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2020 Olympics = Sports Climbing

dalai

17-Feb-2010
2:00:43 PM

Cycling by your definition is in. ;-)

From http://www.bicycle-and-bikes.com/history-of-bicycles.html

widewetandslippery

17-Feb-2010
2:05:41 PM

Bayonets in the velodrome, now we are talking!

dmnz

17-Feb-2010
3:15:09 PM

hey, what happens in the army...


IdratherbeclimbingM9

17-Feb-2010
4:48:40 PM

On 17/02/2010 dmnz wrote:
>hey, what happens in the army...

stays in the-

~> and the same for the perverse fun of aid climbing...

I reckon introducing climbing into the olympics prostitutes many aspects of climbing.
Next we will see winter olympics with timed ascents in the Himalaya?

dalai

17-Feb-2010
4:55:50 PM

Given some of the other 'sports' currently in the Olympics, I can't see why leashless mixed ice climbing comps isn't in the Winter Olympics.

Some of the moves they pull off on steep terrain is super impressive!


Eduardo Slabofvic

17-Feb-2010
5:11:46 PM

Spitting the Dummy should be in. We'd have a gold medalist from this forum.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

17-Feb-2010
5:17:57 PM

On 17/02/2010 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>Spitting the Dummy should be in. We'd have a gold medalist from this forum.

There have been a few of them along the way.
Interestingly enough some have drifted back to the Chockie addiction, and also others have clandestinely done the same thing, but under new user id's.


Sabu

17-Feb-2010
9:57:37 PM

On 17/02/2010 dalai wrote:
>Given some of the other 'sports' currently in the Olympics, I can't see
>why leashless mixed ice climbing comps isn't in the Winter Olympics.
>
>Some of the moves they pull off on steep terrain is super impressive!

Yea that would be mad!

tastybigmac

17-Feb-2010
10:45:14 PM

as long as the sport climbers wear outfits like the figure skaters it could be amusing.

dalai

17-Feb-2010
11:01:17 PM

On 17/02/2010 tastybigmac wrote:
>as long as the sport climbers wear outfits like the figure skaters it could
>be amusing.

I've been looking for an excuse to get out all my colourful lycra tights that I wore climbing back in the 80's ;-)

dmnz

18-Feb-2010
10:42:00 AM

NO! the world cups are way more impressive anyway than some stupid event that happens once every four years. a league style competition is way tougher than waiting for the other competitors fall over so you can win (snowboard cross, speed skate etc)

keep ice/mixed out of the olympics


Sabu

18-Feb-2010
11:58:49 PM

On 17/02/2010 tastybigmac wrote:
>as long as the sport climbers wear outfits like the figure skaters it could
>be amusing.

No don't even go there. The second "colourful" outfits and climbers are mixed together an
unhealthy result occurs including the aforementioned 80's lycra or even the dreaded
mankini... combine this with international media coverage and mothers around the world
would cry "THINK OF THE CHILDREN"!


BoulderBaby

19-Feb-2010
6:18:07 AM

Ah, This is great! Finally, recognition!
Also - Funding/Sponsorships for Climbers Ahoy!


wallwombat

19-Feb-2010
7:47:03 AM

On 19/02/2010 Musique wrote:
>Ah, This is great! Finally, recognition!
> Also - Funding/Sponsorships for Climbers Ahoy!

Like all those well recognised and well funded badmiton, handball and judo competitors?


BoulderBaby

19-Feb-2010
8:10:11 AM

I'm sure the Ausport will fund climbers.

I was just talking about it in the shop today with some brits, and they beleive thier goverment will start funding more climbers - apparently the czech gov already does.

dmnz

19-Feb-2010
10:23:58 AM

Better spent elsewhere some would argue, at least the Canadian variety if you look at the protests

dmnz

19-Feb-2010
2:34:09 PM

surely skateboarding should be in the olympics if snowboarding is and gets the attn that it does

martym

16-Jul-2016
10:55:23 PM

On 19/02/2010 dmnz wrote:
>surely skateboarding should be in the olympics if snowboarding is and gets
>the attn that it does

"An International Olympic Committee (IOC) session is set to announce on 3 August that [ sport climbing] will be added to the programme for four years' time."
"Skateboarding, surfing, karate and baseball/softball could also become Olympic sports at next month's meeting."
There you go.
http://m.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36811368

"35 million climbers around the world. The average age is 23 years old, with 40% under 20."
I wonder how that compares to chockstone users?

One more quote from the article:
"Sport climbing involves participants scaling permanent anchors, like bolts, fixed to the rock."

OozeDumbHopeless

17-Jul-2016
8:29:38 AM

You lot are a mob of negative wankers. The amazing youngsters who will compete at the Olympics have more climbing ability in their little fingers than you bunch of old losers. I can't wait to see it.


phillipivan

17-Jul-2016
9:11:26 AM

On 17/07/2016 OozeDumbHopeless wrote:
>You lot are a mob of negative wankers. The amazing youngsters who will
>compete at the Olympics have more climbing ability in their little fingers
>than you bunch of old losers. I can't wait to see it.

In my case I'm friggin aye certain that they will. Doesn't matter though, the reasons I and many others participate in climbing are far removed from the values of competitive sport climbing. Someone who gets excited by semantic debates could tickle themselves silly arguing that what I do isn't even a sport. Fair enough, don't care. It's not that I don't like sport or competition, love bike racing, but that's not what gets me excitited about climbing.

I saw some competition climbing in Chamonix. I presume the climbers were at a pretty high level, cause I don't think many people would stand around and watch numpties climb in that town; and the Austrian national team was in attendance. They were strong, pulling moves onsight I couldn't touch - it was also shit boring, and not the sport I had crossed the equator to participate in.

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