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THE LOWDOWN: Climbing goes Olympic

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[The LowDown: Climbing goes Olympic, 3 kb]Not sure if the Olympics were what Daniel Woods was thinking of when he did The Game, but according to Joost Hofman, sport climbing, along with cricket (finally! I'm sure all of the... 5 countries or so that play it will be delighted) and power boating, will join the Olympic games in ten...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=54543

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gian 19 Feb 2010
summer games of course, with 30° C AT LEAST.

just go down the road and ask : everybody knows climbing is a SUNNY SUMMER DAY sport and just a few marginals go climbing in full winter time with freezing temperatures because they have nothing better to do.

oh and climbing doesn't involve snow anyway.

just this dilemma of winterVSsummer speaks for itself...
climbing goes olympic?
Boycott the olympics!!!


(and ask blogger to make comments editable)
Anonymous 19 Feb 2010
I think Bouldering would actually be more interesting to watch for the non-climbing spectators.
Anonymous 19 Feb 2010
8a.nu presented these news some 10 days ago!

You should use them as your source!
Anonymous 19 Feb 2010
Both! Outside in the summer and inside in the winter!
Nick 19 Feb 2010
The "news" presented by 8a was literally Crap. It was based on rumours and actually you couln´t confirm the validity of it. Do you really think It´s a valid reference, Jens?

Didn´t you hate anonymity, by the way?
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