Athlete dies during CrossFit Games in Texas

[@nicolette327]

Should this not be a criminal investigation?

[@ehpares39]

@Kwildcat13 well criminal negligence causing death. Better do the investigation and find nothing than missing a Huge lack of security concern going not address. "Criminal negligence (sometimes called culpable negligence) refers to a defendant who acts in disregard of a serious risk of harm that a reasonable person in the same situation would have perceived." I think that could be in the criteria but without investigation we will never know.

[@SuperDorje]

Yes there should be. No excuse. They got so much money. They lying

[@AJXOXO-vz1pn]

This was on livestream. He drowned not far from the finish line. Why didn’t the organizers have a simple motorized boat to get to swimmers quickly and get him medical attention? Not being able to get to him until 1 hr later is completely criminal. That alone is an indictment of how badly prepared organizers were for a water emergency.

[@GenomiMontavani]

Absolutely insane they wouldn't have a plan for this, big lawsuit coming..

[@santiagoferrari1973]

They just dont spend money in that.

[@loganjackson7813]

They did. Lack of visibility in the water made it difficult to find him once he went under.

[@RobinGraham-wd3kf]

@Kwildcat13they did! And very close to him too. This whole thing is disgraceful.

[@crankyboiy]

A spectator tried to save him but was told to go back. Lifeguards did not listen.

[@henrikswanstrom9218]

Who could've known going for an all out swim when you're fatigued right after doing 54 activities on land was a bad idea? Crossfit is a f**king circus.

[@YoutubeJell-yo]

How was only 5 water safety personnel for 79 athletes an adequate plan?

[@Dan_8712]

2 of which were 30 ft from him

[@johnsinglet575]

CrossFit is not a professional organisation

[@Lucpol1986]

@@johnsinglet575Still had to be signed off from the H&S (baseline) perspective, by city official surely?

[@Ariakon]

Public pools have like 100 kids there on average and only 1 or 2 lifeguards. What's the point.

[@ChristianFlexybox]

Good to see that the two guys who will go to jail for this is being interviewed

[@marlondavis9450]

Right?! Acting like they don’t know why this happened. Making these athletes run before a hot swim is ridiculous.

[@FluffyAlpaca81]

Tragic. The organizing entity in charge clearly failed its duty.

[@Bellatticakes]

If the swim was not the first event there should be some accountability for reckless endangerment and negligence

[@FonDaul]

The "Safety Plan" referenced by CEO Don Faul during yesterday's press conference is available in the livestream video of the event. It included three people on paddle boards (without ancillary floating devices) and a dude on a jet ski... to monitor 79 athletes over an 800 meter course on open water. On the Kettlebells and Cocktails podcast (The direction of CrossFit: A Conversation with CrossFit CEO Don Faul) six months ago, CEO Don Faul reported that "We still spend way too much money on sport (CrossFit games) ... we are going to take meaningful amounts out of that."

[@M4ssive-4ttack]

this is completely unacceptable and absurd in 2024

[@MIssBeeish]

He didnt drown suddenly, he was struggling a lot near the finish line and near shallow waters! And he went quite visibly underwater after the struggle! There were no rescue teams watching them! Two of the rescuers that were super close to him, and would be able to save him, didnt even notice he went under water, what were they doing? This could have been easily prevented!!

[@manifresh1264]

You know what's funny? These neanderthals are continuing the events.

[@SO-if3yn]

Negligence from this whole organization. End CrossFit games. What dorks want to be the best at working out?

[@HVYBOY]

Men witnessed this happen yet the body wasn’t recovered until after an hour?? No shot people just watched him die and did nothing right?..

[@lgarcia67]

Although we don't know what happened to this individual, one thing I know is that people underestimate these open water swimming events. Water in Texas this time of the year is super hot. It feels like swimming in a soup honestly. If you are not used to it and have not done preparation you can easily have a heat stroke... yes, in the water. I have experienced the symptoms myself and it is an awful feeling.

Has an athlete it could have been bradycardia.. or AFib.. or a very high heart rate. That can cause you to faint. I truly don't believe it's the warm water... That's why athletes has to they get older a lot of them suffer slow heart rates. A pacemaker solves the problem.. I'm one of them. It's very sad to what happened..

[@nicolettekadiri8059]

It’s not the water or the athlete, the onus is on the personnel at the event to ensure participants are safe, there was clearly an oversight in this regard and I agree with the previous comment having two or five or an minimal amount of guards for almost 100 athletes is insane. It’s not like CrossFit can’t afford to pay for multiple guards to ensure the participants are safe. I hope this is not a case of wanting to save money and so only having a small amount of guards.

@Kwildcat13 has I pointed out. I truly believe bradycardia most often is a problem with fainting and losing consciousness when you push yourself really hard, lack of blood and oxygen to the brain.. If you faint in the water your chances of drowning is really good. Very sad to see that happen. You have to be careful. You never know with your heart has an Ironman athlete here. You can be totally conditioned but something could happen.

[@DaveVoyles]

RIP CrossFit after this easily preventable neglect

[@icecreamman1337]

an hour later???

[@madgoldnz]

This isnt shocking when you consider that CrossFit is incapable of even teaching pull-ups + deadlifts correctly

[@Chance-ry1hq]

Everyone was running around on shore screaming? How about somebody swimming out and helping him.

[@doncorleone9294]

Only trained personel should help a drowning person. If you try to save a drowning guy, by jumping into the water, he is likely going to panick and push/pull you under water, killing you as well. Their lings are filled with water and their body tells them to stay above water at all cost, which often leads them to push the rescuer down using them as a flotation device to get air. Untrained people should never attempt a direct rescue like this. If there is no professional, you need to reach out with a stick or some floating device to save them.

[@Chance-ry1hq]

@@doncorleone9294 🙄you are contributing to the dumbing down of America, and you don’t even know it.

[@doncorleone9294]

@@Chance-ry1hq says the person who resorts to ad hominem arguments. I don't even live in America. Before you call someone stupid, what about you do some research to confirm that an untrained person should never jump into the water to rescue someone drowning? You can access a lot of knowledge very quickly in this age, it's called google.

[@Chance-ry1hq]

@@doncorleone9294? Trained personnel? The trained personnel let him drown. You don’t have to be trained to save someone life, you just have to some common sense, which you obviously don’t have.

[@doncorleone9294]

@@Chance-ry1hq Ooooh, I thought you were refereing to the people who were running around screaming and you expected them to jump in and save him. You are misunderstanding. There was no trained personel nearby, the people on the paddles are not lifeguards, just volunteers to oversee the race, they have no lifesaving equipment nor training to spot a drowning person, let alone save one. The problam at hand is not that no layman saved him. They only had 2 lifeguards for 79 swimmers but those two were stationed at the start of the race. There was no lifeguard close to the finish line where he drowned to save him - the lack of lifeguards is the problem.

[@AbesamisM]

Imagine dying like that cuz the organization is so negligent

[@JalenChewbacca]

Griffith Way

[@JalenChewbacca]

Rachel

[@JalenChewbacca]

Douglas Wyoming

[@leelunk8235]

NOT THE 1ST DEATH FROM CROSSFIT, THESE CONTEST HAVE ZERO REGULATIONS, ALL FOR PROFIT

[@jamess678]

Should kept it in wisconsin too hot in texas

[@joannewatts9892]

How could this happen ?

[@dux_bellorum]

Negligence....

[@joannewatts9892]

@@dux_bellorum that's what I mean .

[@Eric-lx8hp]

Let the litigation begin 2:18 2:18 2:18

[@JumpJeho]

This was the last episode of Seinfeld. Not sure they have a good-samaritan law in Texas. Texas is like Arizona, survival of the fittest (no pun intended).

[@JalenChewbacca]

Lot 48

[@wigwam3270]

Swimming should be at beginning and should have more safety precautions. Better yet just get rid of it. So many options for CF.

[@valottaway9174]

Absolute Madness to have the swim after a run !!!

[@justtestingonce]

@@valottaway9174wtf? It’s was after the run? Which genius programmed this workout.

[@Jim-b3i]

A Navy guy running it and is not prepared for water rescue? Attention to detail was forgotten!

[@JalenChewbacca]

Kevin

[@baay66]

RIP🕊

[@JalenChewbacca]

Red eye

[@switch1237]

Sad😢

[@JalenChewbacca]

Nadia

[@Lucpol1986]

A negligence claim incoming…👍🏾

They need to check his heart if he suffered from bradycardia a slow heart rate or a fast heart rate. Or if he ever fainted in this training or light-headed. Bradicardia can cause you to faint when you overexert it can happen to anyone. At any age. That is why a lot of the endurance athletes have pacemakers believe it or not has they get older. It involved the heart it had to be. So sad to see that happen to any elite athlete.

[@Dami_editz]

how did it take 1 hour to find a dead man

[@BudTuggly69]

@damyanvelchev3366 It probably had something to do with the body being on the bottom of a lake.

[@derklebob8161]

Gotta lift weights, run a mile, and climb a wall in that order before you can get in the water to save people, gotta stay healthy. Like the dead guy.

[@delsings]

Oh no, RIP 😢

[@Fahdie]

Why the heck didn’t anyone swim out to get him?!

[@JalenChewbacca]

White man's world

[@StolenValor24]

Tells people how horrible crossfit is very unorganized

[@JalenChewbacca]

Bolboa

[@JalenChewbacca]

Ruiz

[@JalenChewbacca]

Hello

[@weekend3804]

Hope CrossFit games get giga sued

[@JalenChewbacca]

$500

[@armandoangelreyes2046]

Just like there us a boat there, where was a boat or help when it was happening with witnesses.

[@anlui-t9o]

En paz descanse Lazar Dukic😢

[@JalenChewbacca]

Michael Beasley

[@JalenChewbacca]

$20.00

[@JalenChewbacca]

Freedom

[@JalenChewbacca]

Strawberry

[@JalenChewbacca]

Chewy

[@ShinjiKataoka]

Is this supposed to be a prelude for a military boot camp?

[@RocketLR]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT?!

[@freepluralism6652]

since when are crossfitters doing swim and runs? condolences to his family

[@WolfSerbian]

Looks like need to be one lifeguard per person and watch him all the time and be close to him…and plus some device with them what showing location and plus they can have button to person can press alarm what lifeguard can notice even better..

[@marlondavis9450]

Or have them swim first & run afterwards. Think about it, if the finish line is after the swim you know the organizers f’d up. You’ve seen athletes after marathons, some of them collapse. Imagine collapsing in the middle of a swim?

[@stuffbenlikes]

Must have had the same team that was protecting Trump in PA.

[@wire-p6d]

Probably slow and overeating

[@jrod7917]

Definitely fishy

[@JalenChewbacca]

Emily Swain

[@JalenChewbacca]

Johnny Garcia

[@JalenChewbacca]

Home

[@Solid79SF]

This is shocking and sad. CrossFit is not safe. Better safety coordination would have prevented this death.

[@JalenChewbacca]

Glass

[@thecastle09]

Negligent big time

[@operationsword9457]

Many are dropping. Sudden Adult death syndrome? The elephant in the room; Covid chicharon...

[@JalenChewbacca]

Leslie

[@JalenChewbacca]

Leal

[@JalenChewbacca]

😂444

[@JB-yt9im]

There goes CrossFit’s money.

[@JalenChewbacca]

Lee

[@JalenChewbacca]

$13

[@JalenChewbacca]

Hunky

[@mintyborro6216]

Bye bye, CrossFit. There goes all your money.

[@jrizzle3124]

So no one went to help except call for the life guards????😂😂😂 So the saying is true. All muscles, no brains and courage.

[@DM_1313]

a member of the public jumped in the water when he saw the man struggling, the two lifeguards on the paddle boards did nothing, they went to check on him but he was gone

[@jrizzle3124]

@@DM_1313 much respect to the spectator who jump in.

[@9Thunder5]

bro helping a drowning man is usually very dangerous … happened here in italy a month ago in a river a guy my age drowned helping another guy that was drowning… both of them died

[@Lucpol1986]

@@DM_1313Useless and might face charges of negligence themselves.

[@andreiunghie]

A person tried to help but was turned around by a women on the paddle board, she then paddle there, saw nothing and just turned around. DEI hires

[@jasonschultz9570]

Congrats TX. You are truly incompitent.

[@ambermyers7463]

Dumbest comment and I’m Californian.

[@jeffreyburkins5334]

Corporate Erin voice from Mayhem shirt

[@charlesritter6640]

"safe and effective"

[@JD85619]

crossshit has been a joke for years now

[@Lucpol1986]

Castro…

[@JalenChewbacca]

Krazy

[@alan8887]

I was in a lake not ten feet from a boy who drowned. It took three hours to locate the body. I'm sure crossfire took every precaution they could. Its just a tragic accident that no one could have for-seen.

[@yamon598]

🤔🤯

[@marlondavis9450]

Naw bro, you don’t challenge athletes to a marathon & put swimming last. CrossFit f’d up big time.

[@Proj_Doomsday]

Trump prefers Athletes who don't die.

[@SuperBlobsterMan]

was he vaxxed?

[@bn26]

He was European lol all of those commies got vaxxed unfortunately

[@CensorsTruth]

CrossFit is stupid

[@Dwizzle77]

You… voted for Trump. ❤️ hope this help clear up any confusion

[@JalenChewbacca]

Kevin