As other posters have stated well, bashing another sport that creatively combines different athletic challenges accomplishes nothing positive. Many of the top CrossFit athletes can run a sub 5-minute mile. That's not sucking in my book. The opening event at last years CrossFit game was a 1.5 mile Run/ 500m Swim/ 1.5 mile Run. I'm willing to bet if many of these "weightlifters" showed up at a Sprint-distance Triathlon event, they'd do very well and nobody would be laughing and calling them a joke. I'd be curious to see how many Watts these athletes push on the AirDyne Bikes during an event.

Watch a few of the Fittest Athletes documentaries on NetFlix and you'll see that these athletes do a lot more than "weightlifting". Fact is, many CrossFit athletes are absolutely more well-rounded and versatile than us Triathletes who only SBR and only do strength work to support SBR. I don't do any CrossFit, btw.

I can't tell if you are trolling or just that ignorant.

Weightlifting is a sport of the clean and jerk and snatch. However, for the sake of this conversation I'll allow anything with a barbell as that is what most people perceive weight lighting to be.

Today's events:

#1 Bike Crit

#2 30 Muscle-Ups

#3 1RM of Squat, Press, and Deadlift

#4 Marathon Row

Tomorrow is a rest day and then Friday is

#5 Obstacle course (no weightlifting)

#6 Fibonacchi, combo of handstand pushups KB deadlifts, and OH Lunge walks (technically not really weightlifting but I'll give this one to you)

So the first 6 events that have been posted so far 2 (at best) are considered weightlifting, so 30%.

Last years events about 6 were or had components of weightlifting. So 50%.

But I will agree with your statement that CF athletes are no ridiculous, as ridiculous as CF can be, these athletes are absolute top level performers in their made up sport of CrossFit. Similar to how triathlon was just picked out the air as well way back when.