Sport Climbing

[CM-BlueButterfly]

Sport Climbing: Aug 5 - 10

[surfgirl]

Is it a sport thougn?

[MaryMitch]

1 hour ago, surfgirl said:

Is it a sport thougn?

How is this NOT a sport?

[surfgirl]

To me it's more of a hobby. YMMV.

[Shrek]

Did they just add sport in front of things to make it an olympic "sport"? I've never heard of sport climbing before but that might be because climbing out of bed can sometimes be a sport for me.

[Quickbeam]

Ok so I thought my grizzled old rock climbing husband would appreciate this coverage. I was wrong. After a few minutes of disgusted noises and 75 “you call that bouldering!?!” comments, I shut it off.

[surfgirl]

6 minutes ago, Quickbeam said:

Ok so I thought my grizzled old rock climbing husband would appreciate this coverage. I was wrong. After a few minutes of disgusted noises and 75 “you call that bouldering!?!” comments, I shut it off.

Please tell your grizzled old rock climbing g hubby that I say, 'Thank You, I feel seen.' 😂

[Conotocarious]

The World Cup comps are more fun to watch than this somewhat chaotic semi. I’ve been so distracted by gymnastics that I’m barely paying attention, but does anyone know how many qualify to finals after semis? I’m just exhausted and clearly not paying enough attention.

23 hours ago, surfgirl said:

Is it a sport thougn?

Comp climbing is definitely a thing, theres a World Cup circuir for it and it’s pretty easy to score. One might argue its even more of a sport than some of these judged competitions are. No one deducting you for like, wearing the wrong outfit or anything.

 

[Conotocarious]

Janja Garnbret is completely insane. What a masterclass.

Edited August 6 by Conotocarious

[Dandesun]

Holy crap, she was wildly impressive.

[Conotocarious]

If speed climber Sam Watson ever needs to be played by a movie star, I’d suggest Timothee Chalamet for sure.

[Conotocarious]

The men’s’ boulder and lead event finals were fantastic. I expected Anraku to win as did most everyone and was so happy for Toby although sad for Colin. He had an incredible boulder round for someone who considers himself a lead specialist.

I’m so lonely in here with my popcorn loving the climbing. It’s amazing to watch and very easy to follow for those who don’t climb. 
 

I find it so interesting that everyone in Tokyo despised the format and hoped to improve their standings when speed wasn’t part of the equation. But Jacob Schubert finished third in Tokyo and third here, Duffy was fourth in Tokyo and fourth here and Ondra was sixth in Tokyo and sixth here. Things didn’t really change for them.

[satrunrose]

I watched the speed final and considering my only experience with climbing was veeeerrrrry slooooow with lots of terrified squeaking, I was very impressed. 

[MaryMitch]

[Conotocarious]

And the queen wins again. What an amazing athletes Janja is. And Congrats to Brooke Raboutou!

Also Ai MOri is just amazing at lead but Jessie Pilz really surprised me with her epic performance today.

[Daisy]

On 8/4/2024 at 12:55 PM, surfgirl said:

Is it a sport thougn?

the thing is - (and i do get what you are saying) everything is sport - even if we see something as a hobby. like i said in the artistic swimming page - i've been watching the Olympics for 32 years (my goodness am I OLD) - and I still can't wrap my head around the fact that ping pong is an Olympic event. PING PONG. (well "table tennis" but seriously. it's ping pong LOL) or badminton or a lot of other things.  (like. for me personally, I could see this as more of an Olympic event than like Sailing). so it's understandable to go. really?

but once you are at the Olympic level (because there's an actual federation, world cups, Pan American/Oceanic/so on and so forth championships) - it stops being "hobby." - I never really apply that to anything at the Olympics myself. Because the [hobby] that we used to is no where near close to the Olympic feats these people are doing.  that's just my two pennies anyway.