Chattanooga's Crossfit Brigade In Regions At Columbus, Ohio

Monday, May 07, 2012

Chattanooga's Crossfit Brigade will be featured on ESPN 3 this weekend along with the other Crossfitters that made it to this year's regional competition at Columbus, Ohio.

The local team will compete for a spot to California for the finals.

ESPN3 will be webcasting the event.

CrossFit Brigade is part of a worldwide competition to find "the Fittest on Earth" called the Reebok CrossFit Games. 

Crossfit earlier hosted a community event that put athletes through a grueling challenge to see if they have what it takes to move on to the regional competition.

 CrossFit is a new fitness program that is also become a worldwide sport with over 69,000 entrants in this year's games. 


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