Singaporean official Stanley Yeo scales the summit of sport climbing

Since his 2019 appointment for the Tokyo Games, Yeo has scaled further up the ranks of officialdom, having been made one of only five technical delegates in the world.It is quite the ascent for Yeo, who picked up climbing in 1999 after joining Temasek Polytechnic's Adventure Club.

"When I graduated, I still went back to help out in competitions and I was also learning informally from some veteran judges in Singapore.The governing body, the International Federation of Sport Climbing, was formed in January 2007. When Yeo was officiating in Macau at the end of that year, he was confident that climbing would become an Olympic sport.

"So, we were really confident and we were all just trying to get ready for the day when we were being called up... to the Olympics. There was never a doubt about it." For the Tokyo Games, the sport's governing body managed to combine sport climbing's three disciplines - lead, speed and bouldering - to a single category.Said Yeo:"We are still delivering the same competition, just that now it is at the pinnacle ..."So, there is actually more work to be done by everybody, because now we are in the public eye... and we have to make sure it becomes one of the main sports at the Olympics and Youth Olympics.

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