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making its long-awaited return
in a villa spain red bull creepers see
16 of the world's best climbers
take on a challenging course below the
salamanca bridge over the adaha river
this event is about speed strength and
plenty of agility
the rules of the event are simple both
climbers start at the same time
and make their way up the bridge the
first climber to ring the bell
goes through to the next round the loser
then has to drop from the top whereas
the winner can choose to grab the auto
relay
and lower themselves slowly into the
water or also
jump in this event is truly the
embodiment of deep water solo climbing
on either side of the bridge there are
two identical routes
that will test the climbers to their
limits
what makes this event so special you
know of course that we're climbing above
the water no ropes
super exciting and then of course when
you add these uh
historic uh bridges into it it makes it
you know super unique as well so yeah
it's a
very unique cool event so super happy to
be here
my first impressions trying it yesterday
was that
it was quite high it's going to be quite
intimidating to try to go fast
because when you start going fast it's
easier to make mistakes
and then of course you're higher up
the fear of falling is what's going to
keep you uh
behind me and so you have to just kind
of let go of that and just
just go for it
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just after the first about five six
meters you have a couple
hard sequins on these pinches and then
you have a kind of a
jump move to get to the hole just around
the corner
and then i think that's going to be the
critical spot where you know it's going
to be kind of make or break
for the the competition because that'll
be kind of the tie breaker when you
either get behind or catch up and so
right here is going to be the critical
spot right here to
to get into these holds just before the
last final moves
so yeah it's going to be pretty exciting
pretty intimidating too
the 16 best male and female climbers are
set for the quarter-finals
but which of them will take home the top
spots i'm kneeling
and i'm coming from switzerland and
we're going to climb that bridge
like the route is pretty sick like
there's a big jump in the middle like
three hot pot i guess
and it's just really fun and nice
i tried the route once yesterday and
twice today
and it's not hard but not that easy it's
kind of hard to
go fast on it so let's see where it goes
tonight but
it's a nice one right now i'm wearing
him up especially the fingers
because there are a few crimps on the
roots so yeah
i don't want to get injured who's gonna
win
i will tell you after
personal expectation is just to be here
represent climbing have fun
with all the other athletes i'm not
really worried i'm just happy to be here
you know i'm here with my family
to me like whatever happens it's a
success after some impressive early
rounds in the quarter-finals
it's time to see the match-up between
yane cruder of slovenia
and jerome gonzalez of spain
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his way into the foreign where he'll
face niels favre of switzerland
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in the last quarter final of the day
2014 red bull creepers champion chris
sharma
is up against finland's anthony
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goldstone
the defending champion is out
the american will have to try again next
year for a chance of reclaiming his
crown
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whenever i see the root for the first
time i'm always
oh god that looks hard and how is the
water how's it going to be
the fall and everything but i think i'm
really good at
overcoming my fear so after the first
try i was like completely fine with it
and
i felt comfortable i just need a hot
shower and then i would be perfect i'm
really excited i'm here and i'm so happy
i won
julia crude is the 2021 red bull
creepers champion
the slovenian will now watch on as her
brother is aiming to make it a cruder
family
clean sweep
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buddy
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i mean it always feels good to win a
competition so
um yeah another competition another
trophy so i'm super happy about it
when you climb you don't think about
either you're gonna win or you're gonna
lose you're just like
giving your best and because you cannot
see the the
the other climber you just try to be
fast
as fast as you can and then just hoping
to be there first
i think i was faster than the trainer
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