Jessica Pilz misses World Cup in Innsbruck - Living Olympic Dreams 2028!

Jessica Pilz misses World Cup in Innsbruck - Living Olympic Dreams 2028!

Innsbruck, Österreich - Jessica Pilz announced on June 11, 2025 that she excludes her participation in the World Cup climbing in Innsbruck. This step follows a two -month training break that is the longest in her career. The decision about the event in Innsbruck depends primarily on your convalescent finger, which significantly reduces the likelihood of a start. Despite these challenges, Pilz plans to prepare for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It is relieved that her injury did not appear in Paris in the run-up to the 2024 Olympic Games, where she won the bronze medal.

The coming months will be challenging for the athlete because she wants to get completely fit again. However, mushroom is confident that she will qualify for the 2028 Olympics. Another prominent athlete, Jakob Schubert, the Tokyo bronze medalist, is currently expressing skepticism with regard to his sporting future. He announced that he would make decisions about his participation in the Olympic Games in summer because it is important to him to stay healthy. According to the information from tirol.orf.at, the World Cup in Innsbruck is expected to take place without Schubert, but further details on its reasons remain unclear.

The climbing World Cup in Innsbruck

The climbing World Cup in Innsbruck is emphasized as particularly important. Heiko Wilhelm, sports director of the Austrian Climbing Association, describes the event as a place of respect and sporting challenge. Ticket sales are going well and only remaining tickets are available. Athletes such as Jasmin Plank, Mattea Pötzi and Jan-Luca Posch are positive about the World Cup. Pötzi even describes the event as an unofficial world championship while Posch emphasizes, fit and ready for the start.

Olympic Games 2028 and the role of climbing

Climbing will also play a central role at the upcoming Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the last meeting of the IOC Executive Committee, sports climbing, together with surfing and skateboarding, was proposed for the Olympic Games in the USA. The application has already been rated positively by the organizers. According to the [climbing scene.com] (https://kletterszene.com/news/sportkletter-ist-sten--e--e-den-s- 2028-in-angeles-mit-am-start/), the decision at the IOC session in Beijing should be considered a matter of form during the Olympic Games. IFSC President Marco Scolaris expressed gratitude to the IOC and is optimistic about the acceptance of the proposal.

Climbing had its Olympic premiere in Tokyo 2021 with combined format (lead, bouldering, speed), and the new medal award formats for Paris 2024 have already been determined. For Los Angeles, the exact rules and medal allocation for all three disciplines are still up for discussion. Schubert sees climbing at the Olympic Games into account an important opportunity to promote climbing and especially the offspring.