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8a covers the WC 2014 through Eddie Fowke
Eddie Fowke, who runs the The Circuit WC magazine and who is going to most of the WCs in 2014, will make short reports that will be published on 8a. Here he gives some interesting thoughts about the very short 2014 season.
"The first thing that stands out about this season is how compact it is. This is a World Championship year and the whole IFSC Bouldering World Cup series is squeezed into two months. Thatยs right, from the opening round in Chongqing starting on the 26th of April to the closing round in Laval finishing 28th of June there will be 8 Bouldering World Cups!!!
Over the two months there are only TWO weekends where the athletes will not be competing! This is an incredibly tight schedule that will wear down the climbers.
It means that preseason prep is more vital than ever as once the season starts training opportunities will be compromised. Flying from comp to comp takes a lot of time and is draining on the athletes. If an athlete does all the competitions they will be flying more than once around the world and will be spending more than a working week (40 hours) in the air plus many more hours in airports etc. It will be interesting to see the effect this has on performances by the end of the season.
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