CrossFit Games 2019: Brent Fikowski has no regrets despite cut, but it’s back to the drawing board
- Going into the competition, the Canadian was tipped as one of the favourites, but he did not make it through the cut from 30 to 20
Brent Fikowski said there was not much he could have done differently going into the CrossFit Games 2019, despite not making it into the last 20 athletes.
The Canadian has never finished outside the top 10 at the CrossFit Games, came fourth last year and felt confident he would be around the top again.
But this is the first year the CrossFit Games has had cuts, reducing the field throughout the weekend. Athletes were kept in the dark when they would happen. The group was cut from 30 to 20 after event five and Fikowski was sitting 23rd.
“We heard about these cuts, this unknown, we weren't sure how they were going to work out,” he said on the Rouge live stream of the Games. “I knew coming in [that] someone's gonna be on the wrong end of those. I was in the mindset, 'Meh, it's not going to be. I'm just going to do my thing.’”
It’s not just about the day though, but the build up to the competition.
“Every year is a little different, there is a lot of dynamics going on behind the scenes people don't know about – life,” he said.