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[Katrin] I think I was born competitive.

Like, since I was a little kid,

like, you could always challenge me to something,

and I'd always be sprinting to the next lamp post,

like, trying to beat someone to it,

or if I didn't have anyone to play with, I'd just put a clock on the floor,

and just time myself in hand stands

and then try to beat that time.

[Ben] I loved the idea about CrossFit athletes,

and how they were, like,

the ideal athlete is someone who can do everything,

kind of like a super-athlete, right?

Run, bike, swim, lift weights, do gymnastics.

It was cool to implement all of those things

into one training methodology.

[Sara] Like, this is my whole life. [Chuckles]

Like, I wake up in the morning, and I'm training.

Then I'm coaching. Then I'm training again.

Then I'm coaching.

If I go to a party or something,

everybody is asking me about CrossFit.

And I think, "So this is just my whole life now."

[Dan] When your goal is winning all year long,

and then you don't win, you don't meet your goal,

it hurts, like, it sucks.

There's no getting around it.

And there would still be a piece of me inside

that even if I got second, I would be slightly upset.

You know what I mean?

And that's...

That's just the way it goes when you're competitive.

That's the way it goes when you're a competitor.

[Mat] It's a really big fear,

that even if everything goes picture-perfect,

all year, training goes perfectly, I stay injury-free,

all the events go perfectly,

and I still don't get the results I want,

it keeps me up sometimes.

I'm thinking, like, "Well, you're just not good enough."

I think... I think that's a pretty big pill to swallow.

[Sam] The worst kind of feeling for me

was the up and comes there's a max clean-and-jerk

and warming up, I couldn't even clean 155.

So, 70 kilos.

I couldn't even clean 70% of what I was capable of.

And that was the worst that I'd felt. I felt deflated inside.

It was kind of all the work that I've done, all the hard work,

not qualifying for the Games, I've worked so hard,

and I just... I saw my opens just fall away from me.

[Announcer #1] This is the 2014 European Regional.

[Announcer #2] Ten rounds for time of one rope climb and a sprint.

Now, the rope climb is legless, which makes it a whole lot harder

than when you're allowed to anchor your feet on the way up the rope.

Katrin Davidsdottir, who led after day one, had a disaster on event five,

24th place in that event. She drops all the way down to seventh.

It was heartbreaking to see what happened to Davidsdottir.

She didn't just kind of die physically, like strength of her forearms,

and pulling, but kind of mentally, as well,

she's just... was on the ground, under the rope. Still had time on the clock.

[Announcer #1] No go again, and she is devastated.

[Announcer #2] Right now, it probably feels like her world is coming apart.

[Katrin] It was... I mean, it was heartbreaking.

That's what I do all year.

And I wanted to go to the Games.

But thinking about it afterwards,

I think it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

[Announcer #1] Fourth and final heat.

Making their way out to the floor at the 2015 Meridian Regional.

You can't be afraid of failures.

I don't think you're gonna succeed in anything

if you're afraid of failing at it.

You gotta be willing to take the risks.

[Announcer #2] She called her shot, and she will finish it off!

Katrin Davidsdottir! -[Announcer #2] Oh, man! She's got to be happy

with that performance right there. That is amazing!

[Ben] You know how you should run your race.

You have to run your race, and you have to go out there, and you have to execute it.

[Announcer] Unreal! Lightning quick! This is an incredible pace!

Can he pull this off?

I genuinely enjoy pushing myself, just seeing how far I can go.

[Sean] Finishing second on a broken foot, are you kidding me?

[Announcer] Sigmundsdottir! And that is a new event record!

Of course, I want to win it. Everybody wants to win it.

[Announcer #1] On the last bar, this is it!

Could Bailey get an event record?

[Dan] I believe that I can do it. I know that I'm capable.

I know that I'm good enough. It's just the matter of doing it.

[Announcer #2] You're watching event records fall! By that man! Mat Fraser!

I think about getting that title every day.

That's why I show up to the gym every day.

Is thinking about getting the title

of being called the "Fittest Man on Earth".

What does it take to get to the CrossFit Games?

Man, to get to the CrossFit Games, especially now,

it takes a commitment that's hard for most people to fathom.

[Justin] To be an athlete at the CrossFit Games,

you have to be among the most disciplined and committed individuals

on the face of the planet.

[Dave] You don't know what you're gonna see.

You don't know what you're gonna hit.

You don't know what you're gonna have to do.

So you have to prepare for everything.

And this is the true way to build this-- to build Batman.

To build this ultimate warrior.

Just to get to Regionals, much less the CrossFit Games,

is an amazing, amazing accomplishment.

Just to be the top 100 in the Open in your region.

I don't care if you take dead last at the Games,

if you walk onto the field, having earned a spot to go to the Games,

you are an untouchable cyborg of fitness.

[Tanya] There's pressure, I feel like on the Games athletes nowadays,

like, literally, the day after the Games end,

for the next season.

There's not a day where they're not turned on,

Where that goal of making to the Games

isn't at the forefront of their mind.

In lifestyle factors, these people are sacrificing a great deal.

I can tell you that no matter how they're training,

they're training a lot.

[Dave] These guys are dedicating

multiple hours throughout the day,

training and working on deficiencies, and recovery...

365 days a year.

For the athletes that are already at that peak level,

and for multiple years on end

for the athletes that are trying to get there.

If you're that dialed in, like, so far advanced, you can really...

It can really crush you, you can be burned out.

I like to see when the athletes can still be a little relaxed,

they can give themselves that time off.

I've been trying to learn the "Whip and Nae Nae".

This one I have a hard time with, but I can definitely...

[Mic rattles]

Oops.

[Gasps]

[Meows]

It's like one long thing,

-or is this part of your shirt? -What is that?

-Has that just been on there? -Yeah.

We got to take it from the top, or what?

-Does my hair still look good? -Oh, yeah.

-Hi, I'm Katrin Davidsdottir. -My name is Ben Smith.

My name is Annie Thorsdottir.

My name is Ragnheidur Sara Sigmundsdottir.

Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson.

I'm Kara Webb from Brisbane.

-Noah Olsen. -Brooke Ence.

-Lindsey Valenzuela. -Samantha Briggs.

-Matthew Fraser. -Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

My name is Dan Bailey. I'm 20--

I'm not 20. I'm 31. Jesus!

We are on my boat, which is also my home, my residence.

This is where the fitness happens.

But there's not a lot of snatching

or a lot of high-technical Olympic lifting going on out here, so...

Here at home, or when I'm in Iceland, I live with my grandparents.

I've lived with them since I was, like, 16, so...

Makes me feel light as a feather for a whole day, but...

Oh, you're there.

-Sam? -Yeah?

What's happening?

I'm just getting naked.

I'm getting cryogenically frozen.

We won't talk about the state of my nipples.

My nipples are gonna be so hard when I come out of here.

Think they could cut diamonds right now?

I think I'm cutting a hole in this booth, 'cause I'm circling.

You are not a car!

Yeah, I kind of want a hairless cat.

Just to have one.

No, I don't think, Marsten, I would ever lotion my cat.

But that's creepy and disgusting,

and you shouldn't tell people you want to lotion a hairless cat.

I would not know my own age

if my parents and my wife did not tell me that it was my birthday.

I really wouldn't.

I'm gonna be one of those old people that just forgets how old he is.

What are you guys doing?

We're making an awesome slip-n'-slide, bro.

America!

We're doing, like, a swim-and-run race.

Like a mini-biathlon.

Games training.

-Doing a mighty fine job, Mat. -Thank you.

In case you have to, like, tighten bolts or something in the middle of the workout.

You look like a narwhal.

Like a narwhal with a magic horn.

Turn to the side for a second.

Exactly like the movie "Alien."

Max! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey, Max, come here!

[Noah] Oh, God!

Ain't anything crazy to it.

Ain't nothing to it but to do it.

Turns out a razor blade is better

than me trying to pull it off with my fingernails.

If I'm at the HQ, I usually leave them on Tony Marquez's desk,

you know, occasionally just sprinkle them in his coffee.

[Laughing]

There you go! Good boy!

Jump!

Gross!

This past year, and the year prior, Dave Castro got Instagram.

[Dave] ...we introduced the Clean Speed Ladder.

It was such a fan-favorite,

that this year on Friday night, we're bringing it back.

The Games... We release some stuff ahead of time,

but even the stuff we do release is usually...

We're not filling in the blanks.

There's still some question marks to what we release.

This time with snatches.

-Last year... -Oh, [Bleeps]

They announced the workout for the individuals.

Yeah.

-Murph. -Murph.

The first announced workout for the individuals

at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games is...

Murph.

Should probably do Murph.

Without fanfare, without any celebration,

you just put a little workout up on the site and let the chatter begin.

Maybe end it at 285.

I still feel like... I still feel like--

I think it's gonna go heavier.

Maybe the last round, 225, 245, 275,

and, I don't even know, it's like 500 pounds in the last part.

I think I just...

I really love, and I've come to love, the feeling of success, right?

To look up there and see your girlfriend just super-proud

and see your parents cheering for you, and your friends and family.

And that's kind of why I strive to do better,

'cause I would always feel like I really let people down

that came out to support me and want to see me succeed.

This is probably been the only thing, really, in my life

that I think I fully threw myself entirely into.

And I committed myself one hundred percent

to sort of make my mom and the rest of my family proud,

and to see it through and go...

"Yeah, I really did kind of make something of myself."

I think my favorite part of competing in CrossFit

is, like, the sense of accomplishment.

It doesn't matter what else I did in the day

if I had a good day of training.

I would leave here, like,

"Okay, I accomplished something today."

Like I bettered myself today.

[Camille] Every time I'm in the middle of the test and the event,

I always have this moment when I ask myself,

"Why am I doing this? This is really hard.

"This is ridiculous."

And then, once it's all over, you, like, can't wait to do it again.

And I think that's the way we all feel about CrossFit

on the day-to-day basis, right?

You go to the gym, like, "My God, this is terrible."

"I'll come back tomorrow at 6:00."

And I think that's the feeling I have towards competing.

For years, I never thought that I could ever be this caliber of an athlete.

It seemed so out of reach.

And it wasn't until when I watched the Games in 2013 that I, like,

told my friend that I was there spectating with,

"I want to do that."

And, at that point, I didn't know if I could do it.

But I was willing to try.

[Sara] The sport I did before CrossFit was... swimming the most,

but I tried every sport, but I, yeah...

I quit after maybe six months in everything.

I didn't find myself in anything... until I found CrossFit.

I want to be "The Fittest on Earth." That...

If I can do it, everybody can do it,

because... yeah, I was a lazy chubby girl who just started in CrossFit,

and now I'm going to the Games, so...

If you work hard, you can do it.

Is this my last best chance to win the CrossFit Games?

I think that I'm probably approaching the end of my individual career.

But never say never.

Yeah, I can podium.

I think I can podium because I know I'm good enough.

I won the Open before. I won my Regional.

I think that gives me a fighting chance for sure.

And this is what I train for all year around.

[Katrin] It's a long weekend. It's a long grueling weekend.

It's a long year.

You can't go riding the leaderboard roller-coaster.

You can't be focused on other competitors,

if they're good at this or that.

Like, nothing of that is gonna help you.

It doesn't matter where you finish at Regionals.

All that matters is what happens on Game Day.

You know, who can bring it when you go out there to the Games?

Who can be on every single workout and not... not show any weakness...

Not show any sign of slowing down, that kind of thing.

That's all that matters, you know.

Just takes one week, and you can make your dreams happen.

It's... it's pretty cool. It's a cool feeling.

And then the fact that you finished fourth in Regionals doesn't matter.

[Jordan] Coffee is needed.

We've got, like, three hours till we swim,

so I don't know if we're up for it.

That's more than enough time to drink coffee.

-Poop. -Poop.

-All of that. -Maybe poop outside.

Get the pre-wad poops out-- everything.

I'll be, just, right through the water, then.

Yeah, I'll be lighter on that board. For sure.

I really don't know how to feel about this event.

I don't know how I'll place.

I don't know if I'll be top ten or bottom ten.

I couldn't give you a guess. But I'm gonna try to go fast.

-Forcing ourselves to eat. -Forcing ourselves to eat.

Because we know we're gonna need it.

I'm not hungry at all.

[In French] People didn't know what I was talking about "le paddleboard"...

-What's it called? -Sunscreen.

Sunscreen. 50+ on.

It was so cold that I had the hairdryer. Trying to heat up.

I had the hairdryer because my bikini was still wet from yesterday.

-So I'm standing there trying to dry. -So that was our morning.

All righty!

[Mat] When we were all lined up...

we're all, like, getting ready to sprint into the water,

all I'm thinking is, like, "Shit. I suck at sprinting."

[Man] Let's go, Fraser!

Stand by!

[Air horn blows]

[Announcer] We're under way with the opening test

of the 2015 Rebook CrossFit Games

here at Hermosa Beach.

[Mat] I had a front-row seat to him just eating it.

Yeah, he wiped out hard.

I just ate it.

Whop!

[Lindsey] There's feet in your face.

You know, you can feel people right on your shoulders.

It's legitimately like a fight for space.

[Sam] I ended up having to adopt a position

where I was biting on the front of the board

to stop my chin from rubbing.

I got a rash on my cheek.

[Mat] It was burning my shoulders so bad, holding my head up,

that I just said, "[Bleep] it."

Put my head on the side of the board and just went...

[Announcer] Kara Webb, looks like she is back.

Jonne Koski smashing Pier Paddling.

And that's when it was, like, game on, and just hit the jets,

and we both inched back and forth.

My legs started getting really heavy, like cement blocks,

and I guess the same thing happened to him,

and I was able to hold it off for, like, two more steps.

I remember he finished and walked up to me, and I was laying on my back,

and I said, "You big bastard!"

[Cheering]

That was really fun, but really hard.

I liked it, though.

It was hard work.

I really like that.

It was good. Simple hard work.

[Announcer] It's a great day to be an Australian at Hermosa Beach.

Between the men and the women here, they pretty much dominated.

I'm halfway back, so my face is just on the board, and I'm paddling,

and I just see Easy.

Like, 100 yards out, wrong side, 100 yards out,

all four limbs hanging off the board.

Not paddling, he's just laying there.

I was like, "Come on, Easy, let's go."

"Yep."

You got it, man.

Who's in?

-Yeah. -You look good.

Hey, Nick!

You think we could assist each other?

Hey, Scott, help me, and I'll help you, bro!

Oh, yeah!

Let me go first.

I'll be okay, dude, you can keep that place.

Might be the one time in CrossFit when it pays to be a little bit taller.

Try to throw those bags over the wall.

I've done number one, no judging.

[Announcer] The CrossFit Games moved to the StubHub Center

in 2010, one of the events done that year, the Sandbag Move.

We're doing it again in 2015, tell everybody.

And welcome inside the Tennis Stadium

at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

We did a long grueling event this morning at the beach.

This one is just all about pure work capacity.

[Female announcer] It doesn't have to be pretty.

It just is all about getting the work done.

It's just like a grind.

It's just like: "Who can work?"

It was way harder than it was in 2010, for sure.

[Dave] Just a pure test of work. And work capacity.

There's a lot of contrivances that we have in testing fitness,

and expressing the ultimate levels of power output,

but this event, along with running,

would probably be the least contrived things we can do.

You have objects, and you have to move them from there to there.

[Katrin] I think I was going to go for, like, four in the beginning.

It was, like... super-aggressive approach.

And I, like, was not ready to adjust it yet,

so I was like trying to get them all through the stairs,

and I was hitting everything, and it wasn't really working that well.

[Tanya] I think the biggest thing, you have to be flexible.

I think the biggest thing is that you have to keep your composure,

take a deep breath and just not let yourself wig out.

[Announcer #2] And that was Ben Smith, who I think

made a bad decision, trying to do too much in the beginning.

I took all the sandbags down,

and as soon as I lifted the wheelbarrow off the floor,

before I could even take one step, it just tipped over on me.

[Announcer #1] And now Noah Olsen in lane four,

his wheelbarrow has tipped over.

It was pretty crushing, like, in the moment, my heart kind of sank.

[Tanya] As soon as you see panic set in

and people get a little freaked out at something that won't work,

mentally when they go off the rails, it's really hard to get back after that.

[Dan] Sandbags were all sloppy, with the weight inside.

First attempt at the lapbag failed, just falls right back on my head.

No big deal. That's fine.

Go do it again. Bag fell off again.

Didn't make it over the wall.

Third try. Bag still falls back in my face.

At this point, I'm getting, like, I'm furious.

I'm incredibly frustrated because you're just not getting anything done,

the clock is ticking.

And every second in these workouts matters a ton.

[Mat] And with the 100-pound bag, it was so floppy,

everyone's trying to figure out the right way to get the bag over.

Some people are trying to, like, throw it like a kettle bell,

like a keg toss or something.

I grabbed the end of it.

Stood it up on end to shake all the bags down into one end,

flopped the loose end over, so it's pretty much just a 100-pound D-Ball,

picked it up, shot putted it over.

I did that once and made it look so easy,

and Scott Panchik came over to me, and was like,

"Don't [Bleep] do that again."

I was like, "What? What are you talking about?"

He's like, "You know that technique. I know that technique.

But none of these other guys know it. So keep that between us."

I was like, "Oh, yeah, good call. Okay!"

So I lunged, then I took a step on the sandbag

and got the bags over the wall, like, super quickly.

We didn't want anyone to figure that out,

because we knew a lot of the girls who I had to beat,

who are in standings ahead of me, were on the smaller side,

on the shorter side,

so I really needed to take advantage of that.

[Annie] And I was still, like, in that mode.

Just like I need to keep on going,

and I grabbed the red sandbag as soon...

That's the first one that was on the top there.

And started running up, and then I started hearing, like,

people yelling, and I'm like,

"Why are they so excited about this?" And I was like... Oh...

I had the wrong bag.

There were two rules. The red one goes last down.

The red one goes last up. And I was just too much in a hurry.

[Announcer #1] Anna Tunnicliffe is making quick work of those bags.

But it is Lukas Hogberg who will set the new best time to beat.

And she is going to demolish the time to beat...

Anna Tunnicliffe will be your new event leader.

And Mat Fraser will finish second overall in Sandbag 2015!

[Female announcer] I don't know if Ben Smith has ever had an event

he did not finish at the Games.

[Announcer #2] One of those athletes we thought were going to do well

in this particular event.

[Ben] I think one of my strengths is I'm good at letting things go.

So, you know, if I have a bad event, that comes with experience,

you just gotta let it go.

Next, move on to the next event.

Just take it one event at a time, throughout the whole weekend, so...

Well... [Bleep]

14th.

-Well, 14th is not terrible. -You got 34th.

-Oh, 34th in that workout? -Yeah.

So you're not in a bad shape at all.

Damn, dude, I didn't want anything outside of like, top 10, 15.

It's okay.

Oh, it's devastating.

You know what?

Man, that hurts my heart.

You know, this sort of odd-object event was fun.

It's, you know, it's about finding your pain area and the dark place

and getting in there.

Yeah...I just ate baby food, so I'm...

really happy.

Yeah, I love baby food.

This is the funnest part of competing.

You can eat so much.

How is that one?

Oh, it's way too far...

It's good.

[Rory] On the bird's-eye-view of the CrossFit Games.

When you looked at Murph, it was an X-Factor.

Everybody knew that it was going to be difficult.

Everybody knew it was going to be hard.

But not from the sense of: "This is going to destroy."

And it really, in my opinion, did become a linchpin of the 2015 Games.

It's a workout that is done every year on Memorial Day,

where we get to, you know,

honor those who've given the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

Just let him go. It's not about the first run.

Okay.

Mask to the middle and then run it-- Yeah.

30 seconds back is so easily made up on a round of push-ups.

Hardest workout?

Well, if I do it right, it should feel pretty hard.

I said if I pass out, no one touch my vest.

'Cause if your vest comes off, you're disqualified.

I thought it was really cool to have Murph at the Games.

[Rory] Murph was a turning point for many athletes

because they approached it incorrectly

for their particular work capacity.

[Sara] Okay, I was so stressed for Murph.

Just... I thought that would be the worst event of the whole weekend.

[Dave] Very quickly, I want to tell you guys something.

This is the start of the weekend for you guys.

The start of a big weekend.

But this workout is something special.

It's bigger than this weekend.

It's to celebrate those who've given their lives

in defense of our country, the world, essentially.

So let's celebrate that, remember that, while you're doing that.

Let's bring it in.

Murph!

Murph!

[Tanya] When you do a hero workout,

you're always pushing so hard for the hero,

and to honor somebody,

and I think what that did, it jacked them up to a whole 'nother level,

that they weren't ready for, they weren't used to.

They were already there themselves,

then Dave just pushed them over the limit,

and I think they just took off way faster than they should have.

As soon as they said go, everybody converged,

and it got a little... it got a little nasty.

People were like grabbing vests and throwing elbows.

I was guilty of kinda like... not throwing anybody to the ground,

but definitely trying to work my way through the crowd.

I really wanted to get out ahead and take advantage of the run.

[Rory] Sam Briggs thought she missed something in the briefing,

that there was 100 points available for the first 400 meters of the run.

'Cause people were going so damn fast.

I felt like I was melting, after the first 800 meters...

[Sam] At the 800 mark, there was a water station.

I was the only person who stopped at the water station.

It wasn't to take a drink of water.

I just picked a cup to throw over my head,

to keep my temperature down.

[Announcer] Look at the pacing that they have.

That's a six-minute mile pace, right out of the gate.

That could be dangerous.

That's a lot... that's really fast.

[Sara] Starting the pull-ups.

I, like, had a bottle of water, and I was, like, pouring it over me,

And I was like, "No, my grips, they're all wet!"

[Noah] My legs were blown up. My heart rate was through the roof.

I had a little water bottle.

I kept pouring it down my neck to try to cool off,

and I had the black vest, too.

Like, didn't get any oxygen, and everything was so warm.

[Tommy] This is the last time the ladies will be in the shade,

because the only shade on the field

is being provided by this mountain of steel.

[Dan] It was so hot.

I mean, it was just the...

on the field that dry, hot air in your face,

you couldn't escape it. On the grass.

I mean, 2013 it was hot.

Every year is [Bleep] hot.

[Bjorgvin] I think the heat was kind of comfy because... ah...

you don't get that in Iceland.

I get down to the gym, and I'm like freezing to death.

And this was just nice, actually.

[Tanya] It's proving the fittest in the world,

and sometimes things aren't going to necessarily be the safest.

You have to go into competition

not being afraid of something bad happening,

but being responsible for yourself and preparing yourself as well as you can.

[Sean] I don't think you'd expect to see people nearly blacking out

and passing out and suffering so badly through it.

Because this is something that they've done.

They've all done this.

And for whatever reason, you put them at the Games,

in that setting, and it just wrecked people.

And I still cannot figure out why it was that tough on them.

[Annie] Half-way through the push-ups,

I just started feeling a little, like, lightheaded.

[Mat] I did doubles on push-ups.

And, like, they were hard.

Not my proudest moment as a fitness competitor.

[Dan] Got to the squats. I got through my first 100.

Every 15, my whole world would just kinda start to close in.

I'm like, yeah, this is it.

Like, I am gonna fall face-first onto this field.

Like, I'm gonna pass out.

This is gonna be so embarrassing.

And someone's gonna start pulling me off the field,

and I'm gonna have to fight them to keep going for the event.

[Katrin] I couldn't... I couldn't find a rhythm in the air-squats.

I think that's one of the only parts of the weekend that I was like,

"All right, Katrin, come on, get a grip.

"Like, this is it. This is the Games.

"Push. Like push now."

[Mat] So, there was no secret, it was hot as hell during Murph.

So I'm doing my air-squats, and I see a water bottle in my lane.

It wasn't mine. I see Bob's been walking by,

which I pointed to him, pointed to the water bottle, pointed it to me.

And I was like: "Hmm?"

Castro comes over to me and tells me,

"No we can't bring you the water bottle.

"That cooler is full of ice water.

"If you want to stop your workout, go over there and get a bottle of water.

"You're allowed to do that. And then you can come back."

I was like, that [Bleep] is trying to get me to quit.

I was, like, he's giving me one of these [Bleep] "BUD/S tests",

and like if I go get a cup of water, he's gonna kick me out.

So I was like [Bleep] that. I'm gonna keep on going.

[Female announcer] A little different Annie than we're used to seeing.

Doesn't have as much of that recklessness that we used to see,

but she still has the fire. She just seems more composed.

There's always going to be a situation where you're going to be

pushed to a limit that you've never, you've never found before.

There's going to be a test you've never run into before.

There's going to be a certain level of uncertainty and doubt in your head,

where you're like, "I don't know. Can I do this?

"I'm going to sure as hell give it a shot, but I'm not sure I'll be able to do this."

[Annie] Got through the squats,

and I was like starting to like have a little blurry vision,

and my legs were soft and couldn't really move them.

I was, like, I knew that the beginning of the run was gonna feel hard,

like it's okay that it's gonna be hard, I'm just gonna push through that wall.

But I just couldn't push through that wall.

The moment when I realized that I could win Murph

was when I started doing the air-squats.

I was doing huge sets, and I wasn't feeling too tired,

I was actually just recovering.

[Tommy] He was just up and down like a piston, took the lead,

and now he looks unstoppable.

I rounded the corner, and I couldn't believe how many guys I saw.

Just... I saw hands on their head, just marching down that mile.

And I'm like, this is unbelievable.

[Tanya] The woman's unreal.

She blew the field out of the water in the Women's Division,

she should have done that next to the men,

and she probably had a chance of beating the top man in that division.

[Sam] I had no idea

until the turnaround point at the 800 mark, like,

what sort of lead that I had.

I knew that I was the first off squats,

but I wasn't sure how far behind anybody else was.

[Announcer on PA]

[Audience cheering]

Samantha Briggs!

[Noah] It was pretty awesome,

because everybody had been in the stadium

waiting for us to come back,

so as soon as you, like one by one, as each person entered,

it felt like the crowd kind of erupted to see everybody come back in.

[Mat] I remember running into the stadium,

and, like, looking around, and I'm like,

"Did I miss a movement? Did I skip something?"

Because I'm not supposed to be this high, this much in front.

That was very weird.

[Announcer #1] Gudmundsson will take event number three, Murph!

Samantha Briggs! And she will win.

Briggs would have finished second in the men's division with that time.

[Announcer #2] Wow!

[Katrin] I remember I was trying to pass Kara,

and she was kind of like, swiveling.

At the time, I thought she was swiveling, so I wouldn't pass her.

But it turns out that she was almost unconscious, too.

So, it was kind of... That was a little bit scary.

[Dan] And then it was just chaos at the finish line.

Take it off!

Take it off! Someone, please!

[Dan] People rolling around everywhere trying to find shade.

Dumping water on their heads, just trying to peel their vests off.

And everybody kept asking, "Can we leave?"

"Like, are we allowed to leave?" "Do we have to stay here?"

Is this the second time you've done Murph?

Yeah.

[Ben] I mean, California wasn't...

I did not think of it as a hot environment, or, you know,

a challenging environment,

because of the heat.

And this year, it was like...

It was especially hot, especially in the sun,

just sitting out there.

Feeling like you're in a microwave,

you know you're just cooking while you're sitting on the field,

trying to do push-ups and air-squats.

I think it compares...

You know, Murph, that was one of the hardest workouts

I've had to do at the Games.

I wouldn't pass out during Murph.

Because if it started to hurt really, really bad,

I would slow down a little bit,

'cause I don't want to be in that much pain.

And so I wouldn't fall unconscious.

But you have people so mentally tough like Kara Webb or others,

that will hit that point that I would hit and go like,

"Whoa, I'm gonna slow down," and she doesn't.

These athletes just push themselves right to the limit,

it's their heart and soul, into the workout.

[Announcer] I have never seen Annie Thorsdottir look like this

-in any event ever at the CrossFit Games. -[Female announcer] Ever.

That's what they wanted to do, they put their heart and soul into it.

And I just hope that they... that they would recover.

[Ben] Gladsen says men will die for points, right? So...

It makes the workout a lot tougher

when... when it's such a long time domain,

and so many reps, and it's hot out, and you're in a vest,

you're in an uncomfortable situation.

It takes a toll on some people,

so to me that was definitely one of the harder workouts

that I've ever had to do at the Games.

I didn't really recognize my body, in a way,

'cause I always said,

"Your head is going to give up before your body does."

And my head was fine.

You can walk. You're good, Annie.

I'm sorry.

-You're fine. -Come on, Annie, you're good.

[Justin] It's important for us to test long events

at the CrossFit Games.

And perhaps one of the reasons

that it was as hard on these athletes as it was,

was because they're not tackling Murph in training

with the same intensity and race strategy

that they would with shorter workouts,

like Fran or Jackie or a Speed Clean Ladder.

All right, breathe, now.

I'm okay.

I know. Just cooling you off, okay?

Okay, Annie. You're all right.

Just cooling you off.

-We'll carry you if we have to. -I don't want you to carry me.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Come on.

I'm fine.

You're fine.

[Justin] And for a lot of athletes,

you're gonna ask them their Fran time,

they can tell you within one second.

Same thing with Jackie.

But if you ask them the Murph time, there's probably a little hesitation.

And I'd bet you they give you an answer within a minute

or a couple of minutes.

So when you take a workout like Murph,

which is already long and hard,

and you ask these athletes

to race against the toughest competition

they've ever been against,

I don't think they've optimized their game plan

the same way they have for shorter workouts.

Feeling really good.

But [Bleep] is it hot.

Didn't expect this. It's good. I'm here for the money, man.

It's the hardest thing that I've ever done.

The only positive about it is that I get a tan while I was doing it.

Always think of the bright side!

Get some drinks!

You guys are just two best friends in the whole world?

[Singing] We're the two best friends that anyone can have.

Something like that.

How was that?

That was hell.

Way worse.

That was worse than triple threes?

Way worse.

It was so hot.

And around number eight on the pull-ups,

I realized, "[Bleep] I don't have any water."

I was talking with Chyna Cho, and, like, especially after this workout,

people are going to start getting real hurt.

People are still loving me, and...

I mean people are still cheering me on, and it's great.

It's a rougher start, but it's funny how things happen, like,

you know, some really, really great athletes

did not so good in that event and...

For me, I got 15,

and last year, in the long event I got 17,

so I guess I got a little fitter there.

So I'm happy with that.

Like, that's good, right?

Convince yourself that it's okay.

But if you do it, then it doesn't affect you,

now I can go do the Snatch Ladder feeling, like, kind of confident.

But if I let it affect me,

then maybe I wouldn't do so good in the event that I should do good.

You did [bleeping] awesome!

I know.

This has been a most unfortunate day.

If you will it, Donnie, It isn't a dream.

I'm still having fun, but... some good competitors.

Some young bucks, puppies.

Take it easy.

Hey!

He just told me, like, the timeline,

on, like, I don't know how long I've been in here.

-I don't know... -Gonna give you the opportunity...

Yep.

Really good. She's okay.

She just wants to... I think she wants to talk about it.

We haven't got time.

We haven't got the time for that.

Oh, it's ripping.

I wasn't able to stand on my two feet by myself until 30 minutes

before I had to go out to the floor.

Okay, we're lining up.

Five, four, three, two, one...

I need a beer, my God

Or a shower.

Yeah.

No tears. Come on, this is your thing now.

Don't think about it.

It's scary.

Next event, Kara.

Now I just feel really emotional.

There's a million things going through my mind...

Lying on a stretcher in that room.

Not... yeah, I don't know.

I was just worried I was gonna let everybody down.

And I... just... time-- I didn't--

I didn't know what happened, and then I'm just, next minute,

racing down and lift a couple of barbells

and then just go out and see what I can do.

So, yeah... I've worked the hardest that I've ever worked this year,

and, right, so this is just a speed bump,

so I'll do whatever I can.

I've come this far.

Just emotional.

[Brooke] After Murph, walking straight to the Snatch Ladder,

I did not know how it was gonna go.

[Sean] To me, there is nothing better than the Tennis Stadium

on a Friday or a Saturday night when the lights are out.

The Tennis Stadium's insane.

Night or day, doesn't matter.

Being inside the Tennis Stadium

is like taking the 13,000 gyms around the world,

all their members, voracious CrossFit fans

and putting a magnifying glass on top of 'em.

[Lindsey] So, competing at a Tennis Stadium

is probably the best feeling ever.

[Dan] When I think of the CrossFit Games,

that's what I think about.

Everybody talks about the Tennis Stadium is just, like, it's unreal.

[Sara] It was just so unreal when I was walking to the tennis court.

I was like, "Okay, wow. I've been wanting this for two years,

"and now I'm here, and everybody's cheering for me."

[Tanya] And you walk through the huge crowd of--

its-- every seat is filled.

People are standing.

And you walk into there,

and it just, like, it feeds the athletes.

As soon as they get onto that floor,

they can just feel everybody right there, they're close--

Like your ears hurt after.

The lights are shining on you, the music's going,

and it's just...it's close corners,

so you feel like you're back in a gym setting

with thousands of people watching you.

So much energy.

And positive energy.

From everybody watching.

You've got this tiny space, fairly steep seating on each side.

So you feel like the fans are absolutely on top of you.

It kind of feels like they're all over you, and they're all with you.

[Rory] It feels like being in the Coliseum.

They're gonna slide a door open, there may be lions,

there may be five dudes with swords,

you have no idea what's coming at you.

[Sam] Just the feeling of completing a workout in the Tennis Stadium,

at night when the lights are on you.

That's when I decided that I wanted to make CrossFit my sport.

[Mat] That's where the fun is.

That's where the most pain is, that's where the most fun is.

It makes the energy, like, electrified.

[Lindsey] For the athletes, that Tennis Stadium,

it makes a lot of extra stuff happen.

[Brooke] I remember, before we had done anything else,

I was like, I wished it was a little bit heavier.

It didn't need to be any heavier.

[Katrin] I love snatch-ins.

I snatch in with adrenalin, it's the best ever.

Snatch speed ladder did not go as well as I wanted it to.

[Sam] I got spat out of my first snatch.

[Brooke] In a movement like the snatch, it's all about your technique.

If it's gone, it's so easy to miss a lift.

[Tommy] It's not just about what's your one-rep max,

it's about how you can compose yourself

to have that controlled speed and explosiveness,

but being in position at the same time.

Every bar counts.

You got to make sure you hit every single lift.

[Man] Standby...

[Announcer #1] Nick Urankar is off to a savage pace.

[Announcer #2] And Michele Letendre at 150, will clear that.

[Rory] Man, it's just fun to watch people lift some steel, man.

In that atmosphere, of the Games, in the competition, under the lights,

when the pressure's on, people do amazing things.

[Katrin] The best feeling in the world? When you hit a good snatch.

You just pull it, and then the next thing is just like,

you throw yourself under as fast as you can,

and you like, you don't know where the bar is,

and, like, if you catch it in a perfect position,

and you're sitting there, the bar, you know that you got it,

it's like the best... it's the best feeling in the world.

[Brooke] It was like a blink of an eye

to get through the first couple rounds.

No time to think. You just had to go.

[Mat] Yeah, Easy knocked himself out cold.

He was like, "I woke up looking at the sky."

He was like, "I got knocked out during that lift."

[Announcer #1] ...hit himself in the head with the barbell,

and he is on the floor.

Adrian Boswin, the head judge, is coming over to check on Elijah.

[Announcer #2] Camile Leblanc-Bazinet sets it down!

No reps, now twice on the opening bar!

Camille is in severe danger of not advancing to Round Two!

[Female announcer] That is so upsetting for Camille.

[Announcer #1] Looks like he just needed to walk to collect his thoughts.

He's only has 30 seconds. That should be good enough for one more attempt at this.

The crowd behind Elijah Muhammad!

Elijah Muhammad is in!

[Female announcer] She is feisty! On fire!

[Announcer #2] Ben Smith first to the last bar, he'll get across!

[Announcer #1] Fighting for first place! Holcomb will hit 155!

Davidsdottir will hit 155! It's a race to the finish!

I loved watching Brooke Ence bring her energy

through the entire thing.

[Announcer #1] Brooke Ence in the orange will hit that!

Brooke Ence! She clears 180!

Will have 100 points in her pocket! Ence can't hang on to that!

Brooke Ence has company on that final barbell.

Ence set up for her second attempt. Davidsdottir set up for her first.

And Brooke Ence will hit that!

And the rookie gets her first career victory at the CrossFit Games!

[Tommy] You have Mat Fraser, you have Ben Smith,

you have Elijah Muhammad.

And one by one, we see them all miss an attempt.

[Announcer #1] And Ben Smith faces down the 275-pound bar.

He hits this before anybody else, he wins the event.

[Announcer #2] Oh, wow!

[Tommy] And slowly, but surely, Jon Pera

takes a little bit of extra time in the set-up,

takes a little bit of extra time walking to each barbell,

and before you know it...

[Announcer #1] Jon Pera, 275!

And Jon Pera coming from behind!

And he will win the Snatch Speed Ladder!

[Tommy] It was definitely a moment where you got to see a nice blend

of strength, skill, and strategies well come into play.

And I think that's what the goal of the workout was.

And he played it beautifully.

I'm afraid I had to be faster.

I'm really afraid I had to be faster.

I've just gotten so much better at snatch,

and I'm not getting to show it.

I promised myself it wouldn't be over until it's over this year.

That's it.

And I thought I'll just keep... It really is one at a time.

That was one, move on, another one. Yup.

So pumped! I'm so fired up right now.

-How'd it go? -I won.

You know, I think one of the coolest, is, you know,

the next time my name...

the next time they call me out, it's going to say,

"Best Finish. First Place."

Bummed.

Whatever. Keep working out. I'm doing it.

I got [Bleep] screwed. I got [Bleep] over.

Why? What happened?

My judge kept no-repping me for no reason.

[Justin] Camille definitely wears her emotions on her sleeve.

And I think that's what makes her endearing to our community.

You can actually feel what she's experiencing in the moment.

She's not all smiles. She's not going to throw you a fake wave.

-Are you okay? -Huh?

-Are you okay? -No.

-Will you show me that pretty smile? -No.

I'm trying... I try.

You show me that pretty smile,

and you'll feel better, Cammy, I promise.

I'm really trying to let it go, but it's hard.

[Justin] And in that case, she was devastated.

She could see that her chance of repeating as Games Champion

was slipping through her fingers.

My heart is just really sad.

I don't mind when things are a little bit unfair

'cause it kind of always is because I have more eyes on me.

But there's a certain amount of unfairness that I can't take,

and that was too much.

[Dave on P.A.] Friday evening's final event will be the Hero Workout, DT.

When he announced DT, I was happy,

'cause it's like, there's no strategy.

If you let go of the bar, you've already lost.

You have to just grab the bar, not even think about letting go,

and just be ready for your lungs to bleed.

I love barbell work, so I'm not going to complain.

But DT is a brutal workout.

This is the CrossFit Games, right?

We're going to do something we've never done before.

We are getting all of you involved,

and all of the fans and viewers at home.

Here's how.

You can vote for Double DT,

ten rounds for these athletes to do,

or Heavy DT,

five rounds at 205, or 145 for the women.

What you guys do tonight will be decided by the CrossFit community.

I think I want...

I don't know... I like... I kind of like both.

I love-- DT is one of my favorite workouts.

But I've never done it heavy, and I've never done it ten rounds.

There's no barbells.

[Bleep] it. Let's go heavy.

I want it heavy.

Heavy.

Both. Heavy or double, I don't mind. I love DT.

That was... When he announced DT,

it didn't matter if it would be ten rounds or heavy DT.

It was good for me.

Everybody vote "double."

[Justin] One of the coolest moments for me

was getting to involve the community in the programming.

Actually, having them cast a vote and selecting Heavy DT

made that workout even a little more special.

[Announcer #1] The sun is going down and the lights are going up.

The people have spoken.

Heavy DT is what our individual athletes will be doing tonight.

[Annie] Yeah, I did a 155 after the open.

And I did that in, like, eight minutes.

[starter beeps]

[Lindsey] When I heard it was going to be 145--

I had done Heavy DT at 155.

It was on a main site, so I had done that.

And I was like, "That's interesting

"that they're doing a Heavy DT on main site. Like, why?"

You always look at main site. If you're not--

If you're an athlete, and you're not looking at main site workouts,

you're not intelligent

because a lot of those movements

appear either at the Open Regionals or the Games.

So, you've got to pay attention to main site.

When they announced 145, I'm like, "I did it at 155,

"like, bring 145! Like, whatever!"

I knew if it was heavy, a lot of girls would have a hard time

with the shoulder-to-overhead.

So, I knew I would make some bank on that movement.

So, I was hoping for Heavy DT.

Thank you, everyone, for voting for Heavy DT.

Double DT would have annihilated people.

As if everyone wasn't hurting bad enough from Murph.

Throw in another 120 dead-lifts at 155,

90 hang-cleans,

60 shoulder-to-overhead would have just...

Oh, my gosh, it would have been ugly.

It would have been really bad.

I love barbell workouts,

and this was just the barbell workout,

so I was very happy.

[Female announcer] A lot of these women have done DT before,

they know how it feels.

A lot of grip because they go fast and they want to hold on.

This being 40 pounds heavier,

you're going to see them break this up a lot more.

DT is one of my favorite workouts ever.

Annie was right next to me, on my right,

so, at one point, I was like, "[Bleep] She's moving those barbells so fast."

I'm like, "I'm moving as fast as I can!"

[Female announcer] Annie Thorsdottir, she is one that when you're side-by-side,

she will fight harder.

[Sara] What matters the most was the push jerks.

To do that unbroken

Because if you break the push jerks, you have to clean it again,

and then start again.

[Female announcer] Can she hold it over for all six? She's gonna try.

[Announcer #1] One to go for Thorsdottir!

[Annie] It went okay, but, like, I was failing jerks, like...

[Announcer #1] And she cannot hold it!

[Annie] One of my strongest moments. That's kind of my rule.

And if I get to my shoulders, I will get it overhead.

[Dan] I had, like, completed a round. I don't even remember.

This is at the point where slobber is coming out again.

I, like, out of nowhere started doing some extra hand-cleans, I guess.

And my judge is yelling like, "Put it down. Like, put the bar--"

No, like, no rep. You're not on hang-clean.

Like, you're on dead-lift. Roll the bar forward."

I'm like, "All right," I don't even know what's going on,

I just rolled it forward, started dead-lifting again.

[Mat] I remember going out, and I took the first set.

Like, I paused after the dead-lifts, then did the hang power-cleans,

and went about it like that,

and I dropped the bar, and I looked at the clock,

and it was at a a minute-twenty, and I went, "Aw, shit.

"I was too fast, and this is about to get painful."

[Female announcer] If you think just about

what their shoulders have gone through,

starting back on Wednesday with the swim and the paddle,

but the overhead at that 145,

you're seeing a much different DT than we would have if it had been 105.

They would be easily be able to hold that overhead for all six.

It did.

I went way too fast in that first round, it got really painful.

I'm like right next to Ben Smith,

so, I mean, talk about chasing a fit person.

[Sean] I think people probably thought that because it was heavier

and because it had a barbell

that Mat Fraser was going to be the guy that would win that event.

Ben Smith goes out and just works his way through each round.

Doesn't slow down, never looked like he was out of control.

[Sara] After the third rounds, I wanted to break the push-jerk stuff,

but I was like, "No, just stick to it,

"there's only 12 reps left of push-jerk."

[Female announcer] She's here to go against the test.

She's not just here to compete against the women.

She came, literally, to play. She's not just here to participate.

[Sean] The thing that surprised me the most about Sara

was her composure in that event.

I think it would be very easy, especially for a younger athlete--

and we saw this in some of the other events--

to go out and run someone else's race and not your own.

And it seemed that Sara had a plan, she executed it,

and, all of a sudden, she's out front.

[Announcer #1] She's not letting go of that barbell.

Two to go. One for Sara Sigmundsdottir.

But at, like, the last push-jerk, it was so hard.

I just closed my eyes, and I said, "Please. Please go under it."

[Announcer #1] And there's a new Icelandic CrossFit Queen

here at the Games, and it's Sara Sigmundsdottir!

[Mat] During the last round I had to put the bar down and wait,

and then Ben just like plowed through the last round.

I kind of went, "Shit!"

[Announcer #1] Ben Smith, the first man

to the fifth and final round of Heavy DT.

[Ben] I remember going in to the last round of the workout here,

and you can see the finish line.

You know, all you got to do is finish the last set, and you know you can win it.

It's motivating, and then, you hear the crowd get into it.

It just pushes you to a different level

that you kind of never get to experience during training.

It's a lot of fun.

[Sean] And Ben Smith dominated that event so much

that he actually walked to the finish line.

[Announcer #1] Ben Smith is going to win Heavy DT!

[Announcer #2] Wow, he doesn't even look tired!

[Sean] Right at that moment, we knew all of a sudden

that okay, he's for real,

he has a legitimate shot at standing on top of the podium.

[Man on P.A.] Ben Smith means business!

Fun day today.

I mean, this weekend I came here to win,

I came here to finish first,

and, you know, I told myself that seven years ago,

I came here to win, and I'm not going to stop until I do, so...

I'm just going to keep pushing.

Yeah, I love DT.

-No. Just hungry. -Yeah.

I want to eat pizza.

And then, I want to go relax and come here tomorrow and sprint.

I'm going to get my rest now and eat pizza.

[Announcer #1] Sara Sigmundsdottir with five for five in top-ten finishes

leading the points race.

[Announcer #2] The leaderboard starting to take shape.

Mat Fraser on top.

Hey, are we allowed to cut our jerseys like that?

I think that looks good. I couldn't pull that off.

I already have too many tattoos everywhere.

I want a belly shirt.

[Dan] 2013. I wanted to win that event so bad,

and I slipped in the final heat.

You can always tell--

You can tell immediately, at least I can, in races like that,

whether or not you've won or lost.

And I want to win. I'm a sprinter.

I'm supposed to win those things.

This is my chance to make up ground.

[Announcer #1] It's the fastest event we'll see

at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games.

It's so fun. It's so fun and terrifying.

[Ben] You don't see that maximum effort very often,

and I love that 'cause you can just 3-2-1, go, just let it rip,

100%, go all out.

[Dan] Shot out like a cannon out of my start.

As soon as I hit straightaway, turbo-boost, hard as I can run,

turn over as fast as I can.

[Announcer #2] Look at the explosiveness in the speed of Dan Bailey.

The old specs started bobbling a little,

and they kind of came down to here,

and then, it was on the third one that they just, boom,

just popped off mid-air.

Grabbed 'em in mid-air, tucked them away, kept running.

[Announcer #1] Toomey and Holte neck-and-neck. It's Holte out first.

[Announcer #2] Barber leading the way by a healthy margin.

[Announcer #1] And it's going to be Dan Bailey across the finish line.

Crossed the finish line, knew that I won,

and was just so jacked, I was so pumped.

[Mat] Day three was [Bleep] terrible for me.

It was great for other people,

it was the stuff that I was terrible at.

Oof. The sprint course was my worst event.

[Mat] I just remember running, and being like,

"Everyone's so fast! Oh, my God!"

[Sam] Horrendous. I got two fouls every sprint.

I'm not the fastest sprinter.

Like, give me a 10K, and I'm fine. 100-meter sprint, no.

[Mat] I finished the event and then I asked my ref,

I was like, "Did I knock over all the pylons?"

He was like, "No, you hit 'em all. You only knocked over one, though."

I was like, "Oh, thank God!"

That sucked. I [bleep] up.

What happened?

I'm not a good sprinter, and then I kicked over a hurdle.

So, insult to injury.

[Sara] It was like somebody had just walked up to me

and smashed me in my face.

Going in to that event, I think Sara Sigmundsdottir

had finished inside the top ten, every event.

Now, all of a sudden, you just ask her to run down the field

and zig-zag a little bit and jump over some obstacles,

and she had a terrible time doing it, and it cost her.

If you weren't competitive, you wouldn't be getting upset about it.

You get pissed off about it at first, and then you move on,

'cause you have to focus on the next task at hand.

When I went to the amphitheater,

I was like, "Okay, you can start crying about this event

"and just, like, let it ruin the next event for you,

"or you can just stop thinking about it and just keep on going."

[Announcer #2] Mat Fraser lost a little bit of that lead

after our two sprints,

as Ben Smith moves into that second-place position.

[Mat] So I was disappointed with myself,

but it was just like, "Whatever, that event's done.

"Time to move on to the next one."

Which ended up being even worse.

[Announcer #2] This big pig is six-and-a-half feet long, 560 pounds.

[Brooke] I didn't know how the pig would go.

It was heavy, but it was awesome.

I love the pig flips. That gave a lot of girls a lot of trouble.

It was [Bleep] heavy.

[Announcer #1] This is the first time that these athletes

have dealt with this object.

[Female announcer] But this pig is heavy.

And some of these ladies are going to struggle

to even get one flip on this thing.

Man, the pig was heavy.

That [Bleep] pig.

[Lindsey] I had to legitimately use all my might

every single flip to get that thing over.

Every push felt like a max-effort bench press off of my chest.

[Mat] Everyone told me, they're like,

"Aw, like dude, the pig's so easy."

And they told me, they're like, "Whatever you do,

"don't stop the pig at your hips, and do a curl."

What did my dumb ass do 12 times?

I had to, like, deadlift it to my hips, rest it there,

shimmy it up onto my shoulders, lift it on to my face,

get my hands under to walk it over.

I'm holding the pig up, and both of my knees are on the floor.

And I had to, like, press it over my head

and step out of the lunge, and push it over from there.

[Announcers] -Spencer Hendel! -Wow!

[Announcer #1] This may as well be an empty cardboard box.

[Announcer #2] I think they forgot to put the cement in his, or something,

because he was making that look way too easy.

[Mat] I'm watching Ben, just like, "Oop! Oop!"

And all day I was like, "How the [Bleep] is he doing that?"

So, after the event, I went up and talked to him.

He was like, "Oh, dude, the pig was easy.

"It's just like flipping a tire."

In all my time I've spent in the gym doing fitness,

I never flipped a tire.

[Bleep]

[Announcer #1] We didn't think it would get faster than Spencer Hendel,

but here comes Ben Smith!

[Announcer #2] Are you kidding me right now?

[Announcer #1] Ben Smith will win the Soccer Chipper!

[Announcer #2] We thought that this was going to crush people,

and they made it look like a walk in the park!

And we look back, and here's Mat Fraser,

just can't get up the rope, and can't get up the rope,

and keeps failing, and keeps failing.

[Announcer #1] Meanwhile, Mat Fraser,

the overall leader, on his legless rope climbs,

he was ahead of Ben Smith by 52 points.

And Smith is going to cut into that lead significantly

'cause Mat Fraser is struggling.

[Pat] So when Mat Fraser bombed the Soccer Chipper,

I remember watching that at the desk, you know,

scribbling in my little notepad,

I'm like, "What is going on down there?

"Like, did we find a weakness in his game? What the heck?"

[Announcer #1] As Mat Fraser continues to struggle

on the legless rope climbs,

and this is going to change the leaderboard significantly.

[Dave] And that was a huge turning point.

And it was a turning point for both those two.

Ben wins it and just demolishes it,

and Mat just flailed and wasn't able to get up the rope.

[Announcer #2] He just came off of two bad events with the sprints.

He can't afford to have another one.

The thing that pissed me off the most of anything from the Games

is people telling me,

"Don't worry, man. Keep working on your legless rope climbs.

"You'll get better."

Yeah, man, go [Bleep] yourself.

My legless rope climbs are fine. That pig [Bleep] my world up.

And I did so many heavy-ass curls with the pig, my arms were jello.

[Announcer #2] And Mat Fraser will not

be wearing that white leader's jersey in the next event.

Ben Smith most likely will be.

[Brooke] Reminded me of like, a little kid,

when they're trying to hit you, and the person puts their hand on their head

and just holds them far away, like that.

That was me trying to climb that rope.

[Announcer #1] Rolls out of the handstand

and Elisabeth Akinwale is across the finish line,

setting the new top mark at 8:40.94 seconds.

[Sam] And then, I got one of the handstand walks,

and, like, stopped about this far from the second handstand walk.

[Announcer #1] Only 13 seconds to go for Samantha Briggs.

[Sam] I'm not good at doing a handstand hold.

I held a handstand for a long time,

and I could not get my body to move forward.

[Announcer #1] Briggs has got to get to her nameplate

before she kicks down,

and she will not make it!

Just about six inches short.

[Sam] And I was like-- I was there,

I didn't fall down, and I was like,

"Come on, just one more step."

But I couldn't get the last step.

[Announcer #1] Samantha Briggs, so close to completing the Soccer Chipper.

What happened?

My biceps just [Bleep] me up.

-Knocked out? -Just couldn't [Bleep] go on.

Did you go too fast on the pig?

I don't think I went too fast on the pig.

I think I hit the first two rope climbs too fast.

What are you going to do, just ice and relax?

Yeah. See how I feel for the Clean and Jerk. Go from there.

Couple of workouts, sounds like it's a good one for me.

I've never, ever had a failure happen like that.

-Yeah. -I don't...

Pretty hard.

[Bleep] up.

Well, good luck.

[Mat] After that many bad events in a row,

you start questioning everything.

All I was questioning was,

"Am I fit? Like, am I supposed to be here?"

[Announcer #1] After eight events,

there is another change atop the leaderboard.

Ben Smith has moved himself 30 points ahead of Mat Fraser.

[Announcer #2] Sigmundsdottir and Davidsdottir

continue to play hot potato with the points lead,

currently held by the rookie Sara Sigmundsdottir.

I got to wear the leader shirt for a little bit.

Do you want to get this on camera while it lasts?

Still like a day and a half left. Lots left.

Pumped about the clean-and-jerk, until I started warming up for it.

So, warming up for the clean-and-jerk. Missed 315.

I failed, like, 295, like, three times in the warm-up area.

And not like it was a bad rep. I was just trashed.

[Sara] Well, clean-and-jerk is my favorite movement,

but I was so tired after Murph.

I remember feeling so sore before that event.

It was hot, and it was bright,

and I was like, we were trying to be in the shade, but I was so...

I felt light-headed and tired.

After like-- And these were during my warm-up sets.

So, I was nervous. I was like thinking to myself.

I didn't say anything out loud, but I was like, "Oh, my God."

[Mat] And I remember loading on the weights,

and I was like, "I can't not load on three blues."

I was like, "I'm known as a weightlifter.

"I can't not open with three blues."

I was thinking to myself as I was changing my weight, like,

"Oh, my God, do you really want to go for this? 242."

That's really close to your one rep. You just hit 245 for the first time.

Your one rep max squat clean was 250,

your one rep max jerk is 250...

I can't stand it when it's quiet when I'm going to lift.

Like, if people are going nuts, and cheering, and going crazy,

like, that just helps me a ton, I love it.

[Mat] One person going at a time, so, the spotlight's on you.

Just that adrenaline rush.

I honestly just thrive on adrenalin and the energy there.

And that's when I, like, last minute, I asked my judge,

I'm like, "Oh, my God. Can I borrow your sunglasses?"

'Cause I remembered the 227.

That was one of the things that made it feel so off

was I just couldn't see.

It was just so bright down there in the middle of the arena.

He's like, "Sure," and gave me his sunglasses,

and it was my turn.

I got set, and I set my body tighter than I'd ever set it before.

And was not going to fail that rep.

And once I cleaned it,

I knew that if I was patient, that I could jerk it.

I literally just thought to myself like, "What the hell?"

"Go for it."

[Announcer #1] The overall standings after nine events:

Ben Smith and Mat Fraser

are duking it out for the top spot on the leaderboard.

There are doubts all the time.

You get hurt, you get injured, you get tweaked.

You're like, "I don't know if I can do this."

You know, you get frustrated, you get upset,

you know, you're a little scared, you're a little nervous.

Yeah, it happens all the time.

It's an injury I've had for about a month and a half now,

and it got real as soon as I got here.

I'm hurting.

-Yeah? -Oh, yeah.

-What do you mean? -I'm sore. Everywhere.

I just had to go. We knew it was going to happen.

'Cause when I tried to tape them too much, I couldn't grip the bar.

Legs, lower back, shoulders, everything.

I'm kind of in a state of delirium.

I have rope burn.

I have them like on, oh, both sides.

So, I have some wounds.

My foot's pretty hurt.

My back hurts, my plantar fasciitis hurts,

my arms are killing me.

I just feel weak. I'm just under-performing like crazy.

I don't remember the last time I failed a clean-and-jerk at 211.

I'm at the bottom of the pack right now,

and I came in here fully intending to fight for Top Ten,

to be in the final heat.

And they're just better than I am.

It's just one week out of the year, you know?

It's not the rest of my life.

I just got to focus on this week, give all my effort to it,

and then move on after that.

I did believe that if I would do everything that I could do,

I stood a really, really good shot at winning the Games. And it's...

Of course it's sad when I see that kind of just go away.

You tell me. It doesn't look like it.

Not unless some miracle... and I start recovering really fast

and manage to win the rest of the events.

Of course, I'm hoping I'm going to wake up better tomorrow.

And I'm never going to give up.

I think that's a hard misconception

that some people look at the extraordinary things

that go on here and people make them look so easy.

But you have no idea how bad that hurt

for somebody to do that, you know?

The pain doesn't just go away.

It's not like they don't feel the pain.

I already want to come back,

even though I know how much it hurts.

I love it.

Think about the people that would love for the opportunity

to walk out in front of all these people,

and would kill for an opportunity to do just one workout.

So, you know, the way I look at it is,

I'm not coming off that floor until someone's dragging me off of it.

[Lindsey] There's a couple moments that really stood out to me.

My family and my friends and, you know, my business partners

were right at the edge to my left, right next to my lane,

and I remember finishing the workout

and staring up at them,

and just, like, having tears coming out of my eyes

because they were just so excited to be there and so proud of me,

they didn't care where I was, where I ended up,

and just making eye contact with them

was just something I'll never forget as long as I'm alive, so,

that was probably the best moment. Yeah.

It means a lot.

I mean, I feel like I could be last on the leaderboard

and everybody would still be standing up and clapping for me,

so that means a lot for me.

It's, like, one of the coolest feelings.

[Mat] Coming back from four incredibly disappointing events,

this one's going to hurt.

I'm going to make this one hurt so bad.

I think I told 'em, I was like, "I'll die before I lose this workout."

[Announcer #1] As Mat Fraser is trying to reclaim

what he lost in the Soccer Chipper,

the overall lead from Ben Smith.

[Announcer #2] I'm real impressed with Mat Fraser,

how he is attacking this event.

[Mat] No need to pace here. There's no strategy here.

Just "go!"

[Announcer #1] And Gelin just selling out to get herself ahead.

Camille Leblanc-Bazinet sets the new mark to beat!

Davidsdottir and Webb are gaining ground now on Sara Sigmundsdottir.

And strap yourselves in for an exciting final day

at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games,

as Fraser takes the event.

[Man] What happened?

I knackered myself.

I hit myself in the nuts, on the bar.

I'm going to feel it now.

Man, this is the hardest Games I've been to.

This is tough. This is just brutal hard work.

And it's kind of cool though.

Like, we've got all the girls here, like, all the past champs,

and, like, just the level of girls is constantly going up,

so the competition is fierce, and that makes you have to fight.

Like, there's no just cruising through when you could

and you can kind of just make it out.

Like, it's a fight, you know, to the end.

So, yeah, it's good to see, but I'm tired.

There's one more day.

I just need to keep my head in the game,

keep doing what I've been doing,

and I hope it'll pay off.

We know the morning event.

I'm super-stoked for that... running and yoke.

And then, we don't know any more, so I'm excited to find out.

It's so funny, no matter how you do,

you always want to do a little better, right?

Like, I came in second, I shouldn't be upset,

but I really wanted to get, like...

I feel like with how it went down, I could have gotten first.

Third, third, and second so far.

Yeah, I have shitload of seconds, and then...

Seconds kind of suck, right?

-Seconds suck a lot. -I know.

Dude, I was just thinking, "Dammit, if I would have hung on to the bar,

"I would have beaten that little bastard,

"and I would have been first."

So close.

Seconds suck a lot.

They do. They [Bleep] suck!

What do you think happened?

I didn't see anything.

[Bleep] second place.

No, it's like... It's the worst best thing.

You're the [Bleep] winner of losers.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, if I have to get introduced as the "Second Fittest Man,"

I want that to [Bleep] end now. I hate it.

I'll quit complaining.

Sunday morning, I woke up and said,

"Holy Guacamole." Like, I was pretty smoked.

You know what I [Bleep] dreamt last night?

That the final workout was Murph.

I slept real well.

My knees were hurting so much

that I couldn't sleep on Saturday night.

My hips, my legs, my arms, more than anything,

were stuck like this when I woke up.

They're like, "Don't worry, it's only one round."

I'm like, "Okay, what are the reps?" They're like, "300, 200, 100."

I was like, "Oh, shit."

Like, to brush my teeth,

I had to push my other arm to grab my toothbrush and bring it in.

What's this over here?

Reese's Puffs.

Reese's Puffs. Shh.

Different things going through your head.

You're excited, but then, on the other hand,

you're like, "Wow, I really don't want to mess this up."

And then, when you start thinking about that,

you start thinking about the negative things,

but you got to push those aside.

You just got to focus on just getting after that next workout.

You know, you're in it to win it.

You're not in it to try to, like, not lose.

I've never had anything that I focused on 100%,

that 100% of my efforts,

from waking up to going to bed at night, was this.

That's it.

So, it would mean everything.

[Announcer #1] Ben Smith sits atop the leaderboard

with just a four-point edge on Mat Fraser.

[Female announcer] This event is gonna be fast, and it's gonna hurt.

There was no strategy to it.

The only strategy was, "Don't blow up,"

which I kind of blew up, because I went out so hot out of the gates.

I was not looking forward to running again.

[Announcer #2] And again, this 400-meter run

is not your normal 400-meter run.

You have to go up that berm, which is a five-story climb.

And going up the stairs was just like a trudge.

Like, you push through the pain, and your legs filled up

and were burning and numb.

[Brooke] Going up stairs and then climbing up the hill,

things start to lock up,

and your calves get really tight, and your back gets really tight.

[Sara] And, like, in the third round,

I felt like my legs were falling off because they were so warm.

[Announcer #2] And the 50-foot yoke carry,

that's the crazy looking apparatus there on the floor.

380 pounds.

I'm like, "380? That's pretty light for a yoke."

So, kind of my thinking was like, "Pick the shortest yoke."

[Noah] Mat pretty much picked it up and had so much room

that he could sprint with it every time.

He made up a ton of ground on the yoke.

[Mat] Get the yoke like as high off the ground as possible.

Who cares if it swings? It's only 380.

I just want to be able to pick it up,

and there's no way it can hit the ground,

so I can just like run with it, dump it, and go.

[Announcer #1] And there is no one in sight of Samantha Briggs.

The midline march for the women was 100% a Sam Briggs show.

[Announcer #1] And Sam Briggs is now going to lap Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

[Tommy] We're talking about an athlete at the CrossFit Games

lapping other athletes.

So, we're talking about another athlete getting four minutes ahead

of other elite-level athletes in this workout.

[Announcer #2] The fact that these guys are going head-to-head

just proves what kind of athletes these guys are.

They want to win.

I was like, "There's one guy I have to beat.

"I don't care about any other competitor here.

"I just need to beat Ben."

[Announcer #2] He looked over and saw exactly where Ben was,

and actually throttled down a little bit,

let Ben get ahead of him, and then, just kind of hang out.

He knows that he can catch him on the yoke.

[Ben] That's one thing I don't do.

I won't look over, I won't watch.

You feel where he is, you know where he's at,

you hear the announcer talking.

In one ear and out the other. You just keep doing your thing.

[Mat] I was running back out my lane, and he was still on the yoke,

so I went dead, dead slow, waited for him, let him pass me.

Just to try to push the pace for him.

[Announcer #1] Sam Briggs is going to be a force to be reckoned with

in the final event.

The engine from England will win Midline Madness!

Here is Sara Sigmundsdottir doing some damage control,

trying to finish as close to catching Davidsdottir as possible.

Jacob Heppner is gonna take midline madness

as he gets his yoke completely over the line,

but in second place, it's Mat Fraser.

You immediately knew that Mat Fraser had catapulted himself

back up into contention with Ben Smith

and that we are going to be kind of in the driver's seat

for the best finish that we have seen yet.

The drama continues to unfold here at the StubHub Center

as we learned that Annie Thorsdottir has withdrawn from the competition.

Heat Injury.

Yeah, so it's a combination of the heat

and then a lot of repetitions in the heat,

and being in it for so long.

I think that it's the first time ever

that I've had to withdraw from something

or stop something that I've been doing.

It was a tough week for all of the athletes.

Murph, in particular, took its toll,

and I think Annie was one of those athletes

that performed below her expectations

and wasn't able to recover and get back to the level

that she's accustomed to competing at the Games.

I'm used to pushing through muscle soreness,

I'm used to going through long weekends,

and I know how that's supposed to feel,

and this was just... it's not the same.

My body felt awful and weak.

I'm cramping like... I've been cramping all weekend.

I hurt on the uphill, but the rest of it was fine.

It's just hot.

But better than Murph.

I feel okay.

Well, if I feel them...

I don't feel them now, so...

Hopefully, they will feel again later.

I got to poop so bad.

So, we have something behind me that we're going to reveal.

It'll be something new, something none of you have ever seen before

at the CrossFit Games.

So, let's go ahead and reveal the rig.

Whoa, a pegboard.

A pegboard.

-[Dave] Correct, it's a pegboard. -Wrestling.

Wrestling style.

Oh, my biceps.

I was looking forward to more of a bicep pump.

You want me to show you how to do it?

[Crowd] Yeah!

Let's see Dave Castro do some work.

Come on, Dave!

[Cheering]

I'm going to fall the [Bleep] on my ass!

[Dave] Three ascents up the wall. Anyhow.

Though it's putting things in holes. Could be a bit of fun.

You're good at that.

[Laughing]

I like it. It's gonna be so hard, so heavy at the end of it,

but I think it's cool.

It'd be a fun workout fresh.

I don't think it's going to be so fun feeling like this.

I don't think I can even do a handstand push-up,

let alone a heavy dumbbell snatch,

or even hold my own weight on a pegboard.

It's all right. Though, it's not like these last two workouts

are too difficult.

It's like nice and easy, kind of cruisy stuff.

It's not like it's a heavy dumbbell,

and we have to do an extreme bootcamp.

With the most technical movements.

I'm worried about my biceps,

but I think everyone's in the same boat with their biceps.

-Yeah. -Everyone's hurting.

Even if there's a little bit of a loosen up in the triceps,

would just go a long way.

I'm trying everything I can to be able to strengthen my arms.

At this point in the weekend, my body's...

I'm having to cut holes in my shoes

because of the fact that the nail is coming off.

Everything's just falling apart, but who cares, it's just kind of...

Have a bit of fun out there, right?

At least for me, even on, like, the Friday morning,

or the Saturday morning, and Sunday morning especially,

you're sore, but, like, your mind is just on high alert,

'cause it's "go" time, you know.

It's game time, you're in the middle of the weekend, it's...

Your mind is getting your body ready no matter how bad it feels,

to do work.

It's all right, I'm sore every day.

You're sore. I'm sore like this in training, too, so...

You've got to train tired.

Who knows, maybe I'm like a pegboard savant.

You could just be a...

Maybe I'm like one of the best in the world at it.

We don't even know yet.

I'm really happy that I'm doing better this year than last year.

And next year I can maybe just aim for the podium.

That'd be nice.

I think it's... It'll be a really fun workout.

It should go really well.

I'm just fatigued.

Watch your legs.

Watch your mouth.

Look my way when I talk to you...

My upper body was so trashed

that I could not grab the bar with locked-out arms

and pull my bodyweight up.

My coaches were like, "Oh, yeah!"

They were pumped, it was heavy, we were so excited.

Like, I was gonna crush these workouts.

And then, all of the sudden, I go to, like, move my hair out of my face,

and it was like this...

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

[Announcer #1] All athletes eyeing that pegboard

with a bit of trepidation.

[Announcer #2] Pedal to the Medal 1 is underway,

the magic number, 51 total reps,

but the toughest three are right here, getting up that pegboard.

[Female announcer] She just lost it, slipped out of her hands.

[Announcer #2] Dropped from the top of the pegboard.

[Announcer #1] You can see the frustration setting in

for many of these athletes.

[Announcer #2] No woman has completed this event.

Pegboard event wasn't my favorite.

I thought it was a joke.

I thought it was cool.

I looked at the other guys, and I was like,

"Is anyone else, like, sweating profusely right now?"

We just watched these people not be able to complete a single rep.

And they're some of the fittest in the world,

and they can't get up this [Bleep] pegboard.

[Announcer #1] And this pegboard is really throwing a wrench

in everyone's game right now.

It's the perfect example of how CrossFit athletes

adapt to things that are thrown at them.

You need to be presented something that you've never done before,

and we want to see how well you can handle it.

It doesn't mean giving them something that's easy for them

and seeing how fast they can go,

it means literally, always moving the bar

and seeing if they can actually do it.

Not just how fast they can do it, or how well they can do it, if they can do it.

Inevitably, that's going to mean that some people are going to fail.

It doesn't mean it's too hard, it doesn't mean that it's incorrect,

it means that it's the CrossFit Games,

it means that it's redefining human performance.

We need to find this point

where athletes are struggling,

where athletes can't do a movement,

because once we find that, then, we've just raised the level,

we've raised the bar, we've raised the complexity.

We have raised the expectation for them, going to the next level.

Two men in the men's side

have separated themselves in a battle for the top spot.

It's the experience of Ben Smith

against the expectations of Mat Fraser.

And both have handled this test extremely well so far.

The woman who has handled it the best,

rookie Sara Sigmundsdottir.

She's battling with countrywoman Katrin Davidsdottir

and Australian Kara Webb for that top spot.

Davidsdottir and Webb have experience on their side

at the Games,

but Sigmundsdottir has looked like anything but a rookie.

I was excited, I was nervous,

I was like, I didn't know kind of how to feel,

but more excited for the opportunity to win than I was afraid of losing.

I was aware how close it was between Ben and I.

I knew what I needed to do to win.

[Katrin] I never even dared to dream it,

and I was sitting in the position that I could win the CrossFit Games.

All I know is that I've never tried this before,

and, yeah, hopefully it goes well.

[Announcer #1] The fittest crowd on earth is ready

to watch the fittest man on earth be crowned

at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games.

[Announcer #1] The final heat of the second-to-last event

of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games underway.

Mat Fraser trying to get to the top, and Smith is right next to him,

so the two keeping a close eye on each other.

[Sean] Davidsdottir kind of goes up,

then, makes it to the top and falls.

Sigmundsdottir kind of gets halfway up, she falls down.

It went from the wall and straight to my head,

so, I fell down and I had, like, this really big bump on my head.

I'd peg it in, put my chin on, peg the next one, put my chin on.

Our last heat was like freak pegboarders.

[Mat] If I just pull this third pegboard climb out of my ass,

I can beat Ben.

And all I can remember thinking on the third one is like,

"Oh, my God, it's happening. It's working."

[Announcer #1] And Mat Fraser got to the rower ahead of him.

Fraser has to beat Ben's spin by two spots on the leaderboard.

[Ben] You're pushing yourself through that workout,

but you are seeing where he is, and you do have to know where he is.

[Announcer #1] Sara Sigmundsdottir continues

to just stare at that pegboard.

She's got to start working her way up.

Margaux Alvarez is on to the rower!

And Katrin Davidsdottir has decided

that she's not going to go after this thing again

and rest up for the second event.

Meanwhile, Fraser will move into third place,

and he is ahead of the man that he needs to beat in this event,

Ben Smith.

[Announcer #2] If he lets Mat get ahead of him here,

he's going to have to beat him in the next event.

[Announcer #1] And Mat Fraser in the yellow shorts

is leaving Ben Smith behind him.

[Mat] I had one snatch, two snatch,

and then, my ref was like on the next number.

And I was like, "Better move it, honey!"

I kind of launched this dumbbell. It landed right on the number.

I was like, "Oh, that was kind of neat."

[Announcer #1] Mat Fraser is beating Ben Smith!

Meanwhile, Spencer Hendel was crushing the thing,

so he's going to win the event.

[Announcer #1] Hendel is across the finish line.

Mat Fraser finishing second, and Dan Bailey gets in,

and that's huge for Mat Fraser.

Ben Smith will finish.

[Announcer #2] It's going to be really tight with the numbers.

[Announcer #1] Event win for Margaux Alvarez on Pedal to the Medal 1,

and now, a two-minute reset.

That man will have the lead by just two points.

Whoever beats the other guy is going to be the "Fittest Man on Earth."

This is yours to lose. It's all on you.

And that's exactly the position you want to be in.

All right. Don't [Bleep] this up.

[Announcer #1] This is it.

Four days of competition,

and this is the 13th event

to close out the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games.

[Sean] All Sara needed to do was just stay ahead of Katrin.

And then, the parallel handstand push-up. Oof.

[Female announcer] Katrin's going to go hard

because she wants to get as much of a lead as she can on Sara.

[Announcer #2] Ben Smith looks unbelievable on those handstand push-ups.

Mat got a little wobbly.

[Announcer #1] And Ben Smith is done first.

He gets all 12 and on to the rower.

Fraser with one to go, and he can't lock it out!

Meanwhile, Ben Smith continues to work on the rower.

First off, Sam was there with me, and I was just like, "Balls to the walls."

[Announcer #1] This is big for Davidsdottir.

And a no-rep for Mat Fraser.

Smith is done with 24.

On to the assault bike for 16 calories.

[Sean] Davidsdottir moves on to the assault bike.

Sigmundsdottir is still struggling,

and now more people are starting to put themselves

between Sigmundsdottir and Davidsdottir.

[Announcer #1] Mat Fraser into the rower for 24 calories,

and he's going to have to set some records to catch Ben Smith.

[Mat] I'm pulling like 21-- 2200 calories.

A number I've never seen on the screen before.

And I just went full-dummy.

[Announcer #1] Mat Fraser meanwhile is closing the gap.

You have to want to be in those positions

because those are just opportunities to succeed.

If I ever pushed it anywhere, this was the time.

[Announcer #1] And Davidsdottir moving up to challenge Sam Briggs

for the top spot.

I can still get him. He's right there.

[Announcer #1] Smith with a no-rep,

and Mat Fraser has a door to make a comeback!

[Sean] Everybody in the stands was on their feet going crazy.

Everybody was into this.

I get up to my two kettle bells, I grip 'em, I go...

[Announcer #1] Ben Smith is Blue two. He will walk forward to the number four.

Mat Fraser will start on his first two reps.

And here comes Mat Fraser!

Here's Sara Sigmundsdottir,

who could be seeing the title of "Fittest Woman on Earth"

slipping through her fingers.

[Tommy] Katrin had arguably the most impressive performance

on the kettle balls that we saw out of anyone.

There was no stopping her on those.

When I think about it, I couldn't even feel my body.

[Announcer #1] Two more reps for Davidsdottir.

She could lock up 100 points

and possibly move herself onto top of the podium.

Fraser got a no-rep.

You've seen it so many times in your head, visualize yourself winning,

visualize yourself going through that event and finishing first.

[Announcer #1] Today, Superman does not wear a red cape!

He wears a CrossFit Games jersey and a Gold Medal!

Ben Smith is the "Fittest Man on Earth!"

One more for Katrin Davidsdottir, and now she will wait and see

if she will be crowned the "Fittest Woman on Earth."

Sam Briggs in second.

Sara Sigmundsdottir is now on the rower.

She has a ton of ground to make up.

It was a situation where we weren't quite sure

how many people were going to finish between Katrin and Sara.

[Announcer #1] Pushing for all she is worth on that assault bike.

Second last year to Rich Froning,

and Fraser will have to wait at least another year

before he stands on top of the podium.

I'm sure if I didn't go full-dummy on the assault bike,

it would have been a different story, but I did. I was dying.

[Announcer #1] This crowd saluting Mat Fraser as he finishes the event.

[Mat] And I remember hitting the finish line, half being happy,

knowing I did everything possible.

Your 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games Champion is from Iceland.

Dave Castle was like,

"The Fittest Woman in the World is from Iceland."

I was still like...

Please, be my name, be my name.

And her name is Katrin Davidsdottir!

When it was like, "Katrin Davidsdottir," there is...

There is no words to describe that feeling.

That's what I remember the most.

And that's what I'm going to think about

the whole year when I'm training.

[Mat] I just remember getting back to the athlete area...

to an empty room.

And it just being, like, a...

devastating feeling.

Like, I wanted the Games to finish with like...

surrounded by friends and family.

Like hugs, everyone happy.

But it was the exact opposite.

Like, I finished it by myself in an empty room

with nothing but disappointment.

Your 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games Champion is Ben Smith!

My mom and dad and my wife,

they were all, like, you know, super nervous.

I don't know. It was great to be able to kind of put it to rest

and finally win it.

I knew I could do it, it was just a matter of time.

[Justin] Ben Smith is the real deal.

In the nine years that we've had the CrossFit Games,

only one other time has an athlete had ten top-ten finishes

in the same games.

And Ben did it this year.

He's a legend in CrossFit. He's been there seven [Bleep] times.

He's been on the podium twice.

It's not the end of the world.

It took this guy seven years, and I've been in the game two.

I think Mat is going to win.

I don't think you can stop him from winning.

I feel like Ben Smith, like, it was just his time.

Like, Fraser's still going to have his time.

Finished fourth.

It just showed me that maybe I do have another year left in me. So...

There's no retirement plans just yet.

Oh, my God!

[Gjorgvin] Amazing moment.

That's the moment that you want

to chase for the rest of your life.

It's been really cool to be a huge fan,

and then to be able to compete with a lot of the guys

that were your heroes that you had watched the year before

do what you are doing now.

I hope that there's other people out there like that that are watching,

and, like, just hungry to get out on the floor

and can make that transition.

[Dan] The satisfaction of finishing higher

than you've ever finished in your life,

and it doesn't take one year to do that.

It's a whole lifetime of competing and doing stuff to get you there.

There's more than meets the eye to CrossFit.

The blending of capacities, finding weaknesses,

it's a long process, and it's a really low trajectory

at a very distant horizon that you have to accomplish.

Ben Smith personifies that.

He talks about goals all the time.

Winning the CrossFit Games is one of the most ambitious goals

that you could ever possibly have.

And Ben has chipped away, year after year, until age 25.

That's why he's the perfect example of how you win.

Things take time. Things take hard work.

That's all Ben Smith does.

He works hard, and he's been working hard for seven years plus,

and it finally paid off.

[Katrin] You know, I worked so hard,

and that it paid off in such a big way,

to be the "Fittest on Earth?"

That's incredible to me.

That's something that was only in my dreams.

Just the fact that I was out there with all of these fantastic athletes,

all of us suffering together...

Hey, throw whatever you want at us, dear,

because we'll find a way to overcome it.

The ceiling for what's possible is year after year being redefined,

and the CrossFit Games are part of that process

in showing athletes and the world who truly is "The Fittest on Earth."

Did you memorize all these questions, or are you looking at anything?

How good does this shirt look?

Yeah, it's classic.

Well, we're all on the highway,

and this really nice Porsche kind of like goes by us quickly.

You better win today!

And as we get up next to him,

I'm like, "Oh, shit, that's Bob the Trainer!"

Selfie time.

You better win!

I go... I did the natural thing and took a selfie in front of him.

Who else can say they have that photo?

So, Bob, thank you for the selfie.

He was just like, "Every time I pull,

"it just felt like sandpaper on my nipples."

Oh, it hurt so bad.

My nipples are rubbed raw from the paddleboard.

And I decided to go shirtless.

So, it'll be interesting.

Yeah!

Do me a favor, make sure my nipples are in the same direction.

[Dan] Yeah, slow clap in the 20 seconds that I have to lift.

Bob is like, lift, just...

I get my hands on the bar, and you're done.

Yeah, but it was cool. Everyone was clapping.

[Announcer #1] Dan Bailey knows a lot about pain and suffering.

He's a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan.

[Announcer #2] Julian Alcaraz.

Get that shirt off, young man.

It's time to lift some sandbags.

CrossFit roadtrip.

CrossFit roadtrip.

He's gonna come to Tennessee so we can hang.

He's gonna take me to the mountains.

It's gonna be like "Brokeback Mountain."

More like "Deliverance," actually.

I've decided, if the final event to be done

is just kiss another guy in the team on the individuals,

I would do it and be done.

I wouldn't choose Alex. I don't think he's a good kisser.

My name is Camille Leblanc-Bazinet,

and I choose fitness.

Sometimes I pretend like my food has feelings.

Don't eat me.

I'm just a cheese sandwich.

Recently, I've been told that I have the stomach of a ninja turtle.

I don't know if that's a complement.

I think it's the front side.

-Abs are made in the kitchen. -All right.

Everyone knows this.

Abs are made in the kitchen.

-Whose slogan is that? -Schwarzenegger's.

Oh, that's Arnold's.

[Announcer #1] But Lucas Parker, look at that beard.

Never gets in the way of the barbell when he's working out,

which is so impressive.

[Announcer #2] Fun fact that he, Lucas Parker, actually uses hang power cleans

to trim his beard to the appropriate level.

[Sean] Then we find out she had a broken foot.

And I literally thought,

"Okay, this woman was sent from the future to kill Sara Connor,

"and she just stuck around to do some CrossFit

"because she is a cyborg."

Oh, my gosh, now there's something on me.

Can you please take it off?

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh!

Thank you.

-Bedbugs... -Everyone says that.

Thank you.

Yep, saved my life right there. Thank you again.

I was pumped for those workouts.

I was pumped to freaking--

Those little-- they looked like Mario bombs from the game "Mario".

That's what they looked like to me, and I wanted to pick them up,

and I wanted to deadlift them.

I wish I could talk to you about Tia-Clair Toomey.

I really wish I could.

[Man] No one knows what the hell--

Nobody knows anything.

[Pat] Gudmundsson absolutely infuriated me the entire time

just because he made us look foolish as analysts.

And I'm sure anyone at home that's like, "Oh, I saw it coming.

"I could have told you Gudmundsson was gonna do that great,"

you're probably related to him or one of his immediate friends.

Anyone outside that circle did not see Gudmundsson coming.

Someone had e-mailed and said, you know, the final wasn't exciting.

I was like, "What the [Bleep] were you watching?" You know.

Like, that was the most exciting final we ever had.

These are baby-carrying hips

that are just totally ruined because of Dave Castro.

No more babies for Michelle.

Don't put that on television.

If you [Bleep] tell anyone...

[Laughing]

That [Bleep] doesn't go anywhere.