Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness Page #7

At the end of doing

all these reps.

This is gonna be a big one

for these strong guys.

If you made a pact

with the devil,

And you're like,

"I want to come back

"as just the strongest,

most handsome man

You can come up with,"

He would make you alex anderson.

alex anderson

crushed that workout.

what's cool about the

squat clean ladder for the men

Is that it gives-- I don't want

to use the term "specialist"--

But it gives guys who like

to throw around heavy weight

An opportunity to shine

on a really cool stage,

And that guy

was alex anderson.

He is strikingly handsome.

Looks like a ken doll.

And he's so strong.

It is almost offensive.

first event win

for alex anderson!

- wow!

- -kara webb, one to go,

Who's looking to make

a charge up the leaderboard.

I couldn't keep up

with her and that thing,

same weights.

And I don't know if you think

you could,

But I'm here to tell you,

you can't.

Not even close.

We'll set it up after this.

And then we'll play it

on a monitor

And you can try to race her

on the monitor.

It ain't gonna go well.

kara webb

hearing it from the crowd

As she will win event

number six!

Katrin davidsdottir,

the defending champion,

Still on the floor,

as is sara sigmundsdottir,

Two women you would have

expected to be pushing

for the lead here

At this point

in the event.

I tried to follow

kara webb

Instead of going

in my own pace,

And just lost my head

and lost focus

And it was like wow,

"what's happening to you, sara?

Where is the sara that I know?"

It's like my head just,

I don't know.

I don't know what happened,

but it was like okay,

Stop thinking about it,

next event.

and once again,

tia toomey,

Just like a thief creeping

in the night,

Just takes third.

Again, you know, like,

All eyes on kara webb,

And there's tia toomey

Doing amazing once again.

I was extremely nervous

at double dg.

But that was just

a confidence booster.

Like, okay,

I can with this.

You put me next to like

Alex anderson,

That's a big guy.

I ain't as big as mat fraser.

They breed

those anderson boys big.

When in doubt, sparkle.

Anything, and it doesn't

just apply to nails.

It's eye shadow.

It's headbands.

Leotards.

Special leotards.

I used to always have

sparkly earrings,

But my grandma

always wore pearls.

So I changed, I wear pearls now.

I failed like four rafters

And I never fail

in these squat cleans.

I don't know what's happening.

I have to bring it in dt.

you excited about dt?

I am, I'm very excited.

real house workout?

Yeah, it's gonna be group,

just group, yeah.

My coach decided that we

should go do stockton

For training camp

before the games.

We're teasing them.

They think we're

giving them food.

It's like a small farm

or something

And walking distance

from the gym.

It was just awesome.

It was so quiet.

It's warmer than in l.A.

Yeah, and no distractions.

no breaks!

Back to the bar!

Back to the bar, let's go!

Back to the bar!

Come again!

Fight to the end, sara!

Come on!

Come on! Go, go, go, go, go!

Let's go! Let's go!

Come on!

Of course, I thought, you won

heavy dt last year,

You have to win double dt, too.

double dt,

put my money on sara,

Beyond a shadow of a doubt,

right?

all eyes were on here.

This is her event.

This is where

sara sigmundsdottir

is gonna make her move.

sean, all eyes

on katrin davidsdottir.

I talked to her coach,

ben bergeron, backstage,

And he said she's

going to smash this workout.

We go into other workouts,

you cannot back off.

This one is everything

you've got.

Okay, show me you're smart,

show me you're strong.

Show me smart, show me strong.

Let's go.

mat fraser comes in

With a 104-point lead

over alex anderson.

Mat fraser could

sit this event out

And he would have the lead

going into Saturday.

sara sigmundsdottir,

if there's one thing

We've learned about her,

she will not quit.

Whatever davidsdottir

is gonna do,

Sigmundsdottir's gonna see

if she can do better.

it's Friday night lights,

Crossfit-style, and we're

doing it with double dt.

This is where ben smith

can start making a move

on mat fraser.

this is an event that

is very, very good for him.

He's extremely good

with the barbell,

He's short range of motion,

so the deadlifts

are gonna be great.

If the range of motion

is shorter, the reps

will be faster.

He doesn't like being

talked about, one

of the shorter athletes.

"he's gonna be good at this

workout 'cause he's short."

Find something different to say

other than I'm short.

I've heard enough

of that.

Maybe it's because I did ten

years of olympic weightlifting.

it is

an icelandic civil war

Between katrin davidsdottir

and sara sigmundsdottir

Who right now has the lead.

Toomey is currently

ninth place in the heat.

you win it

in rounds 8, 9, 10.

Rounds 1 through 7

are just to get there.

Hey, I got to round 6.

My grip was already going out.

I was like, hang on there

as long as you can.

That last round, I think I broke

up the hang cleans three times.

katrin was more

on her game plan.

Sara was starting

to rest longer,

The barbell spending

more time on the ground.

Katrin clearly had a strategy

and was able to stick to it.

You get to round 8 and 9,

and now katrin's pace

Looks basically the same

as it did in rounds 1 and 2.

She might not be the most

physically gifted athlete,

But what's between her ears

made the difference

in that event.

katrin's speed

on these cleans

Is just so much faster

than sara's.

you always have a plan,

and if the plan doesn't work,

You've just got to work

with what you've got.

mat fraser

is an unstoppable force!

he is on fire.

katrin davidsdottir

has moved into first place

'cause sara sigmundsdottir

got hit with a costly no-rep.

I think I failed

one hang clean,

It like flew out of my hands,

and after that, I knew I lost.

last year, round 1,

Heavy dt went

to sara sigmundsdottir.

Round 2, double dt,

And this one goes

to katrin davidsdottir.

I knew that I could win

that workout.

put your hands

together,

How about katrin davidsdottir!

my grandma has always

been my biggest fan,

And my best friend,

she is amazing.

In the stands,

she was always standing.

Everyone else might have

been sitting,

And she was standing,

cheering her head off,

And you could always hear her,

I always knew where she was.

And everyone always knew

that that was my grandma.

my mom was

katrin's biggest fan.

Embarrassingly so.

She would be at competitions

and she would be so loud

That we would move away

And it would just be my mom

in the bleachers.

Very suddenly,

she died in April.

it was devastating

for everybody,

But it was particularly

devastating for katrin.

every morning,

I light a candle.

She loved candles,

and she would light a candle

And she had these little moomin

elf cups she used to collect.

So these things are like

the moomin elves.

They're such little cute things.

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