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So lets say that sport climbing does get into the Olympics, how are they going to choose the music for it?

You may think this is strange question, but this is about something that a lot of people know, but don't really know. Why do thousands of people who work out everyday listen to music? More precisely, why do thousands of people listen to their own music while working out?

Have you ever sat in a climbing wall, struggling on a problem, then one of your favourite songs came on (maybe something up beat, bouncy, energetic) and you cruised the problem?

I did a little digging and there seems to be a (albeit not very broadly researched) science of sport performance relation with music. After reading a few papers from the 90s I eventually found this article discussing this topic with Dr Karageorghis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/raiseyourgame/sites/motivation/psychedup/pages/c...

So there seems to be a positive correlation between music and performance. So back to the question in hand; how are they going to choose the music in the Olympics? Or any other competitions for that matter. Do climbing walls who host competitions have non bias DJs? Many times you see the world bouldering leagues webcams with the DJ just chilling in the corner, is s/he from the host country, or country not competing?


http://search.proquest.com/openview/f4896bb1ba4f99483f330363a1a4a475/1?pq-o...
http://blog.codyapp.com/the-relationship-between-music-and-exercise-perform...

In reply to The Green Giant:

Presumably to keep it fair they'll be playing "the only way is up" by Yazz on a loop.

It'll be interesting to see if they actually have music during the climbs. Do other sports
(in the Olympics) have music whilst people are performing? Not withstanding the disciplines where it's part of a routine.

In reply to The Green Giant:


a) Because they're unimaginative arsewits who are too afraid of listening to their own thoughts and crave constant sensory stimulation
b) Because training is desperately tedious and music helps to break up the monotony

I'd have thought that when actually competing, olympic climbers might well prefer to be able to concentrate on the task at hand without music - it'd be bad enough having a crowd baying away below.

Mind you, the snowboarders seemed to do alright with it during the winter olympics.