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A Deep Dive Looking at the New 2025 IFSC Boulder Format
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Below The World Cup: The 2025 Continental Cup Circuits
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Competition Climbing Is Having It’s First ‘post-Olympic Blues’ Year in 2025
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Why Watching Climbing in the UK Will Cost £30.99 a Month in 2025
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Why Japan Has 11 Fewer Spots at 2025 IFSC World Cups
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Your Guide to Sport Climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Sport Climbing at the 2024 Olympic Games starts today in Le Bourget, Paris. It has only been three years since
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Routesetting For the Very Best: Boulder&Lead Routesetting at the Budapest OQS
Just like the spectators, the athletes had strong opinions on the routesetting at the Budapest OQS. “I found the [qualification]
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Road to Paris: Budapest Sport Climbing OQS Preview
The pressure and the weather heat up in Budapest as athletes have one more shot at winning a ticket to the Olympics.
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Who Benefitted from the Routesetting at the Shanghai OQS in Boulder&Lead?
Shanghai showed the effect biases in routesetting can have on the Boulder&Lead format.