03 Aug Sport Climbing is an Olympic Game

The news is official. The ICO, International Olympic Committee confirmed the entrance off ive new sports for Tokyo 2020: karate, skateboarding, surfing, baseball/softball and sport climbing. A great success after a long battle. Yet in 80’s in fact, magazines spoke about the possibily to insert pur sport into Olympic Games.

The President of IFSC Marco Scolaris said: “This was our dream from when in 2007 the International Federation was born and the hard work of these years led this result now. I want to thaks ICO members for this decision.”

Now naturally it’s hard to know what will happen. Technical, Athletes and Federations will have to word a lot harder to arrive ready to this important appointment. Of course this is a storical event for our sport.