The end of the day Saturday was a bit of a whirlwind, which explains the lack of posts until now. Here's a brief review of the last hours of the day:

The specifics of the final workout for Saturday came out at about 4P. I think the individuals that were making that decision were becoming concerned about the shear amount of work that had already been demanded of the competitors and the extraordinarily high level of competition, not to mention the waning day. It was decided that the final workout would be scaled back a bit, and the result was 3 rounds of wall ball (14#/20#, 30 reps) and barbell snatches (45#/75#, 30 reps). The other item of significance is that the wall ball targets were slightly higher than the previous standard, at about 11 feet.

They placed a cutoff time of 20 mins; a deadline which roughly half of the competitors couldn't meet (probably by design). The end of this workout would produce the final cut and reduce the field to 16 men and 16 women from an original field of 150 total.

Nicolé had survived 2 cuts to the field already, and was put up a great effort in this final workout. Time ran out on her with about 20 snatches remaining. This is where her Games competition would end.

I have much more to say about this experience and I will write more about it in a summary blog in the next day or so. But right now I knew that I needed to bring those of you who were following this blog all up to speed as soon as possible. We will be flying back together to Seattle on Sunday, and I'll be back in the gym as usual Monday morning.