Could Alan Webb win the Crossfit Games

Xfit_guy_the_real_one_1 wrote:

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Alert: "Ran into Rocko" is a troll. He wants to badmouth CrossFit. I trust the educated audience of LRC is smart enough to make up their own minds.

Ho Hum wrote:

odkk wrote:

No, your statements are false. Did you just make them up in your head or are you lying on purpose?

I saw Crossfit broadcast and rebroadcast on ESPN for a week and for 1-4 hours each day of that week.

Did track worlds get ESPN coverage like that? Does 1-4 hours per day sound like minimal coverage like you tried to make it sound?

Yeah, and the Super Bowl is no big deal because it wasn't live on ESPN...do you know how these things work? NBC paid a large amount of money to have exclusive rights to show Worlds.

Is this a troll post or do you really not understand what my point is?

Why are you so focused on ESPN? Worlds got a lot of coverage on NBC.

Ho Hum wrote:

Why are you so focused on ESPN? Worlds got a lot of coverage on NBC.

ESPN = ESPN, NBC, or any regular high audience TV channel.

Not the internet or some obscure satellite channel. And more than an hour of coverage.

odkk wrote:

Ho Hum wrote:

Why are you so focused on ESPN? Worlds got a lot of coverage on NBC.

ESPN = ESPN, NBC, or any regular high audience TV channel.

Not the internet or some obscure satellite channel. And more than an hour of coverage.

This isn't true. I watched the CF games. None if it was live on the tv until an hour or two segment the last day. Everything else was on espn3 (the internet). And the small tv segment was cut into by tennis. Everything the other poster said is true. I'm not saying you're lying, but maybe you're confused and have seen replays rather than it live. No screw that, you're a lying F'tard who doesn't know what TV is.

Crossfits own website confirms this. This link brings you to the 2013 CF live schedule.

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Retardalert. wrote:

odkk wrote:

ESPN = ESPN, NBC, or any regular high audience TV channel.

Not the internet or some obscure satellite channel. And more than an hour of coverage.

This isn't true. I watched the CF games. None if it was live on the tv until an hour or two segment the last day. Everything else was on espn3 (the internet). And the small tv segment was cut into by tennis. Everything the other poster said is true. I'm not saying you're lying, but maybe you're confused and have seen replays rather than it live. No screw that, you're a lying F'tard who doesn't know what TV is.

Crossfits own website confirms this. This link brings you to the 2013 CF live schedule.

http://media.crossfit.com/games/pdf/2013CrossFit_Games_ESPN_PressRelease.pdf

No, you both have no reading comprehension. I never said anything about a live broadcast. I just said a broadcast.

Here is the broadcasting schedule when I watched the games last year:

As you can see, there is way more coverage than track worlds has ever had.

You are talking about replays. Everyone else is clearly talking about being able to watch something when it happens. CF had 1 hr of TV coverage before the winner was crowned.

Also you're watching an internet rebroadcast on TV. You don't seem to understand that the games weren't shown on TV, replays of the games were. WorldTrack is shown live on tv in many countries. Olympic track live on tv all over the world extensively. US indoor track meets live on tv. Mil rose, prefontaine, live on tv. You can name hundreds oh hours of live track on tv.

Cf games? Live on the internet. 1 hr live tv with tennis overrunning it.

Dingbatalert wrote:

You are talking about replays. Everyone else is clearly talking about being able to watch something when it happens. CF had 1 hr of TV coverage before the winner was crowned.

Also you're watching an internet rebroadcast on TV. You don't seem to understand that the games weren't shown on TV, replays of the games were. WorldTrack is shown live on tv in many countries. Olympic track live on tv all over the world extensively. US indoor track meets live on tv. Mil rose, prefontaine, live on tv. You can name hundreds oh hours of live track on tv.

Cf games? Live on the internet. 1 hr live tv with tennis overrunning it.

That's a good point, there was more live tv coverage in semi meaningless indoor/outdoor track meets than at the CF games. If the championship of the CF games can't get more live coverage than the milrose games or the boston indoor games, what the hell are we even arguing about? Track has WAY more live coverage than the CF games which is the measurement for importance, not replays whenever they need filler.

Dingbatalert wrote:

You are talking about replays. Everyone else is clearly talking about being able to watch something when it happens. CF had 1 hr of TV coverage before the winner was crowned.

Also you're watching an internet rebroadcast on TV. You don't seem to understand that the games weren't shown on TV, replays of the games were. WorldTrack is shown live on tv in many countries. Olympic track live on tv all over the world extensively. US indoor track meets live on tv. Mil rose, prefontaine, live on tv. You can name hundreds oh hours of live track on tv.

Cf games? Live on the internet. 1 hr live tv with tennis overrunning it.

You are free to talk about whatever you want, but I'm 100% correct. Especially since I'm the person that started the discussion.

This was my point: The crossfit games got more major US TV coverage than track worlds did.

Whether they were replays or not is irrelevant. Whether they were shown on the internet or not is irrelevant. Whether they were live or not is irrelevant. Whether or not other track meets were shown is irrelevant.

They were shown on major TV for over 10 hours. Track worlds was not. It certainly did not get hundreds of hours like you just said. That is false.

It doesn't matter which has more TV coverage. The reality is that nobody in the general public gives a sh*t about either track or crossfit.

However, if you tell someone that you run competitively, you'll get respect for doing something that most people can't handle. If you tell someone that you do crossfit, they'll either not know what it is, or the douchebag impression that you naturally give off will be confirmed.

Track got more coverage during the Olympics than Cross fit did during the preceding four years combined (and likely will the following four years). You're neglecting ratings. Infomercials are on major networks from 2AM to 6AM for 5 days per week; they are hardly considered important or popular. Ratings are something important that you're ignoring. Context is something important that you're ignoring.

odkk wrote:

You are free to talk about whatever you want, but I'm 100% correct. Especially since I'm the person that started the discussion.

This was my point: The crossfit games got more major US TV coverage than track worlds did.

Whether they were replays or not is irrelevant. Whether they were shown on the internet or not is irrelevant. Whether they were live or not is irrelevant. Whether or not other track meets were shown is irrelevant.

They were shown on major TV for over 10 hours. Track worlds was not. It certainly did not get hundreds of hours like you just said. That is false.

Whether crossfit games got more tv coverage than track worlds is irrelevant. What matters is the number of viewers. Track world championships NBC easily top 1 million viewers, CF games barely hit 250K. More people tune in to watch Usain Bolt run for 10 seconds than the total number of viewers in the entire broadcast history of CF Games. Therefore you're entire premise is based on complete bullshit and you're a moron.

The sad truth, and I mean that, is that competitive running is dying. CrossFit however is going in the opposite direction.

Soooo serious question though. I admit I don't know anything about Xfit. But, for those who do, how do you think the top tier decathletes would do in Xfit competitions? Would Ashton Eaton be behind/equal with/ or ahead of leaders after 6 months or so of exclusively Xfit training? What about guys like Lashawn Merrit or even Nick Symmonds?

I think the top track athletes would do very well at crossfit. But that is not a knock on crossfit, its just that their the top athletes in the world in a sport that does carry over pretty well.

I am a former middle distance guy who is pretty decent at crossfit (border line regional guy), and in track I was an all american. The correlation between success at running and crossfit is very odd and is not constant. Some people are good at both and others at one.

That being said, I find it hard to believe there is someone in the world better than Rich Froning at crossfit. What he does is truly amazing. Seriously.

Also, for any one who is interested - read Greg Glassman's "What is Fitness" article. Google will get it for you. I challenge anyone to read it and not agree that it is the best possible definition of fitness.

x fitter wrote:

That being said, I find it hard to believe there is someone in the world better than Rich Froning at crossfit. What he does is truly amazing. Seriously.

WORD. Froning is unreal.

DecatBrat wrote:

Soooo serious question though. I admit I don't know anything about Xfit. But, for those who do, how do you think the top tier decathletes would do in Xfit competitions? Would Ashton Eaton be behind/equal with/ or ahead of leaders after 6 months or so of exclusively Xfit training? What about guys like Lashawn Merrit or even Nick Symmonds?

I'm sure a very large majority of professional athletes would do well with even less than 6 months...I doubt a majority of people with exclusive crossfit training would excel at other sports at a professional level though.

That being said, I'd bet all my money that David Oliver would win the crossfit games with ZERO crossfit training.