Athlete drowned in CrossFit 2024 games
FORT WORTH – A CrossFit Games athlete who drowned Thursday morning in Marine Creek Lake has been linked. According to the CrossFit CEO Don Faul and Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office Lazar Ðukić, 28, a Serbian, expired during the swimming portion of individual event No. 1 at the 2024 CrossFit Games.
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According to Craig Trojacek, a fire department prophet the athlete went aquatic around 8 a.m. and did not arise. The body was recovered after 1 hour with the help of Fort Worth Police Department dive unit and drones. The megacity Mayor Parker said” We’re profoundly burdened by the woeful loss of a CrossFit athlete during a CrossFit Games swimming event this morning,”.” Our hearts go out to the athlete’s family, musketeers, and the entire CrossFit community.”
Don Faul said the remaining events and conditioning of Thursday were cancelled. ” The safety of our actors is our first precedence and we’re agonized by this woeful event,” CrossFit posted on social media. CrossFit is working nearly with investigators. ” There is a lot of people in the community who are hurting right now that are really sad and knew the athlete well,” Faul said.” They loved and admired this person. A lot of people are mourning. We want to do everything we can to support the community, to support the family.”
A GoFundMe established for Ðukić’s family has raised further than$ 140,000. The 2024 CrossFit Games start on Thursday and will continue till Sunday. Friday’s events will initiate at 10 in the morning with a homage recognizing.
