Athlete dies during CrossFit Games in Texas

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A competitor at the 2024 CrossFit games died during a swimming event in Texas. Witnesses described the tragic incident. KXAS Sophia Beausoleil reports.
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@nicolette327 Месяц назад

Should this not be a criminal investigation?

@ehpares39 Месяц назад

@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 18 дней назад

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

@AJXOXO-vz1pn Месяц назад

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.

@DG-2323 Месяц назад

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

@IllegalAlienPronoun Месяц назад

No one is going to sue anyone. They are unprepared at swimming. How prepared do you think they are at litigating cases in court?

@santiagoferrari1973 Месяц назад

They just dont spend money in that.

@loganjackson7813 Месяц назад

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

@RobinGraham-wd3kf Месяц назад

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

@jordangreen6067 Месяц назад

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

@Dan_8712 Месяц назад

2 of which were 30 ft from him

@johnsinglet575 Месяц назад

CrossFit is not a professional organisation

@Lucpol1986 Месяц назад

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

@Ariakon Месяц назад

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

@FluffyAlpaca81 Месяц назад

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

@henrikswanstrom9218 19 дней назад

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.

@manifresh1264 Месяц назад

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

@ChristianFlexybox 28 дней назад

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

@marlondavis9450 21 день назад

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

@lgarcia67 Месяц назад

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.

Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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.

Месяц назад

@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.

@M4ssive-4ttack 29 дней назад

this is completely unacceptable and absurd in 2024

@FonDaul Месяц назад

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."

@Bellatticakes 29 дней назад

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

@DaveVoyles 25 дней назад

RIP CrossFit after this easily preventable neglect

@HVYBOY Месяц назад

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?..

@icecreamman1337 Месяц назад

an hour later???

@MIssBeeish Месяц назад

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!!

@AbesamisM 22 дня назад

Imagine dying like that cuz the organization is so negligent

@SO-if3yn 25 дней назад

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

@Chance-ry1hq 25 дней назад

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

@doncorleone9294 22 дня назад

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 21 день назад

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

@doncorleone9294 21 день назад

@@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 21 день назад

@@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 21 день назад

@@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.

@jamess678 Месяц назад

Should kept it in wisconsin too hot in texas

@JalenChewbacca 27 дней назад

Freedom

@leelunk8235 21 день назад

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

@Lucpol1986 Месяц назад

A negligence claim incoming…👍🏾

@JalenChewbacca 19 дней назад

Kevin

@delsings Месяц назад

Oh no, RIP 😢

@madgoldnz 19 дней назад

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

@wigwam3270 Месяц назад

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

@valottaway9174 Месяц назад

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

@justtestingonce Месяц назад

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

@baay66 Месяц назад

RIP🕊

@joannewatts9892 Месяц назад

How could this happen ?

@dux_bellorum Месяц назад

Negligence....

@joannewatts9892 Месяц назад

@@dux_bellorum that's what I mean .

@JalenChewbacca 19 дней назад

Red eye

@switch1237 Месяц назад

Sad😢

@Fahdie 16 дней назад

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

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

Nadia

@JalenChewbacca 26 дней назад

Hello

@anlui-t9o Месяц назад

En paz descanse Lazar Dukic😢

@WestSideGangsta Месяц назад

Tells people how horrible crossfit is very unorganized

@JalenChewbacca 28 дней назад

Michael Beasley

@damyanvelchev3366 28 дней назад

how did it take 1 hour to find a dead man

@user-kl2jg9ve3v 25 дней назад

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

@derklebob8161 20 дней назад

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.

@weekend3804 Месяц назад

Hope CrossFit games get giga sued

@JalenChewbacca 25 дней назад

Ruiz

@JalenChewbacca 27 дней назад

$20.00

@RocketLR Месяц назад

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT?!

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

Home

Месяц назад

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.

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

Lee

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

Glass

@armandoangelreyes2046 Месяц назад

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

@JalenChewbacca 27 дней назад

Chewy

@jrod7917 28 дней назад

Definitely fishy

@ShinjiKataoka Месяц назад

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

@JalenChewbacca 25 дней назад

Strawberry

@JalenChewbacca 26 дней назад

$500

@freepluralism6652 Месяц назад

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

@Eric-lx8hp Месяц назад

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

@JumpJeho Месяц назад

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).

@WolfSerbian 28 дней назад

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 21 день назад

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?

@thecastle09 27 дней назад

Negligent big time

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

White man's world

@jasonschultz9570 Месяц назад

Congrats TX. You are truly incompitent.

@ambermyers7463 Месяц назад

Dumbest comment and I’m Californian.

@JalenChewbacca 16 дней назад

Bolboa

@JalenChewbacca 14 дней назад

$13

@Solid79SF Месяц назад

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

@hintex487 Месяц назад

This is really so sad((

@JB-yt9im Месяц назад

There goes CrossFit’s money.

@stuffbenlikes Месяц назад

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

@wire-p6d Месяц назад

Probably slow and overeating

@jrizzle3124 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@9Thunder5 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

@@DM_1313Useless and might face charges of negligence themselves.

@andreiunghie Месяц назад

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

@JalenChewbacca 28 дней назад

😂444

@alan8887 Месяц назад

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.