Re:A Real Life Off-by-One Error
by Sander_Marechal on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:05AM
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I hope they do split up bouldering and lead next olympics. At least for Ai Mori's sake!
Indeed they will separate them at the 2028 LA Olympics. There will be 3 separate medals for boulder, lead and speed.
> This is also why every climber complained about speed climbing
not every climber. Its clearly a different discipline. Thats why boldering/lead is separate from speed climbing.
But then lead is different to top rope and sport different to trad. And indoor is very different to outdoor.
> not every climber. Its clearly a different discipline. Thats why boldering/lead is separate from speed climbing.
It wasn't separate in the previous Olympics, that's my point.
>But then lead is different to top rope and sport different to trad. And indoor is very different to outdoor.
Except for trad most climbers I know do a mix of all of these.
Speed climbing is just so different from everything else that I don't even know one climber out of the hundred or so that I know that does it regularly.
I do think it'd be amazing to see a "decathlon-like" competition where runners were measured in the 100, 1500, and 10k cross country, though. Figuring out how to even it out would be a chore, though.
It's an entirely different discipline. Seeing lead climbers compete in speed climbing is like seeing Eliud Kipchoge matched up with Usain Bolt for sprinting.
Boulder and lead are at least somewhat related, although I still think it would be nice to see separate competitions here, too.