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Sport climbing joined the Olympics in Tokyo
The 2021 debut combined speed, bouldering and lead into one medal Each athlete competed in all three disciplines and the scores were multiplied, which meant a specialist could be dragged down by a weak event. Paris 2024 split the competition into a speed event and a combined boulder and lead event. Climbing has been part of the Games since. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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International Federation of Sport Climbing
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Sport climbing joined the Olympics in Tokyo: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The 2021 debut combined speed, bouldering and lead into one medal. The figure is taken from International Federation of Sport Climbing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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