Angela Eiter, the best female lead competition climber in the history who has won four world championships, is equally negative towards the suggested Olympic format as Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma. Pic from Paris 2012, (c) Red Bull/S. Gruden "Speaking for myself, I think this Olympic format develops a new direction of competition climbing, where the original philosophy of climbing moves into the background. Nevertheless, it is quite likely that the younger generation adapts better to the new format and probably benefit from training all disciplines and the social settings. Anyway a difficult topic!" So would you have gone for it during your career? No, I wouldn't have gone for it. For me this format doesn't make sense. IFSC has forwarded some suggestions for the combined format which have been questioned by almost all federations. Some of them have gone together informally to suggest a new combined format. The IFSC decision will be made next spring. In fact, there are more top athletes that are equally negative but they have said they want to wait with their comments until the competition season is over.

Just like on Facebook, you can select from which Friends and Crags you will get notifications when an ascent has been added. Just go to your "Friends'" scorecard, click the button at the top and you will automatically see which climbs have been recorded lately. You can do the same thing for Crags and there you can also select which grades you want to follow. The picture shows where to click on "Add to My Friends" in Adam Ondra's scorecard to always stay updated on his latest ascents. Just his scorecard has been visited almost 1 million times. Adam's new Instagram has already 51 000 followers.

jan kares, #17 in 1 Lead WC 1998, is a pull-up and bolting fanatic. Yesterday, he set two new world records by doing 555 pull-ups in 30 minutes first and then 1 018 during 1 hour. His next plan is to go to Sardinia and continue his bolting mission with 600 bolts. Since 2008, the 43-year-old has spent some 150 days bolting, paying for everything by himself. His dream is that this area, close to Cala Gonone, will be one of the best and most famous climbing areas in Europe.

Na obrázku je znázornené, v ktorých mesiacoch pribudlo do 8a databázy najviac prelezov z gréckej oblasti Leonidio. Z ostatných európskych a blízkych oblastí majú podobnú koncentráciu prelezov len turecké Geyikbayiri a španielske El Chorro. Ďalšie obľúbené destinácie sú napríklad San Vito lo Capo na Sicílii, Osp/Mišja Peč v Slovinsku, Arico na Tenerife, Fenda blízko Lisabonu v Portugalsku, Mallorca a oblasti v blízko Malagy, Valencie a Barcelony v Španielsku.

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Angela Eiter, najlepšia súťažná lezkyňa na obtiažnosť v histórii, ktorá vyhrala štyri Majstrovstvá sveta, má taký istý negatívny postoj k navrhovaného olympijskému formátu ako napríklad Adam Ondra alebo Chris Sharma. Foto z Paríža 2012. (c) Red Bull/S. Gruden "Hovoriac za seba, myslím si, že tento olympijský formát smeruje súťažné lezenie iným smerom, kde sa pôvodná filozofia lezenia dostáva do úzadia. Napriek tomu je možné, že mladšia generácia sa mu prispôsobí lepšie a bude pravdepodobne ťažiť z tréningu všetkých disciplín a nových sociálnych pomerov na lezeckej scéne. No, každopádne je to ťažká téma!" Zúčastnila by si sa takýchto pretekov, keby sa konali počas tvojej súťažnej kariéry? "Nie, podľa mňa tento nový formát absolútne nedáva zmysel." IFSC predostrela niekoľko návrhov, ako by mohol kombinovaný formát vyzerať, ktoré sa však stretli s kritikou skoro od všetkých lezeckých federácií. Niektoré z nich sa neformálne spojili, aby zostavili vlastný formát. Konečné rozhodnutie zo strany IFSC by malo prísť na jar budúceho roku. Viacerí top lezci takisto vyjadrili nesúhlas, no povedali, že počkajú s komentármi do konca súťažnej sezóny

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jan kares, #17 na Svetovom pohári v lezení na obtiažnosť v 1998, je maniak do vŕtania a zhybovania. Včera prekoval hneď dva rekordy, keď spravil 555 zhybov za 30 minút a 1018 zhybov za jednu hodinu. Jeho ďalší plán je cesta na Sardíniu, aby pokračoval vo svojej vŕtacej misii so 600 ďalšími borhákmi. Od roku 2008 strávil tento 43 ročný lezec vŕtaním odhadom 150 dní a všetky náklady hradil z vlastného vrecka. Jeho snom je, aby sa táto nová oblasť, nachádzajúca sa blízko Cala Gonone, stala jednou z najlepších a najznámejších lezeckých oblastí v Európe.

Laura Rogora has onsighted her third 8b, Dragon in Gole del melfa. The 15-year-old is actually #11 in the 8a onsight ranking game. (c) Sofia Mariano "Dragon is divided in two halves. The first part is an hard boulder followed by a pretty good rest and a very beautiful and technical groove on small holds. When I did the first boulder I understood that the hardest part was done. I had only to keep calm until the chain. When I exit from the groove and I hold the last good holds I felt so excited!! I train 5 times per week. 3 times in my bouldergym and in the weekend I go outdoor. In 2017 I would like to try some hard routes (I don't know where yet) and naturally continue competing. Naturally I am very happy that climbing got a place in the olympic games. Our sport is fantastic and it is fair that now it is an Olympic sport. I admit that I am not very happy about the format."