If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal in speed climbing—the new stand-alone event in which athletes scale a 15-m wall in around five sec., or less—he’ll have some pretty sweet bragging rights. “My claim to fame is that I’m the fastest Olympian, assuming I get the world record at the Olympic Games,” Watson says in a video interview from Salt Lake City, where in early July he was training for the Paris Games. 

Watson, 18, does point out that you can quibble with that assertion: 100–m sprinters, for example, are actually moving at a higher velocity than climbers during their race, which takes less than 10 sec. “They’re going horizontal and I’m going vertical,” Watson says. “I’m fighting gravity.” 

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Finishing out your career at the Olympics—at a place where they went ahead and built a statue for you before you even retired—is what the kids these days call a “baller move.” Sure, Michael Jordan won his last three championships at the United Center in Chicago while his likeness sat in front of the arena. But even that structure was unveiled, in 1994, when Jordan was still retired and playing baseball and not hinting at any kind of comeback. Roland-Garros, home of the French Open and the Olympic tennis tournament in Paris, just went ahead and bronzed Rafael Nadal—actually, he’s made of steel—in 2021, as he was still piling up French Open championships. In fact, in 2022 Nadal went ahead and won his 14th Roland-Garros title.

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