Sport climbing

18-year-old sport climber Sam Watson will be returning home to Texas with a bronze medal, but he says the real prize is the unwavering love and support he receives from his grandmother. “She sends me little bitmojis and it’s just the most adorable thing.”

Brooke Raboutou, one of Team USA’s star sport climbers, will be competing in the combined bouldering and lead semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Rabouotu, 23, came in fifth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in her Olympic debut. She’s a favorite to make it onto the podium in Paris. At the 2023 world championships, Raboutou finished fourth in combined…

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World-record holder Sam Watson is set to compete in the sport climbing men’s speed event on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Watson, 18, set the world record of 4.79 seconds in April at the sport climbing World Cup competition in Wujiang, China, but that record has already fallen, and Watson is the one who broke it. During qualifying in Paris,…

Sport climbing kicked off at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday with cheering fans marking the sport’s second time at the Games after a toned-down debut during the previous Games. There are three disciplines in sport climbing: bouldering, lead and speed climbing. Unlike in Tokyo 2020 when the International Federation of Sport Climbing was only given one medal event for…

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U.S. sport climber Brooke Raboutou learned how to climb with her parents, who also competed in the sport.

Sam Watson was a kid from Texas dreaming of going to the Olympics; this year, he’s heading to Paris to represent Team USA in Olympic climbing.