You might have seen it in the Olympics or at your local gym: Those five-pointed red holds snaking back-and-forth up a slightly-overhanging wall, and the climbers racing up them. The timers, the ...

An 18-year-old from Texas just set a new world record for speed climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. American athlete Sam Watson just broke his own world record on his way to the quarter-finals of the ...

A complete overview of Olympic sport climbing with our guide on official regulations, scoring, and information on all three ...

As of Tuesday, an 18-year-old from Texas can lay claim to being the fastest-ever Olympian – at least when it comes to traveling vertically. When Sam Watson set a speed climbing world record of 4.75 ...

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 ...

Follow live coverage of Day 12 of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with 21 gold medals on offer LE BOURGET, France — The morning after American sprinter Noah Lyles was anointed the fastest man on earth, an 18 ...

“The fitness is the easy part,” Tyler Andrews said in 2025. “The challenge is managing all the variables on the mountain ...

Even before Tuesday’s speed climbing seeding heats at the Paris Olympics, the sport regularly produced jaw-dropping video clips. Two climbers stand at the base of a 49-foot wall and then rocket upward ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced on Wednesday that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These ...

Watson had set the world speed climbing record earlier this year in a World Cup event in China at 4.79 seconds. But his pace in Paris was even quicker. One stunning performance that followed ...