CrossFit Games 2020: Sara Sigmundsdottir explains her poor performance in opening round, cites shin injury and cortisol issue
- The much-fancied crossfitter injured her shin while box jumping, then developed an infection that resulted in a hormone deficit
In a three part post, she explained that she suffered a shin injury in May, rushed back to competition too quickly and developed an infection. The infection resulted in a cortisol deficiency, the hormone related to muscle growth.
“It is a huge relief to have these results and thankful to have figured out one of the reasons why I have not been fully myself in recent months,” she wrote.
In the first of three posts, Sigmundsdottir said she was not offering an excuse for her performance “but I will admit it was way below the standards that I have set for myself”.
“I came up short and that is on me. You girls who finished in the top [five] earned it and I can’t wait to watch you crush it in [two] weeks,” Sigmundsdottir wrote.
In her second post, she added: “I have been dealing with an issue that originated in one clumsy box jump in May, where I split my shin wide open and ended up in the emergency room with 12 stitches.