17.1 Announcement Live here!

Love it or hate it, Dave Castro's Instagram is our best source of information when it comes to the CrossFit Games and he is incredibly calculated in how and what he presents there when it comes to hints about what to expect. With the 2017 CrossFit Games Open kicking off in just over a day, the hints are ramping up and getting weirder and weirder:

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That's the cover of Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," a novel about a half-blind and deaf hunchback who falls in love with a gypsy in late fifteenth century Paris. So basically, it has a ton to do with CrossFit.

Maybe he posted it because the first Open announcement is taking place in Paris. Maybe Castro is hinting at round-backed deadlifts, muscle ups, or rope climbs. Maybe he's trying to tell us we're going to feel blind and deaf after 17.1. Maybe he's saying we'll be using kettlebells or dumbbells since Quasimodo was a bell ringer. Who knows? We'll find out soon enough what 17.1 is and until then we're just left with photos of guns and Dave Castro's hand sewn travel bags:

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So pistols and sandbag squat huh?