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Justin Medeiros finished 5th at North America West Semifinals. It’s the lowest finish for him at Semifinals. In fact, it’s his lowest finish at an in-person competition since the 2018 West Regional where he finished 7th.
Looking ahead to the CrossFit Games, can he go from 5th at Semifinals to Fittest on Earth? To see if history was on his side, I looked back to past champions, and their Semifinal/Regionals finish leading to the CrossFit Games.

5 athletes have been competing for a CrossFit Games spot every year since 2018 . They have made appearances in 2018 Regionals , 2019 and 2020 Sanctionals and 3 years of Semifinals just missing out on a trip to Madison.

All athlete profiles are available at franlung.com

Is there a breakthrough year at the CrossFit Games? A year where athletes show the world their true potential?

To dive into this, Dave looks at all athletes who have finished in the top 10 as an individual at the CrossFit Games since 2017. This amounted to 56 athletes over 6 CrossFit Games seasons. With this sample of athletes we dive into which appearance at the CrossFit Games they first made the top 10.

James Newbury enters the Torian Pro in the first heat after finishing 27th in quarterfinals.  There is more to his performance than meets the eye.  We take a deeper dive into Newbury’s Quarterfinals performance, how he stacks up to the rest of the field, and what his chances of a Games ticket are.

All data used for the Analytics is available at the Fran Lung Patreon page.
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Dave and Katharine built Fantasy Fitnessing and decided to bring out the centralized database from behind the fantasy sports side of CrossFit for the masses to use at FranLung.com. The power of the database can be used for reporting which is what we have now launched at patreon.com/FranLungAnalytics

Give it a listen to see how and why we have built Creator Packages and go check them out. 

We take a look at up and coming CrossFit athlete Victor Hoffer.  He finished 3rd in Europe during Quarterfinals, but does the 20 year old have what it takes to make it to the Games?  We take a look at his progression through offseason events, and how they will stack up against the Semifinal field.

CrossFit Quarterfinals are done, and the teams are finalized for Semifinals.  What does being the top seed in a Semifinal mean for CrossFit East Nashville PRVN or CrossFit Invictus?
To help answer that question we take a look back to 2022 and see how top seeds like CrossFit Mayhem Freedom and CrossFit Oslo Navy Blue did in their semifinals.

If you have been watching the CrossFit Games quarterfinals leaderboard this year, you have probably seen Katelin Van Zyl's name near the top.
1st in Oceania Quarterfinals
17th in World Wide Quarterfinals
25 in the CrossFit Open
We wanted to learn more about her past CrossFit career so dove into the details.
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Dave digs in to 10 takeaways from the 2023 CrossFit Open when looking at the Elite athletes.
- Paige Powers is legit
- Samuel Cournoyer is back
- What's up with Gui?
- North America East is stacked
- Back to Back to Back
- Teen Champions
- Men vs Women
- Teams will be fun to watch in 2023
- Why Sara? Why?
- A new rule

Dave and Katharine were chatting about Chandler Smith and decided to start a recording to drop an adhoc podcast on the topic. It also lead to an interesting stat on the effects of the athletes in the bottom half of the leaderboard on the top half that will be dropped at @franlunganalytics on instagram so make sure to follow along for additional content there.

All stats are pulled from franlung.com.