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Steve Hsu said something in his post about the CrossFit games that surprised me a little at first, but after I thought about it for a bit I think he has a point:
The sport is kind of wacky -- kind of like the early days of triathlon, I guess. The competitors are wannabes in each of the core movements: weak Olympic lifters, clumsy gymnasts, slow sprinters, etc. But they have an all-around versatility.
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DJ Wickham
Compare one of the best competitors at the 2010 CrossFit games, DJ Wickham, with the 2008 Beijing super heavyweight gold medalist, Matthias Steiner.
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Matthias Steiner
Wickham just isn't in the same league as Steiner [or weightclass]. But, I bet Wickham runs faster.
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