The IFSC World Cup season kicked off this weekend in Keqiao, China. The international climbing elite competed at the Bouldering World Cup for the first time at World Cup level. Young Japanese talent Anraku Sorato took home gold in the men's competition, while Annie Sanders of the United States topped the podium in the women's competition.
Starting this season, new rules apply to the IFSC Bouldering and Lead World Cups. They affect the number of participants in semifinals and finals in both disciplines, and the scoring system for bouldering is also changing.
The International Climbing Association IFSC lurches from scandal to scandal. The association has already been confronted with allegations of sexism twice. Is the IFSC finally drawing lessons from the matter? Why did the exact same incident occur a second time? We put these and other questions to the IFSC - and received an interesting answer.
After weeks of uncertainty, it is now clear - in mid-April, Meiringen will be climbing again at the highest level. If the epidemiological situation allows, the world's best athletes will meet on April 16 and 17, 2021 for the first World Cup of the 2021 season in Haslital.
