Molly and Will - final chance for Olympic qualification

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Will Bosi and Molly Thompson-Smith will soon be heading out to Moscow, Russia to compete in the IFSC Europe Continental Championships.

Will and Molly are going to battle it out in the individual disciplines of Boulder, Lead and Speed, before representing Great Britain in the Combined event.

In the Combined event, athletes compete across Speed, Boulder and Lead. This will be their final chance to qualify for the last two places at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which will now take place in 2021.

Preparing the athletes for this competition, which takes place 19-28 November, has been an unprecedented process due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. With lockdown climbing wall closures, GB Climbing athletes were not able to regularly train together and prepare as they would normally.

However, thanks to UK Sport’s Aspiration Fund Programme, GB Climbing were able to collaborate with Sheffield-based climbing walls The Climbing Works and Awesome Walls. These became defined performance facilities, under elite athlete guidance from DCMS. These walls facilitated GB Climbing athletes in returning to training in a COVID-19 safe environment and provided Molly and Will with the facilities they needed to prepare for the Championship.

Zoe Spriggins, GB Climbing competition programme manager, said:

“GB climbing is attending Moscow 2020 because it is Will and Molly’s final chance to qualify for the Olympic Games. The IFSC have confirmed that the event is going to go ahead and GB Climbing is fully supporting them in achieving their aspirations and dreams of gaining Olympic qualification.”

Tom Greenall, GB Climbing head coach, said:

“In Molly Thompson Smith and Will Bosi, we have a great chance of qualification. We want to go to Moscow because we want to give them the opportunity to fight for those places. We’ve put together a program around our two athletes to ensure that they’ve been able to go from a position of no training at the peak of the pandemic to being fully competition ready in five weeks.

“The measures we have put in place to manage COVID-19 go from the very complicated to doing the basics brilliantly. It’s about sanitising, making sure we wear masks at all times and ensuring social distancing. We have a very robust risk assessment for the Moscow event and plans of how we’re going to manage ourselves in the travel, in the competition, and any transit in between. We are going to make sure, at all times, that our team is safe. We take it very seriously and, back in the UK, our medical team is always on hand to give the team any support needed.”

Will Bosi, GB Climbing athlete, said:

“GB Climbing has been crucial in helping me prepare for this event. They’ve organised the GB Climbing Team training in the run-up, giving me lots of one-to-one sessions with my coach, allowing me to specialise on boulder sessions. It’s made a big difference to my training, and hopefully this will show in Moscow.”

Molly Thompson-Smith, GB Climbing athlete, said:

“This year is the most supported I’ve felt in the last few years of doing competitions. GB Climbing has taken all the stress of organisation away but, more importantly, has been able to set up a dedicated training space for us in Unit E at The Climbing Works in Sheffield.”
 
How many places are they competing for?

Looking at the entry list there are only a few names i recognise in the mens and even less in the women's.

If there are a few places left they should have a good chance to qualify.
 
1 place for men, 1 for women I think... so a big ask but certainly not impossible given the field
 
GLHF!!

Can we have a drinking game where we take a shot every time the press release mentions GB Climbing - will be paralytic half-way through.

Best of luck to Molly Thompson-Smith F8c beast and Will Bosi F9b beast. Hopefully Molly's form in Germany and Will's general strength will stand them in good stead!
 
Duma said:

Get Lots of High Feet ;)

What grade does someone have to climb before the “Chris says hi” effect kicks in and they’re only referred to by their first name by the way?
 
cheque said:
Duma said:

Get Lots of High Feet ;)

What grade does someone have to climb before the “Chris says hi” effect kicks in and they’re only referred to by their first name by the way?

All down to # of insta followers now #influencer
 
How did they do in speed? I find the website not the best to find stuff easily! I read Will qualified...
 
Think Bosi came in about 14th in Speed.
Just watching Women's Boulder quals. Don't usually bother, I find it too crowded on screen but with Covid distancing it's actually quite good entertainment for a piss-wet Sunday.
And it's nearly dark now, so I can justify a beer to watch the Men's comp.
 
Molly came 25th, I think she was 3 seconds off qualifying for the next stage.

They have put the results on the site as PDFs. They include all.of the details for once.

I think how they get the results out is something they need to improve on, their website is terrible for looking up historical information. Tweeting out a link to results and including them on a webpage, instead of hidden in PDFs isn't that hard.
 
I'm still not clear if they means either of them have qualified for the olympics. Anyone?
 
Is the scoring for this event in the olympic format? i.e. speed x boulder x lead
 
The first few days are separate events. Friday and Saturday are the combined with Olympic format and scoring.
 


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