LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Sam Watson leaves the Paris Games with another world record in speed sport climbing but without the Olympic gold medal. The American broke the speed world record on Thursday ...
If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal in speed climbing—the new stand-alone event in which athletes scale a 15-m wall in around five sec., or less—he’ll have some pretty sweet ...
PARIS - The story Ray Watson tells to help you understand how a teenager from Southlake, Texas, became the world-record holder in speed climbing and the betting favorite to win Olympic gold Thursday ...
LE BOURGET, France — Sam Watson climbed a 49-foot overhanging wall in 4.74 seconds here on Thursday and didn’t win Olympic gold. He scurried up a beyond-vertical surface like a supersized squirrel, ...
As of Tuesday, an 18-year-old from Texas can lay claim to being the fastest-ever Olympian – at least when it comes to traveling vertically. When Sam Watson set a speed climbing world record of 4.75 ...
Southlake's Sam Watson will leave the Paris Games with another world record but without the Olympic gold medal. The American broke the sport climbing speed world record on Thursday for the second time ...
Olympic bronze medalist Sam Watson broke his own world record in speed climbing twice on Saturday. Watson, 19, climbed a 15-meter wall in 4.67 seconds in the semifinals and then 4.64 seconds in the ...
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Sam Watson leaves the Paris Games with another world record in speed sport climbing but without the Olympic gold medal. The American broke the speed world record on Thursday ...