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To buck the trend I quite like the speed climbing, particularly in the qualifying format.

Ultimately I’d like to see it like the gymnastics, where there’s an all round event and medals in each individual discipline as well, but there was only one event on offer this time around.

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I’ve got a discovery + subscription for the month (£6.99) which I believe is showing everything

Bit the bullet and got this too. There was a massive deal between them and the IOC so there seems to be basically no other way to get good coverage of the Olympics.
Cheers, did this and cancelled immediately so I just get this month. OBviously speed can piss off.

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I got Disney+ first by accident  :slap:


Catch up on Marvel, Star Wars and watch Free Solo again on National Geo..

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Can you watch it on catch up anywhere or is it only available live?

This??

I'm at work anyway.

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If speed were a separate event, I would have no problem with it - that Mawen run was pretty excitng. It's just difficult watching it thinking it could  determine the outcome of  the whole  thing . . .

You're  not missing too  much with the commentary, understandably it's aimed at an audience new to climbing. There was some  chat  earlier about how climbing shoes would 'destroy the feet of ordinary mortals'.

Looks like the discovery app thing does have some watch again stuff. No idea if that will include any/all climbing though

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Here's a thought, why don't we just abolish speed climbing because it's fucking stupid.

It's a legit sport it should just be a separate medal. Lead and Bouldering should split out too. Why they decided to just have one medal per is beyond me

The medal should be a chocolate disc wrapped in gold foil. But when the speed climber opens it the chocolate is imprinted with the words "Speed climbing is fucking crap" and when they bite into it it should taste of poo.

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Can you watch it on catch up anywhere or is it only available live?

This??

I'm at work anyway.
They do seem to have all the previous videos available on catch-up too, just checked with a couple of random athletics ones from previous days.

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Speed climbing is not my favourite thing either but surprised some people are still so bitter. Just roll with it and try to enjoy the spectacle. If it wasn't for speed the rest might not even be in the Olympics.

Cheers for looking Fiend

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Pretty annoying that the BBC have the best commentary team, currently just sat talking to themselves in a studio in London.

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Is it outside because of COVID? A shame to have them competing in such toss connies.

The first lad to top the 1st men's boulder did it by crimping the little lip where the volume meets the wall. He shook his head as he walked away. He knows he'd never get away with that down the local wall!

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Thanks for the info on this thread guys! Looked into Discovery+ and turns out we get a free 12 month subscription cos we recently got a Q Box! Happy days  :)

Sadly, the commentary is AWFUL!!!!

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Do you normally get to climb next to others trying the next problems?

Seems like the first person gets to try the beta and after that the others could begin to learn from them…

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yes, in Qualifiers.

Does anyone know if you can use other people's log in for discovery plus from a different device, or is it more complicated than Netflix or Disney+?

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yes, in Qualifiers.

Does anyone know if you can use other people's log in for discovery plus from a different device, or is it more complicated than Netflix or Disney+?

Think you can use up to 4 - sent you a pm

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Do you normally get to climb next to others trying the next problems?

Yes (in qualifying/semis).

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Thanks for the info on this thread guys! Looked into Discovery+ and turns out we get a free 12 month subscription cos we recently got a Q Box! Happy days  :)

Sadly, the commentary is AWFUL!!!!

You can turn off the commentary and just get sound from the arena.

Click the little volume icon inside a speech bubble (next to the LIVE text) and select ambient sound. Or Danish, Italian, German or Norwegian. All surely an improvement regardless of proficiency in the language.

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If it wasn't for speed the rest might not even be in the Olympics.

So another reason to hate on speed climbing :P

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Is men's 2 boulder really hard or something? Or am I misreading the scoreboard.

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If it wasn't for speed the rest might not even be in the Olympics.

So another reason to hate on speed climbing :P

Zing!

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Is men's 2 boulder really hard or something? Or am I misreading the scoreboard.

Yeah no zones so far. Looks like a varied set of problems!

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Came to this thread late, just to note that anyone who has a Vodafone mobile contract can get 6 months of Discovery+ for free,

No problems for me casting from app to Chromecast.

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It's a legit sport it should just be a separate medal. Lead and Bouldering should split out too. Why they decided to just have one medal per is beyond me

Price of gold, silver and copper/tin (bronze alloy) has increased significantly in the last two years. Can't afford too many new medals!

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I have it on in the background and occasionally flick on the commentary. It is absolutely remarkable how bad it is. The main bloke sounds like a complete coke-head.

The other guy just said that the Zone hold is a "base camp".

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Mawem on 2!!

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