Reddit climbing competitive olympics. And yes we are scared of falling. Aug 8, 2024 · The nearly perfect women's Sport Climbing Lead semifinal was a fair and exciting test for athletes. Aug 9, 2024 · After a tumultuous lead round, Friday's final will be a mix of favorites and upstarts. The replay videos from semi finals appear to no longer be accessible on the Olympics app. This feels like the Olympics all over again. Climbing is in the Olympics for the first time in 2020. I know qualifiers just ended, but I can't find a complete list of all the olympic qualified athletes anywhere. For info about me - I come from a hiking and mountaineering background, and I didn't start climbing until I was 27 (nor seriously until I was 29). Dedicated to increasing all our… We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. t. But… now that the first two World Cups have finished and we’ve seen a good number of top climbers, what’s your prediction for the Olympics? She is, she already qualified last year, along other climbers. Aug 6, 2024 · The men's Olympic semifinal bouldering round was too hard, but the setters totally redeemed themselves in today's women's semifinal. 33 votes, 11 comments. I'm about to start competing with my unis team this fall, and watching the Olympics and other comps and talking to some friends has got me wondering. Lots of sports have had the occasional "Battle of the Sexes" events. The stakes are just so high when 1/2 places is already taken. The format will be changing for Paris 2024. Why do lead climbing comps (IFSC, olympics) allow only one attempt? I'm just curious as to what exactly are the reasons for allowing only one attempt in lead climbing. Why is this discipline with literally ONE STUPID ASS climbing route so important that it has to be in the Olympics and in every major competition? It has nothing to do with the real climbing. 7. I don't know how setting at collegic comps Jul 29, 2024 · Everything you need to know to watch Sport Climbing (Lead & Boulder Combined, or Speed) at the 2024 Paris Olympics. I've added the dates for the IFSC World Cups, and the dates for the Paris Olympics. Aug 9, 2024 · How does Olympic Sport Climbing work? How is it scoried? How do athletes train? Why do some climbers wear two different shoes? etc. What I mean is, a hundred years ago people trained for events like the marathon by simply running. It sucks because a bunch of gumbies are going to crowd gyms for years to come, and they’ll be sorely disappointed. This is such a huge let down. What about climbing? Looking at speed climbing, the men's records are significantly better than the women's, so maybe men vs women won't be competitive in that discipline, but what about lead and bouldering? If we take the two Olympic I'm hyped for how it's going to change the world of climbing. People in the US can watch the finals on YouTube, right? At least the streams from the Olympics YouTube channel work for me (and they worked live as well). Some sports also have an open category where both men and women can enter to compete. Just need to create an… Now that everyone who was going to qualify for the Olympics has, can we get the results from the OQS prediction contest? I think competitive climbing and the Olympics will broaden that spectrum a bit. Why do athletes care so much about the Olympics (honest question)? I want to preface this by saying this is a 100% honest question. Shauna is particularly good at explaining the nuances of moves and holds to non climbing audiences. I know little about speed climbing (not that I am an expert in any other sort of climbing either) so I won't comment but feel free to add that in if you do as I would be interested to learn more. , with Alex. Aug 5, 2024 · LE BOURGET, France – On the first day of sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, the boulders won. I wanted to see how perceived quality of different brands actually correlated with the grades that users of those brands climbed. It’s reassuring that, even in 2024, with 600-plus rock gyms in North America catering to millions of climbers, and with the competition, training, and Olympics hype Aug 8, 2024 · Sport climbing is making its second appearance at the Summer Olympics and is attracting big crowds at the Paris Games, as well as lots of attention for some of its unusual characteristics. " (yes I know about the already existing world climbing championships). Unless the routesetters mess up one of the rounds, it's just too important to do well in everything. But others redirected their goals outside. In the case of boulder/lead sport climbing, there's only one athlete eligible: Svana Bjarnason (Iceland). The format combines Lead, Speed, and Bouldering for a Combined set of medals. 310 votes, 177 comments. I’m sure if there was similar promotional content with Natalia in it they would post about it as well. Instead, we just had to watch a bunch of people who aren’t the best at that sport compete at an “Olympic” level. 1. 8K subscribers in the CompetitionClimbing community. 💪🏻 Share Add a Comment Sort by: Best Open comment sort options Best Top New Controversial Old Q&A [deleted] • 33 votes, 28 comments. I think she’s good but that Shauna will get the Olympics gig (certainly for UK coverage anyway). Paris 2024 will be changing this, but for now we have an interesting combo. I used to be a competitive athlete in a sport where very few teams could make the Olympics, the competition is weird with a few very strong teams then a few very weak teams for each regions of the world. But she has to rank within the top 36 in the OQS to actually make it to the Olympics. 5. Aug 5, 2024 · Here is a breakdown of 12 climbing shoes we’ll be seeing at the Olympics, by event, and why they’re a popular choice. While being World Champion in B+L I stayed up to watch live (it started 5:10 am for me, while the Olympics video said it would start 5:40 am - they need to fix their schedule times) and watched 60% (I'm guessing) before my body betrayed me & fell asleep. Being featured in the Olympics is going to make it more popular and increase competition, making it "sportier. But the man-made objects humbled Who will be setting the boulders and the lead routes? I would assume the team will draw from the usual pool of people who set for IFSC comps given that there's not exactly a limitless group of people who are qualified, but it would be nice to know for sure. Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret, who rocketed to a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will again be predicted by many as the probable Olympic champion. How on Earth has it become so important? Share Add a Comment Sort by: Best We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Aug 10, 2024 · You can watch sport climbing at Olympics 2024 for free with English language commentary on the BBC and iPlayer in the UK, RTE in Ireland, CBC in Canada and Channel 9 in Australia. Here are the men's Sport Climbing semifinal results. Does anyone know if they will eventually appear on YouTube? Climbing is in the Olympics for the first time in 2020. The last Olympics were decided on how people did at their best events, but I expect this one to be decided on how people do at their worst events. Eligibility for universality is by country, not by country and sport. I missed Hannes Puman climbing (a personal fave) and just want to catch up in general. Competitive Climbing, especially Bouldering, is becoming more and more Ninja like. 2K subscribers in the CompetitionClimbing community. It's not even a circlejerk question. Your ranking is defined by the highest climbing hold you reach, where the highest possible hold is the top. 6 101 upvotes · 7 comments r/climbing We visited the oldest and newest climbing gyms to see how - and why - indoor climbing is changing [mini documentary] youtu 104 upvotes · 28 comments r/bouldering Olympic qualifying rules are preventing the best competitors from reaching the Olympics- which will make the Olympics worse (and is soul crushing for top athletes) Aug 9, 2024 · The sport climbing competition is coming to a close at the Paris Games with athletes celebrating the decision to separate the speed discipline from boulder and lead. I watched sports like skateboarding at the last Olympics with confusing af scoring systems so why does climbing's system need to be simple for the masses? Reply reply ReyTheRed • We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 176 votes, 86 comments. Each Olympic sport seems to negotiate the number of athletes that its sport gets. Jul 22, 2024 · If you’ve paid any attention to the comp climbing scene in the last few years, you know there are some heavy favorites in the women’s Combined (Boulder and Lead) event at the Olympics. Competition Climbing A comprehensive subreddit for all things competitive climbing. She competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and won two overall world cups in 2016 and 2017 besides being the first british woman to climb V12, V13 and V14 boulders. But some big names didn’t make it through. Jul 30, 2024 · Some climbers who did not qualify for the Olympics may be heartbroken. For those with a good handle on the general OQS rules, see the OQS Point System for how results in Shanghai might translate to an Olympic slot. Reply reply More replies more replies more replies More replies more replies more replies More replies TheInternetShill • Does anyone know if they've announced where sport climbing will be held for the 2028 Olympics? LA28 just announced a bunch of venue changes for other sports, but I haven't seen anything about climbing specifically. I think the YouTube Livestream of the World Champs had like 10k viewers? Maybe 15k at max. Stream was taken off YouTube because of copyright claims. 174K subscribers in the climbharder community. r/CompetitionClimbing: A comprehensive subreddit for all things competitive climbing. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. They won’t medal, of course, or be fawned over by the crowd. Does anyone know if there will be tickets available again for paris 2024 sport climbing? I just got psyched watching the championship and was considering going there, given I have a place to stay. As possibly the most exciting competition in the history of sport climbing so far (a separated B&L Olympic event) is now three months away, I did a little Olympics prediction and analysis based on the current top 10 women's B&L athletes according to official IFSC rankings. Jul 31, 2024 · Competition climbing has long (and increasingly) been accused of leaning too heavily into gymnastic movement, and straying from sequences that would be encountered on actual rock. If the olympics portrays climbing as primarily a competitive indoor sport with specific rules, much of the new business coming into climbing gyms will have similar expectations of the sport. 4M subscribers in the climbing community. Climbing has made it into the Olympics and that's awsome as it is. Aug 7, 2024 · Neither of us “won gold,” nor would we have while climbing at such a modest standard, but it was a pure and profound experience, one untethered from the fanfare and external validation that can adhere to competition climbing. How exactly do the athletes qualify for the olympics, and is there not a team, or is there just one athlete per country?? Also what is the difference between a normal world cup and the championship? 2024 climbing competition calendar that you can add to Google calendar Hi It's my yearly reddit post in r/competitionclimbing Had a couple of requests to update my public Google calendar on competition climbing dates. That is also reflected in much better sponsorship opportunities etc. Mori made her international debut on the World Cup stage in 2019 and has proven her remarkable versatility time and time again. Aug 6, 2024 · Underdogs in Sport Climbing at the Paris Olympics One such competitor is Japan’s Ai Mori, who currently sits first on the IFSC Lead rankings. Figured I would see if people are interested in far too early and far too uninformed speculation on who will qualify for the 2024 Olympics in climbing. I’m not sure about the other athletes, but many sports still have their Olympic team team selection upcoming. So who is in? Don’t blame the USA Climbing Insta account here. Climbing Shoe Study (almost) Final Results! A little under a month ago, I put out a climbing shoe survey with the goal of figuring out some of the relationships between climbing shoe brands and performance. 6. What a bunch of badasses. The smiling assassin, omg. Even if the format is bad or you don't like it, I haven't heard of any plans for it to change. Detailed schedules to come. Does anyone know where I can find that list? I assume it must exist somewhere. As it stands the medal would reward those that manage to be competitive across disciplines. To get the comments out of the way early: this We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Official Sport Climbing results from the Paris 2024 Olympics. This visualization shows the results of the climbing competition of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and compares the actual final rank of athletes with the rank they would have obtained using the current scoring calculations for climbing (which will be used at the 2024 Olympics in Paris). We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 6K subscribers in the CompetitionClimbing community. m. For a relatively small sport, being on one of the world's biggest stages is a huge game changer. c on the newly minted Olympic sport!. Climbing as a sport just isn't that big. The home of Climbing on reddit. Obviously we are still a few months away from the Olympics, so don’t take this super seriously. As is become more popular and competitive, it sparked If climbing works at the Olympics then maybe they'd add single medals later. Yeah I would feel so bad for Sean if he missed out again (but I also really want to see Jesse at the Olympics). Impressive highlights from this year's World Cup Season. Four days in Shanghai will feature the first of two events to determine who fills the open Olympics spots - 12 slots per gender for Boulder & Lead and 7 slots per gender for Speed! Inside Climbing has a thorough preview of rules, slot allocation, etc. It is available on the Olympics site though. Gregor admitted that, at least for the Olympics, there is an obligation to make the sport accessible to a wider audience. The Olympics Qualifiers Series in Shangai and Budapeste were the last chance for all that didn't qualified otherwise. everything I can find only has the people who just qualified but doesn't include the athletes that already qualified before. Speed climbing will have its own discipline and medals and then there'll be a combined bouldering and lead event. Idk why they use these "simple" formats. Reddit's rock climbing training community. There is a (relatively) fixed number of total athletes in the Olympics (~10,500). Anyone else really enjoyed climbing today? I watched because of Adam Ondra but ended up having so much fun, cheering for everyone. 40 votes, 13 comments. Reply reply More replies kikkelis It seems insane to me that the vast majority of professional climbing events are done under a competitive format and scoring system that is different than what will be used at the Olympics. I have no idea how these negotiations take place. Fujii says he's out of the Olympics because he got 5th in B&L Japan Cup Final. Post any news, videos, e. Obviously this is all just pure for-fun speculation and the predictions are just my personal opinions/takes. The schedule shows no climbing, the sport isn't even listed, and there's no indication that (even if it does get aired) one can watch it after the live stream. c on the newly minted Olympic sport! We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. These types of competitions are excellent ways to begin more serious competitive climbing. Ideally it would be great to see all three events separated but this will be a vast improvement. Lead Climbing: Athletes climb a lead climbing wall, which is typically a lot taller than a bouldering wall and therefore requires a rope for safety. r/CompetitionClimbing: A comprehensive subreddit for all things competitive climbing. Speed climbing is an entirely different sport, and if they’re going to add it to the Olympics then the best speed climbers in the world deserve to showcase their talents. Please give us commentators for the Olympics who understand climbing culture If so, that’s wild — France has historically been so strong as a climbing federation, and it feels like a bit of a coup for them to only qualify one climber to the Olympics their country is hosting (assuming Zelia gets 3rd or below in Budapest). Climbing geek kinda sells Shauna Coxsey short. One of the things I like in bouldering is seeing a climber adapt and improve after they fail, and of course that is not possible in lead climbing. this morning, fine-tuning the sequences that would help determine who will walk away today as an Olympic Sport Climbing medalist. What atributes in a climber really matter in comps? It seems like being able to pull hard or lock off crimps doesn't matter nearly as much as being flexible and coordinated the majority of the time. This is a team USA promotion which is only indirectly about Olympic promotion. Aug 9, 2024 · After the poor showing in the men’s Boulder semifinal on Monday and Lead semifinal on Wednesday, route setters were reportedly working on this set until 4 a. Note that “bouldering” shoes might be used as “lead” shoes, and vice versa; in reality, most high-performance shoes will excel at both disciplines. Unless there will be strict rules I think you can expect a noticeable effect on the environment in the immediate surroundings of crags in general. This decision means that athletes from these nations will be unable to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Sport Climbing, since participation in the Olympic Qualifier Series in 2024 is contingent on 2023 IFSC World Cup circuit rankings. Even the parkour routes with big ass dual tex volumes have more resemblance with real rocks. They are simply boosting content created by others. With the Olympics, the crowd that watches you is so much bigger. Aug 6, 2024 · The Olympic Sport Climbing event (singular) that debuted in Tokyo differs significantly from the events (plural) we’re watching in Paris. I appreciated Matt's generosity in explaining some of the quirks of current comp climbing trends, etc. A comprehensive subreddit for all things competitive climbing. Just like the parkour comp style doesn’t translate to real climbing (gym or outdoors), the olympics won’t translate. ixi sqdsgv gsbs dsfm mcs bjprnu ppisyk kpvek nuoydplc dgvm