If you were following the men’s competition at the CrossFit South Regional this past weekend you likely heard about Sean Sweeney’s criticism of his judge during Event 2. Sweeney, who started the weekend off with a 6th place finish plummeted down the leaderboard after taking 44th on the dumbbell snatch and ring dip couplet.
Sweeney was able to bounce back after that with a solid Day 2 finishing 4th on Event 3 and 1st on Event 4, moving him back into contention. But the 13 points he received on Event 2 were too much to overcome as he would wind up placing 6th overall and 51 points out of contention. Sweeney would have needed to better his time of 5:46 by two minutes to take 11th on the event to have enough points.
A day after Regionals concluded, Sweeney took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the weekend. Sweeney wrote, “Very bittersweet weekend. I had the best performance of my life this weekend but yet I did not qualify for the @crossfitgames . My placements were 6th,44th,4th,1st,7th, and 14th. Event 2 was simply out of my control. I received an inconceivable amount of no reps that were underserved. If that hadn’t happened I would have qualified but I am not going to dwell on that.”
We’ve pulled together all of the footage from Event 2 showing Sweeney on the rings. Unfortunately the cameras did not spend much time on him because he wasn’t near the lead. It appears, however, that most of his no reps came from the round of 21.
In the video below, you will see Sweeney near the right side of the screen (Lane 7) get no repped multiple times before cutting away.
Here are a couple of good reps at the end of the round of 15.
The next video shows Sweeney on his set of 9 ring dips. Sweeney is given one no rep, which based on the body language of the judge and the commentator is for not getting enough depth at the bottom of the dip. Sweeney is obviously not happy at this point.
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