Outdoornewswire.com also runs an Olympics story with
Olympic Climbing…Not Quite. It’s pretty similar to Climbing’s Climbing at Olympics—Sort Of.

Top 30 Climbing Walls(I never heard of them before either), reports that climbing will be a demonstration sports at this Winter Olympics. They announced it earlier in Climbing at the Olympic Games? and cited a couple of sources.

Climbing Magazine perhaps best explains it in this title Climbing at Olympics—Sort Of. It’s a demonstration sport with bouldering and speed climbing. It’s not a competition. Even though it may sound funny that the Union Internationale des Association d’Alpinisme (UIAA) is organizing it instead of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the IOC is an umbrella organization, and designates the UIAA as a International Sports Federation. The requirements of this designation include: ” they must apply the Olympic Movement Anti-Doping Code and conduct effective out-of-competition tests in accordance with the established rules.”

A college basketball player was out of shape and used a climbing machine to work herself into playing shape. See the Journal Sentinel’s article Third-year triumvirate have Golden Eagles poised to reach new heights. But I’m trying to figure out which climbing machine she used. Maybe it’s the Versa Climber? There’s one at the local gym I go to, but it doesn’t get used much. Hopefully they didn’t mean a stair-climber…

Well, she did climb in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. But if you were trying to place the climb she was on, it doesn’t exist. This autodesk clip describes how they created it. I thought their simulclimbing looked odd, but should have noticed the fake rock…

ps. Happy new year!