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Sport climbing is a recent addition to the Olympic arena.
While we are all likely to have seen it on tv, relatively few of us have personally got our hands and our feet on the boats.
But that's about to change as more and more people get inspirations from competitions featured at the Olympic Games and other international events.
Hello, I'm Lai Ming and this is roundtable today with Yuxian and Joshua Caudreau, we explain what to expect at sport climbing competitions and the opportunities and challenges for rock climbing businesses.
Get ready for Paris this summer where tradition meets the cutting edge.
This year, were thrilled to introduce a fascinating series of sports that will redefine the excitement of competition.
We will witness exhilarating heights of sport climbing, gravity defying tricks of skateboarding, and epic waves of kayak cross.
Join us as we celebrate the spirit of competition and see history in the making.
Experience the thrills of new sports in Paris.
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Ah, you shouldn't always guess to me, with his pumped up spirit in that promo, and I think everybody else that are looking forward to the Paris Olympics, I think we are all excited to see the events pan out in front of us.
And as I see sport climbing is one of the new additions to the Olympic Games and being incredibly included at the Tokyo 2020.
So I figure not all of us are familiar with the sport.
And so we begin our discussion with a little bit of background info before we delve into more in depth discussion.
Sure.
And to be honest, I was like very surprised to find out that sport climbing is now like officially won Olympics competitions now, because one might believe that it is like a niche sport, but obviously it's on like a world stage in a much bigger way than it ever has been.
So according to Olympics.com comma, sport climbing is a modern sport that has become immensely popular over the past 20 years.
It is a young mixed gender sport with 39% of the climbers under 18 years old.