burning my shoulders
so bad, holding my head up,

that I just said,
"[Bleep] it."

Put my head on the side of the
board and just went...

[Announcer]
Kara Webb, looks
like she is back.

Jonne Koski smashing
Pier Paddling.

And that's when it was, like,
game on, and just hit the jets,

and we both inched
back and forth.

My legs started getting really
heavy, like cement blocks,

and I guess the same thing
happened to him,

and I was able to hold it off
for, like, two more steps.

I remember he finished and
walked up to me, and I was
laying on my back,

and I said, "You big bastard!"

[Cheering]

That was really fun,
but really hard.

I liked it, though.

It was hard work.

I really like that.

It was good. Simple hard work.

[Announcer]
It's a great day to be an
Australian at Hermosa Beach.

Between the men and the women
here, they pretty
much dominated.

I'm halfway back, so my face
is just on the board,
and I'm paddling,

and I just see Easy.

Like, 100 yards out, wrong side,
100 yards out,

all four limbs hanging
off the board.

Not paddling, he's just
laying there.

I was like, "Come on, Easy,
let's go."

"Yep."

You got it, man.

Who's in?

-Yeah.
-You look good.

Hey, Nick!

You think we could
assist each other?

Hey, Scott, help me, and
I'll help you, bro!

Oh, yeah!

Let me go first.

I'll be okay, dude, you can
keep that place.

Might be the one time in
CrossFit when it pays to be
a little bit taller.

Try to throw those bags
over the wall.

I've done number one,
no judging.

[Announcer]
The CrossFit Games moved to
the StubHub Center

in 2010, one of the events done
that year, the Sandbag Move.

We're doing it again in 2015,
tell everybody.

And welcome
inside the Tennis Stadium

at the StubHub Center
in Carson, California.

We did a long grueling event
this morning at the beach.

This one is just all about
pure work capacity.

[Female announcer]
It doesn't have to be pretty.

It just is all about
getting the work done.

It's just like a grind.

It's just like: "Who can work?"

It was way harder than it was
in 2010, for sure.

[Dave]
Just a pure test of work.
And work capacity.

There's a lot of contrivances
that we have in testing fitness,

and expressing the ultimate
levels of power output,

but this event, along
with running,

would probably be the least
contrived things we can do.

You have objects, and you have
to move them from
there to there.

[Katrin]
I think I was going to go for,
like, four in the beginning.

It was, like...
super-aggressive approach.

And I, like, was not ready
to adjust it yet,

so I was like trying to get them
all through the stairs,

and I was hitting everything,
and it wasn't really
working that well.

[Tanya]
I think the biggest thing,
you have to be flexible.

I think the biggest thing is
that you have to keep
your composure,

take a deep breath and just not
let yourself wig out.

[Announcer #2]
And that was Ben Smith,
who I think

made a bad decision, trying to
do too much in the beginning.

I took all the sandbags down,

and as soon as I lifted the
wheelbarrow off the floor,

before I could even take one
step, it just tipped over on me.

[Announcer #1]
And now Noah Olsen in lane four,

his wheelbarrow
has tipped over.

It was pretty crushing, like,
in the moment, my heart
kind of sank.

[Tanya]
As soon as you see panic set in

and people get a little freaked
out at something
that won't work,

mentally when they go off the
rails, it's really hard to
get back after that.

[Dan]
Sandbags were all sloppy, with
the weight inside.

First attempt at the lapbag
failed, just falls right
back on my head.

No big deal. That's fine.

Go do it again. Bag
fell off again.

Didn't make it over the wall.

Third try. Bag still falls
back in my face.

At this point, I'm getting,
like, I'm furious.

I'm incredibly frustrated
because you're just not
getting anything done,

the clock is ticking.

And every second in these
workouts matters a ton.

[Mat]
And with the 100-pound bag,
it was so floppy,

everyone's trying to figure out
the right way to get
the bag over.

Some people are trying to, like,
throw it like a kettle bell,

like a keg toss or something.

I grabbed the end of it.

Stood it up on end to shake all
the bags down into one end,

flopped the loose end over, so
it's pretty much just a
100-pound D-Ball,

picked it up, shot
putted it over.

I did that once and made
it look so easy,

and Scott Panchik came over to
me, and was like,

"Don't [Bleep] do that again."

I was like, "What? What are
you talking about?"

He's like, "You know that
technique. I know
that technique.

But none of these other guys
know it. So keep that
between us."

I was like, "Oh, yeah,
good call. Okay!"

So I lunged, then I took a
step on the sandbag

and got the bags over the wall,
like, super quickly.

We didn't want anyone to
figure that out,

because we knew a lot of the
girls who I had to beat,

who are in standings ahead of
me, were on the smaller side,

on the shorter side,

so I really needed to take
advantage of that.

[Annie]
And I was still, like,
in that mode.

Just like I need to
keep on going,

and I grabbed the red
sandbag as soon...

That's the first one that was
on the top there.

And started running up, and then
I started hearing, like,

people yelling, and I'm like,

"Why are they so excited about
this?" And I was like... Oh...

I had the wrong bag.

There were two rules. The red
one goes last down.

The red one goes last up. And I
was just too much in a hurry.

[Announcer #1]
Anna Tunnicliffe is making
quick work of those bags.

But it is Lukas Hogberg
who will set the new best
time to beat.

And she is going to demolish
the time to beat...

Anna Tunnicliffe will be your
new event leader.

And Mat Fraser will finish
second overall in Sandbag 2015!

[Female announcer]
I don't know if Ben Smith has
ever had an event

he did not finish at the Games.

[Announcer #2]
One of those athletes we
thought were going to do well

in this particular event.

[Ben]
I think one of my strengths is
I'm good at letting things go.

So, you know, if I have a bad
event, that comes
with experience,

you just gotta let it go.

Next, move on to the next event.

Just take it one event
at a time, throughout
the whole weekend, so...

Well... [Bleep]

14th.

-Well, 14th is not terrible.
-You got 34th.

-Oh, 34th in that workout?
-Yeah.

So you're not in a bad
shape at all.

Damn, dude, I didn't want
anything outside of like,
top 10, 15.

It's okay.

Oh, it's devastating.

You know what?

Man, that hurts my heart.

You know, this sort of
odd-object event was fun.

It's, you know, it's about
finding your pain area
and the dark place

and getting in there.

Yeah...I just ate baby food,
so I'm...

really happy.

Yeah, I love baby food.

This is the funnest
part of competing.

You can eat so much.

How is that one?

Oh, it's way too far...

It's good.

[Rory]
On the bird's-eye-view of
the CrossFit Games.

When you looked at Murph, it
was an X-Factor.

Everybody knew that it was
going to be difficult.

Everybody knew it was
going to be hard.

But not from the sense of: "This
is going to destroy."

And it really, in my opinion,
did become a linchpin of
the 2015 Games.

It's a workout that is done
every year on Memorial Day,

where we get to, you know,

honor those who've given the
ultimate sacrifice for
our freedoms.

Just let him go.
It's not about the first run.

Okay.

Mask to the middle
and then run it-- Yeah.

30 seconds back is so easily
made up on a round of push-ups.

Hardest workout?

Well, if I do it right, it
should feel pretty hard.

I said if I pass out, no
one touch my vest.

'Cause if your vest comes off,
you're disqualified.

I thought it was really cool to
have Murph at the Games.

[Rory]
Murph was a turning point
for many athletes

because they approached
it incorrectly

for their particular
work capacity.

[Sara]
Okay, I was so
stressed for Murph.

Just... I thought that would be
the worst event of the
whole weekend.

[Dave]
Very quickly, I want to tell
you guys something.

This is the start of the
weekend for you guys.

The start of a big weekend.

But this workout is
something special.

It's bigger than this weekend.

It's to celebrate those who've
given their lives

in defense of our country,
the world, essentially.

So let's celebrate that,
remember that, while
you're doing that.

Let's bring it in.

Murph!

Murph!

[Tanya]
When you do a hero workout,

you're always pushing so
hard for the hero,

and to honor somebody,

and I think what that did, it
jacked them up to a whole
'nother level,

that they weren't ready for,
they weren't used to.

They were already
there themselves,

then Dave just pushed them
over the limit,

and I think they just took off
way faster than they
should have.

As soon as they said go,
everybody converged,

and it got a little... it
got a little nasty.

People were like grabbing vests
and throwing elbows.

I was guilty of kinda like...
not throwing anybody
to the ground,

but definitely trying to work my
way through the crowd.

I really wanted to get out ahead
and take advantage of the run.

[Rory]
Sam Briggs thought she missed
something in the briefing,

that there was 100 points
available for the first 400
meters of the run.

'Cause people were
going so damn fast.

I felt like I was melting, after
the first 800 meters...

[Sam]
At the 800 mark, there was
a water station.

I was the only person who
stopped at the water station.

It wasn't to take a
drink of water.

I just picked a cup to
throw over my head,

to keep my temperature down.

[Announcer]
Look at the pacing
that they have.

That's a six-minute mile pace,
right out of the gate.

That could be dangerous.

That's a lot...
that's really fast.

[Sara]
Starting the pull-ups.

I, like, had a bottle of water,
and I was, like,
pouring it over me,

And I was like, "No, my grips,
they're all wet!"

[Noah]
My legs were blown up. My heart
rate was through the roof.

I had a little water bottle.

I kept pouring it down my neck
to try to cool off,

and I had the black vest, too.

Like, didn't get any oxygen, and
everything was so warm.

[Tommy]
This is the last time the ladies
will be in the shade,

because the only
shade on the field

is being provided by this
mountain of steel.

[Dan]
It was so hot.

I mean, it was just the...

on the field that dry, hot
air in your face,

you couldn't escape it.
On the grass.

I mean, 2013 it was hot.

Every year is [Bleep] hot.

[Bjorgvin]
I think the heat was kind of
comfy because... ah...

you don't get that in Iceland.

I get down to the gym, and I'm
like freezing to death.

And this was just nice,
actually.

[Tanya]
It's proving the
fittest in the world,

and sometimes things aren't
going to necessarily
be the safest.

You have to go into competition

not being afraid of
something bad happening,

but being responsible for
yourself and preparing yourself
as well as you can.

[Sean]
I don't think you'd expect to
see people nearly blacking out

and passing out and suffering
so badly through it.

Because this is something
that they've done.

They've all done this.

And for whatever reason, you put
them at the Games,

in that setting, and it
just wrecked people.

And I still cannot figure out
why it was that tough on them.

[Annie]
Half-way through the push-ups,

I just started feeling a little,
like, lightheaded.

[Mat]
I did doubles on push-ups.

And, like, they were hard.

Not my proudest moment as a
fitness competitor.

[Dan]
Got to the squats.
I got through my first 100.

Every 15, my whole world would
just kinda start to close in.

I'm like, yeah, this is it.

Like, I am gonna fall
face-first onto this field.

Like, I'm gonna pass out.

This is gonna be so
embarrassing.

And someone's gonna start
pulling me off the field,

and I'm gonna have to fight them
to keep going for the event.

[Katrin]
I couldn't... I couldn't find
a rhythm in the air-squats.

I think that's one of the only
parts of the weekend
that I was like,

"All right, Katrin, come on,
get a grip.

"Like, this is it. This
is the Games.

"Push. Like push now."

[Mat]
So, there was no secret, it was
hot as hell during Murph.

So I'm doing my air-squats, and
I see a water bottle in my lane.

It wasn't mine.
I see Bob's been walking by,

which I pointed to him, pointed
to the water bottle,
pointed it to me.

And I was like: "Hmm?"

Castro comes over to me
and tells me,

"No we can't bring you
the water bottle.

"That cooler is full
of ice water.

"If you want to stop your
workout, go over there and
get a bottle of water.

"You're allowed to do that. And
then you can come back."

I was like, that [Bleep] is
trying to get me to quit.

I was, like, he's giving me one
of these [Bleep]
"BUD/S tests",

and like if I go get a cup of
water, he's gonna kick me out.

So I was like [Bleep] that.
I'm gonna keep on going.

[Female announcer]
A little different Annie than
we're used to seeing.

Doesn't have as much of that
recklessness that we
used to see,

but she still has the fire.
She just seems more composed.

There's always going to be a
situation where
you're going to be

pushed to a limit that you've
never, you've never
found before.

There's going to be a test
you've never run into before.

There's going to be a certain
level of uncertainty and
doubt in your head,

where you're like, "I don't
know. Can I do this?

"I'm going to sure as hell give
it a shot, but I'm not sure I'll
be able to do this."

[Annie]
Got through the squats,

and I was like starting to like
have a little blurry vision,

and my legs were soft and
couldn't really move them.

I was, like, I knew that the
beginning of the run was
gonna feel hard,

like it's okay that it's gonna
be hard, I'm just gonna push
through that wall.

But I just couldn't push
through that wall.

The moment when I realized
that I could win Murph

was when I started doing
the air-squats.

I was doing huge sets, and I
wasn't feeling too tired,

I was actually just recovering.

[Tommy]
He was just up and down like
a piston, took the lead,

and now he looks unstoppable.

I rounded the corner, and I
couldn't believe how
many guys I saw.

Just... I saw hands on their
head, just marching
down that mile.

And I'm like, this is
unbelievable.

[Tanya]
The woman's unreal.

She blew the field out of the
water in the Women's Division,

she should have done that
next to the men,

and she probably had a chance of
beating the top man in
that division.

[Sam]
I had no idea

until the turnaround point
at the 800 mark, like,

what sort of lead that I had.

I knew that I was the
first off squats,

but I wasn't sure how far
behind anybody else was.

[Announcer on PA]

[Audience cheering]

Samantha Briggs!

[Noah]
It was pretty awesome,

because everybody had been
in the stadium

waiting for us to come back,

so as soon as you, like one by
one, as each person entered,

it felt like the crowd kind of
erupted to see
everybody come back in.

[Mat]
I remember running
into the stadium,

and, like, looking
around, and I'm like,

"Did I miss a movement?
Did I skip something?"

Because I'm not supposed to be
this high, this much in front.

That was very weird.

[Announcer #1]
Gudmundsson will take event
number three, Murph!

Samantha Briggs!
And she will win.

Briggs would have finished
second in the men's
division with that time.

[Announcer #2]
Wow!

[Katrin]
I remember I was trying
to pass Kara,

and she was kind of
like, swiveling.

At the time, I thought she was
swiveling, so I
wouldn't pass her.

But it turns out that she was
almost unconscious, too.

So, it was kind of... That was
a little bit scary.

[Dan]
And then it was just chaos
at the finish line.

Take it off!

Take it off! Someone, please!

[Dan]
People rolling around
everywhere trying to find shade.

Dumping water on their heads,
just trying to peel
their vests off.

And everybody kept asking,
"Can we leave?"

"Like, are we allowed to leave?"
"Do we have to stay here?"

Is this the second time
you've done Murph?

Yeah.

[Ben]
I mean, California wasn't...

I did not think of it as a hot
environment, or, you know,

a challenging environment,

because of the heat.

And this year, it was like...

It was especially hot,
especially in the sun,

just sitting out there.

Feeling like you're in
a microwave,

you know you're just cooking
while you're sitting
on the field,

trying to do push-ups
and air-squats.

I think it compares...

You know, Murph, that was one of
the hardest workouts

I've had to do at the Games.

I wouldn't pass out
during Murph.

Because if it started to hurt
really, really bad,

I would slow down a little bit,

'cause I don't want to be
in that much pain.

And so I wouldn't
fall unconscious.

But you have people so mentally
tough like Kara Webb or others,

that will hit that point that I
would hit and go like,

"Whoa, I'm gonna slow down,"
and she doesn't.

These athletes just push
themselves right to the limit,

it's their heart and soul,
into the workout.

[Announcer]
I have never seen
Annie Thorsdottir look like this

-in any event ever
at the CrossFit Games.
-[Female announcer] Ever.

That's what they wanted to do,
they put their heart
and soul into it.

And I just hope that they...
that they would recover.

[Ben]
Gladsen says men will die for
points, right? So...

It makes the workout
a lot tougher

when... when it's such a
long time domain,

and so many reps, and it's hot
out, and you're in a vest,

you're in an
uncomfortable situation.

It takes a toll on some people,

so to me that was definitely one
of the harder workouts

that I've ever had to
do at the Games.

I didn't really recognize
my body, in a way,

'cause I always said,

"Your head is going to give up
before your body does."

And my head was fine.

You can walk. You're good,
Annie.

I'm sorry.

-You're fine.
-Come on, Annie,
you're good.

[Justin]
It's important for us
to test long events

at the CrossFit Games.

And perhaps one of the reasons

that it was as hard on these
athletes as it was,

was because they're not
tackling Murph in training

with the same intensity
and race strategy

that they would with
shorter workouts,

like Fran or Jackie
or a Speed Clean Ladder.

All right, breathe, now.

I'm okay.

I know. Just cooling you off,
okay?

Okay, Annie. You're all right.

Just cooling you off.

-We'll carry you if we have to.
-I don't want you to carry me.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Come on.

I'm fine.

You're fine.

[Justin]
And for a lot of athletes,

you're gonna ask them
their Fran time,

they can tell you
within one second.

Same thing with Jackie.

But if you ask them the Murph
time, there's probably
a little hesitation.

And I'd bet you they give you an
answer within a minute

or a couple of minutes.

So when you take a
workout like Murph,

which is already long and hard,

and you ask these athletes

to race against the
toughest competition

they've ever been against,

I don't think they've
optimized their game plan

the same way they have for
shorter workouts.

Feeling really good.

But [Bleep] is it hot.

Didn't expect this. It's good.
I'm here for the money, man.

It's the hardest thing that
I've ever done.

The only positive about it is
that I get a tan while
I was doing it.

Always think of the bright side!

Get some drinks!

You guys are just two best
friends in the whole world?

[Singing]
We're the two best friends
that anyone can have.

Something like that.

How was that?

That was hell.

Way worse.

That was worse than
triple threes?

Way worse.

It was so hot.

And around number eight on
the pull-ups,

I realized, "[Bleep]
I don't have any water."

I was talking with Chyna Cho,
and, like, especially
after this workout,

people are going to start
getting real hurt.

People are still loving me,
and...

I mean people are still cheering
me on, and it's great.

It's a rougher start, but it's
funny how things happen, like,

you know, some really,
really great athletes

did not so good in
that event and...

For me, I got 15,

and last year, in the long
event I got 17,

so I guess I got a
little fitter there.

So I'm happy with that.

Like, that's good, right?

Convince yourself
that it's okay.

But if you do it, then it
doesn't affect you,

now I can go do the Snatch
Ladder feeling, like,
kind of confident.

But if I let it affect me,

then maybe I wouldn't do so good
in the event that
I should do good.

You did [bleeping] awesome!

I know.

This has been a most
unfortunate day.

If you will it, Donnie,
It isn't a dream.

I'm still having fun, but...
some good competitors.

Some young bucks, puppies.

Take it easy.

Hey!

He just told me, like,
the timeline,

on, like, I don't know how long
I've been in here.

-I don't know...
-Gonna give you
the opportunity...

Yep.

Really good. She's okay.

She just wants to... I think she
wants to talk about it.

We haven't got time.

We haven't got
the time for that.

Oh, it's ripping.

I wasn't able to stand on my two
feet by myself until 30 minutes

before I had to go out
to the floor.

Okay, we're lining up.

Five, four, three, two, one...

I need a beer, my God

Or a shower.

Yeah.

No tears. Come on, this is
your thing now.

Don't think about it.

It's scary.

Next event, Kara.

Now I just feel
really emotional.

There's a million things going
through my mind...

Lying on a stretcher
in that room.

Not... yeah, I don't know.

I was just worried I was gonna
let everybody down.

And I... just...
time-- I didn't--

I didn't know what happened, and
then I'm just, next minute,

racing down and lift a
couple of barbells

and then just go out and
see what I can do.

So, yeah... I've worked the
hardest that I've ever worked
this year,

and, right, so this is
just a speed bump,

so I'll do whatever I can.

I've come this far.

Just emotional.

[Brooke]
After Murph, walking straight
to the Snatch Ladder,

I did not know how it
was gonna go.

[Sean]
To me, there is nothing better
than the Tennis Stadium

on a Friday or a Saturday night
when the lights are out.

The Tennis Stadium's insane.

Night or day, doesn't matter.

Being inside the Tennis Stadium

is like taking the 13,000 gyms
around the world,

all their members,
voracious CrossFit fans

and putting a magnifying
glass on top of 'em.

[Lindsey]
So, competing
at a Tennis Stadium

is probably the
best feeling ever.

[Dan]
When I think of
the CrossFit Games,

that's what
I think about.

Everybody talks about the Tennis
Stadium is just, like,
it's unreal.

[Sara]
It was just so unreal when I was
walking to the tennis court.

I was like, "Okay, wow. I've
been wanting this for two years,

"and now I'm here, and
everybody's cheering for me."

[Tanya]
And you walk through
the huge crowd of--

its-- every seat is filled.

People are standing.

And you walk into there,

and it just, like,
it feeds the athletes.

As soon as they get
onto that floor,

they can just feel everybody
right there, they're close--

Like your ears hurt after.

The lights are shining on you,
the music's going,

and it's just...it's
close corners,

so you feel like you're back
in a gym setting

with thousands of
people watching you.

So much energy.

And positive energy.

From everybody watching.

You've got this tiny space,
fairly steep seating
on each side.

So you feel like the fans are
absolutely on top of you.

It kind of feels like they're
all over you, and
they're all with you.

[Rory]
It feels like being in
the Coliseum.

They're gonna slide a door open,
there may be lions,

there may be five
dudes with swords,

you have no idea what's
coming at you.

[Sam]
Just the feeling of completing
a workout in the Tennis Stadium,

at night when the
lights are on you.

That's when I decided that I
wanted to make
CrossFit my sport.

[Mat]
That's where the fun is.

That's where the most pain is,
that's where the most fun is.

It makes the energy, like,
electrified.

[Lindsey]
For the athletes, that
Tennis Stadium,

it makes a lot of extra
stuff happen.

[Brooke]
I remember, before we had
done anything else,

I was like, I wished it was a
little bit heavier.

It didn't need to be
any heavier.

[Katrin]
I love snatch-ins.

I snatch in with adrenalin,
it's the best ever.

Snatch speed ladder did not go
as well as I wanted it to.

[Sam]
I got spat out of my
first snatch.

[Brooke]
In a movement like the snatch,
it's all about your technique.

If it's gone, it's so easy
to miss a lift.

[Tommy]
It's not just about
what's your one-rep max,

it's about how you can
compose yourself

to have that controlled speed
and explosiveness,

but being in position
at the same time.

Every bar counts.

You got to make sure you hit
every single lift.

[Man]
Standby...

[Announcer #1]
Nick Urankar is
off to a savage pace.

[Announcer #2]
And Michele Letendre
at 150, will clear that.

[Rory]
Man, it's just fun to watch
people lift some steel, man.

In that atmosphere, of the
Games, in the competition,
under the lights,

when the pressure's on, people
do amazing things.

[Katrin]
The best feeling in the world?
When you hit a good snatch.

You just pull it, and then the
next thing is just like,

you throw yourself under as
fast as you can,

and you like, you don't know
where the bar is,

and, like, if you catch it in
a perfect position,

and you're sitting there, the
bar, you know that you got it,

it's like the best... it's the
best feeling in the world.

[Brooke]
It was like a blink of an eye

to get through
the first couple rounds.

No time to think.
You just had to go.

[Mat]
Yeah, Easy knocked
himself out cold.

He was like, "I woke up
looking at the sky."

He was like, "I got knocked out
during that lift."

[Announcer #1]
...hit himself in the head
with the barbell,

and he is on the floor.

Adrian Boswin, the head judge,
is coming over to
check on Elijah.

[Announcer #2]
Camile Leblanc-Bazinet
sets it down!

No reps, now twice on
the opening bar!

Camille is in severe danger of
not advancing to Round Two!

[Female announcer]
That is so upsetting
for Camille.

[Announcer #1]
Looks like he just needed
to walk to collect his thoughts.

He's only has 30 seconds.
That should be good enough for
one more attempt at this.

The crowd behind
Elijah Muhammad!

Elijah Muhammad is in!

[Female announcer]
She is feisty! On fire!

[Announcer #2]
Ben Smith first to
the last bar, he'll get across!

[Announcer #1]
Fighting for first place!
Holcomb will hit 155!

Davidsdottir will hit 155!
It's a race to the finish!

I loved watching Brooke Ence
bring her energy

through the entire thing.

[Announcer #1]
Brooke Ence in the orange
will hit that!

Brooke Ence! She clears 180!

Will have 100 points in her
pocket! Ence can't
hang on to that!

Brooke Ence has company on
that final barbell.

Ence set up for her second
attempt. Davidsdottir set
up for her first.

And Brooke Ence will hit that!

And the rookie gets her first
career victory at the
CrossFit Games!

[Tommy]
You have Mat Fraser,
you have Ben Smith,

you have Elijah Muhammad.

And one by one, we see them
all miss an attempt.

[Announcer #1]
And Ben Smith faces down
the 275-pound bar.

He hits this before anybody
else, he wins the event.

[Announcer #2]
Oh, wow!

[Tommy]
And slowly, but surely, Jon Pera

takes a little bit of extra
time in the set-up,

takes a little bit of extra time
walking to each barbell,

and before you know it...

[Announcer #1]
Jon Pera, 275!

And Jon Pera coming
from behind!

And he will win the
Snatch Speed Ladder!

[Tommy]
It was definitely a moment where
you got to see a nice blend

of strength, skill, and
strategies well come into play.

And I think that's what the goal
of the workout was.

And he played it beautifully.

I'm afraid I had to be faster.

I'm really afraid I had
to be faster.

I've just gotten so much
better at snatch,

and I'm not getting to show it.

I promised myself it wouldn't be
over until it's over this year.

That's it.

And I thought I'll just keep...
It really is one at a time.

That was one, move on,
another one. Yup.

So pumped! I'm so fired
up right now.

-How'd it go?
-I won.

You know, I think one of the
coolest, is, you know,

the next time my name...

the next time they call me out,
it's going to say,

"Best Finish. First Place."

Bummed.

Whatever. Keep working out.
I'm doing it.

I got [Bleep] screwed. I got
[Bleep] over.

Why? What happened?

My judge kept no-repping
me for no reason.

[Justin]
Camille definitely wears her
emotions on her sleeve.

And I think that's what makes
her endearing to our community.

You can actually feel what she's
experiencing in the moment.

She's not all smiles. She's not
going to throw you a fake wave.

-Are you okay?
-Huh?

-Are you okay?
-No.

-Will you show me that
pretty smile?
-No.

I'm trying... I try.

You show me that pretty smile,

and you'll feel better, Cammy,
I promise.

I'm really trying to let it go,
but it's hard.

[Justin]
And in that case,
she was devastated.

She could see that her chance of
repeating as Games Champion

was slipping through
her fingers.

My heart is just really sad.

I don't mind when things are
a little bit unfair

'cause it kind of always is
because I have more eyes on me.

But there's a certain amount of
unfairness that I can't take,

and that was too much.

[Dave on P.A.]
Friday evening's final event
will be the Hero Workout, DT.

When he announced DT,
I was happy,

'cause it's like,
there's no strategy.

If you let go of the bar,
you've already lost.

You have to just grab the bar,
not even think about letting go,

and just be ready for your
lungs to bleed.

I love barbell work, so I'm not
going to complain.

But DT is a brutal workout.

This is the CrossFit Games,
right?

We're going to do something
we've never done before.

We are getting all of
you involved,

and all of the fans and
viewers at home.

Here's how.

You can vote for Double DT,

ten rounds for these
athletes to do,

or Heavy DT,

five rounds at 205, or
145 for the women.

What you guys do tonight
will be decided by
the CrossFit community.

I think I want...

I don't know... I like...
I kind of like both.

I love-- DT is one of my
favorite workouts.

But I've never done it heavy,
and I've never done
it ten rounds.

There's no barbells.

[Bleep] it. Let's go heavy.

I want it heavy.

Heavy.

Both. Heavy or double,
I don't mind. I love DT.

That was... When he
announced DT,

it didn't matter if it would be
ten rounds or heavy DT.

It was good for me.

Everybody vote "double."

[Justin]
One of the coolest
moments for me

was getting to involve the
community in the programming.

Actually, having them cast a
vote and selecting Heavy DT

made that workout even a
little more special.

[Announcer #1]
The sun is going down and the
lights are going up.

The people have spoken.

Heavy DT is what our individual
athletes will be doing tonight.

[Annie]
Yeah, I did a 155
after the open.

And I did that in, like,
eight minutes.

[starter beeps]

[Lindsey]
When I heard it was
going to be 145--

I had done Heavy DT at 155.

It was on a main site, so
I had done that.

And I was like,
"That's interesting

"that they're doing a Heavy DT
on main site. Like, why?"

You always look at main site.
If you're not--

If you're an athlete, and you're
not looking at main
site workouts,

you're not intelligent

because a lot of those movements

appear either at the Open
Regionals or the Games.

So, you've got to pay
attention to main site.

When they announced 145, I'm
like, "I did it at 155,

"like, bring 145! Like,
whatever!"

I knew if it was heavy, a lot of
girls would have a hard time

with the shoulder-to-overhead.

So, I knew I would make some
bank on that movement.

So, I was hoping for Heavy DT.

Thank you, everyone, for
voting for Heavy DT.

Double DT would have
annihilated people.

As if everyone wasn't hurting
bad enough from Murph.

Throw in another 120
dead-lifts at 155,

90 hang-cleans,

60 shoulder-to-overhead
would have just...

Oh, my gosh, it would
have been ugly.

It would have been really bad.

I love barbell workouts,

and this was just the
barbell workout,

so I was very happy.

[Female announcer]
A lot of these women have
done DT before,

they know how it feels.

A lot of grip because they go
fast and they want to hold on.

This being 40 pounds heavier,

you're going to see them break
this up a lot more.

DT is one of my favorite
workouts ever.

Annie was right next to me,
on my right,

so, at one point, I was like,
"[Bleep] She's moving those
barbells so fast."

I'm like, "I'm moving as
fast as I can!"

[Female announcer]
Annie Thorsdottir, she is one
that when you're side-by-side,

she will fight harder.

[Sara]
What matters the most was
the push jerks.

To do that unbroken

Because if you break the push
jerks, you have to
clean it again,

and then start again.

[Female announcer]
Can she hold it over for all
six? She's gonna try.

[Announcer #1]
One to go for Thorsdottir!

[Annie]
It went okay, but, like, I was
failing jerks, like...

[Announcer #1]
And she cannot hold it!

[Annie]
One of my strongest moments.
That's kind of my rule.

And if I get to my shoulders,
I will get it overhead.

[Dan]
I had, like, completed a round.
I don't even remember.

This is at the point where
slobber is coming out again.

I, like, out of nowhere started
doing some extra hand-cleans,
I guess.

And my judge is yelling like,
"Put it down. Like,
put the bar--"

No, like, no rep. You're
not on hang-clean.

Like, you're on dead-lift.
Roll the bar forward."

I'm like, "All right," I don't
even know what's going on,

I just rolled it forward,
started dead-lifting again.

[Mat]
I remember going out,
and I took the first set.

Like, I paused after the
dead-lifts, then did the
hang power-cleans,

and went about it like that,

and I dropped the bar, and I
looked at the clock,

and it was at a a minute-twenty,
and I went, "Aw, shit.

"I was too fast, and this is
about to get painful."

[Female announcer]
If you think just about

what their shoulders
have gone through,

starting back on Wednesday with
the swim and the paddle,

but the overhead at that 145,

you're seeing a much different
DT than we would have if
it had been 105.

They would be easily be able to
hold that overhead for all six.

It did.

I went way too fast in that
first round, it got
really painful.

I'm like right next
to Ben Smith,

so, I mean, talk about
chasing a fit person.

[Sean]
I think people probably thought
that because it was heavier

and because it had a barbell

that Mat Fraser was going to be
the guy that would
win that event.

Ben Smith goes out and just
works his way
through each round.

Doesn't slow down, never looked
like he was out of control.

[Sara]
After the third rounds, I wanted
to break the push-jerk stuff,

but I was like, "No,
just stick to it,

"there's only 12 reps left
of push-jerk."

[Female announcer]
She's here to go
against the test.

She's not just here to compete
against the women.

She came, literally, to play.
She's not just here
to participate.

[Sean]
The thing that surprised me
the most about Sara

was her composure in that event.

I think it would be very easy,
especially for a
younger athlete--

and we saw this in some of
the other events--

to go out and run someone else's
race and not your own.

And it seemed that Sara had a
plan, she executed it,

and, all of a sudden,
she's out front.

[Announcer #1]
She's not letting go of
that barbell.

Two to go. One for
Sara Sigmundsdottir.

But at, like, the last
push-jerk, it was so hard.

I just closed my eyes, and I
said, "Please. Please
go under it."

[Announcer #1]
And there's a new Icelandic
CrossFit Queen

here at the Games,
and it's Sara Sigmundsdottir!

[Mat]
During the last round I had to
put the bar down and wait,

and then Ben just like plowed
through the last round.

I kind of went, "Shit!"

[Announcer #1]
Ben Smith, the first man

to the fifth and final round
of Heavy DT.

[Ben]
I remember going in to the last
round of the workout here,

and you can see the finish line.

You know, all you got to
do is finish the last set,
and you know you can win it.

It's motivating, and then, you
hear the crowd get into it.

It just pushes you to a
different level

that you kind of never get to
experience during training.

It's a lot of fun.

[Sean]
And Ben Smith dominated
that event so much

that he actually walked to
the finish line.

[Announcer #1]
Ben Smith is going to
win Heavy DT!

[Announcer #2]
Wow, he doesn't
even look tired!

[Sean]
Right at that moment,
we knew all of a sudden

that okay, he's for real,

he has a legitimate shot at
standing on top of the podium.

[Man on P.A.]
Ben Smith means business!

Fun day today.

I mean, this weekend
I came here to win,

I came here to finish first,

and, you know, I told myself
that seven years ago,

I came here to win, and I'm not
going to stop until I do, so...

I'm just going to keep pushing.

Yeah, I love DT.

-No. Just hungry.
-Yeah.

I want to eat pizza.

And then, I want to go relax and
come here tomorrow and sprint.

I'm going to get my rest
now and eat pizza.

[Announcer #1]
Sara Sigmundsdottir with five
for five in top-ten finishes

leading the points race.

[Announcer #2]
The leaderboard starting
to take shape.

Mat Fraser on top.

Hey, are we allowed to cut our
jerseys like that?

I think that looks good.
I couldn't pull that off.

I already have too many
tattoos everywhere.

I want a belly shirt.

[Dan]
2013. I wanted to win
that event so bad,

and I slipped in the final heat.

You can always tell--

You can tell immediately, at
least I can, in races like that,

whether or not you've
won or lost.

And I want to win.
I'm a sprinter.

I'm supposed to win
those things.

This is my chance to
make up ground.

[Announcer #1]
It's the fastest event we'll see

at the 2015
Reebok CrossFit Games.

It's so fun. It's so fun
and terrifying.

[Ben]
You don't see that maximum
effort very often,

and I love that 'cause you can
just 3-2-1, go, just let it rip,

100%, go all out.

[Dan]
Shot out like a cannon
out of my start.

As soon as I hit straightaway,
turbo-boost, hard as I can run,

turn over as fast as I can.

[Announcer #2]
Look at the explosiveness in
the speed of Dan Bailey.

The old specs started
bobbling a little,

and they kind of came
down to here,

and then, it was on the third
one that they just, boom,

just popped off mid-air.

Grabbed 'em in mid-air, tucked
them away, kept running.

[Announcer #1]
Toomey and Holte neck-and-neck.
It's Holte out first.

[Announcer #2]
Barber leading the way
by a healthy margin.

[Announcer #1]
And it's going to be Dan Bailey
across the finish line.

Crossed the finish line,
knew that I won,

and was just so jacked,
I was so pumped.

[Mat]
Day three was [Bleep]
terrible for me.

It was great for other people,

it was the stuff that I
was terrible at.

Oof. The sprint course
was my worst event.

[Mat]
I just remember running,
and being like,

"Everyone's so fast!
Oh, my God!"

[Sam]
Horrendous. I got two
fouls every sprint.

I'm not the fastest sprinter.

Like, give me a 10K, and I'm
fine. 100-meter sprint, no.

[Mat]
I finished the event
and then I asked my ref,

I was like, "Did I knock
over all the pylons?"

He was like, "No, you hit 'em
all. You only knocked over
one, though."

I was like, "Oh, thank God!"

That sucked. I [bleep] up.

What happened?

I'm not a good sprinter, and
then I kicked over a hurdle.

So, insult to injury.

[Sara]
It was like somebody had
just walked up to me

and smashed me in my face.

Going in to that event, I think
Sara Sigmundsdottir

had finished inside the top ten,
every event.

Now, all of a sudden, you just
ask her to run down the field

and zig-zag a little bit and
jump over some obstacles,

and she had a terrible time
doing it, and it cost her.

If you weren't competitive,
you wouldn't be getting
upset about it.

You get pissed off about it at
first, and then you move on,

'cause you have to focus on the
next task at hand.

When I went to the amphitheater,

I was like, "Okay, you can start
crying about this event

"and just, like, let it ruin the
next event for you,

"or you can just
stop thinking about it
and just keep on going."

[Announcer #2]
Mat Fraser lost a little
bit of that lead

after our two sprints,

as Ben Smith moves into that
second-place position.

[Mat]
So I was
disappointed with myself,

but it was just like, "Whatever,
that event's done.

"Time to move on to
the next one."

Which ended up being even worse.

[Announcer #2]
This big pig is six-and-a-half
feet long, 560 pounds.

[Brooke]
I didn't know how the
pig would go.

It was heavy, but it
was awesome.

I love the pig flips. That gave
a lot of girls a lot of trouble.

It was [Bleep] heavy.

[Announcer #1]
This is the first time
that these athletes

have dealt with this object.

[Female announcer]
But this pig is heavy.

And some of these ladies are
going to struggle

to even get one flip
on this thing.

Man, the pig was heavy.

That [Bleep] pig.

[Lindsey]
I had to legitimately
use all my might

every single flip to get
that thing over.

Every push felt like a
max-effort bench press
off of my chest.

[Mat]
Everyone told me,
they're like,

"Aw, like dude,
the pig's so easy."

And they told me, they're like,
"Whatever you do,

"don't stop the pig
at your hips, and do a curl."

What did my dumb ass
do 12 times?

I had to, like, deadlift it to
my hips, rest it there,

shimmy it up onto my shoulders,
lift it on to my face,

get my hands under to
walk it over.

I'm holding the pig up, and both
of my knees are on the floor.

And I had to, like, press
it over my head

and step out of the lunge, and
push it over from there.

[Announcers]
-Spencer Hendel!
-Wow!

[Announcer #1]
This may as well be an
empty cardboard box.

[Announcer #2]
I think they forgot to put the
cement in his, or something,

because he was making that
look way too easy.

[Mat]
I'm watching Ben, just like,
"Oop! Oop!"

And all day I was like, "How the
[Bleep] is he doing that?"

So, after the event, I went up
and talked to him.

He was like, "Oh, dude,
the pig was easy.

"It's just like
flipping a tire."

In all my time I've spent in the
gym doing fitness,

I never flipped a tire.

[Bleep]

[Announcer #1]
We didn't think it would get
faster than Spencer Hendel,

but here comes Ben Smith!

[Announcer #2]
Are you kidding me right now?

[Announcer #1]
Ben Smith will win the
Soccer Chipper!

[Announcer #2]
We thought that this was
going to crush people,

and they made it look like
a walk in the park!

And we look back, and
here's Mat Fraser,

just can't get up the rope,
and can't get up the rope,

and keeps failing, and
keeps failing.

[Announcer #1]
Meanwhile, Mat Fraser,

the overall leader, on his
legless rope climbs,

he was ahead of
Ben Smith by 52 points.

And Smith is going to
cut into that lead
significantly

'cause Mat Fraser
is struggling.

[Pat]
So when Mat Fraser bombed
the Soccer Chipper,

I remember watching that at
the desk, you know,

scribbling in my little notepad,

I'm like, "What is going
on down there?

"Like, did we find a weakness in
his game? What the heck?"

[Announcer #1]
As Mat Fraser continues
to struggle

on the legless rope climbs,

and this is going to change
the leaderboard significantly.

[Dave]
And that was a huge
turning point.

And it was a turning point
for both those two.

Ben wins it and just
demolishes it,

and Mat just flailed and wasn't
able to get up the rope.

[Announcer #2]
He just came off of two bad
events with the sprints.

He can't afford
to have another one.

The thing that pissed me off the
most of anything from the Games

is people telling me,

"Don't worry, man. Keep working
on your legless rope climbs.

"You'll get better."

Yeah, man, go
[Bleep] yourself.

My legless rope climbs are fine.
That pig [Bleep] my world up.

And I did so many heavy-ass
curls with the pig, my
arms were jello.

[Announcer #2]
And Mat Fraser will not

be wearing that
white leader's jersey
in the next event.

Ben Smith most likely will be.

[Brooke]
Reminded me of like,
a little kid,

when they're trying to hit you,
and the person puts their
hand on their head

and just holds them far away,
like that.

That was me trying to
climb that rope.

[Announcer #1]
Rolls out of the handstand

and Elisabeth Akinwale is
across the finish line,

setting the new top mark at
8:40.94 seconds.

[Sam]
And then, I got one of the
handstand walks,

and, like, stopped about this
far from the second
handstand walk.

[Announcer #1]
Only 13 seconds to go for
Samantha Briggs.

[Sam]
I'm not good at doing
a handstand hold.

I held a handstand
for a long time,

and I could not get my body
to move forward.

[Announcer #1]
Briggs has got to get
to her nameplate

before she kicks down,

and she will not make it!

Just about six inches short.

[Sam]
And I was like-- I was there,

I didn't fall down,
and I was like,

"Come on, just one more step."

But I couldn't get
the last step.

[Announcer #1]
Samantha Briggs, so close to
completing the Soccer Chipper.

What happened?

My biceps just [Bleep] me up.

-Knocked out?
-Just couldn't [Bleep] go on.

Did you go too fast on the pig?

I don't think I went too
fast on the pig.

I think I hit the first two
rope climbs too fast.

What are you going to do,
just ice and relax?

Yeah. See how I feel
for the Clean and Jerk.
Go from there.

Couple of workouts,
sounds like it's
a good one for me.

I've never, ever had a failure
happen like that.

-Yeah.
-I don't...

Pretty hard.

[Bleep] up.

Well, good luck.

[Mat]
After that many
bad events in a row,

you start
questioning everything.

All I was questioning was,

"Am I fit? Like, am I
supposed to be here?"

[Announcer #1]
After eight events,

there is another change
atop the leaderboard.

Ben Smith has moved himself 30
points ahead of Mat Fraser.

[Announcer #2]
Sigmundsdottir and Davidsdottir

continue to play hot potato
with the points lead,

currently held by the rookie
Sara Sigmundsdottir.

I got to wear the leader shirt
for a little bit.

Do you want to get this on
camera while it lasts?

Still like a day and a half
left. Lots left.

Pumped about the clean-and-jerk,
until I started
warming up for it.

So, warming up for the
clean-and-jerk. Missed 315.

I failed, like, 295, like, three
times in the warm-up area.

And not like it was a bad rep.
I was just trashed.

[Sara]
Well, clean-and-jerk is my
favorite movement,

but I was so tired after Murph.

I remember feeling so sore
before that event.

It was hot, and it was bright,

and I was like, we were trying
to be in the shade,
but I was so...

I felt light-headed and tired.

After like-- And these were
during my warm-up sets.

So, I was nervous. I was like
thinking to myself.

I didn't say anything out loud,
but I was like, "Oh, my God."

[Mat]
And I remember loading
on the weights,

and I was like, "I can't not
load on three blues."

I was like, "I'm known as
a weightlifter.

"I can't not open with
three blues."

I was thinking to myself as I
was changing my weight, like,

"Oh, my God, do you really
want to go for this? 242."

That's really close to your one
rep. You just hit 245 for
the first time.

Your one rep max squat
clean was 250,

your one rep max
jerk is 250...

I can't stand it when it's quiet
when I'm going to lift.

Like, if people are going nuts,
and cheering, and going crazy,

like, that just helps me a ton,
I love it.

[Mat]
One person going at a time, so,
the spotlight's on you.

Just that adrenaline rush.

I honestly just thrive on
adrenalin and the energy there.

And that's when I, like, last
minute, I asked my judge,

I'm like, "Oh, my God. Can I
borrow your sunglasses?"

'Cause I remembered the 227.

That was one of the things that
made it feel so off

was I just couldn't see.

It was just so bright down there
in the middle of the arena.

He's like, "Sure," and gave
me his sunglasses,

and it was my turn.

I got set, and I set my body
tighter than I'd
ever set it before.

And was not going
to fail that rep.

And once I cleaned it,

I knew that if I was patient,
that I could jerk it.

I literally just thought to
myself like, "What the hell?"

"Go for it."

[Announcer #1]
The overall standings
after nine events:

Ben Smith and Mat Fraser

are duking it out for the top
spot on the leaderboard.

There are doubts all the time.

You get hurt, you get injured,
you get tweaked.

You're like, "I don't know
if I can do this."

You know, you get frustrated,
you get upset,

you know, you're a little
scared, you're a little nervous.

Yeah, it happens all the time.

It's an injury I've had for
about a month and a half now,

and it got real as soon
as I got here.

I'm hurting.

-Yeah?
-Oh, yeah.

-What do you mean?
-I'm sore. Everywhere.

I just had to go. We knew it
was going to happen.

'Cause when I tried to tape them
too much, I couldn't
grip the bar.

Legs, lower back, shoulders,
everything.

I'm kind of in a
state of delirium.

I have rope burn.

I have them like on, oh,
both sides.

So, I have some wounds.

My foot's pretty hurt.

My back hurts, my plantar
fasciitis hurts,

my arms are killing me.

I just feel weak. I'm just
under-performing like crazy.

I don't remember the last time
I failed a clean-and-jerk
at 211.

I'm at the bottom of the
pack right now,

and I came in here fully
intending to fight for Top Ten,

to be in the final heat.

And they're just
better than I am.

It's just one week out of
the year, you know?

It's not the rest of my life.

I just got to focus on this
week, give all my effort to it,

and then move on after that.

I did believe that if I would do
everything that I could do,

I stood a really, really good
shot at winning the Games.
And it's...

Of course it's sad when I see
that kind of just go away.

You tell me. It doesn't
look like it.

Not unless some miracle... and I
start recovering really fast

and manage to win the
rest of the events.

Of course, I'm hoping I'm going
to wake up better tomorrow.

And I'm never going to give up.

I think that's a hard
misconception

that some people look at the
extraordinary things

that go on here and people make
them look so easy.

But you have no idea
how bad that hurt

for somebody to do that,
you know?

The pain doesn't just go away.

It's not like they don't
feel the pain.

I already want to come back,

even though I know how
much it hurts.

I love it.

Think about the people that
would love for the opportunity

to walk out in front of
all these people,

and would kill for an
opportunity to do
just one workout.

So, you know, the way I
look at it is,

I'm not coming off that floor
until someone's
dragging me off of it.

[Lindsey]
There's a couple moments that
really stood out to me.

My family and my friends and,
you know, my business partners

were right at the edge to my
left, right next to my lane,

and I remember
finishing the workout

and staring up at them,

and just, like, having tears
coming out of my eyes

because they were just so
excited to be there and
so proud of me,

they didn't care where I was,
where I ended up,

and just making eye
contact with them

was just something I'll never
forget as long as I'm alive, so,

that was probably the
best moment. Yeah.

It means a lot.

I mean, I feel like I could be
last on the leaderboard

and everybody would still be
standing up and clapping for me,

so that means a lot for me.

It's, like, one of the
coolest feelings.

[Mat]
Coming back from four incredibly
disappointing events,

this one's going to hurt.

I'm going to make this
one hurt so bad.

I think I told 'em, I was like,
"I'll die before I lose
this workout."

[Announcer #1]
As Mat Fraser
is trying to reclaim

what he lost
in the Soccer Chipper,

the overall lead from
Ben Smith.

[Announcer #2]
I'm real impressed
with Mat Fraser,

how he is attacking this event.

[Mat]
No need to pace here. There's
no strategy here.

Just "go!"

[Announcer #1]
And Gelin just selling out
to get herself ahead.

Camille Leblanc-Bazinet sets
the new mark to beat!

Davidsdottir and Webb
are gaining ground now
on Sara Sigmundsdottir.

And strap yourselves in for
an exciting final day

at the 2015 Reebok
CrossFit Games,

as Fraser takes the event.

[Man]
What happened?

I knackered myself.

I hit myself in the nuts,
on the bar.

I'm going to feel it now.

Man, this is the hardest
Games I've been to.

This is tough. This is just
brutal hard work.

And it's kind of cool though.

Like, we've got all the girls
here, like, all the past champs,

and, like, just the level of
girls is constantly going up,

so the competition is fierce,
and that makes you
have to fight.

Like, there's no just cruising
through when you could

and you can kind of
just make it out.

Like, it's a fight, you know,
to the end.

So, yeah, it's good to see,
but I'm tired.

There's one more day.

I just need to keep my
head in the game,

keep doing what I've been doing,

and I hope it'll pay off.

We know the morning event.

I'm super-stoked for that...
running and yoke.

And then, we don't know any
more, so I'm excited
to find out.

It's so funny, no matter
how you do,

you always want to do a
little better, right?

Like, I came in second, I
shouldn't be upset,

but I really wanted to get,
like...

I feel like with how it went
down, I could have gotten first.

Third, third, and second so far.

Yeah, I have shitload of
seconds, and then...

Seconds kind of suck, right?

-Seconds suck a lot.
-I know.

Dude, I was just thinking,
"Dammit, if I would have
hung on to the bar,

"I would have beaten that
little bastard,

"and I would have been first."

So close.

Seconds suck a lot.

They do. They [Bleep] suck!

What do you think happened?

I didn't see anything.

[Bleep] second place.

No, it's like... It's the
worst best thing.

You're the [Bleep]
winner of losers.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, if I have to get
introduced as the
"Second Fittest Man,"

I want that
to [Bleep] end now.
I hate it.

I'll quit complaining.

Sunday morning,
I woke up and said,

"Holy Guacamole." Like, I
was pretty smoked.

You know what I [Bleep]
dreamt last night?

That the final
workout was Murph.

I slept real well.

My knees were hurting so much

that I couldn't sleep on
Saturday night.

My hips, my legs, my arms,
more than anything,

were stuck like this
when I woke up.

They're like, "Don't worry,
it's only one round."

I'm like, "Okay, what are the
reps?" They're like, "300, 200,
100."

I was like, "Oh, shit."

Like, to brush my teeth,

I had to push my other arm to
grab my toothbrush
and bring it in.

What's this over here?

Reese's Puffs.

Reese's Puffs. Shh.

Different things going
through your head.

You're excited, but then,
on the other hand,

you're like, "Wow, I really
don't want to mess this up."

And then, when you start
thinking about that,

you start thinking about the
negative things,

but you got to push those aside.

You just got to focus on just
getting after that next workout.

You know, you're in
it to win it.

You're not in it to try to,
like, not lose.

I've never had anything that
I focused on 100%,

that 100% of my efforts,

from waking up to going to bed
at night, was this.

That's it.

So, it would mean everything.

[Announcer #1]
Ben Smith sits atop
the leaderboard

with just a four-point
edge on Mat Fraser.

[Female announcer]
This event is gonna be fast,
and it's gonna hurt.

There was no strategy to it.

The only strategy was,
"Don't blow up,"

which I kind of blew up,
because I went out so hot
out of the gates.

I was not looking forward
to running again.

[Announcer #2]
And again, this 400-meter run

is not your normal
400-meter run.

You have to go up that berm,
which is a five-story climb.

And going up the stairs was
just like a trudge.

Like, you push through the pain,
and your legs filled up

and were burning and numb.

[Brooke]
Going up stairs and then
climbing up the hill,

things start to lock up,

and your calves get really
tight, and your back
gets really tight.

[Sara]
And, like, in the third round,

I felt like my legs were falling
off because they were so warm.

[Announcer #2]
And the 50-foot yoke carry,

that's the crazy looking
apparatus there on the floor.

380 pounds.

I'm like, "380? That's pretty
light for a yoke."

So, kind of my thinking was
like, "Pick the shortest yoke."

[Noah]
Mat pretty much picked it up
and had so much room

that he could sprint with
it every time.

He made up a ton of
ground on the yoke.

[Mat]
Get the yoke like as high off
the ground as possible.

Who cares if it swings?
It's only 380.

I just want to be able
to pick it up,

and there's no way it can
hit the ground,

so I can just like run with it,
dump it, and go.

[Announcer #1]
And there is no one in sight
of Samantha Briggs.

The midline march for the women
was 100% a Sam Briggs show.

[Announcer #1]
And Sam Briggs is now going
to lap Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

[Tommy]
We're talking about an athlete
at the CrossFit Games

lapping other athletes.

So, we're talking about another
athlete getting four
minutes ahead

of other elite-level
athletes in this workout.

[Announcer #2]
The fact that these guys
are going head-to-head

just proves what kind of
athletes these guys are.

They want to win.

I was like, "There's one
guy I have to beat.

"I don't care about any other
competitor here.

"I just need to beat Ben."

[Announcer #2]
He looked over and saw
exactly where Ben was,

and actually throttled
down a little bit,

let Ben get ahead of him, and
then, just kind of hang out.

He knows that he can catch
him on the yoke.

[Ben]
That's one thing I don't do.

I won't look over,
I won't watch.

You feel where he is, you
know where he's at,

you hear the announcer talking.

In one ear and out the other.
You just keep doing your thing.

[Mat]
I was running back out my lane,
and he was still on the yoke,

so I went dead, dead slow,
waited for him, let him pass me.

Just to try to push the
pace for him.

[Announcer #1]
Sam Briggs is going to be
a force to be reckoned with

in the final event.

The engine from England will
win Midline Madness!

Here is Sara Sigmundsdottir
doing some damage control,

trying to finish as close to
catching Davidsdottir
as possible.

Jacob Heppner is gonna take
midline madness

as he gets his yoke
completely over the line,

but in second place,
it's Mat Fraser.

You immediately knew that Mat
Fraser had catapulted himself

back up into contention
with Ben Smith

and that we are going to be kind
of in the driver's seat

for the best finish that
we have seen yet.

The drama continues to unfold
here at the StubHub Center

as we learned that Annie
Thorsdottir has withdrawn
from the competition.

Heat Injury.

Yeah, so it's a
combination of the heat

and then a lot of
repetitions in the heat,

and being in it for so long.

I think that it's the
first time ever

that I've had to withdraw
from something

or stop something
that I've been doing.

It was a tough week for all
of the athletes.

Murph, in particular,
took its toll,

and I think Annie was one
of those athletes

that performed below
her expectations

and wasn't able to recover and
get back to the level

that she's accustomed
to competing at the Games.

I'm used to pushing through
muscle soreness,

I'm used to going through
long weekends,

and I know how that's
supposed to feel,

and this was just...
it's not the same.

My body felt awful and weak.

I'm cramping like... I've been
cramping all weekend.

I hurt on the uphill, but the
rest of it was fine.

It's just hot.

But better than Murph.

I feel okay.

Well, if I feel them...

I don't feel them now, so...

Hopefully, they will
feel again later.

I got to poop so bad.

So, we have something behind me
that we're going to reveal.

It'll be something new,
something none of you have
ever seen before

at the CrossFit Games.

So, let's go ahead and
reveal the rig.

Whoa, a pegboard.

A pegboard.

-[Dave] Correct, it's
a pegboard.
-Wrestling.

Wrestling style.

Oh, my biceps.

I was looking forward to more
of a bicep pump.

You want me to show you
how to do it?

[Crowd]
Yeah!

Let's see Dave Castro
do some work.

Come on, Dave!

[Cheering]

I'm going to fall the
[Bleep] on my ass!

[Dave]
Three ascents
up the wall. Anyhow.

Though it's putting things in
holes. Could be a bit of fun.

You're good at that.

[Laughing]

I like it. It's gonna be so
hard, so heavy at the end of it,

but I think it's cool.

It'd be a fun workout fresh.

I don't think it's going to be
so fun feeling like this.

I don't think I can even do
a handstand push-up,

let alone a heavy
dumbbell snatch,

or even hold my own
weight on a pegboard.

It's all right. Though, it's not
like these last two workouts

are too difficult.

It's like nice and easy,
kind of cruisy stuff.

It's not like it's
a heavy dumbbell,

and we have to do an
extreme bootcamp.

With the most
technical movements.

I'm worried about my biceps,

but I think everyone's in the
same boat with their biceps.

-Yeah.
-Everyone's hurting.

Even if there's a little bit of
a loosen up in the triceps,

would just go a long way.

I'm trying everything I can to
be able to strengthen my arms.

At this point in the weekend,
my body's...

I'm having to cut
holes in my shoes

because of the fact that the
nail is coming off.

Everything's just falling apart,
but who cares, it's
just kind of...

Have a bit of fun
out there, right?

At least for me, even on, like,
the Friday morning,

or the Saturday morning, and
Sunday morning especially,

you're sore, but, like, your
mind is just on high alert,

'cause it's "go" time, you know.

It's game time, you're in the
middle of the weekend, it's...

Your mind is getting your body
ready no matter how
bad it feels,

to do work.

It's all right,
I'm sore every day.

You're sore. I'm sore like this
in training, too, so...

You've got to train tired.

Who knows, maybe I'm like a
pegboard savant.

You could just be a...

Maybe I'm like one of the best
in the world at it.

We don't even know yet.

I'm really happy that I'm doing
better this year than last year.

And next year I can maybe just
aim for the podium.

That'd be nice.

I think it's... It'll be a
really fun workout.

It should go really well.

I'm just fatigued.

Watch your legs.

Watch your mouth.

Look my way when I
talk to you...

My upper body was so trashed

that I could not grab the bar
with locked-out arms

and pull my bodyweight up.

My coaches were like,
"Oh, yeah!"

They were pumped, it was heavy,
we were so excited.

Like, I was gonna crush
these workouts.

And then, all of the sudden,
I go to, like, move my hair
out of my face,

and it was like this...

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

[Announcer #1]
All athletes eyeing
that pegboard

with a bit of trepidation.

[Announcer #2]
Pedal to the Medal 1
is underway,

the magic number,
51 total reps,

but the toughest three
are right here, getting up
that pegboard.

[Female announcer]
She just lost it, slipped
out of her hands.

[Announcer #2]
Dropped from the top of
the pegboard.

[Announcer #1]
You can see the frustration
setting in

for many of
these athletes.

[Announcer #2]
No woman has
completed this event.

Pegboard event wasn't
my favorite.

I thought it was a joke.

I thought it was cool.

I looked at the other guys,
and I was like,

"Is anyone else, like, sweating
profusely right now?"

We just watched these people not
be able to complete
a single rep.

And they're some of the
fittest in the world,

and they can't get up this
[Bleep] pegboard.

[Announcer #1]
And this pegboard is really
throwing a wrench

in everyone's game right now.

It's the perfect example of
how CrossFit athletes

adapt to things that are
thrown at them.

You need to be presented
something that you've
never done before,

and we want to see how well
you can handle it.

It doesn't mean giving them
something that's easy for them

and seeing how fast they can go,

it means literally,
always moving the bar

and seeing if they can
actually do it.

Not just how fast they can do
it, or how well they can do it,
if they can do it.

Inevitably, that's going to mean
that some people are
going to fail.

It doesn't mean it's too hard,
it doesn't mean that
it's incorrect,

it means that it's the
CrossFit Games,

it means that it's redefining
human performance.

We need to find this point

where athletes are struggling,

where athletes can't
do a movement,

because once we find that, then,
we've just raised the level,

we've raised the bar, we've
raised the complexity.

We have raised the expectation
for them, going to
the next level.

Two men in the men's side

have separated themselves in a
battle for the top spot.

It's the experience of Ben Smith

against the expectations
of Mat Fraser.

And both have handled this test
extremely well so far.

The woman who has
handled it the best,

rookie Sara Sigmundsdottir.

She's battling with countrywoman
Katrin Davidsdottir

and Australian Kara Webb
for that top spot.

Davidsdottir and Webb have
experience on their side

at the Games,

but Sigmundsdottir has looked
like anything but a rookie.

I was excited, I was nervous,

I was like, I didn't know
kind of how to feel,

but more excited for the
opportunity to win than I was
afraid of losing.

I was aware how close it was
between Ben and I.

I knew what I needed
to do to win.

[Katrin]
I never even dared to dream it,

and I was sitting in the
position that I could win
the CrossFit Games.

All I know is that I've never
tried this before,

and, yeah, hopefully
it goes well.

[Announcer #1]
The fittest crowd on
earth is ready

to watch the fittest man on
earth be crowned

at the 2015 Reebok
CrossFit Games.

[Announcer #1]
The final heat of the
second-to-last event

of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit
Games underway.

Mat Fraser trying to get to the
top, and Smith is
right next to him,

so the two keeping a close
eye on each other.

[Sean]
Davidsdottir kind of goes up,

then, makes it
to the top and falls.

Sigmundsdottir kind of gets
halfway up, she falls down.

It went from the wall and
straight to my head,

so, I fell down and I had, like,
this really big bump on my head.

I'd peg it in, put my chin on,
peg the next one,
put my chin on.

Our last heat was like
freak pegboarders.

[Mat]
If I just pull this third
pegboard climb out of my ass,

I can beat Ben.

And all I can remember thinking
on the third one is like,

"Oh, my God, it's happening.
It's working."

[Announcer #1]
And Mat Fraser got
to the rower ahead of him.

Fraser has to beat Ben's spin by
two spots on the leaderboard.

[Ben]
You're pushing yourself
through that workout,

but you are seeing where he is,
and you do have to
know where he is.

[Announcer #1]
Sara Sigmundsdottir continues

to just stare
at that pegboard.

She's got to start
working her way up.

Margaux Alvarez is on
to the rower!

And Katrin
Davidsdottir has decided

that she's not going to go
after this thing again

and rest up for the
second event.

Meanwhile, Fraser will move
into third place,

and he is ahead of the man that
he needs to beat in this event,

Ben Smith.

[Announcer #2]
If he lets Mat get
ahead of him here,

he's going to have to beat him
in the next event.

[Announcer #1]
And Mat Fraser in
the yellow shorts

is leaving Ben
Smith behind him.

[Mat]
I had one snatch, two snatch,

and then, my ref was like on
the next number.

And I was like,
"Better move it, honey!"

I kind of launched
this dumbbell.
It landed right on the number.

I was like, "Oh, that was
kind of neat."

[Announcer #1]
Mat Fraser is beating
Ben Smith!

Meanwhile, Spencer Hendel was
crushing the thing,

so he's going to win the event.

[Announcer #1]
Hendel is across the
finish line.

Mat Fraser finishing second,
and Dan Bailey gets in,

and that's huge for Mat Fraser.

Ben Smith will finish.

[Announcer #2]
It's going to be really tight
with the numbers.

[Announcer #1]
Event win for Margaux Alvarez
on Pedal to the Medal 1,

and now, a two-minute reset.

That man will have the lead
by just two points.

Whoever beats the other guy is
going to be the "Fittest
Man on Earth."

This is yours to lose.
It's all on you.

And that's exactly the position
you want to be in.

All right. Don't
[Bleep] this up.

[Announcer #1]
This is it.

Four days of competition,

and this is the 13th event

to close out the 2015
Reebok CrossFit Games.

[Sean]
All Sara needed to do was
just stay ahead of Katrin.

And then, the parallel
handstand push-up. Oof.

[Female announcer]
Katrin's going to go hard

because she wants to
get as much of a lead
as she can on Sara.

[Announcer #2]
Ben Smith looks unbelievable on
those handstand push-ups.

Mat got a little wobbly.

[Announcer #1]
And Ben Smith is done first.

He gets all 12 and on
to the rower.

Fraser with one to go, and he
can't lock it out!

Meanwhile, Ben Smith continues
to work on the rower.

First off, Sam was there with
me, and I was just like,
"Balls to the walls."

[Announcer #1]
This is big for Davidsdottir.

And a no-rep for Mat Fraser.

Smith is done with 24.

On to the assault bike
for 16 calories.

[Sean]
Davidsdottir moves on
to the assault bike.

Sigmundsdottir is
still struggling,

and now more people are
starting to put themselves

between Sigmundsdottir
and Davidsdottir.

[Announcer #1]
Mat Fraser into the rower
for 24 calories,

and he's going to have to
set some records to catch
Ben Smith.

[Mat]
I'm pulling like 21--
2200 calories.

A number I've never seen on
the screen before.

And I just went full-dummy.

[Announcer #1]
Mat Fraser meanwhile is
closing the gap.

You have to want to be in
those positions

because those are just
opportunities to succeed.

If I ever pushed it anywhere,
this was the time.

[Announcer #1]
And Davidsdottir moving up to
challenge Sam Briggs

for the top spot.

I can still get him.
He's right there.

[Announcer #1]
Smith with a no-rep,

and Mat Fraser has a door
to make a comeback!

[Sean]
Everybody in the stands was on
their feet going crazy.

Everybody was into this.

I get up to my two kettle bells,
I grip 'em, I go...

[Announcer #1]
Ben Smith is Blue two. He will
walk forward to the number four.

Mat Fraser will start
on his first two reps.

And here comes Mat Fraser!

Here's Sara Sigmundsdottir,

who could be seeing
the title of
"Fittest Woman on Earth"

slipping through her fingers.

[Tommy]
Katrin had arguably the most
impressive performance

on the kettle balls that we
saw out of anyone.

There was no stopping
her on those.

When I think about it,
I couldn't even feel my body.

[Announcer #1]
Two more reps for Davidsdottir.

She could lock up 100 points

and possibly move herself onto
top of the podium.

Fraser got a no-rep.

You've seen it so many
times in your head,
visualize yourself winning,

visualize yourself going through
that event and finishing first.

[Announcer #1]
Today, Superman does not
wear a red cape!

He wears a CrossFit Games
jersey and a Gold Medal!

Ben Smith is the "Fittest
Man on Earth!"

One more for Katrin
Davidsdottir, and now she
will wait and see

if she will be crowned the
"Fittest Woman on Earth."

Sam Briggs in second.

Sara Sigmundsdottir is
now on the rower.

She has a ton of
ground to make up.

It was a situation where we
weren't quite sure

how many people were going to
finish between Katrin and Sara.

[Announcer #1]
Pushing for all she is worth
on that assault bike.

Second last year to
Rich Froning,

and Fraser will have to wait at
least another year

before he stands on top
of the podium.

I'm sure if I didn't go
full-dummy on the assault bike,

it would have been a different
story, but I did. I was dying.

[Announcer #1]
This crowd saluting Mat Fraser
as he finishes the event.

[Mat]
And I remember hitting the
finish line, half being happy,

knowing I did
everything possible.

Your 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games
Champion is from Iceland.

Dave Castle was like,

"The Fittest Woman in the
World is from Iceland."

I was still like...

Please, be my name, be my name.

And her name is Katrin
Davidsdottir!

When it was like, "Katrin
Davidsdottir," there is...

There is no words to
describe that feeling.

That's what I remember the most.

And that's what I'm going
to think about

the whole year when
I'm training.

[Mat]
I just remember getting
back to the athlete area...

to an empty room.

And it just being, like, a...

devastating feeling.

Like, I wanted the Games
to finish with like...

surrounded by
friends and family.

Like hugs, everyone happy.

But it was the exact opposite.

Like, I finished it by
myself in an empty room

with nothing but disappointment.

Your 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games
Champion is Ben Smith!

My mom and dad and my wife,

they were all, like, you know,
super nervous.

I don't know. It was great to be
able to kind of put it to rest

and finally win it.

I knew I could do it, it was
just a matter of time.

[Justin]
Ben Smith is the real deal.

In the nine years that we've had
the CrossFit Games,

only one other time has an
athlete had ten top-ten finishes

in the same games.

And Ben did it this year.

He's a legend in CrossFit.
He's been there seven
[Bleep] times.

He's been on the podium twice.

It's not the end of the world.

It took this guy seven years,
and I've been in the game two.

I think Mat is going to win.

I don't think you can stop
him from winning.

I feel like Ben Smith, like, it
was just his time.

Like, Fraser's still going
to have his time.

Finished fourth.

It just showed me that maybe I
do have another year left in me.
So...

There's no retirement
plans just yet.

Oh, my God!

[Gjorgvin]
Amazing moment.

That's the moment that you want

to chase for the rest
of your life.

It's been really cool
to be a huge fan,

and then to be able to compete
with a lot of the guys

that were your heroes that you
had watched the year before

do what you are doing now.

I hope that there's other people
out there like that
that are watching,

and, like, just hungry to
get out on the floor

and can make that transition.

[Dan]
The satisfaction of
finishing higher

than you've ever
finished in your life,

and it doesn't take one
year to do that.

It's a whole lifetime of
competing and doing stuff
to get you there.

There's more than meets the
eye to CrossFit.

The blending of capacities,
finding weaknesses,

it's a long process, and it's a
really low trajectory

at a very distant horizon that
you have to accomplish.

Ben Smith personifies that.

He talks about goals
all the time.

Winning the CrossFit Games is
one of the most ambitious goals

that you could ever
possibly have.

And Ben has chipped away, year
after year, until age 25.

That's why he's the perfect
example of how you win.

Things take time. Things
take hard work.

That's all Ben Smith does.

He works hard, and he's been
working hard for
seven years plus,

and it finally paid off.

[Katrin]
You know, I worked so hard,

and that it paid off
in such a big way,

to be the "Fittest on Earth?"

That's incredible to me.

That's something that was
only in my dreams.

Just the fact that I was out
there with all of these
fantastic athletes,

all of us suffering together...

Hey, throw whatever you
want at us, dear,

because we'll find a way
to overcome it.

The ceiling for what's possible
is year after year
being redefined,

and the CrossFit Games are
part of that process

in showing athletes and the
world who truly is "The
Fittest on Earth."

Did you memorize all these
questions, or are you
looking at anything?

How good does this shirt look?

Yeah, it's classic.

Well, we're all on the highway,

and this really nice Porsche
kind of like goes by us quickly.

You better win today!

And as we get up next to him,

I'm like, "Oh, shit, that's
Bob the Trainer!"

Selfie time.

You better win!

I go... I did the natural thing
and took a selfie in
front of him.

Who else can say they
have that photo?

So, Bob, thank you
for the selfie.

He was just like,
"Every time I pull,

"it just felt like sandpaper
on my nipples."

Oh, it hurt so bad.

My nipples are rubbed raw
from the paddleboard.

And I decided to go shirtless.

So, it'll be interesting.

Yeah!

Do me a favor, make sure my
nipples are in the
same direction.

[Dan]
Yeah, slow clap in the 20
seconds that I have to lift.

Bob is like, lift, just...

I get my hands on the bar,
and you're done.

Yeah, but it was cool.
Everyone was clapping.

[Announcer #1]
Dan Bailey knows a lot about
pain and suffering.

He's a lifelong
Cleveland Browns fan.

[Announcer #2]
Julian Alcaraz.

Get that shirt off, young man.

It's time to lift
some sandbags.

CrossFit roadtrip.

CrossFit roadtrip.

He's gonna come to
Tennessee so we can hang.

He's gonna take me to
the mountains.

It's gonna be like
"Brokeback Mountain."

More like
"Deliverance," actually.

I've decided, if the final
event to be done

is just kiss another guy in the
team on the individuals,

I would do it and be done.

I wouldn't choose Alex. I don't
think he's a good kisser.

My name is
Camille Leblanc-Bazinet,

and I choose fitness.

Sometimes I pretend like my
food has feelings.

Don't eat me.

I'm just a cheese sandwich.

Recently, I've been told that
I have the stomach of
a ninja turtle.

I don't know if that's
a complement.

I think it's the front side.

-Abs are made in the kitchen.
-All right.

Everyone knows this.

Abs are made in the kitchen.

-Whose slogan is that?
-Schwarzenegger's.

Oh, that's Arnold's.

[Announcer #1]
But Lucas Parker, look
at that beard.

Never gets in the way of the
barbell when he's working out,

which is so impressive.

[Announcer #2]
Fun fact that he, Lucas Parker,
actually uses hang power cleans

to trim his beard to the
appropriate level.

[Sean]
Then we find out she had
a broken foot.

And I literally thought,

"Okay, this woman was sent from
the future to kill Sara Connor,

"and she just stuck around to
do some CrossFit

"because she is a cyborg."

Oh, my gosh, now there's
something on me.

Can you please take it off?

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh!

Thank you.

-Bedbugs...
-Everyone says that.

Thank you.

Yep, saved my life right there.
Thank you again.

I was pumped for those workouts.

I was pumped to freaking--

Those little-- they looked like
Mario bombs from the
game "Mario".

That's what they looked like to
me, and I wanted to
pick them up,

and I wanted to deadlift them.

I wish I could talk to
you about Tia-Clair Toomey.

I really wish I could.

[Man]
No one knows what the hell--

Nobody knows anything.

[Pat]
Gudmundsson absolutely
infuriated me the entire time

just because he made us
look foolish as analysts.

And I'm sure anyone at home
that's like, "Oh, I
saw it coming.

"I could have told you
Gudmundsson was gonna
do that great,"

you're probably related to him
or one of his immediate friends.

Anyone outside that circle did
not see Gudmundsson coming.

Someone had e-mailed and said,
you know, the final
wasn't exciting.

I was like, "What the [Bleep]
were you watching?" You know.

Like, that was the most exciting
final we ever had.

These are baby-carrying hips

that are just totally ruined
because of Dave Castro.

No more babies for Michelle.

Don't put that on television.

If you [Bleep] tell anyone...

[Laughing]

That [Bleep] doesn't
go anywhere.