19 July 2019

"This is boring, I go to bed." (Briancon semi)

For the first time ever I had my two sons (7 & 8) watching a live-streaming from the World Cup. Anyone having kids know that they are totally addicted to internet so they were pleased to swap the book for some additional computer time especially as we had a Swede as #3 from the qualification. We started midways in, to not get them bored but it did not take long until they did not seem so excited and started to ask questions. - Who is in the lead? Will she make it to the final? Which is his result? How far do they need to climb to get to the final? Which hold is 38? Why do they not show the clock or the results on the screen? Unfortunately I had very hard time to answer any of their questions although the results appeared on the screen like every ten minutes but just for few seconds. After a while I started to understand how far you needed to climb for being among the best but I could not explain it to them good enough. Anyhow they waited for Hannes Puman but one climber before more questions came up? - Why do they let the final climbers climb together? If we are unlucky we will not see Hannes at all. Suddenly, in the small screen we see Hannes for few seconds just when he had fallen. One of them get super frustrated meanwhile the older did not pay notice as he already had started to instead play FIFA on his mobile. I told them that I am sure we will see some replay but big No. - This is boring. I go to bed. This is the first time ever in their life as they have turned down computer time and instead said they opted for sleeping! If this would have been the semifinal in the Olympics, I guess 90 % of the million of spectators would have reacted the same as my sons, who are climbers. If just the route setters could have marked every fifth hold with a number and they would have had the results continuously on the screen it would have been so much more exciting and also somewhat understandable.
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