CrossFit CEO to Exit Amid Backlash Over George Floyd Remarks

Greg Glassman, the founder and chief executive of CrossFit Inc., said he had decided to retire after his inflammatory remarks about the killing of George Floyd prompted sponsors and gym owners to cut ties with his company.

“On Saturday I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members,” Mr. Glassman said in a statement. “I cannot let my behavior stand in the way of HQ’s or affiliates’ missions.”

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

I appreciate that this particular bigot is no longer a CEO. Why then is there an impeached bigot still in the white house?

Can somebody tell me what was wrong with his Tweets? They were pro blm?

Hire a Black CEO for an apology lol

Geez, he looks like such a sympathetic figure.... Well, SOME kind of pathetic....

He’s not sorry about what he said he’s sorry his bigotry was spread out virally. He’s sorry he got caught...

What a shitty man, and a lame apology.

All this over a dead criminal - the city would be a safer place I would have thought.

Lenin statue now in Lower East Side in NYC should be removed & destroyed. Lenin was part of a country’s rulers who systematically killed Jews, upper class, and those who didn’t go along. theblaze

Most cross fit dudes I’ve met are meathead assholes. Seems to come from the top on down

Freedom of speech is not an excuse to be a dote.

He wasn't responding to the killing of George Floyd. He was responding to the IHME pretending it was going to solve racism. The same IHME which mis-modelled the COVID-19 pandemic. It's all P.R.. Crossfit continues as a 'purged' company with affiliates who haven't quit yet. Lol

CEO of BurningCrossFit?

Does he even lift?

How is someone like him so irresponsible?

rayalexsmith Good workout everybody

stop giving into the mob. These people need to be put down not placated.

White people need to grow some balls.

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