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Fitness event draws athletes to showdown in Gainesville Square
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Kyle Wiley completes “ground to overhead” barbell repetitions Saturday during the third annual Showdown on the Square in Gainesville. Wiley is a member of CrossFit Bema cq in Cleveland. - photo by Erin O. Smith
A showdown in the square used to mean something very specific. Typically, it involved gruff leather clad men, drawn guns and squabbles settled by a hail of gunfire at high noon. Saturday, a different kind of showdown was on display in the Gainesville Square, one with much fiercer competition, much less gruffness, and many more guns out for the latest workout craze, CrossFit.