Angy Eiter - The combined format does not make sense

Angela Eiter, the best female lead competition climber in the history who has won four world championships, is equally negative towards the suggested Olympic format as Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma. Pic from Paris 2012, (c) Red Bull/S. Gruden "Speaking for myself, I think this Olympic format develops a new direction of competition climbing, where the original philosophy of climbing moves into the background. Nevertheless, it is quite likely that the younger generation adapts better to the new format and probably benefit from training all disciplines and the social settings. Anyway a difficult topic!" So would you have gone for it during your career? No, I wouldn't have gone for it. For me this format doesn't make sense. IFSC has forwarded some suggestions for the combined format which have been questioned by almost all federations. Some of them have gone together informally to suggest a new combined format. The IFSC decision will be made next spring. In fact, there are more top athletes that are equally negative but they have said they want to wait with their comments until the competition season is over.