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CrossFit students train at a Los Angeles gym. (Photo: Lawrence K. Ho\/Los Angeles Times<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWelcome to the gun show\u201d will apply to this year\u2019s CrossFit Games competition in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

The hugely popular fitness company announced last Wednesday in a Facebook post<\/a> that the winners will each receive a handgun from GLOCK. \u201cCrossFit Games: Glock For the Podium,\u201d David Castro, the Director of CrossFit Games, wrote in the post. \u201cThe top male athlete, the Top female athlete, and every member of the winning team will receive a\u00a0GLOCK\u00a0pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prize comes in addition to the $275,000 grand prize for each individual winner and the $70,000 grand prize for each winning team. Castro also told Fox News<\/a> that the winners will receive a gift certificate to purchase a GLOCK pistol rather than an actual pistol. Winners can choose whether or not to use the gift certificate, and firearms will not be handed out at the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop the mainstream media \u2013 fueled by Reebok and a small minority of CrossFit members \u2013 from blowing Castro\u2019s decision entirely out of proportion.<\/p>\n

USA Today<\/a>, for example, said that the move \u201csparked outrage\u201d and cited a statement from Reebok\u2014CrossFit\u2019s title sponsor\u2014in which they \u201cdo not agree with this decision, particularly in light of current events in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Reebok\u2019s statement also says that the company \u201cunderstand[s] CrossFit’s foundations are tied to military and first responders\u201d like Castro, who is a former Navy SEAL. Reebok clearly disagrees with CrossFit\u2019s move, but they hardly seem \u201coutraged.\u201d<\/p>\n

The USA Today article then moves to focus on CrossFit members who do not believe guns should be given as prizes at the Games. One member\u2014Australian Daniel Bartels\u2014even started a petition<\/a> to speak out against Castro\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrossFit Inc would not form partnerships with fast food restaurants, alcohol companies, cigarette or pharmaceutical companies on the same basis. But a gun manufacturer is deemed as a good partner… this is not us,\u201d Bartels says. \u201cCrossFit is for health, fitness and the well being of the [sic] all people in all communities.\u00a0This is not CrossFit. This should never be CrossFit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels sounds outraged, all right, and it isn\u2019t hard to find similar statements on Facebook and the petition website.<\/p>\n

But as of 9:30 a.m. CT, the petition has only garnered 21,500 signatures. That\u2019s only 4,500 signatures in the past five days, and a small fraction of the total number of CrossFit members.<\/p>\n

While CrossFit doesn\u2019t publish numbers on worldwide membership, they do state on their website<\/a> that they have 13,000 affiliates around the globe. Some affiliates have over 1,000 members, but even estimating an average of 100 members per affiliate yields a total CrossFit membership of 1.3 million. A 200 members-per-gym estimate puts that total well over 2 million.<\/p>\n

This means that right now a solid 1.7% of CrossFit members are \u201coutraged\u201d at Castro\u2019s decision. Many more\u2014including, according to the LA Times<\/a>, top competitor Matthew Fraser\u2014have voiced their support. Even on the Facebook post itself, more than twice as many users have reacted positively (\u201clike\u201d or \u201clove) than negatively (\u201canger\u201d).<\/p>\n

Considering the actual numbers, Castro\u2019s statement to the LA Times seems like the most rational position he could take: \u201cThere has also been tremendous support. If I were to make all of my decisions based off of backlash, everything I have done around the CrossFit Games would have been butchered, altered and changed multiple times over,\u201d he said. \u201cAs long as guns are legal in the U.S. based off of our constitutional right, nothing is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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