As of Tuesday, an 18-year-old from Texas can lay claim to being the fastest-ever Olympian – at least when it comes to traveling vertically. When Sam Watson set a speed climbing world record of 4.75 seconds in the Parisian suburbs, where a temporary climbing wall has been installed for the Olympics, he became the owner of … Read more
As the discipline has become more established, times have gotten faster. But Mirosław has set the pace for most of her career, breaking the world record on 10 occasions, including twice in the early rounds of the Olympic speed climbing competition on Monday. Her latest world record of 6.06 seconds – 0.04 faster than her … Read more
Aleksandra Mirosław was stood poised at the base of a 15-meter climbing wall, waiting for three pips of a buzzer to signal the start of her race. Six seconds later, she was an Olympic champion. And not just any Olympic champion; Mirosław became the first-ever gold medalist in the sport of speed climbing on … Read more
A Nepalese teenager has become the youngest person to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the top of 8,027-meter Shishapangma at 6:05 local time on Wednesday, along with his partner Pasang Nurbu Sherpa – the final of 14 “8000ers” peaks all recognized by the The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation as … Read more
Elsewhere, Jannik Sinner enjoyed a winning return to tennis on Saturday after serving a three-month doping ban, as he defeated Mariano Navone in front of a rapturous crowd at his home Italian Open. The Italian still holds the world No. 1 spot despite his enforced absence from the sport and he lived up to that mantle, overcoming an … Read more
American Danielle Collins upset world No. 2 Iga Świątek, who has dominated the Italian Open recently, winning it three of the last four years as she has been almost invincible on clay. Collins, the No. 29 seed, ultimately cruised to a comprehensive 6-1, 7-5 win over Świątek who endured a poor serving display and was … Read more
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