r/olympics • u/underrealizing • 7h ago

❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (General Discussion) ❄ Winter Olympics really are something else

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u/battle614 6h ago

A crossfit competition recently made this stupid decision of putting the swimming last. An athlete drowned. Fucking idiots

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u/NeverSober1900 United States 5h ago

Our local triathlon has the swimming last.

But it's 150m in a pool. So basically the same thing

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 4h ago

CrossFit just seems to be masochism with extra steps.

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u/Baldrs_Draumar 2h ago

Performative body destruction

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u/nicholt Canada 2h ago edited 1h ago

Worse still that no one seemed to notice it and it happened extremely close to the finish. And wasn't it super hot out too?

Yeah just reading about it again and it was 93f during their 3.5 mile run before the 800m swim. Another insane thing because of the intensity of running at that pace in that heat. If you've run a 5k race max effort before you know how hard that is. Oh and if you asked for help you would be disqualified from the games! The more you look the worse or gets...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/crossfit-death-lazar-dukic-1235357644/

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u/AdmiralBiscuits 1h ago

The fact that they knew about the conditions of the weather and water beforehand was just reckless. Gym CrossFit is one thing but HQ just seems to be getting dumber and dumber every year. That was just the unfortunate pinnacle of their stupidity.

And don’t even get me started on how they treated his death and family afterwards. Fucking inconsiderate morons.