20 August 2019

Two zones are needed in Tokyo 2020

As has been said before, two zones would create a better Boulder competition during the Olympics and Hachioji just confirms this. 1. The Speed specialists performances are understandably very weak. However, it becomes almost embarrassing when they have problems moving from the start hold and are a miles from even getting close to get a zone. As there will most likely be at least two male and two female Speed climbers in Tokyo scoring zero, surely they as well as the spectators would very much benefit from a second zone. 2. As there is just three boulders in the Combined final, it is very hard to separate the remaining seven climbers especially as we can see that the route setters are having a greater time finding the right level. 3. Ai Mori performed the best on the over-cooked boulder but did not score anything for that. If she would have gotten an extra zone for this, she had moved from #5 to #2 in bouldering and from #6 to the bronze
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