Speed sport climbing was offered at the Olympics for the first time during the Paris Games. Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at ...

Sport climbing kicked off at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday with cheering fans marking the sport's second time at the Games after a toned-down debut during the previous Games. There are three ...

An 18-year-old from Texas just set a new world record for speed climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. American athlete Sam Watson just broke his own world record on his way to the quarter-finals of the ...

World-record holder Sam Watson is set to compete in the sport climbing men's speed event on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Watson, 18, set the world record of 4.79 seconds in April at the sport ...

If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal in speed climbing—the new stand-alone event in which athletes scale a 15-m wall in around five sec., or less—he’ll have some pretty sweet ...

MERIDIAN, Idaho — The Treasure Valley continues to ascend the ranks of the rock climbing world. Rajath Thekkedath, the head coach of the Vertical View climbing team, has seen it firsthand. "This ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. LE BOURGET, France — If you hold the world record in the fastest Olympic sport you can ...