Opinion | CrossFit: Ricky Garard becomes sport’s villain as Dubai CrossFit Championship extends invite
- The 27-year-old is set to return from a four-year suspension for doping and already looks to factor into the 2022 CrossFit Games
- Garard gives CrossFit a legitimate villain and if he continues to play the part, could help expand the sport through a juicy narrative of whether or not he is redeemable
Ricky Garard, who finished third, is chronicled heavily throughout the piece. Garard famously tested positive for testolone and endurobol, both banned substances. He was hit with a four-year ban, meaning he could not compete in any CrossFit-sanctioned event until October of this year.
Heber Cannon, at one point in the documentary, flat out asks Garard about the elephant in the room, and Garard’s stuttering, hollowed-eyed response is classic.
“Do you think there are steroids in our sport? Yeah, I can, definite.”
Garard’s grammatically unsound, fragmented answer is not the only gem we get through the movie as Cannon and fellow filmmaker Marston Sawyers ask multiple athletes and press Garard at a number of moments, seemingly in the knowledge that he was doping.
