The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are about to begin and once again we have competition climbing gold on the line. The combined Boulder and Lead event is great watching for climbing enthusiasts—with some of the world's best sport climbers present at the competition—and an exciting format with parkour, swing-a-lings and no-tex volumes in the Boulder and vomit-inducing resistance and pressured 'no second-chance' problem solving in the Lead.

After initial tickets to the Paris Olympics were granted at last year's World Championships and regional events (Oceania for New Zealand), the final entries have been up for grabs in recent weeks at a series of two competitions, held in Shanghai and Budapest.