Opinion | CrossFit Games: can Sara Sigmundsdottir or Katrin Davidsdottir ever beat Tia-Clair Toomey?
- The Australian, who has now won four straight titles, looks to have the best of the two Icelandic stars
- Toomey has downed Davidsdottir and Sigmundsdottir every chance she’s gotten as far back as 2017
I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a dramatic prediction when it comes to the women’s category of the 2021 CrossFit Open.
Australia’s Tia-Clair Toomey will capture her fifth straight title, and she will do it convincingly. Excuse the sarcasm, but anyone who knows anything about CrossFit knows Toomey is a champion, a superstar and downright unbeatable.
Betting against her is almost as foolish as betting against five-time men’s champion Mat Fraser, who is also Toomey’s training partner.
This wasn’t always the case with the Aussie, though. Toomey’s story involves a dramatic mindset shift that took place right after the 2016 CrossFit Games, where she came second in the world for the second straight year. She looked to be the bridesmaid when it came to the CrossFit Games, close but no cigar.
If you want to watch someone turn from a contender into a champion in dramatic fashion, there’s some fun homework CrossFit fans can dive into. Watch 2017’s Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness, a documentary about the 2016 CrossFit Games, and more specifically, watch Toomey and how she holds herself both as a person and a competitor.