05 Jul Climbing at Olympic Games 2020

Climbing and Olympics, a binomial discussed from years. If you try to browse a 80’s magazine, you’ll find yet some article about this question. At time the people were talking about and now the…are talking about again.
In July 2020, the Olympics games will be in Japan, at Tokio  and the choice of which discipline of climbing ( bouldering , speed or lead) is not easy because, regardless of personal opinion, you have to think about the return in terms of visibility that this would have .

The site 8a.nu launched an interesting survey: which discipline would you bring to the Olympics in 2020?

It’s natural that the comp with the rope does not have the dynamism of boulder problem or speed but on the other hand it remains the supreme discipline . Interesting and complete the idea of a combined formula that sums the scores of all three disciplines and worthy of interest, though perhaps more related to the show (which still does not hurt), the idea of including also the deep water. It would not be discarded the idea of comp with the Duel formula, where the climb with rope joins the "challenge" in the strict sense with an opponent .

Interesting that the first option is still a question that is revived among fans : climbing must be brought to the Olympics? Perhaps the two surveys had to be…
Stefano Michelin