After five years of waiting, planning and preparing, UKC (well, I alone) have arrived in Japan to cover Sport Climbing's postponed Olympic debut. It's hot, humid and I have to quarantine for three days as a UK traveller, but simply getting here feels like a small miracle!
Well done for making it there, no easy task even under normal, non-Covid circumstances. It's great that one climbing journalist is there (lucky you, what a scoop!). Looking forward to your updates!
For anyone looking to watch the coverage, without paying Discovery+ £6,99 for a month, as it's unlikely the BBC will cover much (if any) of the quali's, and highlights only from the main events...
You can get a 3-day free trial if you sign up for a year (so can cancel after 3 days), or, if you're a Vodafone customer, you can get 6-months free - same deal, sign up for a year, first 6-months free.
The Discovery coverage is the same as Eurosport and there seem to be numerous ways of watching Eurosport however I don't think anything cheaper than £6.99. Worth checking though since Eurosport is bundled with a lot of TV packages.
Has Discovery+ got any more coverage than Eurosport? As there doesn’t seem to be any on any of the 7 Eurosport channels right now - ping pong seems to have preference 😡
Looks like the bouldering is on from 11:30 Eurosport 2.
Great article and more interesting than the climbing, which I've now lost interest in since it seems we can't actually watch it anyway.
The fact you say people aren't even allowed to film inside the events says it all really. Greedy people trying to control everyone else, sad and pathetic. Starting to see why the games are so controversial.
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