Adam Ondra

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents. ”

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, ‘Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water." ”

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it. ”

Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It's probably fortunate that I don't know how to cook it myself. ”

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

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me. ”

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. ”

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

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall. ”