CrossFit has been a huge brand in the fitness world for ages, challenging followers to do a range of HIIT workouts to progressively get stronger. But CrossFit is currently facing a scandal after an ...

Tragedy struck the CrossFit Games in Fort Worth on Thursday when Serbian athlete Lazar Đukić apparently drowned at the age of 28 during the swim portion of the competition on its opening day.

A CrossFit athlete drowned in Marine Creek Lake on Thursday morning during the run swim event, the first event of the four-day games. Witnesses said on social media that athlete Lazar Đukić ...

The death of a CrossFit athlete during a Fort Worth competition in August has been ruled an accidental drowning, according to online records from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. Serbian ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...

An athlete’s lifeless body was recovered from a lake Thursday after a swimming event at the CrossFit Games — an annual competition that seeks to crown “the fittest man and the fittest woman on Earth” ...

An athlete drowned during a swimming event at a CrossFit competition in Texas on Thursday, the organization said. The death occurred on the first day of the CrossFit Games, being held in Fort Worth ...

According to event organizers, the decision to proceed with the CrossFit games in Fort Worth was not finalized until late Thursday evening, hours after competitor Lazar Đukić drowned during the ...

6:35 p.m., Aug. 8, 2024: Revised to include the identity of deceased athlete. The Fort Worth fire department responded to reports of a drowning at Marine Creek Lake, the site of a run-swim event at ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A CrossFit official has apologized to the family of the athlete who died during competition in Fort Worth last month, saying he shouldn't have said the family "blessed" the ...