Sport climbing is an eye-catching addition to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with athletes putting on gravity-defying exhibitions of dexterity, strength, endurance and problem-solving using only their bodies.
When the International Olympic Committee voted to include sport climbing in the Tokyo Olympics it announced the competition would combine three disciplines – speed, boulder and lead climbing – into a single set of medals. Here we look at how competitors qualified for the event and what to look out for in sport climbing.
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