This is How you Destroy a Sport.

[@PNW_Charles]

So if you sign up for the Open, you are automatically opted in to the testing pool? Interesting choice, CF HQ. Here, let me help you out, I will stand with Danijela and ban myself for four years from paying for the Open, since I will never provide CF HQ with my whereabouts. Is that the result they are looking for? Super weird.

[@hillerfit]

I'm pinning this.

[@DoyonFit]

She should Sue CrossFit. Defamation

[@dallredCF]

I am in. Nice job CrossFit. Way to square the circle, be in alignment customer-centric locus, and moving the needle to get the best ROI. Your paradigm shift will get you to 30 million by 202….not.

[@RogueCylon]

Agreed, I’m in. Or rather out. Zero monies to Crossfit for the next four years.

[@santiagoferrari1973]

@@hillerfit tCF testing is a joke. Graziano Rubio is not natural and won one wod of the open.

[@danijelahodges]

Thank you! 🙌 It sure is something fishy going on. I have no idea why they would even care about a nobody like me? It's so random and unfair how they just decided to ruin my credibility like that.

[@ChanelStuck]

It’s not fair 😢

[@htown3728]

Is there the ability to do a second appeal since they seemed to ignore your actual appeal. If only Dark Brandon could help with your appeal. Good luc

[@EuropaChronicles]

Please work with Hiller and Sevan to get on a livestream to explain your situation. Also, set up a GiveSendGo so we can donate to a legal fund for you to sue CrossFit for defamation. You aren’t a public figure and CFHQ publicly defamed you without following their own written policy. Your damages don’t come from the CF Open ban, but to your reputation as a coach/trainer which will affect your income. Don’t let them get away with this. Hold them accountable for their actions.

[@iamhop]

Fight! This is complete BS. Agree with the Sevan/Hiller comment above.

[@msdubz60]

Fight this. It's so unfair.

[@Faceonthewall]

I have no legal background but unless CrossFit can produce the email that shows that they told this lady that she was part of the testing pool and when she agreed/provided details, I would sue Crossfit. They have made a public statement effectively saying that this woman is a drug cheat. That will affect her as a competitor, a trainer as a gym owner, affecting her livelihood. Surely that is some form of slander/falsehood if the process wasn't followed.

[@DoyonFit]

I like this! Sue them!!!

[@briannieuwenhuis9844]

I believe if she can demostrate at all that it has had a negative impact on her business, she has a very valid legal basis. If it was me, they better make damn sure they covered all their bases, or let the depositions begin!

[@eevengerz4318]

A two for one Breach of Contract and Defamation Lawsuit Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, I just like using fancy words 🙃

[@drumzforbumz]

Literally the exact comment I was going to make. 100% deserves a suit for slander. Ridiculous.

[@rogerlouie1]

"I have no legal background but unless CrossFit can produce the email that shows that they told this lady that she was part of the testing pool and when she agreed/provided details, I would sue Crossfit." On what legal grounds? She agreed to be drug tested when she signed the agreement.

[@MeganWyszynski]

Bodybuilding athletes are way leaner than crossfit athelte because they are literally losing bodyfat for stage and eating in a deficit, whereas crossfit athletes are eating for performance. Very different. thanks for covering this, and mentioning moreplatesmoredates :)

[@RJvanVeen]

I’d like to see a crossfitter cut like a bodybuilder. Just to shut them up.

[@gregrollo]

This is why Hiller exists. Accountability for CrossFit when CF wants to pretend they are holding “standards” but really they make up the rules as they go.

[@neverknowwhattoput]

This could honestly lead to a defamation lawsuit. Imagine a trainer losing clients due to a reputation hit for not testing when they didnt realize they were psrt of the testing pool.

[@rickyjames5610]

Shouldnt use roids…

[@shelfcloud487]

I doubt anyone would even know about this if she didn’t tell them. Get out of your bubble and step into the real world.

[@Bern1808]

Great video, Andrew. This is actual real journalism. Exposing injustice!

[@Mrlgk84]

I train with Dani on a weekly basis! She loved training, works her ass off and is as real as they come. Glad I didn’t enter the open this year and am pretty much done with CF!

[@Barkely3721]

So CF has money to test a non-competing, random, master athlete but can't afford to stream all the events at the semifinals? WTF!

[@missstirring6063]

Honestly😂😂😂😂😂

[@jethrocardona9063]

Dear CrossFit HQ, I will be in Orlando, Florida from July 5-10 for my son's dance competition at the Orlando Convention Center. Although I finished 77,970 in the 2023 Open, please advise if you will be testing me that week so I can make arrangements. Thank you.

[@TheHazchic]

Everyone who did the open should flood them with these notifications. 😂

[@RJvanVeen]

@@TheHazchic just let me know where to send that email.

[@justinwright3099]

I’ve been on a team that qualified for Sanctionals in 2019. Haven’t made it past quarters as an Indy and have been doing CF since 2014 open. My listed lifts are heavier than most games athletes and not once have I ever been notified of even being selected to be put into the testing pool.. CFHQ is so far out in left field on this one. Not even sure what to think about it. The last couple of years have legitimately made me think about pursuing something different with my fitness lifestyle. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@davidjones5869]

I demand updates on this Hiller, this is mental!

[@LindaS77]

Have not logged in here for many years but need to say you are perfectly right. I know Danijela enough to know she is telling the truth. She is actually Swedish married to an Australian and we lived/worked/trained in Stockholm at the same time, apx ten years ago. This situation is very strange and unfair.

[@mbooks5777]

I think she is natural as well. As soon as I saw her I thought of a competive bodybuilder then find out that was her history. The natural body is very capable of her appearance. I don't even think she was that big for competition but very lean and pumped as said. However she should have been aware and prepared for contest stipulations and been avaliable for the testing. Natural or not it's going to be in questioned in this circumstance.

[@cf_andr3]

Amazing Video. Sadly, it's getting worst with Crossfit every week. Maybe they let the wrong people go and no one knows what to do anymore.

[@castrodc12]

Fight the good fight! This was great!!!

[@Navigator1276]

I placed 9,667th in my age group. I’m actively looking for CrossFit emails daily for drug tests 😂😂

[@xvnz]

7:00 the song and dance of everyone who is on the sauce: „everyone who knows me knows how disciplined I am, how hard I train, how good I eat…“

[@BWilliams1421R]

You should 100% compete in the Open next year and see if 1. You’ll get “randomly” drug tested 2. You’ll pass said drug test

[@justinwright3099]

This 100%

[@patricklang7162]

Yes

[@patricklang7162]

We have to get Hiller to do this.

[@bmclaughlan]

Totally unrealistic for CF to assume every single Open entrant must be available on 24 hours' notice. It sounds like another mistake.

[@mikeharbison5364]

This is so ridiculous. She definitely needs to Sue for defamation of character. Anytime they tarnish your reputation as a professional it is a defamation lawsuit. She can obtain current and future damages for what they have done to her professional image. She needs to find a lawyer. There are plenty that would take the case on a lien until it settles.

[@CapableConnie]

Also, getting 48 hours to respond/show up is unrealistic. Does this mean now anyone who signs up for the open had to check their email daily to be sure not to get banned? Hell, I don't check my email like for weeks at a time. Also, if you are in the USADA/WADA pool like with Olympic sports, you have to sign up, agree and also provide location updates.

[@shelfcloud487]

As a 57 year old, totally natural male, I can say without hesitation, it’s difficult AF to get shredded at my age. I’m fairly lean. I’ve worked out daily and practiced 18/6 intermittent fasting for 4 years now. I still have fat around my pecs and midsection that’s stubborn as all get out. Short of starvation, I don’t know if I’ll ever get rid of it.

[@singlespeedcrossbike]

@@PeterAngles-ks9fphow’s it feel to be a mean nasty person? Feel good?

[@singlespeedcrossbike]

@@PeterAngles-ks9fp Hop on that fixie and find a steep hill and jam them cranks until your lungs and legs feel like they’re going to explode. With any luck that may purge a bit of mean and nasty out of you.

[@singlespeedcrossbike]

@@PeterAngles-ks9fp easy, pick a big tall gear then go fast, peddle like at bat out of hell, red line then push beyond what you think you can do, when Jesus appears ask forgiveness then soft peddle your way back home. Your soul will be cleansed. Afterwards go forward speaking only in kind terms and compassion to the anonymous people that your path crosses in comment sections of KZbin videos. With one caveat. If you encounter mouthy liberals spouting devious misrepresentations of fact or reality you can revert and disparage them with a litany of vile contempt sprinkled with vulgarities. For that you will be immediately absolved of wrongdoing. Now go and sin no more.

[@dc100dc100]

The argument shouldn’t be against the “if you don’t test, you are assumed guilty”. That’s a legitimate rule to keep people from hiding from testing long enough to test clean. And she agreed to that policy with the open. The argument is whether CrossFit followed their own policies of notification. If she wasn’t told she was in the testing pool, then they broke their own policy.

[@haydenalcorn837]

This is ridiculous. Idk what else to say I just want more people to see this.

[@harrybrooks3542]

Please please, everyone of us that signed up for the open, let's all notify crossfit weekly via email of our upcoming travel plans.

[@CapableConnie]

😂 Do it

[@VovaBuachidze]

hope there is a follow up to this story

[@RJvanVeen]

She’s natural. I’ve been around women bb’ers and they look VERY different. Yes, she is lean and that make her muscles pop. Add the fake tan, PLUS the lighting. But out of the light and without the tan the muscles don’t look as round. She cut HARD, and that is HARD, REALLY HARD. Crossfitters wont understand what the process is like and feels like. You’re pretty much starving yourself. Much respect.

[@redties-ug6ls]

I was very active in Track and Field, throwing (age group 65-70), with a large group of friends as co-competitors, through 2010 when drug testing was introduced. Now less than half of us compete, myself included. My BP med, my asthma med, and my antidepressant are on the banned list. Choosing between health and a tshirt and maybe a medal is pretty easy. We stay home, the sport at the older age levels dies (before us, I might add)

[@KeithGreenshields]

If her character is truly defamed she could sue, win her case and have enough money to buy out CrossFit. In return for your help, you will become the new programmer for CrossFit. 😂😂

[@cureklutch8751]

Worked out at Ryan gym and trained with a bunch of other people that trained with them. Ronnie Teasdale etc they were all on something man they even talked about it when they thought no one was around was nuts. A lot of people are on stuff. This is back in that 2014/2015 time period.

[@joshhallisey679]

Keep fighting the good fight! 🦇🦇

[@MC-nv4bo]

Just hear me out here. CrossFit set an employee back in time to drug test Daniela even though she’s not in the pool because eventually she goes on to winning the CrossFit games and with the notoriety of her win she becomes extremely important and busy this not having her last child, who will end up being the savior of the humanity. So CrossFit the good guys.

[@DMS1010]

Oh the memories, the drug that Ellie never owned up to

[@dallredCF]

🥊“Down goes CrossFit, down goes CrossFit! “ 10,9,8 ….

[@kylegreenley8950]

I workout with a girl who used to do bodybuilding and she still looks jacked but she’s not as lean as this girl but still pretty lean and has all the muscle definition still. I do think this might turn into a legal suite for CrossFit as if they don’t have the documentation to back up that she was aware of being in the testing pool, etc. this is definitely defamation 😅

[@AmandaJxo]

I am so glad that this guy who I have no idea who he is made this because it’s so clear and concise and impactful. We are little nobodies with small voices, but here’s a guy, with a voice who can advocate for us and expose the sport. Absolute bullshit. Not fair, not okay. We as athletes have every right to share our side and we don’t deserve to be torn down. 100% love this

[@gnomodaloucura]

Well said Andrew. I hope CF HQ fix this, at least give her a chance to test now. That's BS

[@Newtzz_]

The thing is though, we keep expecting better from a company that consistently fucks up and doesnt play by its own rules. Surely we're close to the point where we just stop playing their game?

[@paulwilliams6827]

So true 😊

[@tuckertech]

Yup. It’s a reason they call it mom strength. It’s why some bodybuilders drink breast milk. There is definitely something that happens to some women after pregnancy; especially when they were super fit beforehand.

[@worldwideachievers1234]

Someone needs to hire an attorney and sue the shit out of CrossFit and maybe they’ll understand what following policy means. Based on what I just heard she would win 🏆. Like you said this is the worst day of my life.

[@Cashbrook20]

This is insane... The rails are falling off this company. I hope she gets a public apology and her ban is reversed.. Nuts...

[@simonkane7097]

This is crazy and bang out of order on Crossfits part based on the information that has been presented here. They need to get their house in order on this front.

[@swfblacksheep703]

I swear plenty in "real life" 😂😂 Let's go, Fitcross!!!!

[@jasontwatkins8278]

I support CF's process here. Its just like our Legal System... "Guilty until proven innocent." Wait...

[@TheFittestLailani]

Good for you Andrew. Her age, having had children, combine that with hard work and good nutrition.. I believe she's legit and this is a shame

[@mrruthless6913]

Wild! Should be rectified for sure.

[@alanthomas7630]

first time i have ever seen your vids , ya funny, i subscribed, drugs in sports well who knew

[@austinh681]

Yeah sounds like a lawsuit. Sucks for Danijela, I hope she knows anyone with a brain doesn't think any less of her and is behind her!

[@toddanderson9001]

Crossfit: making as much sense as any big tech terms of service.

[@michaelhalstead64]

Haha. The waiting was the best part. Hahaha

[@cathoare]

This is nuts! This is what I know of the whereabouts process from athletics, & I assume it is the same under any WADA aligned sport: Athletes not in the registered testing pool can still be subject to testing, but I've only seen that in-competition. Athletes are notified that they are in the pool for out of competition testing, as they have to give their whereabouts info to their sport's governing body. They need to provide their location in a daily hour long window. Usually your home address first thing in the morning, so you know you'll be there. If you are travelling for competition or training etc, you need to submit your updated locations. If you don't update & the testers come knocking, if you're not where your form says you'd be that counts as a missed test. But mistakes happen - athletes forget to update whereabouts; testers go to wrong location etc. This is why it is only after the THIRD missed test in 12 MONTHS does it count as a doping violation & you get banned. Right there is exactly why Danijela should NOT be banned. She has missed ONLY ONE test! I don't see the point of CrossFit testing her in the first place for the reasons Hiller mentioned, but if they insist on it they need to give her another opportunity to do the test!

[@jordixboy]

Its not how you destroy it, this is just normal elite sport.

[@ChaseGr8ness247]

Damn, I can fail a drug test and not even know it!? 🤯🤔😭

[@jonathanlane7370]

Hiller is truly batman. Legit is getting this women out of a 4 year ban while doing a video because ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. Love it.

[@oldgrizz8720]

The concept of Cross Fit is really a great thing with the potential to be a genuine marketable sport comprable to NHL NFL MLB NBA etc. But it appears to be run by clowns who sabatage themselves at every turn. They seem to be blinded by the limited success they do experience and therefore fail to make the necessary changes to take the sport to the next level. It is like watching someone who owns a Bugatti Bolide going mud bogging, rather than useing the vehicle to its ultimate potential. Top Athletes in peak fitness, not only have to compete against physical challenges, but corporate incompitence as well.

[@mccask]

Solution: don't participate in the Open.

[@oliviaohara5792]

I would love to know if we have lawyers on here that fancy representing Danijela? Surely she has a strong case. How can she be expected to sit back & take this rubbish.

[@phil245]

Between this and deciding that adaptive athletes suddenly can't compete, I really hope they get a few thousand less registrations for the open next year. And I still don't buy the whole "it's a way to track your progress so non competitors should do it" thing. Benchmark workouts are a way to do that, main lifts are too. And they work better. Is a move from 5000th place to 4900th a 100 place improvement, or a 0.04% improvement? Or nothing at all because the tests are all different?

[@briannieuwenhuis9844]

I was just in Italy for 2 weeks and forgot to let them know. Also worked out at an affiliate in Florence while I was there. Maybe I'm banned now too and just don't know it yet? I mean, I did almost qualify for QF and I took some Advil once....

[@CapableConnie]

😂, maybe we all need to start emailing CF daily to give them our whereabouts updates.

[@jeremyfonta8852]

10:34 crazy 😂😂😂😂

[@mrpigstai]

Woof. Tough look by CF.

[@hillerfit]

Dude it's bad

[@lucybuhat746]

Im really interested if CrossFit HQ will have a reply to this (probably not though) like this is so random and they would rather test a random person who wasn’t even competed past QF instead of maybe investing on testing every athlete at semis ?? I know an athlete who’s been in the space for 10 years, qualified regionals and semis every year and guess what…she’s never been tested.

[@shanethatcher3913]

I'm waiting for episode 2, it's like Yellowstone!

[@pnkldy0205]

CrossFit this is one of the biggest mistakes you all have ever made. Hopefully you issue this woman a huge apology and thank hiller for pointing the mistake and that you will do better

[@briannieuwenhuis9844]

CrossFit HQ: "Hold our beer!"

[@MK-ze8ei]

Great work in making this visible to everyone!

[@3fs557]

CROSSFIT definitely has a doping problem and the worst thing about it is that amateur athletes also do peds to gain the Wod highs core at their facilities... Poor sport

[@blindsk8s]

Might as well count me out of ever competing if we are going to have to answer to the almighty CrossFit big brother on my whereabouts 24/7

[@ramblr5900]

Rise and fall, raz a gul of Gotham🦇

[@hillerfit]

🦇

[@scottb2607]

It makes no sense that anyone in the Open would be subject to random testing. I can't even RX all the workouts, so I would NEVER expect to be tested. So I definitely wouldn't be on the lookout for an email from CrossFit about testing.

[@briannieuwenhuis9844]

Honestly, from purely a business, bottom line standpoint, why would you waste any effort or resources whatsoever on ANYONE that doesn't go beyond the QF or semis? They aren't even in the picture.

[@katie7674]

I appreciate that you flashed Mikhaila Peterson's podcast 🦁

[@brysonmiller2856]

Ahh I see.... CrossFit needs to find their randoms to "test positive" just to prove they are testing.

[@creatinecara]

Commenting to drive this video further. These growing pains that CrossFit is enduring are ROUGH.

[@michaelbreeden2133]

Such BS! Danijela should be reinstated with a public apology from CF! Burn it down Hiller 🦇🦇🦇

[@gregman685]

I competed in 2022 in the Open. I had surgery in September 2023. Maybe the the chemicals from the anesthesia can still be found during the 2024 Open tests. I'm in trouble.

[@ritchiewhite5278]

IS THAT WHAT YA THINK? YA THINK!!!!! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@domi7073]

Crossfit ist always testing random, not important people and the good ones are just keep going 😀

[@CapableConnie]

This makes no sense... Why in the world is she being tested if she isn't competing at semi's or the games? Those high levels I understand, but to be tested in the Open? So are they gonna just start randomly testing athletes who participate on the Open? Is it in the waiver we sign? It's not a random test if they only testing the top athletes, but if it's truly random, why not the 145,672 ranked athlete.

[@christineyoung78]

CF HQ just keeps looking dumber and dumber

[@jlcragle]

CrossFit will say that there serious about drug testing, but this seriously puts that into question. Why spend the money for a random drug test of the age group qualifier, what would be better to do this for semi finalists before they get there. There’s so much wasted energy and time of people getting drug tested and failing after they’ve been on the podium or qualified, so why not just do this ahead of time? It makes you wonder if a PR company owns CrossFit… wait 🤔🤔. Let media for money to keep people on staff, but plenty of money to randomly test a age group person who isn’t competing. Oh, and great job at communication in CrossFit.

[@madebyjonny7637]

Feels like it requires more than an email... I don't think anyone doing the Open thinks they would end up being tested 😅

[@hebrew67]

Crossfit is a business, not a sport. Functional fitness competitions will evolve and leave the corporation behind.

[@paulbotha5904]

Andrew, I've tried to reach out several times on several platforms. Please can you respond ASAP. Thanks in advance for the swift reply.

[@canyonmoody7931]

Great video

[@itstoodamneasy3976]

Get’em Hiller!

[@donharris132]

I can not wrap my head around this decision from CrossFit.

[@laurenkeogh9507]

Man I hope crossfit publicly renege their statement. This is utter bs - I know her and she works harder than anyone I know. She eats 100% clean because she’s had an autoimmune disease which is fueled by poor diet - she recently got cleared from her dr that she know longer has it - because she’s 100% disciplined in her training and diet. This is utter rubbish from cf headquarters and I hope she appeals again and with videos like this shaming the sh@t out of cf. I’m so mad and disappointed for her.

[@karendillehay7778]

So messed up, CF has gone off the rails....

[@beastcakes]

Well done Hiller

[@seanlenderman988]

How could you take clen and do CrossFit and not die. That’s impressive

[@ljdecker546]

Better to ban some poor random human being and appear to be fighting back against PEDs than to actually catch another podium athlete. This is how virtue signaling goes from stupid to evil.

[@keithmerkel7542]

Facts

[@BananaDanceMan]

the only problem with CrossFit is HQ. Still never understood why burpees need a CEO

[@jamaanders1817]

Yep delts are, normally, a dead giveaway but I'm not seeing the muscular density I would expect to see. She knows working the shoulders brings the shape needed to make arms look bigger and waist smaller. Anyway, weird choice by CrossFit.

[@RogueCylon]

She should take a comprehensive drug test, and then sue the crap out of Crossfit. They had no right to include her in the testing pool, as she was not competing, and she had no qualified in all those years. T9 take action based off if nothing is slanderous.

[@PoisonJarl71501]

She doesn’t look like she’s on anything to me. She’s not overly massive and masculine looking, just strong and shredded due to low body fat

[@ruready4ou2rock]

You said GD at 3:16 lol

[@hillerfit]

Good Dog

[@ruready4ou2rock]

@@hillerfit 🤣

[@IDestroyLife]

Great job, I hope her ban gets reversed! Or they at least allow her another chance to take the test.

[@an_heli_ca_10]

Hold up... I would have to pay for my own drug test that CF HQ ordered??

[@J_Wolfe86]

Also, your goin to Orlando? I might have to drive down. I can probably only go on 1 of the days though

[@the_bruce_wayne]

I'm here for the downfall!!!

[@hillerfit]

Don, we are waiting for better

[@seanm3933]

Competive bodybuilding screams PED use. But she's just really lean, not so much huge so I really think she's clean, but it doesn't matter what I think. Why would they say someone that didn't test tested positive? Oh I see, they just said she failed to submit a test ("that she didn't know she had to submit" was omitted from the statement). This is just HQ saying "see we test people and ban people for PED use...see!"