Stefano Ghisoli a challenger for the Olympic gold

Many have said that Sean McColl is the favorite to win the gold in Tokyo 2020 as he has won many Combined titles and as he has been competing in Speed for so many years. The first challenger, beside Adam Ondra, could be Stefano Ghislofi who is currently the Italian Champion in 2010 and is 17 years old, at 7.96. Video The Italian has also won two Italian Cups in bouldering as well as being in one WC final in 2014. "I do not plan to start training Speed until the Italian Federation prepares some training. My focus is climbing on rock besides the Lead World Cup and I think I could be as fast as in 2010 without so much training. I have not been thinking about it that much but I hope I do not need to sacrifice any outdoor climbing until the last year before Tokyo." The dilemma for all the guys with Olympic ambitions that do not have any previous Speed background is that they will sacrifice outdoors. Most likely, the Speed training will actually make you drop some in your Boulder and Lead performance, and that can create anxiety. The guys who ultimately will perform the best will probably be the climbers who do not need to train Speed to qualify. They can just continue as normal and start focusing hard on Speed just some months before the Olympic event. It just might be very hard to mentally start training Speed now and understand that you might perform worse in comps and outdoors for three straight years, just to have the chance to get a medal in 2020.