Paris Games 2024: Google celebrates climbing with a thrilling doodle. Check it out
Sport climbing combined olympics Google Doodles over the past few days have featured a mix of popular and less popular sports, from football to sport climbing, as reported today.
Ankush Pandey
The sports climbing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics will begin on August 5 and continue until August 10.
Google Doodle Today:
Google is celebrating the Paris Olympics 2024 with eye-catching doodles on the various sports taking place this year, from artistic gymnastics to surfing. On Wednesday, August 7, the search giant chose to highlight another unique sport: sport climbing.
The doodle features Google's distinctive Olympic birds climbing a building in Paris (marked by Gothic gargoyles) and overcoming an obstacle without regard for their own lives.
The 2024 Summer Olympics' sport climbing competitions got underway on August 5 and run until August 10.
Constructed especially for the Games, the Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Saint-Denis is home to these activities. Constructed nearby is an aquatic center.
Competition climbing returns to the Olympic program following its debut at this year's Tokyo 2020 Games.
Since the boulder-and-lead events have been separated from the speed climbing format, there are now four medal events instead of the previous two. The number of climbers has also increased, from forty in Tokyo to sixty-eight in Paris.
International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has pushed for distinct medals for bouldering, lead climbing, and speed climbing since its founding in Tokyo in 2020. Critics of the scoring system, however, pointed out that the Tokyo format integrated all three disciplines into a single event for each gender. The International Olympic Committee has responded by deciding to give medals in boulder-and-lead combined and speed climbing, two distinct categories for each gender.
68 climbers will compete in Paris: 28 in the speed format and 40 in the boulder-and-lead combined category. Each participating country can have up to four climbers, with two competitors of each gender in each format.
