As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris draw closer, those athletes looking to participate begin their training.
"Let's go! Let's go!" someone yelled as athletes began their race up the climbing wall at the Momentum Indoor Climbing gym in Millcreek."It is extremely exciting," Merritt Ernsberger said. "I can't even imagine walking onto that stage and what that would be like."
Ernsberger is one of the top speed climbers in the U.S. and is hoping he can get fast enough to make the 2024 Paris U.S. Olympic Team. It's why he was a part of the national team training camp in Salt Lake City, which was held this week. Speed climbing is now its own discipline in the Olympics, instead of being mixed with boulder and lead climbing like it was during the sport's debut during the 2020 Tokyo Games."It puts a whole new focus on speed," explained John Muse, vice president of sport for USA Climbing. "It's a whole other team that we're now having to support, having to find resources for, get coaches for, and find opportunities for them to train.
USA Climbing did well in the recent Tokyo Games. Three of the team's four athletes reached the finals, with Salt Lake City's very own
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