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A Real Life Off-by-One Error
The Championnats d’Europe d’Escalade (climbing) in Villars-sur-Ollon has just finished. I couldn’t make it to all the events, but did see the finals of the “Speed” event.
Speed climbing is a bit like skateboarding at the Olympics: absolutely in no way a real representation of what it’s like to do it for 99.99% of people who skate/climb, and apparently it’s scoffed at by most of the community; but it’s entertaining nonetheless to the layman, and brings spectators in so why not include it? I was looking at the wall thinking it’s interesting that the route has been standardised since the inception, and I wondered if they’ve ever had an event happen with one side being subtly different to the other; such that it would (now?) Maybe I spotted the issue because of the photo I had taken a couple of years previously, and the only time I watch speed climbing is when it happens here in the village so I’m not visually fatigued by a hundred views of the same thing.
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