{"id":25172,"date":"2019-06-10T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T03:12:00","slug":"world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup climbing thrills crowds in Vail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.6930860033727\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-367213-256\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily | Slovenia's Janja Garnbret powers her way to her sixth consecutive IFSC World Cup Bouldering win on Saturday at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Slovenia&#8217;s Janja Garnbret powers her way to her sixth consecutive IFSC World Cup Bouldering win on Saturday at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail.<\/strong><br \/>Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11.jpg\" alt=\"Slovenia's Janja Garnbret powers her way to her sixth consecutive IFSC World Cup Bouldering win on Saturday at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily | The Czech Republic's Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail's GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The Czech Republic&#8217;s Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail&#8217;s GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.<\/strong><br \/>Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Czech Republic's Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail's GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily | The Czech Republic's Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail's GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The Czech Republic&#8217;s Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail&#8217;s GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.<\/strong><br \/>Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Climbing-VDN-060919-11-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Czech Republic's Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail's GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">VAIL \u2014 The closest thing might be hanging on the rim after a slam dunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There are very few moments of \u201cI\u2019m the boss\u201d in sports like hanging by one arm, looking out at a huge crowd after summiting a course Saturday afternoon during an International Federation of Speed Climbing Bouldering World Cup at the GoPro Mountain Games at Vail\u2019s Mountain Plaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sure it\u2019s \u201conly\u201d 30 feet, with perils abounding in \u201crocks\u201d extending outward, placing climbers in conflict with gravity. The athletes put their entire weight on toeholds that seem suitable only for insects. These people have muscles on muscles to get into the crevices and angles necessary to make it to the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So hang around a little while, if you make it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOK, this is so unreal,\u201d Slovenia\u2019s Janja Garnbret said after winning her sixth straight World Cup, a new circuit record. \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened. This year I was never nervous before a World Cup, but this time, I was freaking out. But I had fun, and it was enough for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Japan\u2019s Yoshiyuki Ogata won the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Janja again<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the women\u2019s competition, the first difference-maker came on the second wall with a quarter sphere jutting out from it about 15-20 feet up the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That problem dropped France\u2019s Luce Douady Fanny Gibert and Japan\u2019s Mao Nakamura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Wall No. 3 featured three different panels, all at 90-degree angles, and flummoxed all but Garnbret, who summoned her experience as a spider in a previous life \u2014 there is no other explanation \u2014 and Gibert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That left the Slovenian with a 10-point advantage over Japan\u2019s Akiyo Noguchi and Miho Nonaka and Gibert, going into the final wall of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The last problem of the day inverted climbers at a 45-degree angle over the stage before the crest. Successfully navigating the 45-degree plane to the final panel perpendicular to the stage was the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Noguchi was the first to make it all the way up, but Garnbret answered in her first try with a successful summit. At the top, she appeared to cup her hand to her face in joy, knowing she had clinched her sixth straight World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAfter the last boulder, I couldn\u2019t hide the feelings,\u201d Garnbret said. \u201cAll the hard work paid off. I was so happy I made it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">We\u2019ve got a problem<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In official climbing parlance, the routes up each of the four walls are called problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And with good reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">By and large, there is one solution to each problem. The men\u2019s competition took on a more deliberate pace as the athletes mapped out their path during their allotted four minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The pauses added to the drama in front of a crowd backed up all the way to Bridge Street, all looking at the climbing competition with Vail Mountain as its backdrop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The third wall to the far east of the stage started separating the six finalists. Ironically, in a climbing competition, this feature tested the athletes\u2019 ability to work horizontally across three panels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Japan\u2019s Tomoa Narasaki and Yoshiyuki Ogata were the only to navigate it, the latter head-butting the wall in celebration at the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the de facto all-Japanese final on the fourth climb, Narasaki fell four times trying to make the transition from the 45-degree inverted angle to the final panel. By finishing second, Narasaki clinched the season World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Two climbers later, Ogata summited the final problem on his first attempt, hanging at the top joyfully, seemingly on top of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">This story is from VailDaily.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/world-cup-climbing-thrills-crowds-in-vail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenia&#8217;s Janja Garnbret powers her way to her sixth consecutive IFSC World Cup Bouldering win on Saturday at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail.Max Phannenstiel \/ Special to the Daily The Czech Republic&#8217;s Adam Ondra works his way through a problem during the IFSC World Cup Bouldering event at Vail&#8217;s GoPro Mountain Games on Saturday.Max [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:24:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}