Tokyo 2020 devalues the World Cup 2019

Only one out of the Top-5 male ranked did participate in Kranj. After four competitions, Adam Ondra leads although he has just participated in two events, which he has won both. In regards Domen Skopfic, he has said he instead wants to enjoy outdoors being in Rodellar at the moment. Add to the list that Tomoa Narasaki did skip Kranj as well. Noteworthy is also that only four out of the top-10 in the Combined ranking did participate. Complete results Among the women, it is better but anyhow only two out of the Top-4 did participate. Furthermore, only two out of the seven qualified to Tokyo did choose to participate in Kranj. In practice, this means that, although just one Speed as well as two Lead events, remain for the Overall Combined, it is still an open affair as it just might be easier to get good results with many of the best absent. Ondra has said that he just might skip the last two Lead World Cups. It will be very interesting to see if he bothers to win the Lead WC in 2019. Possibly he will just do the next one and hope this is good enough for securing the title.