Sport climbing superstar Janja Garnbret decided to speak up after hearing young girls talk about how they could do better if they dropped weight. So she went on Instagram last year to talk about the “taboo” of eating disorders in the sport.
FILE - Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret, right, signs an autograph at the IFSC Climbing World Championship 2023 in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. Garnbret, an eight-time world champion and defending Olympic gold medalist, attracted headlines last year when she spoke out on Instagram about the problems of eating disorders : “Do we want to raise the next generation of skeletons? Let’s not look away.
But the athletes are going to be monitored more closely in Paris — the first Olympics with a screening process for climbing competitors that looks for signs of eating disorders and similar health issues. The international federation also began conducting random and focused testing of body mass index, heart rate and blood pressure during the climbing season. An external commission was created to review suspected cases by comparing the data collected from athletes with the information provided by the national federations.
“This notion manifested as overtraining and an eating disorder that I explicitly denied or justified to both loved ones and myself,” she said. “Ultimately, the full-throttle lifestyle of overworking and undernourishment was yielding results, and it’s easy to ignore the cliff you’re running toward when you feel invincible.”
World champion Petra Klingler, a veteran Swiss climber who didn’t qualify for the Paris Games, acknowledged she started thinking about ways to drop weight after seeing athlete after athlete improve by getting skinnier.
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