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Blackford has been competing in the Strongman circuit since 2017 and favors the sport for the unique events of displaying strength, rather than just lifting maximum weight.

On the today’s In The Village podcast, Kate Nye tells host Elizabeth Beisel how a knee injury at 16 took her from a gymnast to a CrossFit athlete to a medal-winning Olympic weightlifter.

(CNN) - After a year of change in CrossFit, the end result is eerily similar with Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey winning their fourth and third straight CrossFit Games titles respectively. Toomey, who also won a Commonwealth Gold medal in weightlifting in 2017 and competed at the Rio Olympics, becomes the first woman to win three CrossFit Games titles, cementing her legacy as one of the sports all-time greats. Team MayhemThere were also changes made to the team event. His team, CrossFit Mayhem Independence, based in Froning's hometown of Cookeville, Tennessee, began the competition with two straight event wins on Thursday and never relinquished the lead. Qualifying for the CrossFit Games began in December with various international competitions, including the "CrossFit Open" where hundreds of thousands of athletes, both professional and amateur, went head-to-head remotely in order to earn a spot in Madison.