Climbing Olympics 2024: The climbing sport made its first appearance in the 2018 Youth Olympics Games in Buenos Aires. After that, the sport gained attention and was again seen at 2021 the Tokyo Games.
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Several other new sports games such as skateboarding and surfing were added during that time to increase the popularity of the Olympic games by adding more urban sports games.
This will make the Olympics more interesting and attract more young people. Sport climbing will still be a part of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Climbing Olympics 2024: Breakdown
The Olympic Climbing Sports is divided into three different types of sport climbing:
- Bouldering: It is the first Olympic sport climbing in which participants try to climb up a 4.5-meter (nearly 15-foot) wall without ropes in a very short amount of time and as few tries as possible.
- Lead: The second game of Olumpic sport climbing is ‘lead’, in this game athletes have to climb up a 15-meter (about 50-foot) wall within in six minutes and with only one try.
- Speed: In this game, athlethes compete will another opponent and climb aganst a 15-meter wall with a five-degrees incline. Athletes have to climb faster than their opponent to win, this is a knockout round.
There is one difference in these Games and the Tokyo, it is that in Tokyo bouldering and lead climbing games are done in a combined while Speed climbing is done separately. This gives athletes a good opportunity to fous on their specialties.
However, the points system is also different from Tokyo . During the 2021, Olympic games the all the points of each game were added to get the total score. This scoring system keeps the speed-climbing game out of the equation and and only involves 200 points.
An athlete who move up the wall through different “zones” (5 points for the low zone, 10 points for the high zone), they earn points. They also earn 25 points for securing the top position.
A total of 20 men and 20 women participated in the bouldering and lead climbing.
In Speed climbing, there are 14 competitors for both men and women. Every climber takes part in two speed runs, each on a different wall.
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Climbing Olympics 2024: Top Team USA Climbing Olympics 2024 athletes
- Sam Watson – Holder of men’s speed climbing world record
- Natalia Grossman – Gold medalist in boulder & lead climbing at the Pan American Games.
- Brooke Raboutou – Securing a fifth position in the Tokyo Olympics and daughter of climbing champions Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and Didier Raboutou.
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