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The Lead

Free Solo's Alex Honnold On Climbing's Olympic Journey

The Lead

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We have already seen a number of new Olympic sports make exciting debuts in Tokyo, including surfing and skateboarding. This week, we’re adding one more to that list, as we watch the first Olympic appearance of sport climbing. Today, we’re joined by Alex Honnold — from the Academy Award-winning documentary "Free Solo" — to look at how climbing finally got into the Olympic Games, and the incredible demands that will be placed on athletes vying for medals this week.

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We've already seen a number of new Olympic sports make exciting debut in Tokyo, including surfing and skateboarding.

1:00.0

And this week we're adding one more to that list as we see the first Olympic appearance of sport climbing.

1:07.0

These climbers have had an awful lot of action three pretty savage boulders and you can see it's just beginning to shake a bit

1:14.0

showing you just how much effort is going in today.

1:17.0

Alex Honald, the expert climber from the Academy Award-winning documentary Free Solo, joined us to break down how climbing went from outsider to insider

1:27.0

at the Olympics and the incredible demands that will be placed on the athletes this week in Tokyo.

1:33.0

To be an Olympic rock climber, you have to have the athleticism of an elite gymnast who really represents just the highest degree of athleticism

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in the climbing has ever seen basically.

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