#Sport Climbing

[fcbalding]

spiderman is real and he’s indonesian

[alexcabotgf]

BROOKE RABOUTOU and JANJA GARNBRET Sport Climbing - Women's Boulder and Lead Finals

[antrea]

[24.08.08] 6-minute observation period prior to the women's sport climbing lead semifinal

[too-tmi-too-handle]

sport climbing is crazy cuz they're like

"yeah of course you can attempt to climb the boulder as many times as you want 😇 you only have 5 minutes though! and we'll deduct points for every failed attempt hehe 😜 also nooo peeking at the boulder ahead of time 🙈 andddd every second you spend planning your route counts towards your climbing time!"

then they're like

"oh haha you want to look at it ahead of time? okay sure 😇 you guys can all look at it together and plan together! it's like 4x as big though 😜 also you get a whole 2 extra minutes 😇 and just in case you were wondering you only get one chance to climb it even if you fall~"

and then there's the OTHER breed of climbers who are just like

whooosh imma be the fastest spider there ever was 🕷

[vowelchart]

your honour i love them

[notathrowawayname]

[friend-lover-traitor-narrator]

Another idea for an Olympics AU anybody?

I propose to you Ethan Hunt, boulder & lead athlete, America's best shot for gold, who's desperately pining for his best friend and coach Benji Dunn who's just as equally smitten by the athlete but doesn't want to risk neither their friendship nor their chances for gold by making a move on him.

At the other end of the city Pete Mitchell, Ethan's very lookalike cousin, plays beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower with his best friend Nick Bradshaw. Nobody believed in them because of Pete's lack in height but they qualified for the Olympics nevertheless and quickly become fan favorites all over the world. At random now star athlete Pete Mitchell stumbles across this blond haired, blue eyed guy in the olympic village who (judging by the outfit he's sporting) seems to be on the Polish team. Pete takes his chance at exchanging pins with him simply because Poland is still missing in his collection (and not at all because he's terribly attractive). They have a bit of small talk and then they go their own ways but every thought Pete has left next to the competition he's in is wasted by thinking about the handsome Polish swimmer.

[hitthebreeze]

[chellsiememmel]

being an olympic routesetter would be so stressful like. hi it’s up to you to set the perfect problems to separate the field so only a couple people can top each but everyone can give it a good college try. also the routes can’t favor athletes of a certain height or skillset. you have to test them on everything. oh and make sure the lead routes are hard but not too hard. if the olympics suck it’s your fault and everyone knows that. anyway have fun!

[stephantom]

Watching the women’s Speed Climbing qualifications now. I’m not a nerd about this like I am for the other sport climbing events. In fact, I don’t even follow it normally. But it is pretty undeniably impressive and cool. I’m so glad it got separated into its own event, not just because it was silly to make the boulderers and lead climbers train for speed and force the speed climbers to suffer through difficult boulders and routes (at the Tokyo Olympics), but because it’s cool to see the all speed specialists on their own and how much they’re pushing the bar. They are just so fucking fast. Alex Miroslaw just broke the world record in her first go, and then broke that record in her next go. 6.06 seconds! To climb a 15 meter wall at a 5 degree incline. And idk it just feels like a good fit for the olympics as a sport.

[victoriaorolfoart]

Women’s combined finals is tonight, and I’m rooting for my fave shortie Brooke Raboutou! 😤🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅

[fcbalding]

veddriq leonardo aka indonesian’s spiderman won the first gold medal for his country!! 🫶🏼🇮🇩

[alexcabotgf]

MIHO NONAKA at the Olympics 2024 Sport Climbing - Women's Lead Finals

[beatrack92]

Janja Garnbret 🇸🇮

🥇 Combined

Paris 2024 Olympics

[brisingr-sword]

bouldering is so funny to me because i could be falling 5 feet in the middle of a nasty wipeout and still be shouting “yes!” before the padding below knocks the air out of me, because i just managed to grab onto the right side of a hold for the first time and held it for five seconds when i’d been failing to do so for fifteen minutes

[absolutebloodychaos]

I have never before felt more patriotic than this moment (I quite literally am not Slovenian 😅😂🇸🇮)