鈥淪cali! Scali!鈥� The crowd at the Richmond Olympic Oval, jacked on crossfit, chanted for Joe Scali as he pushed to finish second overall and win the sixth and final individual men鈥檚 event at the Canada West CrossFit Games May 11.
Victoria brickhouse Lucas Parker had already secured his seat at the Reebok CrossFit Games, and three athletes in the highly competitive region were fighting for the second regional seat at the international competition later this summer.
To get there, Scali, who trains at Vancouver鈥檚 Studeo 55, had 21 minutes to see how much of a brutal physical test he could complete, a test that included 100 box jumps and 100 deadlifts.
Only five men in the world, including Brent Fikowski who outpaced Scali by 20 seconds, completed the entire circuit. Scali finished second to Fikowski and lost the three-way tie for third. He finished fourth overall, repeating his results from 2013.
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In the team event, Vancouver鈥檚 CrossFit 604 finished third overall, one place shy of qualifying for the CrossFit Games.
"We were all very excited by the podium finish," said Riley Karroll, a teammeber of CrossFit 604 and owner of the West Hastings Street gym.
"This year those top two teams are definitely in a league of their own. They deserve those two spots," she said. The Centaurs from the Fraser Valley and Victoria's CrossFit Taranis won first and second.
"We will train hard and see if we can earn one of those spots next year," said Karroll.
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