Muriel Sarkany meets Jacques Rogge

IFSC - International Federation of Sport Climbing


How do you feel about this? I'm pretty happy with this evolution ...

Please say no. There have been many "fringe" sports tried, added to, and later removed from the Olympics. Although the exposure to the sport of climbing may be beneficial, I think that sport climbing in a gym setting is something completely different from trad on natural rock and fear we would see an increase in the number of inexperienced climbers attempting the sport with little or no mentoring or training.

I know many gym climbers who refuse to trad, they say it is way to hard and uncontrolled.  I also, a;ong w others who are trads and have done the gym thing to try it out and won't step backi n there...just not the same.  Really little risk involved