There are three disciplines to follow. Climbing gyms have been filling up across the U.S. in recent years, and now, the sport is making its Olympic debut in Tokyo. This is the first time climbing will ...

Sport climbing involves three formats: bouldering, speed and lead. In the first discipline, athletes are tasked with climbing a nearly 5-meter wall -- without ropes -- under a time limit with as few ...

Sport climbing is ready to rock the Olympics this week for the first time ever– with four climbers on Team USA for the sport's debut. Athletes will compete in three disciplines – speed climbing, lead ...

Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...

Just like that, the Olympic Games have come and gone. It was Sport Climbing’s second time in the Games and the first time it was split into two events: Speed Climbing and Boulder & Lead. Chris Weidner ...

Most of us have seen enough basketball courts, lap pools, and race tracks to know how athletes are supposed to move on each surface. But what about a gravity-defying boulder? Having made its debut at ...

Someone had to set the early standard on the lead route of black boomerangs, white hexagons, and blue half-sphere volumes, and South Korea’s Chaehyun Seo did so with aplomb. In fact, even before she ...

LE BOURGET, France — About 30 minutes after the women’s boulder and lead combined final ended Saturday, Brooke Raboutou’s face hurt from smiling. She tried to relax and keep a straight face, but it ...

IOWA (KWWL) -- The closing ceremony to the Olympics is this Sunday. But there's plenty of competitions left, including speed climbing. It's relatively new to the games, first introduced in 2021 during ...

Since 1974 Outdoor Action—the University’s outdoor education program—has become a unique resource at Princeton for thousands of students. For many students, Outdoor Action is their first experience ...