The CrossFit Games have resumed a day after a competitor died after going underwater and not resurfacing during a swimming event in a Texas lake.

A Serbian competitor in the CrossFit Games has died while competing in a swimming event at a Texas lake.

Out of 12,000 people, a Roanoke woman is headed to the CrossFit games, where only 40 women in her division make it that far.

The local CrossFit community is raising awareness about car break-ins. Gym attendees said they have seen car break-ins at CrossFit locations in Roanoke, Vinton and Salem.,

Blackford has been competing in the Strongman circuit since 2017 and favors the sport for the unique events of displaying strength, rather than just lifting maximum weight.

On the today’s In The Village podcast, Kate Nye tells host Elizabeth Beisel how a knee injury at 16 took her from a gymnast to a CrossFit athlete to a medal-winning Olympic weightlifter.

(CNN) - After a year of change in CrossFit, the end result is eerily similar with Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey winning their fourth and third straight CrossFit Games titles respectively. Toomey, who also won a Commonwealth Gold medal in weightlifting in 2017 and competed at the Rio Olympics, becomes the first woman to win three CrossFit Games titles, cementing her legacy as one of the sports all-time greats. Team MayhemThere were also changes made to the team event. His team, CrossFit Mayhem Independence, based in Froning's hometown of Cookeville, Tennessee, began the competition with two straight event wins on Thursday and never relinquished the lead. Qualifying for the CrossFit Games began in December with various international competitions, including the "CrossFit Open" where hundreds of thousands of athletes, both professional and amateur, went head-to-head remotely in order to earn a spot in Madison.