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That’s Enough HYROX for Today: Liz Plosser on Beijing, Reporting, and Sauna Culture

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HYROX Beijing incident and why nobody stopped Joanna Wietrzyk

Judge training, responsibility, and what officials should do in situations like Beijing

Covering controversy in a niche sport

Social media backlash, comment moderation, and misinformation

The false report that PUMA dropped Joanna Wietrzyk

Liz Plosser’s journalism background and writing for GQ

HYROX pricing, growth, valuation, and “the Apple of fitness”

What Aufguss is and how the German sauna ritual works

Sauna, cold plunges, recovery, and listening to your body

Wearables, Strava, sleep scores, scales, body image, and aging

Liz’s Aufguss training and upcoming ceremony in Bucharest

5 Comments

@geraldinemiell7134 7 days ago

What a great episode! Now following Liz! Love the sauna chat!

@amickj3 12 days ago

They offer Aufguss at the spa in Resorts World Hotel in Las Vegas. You should send Cheryl to experience it for a report! It’s amazing!!!! Smells so good and makes the super hot sauna time go fast!!!

@passleycraig 2 weeks ago

Liz is a total badass ❤

@robws007 2 weeks ago (edited)

This narrative that "the judges didn't know what to do" is ridiculous! Hyrox judges have a reputation for hyper-vigilance when it comes to foot-faults during the sled pull or hip depth during wall balls AND there are already clear rules against spitting, snorting and even dousing oneself with water... if getting saliva, mucus and even water diluted sweat on the course can result in penalties, then surely someone on the judging team could have figured-out that feces wasn't cool?
"Hyrox Inc." after a slight delay were clear about accepting responsibility and amending the rulebook. The athlete has been put through the wringer, in no small part because of her selfishness and tone-deaf IG post after the race (taken down within hours), but the apology she issued and the fact that she retroactively withdrew and forfeited her victory speaks to at least a somewhat belated acknowledgement of a bad decision.
The question remains: will the judging crew, particularly at the Beijing event, face any consequences?
The next time a racer is given a penalty for dropping a water cup or DQ'ed for leaving the course to use the bathroom (which apparently happened in Singapore, prior to "the incident" in Beijing) will be the real problem for "Hyrox Inc". They will need to show some real evidence of change: like, relax about wall ball no-reps until they get more Porta Pottys on the course at the very least!