Bye bye CrossFit? Man dies during CrossFit games

[Jive Turkey 12545]

CrossFit games are in Fort Worth. First event is a 4 mile run followed by a swim (half mile I believe). It’s hot AF. Serbian dude drowned during the swim. Safety team members on paddle boards essentially watched it and didn’t do shit. This was all on tv. 

I know CrossFit isn’t going away but they should pay dearly for this. Monetarily and in the court of public opinion.

 

[Ted Lange 15970]

Vaxxed?

-weirdos on twitter

[pops 6971]

CrossFit is just a spot for mid 30s "trainers" to fuck mid 40s housewives.  And for orthos to grow their patient list. 

Deadlift for time.  Lulz.  

[Gene Parmesan 3964]

Is CrossFit an entity?  I just thought it was of an idea for people to gather at gyms and toss loaded barbells to each other in between pull up sets.

[randomhorn 1571]

why would you put the safety team on paddle boards???

[Da Fino 2715]

They did the swim after the run? 

[BamaATL 16592]

By chance long blond hair and potential in Congress?

[We’reTexas 1467]

28 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Is CrossFit an entity?  I just thought it was of an idea for people to gather at gyms and toss loaded barbells to each other in between pull up sets.

There is a corporate entity which, IIRC, makes money from licensing gyms and education. But Greg Glassman got canceled after an “All Lives Matter” rant four years ago and I’m surprised that it’s still around. 

[crash_davis 23076]

35 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

They did the swim after the run? 

Sounds like it. Why the fuck would they put swimming after anything? The organizers should be neutered to keep that stupidity out of the gene pool.

[Js1 84990]

2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Sounds like it. Why the fuck would they put swimming after anything? The organizers should be neutered to keep that stupidity out of the gene pool.

[Paris] Yeah, you swim first so everyone shits themselves during the run [Olympics]

[Parliament 14083]

They've had safety problems a few years ago.  They were in a hot stadium doing stuff for reps and a buncha competitors got heat stroke.

[Dennis Taylor 18643]

46 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Is CrossFit an entity?  I just thought it was of an idea for people to gather at gyms and toss loaded barbells to each other in between pull up sets.

 

13 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

There is a corporate entity which, IIRC, makes money from licensing gyms and education. But Greg Glassman got canceled after an “All Lives Matter” rant four years ago and I’m surprised that it’s still around. 

This was early in the cross fit craze but a neighbor's doofus kid was way into those circles. I believe it was a $5k annual fee to use the name cross fit, and they had lawyers going after people that didn't pay or used similar names like X-Fit or Kross Fit or whatever stupid derivative people could come up with. 

[DixonHur 11017]

CrossFit is Darwinism in action.

The fewer CrossFitters we have in the world the better.

[crash_davis 23076]

Damn, this is going to cost them. Supposedly a bystander tried to jump in and help but was turned away by a "lifeguard". Whose life was he guarding, exactly? Also, the dipshit "lifeguard" was within 30 yards of the victim. 

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/08/08/crossfit-games-athlete-lazar-dukic-dies-from-drowning-moments-before-crossing-finish-line-in-tragic-video/

 

Edited August 8 by crash_davis

[wutang75 431]

CrossFit is Darwinism in action.
The fewer CrossFitters we have in the world the better.

Damn

[crash_davis 23076]

Damn, dude had a brother competing in the same event and was running around looking for his brother. Video won't like me share at specific time but fast forward to 1:18 of the video. Talks about the brother and the absolute negligence by the "lifeguards". This is going to cost them.

 

[gofuckyourself 8098]

1 hour ago, pops said:

CrossFit is just a spot for mid 30s "trainers" to fuck mid 40s housewives

[crash_davis 23076]

The brother as he watches the body search.

[cmontexas 3236]

2 hours ago, Da Fino said:

They did the swim after the run? 

Do you even muscle confusion bro?

[Skipper 6012]

Horrible.  I don't understand what the life guards could have possibly been doing.  How do you miss that?  Is it going to come out that these were just cross-fit bros without any basic lifeguard training out there?  Or were they just too concerned with "stopping the competition" and what impact that would have on the results?  Just ridiculous regardless.

[pops 6971]

2 hours ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Is CrossFit an entity?  I just thought it was of an idea for people to gather at gyms and toss loaded barbells to each other in between pull up sets.

Yeah. It was just pay to play to become a trainer. I had a couple clients that had gyms 15ish years ago. They both changed the names of their gyms after a couple of years because the annual licensing fees were regarded. 

Reebok bought CrossFit a few years ago. 

[smuggs 9318]

The "lifeguard" doesn't have any type of can, tube or other rescue flotation on him, other than a paddleboard. Good luck saving a 200+ pound dude in the midst of the water death throes.

 

 

[Gene Parmesan 3964]

20 minutes ago, Skipper said:

Horrible.  I don't understand what the life guards could have possibly been doing.  How do you miss that?  Is it going to come out that these were just cross-fit bros without any basic lifeguard training out there?  Or were they just too concerned with "stopping the competition" and what impact that would have on the results?  Just ridiculous regardless.

Yeah that's my guess.  Just slapped lifeguard duties on some random employees of the event.  Doubt those liability waivers cover gross negligence.  

[Parliament 14083]

3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Damn, dude had a brother competing in the same event and was running around looking for his brother. Video won't like me share at specific time but fast forward to 1:18 of the video. Talks about the brother and the absolute negligence by the "lifeguards". This is going to cost them.

 

“She just did a quick paddle around and paddled out.”

ouch

[Paper_jam 828]

1 hour ago, smuggs said:

The "lifeguard" doesn't have any type of can, tube or other rescue flotation on him, other than a paddleboard. Good luck saving a 200+ pound dude in the midst of the water death throes.

 

 

I know fuck all about being a lifeguard, but one would think he could at least paddle his boat over there so the guy could try to hang on to it. He could get off and they could both hang on to it while waiting for more help. 

[Deej 76373]

Are we sure Nicole wasn't just underneath the water, pulling him down?

[High Plains Drifter 10961]

 

I was a lifeguard at Barton Springs and at UT for years. Also trained lifeguards for COA. I probably pulled 15 or 20 people out of the water in my time. That guy was a textbook case of a distressed swimmer/active drowning. Absolutely no reason those "lifeguards" should not have been on that guy like surlyites on South Austin's mom. That video will be used in lifeguard training videos for years to come. 

And yeah, they probably weren't actual trained and certified lifeguards, or they would have had rescue equipment, as Smuggs pointed out. It takes a specially trained and strong swimmer, even with rescue equipment, to pull a 200 pound slab of beef with no buoyancy off the bottom when they are 10+ feet down. Add in the fact they guy was obviously conscious when he went under, (which means he's going to be grabbing onto you if you let him), and you are in a world of shit if you don't have a rescue can/tube.  Which is why you save them BEFORE they go under.

Not only should those paddleboarders have been lifeguards, they should have been the best of the best: trained and experienced and certified in open water guarding with competition level swimming abilities. I guarded a few private gigs in my day, (triathlons and open water swims and such), and if the person hiring me had told me I'd be on a paddle board in a fucking lake with no rescue can, I'd have laughed in his face and noped right the fuck out of there. 

I will say that paddleboards are not a bad idea in that sort of situation-- the guards can be close to the swimmers, and once the victim is saved, the guard can pull him back to the board instead of all the way back to shore. You can even load the victim onto the board if they are too weak to hold on or unconscious. 

 

edit to add: Two guys drowned at Balmorhea earlier this summer. Old dude went under, son in law jumped in to save him (I'm guessing no lifeguard training), and he drowned also. 

 

Edited August 8 by High Plains Drifter

[Dnaguy 11702]

 

3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Damn, this is going to cost them. Supposedly a bystander tried to jump in and help but was turned away by a "lifeguard". Whose life was he guarding, exactly? Also, the dipshit "lifeguard" was within 30 yards of the victim. 

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/08/08/crossfit-games-athlete-lazar-dukic-dies-from-drowning-moments-before-crossing-finish-line-in-tragic-video/

 

 

As a lifeguard you need Lazar focus if you want to prevent something life this from happing.

 

[DixonHur 11017]

12 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

 

 

As a lifeguard you need Lazar focus if you want to prevent something life this from happing.

 

Unfortunately, this woman seemed to be relying on Lazarus focus.

[Mittens 8121]

1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Yeah that's my guess.  Just slapped lifeguard duties on some random employees of the event.  

Same.  I have to think that anyone who has served as an actual lifeguard would IMMEDIATELY be moving toward anyone in distress.  It's baked into you as part of the job.

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

Yeah. It was just pay to play to become a trainer. I had a couple clients that had gyms 15ish years ago. They both changed the names of their gyms after a couple of years because the annual licensing fees were regarded. 
Reebok bought CrossFit a few years ago. 

Reebok never owned Crossfit, but they have not been affiliated in any way with CrossFit for several years now.

[Dnaguy 11702]

Something something, Serbian basketball, something, CrossFit games…..

[Captainant 27239]

CrossFit be like

[F250 28614]

5 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Damn, this is going to cost them. Supposedly a bystander tried to jump in and help but was turned away by a "lifeguard". Whose life was he guarding, exactly? Also, the dipshit "lifeguard" was within 30 yards of the victim. 

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/08/08/crossfit-games-athlete-lazar-dukic-dies-from-drowning-moments-before-crossing-finish-line-in-tragic-video/

Mitch doesn't approve.

[F250 28614]

CrossFit, is for fitness dorks. I was briefly interested in it years ago but thought it was fucking weird after a few visits. CrossFit workouts reminded me of off-season football workouts but amped up for no reason. The people that get into it are the kind of people that refer to themselves as "athletes" despite the fact that they never competed in an athletic competition in their life.

Kenny Powers best sums up CrossFit.

 

[TwiceHorn 31039]

I got a Lifesaving Merit Badge at BSA summer Camp Constantin when I was about 13.  It was pretty equivalent to most lifeguarding training/certification at the time.

We had to effect a rescue on a struggling/drowning swimmer, portrayed very enthusiastically by a camp counselor somewhere between 16 and 18 years of age.

Those guys loved beating the shit out of us ringmeats during the rescue.

[Deej 76373]

So you're telling me there's one less CrossFitter?

[BurntEyes 5769]

Was trained as a life guard for scouts long ago.

Just echoing what others have said here.

The recorded video plus the comments from the participant... BIG court case coming. Fuck those "life guards" who did fuck all and the people that put them there.

[BrazilHorn 6575]

My oldest son is a lifeguard for City of Austin. He is getting his open water certification this fall so he can guard at Barton. 
 

I will be shocked if these “lifeguards” from crossfit event had that certification (or any training)

[BurntEyes 5769]

2 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

My oldest son is a lifeguard for City of Austin. He is getting his open water certification this fall so he can guard at Barton. 
 

I will be shocked if these “lifeguards” from crossfit event had that certification (or any training)

:::They didn't::: narrator

[cmontexas 3236]

For some reason I always assumed the Cross part of Crossfit meant meant it was Jesus stuff combined with the ridiculous, borderline dangerous exercises you see videos of

I guess it just means cross training. Damn I feel dumb

['stache 21726]

His corpse is probably still talking nonstop about Crossfit.

[General Specific 3207]

What if it was just a simple misunderstanding, CrossFit swimmer, and a vegan on a paddle board having a conversation?

[DixonHur 11017]

1 hour ago, cmontexas said:

For some reason I always assumed the Cross part of Crossfit meant meant it was Jesus stuff combined with the ridiculous, borderline dangerous exercises you see videos of

I guess it just means cross training. Damn I feel dumb

Dude was able to move a 2-ton stone when he was dead... you don't think he lifted?

Edited August 9 by DixonHur

[AbeFroman 2076]

There was a mud run a few years back in Fort Worth where another guy died crossing the Trinity.  I remember some participants saying the river crossings were pure chaos and they were surprised only one person didn't make it.  

[SameSame 1681]

All the lifeguards and event organizers names need to be published, especially the one who blocked the person from going in to save him.  

[Parliament 14083]

I presume the rest of the games are cancelled?  How can anyone be confident the rest of the events are safe?

[Da Fino 2715]

54 minutes ago, Parliament said:

I presume the rest of the games are cancelled?  How can anyone be confident the rest of the events are safe?

Nope. They took a vote and it’s proceeding. Apparently the brother said it’s what he would have wanted. Whoever is in charge must have a great attorney. 

[Surly Bevo 24685]

Wait. This shit was being televised?

[jimmyjazz 45405]

I passed the swimming test at that Boy Scout camp near Bastrop about a decade ago.  That's all I got.  Some of the other dads were surprisingly worse than me.