I bet that wasn't an actual certified trained guard on the paddleboard. it was likely a volunteer. I am a veteran LG and I saw what was happening live on the stream in 2 seconds - he showed all the classic signs of distress prior to going under
Absolutely, the event should have been stopped. That lifeguard is negligent in this case. So heartbreaking. They should be paying qualified staff in these roles and not counting on volunteers.
Crosssfit needs to start paying judges and hiring qualified people security etc. The amount of money they make stop using athletes and people to make you richer.
Time to boycott this incompetent industry. The culmination of their low bar for volunteers and armature event judges has finally peaked. This would've never happened in the Olympics, or even at a high school swim meet. So unfortunate a good man had to pay with his life. CROSSFIT DIED TODAY .
A former lifeguard wrote in reddit that you have about 3 minutes to save someone. The waters are murky, and they would need divers and get everybody out of the water first.
Drowning rarely looks like what most people expect… which is why anyone that has the responsibility for safety at water events is properly trained and has experience… Other athletes must of swam past the casualty without noticing that a fellow athlete was in trouble, or assumed that the responsibility to act was solely on others…
But as a bystander, when you see someone struggling, and then go under water, and the lifeguards and rescue swimmers do nothing, how is it not on you as the individual seeing it, to go make the difference?? He watched as the people who were supposed to help, didn’t help, so then he chose to do nothing as well.
@@nave7467unfortunately someone without training risks drowning as well. Saving a drowning person is a whole different matter. Most untrained people who try and save others usually drown in the process.
@@nave7467he says someone literally jumped in and told the lifeguard someone was drowning, but the lifeguard told them to get out the water and basically didnt do anything.
A video shows him struggling and there are paddle boarders close by. Wtf were they doing. How did they not see him struggling. That’s what they’re there for. This is soo sad. And the organizers are a disgrace
Imagine being the lifeguard that failed to not only search but also stop the event…wtf. Like I know people laugh about how Olympic swimmers and divers have lifeguards…but even elite athletes are subject to tragedy and life threatening health circumstances sometimes.
no. As soon as Castro was informed everyone was in action including himself trying to find Lazar. Before the event finished fans noticed him going under and a search was underway, however there absolutely seems to be negligence from the paddle boarder to inform people or attempt to properly search for lazar. It's insane how close he was and they didn't notice. On replay it was obvious to see and so sad however live (on the feed at least) it was very easy to miss.
At 2:00 Lawson states he didn’t see him come back up .. why didn’t 10 people jump in at that moment and not care about a volunteering untrained lifeguard 2 cents to stay out of the water?
It’s called the bystander effect. Look it up. People freeze and assume someone else will help. It’s happened time and time again. It’s so sad for sure. Can’t stop thinking about it
rescuing a person in distress/drowning person is very dangerous as they instinctually will grab you and hold you under to keep themselves buoyant. Only strong swimmers/lifeguards should attempt this hence why there should have been multiple certifies lifeguards with floatation devices nearby. This is a tragedy caused by a bunch of morons who endorse a dangerous "sport"
I swam out in Lake Havasu to a buoy and it was easy getting there but on my way back the current started pushing me backwards and I became exhausted, I had to flip on my back and float. Waters no joke.
I'm just remembering the year when Pat was talking about how tight the swim uniforms were and the cramping that was happening,(drowning hazard) and got completely dismissed and made fun of by Castro. Or when athletes were lauded for pushing themselves into heat exhaustion during Murph. (not to mention other season-ending and career-ending injuries) The ethos that leads to athletes not being listened to or taken seriously about safety concerns is one that does not concern itself with dangerous/hazardous conditions and doesn't respond quickly enough to an athlete in danger. The athlete union has been trying to point this out for a LONG time and it is SO tragic what happened today and the breakdown in response to an athlete in danger that led to this tragedy.
I watched this live logged in part way thru the swim, my first impression looking at the swimmers was that there did not seem to be enough support boats....such a shame
Wow! As a former lifegaurd, we would whistle for assistance (use our arm gestures for help) and not leave the area. If anything, we would check under the water as well just to make sure. Was that person even a certified lifeguard!?
There is footage of him going under. People watched him drown and told them to help him. They are responsible. Cancel the rest of the games and prepare for the lawsuit.
The photos I saw showed a lot of people in the water, and that man bobbing his head down, why didn't any of the other competitors even go over to try and assist?
Because the drowning person would grab onto anybody within their grasp to keep themselves above the water, putting the other swimmer(s)' lives at risk as well
This is gonna be interesting. Very sad that an athlete died and if they actually waited until the event was over, that’s horrible and people need to be held accountable. But, I’m sure there will be an autopsy and I would imagine CF HQ will be wanting a toxicology, medical history report. Could have been an issue of cardiac issues that caused him to drown, or something. This could end up being the death nail for the games as we know it
I love CrossFit and being an athlete for 10+ years but this needs to end. So much irresponsibility from the organisation and something has to be done and shut the games
What needs to be stopped are these silly events that are too chaotic and impossible to manage. We don't need our athletes swimming where they can't be properly monitored and easily accessed when something goes wrong. There is literally no reason for them to do this, nobody wants to watch them swim anyway.
@@TwoCardinalsI've been one of many lifeguards posted for triathlons and in all the years I've done it, we've never had an athlete down. They were anyways rescued promptly and brought to a boat or to shore. I've been at events where there were hundreds and hundreds of athletes, spending 3-4 hours on a paddle board. This event should have had quality lifeguards, and maybe even just more of them. I bet they cheaped out on the water safety team.
Star struck is all I can think. That's why I feel the emergency help should not be fans of the sport. To avoid the getting caught in moment. That's difficult I know but that's why referees of college football and basketball are not allowed to officiate games in their area. For bias. In this case if someone is enjoying their favorite crossfitter conquer the event they lose track of their assignment. To me that's why this got by the paddleboarder till too late.
thanks for sharing what really happened but it was also pretty clear from the video as well. No words for the organisation and the level of incompetence.
The systems and safety measures need to be addressed, and people need to be held accountable to avoid something similar in future. Lazar has died. That needs to be taken seriously.
Exhausted athletes pushing themselves to finish in murky open water is a recipe for disaster. The fact that they didn't have multiple boats and lifeguards staged all along the course at such a big event under these conditions is even worse.
The problem is even worse than not doing anything. HOw is a single girl suppose to save and drag a massive large male out of the water. There should have been WAY more lifeguards in the water. Crazy negligent.
It’s bc everyone was focused on themselves winning not subtle signs of drowning, “ohhhh he’s probably fine” , people can drown right next to you in shallow water
As much as I enjoyed some of the benefits of CrossFit when I took it, it was clear to me that they didn’t take alot of things as seriously as they should.. (including injury + proper form.. never mind some of the insane egos )… but this is incompetence to a degree that’s hard to grasp. They *never* stopped the event?!? How is that even an option. The fact the lifeguard just rolled by & came back ONLY to wait till the event was over..?! I can’t think of a time I’ve *ever* heard of a lifeguard waiting till an event was over to rescue someone.. or one that went OUT just to turn right back around when they didn’t find him.. Wow….
How does a lifeguard get told someone went under and do ABSOLUTELY nothing about it? There’s going to be a lot of trouble dished out over this negligence.
They knew someone was drowning, or had drowned, and they waited until the event finished to deploy a rescue effort? Is that true? When somebody is struggling in the water, you NEED to RESPOND IMMEDIATELY. If that is the case, there will be a massive legal challenge with this and there needs to be a complete re-evaluation of the safety protocol and the safety staff. An emergency medical event should ALWAYS shut an event down and preserving human life MUST become the priority.
@@DrewAnderson-ye9jn Can you please further clarify this for me. In the video I hear this interviewee suggest that they let the event finish before they even began searching under the water for the athlete who was witnessed having difficulties. He also suggests that even though they knew that someone was in big trouble, they allowed the event to finish. If he was described as being seen going under the water and not coming back up by multiple, or AT LEAST this one witness being interviewed, shouldn’t they have immediately stopped the event and at least clarified what was going on?
@@DrewAnderson-ye9jn There is video that show him struggling for a while. So what other reason would there be? I can clearly see it in the video. No sure how they did not see him. People are literally swimming by him. The lifeguard's or who ever they were were not far from him.
@@Simply_Simian that is the correct timeline, but the logic wasn’t “we know someone went under, but let’s finish the event and then we’ll get his dead body later”. No one on staff saw him go under. Someone in the audience saw him go under and tried to alert a life guard. How that conversation went idk but I heard someone say they went over to where he was last seen….maybe they thought the audience member was wrong?
Those competitors who were aware and chose to not disrupt their own effort have to face their conscience: a prize, victory was more important than a man's life.
Nice Crossfit community. The athletes finishing that event was worth more than one of their lives. That's some pretty good dedication... Imagine going to a public pool and someone is drowning and the lifeguard is like "well, lets just wait until everybody is done having their fun in the pool and we'll look afterwards for the body. No point trying to help them when it would matter".
Read Robb Wolf’s article, “The Black Box Summit and How I Got Fired From CrossFit’s Nutrition Cert” if you want to find out how this happened. Also: SHE?! As a female CrossFit athlete who is very strong, you had a woman out there to save men who are 200+ lbs of muscle?!
The lady lifeguard was probably tiny and could not even process with her brain how to get a tall muscular athlete out of the water. She was probably beyond herself to comprehend what she could even do to help. The only solution is to keep all athletes outside the water if they can't have certified lifeguards and the security logistic for swimming.
They sign waivers before they join these events exempting the company or owners from being sued and for good reason. Sports activities ALWAYS have injuries and rarely but on occasion a death may occur. Considering they've had 2 close calls before this during a swimming event it may be time to move the 'water' activities to a pool.
Wait... Crissfit should be held responsible. There aint no way that this org., can't afford life-saving equipment and ppl on enough boats to save these swimmers. I really hope this persons family file the hugest lawsuit against Crossfit org. 😢 They are fully responsible.
CF organization deserves to be sued into oblivion. The fact that they waited until it was over to even try to get him is just too effing much on top of all the other obvious negligence that went into planning this and safety planning.
It's one thing if it was just missed, but how tf did people see it happen and not REALLY press the issue? Why the heck would you take no for an answer? The lack of tenacity from the spectators who saw it sounds completely absurd.
CrossFit tries to be a man of all trades. Calling their athletes fittest on Earth while many of them have very poor techniques in some participating sports. Regarding swimming, they are very mediocre in swimming and OWS is a dangerous sport. For God's sake, who puts swimming after running? You want to minimize the risk of drowning. What's next, CrossFit? I have a great race for you in mind. Snatches to max count for 10 minutes, all-in running 10K, then maybe obstacle course of something (with rope climbing, muscle ups, etc.) and polish it with 10K open water swimming. Sounds like a great idea.
I've been thinking about that the whole day. Even for trained triathletes is hard to swim after running that much, even with the proper technique and training.
@Fabominguez you bozos can at least do some research before making such idiotic comments. These guys are OBJECTIVELY the fittest people on earth and have done run swim events for years. Lazar was one of the best swimmers on the field and played water polo for 10 years. You imbecile ignorant people on the internet is remarkable
I feel bad for my comment on Mayhems channel two days ago where I told them they need to hire swim coaches because in their video the athletes had poor breathing and swim technique. Swimming after a run is ok if you are a pro swimmer. But most of these athletes aren’t pro or average swimmers. Sadly
All these guys can squat 500 plus pounds and immediately run a sub 5 min mile afterwards. Your plain ignorance is showing. Stick to planet fitness you rando
@@VStozhkov I can't believe how much youtube protects you participation trophy babies i can't even comment anything reasonable disputing your BS comments
Female lifeguard thinks she's there to watch the race instead of monitor the safety of the athletes fails to see athlete go under water. Bystander tells her someone went under and she checks and is basically like, "welp, I guess he's gone, eff him." Fails to stop the race, fails to do anything...3 hours later search and rescue shows up. The lifeguard should be charged with criminal negligent homicide. She was told and did nothing.
@@leyway These events are no doubt exausting, but you simply cannot drown from exhaustion, because what you can do is to lay on your back with little to no feet movement and stay there for hours. You drown because of other factors.
How do you witness a drowning and not push unitl someone actually acts on your protestations that someone is under the water? I must have missed something because is strange that no one pushed the life guards or the organizer until much later.
Truly shocking incompetence. RIP. I hope CrossFit pays up big time. The reputation and culture of the organization has really taken a hit in recent years. I don’t go to a box anymore, but it’s getting almost embarrassing to be associated with CrossFit. Everything is just cringe in recent memory.
People, if you see somone drowning SPEAK UP AND MAKE NOISE. There is strength in numbers. DEMAND that the race be stopped. Several peolle saw him go under. Don't be silent!!!! Force companies to do the right thing. If this was your child would you listen to lifeguard who behaved so callously?! We have been trained to listen to authority but sometimes you have to go against them.
It sounds like the lifeguards was completely incompetent and froze. Some people freeze when tested. I have seen this happen in healthcare several times.
If he saw it why didn’t he get the event stopped? Why didn’t the person who jumped in have the event stopped? Point fingers only the ones pointing back are worth talking about.
Honest question: aside from doing what they did- tell the lifeguard someone went under and didn't come back up and having the lifeguard put out a stop alert- how would they have managed to stop the event?
The ceo and the lifeguard have something to explain, you cannot stick your pedal in and lookaway. Thats no lifeguard thats neglecting someone drowning 😮
So wait they kinda knew something was going on but let the event finish and did nothing for 30 minutes?!?!?! Am i hearing this right. Please clarify for me if i am wrong.
This is gonna be interesting. Very sad that an athlete died and if they actually waited until the event was over, that’s horrible and people need to be held accountable. But, I’m sure there will be an autopsy and I would imagine CF HQ will be wanting a toxicology, medical history report. Could have been an issue of cardiac issues that caused him to drown, or something. This could end up being the death nail for the games as we know it. Wait until all the facts come out
Question for the audio guy. Did you intentionally clip the microphone to his necklace and collar to keep the necklace from hitting the microphone? I never thought about doing that before.
correct me if i got it wrong but he saw what happened.. well than he should maybe run down there and scream and actually does something more than just a interview later.. he just told us that he saw it, he saw lifeguards doing nothing but he did nothing either..
Man, this is gonna be some damning witness testimony when it goes to civil damages.
Can't believe that the lifeguard was told and still didn't do anything. This is called negligence. CrossFit should be used for millions!!
Defo.
I bet that wasn't an actual certified trained guard on the paddleboard. it was likely a volunteer. I am a veteran LG and I saw what was happening live on the stream in 2 seconds - he showed all the classic signs of distress prior to going under
Absolutely, the event should have been stopped. That lifeguard is negligent in this case. So heartbreaking.
They should be paying qualified staff in these roles and not counting on volunteers.
100% what I said about volunteers. All to save a buck, they cost a life.
They should never have done the swim portion 2nd in 95 degree heat.
I think the organization will have some big troubles after people say their testimony about what happened
Insane negligence.
Crosssfit needs to start paying judges and hiring qualified people security etc. The amount of money they make stop using athletes and people to make you richer.
100% i would stake money on both those paddle boarders being volunteers
If you have morons running the events it won't matter.
Time to boycott this incompetent industry. The culmination of their low bar for volunteers and armature event judges has finally peaked. This would've never happened in the Olympics, or even at a high school swim meet. So unfortunate a good man had to pay with his life. CROSSFIT DIED TODAY .
The fact they waited until even was over is mind blowing
Insane, there was a chance of anything positive and finding him and they wasted it by waiting
A former lifeguard wrote in reddit that you have about 3 minutes to save someone. The waters are murky, and they would need divers and get everybody out of the water first.
Have to keep the sponsors happy and the money flowing
@@sn7911sounds like they need a new job .
No should be surprised. The the only thing you should be surprised about is how a death hasn’t occurred at the games yet.
Agree, the entire sport of crossfit is a joke.
Drowning rarely looks like what most people expect… which is why anyone that has the responsibility for safety at water events is properly trained and has experience…
Other athletes must of swam past the casualty without noticing that a fellow athlete was in trouble, or assumed that the responsibility to act was solely on others…
But as a bystander, when you see someone struggling, and then go under water, and the lifeguards and rescue swimmers do nothing, how is it not on you as the individual seeing it, to go make the difference?? He watched as the people who were supposed to help, didn’t help, so then he chose to do nothing as well.
@@nave7467unfortunately someone without training risks drowning as well. Saving a drowning person is a whole different matter. Most untrained people who try and save others usually drown in the process.
@@nave7467he says someone literally jumped in and told the lifeguard someone was drowning, but the lifeguard told them to get out the water and basically didnt do anything.
Let’s stop with calling them Lifeguards … they were paddleboarders
Other athletes must "have" not "of." Geez!!
A video shows him struggling and there are paddle boarders close by. Wtf were they doing. How did they not see him struggling. That’s what they’re there for. This is soo sad. And the organizers are a disgrace
Imagine being the lifeguard that failed to not only search but also stop the event…wtf. Like I know people laugh about how Olympic swimmers and divers have lifeguards…but even elite athletes are subject to tragedy and life threatening health circumstances sometimes.
these also aren't elite swimmers. they're generalists meaning they're pretty average at swimming with a few exceptions. def not olympic level swimmers
I had forgotten about his brother competing. This is so so sad.
They waited to search for 30 minutes after the event ended?!? Am I understanding that correctly?
no. As soon as Castro was informed everyone was in action including himself trying to find Lazar. Before the event finished fans noticed him going under and a search was underway, however there absolutely seems to be negligence from the paddle boarder to inform people or attempt to properly search for lazar. It's insane how close he was and they didn't notice.
On replay it was obvious to see and so sad however live (on the feed at least) it was very easy to miss.
Hearing that Life guards might not have took things seriously enough is sad !!
At 2:00 Lawson states he didn’t see him come back up .. why didn’t 10 people jump in at that moment and not care about a volunteering untrained lifeguard 2 cents to stay out of the water?
It’s called the bystander effect. Look it up. People freeze and assume someone else will help. It’s happened time and time again. It’s so sad for sure. Can’t stop thinking about it
Someone did jump in and swim out but stopped when he got to a lifeguard
@chrisn6458 my point also 😢😢😢😢
Rescuing someone drowning when you're not trained or have the right gear is a quick way to drown yourself
rescuing a person in distress/drowning person is very dangerous as they instinctually will grab you and hold you under to keep themselves buoyant. Only strong swimmers/lifeguards should attempt this hence why there should have been multiple certifies lifeguards with floatation devices nearby. This is a tragedy caused by a bunch of morons who endorse a dangerous "sport"
I swam out in Lake Havasu to a buoy and it was easy getting there but on my way back the current started pushing me backwards and I became exhausted, I had to flip on my back and float. Waters no joke.
How could that lifeguard be so naive and not actually try to get in the water???
they likely werent a trained LG. just a volunteer
Probably not a well trained LG. But this is cross fits fault - it’s called due diligence. They hired sub par lifeguards. So sad
They probably never saw him. Not defending them but the way this man told the story they didn’t see him.
I'm just remembering the year when Pat was talking about how tight the swim uniforms were and the cramping that was happening,(drowning hazard) and got completely dismissed and made fun of by Castro. Or when athletes were lauded for pushing themselves into heat exhaustion during Murph. (not to mention other season-ending and career-ending injuries) The ethos that leads to athletes not being listened to or taken seriously about safety concerns is one that does not concern itself with dangerous/hazardous conditions and doesn't respond quickly enough to an athlete in danger. The athlete union has been trying to point this out for a LONG time and it is SO tragic what happened today and the breakdown in response to an athlete in danger that led to this tragedy.
Psychopathic behavior needs to be rooted Out
I watched this live logged in part way thru the swim, my first impression looking at the swimmers was that there did not seem to be enough support boats....such a shame
Wow! As a former lifegaurd, we would whistle for assistance (use our arm gestures for help) and not leave the area. If anything, we would check under the water as well just to make sure. Was that person even a certified lifeguard!?
Most probably a volunteer who was never certified a lifeguard... so sad.
You can't see under /in the murky lake water. It's just not safe to swim there.
Hope that CF HQ gets a lawsuit. That’s pure negligence 😢
Criminal
Exactly right. 😢
Crossfit games are in danger. Hope the y have good lawyers, contracta and isurance to cover the incident…I cant Believe this has happened
HQ will settle and sweep this under the rug
There is footage of him going under. People watched him drown and told them to help him. They are responsible. Cancel the rest of the games and prepare for the lawsuit.
Why cancel the rest of the Games?
@@JkusakBecause they’ve just shown they are incompetent at keeping the participants safe.
@@cheneree well the Games are up, so this conversation does not matter anymore…
The photos I saw showed a lot of people in the water, and that man bobbing his head down, why didn't any of the other competitors even go over to try and assist?
Because the drowning person would grab onto anybody within their grasp to keep themselves above the water, putting the other swimmer(s)' lives at risk as well
This is gonna be interesting. Very sad that an athlete died and if they actually waited until the event was over, that’s horrible and people need to be held accountable. But, I’m sure there will be an autopsy and I would imagine CF HQ will be wanting a toxicology, medical history report. Could have been an issue of cardiac issues that caused him to drown, or something. This could end up being the death nail for the games as we know it
I love CrossFit and being an athlete for 10+ years but this needs to end. So much irresponsibility from the organisation and something has to be done and shut the games
shutting or stopping the games would be such a kneejerk reaction. calm down
@@MrGoalie2012they are likely to get sued into oblivion for negligence after this, they would be foolish not to shut it down
What needs to be stopped are these silly events that are too chaotic and impossible to manage. We don't need our athletes swimming where they can't be properly monitored and easily accessed when something goes wrong. There is literally no reason for them to do this, nobody wants to watch them swim anyway.
@@TwoCardinalsI've been one of many lifeguards posted for triathlons and in all the years I've done it, we've never had an athlete down. They were anyways rescued promptly and brought to a boat or to shore. I've been at events where there were hundreds and hundreds of athletes, spending 3-4 hours on a paddle board. This event should have had quality lifeguards, and maybe even just more of them. I bet they cheaped out on the water safety team.
Castro is the problem. He has always been the problem. The dude has been risking athletes' lives for years, and he is the reason I left years ago.
youre telling me that they continued the games after there was a FATAL event?????? WTF is this stupid Crossfit community
Terrible… that lifeguard needs to be held accountable
Star struck is all I can think. That's why I feel the emergency help should not be fans of the sport. To avoid the getting caught in moment. That's difficult I know but that's why referees of college football and basketball are not allowed to officiate games in their area. For bias. In this case if someone is enjoying their favorite crossfitter conquer the event they lose track of their assignment. To me that's why this got by the paddleboarder till too late.
That’s really sad man . My condolences to the family.
thanks for sharing what really happened but it was also pretty clear from the video as well. No words for the organisation and the level of incompetence.
That's terrible. God rest their soul and help their family. No one should die because of a sport.
No one should die when eating, driving or sleeping.
The systems and safety measures need to be addressed, and people need to be held accountable to avoid something similar in future.
Lazar has died. That needs to be taken seriously.
Exhausted athletes pushing themselves to finish in murky open water is a recipe for disaster. The fact that they didn't have multiple boats and lifeguards staged all along the course at such a big event under these conditions is even worse.
The problem is even worse than not doing anything. HOw is a single girl suppose to save and drag a massive large male out of the water. There should have been WAY more lifeguards in the water. Crazy negligent.
Lawsuits coming
They solve nothing. Just money for lawyers.
Even if untrained, it is mind boggeling, how that spectator was send away, when getting in the water and trying to help.
Wtf
Oh, sweetheart, my love and prayers are with you and with everyone affected by this tragedy 💔
This was an unnecessary death. Too many people failed this man. Shameful.
Our camp lifeguards were trained better and had better protocol than this. Wow.
It’s bc everyone was focused on themselves winning not subtle signs of drowning, “ohhhh he’s probably fine” , people can drown right next to you in shallow water
Thank you for being brave, for speaking out!!!!! Respect! ✊🏽
That life guard must be charged for man slaughter !!!! She should of jumped in to save him this is disgusting 😢 poor.lazar my.heart is broken
and they charging $200 per gym membership and tickets for event is well over $200 but they cant afford proper lifeguards
They don't want to.
Negligence and people not caring this is wild
As much as I enjoyed some of the benefits of CrossFit when I took it, it was clear to me that they didn’t take alot of things as seriously as they should.. (including injury + proper form.. never mind some of the insane egos )… but this is incompetence to a degree that’s hard to grasp.
They *never* stopped the event?!? How is that even an option.
The fact the lifeguard just rolled by & came back ONLY to wait till the event was over..?!
I can’t think of a time I’ve *ever* heard of a lifeguard waiting till an event was over to rescue someone.. or one that went OUT just to turn right back around when they didn’t find him..
Wow….
Lifeguard on a jet ski! there should of been one there on standby!
Thanks for speaking out.
Correct it should have been stop and that lifeguard that did nothing shame on you
How does a lifeguard get told someone went under and do ABSOLUTELY nothing about it? There’s going to be a lot of trouble dished out over this negligence.
They knew someone was drowning, or had drowned, and they waited until the event finished to deploy a rescue effort? Is that true? When somebody is struggling in the water, you NEED to RESPOND IMMEDIATELY. If that is the case, there will be a massive legal challenge with this and there needs to be a complete re-evaluation of the safety protocol and the safety staff. An emergency medical event should ALWAYS shut an event down and preserving human life MUST become the priority.
Absolutely insane. Some major law firm is going to turn them inside out over this
No that’s not true. The event organizers didn’t know where he was
@@DrewAnderson-ye9jn Can you please further clarify this for me. In the video I hear this interviewee suggest that they let the event finish before they even began searching under the water for the athlete who was witnessed having difficulties. He also suggests that even though they knew that someone was in big trouble, they allowed the event to finish. If he was described as being seen going under the water and not coming back up by multiple, or AT LEAST this one witness being interviewed, shouldn’t they have immediately stopped the event and at least clarified what was going on?
@@DrewAnderson-ye9jn There is video that show him struggling for a while. So what other reason would there be? I can clearly see it in the video. No sure how they did not see him. People are literally swimming by him. The lifeguard's or who ever they were were not far from him.
@@Simply_Simian that is the correct timeline, but the logic wasn’t “we know someone went under, but let’s finish the event and then we’ll get his dead body later”. No one on staff saw him go under. Someone in the audience saw him go under and tried to alert a life guard. How that conversation went idk but I heard someone say they went over to where he was last seen….maybe they thought the audience member was wrong?
Those competitors who were aware and chose to not disrupt their own effort have to face their conscience: a prize, victory was more important than a man's life.
Nice Crossfit community. The athletes finishing that event was worth more than one of their lives. That's some pretty good dedication... Imagine going to a public pool and someone is drowning and the lifeguard is like "well, lets just wait until everybody is done having their fun in the pool and we'll look afterwards for the body. No point trying to help them when it would matter".
Complete lack of security this cold me prevented what a shame on the organization 😭 I hope more people see this testimony and do some thing about it
How can you be so unaware of your surroundings, total failure
Read Robb Wolf’s article, “The Black Box Summit and How I Got Fired From CrossFit’s Nutrition Cert” if you want to find out how this happened. Also: SHE?! As a female CrossFit athlete who is very strong, you had a woman out there to save men who are 200+ lbs of muscle?!
Sounds like something crossfit would allow
Man- i am a former triathlete- nowinto CrossFit and i always said its foolish for CrossFit to spring an open water swim!
Lazare, you were too good for this world. Volimo te
Watched the whole event . Swimming was tough one.
Definitely he was strong and tough guy.
RIP
Wow how on earth?
So sad for his family and friends. May the blessings be.
Murky lake water is not the place to swim. Very dangerous.
The lady lifeguard was probably tiny and could not even process with her brain how to get a tall muscular athlete out of the water. She was probably beyond herself to comprehend what she could even do to help. The only solution is to keep all athletes outside the water if they can't have certified lifeguards and the security logistic for swimming.
They sign waivers before they join these events exempting the company or owners from being sued and for good reason. Sports activities ALWAYS have injuries and rarely but on occasion a death may occur. Considering they've had 2 close calls before this during a swimming event it may be time to move the 'water' activities to a pool.
Why weren’t there rescue divers strategically placed in the water?
Wait...
Crissfit should be held responsible.
There aint no way that this org., can't afford life-saving equipment and ppl on enough boats to save these swimmers.
I really hope this persons family file the hugest lawsuit against Crossfit org. 😢
They are fully responsible.
CF organization deserves to be sued into oblivion. The fact that they waited until it was over to even try to get him is just too effing much on top of all the other obvious negligence that went into planning this and safety planning.
R.I.P Lazar
It's one thing if it was just missed, but how tf did people see it happen and not REALLY press the issue? Why the heck would you take no for an answer? The lack of tenacity from the spectators who saw it sounds completely absurd.
Why is the police not involved? Its clear negligence.
CrossFit tries to be a man of all trades. Calling their athletes fittest on Earth while many of them have very poor techniques in some participating sports. Regarding swimming, they are very mediocre in swimming and OWS is a dangerous sport. For God's sake, who puts swimming after running? You want to minimize the risk of drowning. What's next, CrossFit? I have a great race for you in mind. Snatches to max count for 10 minutes, all-in running 10K, then maybe obstacle course of something (with rope climbing, muscle ups, etc.) and polish it with 10K open water swimming. Sounds like a great idea.
I've been thinking about that the whole day.
Even for trained triathletes is hard to swim after running that much, even with the proper technique and training.
@Fabominguez you bozos can at least do some research before making such idiotic comments. These guys are OBJECTIVELY the fittest people on earth and have done run swim events for years. Lazar was one of the best swimmers on the field and played water polo for 10 years. You imbecile ignorant people on the internet is remarkable
I feel bad for my comment on Mayhems channel two days ago where I told them they need to hire swim coaches because in their video the athletes had poor breathing and swim technique. Swimming after a run is ok if you are a pro swimmer. But most of these athletes aren’t pro or average swimmers. Sadly
All these guys can squat 500 plus pounds and immediately run a sub 5 min mile afterwards. Your plain ignorance is showing. Stick to planet fitness you rando
@@VStozhkov I can't believe how much youtube protects you participation trophy babies i can't even comment anything reasonable disputing your BS comments
Dude talked about himself for 10 min. I can’t believe this happened to him 🤦🏻
Don’t worry someday somebody will ask about you.
Female lifeguard thinks she's there to watch the race instead of monitor the safety of the athletes fails to see athlete go under water. Bystander tells her someone went under and she checks and is basically like, "welp, I guess he's gone, eff him." Fails to stop the race, fails to do anything...3 hours later search and rescue shows up. The lifeguard should be charged with criminal negligent homicide. She was told and did nothing.
So if he see the person in difficulty why he ain't went and help too and forget about the competition?
I wonder if he had a heart attack or leg cramp. Or what happened.
… or was just exhausted mid way
@@leyway These events are no doubt exausting, but you simply cannot drown from exhaustion, because what you can do is to lay on your back with little to no feet movement and stay there for hours. You drown because of other factors.
@@SaithMasu12 This is probably one of the most ignorant comments I have seen on TH-cam. Exhaustion leads to panic and panic lead to drowning.
@@Kh2456 He was an athlete swimmer, he didnt drown of exaustion, especially not 20 meters from shore, get real.
@@SaithMasu12 Acute MI you goon.
How did the swimmer drown?
That's a fact that everybody needs to acknowledge. They're not swimmers. Never were.
He was previously a water polo athlete
@@dennisscroggins5104 True, just read that. thanks for the clarification.
@@FabominguezBut why did you comment without knowing the facts?
Also he moved to US from Serbia to be a lifeguard
Truly heartbreaking 💔
Google SIPE, RIP Lazar 😢
Lifeguard's fault, 100%.
Never heard of crossfit before this and probably never will again.
All swimmers should have been notified... And he could have been atleast found immediately 😢
Did secret service decide to watch over this too?!?
Not a time for comedy.
Negligence ! The event should be completely canceled.
wow, he really did see a lot! why speak to the camera if you didn't actually see anything or know him!
I’m sorry to hear about your loss the lifeguard probably did not care about him based on what your saying
How do you witness a drowning and not push unitl someone actually acts on your protestations that someone is under the water? I must have missed something because is strange that no one pushed the life guards or the organizer until much later.
So disgusting.
Truly shocking incompetence. RIP. I hope CrossFit pays up big time. The reputation and culture of the organization has really taken a hit in recent years. I don’t go to a box anymore, but it’s getting almost embarrassing to be associated with CrossFit. Everything is just cringe in recent memory.
Who ever this lifeguard was is who needs to be held responsible not CrossFit in a whole
Was that Secret Service lifeguards on the paddle boards?
Surely looked like Biden supporters
A death is not the time for humor.
People, if you see somone drowning SPEAK UP AND MAKE NOISE. There is strength in numbers. DEMAND that the race be stopped. Several peolle saw him go under. Don't be silent!!!! Force companies to do the right thing. If this was your child would you listen to lifeguard who behaved so callously?!
We have been trained to listen to authority but sometimes you have to go against them.
It sounds like the lifeguards was completely incompetent and froze. Some people freeze when tested. I have seen this happen in healthcare several times.
If he saw it why didn’t he get the event stopped? Why didn’t the person who jumped in have the event stopped? Point fingers only the ones pointing back are worth talking about.
Honest question: aside from doing what they did- tell the lifeguard someone went under and didn't come back up and having the lifeguard put out a stop alert- how would they have managed to stop the event?
Must have been secret service lifeguards.
The ceo and the lifeguard have something to explain, you cannot stick your pedal in and lookaway. Thats no lifeguard thats neglecting someone drowning 😮
So wait they kinda knew something was going on but let the event finish and did nothing for 30 minutes?!?!?! Am i hearing this right. Please clarify for me if i am wrong.
This is gonna be interesting. Very sad that an athlete died and if they actually waited until the event was over, that’s horrible and people need to be held accountable. But, I’m sure there will be an autopsy and I would imagine CF HQ will be wanting a toxicology, medical history report. Could have been an issue of cardiac issues that caused him to drown, or something. This could end up being the death nail for the games as we know it. Wait until all the facts come out
Question for the audio guy. Did you intentionally clip the microphone to his necklace and collar to keep the necklace from hitting the microphone? I never thought about doing that before.
correct me if i got it wrong but he saw what happened.. well than he should maybe run down there and scream and actually does something more than just a interview later.. he just told us that he saw it, he saw lifeguards doing nothing but he did nothing either..
😢 you and other spectator could've reported to officials when you notice there was something wrong 😢😢😢
That lifeguard, organisers, camera vrews all have a lot to answer to, especially that lifeguard. What a useless muppet
why didn't he swim over and help him? nobody went over to save him