18 May 2014

Ondra: "I just made a stupid mistake and that's it"

Adam Ondra has made a comment in the 8a forum where people have been discussing Ondra been called down, on the last problem, and therefore lost the victory. The new rule for 2014, says you can not start moving until both hands and feet are touching the defined starting holds. (c) Branislav Goga, who thinks the picture indeed shows that Adam touched the starting hold also with his right foot. "I grabbed the starting hold, put my left foot on starting foothold, kicked with my right foot into an area where I expected to hit the foothold. I felt the impact, I thought that must have been the foothold and went for another move straight away. But I was warned by the judges that the start was not valid, as I didn't touch the foothold according to them. Even though it seemed to me that I did touch it, as it could have seemed from the livestream as well, I talked with more witnesses who could see very well that I did NOT touch it. No injustice happened to me, I just made stupid mistake and that's it.
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