Olympic Climbing 2024 Day 1: Men's Boulder Semi-Final

Sport Climbing's second Olympic showing kicked off today at Le Bourget in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. The men's Boulder semi-final filled the 6,000-capacity stand and many athletes had their first taste of competing on the world's biggest sporting stage. Japan's Sorato Anraku topped the leaderboard after a dominant two-Top performance in a hard round (69.0/100 points), while his teammate Tomoa Narasaki finished 2nd (54.4/100). Team GB's Toby Roberts placed 3rd (54.1/100) and Hamish McArthur 8th (34.2/100) - a good sign for both ahead of their strongest discipline - Lead - on Wednesday.

#olympics2024 #climbing

00:00 Intro
00:31 Men's Boulder Semi-final
04:17 How Climbing in the Olympics works
10:07 Erin Mcneice Profile
12:05 Erin Mcneice Interview

[ukclimbingofficial]

Who's your money on for the men's event?

[sean]

A great interview. Both Erin and Toby come across as having a mature and intelligent approach that gives them a great chance for success. Good luck guys, and to all the competitors. Here in Japan, the entire combined event is shown on television so I'm very fortunate.

[wildgingerruns]

Good luck to Toby, Hamish, Erin and Molly this week!!!

[markagr]

finally decent climbing coverage thanks a lot

[daquidi]

i was confused when toby roberts topped boulder 1. it didn t seem stable and his touch was milliseconds.
he has done this before. no harm in trying. he celebrated as he was letting go and falling. One wonders a little bit if he was robbed, but his hold didn t look right at all.

[gillbaker]

Such a lovely kitchen! I really like the taps x

[susanwojcicki]

Adam ondra is my favorite i hope he gets gold

[kevex]

Anyone know where you can watch the replay?

[toxicjaffa]

So is there no proper way to watch this in the uk? If anyone knows I’d very much like to too, only sport id properly be invested in haha

[charlesstoll]

Great break down. And, honestly, great interview.

[aabelsonn]

Hey, really enjoy your videos, keep it up! But it would be great if you included some video footage of the athletes climbing :). Or is there a copyright issue?

[blueberryjam-bf]

Japanese players do it easily and leave as a matter of course. They are the next level.

[merovech]

I am new to climbing, can I please ask:

Is the competitors on boulder 1 allowed to watch the guys on boulders 2 - 4?

Wouldn’t it give them an advantage because they know the route and can mentally practice before coming back out?

I noticed Avezou doing this in semi finals morning session

[brdprson]

Man this is so dumb, we can watch the speed climbing which no1 gives a f about cuz it's not real climbing at all but we can't watch men or women b&l, smh.

[colehelton]

Imo, not a great way to introduce people to the sport.Took way too many climbers to get the first top…. Really not sure who is forerunning these

[adamstackable]

Absolutely no footage of climbing in this video just stills. No thanks.