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    Default Terrible Crossfit injury

    I will not post the video as i personally don't like to see people sustaining life altering injuries or pain.

    A Colorado CrossFit athlete was performing a routine lift during a competition in Southern California over the weekend when he suffered a critical injury to his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

    Tragedy struck Sunday while Kevin Ogar, a coach at a CrossFit gym in Denver, was performing a 'snatch' - a staple move in the sport that combines weightlifting, gymnastics and sprinting.

    According to published reports, the 6 foot 1, 210-pound Ogar lifted a heavy barbell to his waist and then over his head, but couldn't hold it, letting the heavy bar plummet to the floor behind him.

    The bar bounced against another set of weights, striking Ogar in the back and severing his spine.

    ‘When impact was made, he jumped almost like someone shot him,’ Ogar's friend and employer Matt Hathcock told ABC News.

    The gravely injured athlete collapsed to the floor inside the Costa Mesa venue hosting the OC Throwdown, unable to move his legs.

    The CrossFit enthusiast and his training partners described the devastating injury as a 'freak accident' and insisted that the flourishing sport was not to blame for it.

    However, the increasingly popular high-intensity physical regimen has been criticized in recent years by members of the medical community, who have expressed concerns over potential risks to the athletes’ health.

    Dr. Vonda Wright, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, told ABC News she has seen a spike in the number of CrossFit-related injuries supposedly caused by lack of supervision, bad form and excessive training. ‘Kevin has been doing CrossFit for a very long time at a very high level. Are injuries going to occur? Sure, but Kevin's not going to blame the sport,’ Hathcock told ABC. ‘This was not the fault of CrossFit.’
    Since it was founded by California fitness coach Greg Glassman in 2000, CrossFit's popularity has exploded in the U.S., with nearly 7,000 privately owned gyms dedicated to the hard-core fitness program.Every year, Glassman's company, CrossFit Inc, holds CrossFit Games where first-place winners can walk away with as much as $275,000 in prize money and land lucrative sponsorship deals.
    As a top-tier athlete, Ogar has been training to compete in the televised Games in the near future. Now, he is fighting to regain the use of his legs.

    The Missouri native works part time at a Whole Food supermarket and had no health insurance to cover his mounting medical bills.

    To help Ogar with his recovery, the global CrossFit community has rallied around him, raising money towards his costly medical treatment and rehabilitation.

    As of Thursday evening, 3,230 people from all over the world have donated just under $200,000 on fundy.com. His friends and supporters also have been selling T-shirts on the site KevinOgar to help the injured athlete financially.

    Ogar has undergone two surgeries so far, had screws and rods inserted in his injured back, and will be moved to a rehab facility in Colorado.

    Vince Ogar, Kevin’s father, told the station kdsk his son already had his first physical therapy session and was fitted with a back brace, adding that his spirit remains unbroken. The family hope the resilient athlete will walk again.
     

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    Terrible. There is no reason anyone that is not training for the Olympics needs to do Snatches, Clean and Jerks or Overhead Squats. These are very advanced movements and Crossfit gyms have normal everyday people, not even advanced athletes with years of training doing the. All you're doing is inviting an injury. Then you add the element of time and people sacrifice form. Its a terrible recipe for disaster.
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    I agree with CH3No
     

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    why the hell were their weights that close to him while he was doing this? seems like the event organizers or whom ever was responsible for setting up the event would be in some big trouble.

    oh and F*ck crossfit.
     

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    Olympic Lifts are used for football players to, so i know a lot of athletes still do Olympic lifts, and i don't see the problem with doing them with one exception clean and jerks everything else is fine but theirs no need to have Joe Shmo doing these. Cleans are fine, deads ext.. but no need for the over head movement, i know we never did them in the weight room for football, but Olympic Lifts are for the most part good movements in my opinion

    Very very sad! I am having a real hard time picturing what exactly happen like they explained in the weight falling and bouncing back up off other weights, i just can't see it, but i have ZERO desire to watch the video, too sad
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    Terrible Crossfit injury

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    I follow the Crossfit website workout of the day
    I have been since October
    I have really enjoyed the variation and the results!

    having said that, I would never be able to do these excercises without the years of strength training I already have under my belt

    also on lifts like the snatch I find myself going very light (like the bar)

    i am very saddened to see this man get injured
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    whats the video above? i hope it is not the guys paralyzing injury video? if it is please remove it bro,
    Terrible Crossfit injury

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    I've seen the video, and I don't know why they had multiple stacks of 45 lb plates right at the edge of the mat. The bar landed right behind him on top of them and one on top shot like a frisbee square right into his back. The guy was big/fit enough to handle doing that type of lift, but safety was certainly compromised by having the weights so close. Even in olympic lifts there is nothing near the mat. It's just awful because if he had just been inches to the side either way or if he hadn't fell when losing the weight, he wouldn't have gotten paralyzed.

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