Watching Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret micro-crimp her way to a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics wasn’t just exhilarating – it was history-making. Garnbret and Spanish climber Alberto Ginés López were the very first two Olympic gold medalists in 124 years of the modern games.
This year, climbing is back at the Olympics in Paris. With the Team USA lineup complete and some tweaks to the format of the discipline, I’m more pumped than ever to watch some of the world’s top climbers surge up the wall.
