De nombreuses pénalités sur le 20.1 des CrossFit Games

Plus d’une vingtaine d’athlètes se sont vus sanctionnés de pénalités sur la première épreuve des CrossFit Opens 2020.

Trois types de sanctions ont été retenus sur cette première épreuve des Opens 2020:

manque d’extension sur les ground-to-overheads
sauts d’un seul pied pendant les burpees
faux-départ.

2min30 et des chutes de plus de 2000 places !

Dans la liste des athlètes concernés on compte plusieurs athlètes du top 40 mondial:

Samantha Briggs (@bicepslikebriggs) – 2min30 de pénalité pour un manque d’extension sur les ground-to-overheads et sauts d’un seul pied pendant les burpees. Elle passe de la 2ème place à la 292ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.

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I take full responsibility for CrossFit’s penalty It was on me to ensure that the standards were clearly met This ultimately means me qualifying through the open this year is near impossible but I’ll still put my self through the remaining 3 workouts along with you guys This just means I’ll be bringing the fire to the sanctioned events where I’ll be fighting for my ticket to The Games #downbutnotout P.S. I predict a chipper for tonight’s open workout!

A post shared by Samantha Briggs (@bicepslikebriggs) on Oct 24, 2019 at 12:02pm PDT

Cédric Lapointe (@clapointe97) 2min30 de pénalité pour un manque d’extension sur les ground-to-overheads. Il passe de la 2ème place à la 772ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.

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“Cedric, I manage the review process for the CrossFit Games. After consideration, your video has received a MAJOR penalty for consistent lack of extension in the ground to overhead. A MAJOR penalty for 20.1 is 2:30mins, which will adjust your 10:46. Good luck for the rest of the season” I’m someone who’s pretty happy in life, rarely sad and never mad, but this morning I am. I’m mad because I’ve sent 3 e-mails to CFHQ for an appeal and never got an answer back. If you don’t have a big name, they’ll step on you and enjoy doing it because they love feeling powerful. The system is stupid and illogical, how can a 8:16mins become a 10:46mins? How can I go from 2nd in the world to 900th? How can one persons opinion of my video determine I’m not fit enough to keep my well earned score? I’m mad because I’m not made of money, I’m a full time athlete, who can’t just compete in every sanctioned event, so qualifying through the open was important to me. I saved money to go to @filthy150 thinking it would be the 1st Sanctioned Event and easier for me to qualify for the CF Games, but they just invited 7 Games athletes. Why cant you not do that in advance? Tell the athletes and stop thinking with your wallet. We’re human beings, we don’t want to be part of your game and when I ask you in advance on IG, have the descency and humility to answer me. I put my life on hold for 2years of my own life for a sport (or a brand) that can’t even respect me. Someone who paid their stupid 1K$ to be a CF trainer, someone who’s serving THEIR community and someone who’s been helping THEM grow the last 4 years. Why can’t you respect us, the elite athletes, that are spreading social media of free content for you? I’m mad because I’m only one person, one person that is trying to fight against an industry that enjoys playing with us, with the rules, the standards and the season like if we were toys and we don’t matter to them. I’m mad because despite all the previous facts, I’m in love with that sport and I’ll keep preaching it every single day. I wish things were different, I wish things were fair. I wish there would be a system that works, but I’m sad that it won’t be with CF.

A post shared by Cédric Lapointe🇨🇦 (@clapointe97) on Oct 24, 2019 at 9:20am PDT

Frederik Aegidius (@frederikaegidius) 2min30 de pénalité pour des sauts d’un seul pied pendant les burpees. Il passe de la 17ème à la 1175ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.

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Don’t fly to close to the sun. As athletes in a competitive setting we always strive to do the required work as fast as we can. In order to do so, you move as close as you can to the line and unfortunately I ended up overstepping. I did not meet the standards on 20.1 and that’s 100% my own fault. I’ll do my best to show to myself that this was an outlier and I will use the last 3 weeks of the OPEN to build momentum into the Sanctionals season. And MAN do we have a lot of them this year. #eyesforward #moremotivationalquotes #letsfitness #intheopen

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Dane Smith (@danedoes) – 2min30 de pénalité pour des sauts d’un seul pied pendant les burpees. Il passe de la 22ème à la 1347ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.

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2:30 was added to my 20.1 score this morning for a “one foot take off” on my burpees. Which takes any chance I had of qualifying through the open away. I wasn’t trying to get away with anything. I posted a video of my burpees last week because I was proud of my score. Those are the way I’ve been doing burpees for 6 years now through regionals, team series, past opens, etc. So it came as a surprise to me. I don’t want to make excuses for myself because at the end of the day it’s my fault for not adhering to the standards CrossFit had in mind. I assumed having both feet propel myself over the bar was enough for a two foot takeoff. I assumed wrong. Just hope they can manage some day to be more fair across the board for other athletes inside and outside the top 40. Now I know. You live and learn, greater things are in store. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

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Luka Vunjak (@vunjak_luka) – 2min30 de pénalité pour des sauts d’un seul pied pendant les burpees. Il passe de la 35ème à la 1599ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.
Lazar Dukic (@lazadjukic) – 2min30 de pénalité pour un manque d’extension sur les ground-to-overheads. Il passe de la 125ème à la 2586ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.
Aaron Rabin – 2min30 de pénalité pour un manque d’extension sur les ground-to-overheads. Il passe de la 19ème à la 1250ème place sur l’épreuve 20.1.

On peut aujourd’hui dire que les chances de qualification aux CrossFit Games 2020 des athlètes concernés par ces sanctions sont très faibles. Il restera heureusement les Sanctionals Event pour tenter une qualification.

De nombreuses pénalités pour faux départ

En dépit du règlement très clair sur ce point-là les faux départs sont aussi sanctionnés de pénalités de quelques secondes. Voici la liste des athlètes concernés dont le numéro 1 français Willy Georges (@iamwillygeorges):

Femme: Dani Speegle, Sasha Nievas, Kristine Best, Alanna Fisk, Meg Reardon, Andrea Nisler, Ashley Shaeffer, Alexis Johnson, Katelin Van Zyl, Hannah Hardy et Brooke Haas