Speed sport climbing was offered at the Olympics for the first time during the Paris Games. Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. LE BOURGET, France — If you hold the world record in the fastest Olympic sport you can ...

Xavier University graduate Piper Kelly has already qualified for the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024.The Indianapolis native and 2023 Xavier University graduate is one of the quickest rock climbers in ...

Step into the thrilling world of speed climbing with none other than Ludovico Fossali, a true climbing pro and world champion ...

You may have been rock climbing before, but youve never done it the way Nathaniel Coleman is doing it right now at the Momentum Indoor Climbing gym in Salt Lake City. Coleman isnt climbing so much as ...

MERIDIAN, Idaho — The Treasure Valley continues to ascend the ranks of the rock climbing world. Rajath Thekkedath, the head coach of the Vertical View climbing team, has seen it firsthand. "This ...

Intensity was at an all-time high for rock climber Emma Hunt on Aug. 10. The speed climber readied to face Poland’s Aleksandra Miroslaw, the speed-climbing world record holder, to earn a spot in the ...

Editor’s Note, 08/06/2024, 9:20 a.m.: Sam Watson set the world record for Sport Climbing, Men’s Speed, this morning during the qualification elimination heats in Paris with a time of 4.75 seconds. NBC ...

MACON, Ga. — The Olympic Games brings attention every four years to a range of sports that are typically swept under the rug in favor of football, baseball and the like. But one sport is receiving its ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 100 days the best athletes on the planet will gather in Paris for the Summer Olympics. 32 sports will be featured in this year's games, and that includes rock climbing, which ...