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Rich Froning at the Asia CrossFit Championship. Will his Mayhem Freedom team win in Columbus, Ohio this weekend? Photo: Shaun Cleary/Asia CrossFit Championship

Rich Froning at the Asia CrossFit Championship. Will his Mayhem Freedom team win in Columbus, Ohio this weekend? Photo: Shaun Cleary/Asia CrossFit Championship

CrossFit’s 2019 Rogue Invitational will offer glimpse of Games drama

Columbus, Ohio will host the season’s marquee ‘Sanctionals’, bringing a large portion of the top CrossFit athletes together
Top men and women will compete before CrossFit Games kicks off in August in Madison, Wisconsin

20 May 2019

Jack Roberts poses days before climbing Delani, where Simon McCartney was struck down with cerebral oedema on Denali. Photo: Simon McCartney

Climbing and mountaineering

The Bond author returns to Alaskan climbing, 40 years after nearly dying

22 May 2019

John Ellis powers through the 9 Dragons, topless as usual. Photo: Robin Lee

Trail Mix

Hong Kong trail runners’ tried and tested tricks for dealing…

22 May 2019

Duncan ‘Barney’ Swanson finishes the Great Wall Marathon despite stumpy legs and bleeding nipples. Photo: Mark Agnew

Extreme fitness

Hongkonger pushes through bleeding nipples to finish Great Wall…

21 May 2019

Tsai-Jui Hung, from Taiwan, will represent China at this year’s 2019 CrossFit Games if she can raise enough money to travel to Madison, Wisconsin. Photo: Handout

CrossFit Games

Taiwanese athlete must represent China under new CrossFit Games…

21 May 2019 1

Michael Robbert-Bran and Rick Geurtsen ran the Great Wall Marathon leaving others reflecting on their own lives as the two overcame the amputations.

Extreme fitness

Adaptive athletes defy their own limits to complete Great Wall…

20 May 2019

Douglas Wilson and Kali Cavey (centre pair) celebrate winning the Great Wall Marathon. Photo: Adventure Albatross Marathons

Extreme fitness

Brain cancer survivor claims Great Wall marathon win as leaders finish on all fours

20 May 2019

Kurtis Jon Siu uses his experience as an athlete to encourage others to take up sport and to advocate special needs issues, like the lack of insurance. Photos: Handout

Health and wellness

Autistic runner calls for fair insurance cover for Special Olympics athletes

17 May 2019

Editor's Pick

Tsai-Jui Hung, from Taiwan, will represent China at this year’s 2019 CrossFit Games if she can raise enough money to travel to Madison, Wisconsin. Photo: Handout

Taiwanese athlete must represent China under new CrossFit Games rules

CrossFit Games

21 May 2019 1

Runners on the start line of the Oxfam Trailwalker – the event is a show case of Hong Kong’s diverse, cosmopolitan, running scene. Photo: Dickson Lee

What does it mean to be a ‘local’ runner and is it politically loaded?

Trail Mix

8 May 2019 1

Tom Robertshaw kisses the postbox marking the end of the 298km HK4TUC. Carr believes Robertshaw’s experience stands him in good stead for the never ending Big Boar’s Backyard Ultra. Photo: Lloyd Belcher

‘It’s going to be hell’: the race with no end comes to Hong Kong

Trail Mix

18 Apr 2019

Dr. Ronda Rockett.

Can CrossFit’s ‘army of doctors’ change the fitness industry?

CrossFit Games

18 Mar 2019