Greg Glassman, the CEO of CrossFit, resigned after he said during a Zoom meeting with affiliate gym owners that he wasn’t mourning George Floyd’s death by rachsandl
Greg Glassman, the CEO of CrossFit, resigned on Tuesday after he said during a Zoom meeting with affiliate gym owners that he wasn’t mourning George Floyd’s death.... [+]
Half street location in Washington, DC on July 31, 2015. CrossFit is waging a war against new DC rules to regulate personal trainers, saying D.C. is a pawn in a commercial fight over personal fitness.Glassman has been embroiled in controversy this week after he appeared to make light of Floyd’s death in a tweet on Monday,Glassman apologized later that day, saying,"It was a mistake, not racist but a mistake.
Glassman was responding to a question during the Zoom meeting from an affiliate gym owner in Minneapolis, whose gym is located one mile from where Floyd was killed, asking how the company was going to respond to Black Lives Matter protests across the country. Glassman also assailed the coronavirus-related shutdowns causing CrossFit affiliate gyms to temporarily shutter and again invoked another conspiracy theory saying that the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. “I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members,” Glassman said in a. “Those who know me know that my sole issue is the chronic disease epidemic.
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