CrossFit Games 2019: cuts divide social media users after being introduced this year
- Unfair to athletes and spectators, say some, but others counter that they make the Games more interesting
- Will the 2020 event see the same format?
While the CrossFit world was united in congratulating Tia-Clair Toomey and Mat Fraser on retaining their titles as the fittest on earth, there was no such agreement on the new format for the 2019 CrossFit Games.
For the first time at the Games, organisers decided to introduce cuts to the competition and it divided opinion.
Social media users who were watching all the action from Madison, Wisconsin, were quick to pass judgment on what has become the biggest talking point of the weekend’s action.
The biggest issue for fans of the sport is that the cut was so huge, shrinking the fields to 10 athletes in the men’s and women’s individual competitions after just the first event on Saturday morning. What’s more, it was decided after a sprint, at a point where no weights had featured.
Twitter user Erika Engler said that the Games were now broken.
“Yep, I am done with the games this year. No point watching just 10 people complete the rest of the weekend. The games are now broken,” she wrote.
