National teams could start focus also Outdoors

Federations put in a lot of money and effort in their national teams competing abroad. In 2020, a lot of money were saved for the federations due to all the cancelled competitions. At the same time most athletes have been training with a focus on indoor hoping for the international competition scene to open up soon again. As it stands, I think the federations should begin to also focus on outdoors in order to give their athletes new motivation as we do not know how the scene will look like in 2021.

Hopefully it will be more normal with many international comps for both seniors and juniors but possibly they might not be considered as World Cups or Championships etc as long as all climbers can travel without any restrictions. If this is true, it might be wise for the federations to also start a focus on outdoors especially for the youth as otherwise, they just might loose their motivation being part of a team only training indoors.

Further more, instead of sending few of the best athletes to international comps, it might also be wise for the federations to take some of this money to try to arrange more national competitions. The Austria Federation did, as an example, a great job setting up their summer series in order to give their competition climbers some more local competition to train for and get challenged by. In the long run, it is maybe a good idea for the federations, at least for the youth, to also set up national rock climbing teams?