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Today at Santa Linya in Spain Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Stoking the Fire, the 9b sports climb established in 2013 Chris Sharma.

At Margalef in Spain Stefano Carnati has repeated Demencia Senil, the 9a+ sport climb first ascended by Chris Sharma in 2009.

At Brar in Albania Sébastien Bouin has made the first ascent of The Dream. Graded 9b, this is now the most difficult sport climb in the country.

Polish rock climber Łukasz Dudek has made the rope-solo first ascent of an 8c sport climb, Core at the crag Biblioteka in Poland.

German climber Michi Wohlleben has repeated Psychogramm, the 8b+ trad climb at the Bürser Platte in Austria, first ascended in 2014 by Alex Luger.

Interview with British rock climber Pete Whittaker about his new book Crack climbing - Mastering the skills and techniques

Italian climber Stefano Carnati has repeated Dreamtime at Cresciano in Switzerland. Established in 2000 by Fred Nicole, this was the first boulder problem in the world to be graded 8C.

Interview with Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher after their free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite.

Awaiting official Olympic Committee confirmation, Laura Rogora, Julia Chanourdie, Iuliia Kaplina, Kyra Kondie and YiLing Song qualified in Toulouse yesterday for the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games while Lucka Rakovec and Mia Krampl will battle it out for the remaining nation quota tomorrow afternoon. The men’s Combined Qualifier final takes place this...

The second, decisive Olympic Qualifying Event for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games continues today in Toulouse, France, with the women’s qualification. Live streaming starts at 11:00 with Speed, followed by Boulder at 13:00 and Lead at 16:45. Those who got a pass yesterday are Adam Ondra, YuFei Pan, Alberto...

The second and decisive Olympic Qualifying Event for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games begins today in Toulouse, France. Live streaming of the Qualification tournament starts at 11:00 with the male Combined Qualifier.

Heinz Mariacher shares his thoughts after Magnus Midtbø paid a visit to Arco, Italy, during which the Norwegian climber attempted to classic slab climbs dating back to the 1980s and first ascended by Mariacher himself: Super Swing at the Swing Area and Tom & Jerry at Spiaggia delle Lucertole.

British rock climber Hazel Findlay has repeated Magic Line, one of the most difficult trad climbs in Yosemite Valley and beyond.

The uncut video of Austrian Jakob Schubert climbing Perfecto Mundo, the 9b+ at Margalef in Spain he repeated at the start of November.

On El Capitan in Yosemite Austria’s Barbara Zangerl and South Tyrol’s Jacopo Larcher have made a free ascent of The Nose, the most famous big wall in the world.

The video portrait of Britain’s Hazel Findlay, one of the strongest and most versatile climbers in the world.