Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. American teenager Sam Watson set a new world record at the Olympics on Tuesday in the relatively new Olympic event of sport ...

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Gautron Lison L of France and Takeuchi Ai of Japan compete during the qualification of the women's speed of sport climbing at the Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest in Budapest, Hungary, June 21, 2024.

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 ...

When the world’s fastest speed climbers launched off the starting strip at the 2025 GoPro Mountain Games, flying ...

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 ...

Sam Watson competes in the men’s speed qualification at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 22, 2023. Senior Correspondent If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced today that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These new ...