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the appointment of Serre Chevalier has become a classic of the
international difficulty climbing circuit, the Open des Ecrines of
L'Argentiere La Bessée is the same regarding the Bouldering world. Taking
advantage of the presence of many climbers present in the region Hautes
Alpes per the competitions and to climb in a cool climate, the
organization of the small French village another time has prepared a nice
event, in the opinion of many of a qualitative level higher than the norm.
Unexceptionable organization and great work of route setting. The route
setter's team, leaded by Françoise Lombard, has proposed a series of
definitely original moves, some of them hard to understand. It was
interesting to observe the variety of the interpretation beside the
ability and efficiency of the competitors. Numerous athletes attending,
92, and spectators, about 2000 in the two climbing days. To remark the
come back in great stile of the French school, after the recent losses in
the first appointment of the season. Liv Sansoz comes back to the
Bouldering Competitions, and she does it in the best way. The young
champion of Val D'Isere confirms the optimum shape she has in this moment.
Behind her the never missing Russian team, without its best representative
Choumilova, but not less competitive for that. To complete the job, the
performance of another champion, Daniel Dulac, who returns to the victory
in a climbing competition after having slept off the toxins of the ice
climbing competitions and the survival competitions, where he is one of
the best world specialists. Behind him the Eastern Countries specialists.
At last the Frenchman wins over Salavat Rakhmetov for one more succeeded
boulder. Bad the Italians present in the competition. The best has been
Riccardo Scarian, of the Finanza, placing in the 21° position and
therefore first excluded from the final.
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