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There were no spectators at Sport Climbing's long-awaited delayed Olympic debut, but the world was watching. Finally, after years of anticipation, 20 men from 15 countries took to the outdoor climbing walls in Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo and officially became our first ever Olympians.

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Is there a reason why points are calculated so that lower is better? Just seems odd when in pretty much every other point-based sport it's the other way round.

I think it's a reasonably difficult method of calculating points already, so keeping the system of 1st place getting 1 point, 20th gets 20 seems a bit more logical that 1st place getting 20 points and 20th getting 1 point etc, moreso in the middle places... hear shouts at the telly from climbers mum...'13th place gets how many points again?' Who's winning?!

 "This could be consequential for Ondra, who will progress to semis and be guaranteed 4th."

Do you mean in the speed round? That is very lucky for Adam.

It looks to me it's because the speed climbing qualifier is used to seed the speed climbing final, and Bassa is seeded 1st, Ondra 8th, so they would be drawn against each other.

Is each speed round best of one? Or best of 3?