After a lengthy six-month absence, the world's premier climbing competition is back. The IFSC Climbing World Cup returns tomorrow in Shaoxing, China, for the first leg of a year-long competition to ...

Climbers are redefining speed in 2025 with record ascents on Everest, Aconcagua, and beyond. See the year’s fastest ...

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 ...

A difference of only .08 seconds earned Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw the gold in women's speed climbing on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics. It was her first Olympic medal after just missing out on the ...

World-record holder Sam Watson is set to compete in the sport climbing men's speed event on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Watson, 18, set the world record of 4.79 seconds in April at the sport ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. American teenager Sam Watson set a new world record at the Olympics on Tuesday in the relatively new Olympic event of sport ...

Gautron Lison L of France and Takeuchi Ai of Japan compete during the qualification of the women's speed of sport climbing at the Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest in Budapest, Hungary, June 21, 2024.

Sam Watson competes in the men’s speed qualification at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 22, 2023. Senior Correspondent If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal ...

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 ...

With American Sam Watson setting a sport climbing world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, US sports fans want to learn more about the event. What makes things a bit confusing is that the rules for ...