IFSC Climbing World Cup Munich 2017 - Bouldering - Semi-Finals - Men/Women

[Music] good morning and welcome to Germany I'm one of the legendary IOC World Cups it's Munich believed to have been founded in the middle Evon hundreds Munich has been the capital of Bavaria since 1506 and even now it retains a traditional feel and is one of Western Europe's most fun and scenic cities combining interesting architecture numerous green parks and one or two decent bars as well Munich is also a thriving economic and cultural center of Germany and is home to amongst others BMW and Bayern Munich two of the country's best-known exports the Olympic Park where our event takes place was constructed for the 1972 Olympic Games and it remains a visionary piece of architecture 45 years on and a fitting home for the climax of the IFS sea bouldering season and before we bring you this morning semi-finals here's the best of yesterday's action in the qualifiers [Music] so here we are in the Olympic Stadium in Munich home to the 1972 Olympic Games and we're doing our qualifying highlights a bit differently today we're going to do it Boulder by Boulder we're going to show you every Boulder being topped we've been joined by a random German who's helped us out and to talk us through men's group a we've got you Val Shambala fresh from the lead season you Val welcome let's check out these boulders first up men's a number one tricky slab and rustam girl burn off inactive yeah really tricky slab I mean I the first hole you had nothing in there and then you need to like jump with her feet and hang to a halt and you need to jump to another a good sloper and then at the last part you have to really hard men-tel's and just get to the last holes there is also nothing email mom's two very different it was very different you have like bad pinches and like hard powerful moves the last the last part was like hard he hooks just more technical than start and was really hard for me yeah I men's three that's McKenna I'm not succeeding Jeremy ponder got a bit closer yeah it was a really hard Boulder I think not a lot but I topped it it was powerful and technical like you had on these big volumes it just needed to place her feet really good on Ben to like maybe make it more of a slab and then the last hole was really bad and it just needed to like maybe sit on the last volume and match it this fourth one was a bit easier than the other one you had like pretty straightforward south with crimps and a hard jump to an edge with like your feet up on the just the wall and then the last move was really hard a lot of guys struggled with it like you had to maybe smear high on the wall and just like get into this under edge and just think see the match is really hard this last one was again really powerful you have a really bad slow / to the left hand and then you need to explode - these two may be better holds and the last hole the last move was pretty hard because you had a smear not really a good foot fit old and just like match they're tough last hole [Applause] to discuss the men's group be bowlers just run into Alex Kazon I've got a pretty nice place to sit here above the Munich Stadium let's have a look at the year the boulders the boulder warm powerful one yeah I thought a nice Boulder to start with for sure as an athlete sometimes is that if you get a slab for the first bullet which which can get you really nervous but this Boulder you just go and explode some powerful big holds really fun one and Betty's making a really like video very nice to see so this tape Aaron's on them to not a powerful one number two is the pure power every comp we have this like repower for one just beautiful cone this is one this is probably the hardest Boulder of the group in terms of grades and also by the people topped it this one number three really technical looking slab and a tricky star it's the technical slab for sure but it's also diverse I mean you see here and then you jump up and then you need to Mendel I think it's a good stab is a combination of a lot of skills you need to have and when you find something technical and the top part is also really hard and you have to be really slow and really precise and what you do I think it's it's nice to have the slab as a third Boulder so you're already into the zone of the comp and you have your head right in the container be ready oh yeah I've been working on this slap technique he gets his reward so number four man will call new before never first be the finest one for me i everything took climbing it and I think most people enjoy climbing it it's also nice is like have technical have power for then number five number five is is this pure crimpy one face that you go yeah also a good set of boulders in my opinion Alex thank you very much for help unfortunately not enough for a semi-final for you but we are seeing you in our code giving leader go oh yeah I'll be fine first time in years so no expectations but for sure have so evening has arrived here in Munich I'm joined by Alex Pucci and Fanny geebeare Fanny your first we're going to talk through the Ebola started with number one the slab this one start with a little skate on the right and the last move was the hardest one with a crimping the higher part of the hole was possible to crimp it and to match this was the hardest move the number two was more powerful like very big move on good holes but it was overhanging and a lot of heel hook there was different better to do it but there was a very difficult last move to go on a big big volumes the third one was more about open hand holes and balance to move well on volumes and go hundred percent without hesitation the matching on the less hole was typical next world champion Patrick Lingala number four the number four was a dyno on some crimps but the tricky part was the first position to stop the dyno and then the last part was more easy more basic Elan crimps and a good check on the end and the last one it was difficult to move and find the balance to move every hand and there was a lot of different better ways to heal hoop and I think there was a thousand better to do this one the last one was about two mental on the left hand and creme de l'homme and then go go pretty fast on the last hole which was really good Alex you're up next be boulders yep that's me so I'm Boulder won the big red slopey holds I don't think I did the beta quite correctly but I had a slip-up in the middle where it was tricky with your right foot you had to make sure you didn't slip off going to the last crimp which is a little worse than I thought it was gonna be and then you jump to the last hold which is a glory jug so if you follow that thing you deserve it Boulder Boulder to was more powerful I think we had almost the exact same Boulder a group a it was sloppy with a bunch of big bumps I think there's a few different ways where you can make the mousse a little bit smaller but I usually don't like to do that method so go big or go home and then the last move actually I almost slipped out of it you have to get really far back into the slow part to get the jugu part of it so if you don't it's kind of tricky Boulder three took me a while to get the run across that is a really tricky move and then it got impossible I thought I don't understand how people grabbed to match the finish hold there was nothing there this slow for the bonus hold is really bad fairly stuff that the next hold is even worse and then I thought maybe the finish would be even better but the finish was horrendous okay so yeah and then Boulder for a very awkward jump with no hands something you never get outside so particularly I'm not very good at that but yeah there is I I think once you get to the crimps it's gonna be like more of a basic Boulder which I was hoping they'd get too and never got to it but the jump was really awkward cuz you had to jump with no hands the last folder the fifth one actually pretty cool there's like a little run I don't know if you call a run across but a little hop across and you have to stab your foot out when you get the bonus which is lots of fun and then I remember when I was going up at that I had like 20 seconds left when I got bonus I thought the last part would be easy and it actually was a little bit hard on these tiny little like fun I think I like summer flings or something and then you go to the finish hold which was really good so Alex thank you for help we don't see you in as many World Cups as we'd like can't wait to see you tomorrow I'm excited and hopefully it's colder and yeah hopefully everyone does well with no injuries 15 degrees colder I believe so conditions should be good and best to look thank you don't forget for full results from today's qualifiers you can go to the I FSC website and we'll see you tomorrow for the semies and I'm delighted to say that joining me in the commentary box today I've got two very special guests Campbell Harrison and Mike Lang Lynn Campbell you climbed on those boulders that we've just seen yesterday it was a hard set yeah I found them pretty tricky personally um I founded it hard there were sort of boulders they're a bit hard to get into a rhythm with like a lot of them had very tricky starting positions that forced you to really take a lot of attempts just to get onto the boulder they're quite physical a lot of the holes were very poor and so for me yeah it took a bit of time to like get into the rhythm and actually be able to like move and fight on the boulders properly and I know a lot of the other climbers felt the same way like you look at the results list and for a long way through you've got just bonuses or maybe one top some of the climbers just managed to figure out something that suited them but for sure it was the hardest one of the hardest World Cup rounds I've been in for the qualification and I know the other group was even tougher than mine so but they were enjoyable nevertheless and it's always fun to come here and climb on on World Cup boulders of course and the wall of course will be look very familiar to regular viewers of the Munich World Cup and might you've had a look at today's boulders what have they come up with on today's wall I think the area stick of anticipation already here in Munich it was super busy here all throughout yesterday big crowd and say again already this morning and the route says as always I've got a tough job not only have they got to think about the World Cup semi-final which is hard enough as it is they've got to think about who's going to take the overall and we've got the overall podium to come and we've got the European overall as well so we've got a lot of work to do the boulders look absolutely fantastic I think we are in for a really really good show so go ahead yeah just gonna say there's a lot of really good-looking bowlers a lot of tricks and it's gonna be it's gonna be really hard to make those splits I think when they set it was in super high temperatures and also had a crazy storm last night and the temperatures dropped by at least 1520 degrees since when they set the borders and in that scenario it's really difficult for the roots to predict what's going to happen so yeah we will we will see yes Mike said we had the most extraordinary weather yes so it's quite hard to believe now because it's quite chilly here in Munich around 20 degrees relatively chilly by August in Europe standards but yesterday it was so hot and this perspex roof that we have here in the Olympic Stadium it really makes it a bit like a sauna and the whole day was extraordinarily hot and then about 9 o'clock at night we had a storm that was actually described by the weather forecasters as a hurricane I've never experienced a hurricane before but it was pretty dramatic hurricane might have been slightly over the top but it was very strong winds very heavy rain extraordinary change I'm pleased to say today it's not raining but I said it's quite cold still relatively humid so here we go this is the first look at the first competitors semi-final here in Munich and like I said air is thick with anticipation really really looking forward to this round it's just a real buzz in here already and it's gonna be German out first Yannick Chloe followed in the women's by Ceaser competitor Yulia cruder yeah good to see you Leah back we haven't seen her in as many World Cups as we'd have like this year she made the final in the adidas rockstars last year she she's a previous finalist she can do it just about snuck into the semi-finals remember of course the athletes climb in reverse order if you qualify in 20th place you climb first out of 20 in the semi final and it's a pretty handy start so far Julia yeah this is a great start here from Judy she's obviously like you say Charlie such a seasoned competitor and showing a form already this first women's slam on these blocks holds really technical much harder than the qualifying slab that they had and more conventional slab climbing not too risky it's kind of more steady way but just dropping at the top there yeah that first woman slab looks really really tricky um the men's Boulder I kind of thought it looked like perhaps the easier of the four boulders the starting position looks a little bit tricky but then after that the holds aren't so bad really interesting I think to see Yannick fluid coming out in the semi-finals super young athlete I think he's born in 1999 so he'd be one of the younger climbers in the whole competition and he really crushed in the qualifiers and and has made it through the semi final so he could be a good one to watch yeah and what an awesome effort 292 competitors in total here in Munich completely unprecedented level of entries and for to get through just enough down to the final 20 is an achievement just in itself extraordinary effort from everyone at the IOC yesterday actually the qualifiers began at 7 a.m. and concluded I believe just after midnight the hurricane stopped play for a couple of hours it should have finished around 10 o'clock it would have been a huge day it became an absolutely enormous day thanks to the weather here we go this is my Yulia crotch as I say this is where she fell last time and burn as we look in the background jump off of the sloper pretty cool move once again cab all the routes as a kind of really bought the fiery moves straight into the competition yeah absolutely I think they're really with the with the European Championship being decided in the semi-final I think it's really really important that in this round they're getting the split so we'll probably be seeing lots and lots of attempts being made on all the boulders and lots of dumps jumps and dinos and tricky slab moves like this just to make sure that they don't have to go through to any kind of tiebreak boulders or anything like that to decide the European turn so it's just under one minute left on the clock Oh sticks it this time that's a great move root says now they got to go through the high foot and he thinks it's much harder at all the climates but no such problems so it's touring across the back here this is a great effort can you roll over to finish so what could oh it's right around the corner aha heartbreak a great start to the competition amazing to hear this crowd in the MC here in Munich it's only ten o'clock in the morning huge crowd here believe we've got the crowd of around 4000 around 4,000 tickets have been sold getting straight into it straight away that was a huge - you probably picked it up on our microphones only about five meters off from the end of the wall here in Munich and there's newly accrued a6 here last year in Munich made the finals you can do it as I said earlier sister of Ouray they've got five seconds left just a time correction there it's actually one minute left there's a slight issue with a sign clock at the moment I'm sure we'll get that licked in - my apologies I couldn't repeat the double jump again but like you say it's got enough time just four minutes these athletes have four boulders to compete against today to get through to the final just six climbers go through to the final yeah this first left hand on the folder that yonyx on now is it's quite poor but as long as you can get enough power to carry through to the right hand side the next one's really good and you can get that a opposition between the two holds and then hopefully he can pull the end together I think it's just a matter of making sure he gets nice and high but times up unfortunately so obviously the next bowler is coming out in just a moment yes and next out it will be another German climber Matthias Conrad and in the women's ekaterina capri anova of russia will be out climbers number two as you can see the olympic stadium or our part of it here in munich beginning to fill up very quickly and as i say i'm told it is a sellout conditions still humid but certainly better than were yesterday temperature must be at least 10 or 15 degrees lower so Matthias Conrad one of three Germans in this stage of the competition xlvii last year in Munich so he's done really well to improve on that she been training very very hard since the last-minute competition Campbell you must have seen him on the circuit yeah absolutely I climb next to him in the qualification actually it's a super passionate climber you can definitely you know what he's feeling whether that the anger or frustration or or satisfaction with his climbing but yeah like like with all the guys you know it's a super super tough field so it plays what was it 40 something's in the last Munich World Cup and then now he's in the semis and another World Cup maybe he'd be in the finals or maybe he'd be in 70th it really is like such a tough deep field here so if it's really cool we get to see lots of different climbers pulling through six the Dinos straightaway which is super impressive and I think maybe we'll see a top if he can get higher and up it high enough into this gastón but again a bit tougher for the taller athletes like we were saying before I think look very casual in the process as well but this suddenly looks a bit tricky who's just trying to figure out what to do the legs how to squirm to go to the left hand on top you can see him fighting also smiling enjoying the support the local crowd got the left hand needs both that was absolutely desperate so well actually could see his teeth and the space just gurning all the way from where we are hundreds of meters away from that spot it's absolutely brilliant fighter they've got a lot of climbing to watch today this Munich crowd if they can keep up this enthusiasm I'll be very impressed something tells me they will know the drink stand doing a roaring trade it's only 10:00 a.m. it's 5 o'clock somewhere though this lab looked really really tricky when I when I took a look at it close to the wall basically none of the whole Ted anything on them I'm even impressed that so many of both of our women are getting to the bonus so easily I I am yeah I thought it looked like a really really tough Boulder for a slab and this last move just looks heinous so I'm really excited to see some of the climbers pull this all together no issue on the screen and as ever I foresee World Cups you can get in touch with this hashtag ifs CWC on twitter if you've got any questions for celebrity climber camel harrison or celebrity route setter and media darling might Langley get in touch hashtag ifs e WC we've got a packed schedule for you today we also have the European Championships coming up after this it is a rather complicated system rather complicated solution to the problem that the athletes raised when it was suggested that the European Championships could just be decided by the World Cup ranking there are a few issues of that and the athletes Commission did a great job in coming up with a solution it's not perfect but it does the job it is slightly complicated though we will explain to you as the broadcast goes on but there will be more action after the 20 climbers that you see in the normal World Cup semi-final break and then we'll get on with the remaining European athletes motor of 20 Europeans go through in that European temperatures and we will explain more about that later ox is slightly complex and but when you get head into it it's not actually that's too bad once I read the press release three times it made sense let's have a look at Caterina how we're about to see top on women's one inching her way up she's been this far before this on the right-hand lamb hold it's one final move to the last one's good it's probably one of the better holds on the boulder but the feet are really really terrible so she's gonna have to be really careful but here sticking the Dino again and hopefully you can pull it together there we go down first top of the competition it's Petrina kip putting over great effort from the young Russian and just as we see in the background the German athlete not quite meant to be for him on that bowler really is gonna be out of time four minutes only for these climbers chuckle for boulders we saw a really really interesting technique there from Matthias the way he walked he waited the time all the way down to the end he almost flashed the boulder so basically he wasn't going to learn anything more from further attempt so he waited rested as much as he could and unfortunately it didn't work but the hope is that you recover as much as you can and then you can pull those final moves together with maximal effort yeah it's always a fine line to draw how many attempts to take how much energy to use remember of course these climbers some of them will have spent a long time in isolation yesterday done a lot of warming up a lot of preparation then five hard boulders they're out again this morning it's a relatively early start so you got to measure that energy you've got to use it wisely in terms the number of attempts how much you give to each fold and when you maybe just write one off and so this one's not for me so clay yes sorry Michael we're about to say the same thing very excited to see this climber there 1:09 Alexander Magus were used to seeing him in yellow t-shirts climbing outside I did I saw him at breakfast this morning and asked why they haven't provided a yellow uniform for him apparently he has to wear the German uniform but we're looking forward to seeing Alexander Megas known primarily as an outdoor climber but has been successful in bouldering competitions in the foot before sports even legends only up in Stockholm it's not his first time in the competition but he's certainly not a World Cup veteran I think that would be fair to say but there should be no issues with horsepower he took away the climbing work International Federation competition beating John munch on back in March 2017 this year so he's obviously no slouch in the competitions but at the moment it's all eyes on Kenya has micawber lead climber predominantly I'm turning a hand on to the bouldering and doing quite well at it indeed yeah real all-around athlete we're in the Olympic Stadium and think of the Olympics in 2020 we'll be there in 3 years time you could do a lot worse and keeping your eye on if Kenya Kazbek over and so you taught the smaller one perfect start and that the key to these labs is really just you know pure slam pony so just keep breathing stay calm don't let the excitement and energy of the crowd just put you off see you lea crew this is our first look at women's number two a real fight on these undercut volumes and a really cam a really complex border for these women lots of volumes and I've told been told after that sections a particularly heinous mantle absolutely at first I thought that it maybe looked a little bit easier after that section you get a nice jug to maybe have a shake out on after the bonus and then the end is like it's a mantle with really really poor feet up into this sort of under cling that I have to press up into and then a really unstable pop to the final hold so I'm really excited to see some of the girls pull through to that move right now we've got Yannick on the second black Boulder which looks really really cool I had combination of different styles I thought really gymnastic start to a fairly poor slot it's quite sloppy um and then some very very physical moves there is some small crimps see him stick the Dino a bit tricky to read to see how that bonus works into the whole sequence but um yeah again would be really interesting to see some of the guys figure that one out that's an awesome display of power here and the brilliant footless cut for who gets it so hook heads right this is exactly what the crowd wanna see got a drop hit the left hand now it gets quite complicated with the put options out to the right there is some so what's available there and what a powerful move that is yeah that was crazy there is out right actually a little chip on one of the volumes that I think a hill hook is intended for but we'll see exactly what the guys decide to do with that like I said it was really tricky to read Alex not quite sticking this first I know I think maybe the second half of the boulder will certainly fit comport together and as we carry on watching we've got our chief route setter here in Munich Matt you do tie Matthew you've seen the first 15 minutes three or four climbers what are your first impressions of the the competition so far happy with your work like we wanted to the snap for the girls what we expected it's it's a real snap pretty snow so that's summit show but it's pretty hard to climb in there not so much risky and then for the the mez bowler it's it's it's great I mean we could see the first one it's it's exactly that we want there's a first double jump which is okay and then there's a tricky hands at the end of the boulder is really tricky so it works exactly like we want we catch it now okay hit we just out those ways that's assault from Alexander Magus German crowd enjoyed that one that final move that he just did it looks desperate yeah it's a really tricky last move and then the short-timer make it that's great that's ago a ways ago we want and then we could see in the second Boulder there is this first big jump well first I know which is that so hard but it's it's just need to understand how to arrive on this hold but after as we can see the the end of the boulder it's it's it's not so hard it's just you really have to find a good way to go in there and actually he didn't find exactly the the section of the move but for sure it's gonna happen and then the second will go of the gills actually it's a very hot water it's very physical and it's not so hard to read in to initiate but really this is a hard border so you see how this one gets going this way okay thank you for talking to us will you come back a bit later on when we've seen boulders three and four that'll be great to hear from you again I will be there thanks very much so out next starting the competition it's Manuel corner representing team France four tops and eleven attempts for him to get through to today's semi-finals finals twice already in 2017 and particularly famous for his finals show last year when he had a slight incident shall we say we won't say too much more about that I'm sure he's sick of everybody hearing about it but Manuel corner then on excellent form this year in an excellent form on the first move of men's number one a great start from here this is where we saw Alexander migos really tucking in and having a kind of no real issues here let's see what my new corner who can do then it really tough cross river are with ease a great start from the Frenchman will he push for another finals place here this weekend yeah that looked out it stupid easy familiar there um I wasn't surprised he sucked it I know he's really really good at that like coordination style but ya know that last move didn't look problematic at all for him so that's always interesting as the next few athletes come out gets better and better just off the screen there we saw top from another French athlete it's amazing agra parts a perfect start from her just to bring you up to date with a few results actually alexander Megas he got that first boulder on his fifth attempt and it was a flash room manuel cornu the top that we saw from getting a Kazbek over and also Malee's Agrabah they were both flashes ekaterina capri anova second attempt down the borders yeah absolutely some of the last photos look really really tough again some really really tricky start positions and really crazy climbing the Katarina's making nice work of this yellow boulder so far she's only the second climber that we've seen but nevertheless first one to get the bonus really an effort there and what is obviously a really difficult man to hunt really struggling to get all three points on board that yellow hold this is a great burn really close to her top here just got to match that next hold with the funds on the underside of that volume and push with what is potentially a pretty good finish hold absolutely the last hold the victory jug but the moves to get there look super super hard super strenuous so if she manages to push through these moves and doesn't stick the last hold it could be really really tough to have enough energy to come back again and do it but hopefully she can pull it together on this attempt to make it work really starting to root read through this section now really feeling out a lot of volumes and just stretches for the finish all with ease that was really impressive just look kind of really confused there for a minute really took her time then just looked up meant oh no it's her finest right there yeah and remember to match I know you said we won't mention about memoir corny but in case you did not see our coverage last time he got one hand on to one of the top holes turned to celebrate to the crowd and dropped it before he could match and of course he wasn't awarded the top because he hadn't had both hands on the top Elaine is less than bit of painful way to learn it and I think a lot of other people learn that lesson as well out day oh yeah absolutely a second editor is like a really stark reminder to always match the whole before you before you celebrate so it's a good first really good look at this men's number two a brilliant diner and super physical it's actually pretty far great zoom in there you can see exactly what it's go for it looks like a jug from a distance but when you can see inside it like that it's really a slow pee pocket at best absolutely we get a lot of those in the leaf comps as well and you never really know what you're going for sometimes they're a jug and then this one not so much I think it's quite slow being quite hard to stick and you have to be super coordinated to get both hands into that pocket and pinch it exactly right and then also the outside its dual textured so the outside is like glass so you can't really get much but there is a little thumb catch on the bottom that makes it a little bit nice of the stick sticks it this time over just 45 seconds left is it gonna be enough we've been to this point before but it's got a real fight on his hands here you know it's a huge diner when we're on the mats earlier I'm not the tallest of climbers but it looks an awful long way and then you have to switch into a very different style you got to lock off tiny holes the German crowd loving this he's a couple of moves away 25 seconds to go shouldn't be an issue with time there is an issue and that right foot cut loose swings out to the left and couldn't control it just have another look at the jump he can see from how his arms move how far he's got to go his arms go right down to next to his hips and come all he's got time to bring him all the way through tube of his head molasses what's good about that move as well it's really only picking up a one hand so he kind of like he managed to squeeze doing there but managed to slap the left hand on top of the right hand that kind of clamped him in pretty painful I imagine on the fingers but painting is no issue at this phasing the competition they'll do whatever it takes and the later latter part of that problem it's really about finding the feet in finding the sequence which i think is really difficult to read from the ground our first look at the left-hand side of the wall as we look at it and men move on to the slab of really genuine pure slab climbing this for the German athlete to tackle and unique relief from Slovenia attacking a super powerful set of volumes on the far left-hand side of the wall the wall here in Munich is split into half as first boulders are on the right and we move across the stage and the final borders are on the left-hand side of the stage to huge wall here but split in half and so we see right first cam ePHI attempting women's 1 chatted with her compatriot and so we saw earlier Fanny geebeare yesterday well represented in this semi-final France they didn't come to some of the World Cups the European ones are always well represented so it is here in Munich I think the French are really well prepared for the year for this competition obviously it doubles up into the European Championships supersolid are easy in the end you've managed to stay super composed you couldn't see any signs of wobbling or nervousness in the feet and the legs and it was a really really good top there and just say there there's an excellent article and UK climbing with the French team manager if you guys are home to check that out it's a really good insight into the coaching game and how the French prepare for the internationals and some really good insight as to kind of what the French do to prepare and what events they miss as we look at Yulia crudo really fighting away through these powerful volumes feet cutting again butts so so strong great core tension there this is fantastic really really strong climbing familiar some of these slope is are actually really really bad these last one so bad though so I think she should be able to pull together Oh nicely done a campus to finish his own form absolutely bring the crowd love to see a campus finish yeah crowd were loving that as I said they're full of energy if they can keep this going till 10 o'clock tonight I'm gonna be very very impressed but yet no pastors and Shipra cheering equally loud for everyone with the benefit of hindsight we could have maybe been a bit further away from the crowd because when they get going pretty much defens you so you perv atmosphere though here in Munich by this evening every inch of floor space to be taken up flush the first Boulder evgeny barely got a chance to see it Campbell just a quick one we've had a question on Twitter from SAP Ian kanzi SAP income Z will come back in just a second but be about to see another top men's Warren we are well whenever you when the climbers get that body position correct it seems like the moves not too hard it seems like if you a tiny bit out with the body position it looks utterly desperate salutely I think it's really about getting high into that guest on and pressing your hip over the foothold and if you can push yourself into that position you should just be able to lock off and reach over to the final hold which i think is quite a good edge so as long as you have it you shouldn't fall off yeah quick question from SAP in comms ed another Twitter handle that's hard to pronounce where are the John Smith's didn't Adam Smith's in this world he says Charlie what is the most difficult part of training for you I think it might pass that one on to Campbell actually the most difficult part of training that's a really really interesting question because I mean training is always hard in its nature I think at a World Cup level the hardest part of training is injury management and injury prevention I think a lot of top World Cup climbing or remaining at the height of top World Cup climbing comes down to your ability to to manage and recover from and prevent injuries as you train because there isn't really time you know every time you get an eagle or a little something that doesn't feel quite right you can't just stop because everything else keeps going so learning to alter your training according to how your body feels and and learning when to push through and when do not push through and then how to best rehab something whilst also becoming stronger in every other area it's probably one of the hardest parts training I'd say we're just under 20 seconds left really short of time here for Kenny a cosmic over and we just saw off the shot Alex Magus struggling on the Dino so the first man to one sight 9a outdoors on rock potentially not trained that mainly big dinos he you could see him earlier on the week on his social media feed practicing the modern star practicing the jumps but max may goes easy top of number one but nothing for him on number two it's Clement Collier starts her campaign and Mickey on my way I'm always enjoy watching him remember he was one of the stars of the Tokyo World Cup back in May got a question another question on Twitter we will cut back to the action if we see someone heading towards the top but the question from full-name I believe that is this Twitter handle full name dear athletes watch the streams after comes maybe to prepare techniques or just for fun absolutely 100% um I mean I'm sure there's exceptions to that but for the most part if you're under semi-final and you have that opportunity to watch back all of your boulders and know what you did but also to see what the other climbers did and because you've always got coaches who are going to film you and and you can check back and see how you've been climbing but yeah definitely we go back to see all the other climbers and how we can learn and improve so it's manual corner at the moment from Team France then pushing towards the top of this pole and not seen much action up here you can see your heart yeah physically is great view that's the penultimate hold Kenny saw his feet can he release the hill and not lose the tension you just see how hard the right hill was digging in there he needs to get this hold well on exactly what I just said as soon as the hill went manual corner was out there was a really good burn early on in this time and what an angle this is seen smashing onto that slope or how bad is that it's really impressive so it's starting to give us a bit of an insight as to what's required on mens number two as we concentrate you can see just behind the entrance on the right-hand side of your screen there the olympic stadion itself if you haven't been to our Munich World Cup we're up behind the seats in the stadium there's a huge maybe hundred metre wide walkway that goes around the stadium and that's where our World Cup takes place but it's extraordinary because right behind the wall where the athletes are waiting to get out and for their turn on the wall you're basically looking straight down onto the stadium itself you can see the 400 meter track there's some rugby posts up there apparently as a rugby event coming up it's one of the most extraordinary venues to come to you you can be kind of concentrated on the crowd and on the wall and suddenly you turn over your shoulder and there's this huge stadium home to the 1972 Olympics 1974 World Cup final home to Bayern Munich extraordinary place amazing venue and being Germany the hospitality is not too bad either yes have another look at Katerina Capri and over on the lunge left and we go about to cleric Kali a woman's one of the early dividers in the field if you want to progress through to the finals its are pretty much gonna be guaranteed you can have to climb this Boulder she flashed the bonus on that woman's one Chloe Kelly no top just yet okay this is a good look his number three sort of a triple jump left free hand movements all at the same time we've got a land an effort real modern style moves here rewinding up it's a really cool move down the left foot one two three roll them control the pace control the rhythm and make sure that said though yulia crudo managed to do it pretty much static to each move i think so maybe some of the taller athletes will find an alternative solution I wonder if the route says had that badly certainly didn't suggest that it's not sure we were speaking to them earlier so maybe a slight surprised and I say maybe it's a high my thinking in the background there team France giving everything one of them's really tangled up on this manual corner is back up there and we saw him really high can you find a top seems to be really locked in on that right toe hurt but he's got a bump the left side point it's really desperate hold onto a hold of that angle in that position find the top we will confirm the number of attempts tree in just a second meanwhile Manuel corn who is up against the sloper sticks it with the right hand he's been this far before its progression from here that proved beyond him just somehow trying to keep the hips close to the wall so that that sloper is still useful and that is a valiant effort from man walk or no I put those in for a really good shout there because once you can stem that left foot out you can start getting the weight off at the right heel but it looked like just as he went to release the right here his arms retired shoulders slumped it wasn't quite enough hit the last hole but the good part is way at the top of the wall I think in attempt like that goes to show why a lot of the boulders and have been doing so well in the lead climbing coming up lately you know he was on that wall for quite a long time holding on squeezing that whole time I'm like really testing his physical endurance and I think that goes to show why so many of these top athletes can go across the disciplines because they need to have all that explosive power as well as that like with drawn-out resistance climbing as well so joining us on the match for Team GB it's young athlete Han asthenia and there was a particularly impressive for her to get through to the semi-finals because she was still climbing way past 11 p.m. last night and this is kind of when we were into this hurricane situation and there was a really epic moment where she was still on the wall and all the crowd was basically running for the hills because of the rain and the wind and she just stuck it out she was no way that she was going to give up her attempt and she's made it through to the World Cup semi-final which she's incredible I think this is her first ever World Cup as well from memory and she's quite young she's still in the female Junior category so that's really really cool to see as well the men's section of yellow volumes I'm just trying to find them at they're trying to feel it out just quickly as well bottom rising screen Jessie's Hannah's lady that's a pretty handy start as you say amazing moment last night I think a lot of the crowd and athletes and everyone had disappeared and the qualification were winding down and then we had this epic moment we had thunder lightning sideways rain hurricane winds and Hannah's Lainie just battling to claim that top nice top also firm the Russian athlete made intamin of early topping the competition this is looking really good now NJ NJ / hatch gone up with the left hand with ease and he's not got the right heel hook so he's really front honest is a great position can he hit it Oh fantastic effort and shows the first climber to find a top men's number two let's put him in a brilliant position I'm pretty sure he topped men's number one as well as he off to a flyer I think one of the challenges for him now will be getting his game face back on that get that massive surge of adrenaline when the crowd roars big smile on his face as he walked off the stage now needs to calm down he doesn't have long until he's back out football two three keep an eye on top of his screen for the results so far it's rusher in the lead in Slovenia in the madness yeah it was actually the European youth champion back in 2015 so he's no stranger to the top of the podium I mean he's looking like it could be back in that sort of position today but really early to say I was doing 20 athletes to get through to get down to six as we look at Alexander Magus then he is a bit of a specialist on the slabs and he's really proving it super barn-door move there that was great you could see as he rotated in his left hand just had to switch it from a side pole into a palm down to try and stop the barn door and that was a really good burn for me cos and a really good effort also from Yulia cruder finds a TOEIC as well ya know that was really really impressive she just kind of slipped in made it perfectly worked it almost like was by accident but that was really really cool but didn't quite make it work unfortunately still plenty of time left though so it's may goes back onto the slab with just over one minute 30 to come seeming to have no issue so far moving out to the left and the roots I was really describing it was funny because we had a bit of a english french translation of what this next move described as and I've seen the UK we say it's a barn door move he just called it the door so whatever door you want here he goes this is the barn door holds a resistance holds attention down the left side of his body Alex Magus could be in here for a second topic in competition no just one more move this is a great effort firm make us he's really like so comfortable on the slabs once again Alexander Magus first man to one sight 9a outdoors two tops here in the semi-finals cheer from the crowd tells you everything you need to know they'd like to see him this evening in the final it's an extraordinarily dedicated climber out see how it sort of Chester to him yesterday I said something about oh well if you don't made the final maybe you can do some heading to Munich and have a drink and he said no if I don't make the final I'll be training yeah absolutely especially with our with our co coming up next week a lot of these guys yeah a lot of the guys who didn't make the semi-finals aren't actually here watching the semi-finals many climbers have headed off and they've gone for a training session or one of the many gyms here in Munich it depends it's different for everybody you know skins are conditioned and and how your body's feeling but super important to make sure that more than anything you're ready for the next one Yanik making one final attempt on this super physical last Boulder but I don't think he's got any time this is one of those boulders I think we'll see some of the top guys come out and really really crush it's just super physical super slow P however a lot of those holds were used yesterday so they're they're quite slippery and quite dirty from the qualification round I think you can really see the difference between the Holts that were used during the qualification round and the thresholds obviously when you see 117 men or pulling onto the same slope you've had to see some wear and tear on the holds after a while so just put you on the spot here early Campbell we've seen two tops already in both categories men's and women's how many tops you think it's gonna be to get through to the final here today that's a really really good question I think we'll be seeing athletes atop all of the boulders whether that puts you through the finals I'm not sure that's it though I don't know I don't know if I'm willing to make it cold just yet but I do think we'll see climbers topping all of them well you hit her again make you find work at men's number one Mints number one really seems to be kind of a nice problem to come out to start the day we've get those nerves out the way it's become our women mens number two and he's got a hard act to follow after Anne J from Slovenia and really dominated that border and he's looking pretty much up in despair at the moment not quite sure what to do with that section over there pearl joins us in the competition then Team USA athlete good season for her in 2017 looking to continue that yeah she only arrived from Arizona a couple of days ago pretty brutal travel schedule she's used to the heat but she was saying the other day that's the humidity that was killing her about it's very dry in Arizona can't say I've ever been but seems to cope pretty well with the heat yesterday and is coping pretty well with cooler temperatures today as well good start for Sierra heads back in earns herself a few minutes of extra rest which can be crucial in this semi-final Katrina kipman over then kind of a border of two parts technical first section and a nice little toe catch move of the slopey right hands and then it's well it looks like a slab as we look at it but it's actually a vertical wall and it climbs really powerfully this section it's very interesting to see kind of what style of climber does well on that Boulder yeah it's so easy I caught it slab earlier and the roots that correct me so yeah actually that's not absolutely if you we can see the frame actually from where we're standing and it's actually probably about five degrees overhanging so yeah I would have called it this laughs when I climbed on it yesterday I would have called it enslave but um no it's not quite actually here we go we're seeing some static fader from the French athletes so managing to palm down onto that start hold and you kind of press it out if you're tall enough you can just reach that sloper and then if you hold the tension like Ilya could carry through to the next few holes and finish it off and our chief route setter here immediate matches back with me Matt you've now had a look at boulders three and four have the climbers been figuring it out as you hope they would it looks to be okay number four of the girls they managed to make the the tricky start but as I said the end of the bowler is very physical even if it's not so overhanging but I think it will make the game and then other man we could see Alex bigos make a great job in the industry which now man in there because we will see the last part is still hard I like to make it red we'll see how it goes with menu and the main sports Boulder it's well it's a classical very physical bowler I think it's a do the job so the climbers I understand the way to go but it's it's it's all about power and then how fresh you can be and we could see now that they never read at the end of the study still hard after will see some the Slovenian guy who make a great job in the two first bowlers now actually he got a goes pretty much together the way he should go we think at the beginning that we need maybe three boulders to be qualify the final of the World Cup it's very special it was promoted okay good to hear it thanks for talking to us enjoy the rest of semi one hand goes straight into the one arm across through that's really impressive show a power from him still unfortunately standing on the match which was 15 seconds remaining it's not going to be enough for Maui at the moment it can be so tempting in those last few seconds to pull back on you know you're obviously you're feeling quite passionate quite revved as you step out to the boulder and then you just want to get that top but he obviously he just used a lot of energy for not much gain so that's gonna be unfortunate going forward and as we start our next rotation got a very special guest yulia cruder fresh down from the wall it looked like you enjoyed that why was that we were tired from yesterday climb it's so hard for me to climb in the heat so it's almost killing me and what were the boulders like this morning quite they look quite varied some technical some physical a lot of variation more but I guess I did my best today we haven't seen you so much this year but great just say in the crowd to it great to see you back in Munich are you happy now with your performance so were you hoping for a final or it's a goal just to enjoy yourself so I think yeah we should climb the betta better a bit better but yeah I think it's hopeless to think well fun to have you back thank you for talking to us just during that interview there two legends of the game Alex Magus founder talk we should we set the crowd on fire and it's alex Puccio another legend potentially not the world's most rounded slab climber but does a really good job there and the seven have a look Alex make us like saying absolute legend in the climbing game and really enjoying himself here never top form a goes that's free so far for him [Music] so fainting Timman off then wearing 23 on the back of his shirt see if he can equal Anjali perhaps from slovenia's effort on there some really good burn from here and the Russians are known for their power on the small hold so have a look what made him can do oh it's really key on that move Campbell to keep the tension you've got to find some good solutions with the feet absolutely those holes look really really poor I think the crimp is quite small and not that in cut and then the slope of course is terrible we could see it from the view above the wall so really really important that you're keeping the tension with your feet and and compressing with those heel hooks and toe hooks to keep your body into the wall and stay under the Holts across the top of the screen then you can see the current stands Easons reno keep for an over two tops in three attempts and Alix Megos takes a new provisional lead free tops and 11 that's quite a lot of attempts there and the man on the wall currently in second place it's an approach to tops in six attempts so Angie if he finds this could possibly put himself into a new lead and it's look it's so good this weekend absolutely oh yeah no it looks like he's climbing really really well really strong struggling a little bit with this Boulder though but like we saw before it looks pretty hard at the end so we'll see how many tops we get on it but yeah definitely climbing well today in the semi final just seen Alex Mayer goes behind the wall pretty over-the-moon he is currently in the lead with the three tops as I said German crowd it superb to give everyone a massive reception but I think a lot of neutrals and a lot of the German crowd would love to see what Alex Magus could do an immunity World Cup final so he's certainly done all he can do at this stage three tops no joy whatsoever on Boulder 2 but he taught the other three jenia onto this top section we not seen much joy on the top of this so far but the crane Ian athletes making fine work of it roughly five degrees overhanging and not much on offer to what there is to hold on to it's really doing a sellout that was great to see as we have enough of that this is young Britt Hannah Cellini OC qualified she's probably had not even really had that much sleep time to recovered from her semifinal berth really late last night and to come out here and do well that'd be a great performance Ramallah thirty seconds left in this rotation remember the time is flat always has been in the semi-final hopeless is no starting you're attempting being allowed to finish it when the time's up the time's up hard to say Burley in the competition that non-top there from Angie I think that's going to come to hurt him later on when it comes to pushing for one of those precious six final places absolutely I think with whilst Alex found really amazingly three tops in 11 we were talking about where we think that split might be in the finals and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the level obviously he's an incredible athlete but so I it's always everybody here in the semi-finals so I don't know I think we might be needing at least three tops to make it through the final one of the things about Magus is also use an incredible earthly but it's a bit of an unknown when it comes to World Cup competition bouldering is we've done a few competitions but realistically we don't know that much about him - it's really hard to gauge the difficulty boulders from Alex his performance here today yeah absolutely like he's not a total stranger to world cups which is something a lot of people don't know about him um a few years ago he did do quite a few lead World Cups but as far as this like modern style of bouldering yeah it's very new and it's really really hard to predict exactly what he is capable of in comparison to the other athletes nevertheless though like in terms of his physical capabilities he'd have to be one of the strongest climbers on the field but that's not really what it's about in the World Cups anymore you have to have so many different skills and and you have to be able to pull it off super quickly so yeah we'll see how the other athletes pair up against him good luck us actually Manuel corner their team France battling his way through men's number four corner currently was just the one top under his belt so really neat this is he's going to push his weight close to a final position but as Campbell Harrison from athlete from Team Australia we're saying they're pretty sure that free tops is gonna be roughly the cutoff but yeah really hard to say at this stage really good outfit from our Japanese competitor here about to finish off yeah just sticks that final hold really good there that was really cool he looked like he was struggling but then soon as you hit it just the body relaxed and yeah you're almost preempted the celebration the risk strength of some of these climbers is something I find really really phenomenal the way that they can stick a sope like that put their wrists in such a um like a terrible position and I don't know I just find that something that's really impressive in maybe overlooked when you're watching but yeah it's super cool to see yeah it's extraordinary all those tiny muscles and ligaments and bits and pieces that don't look very glamorous but can make all the difference be on my web as I say great to see him in Tokyo he was one of the stars for me his phrase in an interview that it's the game when he didn't like all of the boulders as one of my favorite quotes from this year it's the game Chloe Kali I mean while flying across the left-hand side of screen just want to take this opportunity to just mention the clapping the right hand side there just a quick correction from earlier we talked about four minutes that's the finals format actually a five-minute 5 minutes on five minutes off here in the semi final so do apologize for that earlier it's a five minute Boulder Sierra who's relax at the moment or woman's number two lots of options for her options for all other kind of so many volumes on this Boulder flash of number one for her [Applause] Dominus one David Fernand bug he was in the commentary box in Mumbai he could be in the final here in Munich [Applause] to the crowd just have a second to pause Manuel corner was the only man getting in the vicinity of atop Bailey's Agri par though on the wall closest to us so far left of the wall as you look at it in Munich so stretch there are incredible strength to hold that that was really really present mainly zag apart first woman type women's number four fantastic and just when I was thinking as she touched it I was like oh well that slope is useless so she's not gonna be able to do anything from here and then feet cut and finish it off no problems at all just about to kind of levitate off the feet and say uh because found a nice little krimpet at the top of that undercling which is really cool some of the athletes really really have a knack for finding all those little edges in the wall and and I'm in the holds that the route setters might not have expected them to grab there's a really good close-up now and then getting really close to the top of this men's number three holding that barn door situation and once we've seen the athletes get to this stage both of them have topped it it's man your corner and Alex may go so far top this blocker no I just kind of seemed to go really high up in the arms took the weight off his feet a little contact on that on the rubber of the shoes there onto the holes that just kind of just levitate in the air I'm saying we could say all those tiny little nuances to the way that they're moving the way he was not only pressing up into that hold but squeezing it so hard and be able to do that from that position is super impressive just to give you a bit of a heads up by the way kami fire of France earlier on I don't think we saw it on the stream might you might correct me but apparently she's actually pulled one of the volumes clean off one of the boulders the screws didn't fail it was the actual structure of the volume that failed and she's pulled it clean off the wall so one of the boulders has actually been damaged and I'm told there is a replica volume the route setters can put a new one on it's no problem but it may mean there might be a slight change in the order so please forgive us if the order is not exactly as listed on the start list for this semi final it has actually happened in a competition before probably a number of times but there's very famous incident in Arco when one of the climbers actually pulled the volume clean off in it kind of gnarly hookah tava was actually was from Finland ended up with a volume in his hands on the mat so I hope that's not happened here but it's if you can get away with pulling the volumes off the wall you know you're in good shape never happened to me strangely enough so here goes Petra cling the world champion top of womens Emma Wallen heads back in with an extra three minutes 45 arrests it's always really nice when you finish up a boulder and you know you can go back and have that to the eight nine minutes rest ahead and be ready for the next one because there's nothing worse than giving it your all for a whole five minutes getting nothing and then knowing you only have five minutes to recover before you have to step out and try to do the same thing so it's always really a reassuring to know that you've got that extra rest time under your belt just sit back relax take your shoes off that sort of thing I'm interested tactically when you have your first determent on a boulder if you come out thinking if I can just give this everything and do it first time it ends me extra rest so there's that what I mean is is your first attempt kind of you're almost your biggest as we see Alex Puccio top ya know that's a really good question I know a lot of climbers myself included really struggle with the mentality of going out and being able to flash a boulder I think I'm in an unfortunate position my better attempt so usually my second or third but that's the idea you you want to be able to try and get that ball to first go give it everything because you never know how valuable a flash might be and then also having that extra rest period is super important if you're coming out to a super physical Boulder for the next one that sort of thing okay so just got all the insider information as to what happened there on the volume that snapped off the wall just seen a still photo of what happened it was just literally the outskirts of the volume just left where the screws attached it entire volume failed it's actually the giant foothold that hands down to Hannah's left it was a yellow one now it's red so they did really well they quite lucky really they just found an exact replica volume so the red volume used to be yellow technical incident is over competition carries on Bruce has done a great job back to the drawing board on the manufacturing of that one I reckon yeah super lucky that they had one of those volumes ready to go ready to put it on the wall could have definitely been interesting for the standings and they had to remove the boulder but no very lucky for the route set is there yeah it's actually technically possible for the organizers to count to one Boulder if there's a technical incident they cannot do anything about such as a holic and it can't be replaced potentially see there's so much force going through that the entire bodyweight firing off to the left hand side there so yeah I'm sure the roots has a slight you can see them in the top left of your screen actually bottom left you see the guy with the dreadlocks one of the roots there's all kind of having a look at what went wrong there and then they hope that doesn't repeat but all the competitors continue to do it like that aesthetically there won't be so many problems that don't imagine yeah I think the officials must be wondering what else can happen this weekend yesterday we had 35 degree temperatures followed by a hurricane today we're at a volume break in the semi-final through no fault of any ones and 292 competitors to deal with us the European Championship I wonder if all the judges collectively walked under a big ladder or swimming yesterday or tripped over a big black cat I don't know who knows 45 seconds to go on this round so Yugi for jockey then really straining on the face not looking completely comfortable the crimps he's got going up with the left hand and realistically as soon as he went up he knew wasn't going to work yeah I think that was just one of those of desperation where he thought maybe I can get this next hold and maybe I can make it work but more than anything you don't want to fall off feeling like you didn't give your all but yeah it's probably it for him so we'll probably go back into isolation and try to recover as much as possible same behind the Slaney I think looks like she's finished for the rather this round as well in the background you can see angie from slovenia walking off really impressive starts the competition for him but potentially he's faded out towards at the end yeah he walked off the stage just to our left I think slightly despondent and hooky completely exhausted to be honest it's a really good bird from him and European champion 2015 is of the really taking the seniors on doing really well of already out now on the first bottle we have Jonathan from Spain and then Frances Tara from Austria who's really exciting to see I think doesn't compete in that many World Cups compared to a lot of them field but I think every time she's climbed in a World Cup she's made the semi-finals or at least every time I've watched Jo she's definitely made the semi-finals I think from memory last year she was around 10th or 11th at this event so be really really cool she can put her best climbing forward maybe make it through door final I definitely think she's one of the athletes that are super capable and finds a nice top as well the Austrians really seem to have their slab climbing game down it's something they're mostly focused on and a nice easy top there for the Austrian athletes starting her campaign meka al-marwah as you'd expect no lack of fight from him getting close not close enough Chloe Kali a closest to our stream double-oh-seven left-hand side of the wall here in Munich that's a good view there you can see all the way down the wall it's a big long wall here in Munich big old proud to cheer them on so the Spanish athlete it's the first look at him he's making a good start on men's number one oh that's not nathan phillips spanish climbers just tuck it in this is a good burn early on in the competition we saw some great close-ups at the face here and it really seems to be a border that yeah he's definitely got to get this one done and it does it with these climbed in two minutes fantastic job fantastic start from the French athlete Jonathan david bernburg then pushing through men's number two this is a fantastic fighting boarder really really good battles to be had on this one really energy-sapping for later on as well me we save someone like an j from slovenia started well and faded out quite quickly do wonder if boulders like this is really gonna start taking a toll on the athletes after a hard day yesterday as well absolutely like this sort of folder I was saying before is it's a lot of resistance involved you have to be able to squeeze really hard for a fairly long period of time in order to be able to get all those body positions and you know your entire body is working as hard as you can the whole duration for which you're on the wall so the Japanese athlete that's why I'm making really good work of this and we've seen mikuma I'm really rushed this section and fall off but aside from Japan no such issues and he just looks so at home on the slab there it's just just concentrating on getting a match nicely done Team Japan representing once again it's definitely not the first time we've said that this year no and he's got that tomorrow and our sake spin as he comes off the wall dialed as well that very familiar tomorrow method of descending from a boulder keep an eye Mickey I'm RM back on work his way right words up these yellow volumes I can see where he's headed just the left of our camera huge round yellow volume Chloe Kohli a walk past the camera you can see Ciara black oil in the background I'm here in the contra box we have a very special guest Alex Magus that looked like a lot of fun and pretty happy with your performance three tops I'd say so I mean I could have climbed maybe and slap a bit faster in them I knew I'm not very good at jump so I'm I kind of expected not to do the jumps maybe but it was so great fun and what were your expectations in your hosts before you came here my expectations or hopes was that I'll get among the top 30 120 starters I thought I if I get top 30 that would be cool so then I got top 20 was really happy and everything after that was just bonus and have you been doing anything should prepare for this I mean I follow you on social media obviously like what 2 million other people but it doesn't look like you've been training specifically for this oh yes I have the week before I came here I did up your volume problems I think the fact that you said the week before well whatever you did it certainly worked and who knows you might well see you tonight it looks like it could be possible who else here we're now night I might have to move my performance ah school was great fun it's great to see in a World Cup and thanks for talking to his enjoy the rest of the semi thank you very much dear it's hard not to laugh in there someone that go to say a theater full of orders the week before to get themselves ready for a bowl of World Cup and the biggest one for the season I don't mind a missing I had a little panic when I said to him you haven't been preparing he said yes a half and I thought really doesn't seem that way but then he said yeah last week Edison volume that everybody says that though there's so agai there's so much of a culture in climbing where you get you get I find you get two different kinds of people you get the ones that like I trained so hard every day I do like six sessions and then you get so many climbers as well who are like oh yeah I just climbed like a couple times a week and it's lots of fun and everybody's always putting in more than they more than they say I'm sure he's been thinking about event for a long time i think alex has spent so much time in britain he probably claims he drinks 10 pints and I never doesn't he trained in secretly fingerboarding at home and drinking mineral water anyway whatever he's doing certainly doing the trick yeah Nathan Philips certainly did the tricks yesterday he's starting his campaign on men's number two you can see they're lining it up and Nathan was a yeah really really good performance oh yeah he actually flew directly from Rockland's in South Africa on his rock trip to come here and the time difference kind of caused him a lot of issues and he just didn't know where he was there is no time difference the flight causing a lot of problems we've chatted soon yes mister the time difference on the flight is why man my pasty GCSE geography all I remember is when our Xeroxes I was really tired yeah now flying kills you the time zones are almost irrelevant so funny G bear great job from fan easy bear no difference to the time for her three minutes poorly left absolutely cruising world champion Patrick linger then you fought this next move this really hard man's with something that would be up her streets super powerful climber and really good on the ice climbing tools as well and these sorts of moves really familiar with her really bunched up super awkward yes he was struggling a lot with injury this season patrocle English she she looked like she needed a break after the last time we saw her in action possibly a bit longer break than she's had but she seems to always be able to bring it when it really matters in the competition always seems to be able to find it no matter what the injury or what the issue always does what's required amazing climbers to watch extraordinarily determined and seems to be able to climb through through pain and injury better than so many of the climbers we see absolutely I've seen her climb in a you know on knee brace and it seems to push through so much just to get rid of the competition and I heard tops out that Boulder as well so obviously it's working for her again that's what we were talking about earlier where one of the hardest parts of training isn't necessarily just the physical effort that you're willing to put in but it's your ability to push through when times get tough and like to maintain your resolve as well because it'd be so easy for so many climbers in her position to to give up or to to just give that a little bit less than 100% but a bit clearly she's not that kind of athlete you can see there Nathan Phillips really struggling to kind of find a purchase for the foot that's not on top of his hand in that hold real struggle to find that kind of a enough room for all the limbs but does well but it takes a lot of effort to get through that section for Nathan and considering what he's got ahead of him you're a really good effort to find the top here with only two minutes left see how hard he's working lots of different methods being employed on this border but Nathan's looking good and he's known for his powerful skills and extremely good on the volume climbing but that's what we saw earlier trying to find the left foot but not enough flexibility across the hips to keep the right heel in at the same time I've got so that certainly looked very hopeful I think Nathan is capable of a tough on that Boulder million miles off with a minute and a half left though on such a physical Boulder I'm hoping for the best for him it's for the best I think if he saves his energy might well do that one the crowd could be right behind Alex Puccio meanwhile I'm really really good to see her in a world cup again yeah I just say one of the legends of the game taking away the American title more times you can count and it's Alex Peter is just on four months again and lots of people really really excited to see Alex competing once again in the World Cups it's a great performer and such a nice person to be here and finds a top or women's pretty see the relief on her face really interesting to see what happens to alex bucho can she be back into the finals can she find regular form once again and entertain us in a World Cup final two tops and two attempts for her at the moment I'm pretty sure I have to check the scores just the update so that might be the third tops are Pucci OHS put herself in a really good position here in Munich yeah it's the semi-final progresses the leaderboard beginning to take shape Petra wingler flashed both of the first two bowlers Alex Puccio becomes the first woman with three tops she got that third Boulder on her sixth attempt she flashed the first two not far off a perfect score cards so far from Alex Pucci remember if you are new to bouldering the key measurement the key goal for the climbers is to get to the top as many boulders as possible if they're tied on the number of tops that then comes down to attempts but if you can get to the top of the most boulders you will win so Alex boots you're doing pretty well so far three from three and it required eight attempts to get them Sierra black oil back out on the mat Alex's can Patrick had a good start on number one flush that some of the real big hitters now starting to come out to the mats it's Jacob Schubert teemo's to again an absolute legend the game lots of really good World Cup results under his belt over the years and salsa from career good season from her this year some really good steady results and really into the meat of the competition now we started with 20 athletes and we're yeah way down the list now into the top third yeah yeah cobs also been down in South Africa climbing at rock ones in a very small club of people who've won both lead and Boulder World Cups Jakob absolutely capable of making at least a final here in Munich only an hour and a half away from his home and Innsbruck is easy journey for him no time difference and absolutely and one of those climbers that I can definitely say has only been preparing specifically for this competition perhaps the last week or so and I think since he got back to Innsbruck maybe a week ago I've seen him Boulder a couple times but mostly even then on rope training for Arco in Edinburgh so really really impressive that he is qualified so high for the semi finals considering his preparation for the competition you might have just seen kami run out across the screen there attempt of course was interrupted by the volume breaking the volume that she broke through no fault of hers am i add and she's now back out so as I say the order slightly confused in this women's competition we'll try and keep you up to date we'll see you later on at men's number four currently only top play Alexander Meg off so gonna be interesting to see if some of the bigger hitters some of the more seasoned competitors could find more tops of men's than before and I think at this stage it's going to be doing well on that border that's gonna get you a place in to the finals later on tonight just keep an eye on Jakob she wrote this move that when you get it right looks okay if you get it even slightly wrong it looks utterly desperate and Jakob you can see how hard he's having to fight looks like he needs to get that right knee a bit lower if he can but it looks like he might just have found a way right Hanlon so Nizar left pretty happy with that just explained about kami by the way when she broke a volume there was three minutes 40 seconds left on her attempts so that's why you saw her come out three minutes forty seconds into this rotation that was the amount of time she had left so the order slightly messed up in the women's competition but we will see all 20 climbers perhaps not on the order we were expected to so Sierra black oil struggling that move right you can see the left leg coming off just rotating her away from the wall look when I face that was the real kind of in a nutshell the look of a competitor who's struggling on the boarders and just struggling to put any power down all that trading they're put in and come out to some really technical really funky borders and you find I think it's really frustrating for the competitors not to be able to put that down on the track and just kind of really start to fight and you can't even find a position to kind of really get going and then well you were saying that yes at about the qualifiers that this is some of the positions just can't even get into it we can start climbing absolutely I think a lot of the split in the field came down to just pulling onto the start positions I think we had we had to sort of somewhat dynamic starts especially our our final Boulder you had to pull to the wall and then touch all four points and immediately move to the next hold and so that can be quite frustrating in quite mentally taxing but nevertheless it gets a really good split between the athletes which can really come down to separating the semi-finalists to the finalists camille doing quite well and their couple more moves hopefully she can pull together in the final minute exposure and yulia cruder the only two female athletes to top women's number three and yeah that's a good burn from Camille there but wasn't quite meant to be and David Furnish also struggling on the text top section of the red slab for the men and it's quite interesting because the earlier athletes we saw that really seems to be cruising that topic once they actually got there aside nicole member a couple of the Elliotts Magus is also really good at the slabs really not struggling on the top when it's tightened see and have a lot more people getting through this earlier section struggling on the top news still have 30 seconds left David Fernand break had a great start to the round got the first boulder on his third attempt no joy on number two could do it number three for sure if he wants to climb in front of his home crowd this evening and I don't think he's going to get it the classic last-ditch attempt they're just trying to jump for the finish hold from pretty basic with the bottom of the boulder just to give you some idea we already have two climbers who've got three tops when we spoke to Matthew our chief route setter here in Munich you said you've thinks you'll need three tops to make the final a certainly how it's looking at this stage of the semi remember of course two climbers in reverse order so theoretically we will have the strongest climbers out last so I would imagine you will need at least three tops and attempts could be key so the legends from USA then finishes her campaign on the vertical wall on the left-hand side really technical climbs like a slab through the initial part I think it's really powerful we saw an excellent shot from the earlier French athlete on that though let's see Alex Kuchar can push for a finals position she's in a really good kind of situation for that by the moment with three tops in eight attempts so we could be seeing the legend from USA competing in front of us again once here once again here in Munich and that'd be a really really exciting and tantalizing position for the finals Campbell it's already lining up to me a great show for tonight I really just there's something about this place it just makes the atmosphere incredible and just to see such on form athletes performance yeah absolutely and I think with the amount of people that come here to Munich you know the ones who are making through the finals are absolutely the some of the best climbers in the world and have to had to work so hard to get here you know nobody slips through nobody gets lucky and here in Munich so it's always a really really cool show so going to pitch go then from Ukraine look it's so strong oh just as I say that drops off at the top but see the way he was locking off through that section just made it like was climbing on a warm-up Boulder where other climbers struggle that was really impressive but maybe rush the top section it's Nathan Phillips then from Team GB onto the barn door section on this next move Nathan's really good on the slabs as well these days Campbell see you have to be good at everything basically that's it that's it it to be in a World Cup semi-final you're good at everything maybe you're not as good as the person in first but you know these guys very very well rounded climbers no matter what we see on the screen when they're training their training everything and as we watch Nathan Phillips you've got one of his competitors hello your first World Cup how did you enjoy that you must have been happy I guess to make the semifinals wasn't your goal when you when you came here did you have something in mind you wanted to achieve [Music] [Applause] just quickly we mentioned that last night there was an amazing moment where there's a hurricane raging and you've basically refused to come off the wall just talk us through that it was an awesome moment it's Petra cling and they're fine they're great sup Petra that's Hereford top two flashes up to that point we check the number of attempts on that but a world champion in great stead here once again sorry to interrupt you there Hannah but congratulations semi final amazing moment last night that unfortunately wasn't live streamed and great to see you in the semi hopefully we can see you next year and more semi finals so it's Puccio then pushing towards the top of the final Boulder here currently sitting in second position Petra clingers just going above her Petra stick and free tops in five attainments out of her she's totally owned been on free borders it's Puccio currently sitting in second free tops in eighth here we go they've Campbell this is what we're talking about with surrogates fishko from ukraine and looking so solid through this second see the athleticism through his body there in his arms a little bit of a different sequence with his feet they're bringing his right toe up higher first before making the bump not sure if that was exactly the best method but maybe he'll have enough time to pull back on and make a work so difficult to get 20 down to 6 here and we're looking at the top of the leaderboard with Petra cling on Alex Kuchar but got so many strong athletes still to come people that catch adjective here in the Gucci Shana coxy Michaela Tracy - again her and me holding luckily only gone right we get this down to six it says so hotly contested in so many on form athletes absolutely and especially as the last athletes come through you know we see such impressive climbing in that first 10 15 athletes and in the last few are just something else I think so yeah whatever we're seeing in the standings now I don't think we can really make any predictions yet as to what that'll mean going forward it's really really crazy with the modern style of bouldering I find there was there's always been a variety of styles throughout around but now we see a variety of styles throughout single folders you know to a bonus folder might be quite technical and then quite powerful at the end or it could be really simple to read and then one just difficult move at the end that might be a little bit more complex and so you have to be able to switch between those between those Styles not just between boulders but mid folder and I think that's why we're seeing such a you know a dice roll of semi-finalists each time that we go through fantastic insight here from Campbell Harrison athlete from Team USA and it's team Germany and Japan who are out on the mats to start their campaign here in Munich the big man 2015 European champion yan Hoya and a Kia Noguchi just one of the best athletes you've ever seen in the females fee field in competition climbing and Akio take it away many World Cup victories in our time and it's great to see a Keon form once again as always with Akio absolutely not only good at bouldering but also an exceptional lead climber we saw her at the World Games in lead in Boulder and then also usually once the bullring season finishes up Akio also stepped out to do the lead competitions which is really really cool I think I think Alexa groups of said once that when you're on Form you can do any style of climbing and the key is definitely a climber that shows that that's definitely true yeah she can just step up and perform on any level I'm sure check him through Akio his history and I'm pretty sure the last time that she actually won a bouldering World Cup was Chongqing back in 2015 so the key will be gunning for a victory here in Munich and what a great way it would be for her to finish what it's been a fantastic 2017 made for final so Akio see cruising the initial slab we've seen that from a lot of the athletes now but kyo surely look at him seeing her in finals once again it would be a hard man to bet against the Kiara's David Fernand bug pushes through this volume and is only seen Alex Vonda Magus the only climber to get this and that really shows just come back to that as yin hoya finds us obviously goes for the Showboat finish just saying Alexander Magus currently the only climber to top men's number four and that shows kind of what form he is in I think absolutely especially on a physical Boulder usually I find with the physical boulders there's a number of climbers that can pull them off because it really just does come down to how hard you've trained and how strong you are but yeah that man must be super strong because he didn't make it look like it was particularly troublesome at all yeah well he's trying basically all of the hardest routes and boulders in the world outside so he's obviously super strong but like you said earlier there's so many different element to do not only the brown but the individual moves within the borders and I've talked about it earlier with this article with the French team coach gave us a really good insight to what he predicts in the future and he thinks that is definitely think it's gonna be a low-percentage moves combined with hard moves all combined in the same border as we have a look at yeah called Shuba and this guy's physically an absolute beast so yeah come Schubert then pushing towards the top men's number 2 goes for the full crimp on the right hand really locks it in with the thumb across the top of the fingers looking out this is good work from Jakob really seems to be in fine form here this weekend and yeah come to Schubert find the top canvasing through some of the holes the other climbers could barely squeeze Oh just came up short we've seen that a number of times now and you can see the frustration and what's been key to this he's if he only got one minute 45 left and we've seen this porter takes so much out of you he's really gonna have no rest is it gonna be enough for ya come Schubert really think he needs this too if you want to push for a finals please this rewatched salsa another very special guest Sierra black oil how did you enjoy your Munich experience definitely Kris Pearn you're just way less hot when you're actually climbing which is really nice and just feels better on your body adrenaline very quickly because number one you flash the first of all there so that's you know that can get you the X round sometimes and you just feel confident you're like I did one I only have three more to get on in this round and one it done okay interesting insight well thank you very much enjoy the rest of the semi-final and you stea munich when are you flying back well enjoy enjoy Arizona and your last evening in Munich you could see how much that meant to Jakov Schubert just as we're in that interview he knows that he really needed that and that was a really good burn to recover from his first going and get up the second Bowl that was so key and we're very excited to be joined by what is already the overall winner from the 2017 border well cups Shana coxy and an Alexei roots off who in theory can win the overall today here could it be very very difficult as he's got jeong-hwan Shaun currently in the lead in the overall standings yeah there are so many connotations for his overall standings in the men's competition he will keep it simple for now we'll watch him climb but jeong-hwan Shaun currently in the driving seat but he can be caught by Alexey rubs off Shaun the coxy meanwhile you can see her they're closest to the camera no problem at all secured a second overall title that's when you know you're a great it's not a fluke it's not a one-off you win it two years running especially with a devastating shoulder Ian ziering between she joined the Great's is year Shana coxy and she could just add to her already impressive tally by winning here in Munich and she's off to the perfect start in the semi-final it was actually this competition last year where she picked up that hard and as shoulder injury so wonder if she's exercising any demons here this weekend ever in the qualifying rounds yesterday she really just seemed to go through the motions and just kind of just do what the the bare minimum effort to get approved to the semi-finals and sometimes people in the crowd could think sure she just doesn't look on porn but it's actually just taking a time and just thinking I need to get through to the semi-finals with the skin in the best condition possible there's a little energy exposure bottle it can be a treacherous line to tread and it's a really hard one but yes Shauna Cox she shows her experience in that and it's gonna be interesting to see if she was kind of a little bit off for yesterday on board that means she's still kind of fit on the list but off for her her standards or she was just cruising yeah I know Alexi rube sauce very vocal about the fact that he wants to qualify for the final in sixth place doesn't want to win the semi final if you like that's quite a hard line to draw for someone like Shawna Cox he just getting into the semi-finals in the top half she can probably calculate that quite accurately I remember talking to her in Mumbai one time and she basically didn't give much to the last bowl that she knew she'd made it that's the overall champion from 2016 Samoa oh just fires off on the bottom of your screen and Fanny's eBay at the French champion finds a frying top that is absolutely brilliant from penny she was super happy with that just checking the schools to see where that leaves her pennies Ebert fantastic form here in Munich you know she flashed the first Boulder has a replay of tomorrow he eats moves up that for breakfast no problem for him she wait for our scores to update it's Petra Klinger finishing her campaign on the far left of the wall she is currently leading the way three tops in five attempts as the Japanese athletes as I free top Singh for also Alex may go still up there cause he's just six go through Megos currently sticking in second so time will tell but I think Alex make us could be in a good shout for it in for a good shout here which would definitely leaves the local supporters and hopefully you guys at home he's a great athlete to watch good comedy just to confirm that was funny G Bears third attempt on that ball this if she was successful third attempt so she flashed the first ball they got nothing out of the second Boulder the third attempt on the third Boulder this is Kathy cabbage who hit some amazing form in Vail and Mumbai I was a pretty brutal Travel Show Joel for the athletes there in Colorado and then a fortnight right so they're pretty much as far away as you can be in the northern hemisphere in in Mumbai she'd cope with it brilliantly seem to really enjoy a climbing especially burial she looked dominant in the semi-finals wouldn't be the world's biggest surprise of she was to make the final here definitely not she's already made two finals in 2017 and like Charlie said she's had a great end to the season to fifth places and those titles and some gamble she's really kind of on board but a bit stuck here yeah she's using a really really interesting method pressing up to the left-hand side of that volume in trying to rock over and which I don't from my memory I don't know if we've seen too many of the other girls doing that but I think speaking with the roots as they said realistically the taller athletes which cats really is it's gonna really struggle in that position they've got a lot of body to kind of a lot of live to find it all on top of that this chard yeah absolutely you have to press up over that volume it's not very good for your feet like good chance for slip and then to maintain that tension to get your feet up onto the handhold is quite tricky as well I think one of the cameramen is the fittest as we luckily move away there the camera is just kind of half fallen asleep there in the background he's obviously not finding it that exciting there was a very very exciting athlete to watch Michaela Tracy joins us and she actually made the finals back in the World Championships I think it was 2015 when she came out and had an incredible show and really put herself in psychologically in a great position and just filled her with confidence for the rest of the seasons to come leading up to this point and she said she was actually quite nervous about coming here because she previously she's done so well and didn't to come here and not have a good competition but so far so good for Mikayla yeah Mikayla had an excellent day yesterday in the qualifier she comes to in fourth place after Mikayla and he got three climbers left such a gale neon and maca and Yanni gone Brett as I said we've already seen Shana coxy not at the top end of the semi-final as we often see her but as we mentioned things she knew she'd done enough we've already seen her out on to women's 1 I've already seen her topic jacket uber just struggling initially in his first minute on this men's slabs whoever Luca drove down the Spanish athlete Oh looks so strongly that's not one of the updates I'm super familiar with Spanish athlete but so so strong in Yahoo I'm quite surprised he was actually struggling with the jump here Campbell you it would have thought yan is so known for his dynamic climbing and super powerful approach to climbing that he wouldn't kind of have too many issues on that for sure but I guess there's also the chance that that hold is quite hard to brush being in it's in that sort of slot shape so it could be a little bit dirty it's quite precise so maybe he's having trouble sticking the exact position and they could be a whole different bunch of different reasons and every move is different it's just quite interesting this is where the last effort from Sylvania really struggled up the left-hand side but no such issues for Akio Noguchi she's kind of used the same technique and that's quite interesting maybe she's following the talk from the previous athlete but she's made it work for her this is a good effort here from Akio she had a great start on a first problem looks like she's having no issues on the second and nicely done super controlled once again from Akira good she just no signs of effort really on her face no super as if you could hip flexibility as well she's able to completely open hips and then sit really really low under that crimp and under that catch um yeah it made light work in the last move which is really cool very just trying to analyze the results here in the ER but it's Petra clinger in the top Alex Kuchar they've both got three tops but I think with the athletes still to come it's going to be Alex couch it's going to be close to the drop zone I think three tops in eight attempts lots of time will tell how we go on the native boulders but you helping finger and later on it's gonna be Alex puto potentially in danger as we have a look back that's actually a a replay of Micaela trading always shows her emotions so fantastic to watch that was a flash from Michaela Jonathan there made the final semifinals scuse me here in Munich last year here's a man who'd like to make the final yan Hoya [Applause] look at that I think he considered waving to the crowd before matching and then thought better of it certainly crossed his mind so impressive when he hit it with the left hand he sort of had this like bionic shoulder move that just clicked in you could see it doing a one-armed put up there for the crowd as well I thinking them probably thought better of it that was really impressive show of power there and that is what you saw from Jakob a real fight and let's see showing their experience on these really hard long boulders these senior athletes [Music] so semi-final really beginning to take shape we're beginning to get close to the end of our semi-final remember of course we have got the European Championships immediately following this just to bring you up today tasty issue Matsu currently leading the way ahead of Alexander Megas in second place Yan Hoya that top of number 2 only the fourth climber to top number 2 that puts him into fourth place only two climbers so far with three tops totally sure Matsui and Alexander Megas yan Hoyer and Jakob Schubert with two as well and still on the wall and see he has two as well but he's done with his rotation all he can do is watch solstar then works away through the kind of triple jump at the bottom there or the kind of super flexible way that we're doing with some of the athletes it's also getting really really close to the top of the wall here she's running out time then you might better hear the beeps in the background come on so Oh can't help my thing she would have made it but wasn't meant to be it she really ran out of time there his stature one of the most entertaining climbers to watch absolutely you can always see what she's out what she's thinking when she's on the mat she was a super impressive show at the world games in Poland just a few weeks back really really cool to see came out into the final in sixth place from the qualification and just absolutely dominated so I'm really excited to see what she can pull off she was in our final in Munich last year as well and the year before I think as well was her first final and a senior World Cup so always performs well in meaning does and he/she bear hunting right words she's only about 10 meters away from us I almost feel like I should be quiet it's such delicate moves in a wedding meanwhile Shana coxy back to the scene of where she injured her shoulders Mike said last year stature with a relatively straightforward top woman's one will confirm in just a second if that was a flash interesting chatting - Ciara Blair coil nosov advanced the theory that maybe it's not always great when you were when you flash the first ball if you did get a surge of adrenaline but you shot that theory down it does sometimes seem as if climbers do get a big quest of adrenaline and then can't calm down with the second bowl of it Sarah obviously not a fan of that theory I think I know a lot of climbers fine you know yeah like she said you step out for the first Boulder you do it and then you've immediately you've got that theme that you can carry on through the rest of the round like I can do these boulders and you've got that sense of self belief which can be really hard to find sometimes going on to the semi-finals you know it's gonna be tough you know that you know to make that top six one top I fear all that you need so I think it's um it's really good momentum to carry through the rest of the round knowing that that could mean enough and now you've just got to try and do more you know just confirm that walls are flash from Sasha [Music] so Shawna coxy looking like she's having no issues at all in the semi final round it's going by the form but Shawna coxy dominating once again dominating the boulders at least this time in this competition and yeah whoever she will take away another victory here time hotel yeah is interesting yes so we just keep an eye on tomorrow of course last year's dominant force at an extrordinary 2016 just needs to keep his foot in play remember if he goes too far out to the right if he puts his foot beyond that black tape on the right side of the boulder it's illegal but he keeps the foot in his body on the wall and gets the top men's three top by two MOA sorry Pleiades can Patrick kakora fujian her up in the overall standings in 2016 won the first World Cup of 2017 in Merrigan successful top for him the Russian warrior Alexei Rob saw this would be the kind of Boulder he likes he likes a straightforward fight he's not into parkour it's into fighting up a boulder and he's forced his way up that one successfully the tops coming thick and fast now that's really interesting actually the time that he found the top was pretty much identical to yan Hoya and Jakob Schubert so if there's anything to take from that would say that they they're finding that Boulder equally difficult so those three kind of big guns are all in a very similar position so far in the competition I have cameras just over a minute left I was just saying Fanny's looking really really focused on this Boulder and it's really interesting being quite close to the wall kind of being able to see in her process of reading the boulder and how how physically she acts out the moves before she steps onto the wall like really powerful engaging all those muscles before stepping up and actually doing it which is really really interesting to see firsthand so just 40 seconds left to make it happen for funding Hebert she's a little bit way down on the list at the moment currently sitting one place out of final so if she doesn't find some magic in the last 30 seconds it's not going to be enough for energy but with so many strong climbers still to come on the last few boulders and her going to Pisco from ukraine making sure that's only the third top we've seen immense than before and the way that he went up that camber was absolutely insane yeah and that the hustling last few seconds he just totally pulled it out of the bag and didn't even look like he was all that place with it but I know that Boulder was super super hard and I think that old rocket him up the standings you know that was his first top Sergei won't be enough to make the final we already have seven climbers with two top so more remember any six go through to the final so he can't catch them it won't be enough for a final but at least he leaves Munich semi-final with the top doesn't go home empty-handed yeah it's always nice knowing you know if you come out of the round and you get that last stop even if it's not enough for the next round and enough that placing you're hoping for it it's always a little bit reassuring does it lead to frustration no Campbell you know but you've struggled on the other boarders but then you've come out and you've just passed potentially one of the hardest rounds of the tour think oh maybe I should have done better on the other blocks yeah there's that too I think you've got to take the victories as they come and if you start the round a little bit off and then manage to finish on a high note of topping the hardest one of the hardest boulders you know you can of course be upset with how you climbed prior but I don't know if that's really all that beneficial so you know it's different for everybody I guess it's miho nanaka they're currently sitting in second place overall this season second place finish for her overall in the 2016 just trying to find the body position here just trying to chalk up the hands makes really make some no mistakes man such a strong field and athletes seemingly finding quite a few tops it's me her and I could really making sure she makes no mistake here [Applause] she seems to have stayed calm though through the slight troubles on that Boulder and Miho nanaka once again finds a top you know World Cup semi-final and this is the man who's currently leading the way jeong-hwan Sean leading the overall standings for 2017 so many great competitions for him this year and can you find a nice early top from John 1 John 1 Sean possibly heading for the top of men's 1 made light work of it if you are just tuning in Charlie Bosco here with Mike Langley and Campbell Harrison star of team Australia that's not a TV soap that is a professional rock climbing team live in Munich if you're wondering why there's a slight change to the order we had a damage to one of the volumes in the women's competition so the women's starting order and climbing order is slightly out of sync we're keeping up as best we can but that's why you're not seeing me hone a macca climb at the same time sakura fuji jeong-hwan Jon not climbing alongside Yandy gamma as you might have expected there's a slight change of order due to a broken volume earlier on in the women's semi-final and just earlier on Yoshiyuki Agartha in the men found a nice top and so did Akio Noguchi so Team Japan the dominant force of 2017 on Form here again at the final World Cup in a season it's Jakob Schubert to the right of your screen fighting his way through men's number 4 can we see another top and let's see where Jakob would be left after this Boulder is it gonna be enough for you cob Schubert to get through we've got to remember that not only are we deciding who's going through the World Cup final from this round but the European Championships also going to be decided from these climbers and then the additional climbers coming through after the semi final round yeah so we will finally try and find the perfect moment to describe how the European Championships is going to pan out and I was also fairly large number of Europeans in this round and the main gist of it is basically that there was no post for the European Championships this year so the European Champions has been combined with the World Cup here in Munich and that does throw up a number of issues the main one is that there there was a two qualifying groups so conventionally you would go back to a count background and they cannot do that so today's semi-final borders will be used to determine who takes away the European Championships from 2017 top 20 Europeans would go through and their scores on these borders will count obviously we've not had 20 Europeans get through to the World Cup semi-final so the remaining athletes will Duke it out after this round finishes and we have a short break and a number of athletes Europeans will go out and get a score on these borders it froze up a lot of interesting questions and we have time to kind of go through that later at now we want to focus on the World Cup semi-final and we want to focus on Jakob Schubert because he has the potential to push into the top six with this he really really needs this at the moment looking good Oh commentator scarce there um yeah just shy of the final move which is a shame yeah yeah cup Schubert's currently out of the running at the moment down in seventh position so it's not gonna be enough for the Austrian legend it's a real shame oh he's going anyway we've got a ten seconds left I was just kind of hoping for some miracle to finish and it's not meant to be and the frustration shows on his face as he walks off the screen unlucky for Jakov Schubert wasn't meant to be and just off to are there that short break has gone flying the toys are out the pram that got Schubert is a very very unhappy man ya know that's really unfortunate I think that would have been the difference for him but that's competition climbing that happens sometimes I think he's talking has just been launched into the Olympic Stadium here sorry statement you know Fair Play these guys really put their kind of bodies on the line they put themselves on the line and it really does mean a lot to them absolutely I think it's easy to criticize athletes for being passionate or angry or aggressive about their performances but like you have to understand that they work so so hard on the mat they give everything and then all of that emotional energy has to go somewhere at the end and it's it's sometimes almost feels like you have no control and as long as you know like like these athletes have been they go off to a private space they try to stay away from the crowds away from other people and just express themselves and it allows them to to work through their emotions and they can move on to the next competition in a better position so we just saw a younger girl Brett the legend of the league climbing season 2017 great in the board rentals she's already won two World Cups this year in the bouldering as well so young you go on Britain form once again she is the final athlete out in the women's as we look at we were just looking at Alexi rips off from Russia I'm just trying to keep an eye on the European scores the World Cup scores and the overall scores all at the same time here so empty of paper going around the table just trying to keep an eye on everything it's too marinara sake who's putting on the show for us and same as Jakob - but they're struggling on the top section there [Applause] I was honestly so sure looking at the folders that we would see an athlete climb all four of them but I'm actually not so sure now you know definitely we've seen a few people with three tops but before I'm not so sure that it's definitely a tough round it's definitely a diverse round so you really have to be on four might be focused atop every single one of them for sure just taking this opportunity to try and double check the skill so like I said there's a lot of math going on all at the same time here if John munch on basically it's John munch on currently in first in the overall in the men's and Alexey ripped off he was on your screen at the moment if Alexei can come first second or third in this competition and John one sean has a bit of a disaster by his standards comes twelfth or worst Alexei has the potential to take away the overall so it's all in John 1 John's hands to lose here this weekend so far this season jeong-hwan Sean hasn't looked like there's a slip-up coming particularly in the recent rounds but it's been two months since then a lot can change you can pick up a couple of niggles training doesn't go so well you lose focus perhaps big cheer from the crowd will let you know what happened in just a second somebody's just bought themselves a new lens and they want to use it that was catty carrot juice feet sonic Occident on women's number 3 Shawna so far so good they're two flashes in on two boulders I mean she's flying both the first and second ball the first time quite sure where she is on this one ik possibly not her first go looking at the time and we will double check that but Shawna coxy really good member they're going again with the right hands just show how strong she is across the shoulders how much stability she hasn't concerning the injury she had in the shoulder last year that's really impressive and Shawna Cox me once again easy work sho'nac actually smile on the face that'll push her up the leaderboard free tops in free attempts that put her into a current first position tomorrow narrow succulent also freighting are this is where we lost Yakov can see him just off to our left somewhere in there a second the overall winner of 2016 in the dominant paws putting in a great show here tomorrow narrow succulent Campbell looks like he's back in the game absolutely really good climbing from tomorrow that brings him up to three tops as well so I think that's a spot in the final yeah that we will just double-check the attempts but that's been put in for close to first position as it stands Sakura food trees compatriot from Japan and having a look at this really now for an excellent Boulder here on men's number two the route set as a team seemingly done a fantastic job here and put on a really good show just to confirm that was shorter Cox's fourth attempt on women's three so it's two flashes and a successful top on the fourth attempt for Shawna so far Kokoro has had enough of that for him look on his face was aces he walked off as like cool serious top in the last final seconds again another impressively climber so perhaps how he had that extra you know endurance and extra energy there to finish it off in the last few minutes after so many attempts so we're really getting down to the last few climbers on the last couple of boulders here we will have the remaining Europeans duking it out on these semi final bowlers to crown our European champion will come after the conclusion of the World Cup semi-final here we'll talk more about that as it comes we'll have a short break to have a little bit of time to go through the ins and outs of that we're really focusing on the competition as it stands and it's don't want John yeah we'll have a look at the scores but basically if he goes through this rounds better than swell pretty sure that guarantees him the overall for the season so John munch on could be receiving an early medal here this weekend cleaning up the trophy cabinet once more it's just a great Buy look how strong this guy is yeah of course 2015 overall champion last year just you might be able to hear the crowd that's because yan hire is close he's got a tart variant this yeah it's working about the crowd yeah he's pretty on a really good show this morning we smoked her in the hotel he said he's really on he's on this this weekend he wants it a strong one Sean at the moment then I just looking so casual where I was as a truck with there this is the real party piece with John John here just oh my he's making a rest area shake out John fantastic once again that is why he was most likely gonna be our overall winner this year we're waiting til the scores update I'm pretty sure that has guaranteed him he was in 13th position before he even caught on to that pajama one Sean would double check the maps and we were hope for confirmation from one of the technical team but that should be the overall winner of 2017 for John want Charlie Pauly doesn't know it's just focusing on today's competition and let's have another look back then Charlie yeah and Hoya smashing it once again as you said Mike me and you were having a coffee and a croissant horribly early hour this morning we did see an hoya looks relaxed looks psyched look like a man who could really perform here in Munich and that's proven to be the case and are currently the highest ranked European I think so vying for the title at this stage yes we've mentioned it a couple of times already about the European Championships welcome down to the highest rank two European but it's not quite as simple as calling it at the end of this semi-final because we do have more Europeans to come after the World Cup semi-final and they could potentially take that European title well I think this is a great opportunity to say this is actually really interesting because the European champion is decided at the end of this round on these boulders Europeans in the women's currently Petra clinger with free tops in five attempts showing a see one bollocks to go free tops in six attempts so as it stands Petra cooling of the world champion would take away the European temperatures assuming that the later athletes coming out don't find more top than that which is I wouldn't like to say unlikely but they didn't make the well Cup semi-final so it's still all to play poor but yeah does Shona can but you think she focuses on the European tries to get as many tops of Shen here you know she wants to get rid of - he's not gonna be holding anything back anyway I missed I couldn't tell you I I don't I don't know Jean okok see that well personally so as far as her motivations in this competition I mean I'm sure she's I'm sure her goal is towards both titles you know her World Cup title and a European Championship title that she'd be vying for as far as her exact mentality in regards to those yeah I couldn't say I'm inclined to say she won't be giving it a lot of thought her mindset generally seems to be whenever you talk to her okay I just think about the next attempt the next folder the next round the next World Cup it doesn't appear to give a lot of thought to the the long goal it's which is absolutely the right way to do it because if you start thinking about what's going to happen in the next round you might not perform in this round same goes for each individual bowler so I suspect you've not give me a lot of thought well I think it's probably a wise idea because if she thought about it she has the potential today to drive home with the European champion the overall champion and the World Cup winner from today's event so you know if she thought about it she's gonna be checking in extra luggage if she's not careful yeah it's interesting I've definitely heard that she's very singularly focused on a goal she picks a goal and then that's that's what she focuses on for the season so in a lot of instances that's maybe the or generally like the overall title for the World Cups and whether the European Championship fits into that goal set I'm not sure yeah I think it's a good mindset to adopt I know when you training or something if you actually think about what you've got to do over the next few hours it's horrible but if you just think about the next move the next pull up or whatever it breaks it down it makes it manageable and I think that's Shauna's approach to competition climbing and like for example she um she skipped out the British Championships in bouldering so that she could be proud of prepared to take the overall title for the the World Cup so definitely a very focused athlete definitely knows what she wants and and how she's gonna go about getting it speaking of potential European champions this lady on the screen right now young yagam Brecht how many times did we say that behave every year absolutely she continues to amaze us so just as yen is on the bottom I want to just go through this overall thing again in the men's but it's not quite as simple as we initially expected with double check the maps so if John Wong Shan comes first off second the clarities is over a win only Alexei has the potential to be in and only if Alexei comes first second or third if Alexei comes first jeong-hwan John must come second to win it's pretty exciting and we go into some more of those details slightly later on because there's a lot of potential outcomes and yeah it's really really close in the men's that it comes down to kind of those positions first second or third between those two no other people can challenge jeong-hwan at this stage it's only Alexei who can knock him off that top spot bokura Fuji and this is Jessica pills so Jessica pills one of the climbers didn't make the World Cup semi-final but was one of the top 20 ranked european climbers so let's come around quickly so Jesse Pelt's is not part of this World Cup semi final she is attempting to find the European Championship that she'll comb climb on the same boulders and in the same order of boulders as a World Cup semi-finalists absolutely and it's worth specifically noting that she is not eligible for a spot in the final I think as well so yeah no matter how well she does even if she climbed well enough splashes all the boulders she can't take a spot in the World Cup final only a spot on the European Championship rankings so Yaya we've seen her cruising pretty much everything in recent weeks and months in the lead season just being made to work for this woman's number two so far looking calm as composed as ever sometimes there's an air of inevitability when you're watching Janna climb she's just so strong like and so good at so many different styles and climbing as well and sometimes when I watch her Boulder I start to think how hard the roots are the moves on the laid roads because sometimes she doesn't look like she has to try any harder for days than she does when she's doing 40 50 moves in a row she's won World Cups in both disciplines not in her career but this season just made a pretty good start here in Munich that will be her second top in two bowlers flash the first one we're just confirm the number of attempts as this goes update meanwhile Shawna coxy coming towards the end of her round three successful top so far could be heading for a fourth here she would be the first woman to completely clean sweep of four tops on these semi final boulders so Shana coxy currently down in fourth position still to play for here couple of spots still available into the finals key and Iguchi Stargate Oh Petra clinger Shana Coxie Alex butchers in there and got arena keep bring over from Russia also in there but we can you go amber it's still to push through the rankings can't help but think that the Russian athlete is in danger zone there have a great top there for Japanese athlete kokoro fine work once again as campbell the son races are presents for the first time in a very long time but yesterday there's way too much Sun so I'm not even sure if people are gonna be happy about seeing the Sun coming I'm certainly happy about seeing the Sun come out I'm pretty cold I don't know about you guys but it's nice to get some Sun on our back and feel a little bit warmer which is funny because yesterday I would have prayed for the Sun to go away while I was climbing but we just watched Shawna Cox who's currently in fourth place three top so far she really needs that one we shall see there's only three tops and Shawna coxy with me hope and yeah Nia still in the running to come into those top positions potentially it's going to be really interesting to see if that's enough I think if all goes to plan for Shawna that will put her in sixth position assuming that Miho Nyonya go by the phone book and climb well but yeah we'll see Alex boots yeah and the Russian athlete Katrina keep brewing over currently in the fitment six-oh place is still up for grabs in the men's it's John who is currently on your screen he is currently sitting in sit through two tops in three attempts and have been on two of the borders because I issue me at two from team de man leading the way at the moment three tops in four attempts never Japanese behind him Timon aratake and Hoya just off to our left fine form he's happy with that big smiles around he's in third position it's Alex may goes in for the kiraku G another Japanese behind him in fifth as it stands Tron was alive so he is already into the finals with two quick tops two tops in three attempts because only on his third folder so he will be pushing through anyway maybe we will get that our four tops after all if he manages to climb well through the next couple of boulders as you can see off to our left a great top from a Japanese athlete once again then definitely Team Japan at the moment on the wall and this is another one of the athletes having a look at the overall for the European that's Lea crane so they are now competing directly for the European Championships there's nothing to do with today's world cup competition just flows through here cuz the timeline is so tight so these athletes are trying to get scores on these borders to determine who's going to take away the European sides of at the end of this round we've got another one of our European Championship climbers Benjamin glazier climbing on the first Boulder for the men so again can't take a spot in the World Cup final but he ball can be competing for a place in the european championship rankings hoping for a podium or potentially even a win so Shawn's doing really well now on to the top of the s and Campbell Harrison was hoping to find his Four Tops for the round John could definitely be that guy and he's been that guy all throughout 2017 always puts on a show John munch so so dominant has the opportunity to take away the victory of the overall this year and obviously the World Cup title John Bachar once again on fine form and another man in fine form who will be appearing in his first final of 2017 first pole define I said we saw you this morning at breakfast you seem relaxed you seem motivated it seemed like you were in the right place to perform well yeah the past couple weeds up in the icing up in the right state of mind of elite climbing which was a lot of fun I haven't really Boulder dand but whenever I trained on the wall at training camp I felt really in shape so I came here knew no one that I'm like really strong right now and had no like didn't feel as much pressure as during the world cup season but I really wanted to do well and then it didn't work out I miss finals like real close a couple times and today I just climbed and had fun and I bet you can't wait for the final this evening it was a big goal of mine to be in both like bouldering and lead finals in the same season and it would have been like a wasted opportunity like not making ball during finals a year I finally make elite final and what's the mindset for this evening just give it a hundred percent and see what happens well I know this year I want to focus on lead climbing only go bouldering here at aqua rock master and adios rock star so I just want to enjoy every single move are doing a bouldering wall and the audience has been like really appreciative I might have been even louder than at the world championships or maybe it's just too long ago and I don't remember but just want to have fun again I think you're going to have a lot of support there's going to be a lot of noise so enjoy every second of it things then I really enjoy like making finals with Alex me Ghostly he's one of the strongest climbers i know and seeing him having some success on this big stage hopefully makes him compete a bit more so we get to hang out a little bit more like he's he's so impressive from the warm-up wall and i'm really happy for him that he that's a transition to the comp wall like was successful it's going to be some fine of you guys in the final this huge crowds to cheer you along we can't wait enjoy it blood that was higher safe to say i'm no body language expert relatively happy with that performance yeah I reckon it so we got two competitions going on here once the final athletes in the World Cup semi-final are on the left hand side of the wall and you're gone Brett so we have the core of Fuji number four it's getting really really close here in the finals this place is still available pink yeah and Charlie correct me if I'm wrong when you're looking at this courses that Yan seem to assume that Magus was definitely through to the finals but do we have Kokoro food he still to come yeah ya know was very interested in his score and realized that he was safer who to the final but as we right we could say Mike I'm not sure he quite spotted correctly now it was no goss's score Alex Magus currently sitting in six on our results I believe they are the updated results could Cora Fugees still on the wall tap out that yaya could it take his place so yan saying how much was enjoying climb with Alex meri kasam looking forward to the final he might not be there Alex Magus Yan certainly will kakora still climbing there he is right on side of the wall that's /a guy on the left it's free tops and 11 for make us at the moment Kokoro needs something to happen here for him to get through it's really close it's three tops in 13 so he needs a top and he's got one hand on it the core of Fuji is going to knock out Alex Magus and just off to our right Alex make us gives a nod of approval and awesome effort for him but it wasn't meant to be and when you get knocked out by someone like Kokoro Fuji no that's a shame though for the crowd in yan horror and we would have enjoyed seeing Alex but kokoro extraordinary climber and we can't wait to see him in action this evening so static Jaeho let's confirm where that puts her yes this confirm Alexander Magus he moves down into seventh place jeong-hwan Shawn still to climb the final of the men's competition here already confirmed because Jon want John's already in fourth place is no.1 he can knock out the final this evening and the Men's World Cup final will be carefu t-totally issue mat-su to monera sake John want John yang Hoya and Yoshiyuki Ogata and 40 Ali's Meadows just misses out with we would love to have seen him climb and as I say so woody an hire but he doesn't make it such as the nature of this men's competition it is so tight just to remind you guys at home climbers were swinging out now this is just the European people who didn't make the World Cup semi-final getting their scores on these same boulders to determine the European champion for this year's 20 Europeans a total go through when she got five Europeans who was 1515 Europeans who made the World Cup semi-final so they get their scores that means there was five spots still to be played for in this extra round that's five in the women's and eight in the men's so no impact at all as Campbell said earlier on the World Cup finals positions make any difference the World Cup semi-final list but they are fighting out for positions in the European Championships and they're doing that due to the fact that there was no host this year for the 2017 European Championships was a bit of a shame and absolutely guaranteed to never happen again that's been a statement from the IFS see it's came up with this solution of using today's semi-final borders and it seems like a pretty reasonable solution absolutely like whilst it's not ideal that there's a combined European Championship and World Cup I think for a lot of people it's it's far more idea or far more preferable than not having a European Championship at all so you know as long as we've got it we're gonna have a ranking we're gonna have a fair ranking and that's the most important thing apologies by the way if the World Cup scores we've got to be careful it was talking about her but the World Cup scores are not dating and being told that there is an issue with the electronic score update on women's 4 so that's why I've got a slight delay bringing you the women's score we do have a result for the men so as I said earlier I just read out the six names again this is a mouth-watering final that will take place and was sold out Olympiastadion venue here in Munich it will be kakora Fuji takes issue mat-su tomorrow narrow Sachi jeong-hwan John Yan hiya Yoshiyuki of Gatos so for Japanese climbers through they will be joined by one Korean in jeong-hwan Shaun and one German wait for the role when Yan Hoya comes out this evening remember of course we have got split finals as well of men's final and the women's final will be separate so you will see every attempt from every climber on every Boulder to add some spice into the mix as well the overall will be up for grabs between John one Sean and Alexi so we've done all the maths on that so when it comes to that final later on we'll be able to describe exactly what's required from each of those athletes as you can see one of the legends of the game the only crew didn't make it through to the World Cup semi-final but is still out there fighting for his European potential European title and yeah he's really enjoying himself out there no matter what yeah safe to say wherever you and a cruder is he's probably having a good time such as the case of Munich it's a man who enjoys the social side of climbing I would imagine he'll get on just fine in Munich old yone cruder if anything Munich is definitely one of those World Cups it's a very very very social last World Cup in the season for the boulder is so everyone gets to come along and once they're done climbing I have a really good time and enjoy everybody's companies that are outside of that competitive environment which is lots of fun and I think that's why I so many people come here to the Munich competition we add up you know almost 300 year to 292 actually 92 athletes and it's absolutely crazy but I think it just goes to show how incredible the atmosphere here is here in Germany for the meeting World Cup so this is John munch on then on his last boulder the final male athlete out where we see Four Tops and John munch on looks like he could be heading there really so dominant this year got potential to take the overall away John munch our leads away then it's one hand and I finish oh two hands John Martin will go into the finals in first position a clean sweep for him with four polders he will go through in first place him and kokoro fuji I love that John one John getting the crowd going as if they needed any encouragement but he will go through him first place him and Kokoro Fujinami sir athletes who topped all the four boulders in the World Cup semi-final remember of course we've still got the European Championships going on but him and kokoro fuji the only two athletes with four tops but John Rahn Shawn were just waiting for his court date but I'm almost certain he's used significantly lesser terms than kokoro fuji we were confirmed kokoro required 14 attempts for his fall tops john one's going to be much lower than that seven maybe eight we'll let you know as it comes through apologies as well in the European competition these scores are also not coming through right now we will bring you up to date with who is going to be the European champion he's going to join them on the podium as and when that information comes through we do apologize so just confirm we are now getting some results during the women's competition snag a hoe clean sweep for tops for her me Kier and a Gucci for tops for her as well they're coming through bit by bit these results are teasing is as I said parently there's an issue with the judges tablets on women's four but it is mijo nanako's currently out on women's number four who's still fighting for a place we do hope that it's as up-to-date as we can bring it for for you guys mijo currently out of the runnings coming down in 10th position with two tops in eighth this was on the fourth border - II do believe that is actually up-to-date so to me who is really fighting for a position here and this is going to affect our overall standings of this year as well there is me on the last border on the screen right now there's the crane Great Britain didn't break the World Cup semi-final because the chance to climb on the boulders anyway as part of the European Championships so we're just looking at the scores and counting mijos attempt off to our left and do believe that me who cannot get through to the top six even if she taught this based on the number of attempts that she's already burnt it's really really tight here in the women's and it's free topsis kind of gonna get you in and meet her she probably doesn't know currently leading the way in the European Championships then it's stache' gay her with four tops in six attempts and Yan Hoya for the men 2015 European champion three tops in seven a lot of scores going here at once and there's a issues with the scoring system at the same time so we are keeping an eye on those European scores and like we said it's how you how you do on these boulders that determines your European position whether you're in the European European round which is we're seeing not that it's further down the mat whether you're competed in the World Cup semi-final or you come out into the extra group it's that score on these boulders that determines where you place I think we've actually got a tired first place at the moment in the women's with the kyo and starsha yeah I was just talking about the European rail oh yeah yeah so stashes for tops in six that's gonna be quite hard to be I think who could be seeing stashing a hoe and yeah yeah for sure absolutely [Music] just to have to say this very quick folk just chatted to a EDI FSC photographer who's somehow getting the scores updated I think because he's down the front with the judges if you and your Flash is this baller she is the European champion if it doesn't flash it's - it is the European champion as I said we're having problems with our scores here oh here we go then this is told this is up the European Championship opportunity for the one and only and again Brett to take away the European Championships do hope those stats are right where they come from a reliable source down the front of the wall so it's always painful is actually quite hard to watch now then it's all between Janna and stashes stash has already finished you can't affect this result but yeah and it does really nicely there do you think this is her first go could we see the European champion 2017 you and you Garrett the winner once again another trophy in the bank I have to say you can't help you just shake your head she does it every time comes out we see it in lead climbing and bouldering comes out and a huge pressure just always seems to deliver this as I said earlier there's almost an area of inevitability sometimes when Yandy comes out she just seems completely impervious to pressure extraordinary athlete just to dominate the lead season and then come out and do so well in the bouldering as well just like you say charlie just such a staggeringly good athlete it's so so impressive so do believe that's going to be just having a look at the scores and you go and Bret for tops in six but she will win the European champion possible I've noticed there's no count back because the qualifications were split so yeah we're gonna have to quiz so so we we talked about this at the technical meeting so if there's a tie the European Championship it'll go to ifs e-stamp format tiebreaker which will be a single Boulder scored like a leap root that's in the instance that there is in fact a tie [Applause] yep so yes you at the moment yeah we do have Jana and Stasha scored for a tie so there may be more action to go but we'll keep you updated on exactly what's going on in regards to that so just gone off microphone no it's all action here is a huge gathering of athletes and telling put everybody's trying to figure out what's going on here with the the European it's really really exciting and if what Campbell said is the case with Asha and Yaya exactly tied on attempts and bonuses they will have to go through to a tiebreaker really unprecedented scenes but that is what it's going to be to determine who's going to make the European Championships and it's going to be really interesting because we have stashed in with us and she can tell us what's going down yes still others were having all sorts of problems with our scores updating tell us what is happening with the scores in the European Championships fide now since she flashed the last one so we have both another super final ruth boulder that's going to decide the european champion final so that goes just for the gold medal championship and interestingly enough when I saw you instead of you okay to do a live interview the first thing you said is we're gonna have such a good fighter with yan you know I mean what is that but uh yeah it's gonna be such a nice final I said that we're gonna have a super final with genja that's we met my supervisor the action super final which is I've heard them the technical meeting it's going to be a rout so that's what we've been told yeah okay well enough of the confusion how was it climbing on the the ball is here in Munich amazing atmosphere it was awesome levy I enjoyed every single moment of this semi finals and equalities yesterday I had loved the bowlers and I just can't wait for the finals tonight this is my third plan on in Munich so I'm and what you do now what are you waiting for the the super final and then you got the final this evening what's your plan are you just hanging around trying to stay warm and keep your mind in the right place exactly roll stretch my muscles ready for next challengers rest and so on okay well we and I think the public at home love watching you particularly in a big fire are particularly from a big crowd give it everything we can't wait hearing from especially there now Betsy just to call of one of the IFC technical delegates and he does confirm what's - I said there will be a playoff Boulder to see who wins the European champions apparently it's been pre preset they they thought about it previously they accounted for this as a potential situation in theory they could have duked it out over the finals boulders but the rules are the rules they had to state that before the competition started so yeah a time it's going to tell quite how that's working to work we're just flying by the seat of our pants here today a little bit in a semifinal round combining it at the European Championships yeah one or two scoring issues as Saudi apologized somewhat frustrating an hour end as well but we will do our best there's miss sure Cal Roz not seen him quite so much of the business and the World Cups this year's we did last year here he is and there's alia crane just on your screen there yeah it's actually super interesting I've taken a look at the rules with the super final Boulder and we had one in competition in Australia one time so he did it to I ever see format and it's like yeah they said a boulder and I'm H karma goes attempt 4 attempt it gets scored like a root so they number the holds and whoever gets the highest hold wins if the climbers get to the same hold on their first attempt they go again and again and again and I think there's a maximum of six attempts as long as they can split them in those six attempts there's belthazor split if they don't split within those six attempts from my understanding the Thai remains and as far as a European Championship goes I'm not sure if you can have two European Championship in the same maybe at that point it'd be time to rewrite the rule book and just push on into the final so yeah not here until middle of the night perhaps yeah yeah so unprecedented seems really here in Munich these athletes who are out on the wall at the moment are competing on the semi-final borders to give themselves a European Championship score so I said there is officials running all over the place at the moment we're just trying to keep an eye on everything as it happens so quite exciting at the moment it's Benjamin blazer on our screen tackling men's number three she's actually the final athlete to compete in its extra group of five women that's five women who didn't make the top 20 in the World Cup qualifiers as we have a really good look a true fighter it's Leah crane from Team GB she does he do really really well here didn't make the World Cup semi-finals but proved proves once again how it works for a fine athlete she is and how strong she is and how difficult it is to make a World Cup semi-final you can see the fight here from Leah's fantastic she's really putting in a good bird absolutely we're actually seeing from from what I've seen a lot of the athletes just in this European Championship semi-final coming through and performing quite well which is probably very frustrating for them it's frustrating but motivated at the same time because they know that they've finished on a high from this competition they were disappointed last night at the end of the qualifiers when it was actually Papa midnite by the time they finished and they were saved 292 athletes here this weekend but then to come out and have the opportunity to fight on another set of World Cup boulders it's going to be good leading into the winter break and heading into next season yeah for sure and every every experience on a World Cup level is crucial and really valuable so as much as you know you'd prefer to be in the app the top 20 vying for a spot in the finals and able to take it if you if you climb as such you know it's still like we said earlier you've got to take every victory and and being able to get another chance to climb here in Munich is definitely a victory so these athletes are trying to chase down the score from Yan Hoyer do believe those free tops in seven attempt two Europeans in the men's chasing down Yan Hoya and it's Alex Magus who could take away consolation prize of second at the European Championships here just behind me actually right look at my computer I've got yummy gum written stash Akio yeah maybe you can give us some insight and you look like you're really enjoying being back in bouldering just quickly while you check the results it looks like you're really enjoying being back on the boulders good well good luck on your super Boulder and this evening yeah as I say my computer's just been stolen very briefly by Danny Cameron such a guy huh hey just your computer's be it's stolen and the world's press has just descended on us just to get their picture cuz this isn't really unprecedented seen here everyone I don't gets the picture of these two before they go on to a Super Final this normally happens actually Mike I don't know don't know familiar with that normally we get this kind of attention are you talking about in it I think it's anything to do with these two taking my computer we should put a password on it well it's even more I think it's actually even more interesting than just the European Championship because in the World Cup standings the moment we have a three-way tie for first place so say that the World Cup final doesn't split as well there's a potential for a second Super final still going forward so you know I don't know what the action is is even over just now hopefully the World Cup final splits just fine but nevertheless we do have that three-way tie at the top with a KO in the mix as well for the World Cups my oh my for three people that maybe maths isn't their natural thing this is proof this this is proving quite the challenge like it's more of a boxing match what's good for the guys at home is the fact that we've managed to stream this extra round of climbing so extra opportunities to what's more climbing and far as I'm concerned that's a good thing absolutely and good to see Jesse pills we known mainly as a lead climber also obviously be handy bold remember having us rock stars finalist last year certainly no slouch in the bouldering it's good to see her tell me semi finals boulders do you own a cruder we saw his sister Julia in the World Cup semi-final earlier on [Music] great opportunity just to look at some of our athletes and Hannam it could be heading for a top here self in a good position for her scores on this holders for the European Championships gets one that gets two nicely done kind of it boo ya know some of these guys are absolutely destroying the semi volleys you do wonder if for them it's like the pressure is almost off they're just out into it they've got nothing to lose at this stage probably like it can't really go wrong I mean you know they they can't go through to the final but they can still do their best to try and get a good ranking in the European Championship it's a really really great opportunity like you've got also think there are other non Europeans who are close to the semi-finals who because they're not European don't get same opportunity to climb on the semi-final folders so you know definitely going to be appreciative and thankful for the opportunity that they have of European legends were actually out at the moment that was a Jeremy Banda from Team France the background made the finals in Paris 2016 and on the screen at the moment from GB team it's will Posey who had a really good semi finals it's not done that many senior World Cups and fit and so if I was qualified should say he had a really good qualifying round and this is Martin Stronach such a powerful athlete made many a final in his time and it's an absolute warrior when it comes to these big pinches and those powerful moves yeah I think we'll this is wills first bouldering World Cup as well so pretty good finishing for him regardless of how he climbs in this round for sure very strong outdoor climber as well will Posey not getting on with that big diner though heads back in with 30 seconds to spare Johanna hull felt Germany also heading in early that's Martin Stronach on the yellow volumes check climber he is going to be timed out for just trying to finish the boulder maybe for just for fun that's back in the moments to let you know roughly where we are in this extra group of climbers for their European temper tips score at the 'ukraine is on the last Boulder she was furred out out five roughly where we are in the men's Gabriela Moroni out yeah I think it's Benjamin Plato who was second out in the men's out of eight finishing his tour so few few climbers still to come to make the way through these boulders and which gives enough opportunity for it to figure out what's going to happen in this super final give the routes eyelets to think about something anyway that's for sure we're not getting on with the women's 4 made it's made a semi final and the World Cups already this year just miss out this Sun round Gabriela Maroney had a good chat with him in Vail still a sight deservers been climbing an awful long time indoors outdoors Boulder lead you name it does it all it does it well one of the all-time greats really and we hope to see him next week in Arco for the lead competition the lead World Cups continue out and it's near the fantastic venues they do in the area definitely come and check it out if not live streaming ever it's gonna be a really interesting field in Arco considering all the ballers have finished it's a pretty close proximity this one and also with the World Youth Championships coming up and a lot of youth are coming through and using it as a good preparation event for the for the youth championship so I think it's gonna be a really cool field it'll be interesting to see how it pans out with a few different names in the mix so for those guys at home who may have just tuned in the World Cup semi-final has finished and yeah great round it was we have an extra round of climbing at the moment just to determine so many European Championships results they get to compete on the same borders currently chasing down a new guard British - okay who who will have a climb off to determine the European champion and tasty down yeah hiya Nick German 2015 European champion so yeah and how I could potentially add another european championships to his trophy cabinet we all just wait for our European scores to update see if anybody's anywhere near them but chances are mustachio and the end of Garber to the Great's of the sport so high up before tops at six attempts of course it's unlikely it'd be a very very impressive performance if they were to catch those two so Fisher cholera's resident of Innsbruck hails from südtirol which is a materials a bit of a complicated geographical region but suits here are lies in Italy remains here all itself meets in Austria Mischa now a resident of Austria the main shrimp so the main part of Terrill I'll get slaughtered by the City Royals the northern part of Europe trying to see what they can do give themselves some decent results for the European Championships coarsely this weekend combining the two competitions benjamin blades another one of those athletes who seems to have been around forever already didn't make the World Cups let me find out here but trying to put on a good show stiff you got some good shorts good to see as well the crowd here in Munich sticking around they're very discerning crowd on the hole at Keene climbing city Munich a lot of excellent indoor walls a lot of climbers if you've ever climbed in the the Tirol region of Austria most people you get chatting to have come down from Munich for the day it just seemed to be one of those cities that attracts climbers only an hour away from some of the big hills of the Alps and they are a very knowledgeable crowd here and a very big and very vocal crowd as well and I think there might be about to unleash another Cheers we see Gabriela Maroney but left on the right hand these tears peels off we've seen that moves stop a few climbers before she stops Gabby as well yeah super close to holding that that sloper but he just couldn't cope keep the tension on the foot um and then that brought him away from the wall and the slope it just wasn't good enough for him to be able to take the swing not everybody could shake out on it like John Deere Jumbotron looked like he was on a different Boulder compared to those long meandering blazer and Leah crane and finished their European Championships campaign both of them looking slightly despondent what's gone down over the previous four balls but I could fight nonetheless she will bosie just way off in some fries likes a slap very small hold could be bond starts on men's number two just one of the French team and they just take the European champion especially but they're taking it so seriously this year they're really gunning towards these European Championships results yeah would have been nice to see you Jeremy in the Semyon botanics the final he's such a showman really dynamic Climie we're used to seeing him flying across our screens but not his best day yesterday in qualifiers but he does get a chance at the boulders and one thing that I really enjoy hearing and you always hear the climbers say when they don't qualify for a round one of the most frequent comments is I'd love to try those boulders it's just like the sheer passion for climbing and the sheer passion for trying these amazing boulders and it's very nice and a few extra climbers it may be didn't make the World Cup semi-finals still gonna go on these awesome boulders absolutely that's the most important thing is coming here and climbing you know we want to do well we want to get a positive ranking but more than anything I think just want to come out and climb and try some world-class boulders and have a good time Yona cruder we didn't see many tops of this ball during the World Cup and he gets it done I think once one of the really interesting scenarios about having another group of climbers on the same borders is what could they have done what would their score being compared to the World Cup semi-final associ is particularly unfair to directly compare them because they're you know the mindset and the situation is different but it proves that how strong and how deep the field is and how well someone like journey could have done if he did scrape through yesterday yeah so then I think like just with the particular set of boulders do we have yesterday it's not totally surprising that we've got some of these guys coming out and climbing really well because you know bouldering it is it's just so style dependent and if the boulders suit you're on a day you could win and on other instances you come a tear you know it's not uncommon that we see people do this ain't like that in the one season so you know but I think that the difference in places is so my new it's literally a foot swap or you had to finish out in your hand you went to match and you slipped off you know it could be it's so so finite the difference between a semifinals place and they say way down the list yeah yeah even even I'm attempts to a couple of bonuses can be the difference between 20 places 30 places easily especially in big fields like this so Jeremy Scott two minutes 20 left on the clock crowd would love its help here as I say they've hung around we are undercover here in Munich it looks to me as if the weather is turning but we are undercover and the crowd seemed happy to hang around and watch a few more world-class farmers as well they might be superb action he's just struggling about jump he's one of the shorter climbers Jeremy that jumps a long way no matter what your height but especially for smaller climber like Jeremy I do wonder if some of the crowd I've got the fear a little bit after last night's storm and wind just picking up across the arena here a little bit you can see some of them looking around thinking should we run for the hills or not had to be seen to be believed last night one of the hottest days of the summer I think so far turned into freezing cold can't begin to imagine what speed winds rain but the size of golf balls yeah yeah we were in Munich city centre and a BMW actually sank in a puddle was coming in through the door we walked over to try and help and that there water's up to my thighs which admittedly isn't very deep but those people's ankles that's crazy they're like we were standing in there and one of the train stations and water was flowing down the stairs like a waterfall and fortunately there was a great at the bottom like a drain but I think that the underground totally could have flooded if like if that wasn't in place it's pretty crazy I really hope the weather doesn't play any part in stopping this competition it did stop it briefly last night because it seems to be if the rain comes there's strong horizontal horizontal wind the wind in general seems to be blowing very very quickly across the arena so hopefully that's not going to start whipping and it's fine as we speak yeah very worrying though as you say we are under cover here in Munich there is a roof over our heads but the sides are basically completely open so if there's any wind at all causes some problems yeah I've really feel for the technical delegates and the organizers here they've had just problem after problem here this weekend nothing and if they could control ever and the weather is something they've definitely come on control we really hope not going to cause us any delays at all [Music] so Gabriela Maroni come out next you'll be working his way down the wall right to left as we look at it swiftly it's the final athlete out on the woman's bothering Andrea cumin finishes her campaign on these set of boulders we currently have it's going to determine that the European Championship scores Italian Michael just next to him finishing his campaign on the right is just around halfway down the list so why I'm so happy it's still to go working their way down the wall and the wind really picking up here in Munich they're waterproof jackets are going on all around the arena people give beginning to disperse lightly other so it was actually quite intimidating when the storm arrived last night really hoping we don't get a repeat at the same plenty of the hardcore just putting their waterproof jackets on and settling in yeah rain definitely starting to come down over the roof and every now and again with the wind you can feel a couple other drops blowing to the side but it's not too bad it's definitely not enough to stop the competition at this stage hopefully we managed to get through all that the climbing before anything like that comes along it's cold I might mention I'm definitely getting cold with the wind coming through just take this opportunity and Graham all assume one of the IOC technical delegates has been in touch and he says it was a tied first place in a boulder and World Cup back in 2009 between Anna store and a key of Noguchi and they had a super final Boulder to determine first place so it's not unheard of but it's very rarely heard of it's Beth definitely the first time I have seen that 2009 and sure what's doing back to 2009 but that seems like a lifetime ago to hear 2009 I was definitely not watching climbing World Cups yet we even born in 2009 I think this one a little bit after that yeah almost thanks for that groom groom should have been our technical delegate we've seen him on the live stream before should have been here but he's had surgery on his left arm get wall soon Graham thanks for the text so I can actually feel moisture in the air it's time to descend on our technology now paid in the work here okay so just as we keep an eye on the Gabriela Moroni got some information for you about the super final after the European Championship competitors are done the setters will convert one of the men's boulders and this new Boulder will be the super Boulder for stature and Yaya there will only be one Boulder and there will go attempt by attempt and the high point wins so the first climber gets one attempt then the second climber gets one attempt and the high point wins if tied they continue until aspiration is reached I just come in here Charlie from a root snaking point of view that is literally the worst case scenario there is nothing worse than trying to set a boulder on the fly for a World Cup or to determine the world championships on the fly from a border they've got to modify every ounce of their route setting knowledge and experience will have to come right now that could very very easily go wrong I mean I have a lot of faith in these guys but like I said worst case scenario for the route setters well inevitably on any Boulder I mean more so on on on boulders and leave roots there's always going to be inevitably one move that's harder than the others it's just inevitable Utes very hard to make a boulder where each move gets progressively harder especially when they're adapting one of the men's boulders are not setting from scratch we haven't got two hours to sit and think about this they're going to now be down the front of the stage deciding which Boulder 2news trying to figure out how to change it and what they might do to try and get a result of one Boulder a very very difficult challenge even if you've got plenty of time which the the route setting team don't stuff that nightmares are made up from the route setting point of view but we have heard that they kind of have previously fought about this so I do hope it's not something that is gonna have to kind of like they do on the fly right now the wind seems to have dropped a little bit the rain continues the rain is cascading down the roof here but it's a that's so far so good in the arena now yeah I'm really looking forward to see what happens with this super final now yeah it's not quite uncharted territory but not a million miles from it I don't think certainly be new for slasher and yeah Mia yeah really interesting to see how they Co with it and how I'll be interested to see as well if they work together in little bits to try and figure it out I mean we do see John observation in sideways it'd be interesting to see or whether they just come out with the game face on and get get straight into it and just focus on their own performance and they're quite close friends and they train together a lot I would imagine that they'll work they've alter out together and let each other you know give each other the best opportunity that's my prediction you'd like to think so buddy yeah it's not out the question that they'll think oh well there's the European Championships at stake here I'm gonna come out and not going to talk to her I'm not gonna swap any of my betta from look at the boulder we shall see but don't forget they're all see they are through to the World Cup final as well so I mean the European Championship soft grab there is money involved there is a big very few involved there's also the fact that do I kill myself to try and win the European Championships and potentially ruin my chances in the final to win the bullring World Cup what's more important I don't know apologies early on we were having no end of problems with scores updating and then we get someone that would tell us something that may or may not prove to be correct seems like we've just about got the most up-to-date information now and as you say looking forward to seeing how this super final goes down in the meantime we're keeping an eye on your screen but we can confirm two World Cup semi-finals so we're talking World Cups now Jonnie gamma and stature KO they'll be through they'll be joined this evening by a cue Noguchi Petra clinger Shana coxy and Alex Pucci oh my oh my there is no climber there who cannot win this evening extraordinarily strong and looking at that list of female finalists there's no one that's pleased just to be there no they all know their audience yeah absolutely I mean often in a finder you get someone in this so yeah I'm just so happy pallava blonde we spoke to / early she's delighted to be there but of that list of names Yandy gamma at seguro Aquila Gucci Petra calling with Shana coxy and Alex Cuchillo they are all gunning for at least a medal as if not a gold walk yeah they're definitely experienced athletes and they're looking to take it out to shore so just turning our attention back then to the athletes who are still fighting for places in the European Championships who's Jeremy Banda we just had a good look at real Posey who was on men's number four and you can see that's a great angle how bad the undercut hold here jeremy has actually got to contend with it's one of the best angles we've seen of that throughout there this morning stream Jeremy's actually finding crimps at the back of the screw holes that's definitely finger nail territory down the back of that pretty grim from his point of view yeah they will do absolutely anything it takes to get a good result here Jeremy bond they're still chasing down yan hoya for a european championship title three tops in several attempts that's what that's going to take to beat or to equal here and it's just good work from jeremy super impressive fader there straight up with both hands and is able to hold it straight away Liz really really cool Oh just looked like he really stood up into that go ahead a bit high in it he lost the traction on the fingers because he went so high on it just stay low and work your way around the volume a lot of weight through the feet rather in the hands yeah absolutely you're Hannah Hollifield then to have an athlete on her final boulder pad and recoupment she's finished her tour and this we have here is actually slightly scrambled in terms of the order so we're just trying to get our heads around that one as well at the same time just updates are still coming through by the way about the procedure for the Super Bowl that will take place between Yanni and stache' unfortunately because of the amount of time it's going to take the route setters to set the ball of it we're not going to be able to stream the Super Bowl they do apologise I've just been told that myself we will try to film it though and bring it to you on social media do apologize but the route setters are going to have a bit of word to do I said they haven't got much time they do need a bit yeah I think that like although that's you know hard for the guys at home it do feel sorry for for you guys that is the sensible decision at the end of the day because they maybe said this is the worst case of now if the route says they've got to decide the European Championship on one Boulder and so to take some time is is the sensible approach and actually we'll bring that to you as soon as we've got that footage on social media so it's well bosey then on the right of the screen wearing 97 from Team GB a good weekends work for him and your Hannah Hollifield from Germany also trying hard here but as we saw earlier in the competition women's 4 and men's 4 particularly difficult boulders so for you guys at home this is an extra group if you've just tuned in you unfortunately would have missed the World Cup semi-final these climbers are out competing for a score on the same orders just make life easy they used to same borders and their score will decide their placement in the European Championships this weekend the World Cup has been doubled up as the European Championships read for all of that chat on the internet and through social media definitely check out your Hogan's interview on UKC and his Facebook channels and the official statements from the IOC as to kind of how this we ended up in this situation I suppose and they've come up with a really good solution in the end and by the end of this round we're getting relatively close to that now it's Gabriella and Maroney working his way he's kind of 2/3 way down the field of 8 remaining athletes of the Europeans he's close to the end of his tour and will very shortly be able to find out in the men's at least unless we have a another tie but I'm pretty sure that can't happen we'll be a European champion in the men's and as we continue to watch these European Championships special guess we should pakoras he did make the World Cup semi-final but it's a nice bonus to be able to climb on these boulders hey yeah I mean I was disappointed after I didn't make it to were Cup semi-finals but luckily I could at least climb today in European Championships find I sent me finance so yeah it was fine the bullets were pretty good and that good fun and just tell us about your season overall you've not been happy huh not really I mean I started off pretty well Sheffield with quiff but then the World Cup season was quite bad all the year and quite disappointed with how it all went but yeah next year it's gonna be better hopefully and what's the plan now before next year's to get ready where are you in terms of your you were studying at University where are you in terms of life and how much can you dedicate yourself to the season next year well I'm living means program the best place to live probably to train and I'm siting there as well but I've plenty of time to train and prepare for climbing and yeah I mean trainings may be gone a switch now little in terms of preparation for Olympics so maybe more lead and speed training but course bouldering is still the number one and it's not something you have your eye on the Olympics you are really beginning to think about it now and adjust your training yeah well definitely adjust my training to it and we have some national smart homes for the Olympic format and try to do well there so maybe get some sponsorships or something and go see inside okay cool well hey enjoy your training over the winter and we'll see you next year and I'm sure you'll be back on your 2016 form thank you the dishes were in that interview we have Gabriela Maroney on the wall and it's quite interesting as we look at the men's European Championship scores it's actually the top seven are all actually competed in the World Cup so it's kind of going by the form of the moment it's like I said there let's Yan Hoya leading the way three tops in seven Alexander Megos currently sick in second he will be take away a silver medal in the European Championship and shave her heart from Slovenia did a fantastic job earlier two tops in six is actually not made it through to the World Cup final but consolation prize of a bronze medal potentially there's a couple of athletes still to come in the European Championships you own a crew that did well as well he's in fourth yakov Schubert was actually I got to go back on that because Yannick crudo was not in the semi-final he's blasted through in the extra round done well but then it's yeah cops you back there Alexei rips off actually down into six two tops in ten double check the scores on Alexei they're two tops in six it's currently reading on the European Championships from him [Music] yeah so the action continues and unfortunately like we said we were bound to bring you the super final border but well we will bring it to you but it won't be instantly on the back of this because the route centers need time to to create that Boulder and make sure they get it right indeed sir guy from Russia Gavin Maroney stepping up for another attempt this will be his final one I'd assume with fifty seconds left on the clock looking for a top though plea to improve his ranking he was getting close on the last go so maybe you can pull it together for this one super strong climber not unknown to the semi-finals she's got to figure out the fate of this but I think it's just a little bit attitudes unfortunately to get that foot up a little bit and final few years and desperation before before you know admitting defeat and stepping back out to isolation as you can see there just as Gabriela Maroni walks off he's kind of he's having fun though he appreciates it an 11-3 how to compete in front of this crowd is exactly you you know you it's not every day you get to place outside of the top 20 and still climb and semi finals and get that other chimney so he there's nothing more you can do other than just have fun and go with the flow I guess Jeremy Munday steps back out for the final men's bolder ways down the list unfortunate in terms of his European Championship ranking one top of three at 17 currently in 13 if you could find a top here it could actually rock it up to the top six so yeah Jeremy if he finds a decent top here could could take himself waiting wake up the European temperatures leaderboard yeah for sure he's definitely got some really impressive contact strength which will serve him well on the slopers so you know it could be within his ability to take a top on the final Boulder here his left hand was too low on the left start hold so he couldn't move his foot up properly so now you'll see he's taking his left hand a little bit higher and he should be able to get them throughout position to lift his hip high enough to establish there we go way is here that time it was a matter of sort of 20 or 30 centimeters higher up on the hole actually gave him the extra height to find that next shoulder volume down the back of the holes again for Jeremy bonds or is he crimping the back of that as well I think so I'm not sure that it would be all that much better than the actual hold itself to be honest but I mean I'm not on the wall you see I find a crimp that on the panel join as well Jerry bond are looking for all of the options here finding the right secrets know maybe getting distracted by alternative methods or tentative holes yeah and considering you'd only just stepped out onto the boulder I think that's really interesting usually you don't start trying for that stuff until like at least a couple attempts in because you know the route set is they're very experienced and generally for the most part the way they set the boulder is is going to be more or less the way it's done so yeah yeah interesting decision to start looking for alternative methods so quickly guys who have joined us all the way through this dream thank you so much for joining us and we can't confirm that John Montone has now won the overall tied to win the men's Aleksey has not done so well in the semifinal round John well John does take away the overall so we already have our overall winners for 2017 John want Sean and Sean okok coz Sean her already won before she even stepped foot in Germany but solely the overall winners for the Bordeaux World Cups that's a combined score - their worst score it's John won Sean and Shawna coxy 2017 Shawna back to back 2016 2017 winner John Sean 2015 and 2017 overall Porter World Cup winners he's climbing really carefully at the moment which is strange maybe he's aware that he needs a bit more in order to you know excel in the rankings but it's interesting he's definitely climbing a little bit hesitantly yeah realistic if he does this I think the best he can do is seventh in the European Championships it's down to attempt whoever he can be Alexi erupts off into sixth place for the European Championships but yeah there's no there's no podiums on offer at the moment for jeremy bonds earth you know he probably won't know that at this stage with so much going on super cautious he looks like he's kind of forgotten about the panel joins and the Crimson is focusing on what he's got on offer yeah making a little bit of progress now though so hopefully he can keep this going yeah good Baylor there yeah we saw you and a crew to do really well as part of his European tour as you were and which put him into a really good position for his European Championships overall result here this weekend to hear a reporter once again just gives it absolutely everything totally gasps is he so half passes out on the mats yeah nothing left in the tank for Jeremy he's he's lining up for another go this is a pure mental strength getting him through if it is he is going for another go and another this is just Jeremy bond a trying to climb this bold because he walked because he wants to wants to give the show the crowd a show he wants to claim a top yeah there are no excuses to quit on that last Boulder because you don't have anything after that so you know if you've got five seconds left and you haven't got the bonus yet you might as well pull on and try to get it might as well give it everything you've got absolutely [Music] and he's still climbing really well but I think he's just out of gas various that is a man that's given everything shakes his head waves to the crowd heads back him so we do believe this is going to be the final climber out the Russian athlete sergeich rounds off this extra group of European qualifiers then as we've said before me if you have this joined us this is a extra group of Europeans to make up the quota of 20 that would go through normally to a European Championship semi-final and this competition the European temperature element of it anyway will be decided it's probably already has been decided to be honest it's going to be yeah and Hoyer has taken away the European Championships we will double check our scores against what sir going has on offer it's looking like Yan Hoyer three tops in seven attempts works his way not only as he's super psyched to get through to the finals it's got to be happy the pack he's taken away a medal already after a nice morning's work excellent morning's work for Yan hi yes and made a final in both lead and Boulder in the same year pretty good effort nearly got a podium in Vela absolutely don't forth it was awesome to watch especially because he basically climb with no expectation yeah and it meant a lot to him actually like yeah I think people assume that because he's primarily a boulder it's not such a big deal but I'm actually used to do a lot of League competitions in the past and um it really did mean quite a lot that he was able to finally achieve that goal that he'd worked for for so long and he didn't think would ever happen so yeah it was really exciting to see to see him in that final for sure just off to our right off and che from Slovenia absolutely over the moon spinning around is also talking to family member or somebody of importance because he's got a bronze medal in the European Championship so fine fine result from him European Championship as a youth in 2015 to take away a meadow in the European Championships as a senior is brilliant got to be happy with that yeah absolutely it's so go lose etske then from Russia to believe this is going to be the final athlete out tackling the fourth boulder we've seen some great tops of this all throughout the morning saw some bit of an epic top earlier on from an X Omega and then someone like you only crude are coming through in this extra group finding a top and yeah it's been it's been a really good set of boulders all throughout the day yeah definitely really really good I could split and the man I think and exciting - what's really enjoyable and I think really you know with two women it's tied going through to the final cause a little bit of problem with the European Championships but you know it's just hard luck - the resets gets a poor top so if you get six attempts but overall attempt you say they've done a fantastic job here so far this weekend if you have circumstances absolutely we just watched him so going Lizette ski trying to keep his hips trying to keep his belly close to the wall quite close enough two minutes left for him and yeah might you were just talking then about the roots esters they always aim for what we call separation so you get a result the last thing they want the route setters want it's a time just interestingly in the women's competition they got it perfectly if you get three tops or more you make the final if you get less than three tops you don't rate the final and in the men's competition it was three tops for the top seven climbers so not far off perfect in both competitions came down to attempts in the men's and the women's have got it absolutely nailed on Langley chief root says at the castle the cost head of the roots that's his union who's keen to point out just how how hard they work and how hard their job is and how devilishly handsome they are all the rest of it you can imagine it's a real dark heart and not many people really know kind of what happens during the night or early on in the morning in the routing world and you know it does sound a little suspicious but I know what you mean it's a really interesting game and that's so vital to this competition yeah they definitely work hard and it's you don't have competitions without root cellars so just 30 seconds left in for the final athlete out on the stage the Russian athletes fighting hard but no he looks at absolute gas but as Jeremy Rondon it is going to give it one more burn 20 seconds left to go obvious five minutes and after this we will be looking forward to the final yeah final will be here at 6 p.m. as I say we're splitting the menus and the women's final so be one than the other you won't miss a single attempt on a single Boulder take times out for the Russian that's B's time up [Applause] and so concludes our action so far here in Munich remember we have got the super boulder I've been told that so that won't be streamed but I'm also hearing that it has been set to apologize we are awaiting information for now let's have a look at the scores from today's semi-final in the women's competition we've got two yummy gum red Sasha gay ho tide Akira Noguchi also tied those top three will progress they'll be joined in the final here in Munich this evening by petra Klinger the world champion jonah coxy to time overall World Cup winner and Alex Puccio a legend of the sport who we haven't seen as much as we'd like for various reasons mainly injury over the past couple years but she will climb this evening and she's bound to get quite the reception just missing out meanwhile Fanny geebeare bit lower down me hone a knack if she might have hoped to be there catch a carriage will miss out as well this would be the first one she's missed in three World Cups Francisco Sarah if Kenya Kazbek over Hannah slowly come your faith Mikayla Tracy had a superb qualifier couldn't quite back it up in the semi-finals unfortunately Sierra black oil Yulia cruda salsa and Chloe Kohli a strong final five in that semi-final in the women all five might have expected to be slightly higher up but they miss out jeong-hwan John he goes through in first place clean sweep for tops took him at six attempts at pakora Fuji he also claimed for tops took him 14 attempts in third place totally in maps issue mat suit excuse me tomorrow and our sake last year's dominant force of Yan Hoyer's first ball the final of 2017 and Yoshiyuki Ogata what a final that promises to be as well just missing our Alexander mega so a lot of people would have liked to see him in the final Jakob Schubert ditto and a legacy rubs off doesn't make the final shams John won the title so Manuel cornu also misses out David Fernand Berg would have had a high hopes in front of his home crowd lower down Mikael Marwan one of the stars of the Tokyo woke up misses out do you to fuji wacky the crowd all looking over to the right at the venue MC and as I say we will bring you coverage of the super Boulder when we have it we're not entirely sure when the start time is but we'll make sure we get it on social media thank you very much for watching thank you to my Langley figures a camel Harrison and we will see you at 6 p.m. for what promised to be two wonderful finals we'll see them [Applause]

Channel: International Federation of Sport Climbing

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Keywords: Sport, Climbing, 2017, IFSC, #IFSCwc, World, Cup, LIVE, Streaming, Munich, Germany, Bouldering, Semi, Final

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Length: 196min 4sec (11764 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2017

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