Fitness: How soon should young athletes start nurturing their Olympic dream?
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Fitness: Olympics are a display of true grit
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Odysseus at the limestone swell of Gotterwandl, near Innsbruck. She’d been trying the 25-meter 8b/c
Janus (5.14a/b) all that day last August and was tired, but still wanted to do something else.
Odysseus was “short and punchy,” as she puts it. Only 10 meters.
Why not?
The route is slightly overhung, with only decent holds. She nearly fell on the first crux, a deadpoint, and when she reached a good hold decided to fight then onsighted her first 8b (5.13d).
“It was totally unexpected,” she says.
Thompson-Smith had spent the spring pandemic lockdown training in Germany with her partner, Jan Hojer (GER). Emerging to an empty comp calendar, she found more chance to climb outside than she’d ever had.