IFSC commentator Matt Groom reports from the third round of the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA...
Salt Lake City is a place of contrasts. When driving there you pass through endless baking hot salt flats until the city looms out of the heat haze. Skyscrapers are framed against a backdrop of mountains, traffic merges with lush green spaces. The homeless slept among the shadows of the trees in Pioneer Park, while inside the stadium at the centre of the park, the best climbers in the world prepared.