Megan Mascarenas, who won the last Boulder World Cup and has never done worse than #4 during her last five events, has done her second 8B of the last two weeks, Te Cuelgas Guey in Elevenmile Canyon. "One of the coolest things i have ever seen! all the moves are unique and all together they are so hard! Im glad for the day flash because there are too many moves to fall off! So psyched."

IFSC President Marco Scolaris was present at the IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro. 'We are so happy that Sport Climbing will be participating in the Games of Tokyo. We have reached the final hold of our unbelievable climb, but another climb awaits us. Our team is committed to preparing Sport Climbing for the Olympic Games, and over the next four years we will continue to work with the IOC to do so.' In total 20 male and 20 female will compete for the combined gold. How these athletes will be selected will be decided in 2017. It should be noted that several top athletes like Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra have been very critical towards the suggested combined format.

Sean Bailey, from Seattle, Washington redpointed Biographie 9a+/15a at Ceuse, France according to Instagram and Facebook.

Giorgio Bendazzoli, who has done one 9a previously, has added his first Boulders after an intensive and rainy week in Magic Wood. In total, the 17-year-old did ten Boulders graded 8A to 8B including an 8A flash and Riverbed 8B. - The weather was a bit rainy but with good temperatures, we managed to climb always except one day..I am happy to have realised many boulders also in few tries even if Magic Wood was my first "real" time on rock...my best result was definitely river bad which came at the end of the day in very few tries...I'm looking forward to go back to magic as soon as possible! In the last European Youth Cup, the Italian was #3 and in last two years he has actually won one event. In the Combined 8a ranking game, Giorgio is #6 among the juniors.

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Sonnie Trotter comments on Instagram that Alex Megos has had an amazing day in Canada doing two 9a's and one 8c+, "unquestionably the most OUTRAGEOUS day of sport climbing in Canadian history. Bunda de Fora 5.14d (3rd try) Kinder Surprise 5.14c (2nd try) and open project now called Full Nelson 5.14d (3rd try)."

Toshi Takeuchi has done his third 8C of the last 12 months, Spray of Light in Rocklands, and he goes to #3 position in the 8a ranking game. "YESSS!! Total 4 days. Mental battle was over because of bad weather. I have still 7 days more. On to the next!!"

Adam Ondra is back in Flatanger, where he is working on a potential 9c. As a preperation he did the FA of Valhalla. (c) Tendon/O. Simko - Odins Eye extension, all the way to the final rail of Thor's. Incredibly massive pitch of ultra tiring climbing, at least 65 meters. Possibly one of the harder 9a's, but not 9a+. Bolted by Joe Kinder

Chad Greedy reports on Instagram that Shawn Raboutou has done two 8C's in Rocklands; Monkey Wedding and Spray of Light. - He's on his way to becoming the champ ,, just has to do 'livingLarge' ,,, to become the king of the land. Shawn is a part of the possibly best climbing family in the world. His sister is Brooke, who did her first 8c being 11 years old and his father is Didier, one of the best rock and competition climbers during the 90s. His mother is Robyn Erbesfield, possibly the best female climber during the 90s, who later became one of the most successful trainers, and being 50+ she still does 8b.

Adam Ondra has visited six crags in Switzerland and Germany in the last two weeks and added 17 routes 8a and harder. The most impressive are two 8c+ onsights, Barracuda in Kaitersberg and Gimmel Express in Grimmelwald. "8c in the guidebook, but it felt like dfferent level compared all the other 8c's in the last weeks... And Jonathan seems to go for 8c+ too. Amazing fight in a really desperate warm conditions." In total, the 23-year-old has now onsighted 17 routes 8c+ and three 9a's, excluding some personal grades. The runner-up in the onsight ranking is Alex Megos with one 9a and then there are some guys who have onsighted a couple 8c+'s. Furthermore, Adam did the FAs of Hyper finale 9a+ and Super finale 9a in Rawyl. Apart from that, he conquered Black Label 9a in Frankenjura in 25 minutes.