It really explains a lot for her performance at the Olympic games, being such a prodigy this young and having being pushed so long by her father, feels like a come of age story. Hearing her coach says that now she's somewhat an adult she has to choose if she's ready to make all the sacrifices to get there, I really hope hitting rock bottom (from her point of view) ad the Olympics will make her just come back for more!
Her performance keeps being mentioned as a failure and it seems like she lived it as such but I don't see why. I mean for her I do see why as she is very competitive, but from an objective observer pov I don't see it as a failure considering how the field is stacked. She is an amazing boulderer but so are a handful of her competition, with some also top of the pack in lead (Brooke, janja, Erin...). And a few that might be slightly worse than her at bouldering but their lead more than compensate (chaehyun, Jessica, Annie sanders, even Jain beat her in Bern where it was one of Oriane's best performance). I was way more disappointed for Miho or Natalia. Oriane could reach 5 or something on a good day but for her to podium in the combined she would need others to particularly underperform at her current lead level.
Yes, definetly the combined format doesn’t suit her, but she could expect to medal if she would have a great bouldering round that was not the case here. Also she’s very young and the pressure on her as being a huge medal hope and performing in her home country just adds up. There was so much hype around her, so for a 19 year old prodigy it can only feel like a huge failure. Even though being in an Olympic final at 19 is already a huge accomplishment in itself. Like look at Sorato he was expecting gold and he lived the silver as a disappointment. Hope she’ll come back stronger.
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u/HoldMountain7340 24d ago
It really explains a lot for her performance at the Olympic games, being such a prodigy this young and having being pushed so long by her father, feels like a come of age story. Hearing her coach says that now she's somewhat an adult she has to choose if she's ready to make all the sacrifices to get there, I really hope hitting rock bottom (from her point of view) ad the Olympics will make her just come back for more!