Adam Ondra

Athlete

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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 shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.

My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some superfoods.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

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

I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.

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

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

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

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

I was born into a climbing family.

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

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

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

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

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