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OpinionCrossFit Games: will Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey win again, or are we in for upsets in 2020?
- The two reigning champions are expected to win, of course, but who could provide us with an upset?
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Before the 2019 CrossFit Games, the sport went through a massive overhaul which divided the community and its athletes. Regionals were gone, replaced with Sanctionals. More than 100 country champions were crowned from all over the world.
The Games themselves also had drastic cuts thrown in last August, and anyone looking to predict what might come were probably banking on the unexpected. While many new athletes found their way to the upper echelons of the standings at the end of the weekend, and some brand-names were left watching from the sidelines, there were no surprises when it came to the kings and queens of the thrones.
American Mat Fraser won his fourth consecutive title in the men’s division, while Tia-Clair Toomey of Australia captured her third in a row. Fraser fought off an unfortunate backpack malfunction, and a hard charge from Noah Ohlsen, but outside that, neither looked incredibly threatened when all was said and done.
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On top of this, four-time individual winner Rich Froning won the team spot with CrossFit Mayhem, which came as a surprise to no one.
Somehow 2020 usurped 2019 and offered an even wilder ride for the sport. The coronavirus shut down the Sanctional season in the blink of an eye, and we are now heading into an unprecedented format, an online competition from September 17-19, which will produce five men and five women from 30 competitors who will head to Auroras, California, for the in-person finals from October 19-25.
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