Gautron Lison L of France and Takeuchi Ai of Japan compete during the qualification of the women's speed of sport climbing at the Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest in Budapest, Hungary, June 21, 2024.

An 18-year-old from Texas just set a new world record for speed climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. American athlete Sam Watson just broke his own world record on his way to the quarter-finals of the ...

Speed sport climbing was offered at the Olympics for the first time during the Paris Games. Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. American teenager Sam Watson set a new world record at the Olympics on Tuesday in the relatively new Olympic event of sport ...

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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 ...

Intensity was at an all-time high for rock climber Emma Hunt on Aug. 10. The speed climber readied to face Poland’s Aleksandra Miroslaw, the speed-climbing world record holder, to earn a spot in the ...

Follow live coverage of Day 12 of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with 21 gold medals on offer LE BOURGET, France — The morning after American sprinter Noah Lyles was anointed the fastest man on earth, an 18 ...

Here's everything you need to know about scoring in Sport Climbing, as well as the difference between Boulder, Lead and Speed. Sport climbing is a form of competitive climbing that dates back to the ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced on Wednesday that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These ...