All big names but Sol Sa, Mina Markovic and Ashima Shiraishi made it through and interesting was Shauna Coxey at #23. Janja Garnbret was the only one to flash both routes and another four Slovenians Top-18. Among the Speed specialists; Andrea Rojas #56, Anouck Jaubert #60, Aleksandra Kalucka #64 and YiLing Song #66. It just might be that if any of them are #1 and #2, we might have two Speed specialists getting and Olympic ticket even if one is more likely. Complete results (c) Vladek Zumr

Marco Zanone has done his second 9a, Le Cadre Nouvelle Version in Céüse, meaning he did the unchipped variant. "Wow. A real struggle for me. Can't believe I completed my second 9A in one of the best crag in the world. World-class, a route I'll never forget." Interesting is tha Marco had previous years done a maximum of two 8c+' and this year he has already done five. In the 8a ranking game, he is #11.

The route setters did over cook the female semi final boulders, although all four were topped, as three zones were good enough to make the final. In the end, Janja Garnbret with three tops and Akiyo Nuguchi with two, starting last, were ahead of the others with a big margin. The only other two tops were made on a slab and otherwise we only saw four girls getting close to top one boulder. Complete results 1. Janja Garnbret SLO 34 2. Akiyo Noguchi JPN 24 (c) Vladek Zumr 3. Nanako Kura JPN 12 4. Ievgeniia Kazbekova UKR 12 5. Miho Nonaka JPN 3 6. Shauna Coxsey GBR 3

During the semifinal, the commentators said that Akiyo Noguchi was "clever" and "brilliant" as she stood an watched Futaba Ito for 30 seconds trying her next boulder. This means Akiyo violated the 8.8 rule. It should be mentioned that this rule is not perfectly clear but practiced for several years that you are not allowed to look at the other competitors. In any case, if Akiyo was allowed to look at the next boulder, everybody should be allowed to do the same, which would totally change the scene. "8.8 All rounds of boulder competitions shall be conducted under Isolation Conditions. Disqualification "gathering information about the routes/boulders other than as considered by the definition of Isolation Conditions (when such conditions are in force);" Isolation Conditions means that competitors within any given round of a competition are to make their attempts on any route/boulder in that round with knowledge of the relevant route/boulder limited to such information: (a) as may be gathered by observation from outside the Competition Area prior to the closing of the Isolation Zone for the relevant Category; (b) obtained during any collective observation period for the relevant route/boulders, from the area designated for such collective observation, including such information as may be shared between competitors participating in that collective observation period (and only where suchcompetitors have not yet made their attempts, or have each completed their attempts); or (c) obtained during the competitor’s attempt(s) on the relevant route/boulders;"

Based on almost 1 000 unique votes, Adam Ondra is favorite to win Combined in Tokyo. The Bouldering qualification starts tomorrow. 50 % Adam Ondra 28 % Tomoa Narasaki 13 % Jakob Schubert 05 % Alex Megox 03 % Others 01 % Kokoro Fujii

Adam Ondra was the only one to get five tops in the qualification and he did it in only six tries. In the second group, Japan set a new domination record by getting all the Top-6 positions. No big surprises as the result followed the starting order suggesting that the conditions deteriorated with more chalk and higher temperature. Complete results (c) Vladek Zumr From the Combined perspective, the Mawem brothers did really well. Mickael was #23 and Bassa, the #1 in the Speed WC, was #67 by doing one zone in three tries. Also QiXin Zhong was #67 by getting one Top and two zones in the other group. If any of them will win Speed, they have chances to qualify to the Combined Top-20 event and, if so, any of them will get the Olympic ticket.

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The semi and the final will take place tomorrow for both gender. This means that meanwhile the female had a rest day, the male will compete two days in a row. The male isolation opens 10.45 and then it is a full day of preparation and competing, finishing with medal ceremonies around 22.00. Adam Ondra topping out all five boulders in just six tries means that he saved some energy. The day after tomorrow, the WCH continues with the Lead qualification in between 10 - 20 for both the male and the female. Then the following day, semi and final in Lead. Then there will be one rest day before the Combined WCH take place where the athletes will do all three disciplines followed by a rest day and then all three disciplines again. As anyone can understand, qualifying to the Olympics will be an endurance challenge where these athletes might have to do 21 boulders, 6 routes and around six Speed runs. In practice this means that the guys with a excellent endurance will benefit from the tight schedule, especially if you saved as much energy as possible in the first bouldering qually like Adam Ondra.