When Alec Smith qualified for the CrossFit Games, no male athlete at that level had ever been openly gay. He spent years using training to avoid the question before he answered it in a video that made him turn his phone off for a week. He tells the story from the beginning, and explains why the Grid is the most accepting floor he has competed on.

“I’m normal. There’s nothing different about me.”

Alec Smith

Coming out in 2019, the response that followed, and finding grid. 9 minutes.