IFSC Commentator Charlie Boscoe reports on the first two events in the Austria Climbing Summer series, giving an insight into what climbing competitions look like in the COVID-19 era...
Something vaguely resembling normality returned to the climbing world over the past couple of weeks as competitions resumed in Innsbruck. The Austrian Climbing Summer Series is the first set of comps (that I'm aware of) taking place in the post-lockdown coronavirus era and it got underway on 8/9th July with round 1 of the Boulder series and round 2 the following week. I was asked to do the commentary for the event and figured it would be interesting to report back on what this new world looks like and explain what's changed.
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