CrossFitter Emily Rolfe had to withdraw from the CFGs for emergency blood clot removal.

She finished Event 1 last week: 75 toe-to-bar, 5 mile bike, 75 chest to bar pullups, 5 mile bike in 15th place out of 40 women, but had to immediately withdraw for surgery.

She had blood clots in her brachial, radial and ulnar blood vessels, that could have led to the loss of her left arm if not for the emergency surgery.

She's a Medical Radiation Tech from Canada, so you know she's vaxxed and boosted to the max.

Remind me again how many blood clots we were seeing in healthy people prior to the vaccines?

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But after the toes-to-bar portion of the first event on Wednesday, Rolfe noticed her left hand was blue.

“Worse, I had no feeling in it,” said Rolfe, who was competing in her third Games this weekend with the goal of finishing in the top 10.

At the time, she wasn’t concerned about her health. She was just worried about how she was going to get through the chest-to-bar pull-ups. Stopping the workout didn’t seem like an option.

“By the second bike, my whole left arm was numb and I knew something was very wrong,” she wrote on Instagram on Thursday.

She was right. After the event, Rolfe approached the medical staff at the venue, who determined she had no ulnar or radial pulse.

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