4 December 2016

The 8a Olympic format in three steps

Many federations, coaches and top climbers have forwarded different Combined Olympic format suggestions to IFSC, or are about to do it. Some suggestions are just impossible as IFSC has made some promises to IOC; One set of medals, no new disciplines, the best climbers must take part, 20 + 20 climbers, Lead/Boulder/Speed, easy to understand, podium ranked in the final. Here is an easy format schedule to be carried out over three days using the existing IFSC formats. How to qualify in three steps will be presented later. Day 1. Qualification Lead + Qualification Speed Day 2. Qualification Boulder: Calculate Combined Top-8 ranking Day 2. Final Boulder Day 3. Final Speed + Final Lead: Calculate Combined Top-4 ranking Day 3. Duel Semi & Final on a 10 meter long 8a route.
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