Why Jakob Schubert skips second SLC WC

More than half of the 40 Olympians will not do all three World Cup events in Salt Lake City the coming two weekends. Jakob Schubert and Jessica Pilz, from Austria, will as an example not compete the second weekend, so we contacted Jakob. 8a Olympic training interview from March. (c) KVÖ/Heiko Wilhelm

Why will you not compete the second weekend when there is also a Speed event?
Jessica (Pilz) and I will fly back right after the first event because we want some more time for training since this is the time for us to switch the focus to lead training. I was actually planning to not go to the US at all but since the Asian comps were postponed I decided to do the one to get some more bouldering experience. It hurts a bit since I definitely would love to spend some time in the USA and do all the comps but I feel the need for some more lead training before the Olympics, hope it works out 😉

Speed training is obviously still going on, not my main focus but always training it a bit (2 short sessions a week usually). I might do the speed WC in Villars. But in my opinion, it‘s not as important to do speed comps compared to bouldering for example since comps are not so different than training in speed.