Speed important also in Lead in Toulouse

The Toulouse Olympic qualifying event takes place in a month for the Top-20 in the overall ranking excluding the ones already have qualified to Tokyo and a max 2 country quota. This is also the first time the Olympic format is tried out on an international arena for most of the participants. Interesting is that time will decide ties in the onsight qualification and that there is only one route. As we have seen the route setters having problems separating the climbers this year it will be more important to climb fast. This means also that there will be an advantage starting last as you can hear and partly measure by the time consumed that somebody topped. In practice, if I have understood the rules correctly, the highest-ranked in the Combined ranking will start last, i.e. Adam Ondra.