Brittney Saline

Trygve Nilsen of CrossFit Oslo | Photo by Adam Bow It should come as no surprise that a team from CrossFit Oslo drew some of the biggest cheers during Friday morning’s first test, Olympic Total. But it may not be the team you are thinking of.…

“Athletes,” the announcer’s voice echoed over North Park at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games. “One minute.” The line of masters men and women, 55-59, braced themselves for Pulling Power, preparing to run to their ropes at the sound of the buzzer.…

Open for Business At 9 a.m., the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games were officially underway. The sun was out, the fans were on, and the turf was glistening. Ten men and 10 women in the 65+ divisions stood on their black lifting platforms, cinching their…

A Battle for First — PRVN vs. Mayhem Independence Team Test 1 | By: Melisa Pendergrass The first athletes to take the floor at the North America East Semifinal were the teams, and all eyes were on newly-formed super team CrossFit East Nashville PRVN…

The Sheep on the Roof When fans arrived at the Max-Schmeling-Halle arena each morning to watch the fittest in Europe battle for a ticket to the Games, they were met with grazing sheep looking down upon them before entering one of Berlin’s largest…

2023 was supposed to be Roman Khrennikov’s year. And it was looking good. Donning the leader’s jersey for three days in a row at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games, Khrennikov could almost taste the championship title. He had won two tests and had seven…

Records and Repeats 14 gold medals (plus three silver and one bronze). 19 CrossFit Games appearances. 72 CrossFit Games event wins. That’s a fuck ton of fitness to fit on three podium spots — but those are the accolades gathered over the past decade…

Caine Hayes never got hungover. Which was quite impressive, seeing as he usually put away 20 beers on an average Tuesday night. More on the weekend. His memory didn’t fare quite as well, though the then-early 30-something didn’t mind the chunks of…

A would-be disastrous no rep almost cost O’Brien the win — her left fingertips grazed the yellow line as she started the final handstand walk — but Speegle took a break at the 7-and-a-half-yard mark, allowing O’Brien to recoup lost time and take the…

Only 3 rounds stood between James Sprague and his individual CrossFit Games debut. Eight ring muscle-ups, 6 deficit handstand push-ups, 4 sandbag-to-shoulders, 2 snatches, three times over. Sprague had been to the Games as a teenager twice before,…

Mal O’Brien was unfazed. The 2021 seventh-place Games finisher and protégé to Mat Fraser pulled ahead in the first handstand walk, Dani Speegle nipping at her — wrists? — a couple paces behind. A would-be disastrous no rep almost cost O’Brien the win…

It was the same foundational movement she teaches the children in her CrossFit Kids class at CrossFit MF — except there, they call it an “oompa loompa.” It’s a good thing someone’s doing something about it. It’s not that they should never have a…

1,110 reps. That was the work set before the masters of the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games on Wednesday. And for some, that wasn't enough. 1,110 reps. That was the work set before the masters of the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games on Wednesday. It’s a hell of…

You’ve probably heard of Kevin Ogar. What you might not know, however, is that he’s not the only Ogar in the adaptive-athlete community. As Yoda says, “There is another.” Media Articles The Other Ogar You’ve probably heard of Kevin Ogar. On Jan. 12,…

But don’t count the teenager out just yet. He’ll have a chance to make his way to Madison in the Last-Chance Qualifier — coming up July 2-4 — alongside Spencer Panchik and Cédric Lapointe. And you will see her at the Games again this year — but not…

It’s good to have a morning routine. For a time, Chelsey Hughes started her day by rearranging the furniture. First, she flipped her small sofa on its side and pushed it into the bedroom of her 300-square-foot apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of…

She faced directly into the sun — setting but still high enough to glint against her amber sunglasses. The barbell was loaded to 265 lb. But Middleton — who took fourth in the 76-kg category at the 2020 USA Weightlifting National Championship and won…

In short? The fittest have gotten even fitter. In CrossFit, nothing gets easier. You just get fitter.

It was 2014, and Chris Spealler was the last man on the tennis stadium floor. He faced the final barbell of the Speed Clean Ladder Quarterfinal: 275 lb., almost twice his body weight. Everyone else had cleared the ladder a good 40 seconds earlier.…

But most athletes, no matter how fervent their ambition, eventually come to accept the truth: Almost no one who wants to be a professional athlete gets to. CrossFit changed that. Not at first, of course. The Sport of Fitness famously began with a…