Paris 2024 Olympics - Climbing - Men's Speed, Qualification Elimination - Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue, Le Bourget, France - August 06, 2024. Peng Wu of China and Euncheol Shin of South Korea in action. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
PARIS (Reuters) - When Jacky Godoffe floated the idea of setting a fixed route for competitive speed climbing to the sport's international governing body in 2004, it was laughed off as a joke.
Fast-forward 20 years, and the universal route that the trailblazing French climber conceived then will mark a moment in history at the Paris Games, becoming the stage for the first-ever Olympic medals to be handed out in speed-climbing.
