Team USA - Sport Climbing

[clemsonbeav 492]

Ok - my favorite sport.  Finally with a full program, 3 medals per gender.  Similar qualification routes.

 

Boulder

We get 1 each, and a possibility of 1 more.  (I predict Colin Duffy for the men, and Brooke Raboutou and Annie Sanders for the women, unless Brooke just does Lead...might Melina Costanza sneak in there if available after her surprise at WCh?).

 

Quota allotment that's relevant to us:
1st at PanAm Games in Lima in July 2027

1st at World Climbing Champs in Brno in August 2027

4 per gender available after the OQS in 2028 (3 tournaments in 2028, quotas based on final rank in that series)

 

(12 athletes per gender total, and there is 1 universality slot in there)

 

Lead

Same as Boulder, same predictions

 

Speed

14 per gender total, we get 1 freebie and up to 1 more.  Sam Watson will definitely be there, as will Emma Hunt.  Zach Hammer should also get in there.

 

Same qualification as the others, except 6 per gender available after OQS.

 

 

I wonder, for the sake of counting, if, say, Colin or Annie qualifies in both, does that count as two quotas/athletes, or just one?

Edited Tuesday at 07:57 PM by clemsonbeav

[bmo 239]

Interesting that you like sport climbing so much. Did you just recently get into it after Tokyo 2020? Or have you always liked it even before it was in the Olympics?

[clemsonbeav 492]

33 minutes ago, bmo said:

Interesting that you like sport climbing so much. Did you just recently get into it after Tokyo 2020? Or have you always liked it even before it was in the Olympics?

Tokyo was my first introduction.  I was hooked.  It was the idea of the problem-solving of bouldering (basically a sport for nerds...like curling lol), coupled with the insane speed of Speed.  (I also find Bouldering very aesthetically pleasing with all the shapes and colors.)  Didn't really watch it off-season until right before Paris (as I didn't know one could do that...then I discovered international sports federations, and the rest was downhill after that).

 

Olympics have introduced me to a lot of sports...had to learn about cricket and squash since they're gonna be in LA28.  (I think I was always told that cricket was like baseball...and then I tried to understand it...very different!  Ended up taking a picture of the scoreboard in a match and having ChatGPT explain it to me.)

Edited Tuesday at 11:28 PM by clemsonbeav

[bmo 239]

3 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

Tokyo was my first introduction.  I was hooked.  It was the idea of the problem-solving of bouldering (basically a sport for nerds...like curling lol), coupled with the insane speed of Speed.  (I also find Bouldering very aesthetically pleasing with all the shapes and colors.)  Didn't really watch it off-season until right before Paris (as I didn't know one could do that...then I discovered international sports federations, and the rest was downhill after that).

 

Olympics have introduced me to a lot of sports...had to learn about cricket and squash since they're gonna be in LA28.  (I think I was always told that cricket was like baseball...and then I tried to understand it...very different!  Ended up taking a picture of the scoreboard in a match and having ChatGPT explain it to me.)

Awesome story! I was introduced to all the Olympic sports in the mid 2010s (Sochi 2014 for winter & Rio 2016 for summer were the first two Olympics I really paid attention to. Started to follow the qualification process and started watching/looking at results of pro circuits/world champs for some of my favorite sports in the leadup to Paris and Milano Cortina. 

 

I'm just starting to learn a bit about the new Olympic sports. I think I got cricket T20 down. I watched the full T20 world cup final match from 2024. I can see how some people say its like baseball, but it is very different.

 

Need to learn Squash and Coastal Rowing in the next two years as those are the only two sports I'm totally unfamiliar with.