{"id":15388,"date":"2021-02-22T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/?p=15388"},"modified":"2024-05-31T05:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T04:42:05","slug":"climbing-leads-the-way-for-new-olympic-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/sports\/other-sports\/olympic-games\/climbing-leads-the-way-for-new-olympic-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Leads the Way for New Olympic Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be five new sports at this summer&#8217;s Olympic Games, offering even more events for spectators in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look at the new additions and what you can look forward to at the delayed 2020 Games &#8211; which get underway on July 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sport Climbing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be three different sections to the Sport Climbing discipline &#8211; Speed Climbing, Bouldering and Lead Climbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speed Climbing sees two participants race against each other up a 15m wall, which will see the men complete in around five or six seconds and the women at around seven or eight seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bouldering sees climbers scale several fixed routes on a 4m wall, without ropes, within a given time. With the climber that solves the most &#8216;problems&#8217; in the lowest number of attempts, the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lead Climbing sees the athletes try to climb as high as possible up a 15m overhanging wall, in a six-minute time period. The climber that reaches the highest point wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can&#39;t wait to see six climbers wearing these \ud83d\ude0d<br><br>\ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd48\ud83e\udd49<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aEuooNDwmO\">https:\/\/t.co\/aEuooNDwmO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; International Federation of Sport Climbing (@ifsclimbing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ifsclimbing\/status\/1361625957606506499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gold medal is awarded to the climber with the highest cumulative score across the three disciplines, with 20 athletes competing in both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surfing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel of judges will decide who wins the first surfing gold medals, with Shidshita beach the venue for this summer&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be 20 competitors in both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s competitions and they will be split into heats of four surfers, with the best two going through to the next round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judges scores will be based on the difficulty of manoeuvres, along with the likes of speed, power and flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Karate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judo has been a long-time staple of the Olympics, but now Karate enters the fray with 80 athletes competing in two styles &#8211; forms and sparring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forms (Kata) is a demonstration of offensive and defensive movements to a virtual opponent and the competitors are judged on the likes of strength, speed, rhythm and balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kumite (Sparring) sees two people compete on the mat, and use three techniques &#8211; striking, kicking and punching. Competitors score points for landing strikes in the target area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baseball \/ Softball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite most people seeing Baseball and Softball as American sports, they are also of huge interest in Japan and are likely to be a very popular return to the Olympic ranks, having been absent since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men will compete in Baseball, using a small and harder ball, while Softball is the female event, with a bigger ball used and the pitcher is forced to pitch underarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both sports see nine players in each team, with the winner being the team with the most runs after nine innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skateboarding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After being a big sport in the X-Games, Skateboarding enters the Olympics this year and there will be two events &#8211; Park and Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Park sees competitors showing off their skills and tricks in a half-pipe environment, with judges scoring them on difficulty, originality and execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Street is judged on a similar scale, with athletes showing their tricks on the likes of stairs, handrails, walls and slopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be five new sports at this summer&#8217;s Olympic Games, offering even more events for spectators in Tokyo. We look at the new additions and what you can look forward to at the delayed 2020 Games &#8211; which get underway on July 23. Sport Climbing There will be three different sections to the Sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympic-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39708,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions\/39708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}