australian teenager oceana mackenzie will be challenging the world s best at the aomi sports park, as the sport aims to gain millions more fans around the world. i m oceana mackenzie, i do sport climbing and i m from australia. so, i started when i was about eight, and, yeah, my mum, she actually took my sisters to our local climbing gym, but i would go with them and hang out at the gym and start traversing around the walls. and, yeah, i pretty muchjust loved it straightaway. climbing has this great challenge where you re actually trying to find a way to get up the climb. i loved having that challenge of trying to figure it out and challenge my mind as well as my body. the good thing about climbing is it s always really great to find your own way because you have a special kind of way of doing things. i never expected climbing to be in the olympics, so when it was first decided, i was like, oh, that s amazing. it can be really great for the sport! and then when we realised that i cou
a little bit with something called the twisties, or her mind and body are not quite connecting when she is pulling up some of those most dangerous tricks. she is going to compete in the beam final. she won bronze in the event and this is her final chance at a metal. we have seen her cheer on all her team mates over the last week so she will now reappear at these games. so lots of people are going to be very interested to see how she goes and no doubt will be wishing her well. yes, she s a big hit at our house and certainly we will be wishing her well over here as well. with a combination of lead climbing, speed climbing and bouldering, the new olympic sport of sport climbing will be one of the toughest gold medals to win in tokyo. usually athletes focus on one or two of the disciplines, so being an all rounder is a big advantage. australian teenager oceana mackenzie will be challenging the world s best at the aomi sports park as the sport aims to gain millions more