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THE TICKLIST: #21 - Bouldering ascents from around the world

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 UKC News 18 Dec 2020
Nicholas Milburn on Southern Drawl (Font 8C)

It's been a slow week in terms of global news, but a few ascents stood out, particularly in the bouldering world:



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 owensum 21 Dec 2020
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Didn't Daniel Woods go out to repeat Gioia at the same time as Graham, and found a new sequence also? And then Core glued over the footholds so they couldnt use the new sequence. And they left in disgust. That was my memory of how that went down.

Also pretty sure Nalle didn't say anything about the grade, only Ondra.

 owensum 21 Dec 2020
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EDIT: Two sides to the story: www.8a.nu/news/gioia-controversy-what-do-you-think

Well whatever, ancient history

 lsdrussell 22 Dec 2020
In reply to owensum:

iirc the new sequence with the kneebar was not an issue in the slightest, and had nothing to do with the broken feet.

The issue was they stood on some feet that were obviously going to break, so it was "known" to not try to use them. The easier start shared the same feet and had more traffic with no issues before dwoods and graham.

But they stood on the feet, broke them and exposed better feet. So Christian "fixed" that with glue.

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