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Adam Ondra

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[Wikipedia] Adam Ondra is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. In 2013, Rock & Ice described Ondra as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation. Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines i

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The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

Challenge

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I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

Best

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I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.

Climb

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I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you…

Big

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I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.

Fitness

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What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can…

Focus

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Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is…

Example

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What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's…

Best

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Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part…

Beautiful

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I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.

Climb

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Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

Body

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I was born into a climbing family.

Birth

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My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

Father

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For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

Chicken

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Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

Because

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There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due…

I think

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