The Executive Board of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) decided to evaluate and adopt future new measures to protect the health and safety of the athletes participating in IFSC events, and to further promote fair competition.

The Santiago 2023 corporation informs the national and international press agencies about the system and dates of the media accreditation process for the Pan American Games which will take place from October 20th to November 5th and will gather 7,000 athletes coming from 41 countries of the Americas.

Sport Climbing’s Nonaka Miho has been shortlisted for The World Games Athlete of the Year 2022 following her Boulder success in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, in July.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing season will stop, for the third consecutive season, in Innsbruck, Austria, where the second installment of the IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup Series 2023 is scheduled to take place on 12 and 13 June.

The President of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), Marco Scolaris, is the guest of the two latest episodes of Sport Intern’s podcast – hosted by editor Ashish Sharma – where he looked back at the path that the IFSC took to make its debut at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) met a delegation of the Bern 2023 Organising Committee in Torino, Italy, on 7 December, to boost the preparation for next year’s IFSC Climbing and Paraclimbing World Championships, taking place in the Swiss capital city from 1 to 12 August.

A letter, signed by International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Secretary General Debra Gawrych, and sent to Mr Nourrdine Bouchaal, Vice President of the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Ski et Sports de Montagne (FRMSSM), officially welcomed Morocco as a new Member Federation of the IFSC.

With little less than eight months to go, tickets to the 18^th edition of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Championships, taking place in Bern, Switzerland, from 1 to 12 August 2023, can be now purchased via ticketcorner.ch.

The third cohort of coaches from across the globe have joined the Women in Sport High Performance Pathway (WISH), aimed at increasing the number of female coaches at the Olympic Games.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) and the Alpine Association of Slovenia (PZS) have mutually agreed to reschedule the IFSC World Cup Koper 2023, which will now take place on 8 and 9 September.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing advises that its office in Torino, Italy, will close on the following days:

• Thursday, 8 December: Italian public holiday; and
• From Monday, 26 December, to Friday, 6 January.

At the World Cup event in Edinburgh I got the chance to sit and talk to someone who knows Scotland pretty well – but I’m guessing it’s not who you think it is. Despite all the Brits in attendance, I’ve got a bit of time with Canada’s Alannah Yip.