Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness Page #13

And just finish.

Not only fatigue but you're also

a little bit nervous

About falling off

at that height.

look at how composed

And relaxed

katrin davidsdottir is.

there was no reason

for me to go out really hard

Because it was just gonna

come down

To how many pegboards

I was gonna make.

I did my first three pegboards,

and I'm not gonna lie,

That third one, I was like,

oh, my gosh.

Like, my arms

are already toasted.

so I finally got down,

looked at shane,

And he's like, "you've got

seven seconds."

there goes tia toomey

to the barbell.

Toomey and pearce trading

first place in this heat.

Sara sigmundsdottir

is on to the barbell.

ben smith was ahead of me,

And I saw him on his set

of 21 thrusters.

He had put the bar down,

and that was the moment

That I was like,

"I wanna win this."

So I just went, grabbed the bar

and just started cranking them.

tia toomey is done,

will roll her barbell forward.

Katrin davidsdottir

is just finishing

Her third pegboard ascent.

on each, I was gonna pause

at the top of the thruster

And try to rush the transition

as much as I could

And take small breaks

between the pegs.

Every part of that event,

if he was going up,

I had to start moving.

katrin davidsdottir is

resting on the thrusters.

she's been pushing

herself to her limits

And it looks like it might be

catching up to her, sean.

tia toomey continues to

lead along with kari pearce.

she takes a quick

peek, has that thought process,

"I've got to keep up with her?"

She tries to go up

a little too quick

And doesn't take

the rest she needs to.

If she fails one

of those pegboards, she's done.

You can take a chance now.

This is the time when you

have to take a chance.

sara sigmundsdottir

just fell off the pegboard,

So now she's got to go to

the other end of the floor.

like just stay calm

and get your new pegs

And then wait 20 to 40 seconds

and then you go up again

And you can still like,

still a possibility.

so that opens the door

for katrin davidsdottir.

Tia toomey is back

on the barbell.

tia, I thought she was

looking at someone,

And she was getting coached

to slow down.

sara sigmundsdottir

for the second straight year

Is running into trouble

on the pegboard.

And then I failed again,

and then I failed again.

Oh, my gosh, is this how

my crossfit games

are gonna end again?

Like, what is happening?

brent fikowski

and ben smith are your leaders,

But mat fraser has moved himself

towards the top here.

I don't want to be

remembered as the guy

who paced it

But had done well enough

in the weekend before.

I want to crush all of them.

mat fraser

back to the barbell

To put the finishing touches

on his championship performance.

The dream is becoming reality!

Second no more!

Mat fraser

is the fittest man on earth!

katrin just

went methodically

one hole at a time.

somewhere halfway up,

I start falling.

I was not letting go.

Katrin utilized

the center peg holes

Which no one at the time

was using.

So I just start like

gap retracting my way up,

And I was like, okay,

at least I'm moving.

And then I started going down.

Don't fall, do not fall.

Do not fall, katrin, and I

make it back down, like, cool.

katrin davidsdottir

fighting for her life here.

Toomey is back

for her final nine reps.

So tia toomey is getting closer

to being crowned

The fittest woman on earth.

Tia toomey will

wait and see what happens.

She will place eighth

in the event.

Brent fikowski

is across the finish line.

everyone's eyes just

immediately turned to vellner.

Where is vellner at,

how many spots

Are going to get chewed up

between them,

And is it going to be enough

to give fikowski a podium spot?

as vellner comes

across the finish line.

Vellner will finish in ninth,

and that's gonna do it.

Now we need to see

how this shakes out.

I made five pegboards,

that was huge.

I couldn't be happier,

but tia finished the workout.

She got a time and...

I didn't know where I placed,

I didn't know where she placed,

I didn't know

her point distribution.

It felt like forever

That they were gonna

announce it.

mat fraser's dominance

was astounding,

There's just no other way

to put it.

He did great

at a lot of things

That I didn't expect him to.

I expected there to be

a closer race.

But it seems like, if you were

in a heat with him,

You probably weren't

gonna win.

and the celebration can

begin for mat fraser.

you already know

Who your 2016

crossfit games champion is!

Mat fraser!

everyone sees that little

glimpse, that five days.

They don't see me

in the basement doing

rowing intervals by myself.

They don't see me squatting

by myself.

They don't see that work

getting put in.

Just think about all

those nights at the track

Where I pull out my flashlight

on my phone to get to my car.

I feel like

this year's finish reflected

What people didn't see,

all that time training,

Doing stuff

that I didn't want to do.

That's what stepping

on that podium meant to me, was,

It paid off.

and this is just where

all you can do is wait

now we're gonna get

those scores tabulated.

but the question is,

did toomey do enough

To jump over

katrin davidsdottir?

These are some nerve-wracking

minutes for these women.

When, just before I left,

someone said to me,

"if you beat katrin

in this last workout,

You will win," and so I was

like, "oh, my god, I beat her."

But then I'm never someone

to assume something

Before I actually know

the end result.

They took so long.

It was the longest ten minutes

of my life.

I could see katrin,

and she looked really gutted,

And I was like, "does she feel

like she's lost?"

I really wanted to win

for my grandma.

It was more for her that I

wanted to win than for myself.

we do have

a lot of fun together.

We like to go shopping.

I like to go and cheer her

when she is competing.

We both do.

Grandma and grandpa.

That's us.

she was gonna come

to the games this year.

And, I mean, she did.

Just maybe not

in the stands section.

So she got to be out

on the floor with me this time.

All I wanted to do

was make her proud.

And I looked up at shane

and I seen him again,

and he goes like this.

Then I started bawling

and crying.

And I walked over to katrin,

I was like, "good job."

It takes so much for an athlete

to get through that

And for her to come on top,

I was really happy for her,

But at the same time,

I was so gutted.

ladies and gentlemen,

Your 2016 reebok crossfit games

champion is...

Once again katrin davidsdottir!

I felt like my grandma

was with me this year.

She believed in me more

than anyone in this world.

-Thank you.

-Nice work.

it was

a big disappointment

That I let him down.

Um...

He did everything

that he needed to do,

And I didn't do my part, so...

And that was to execute

each workout

To the best that I could.

No, that's okay.

You needed more

than 15 seconds.

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