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most decorated climber, shauna cox—see, took part in the women's event and this year teenager toby roberts games. alpa patel reports. he's been called a teenage climbing sensation and four months time. this 18—year—old will be the first british male climber to compete at the olympic games. how did you get into climbing? so i got into climbing an after school club. i was just eight years old. my science teacher egged me on to give a go and then i went there. i absolutely loved it. i found it so addicting and i was just hooked from that point i started. my parents weren't climbers. i had nothing...like no idea about climbing. ijust kept going to the climbing wall. i kept enjoying it and then it slowly started progressing to find myself here. now, just having qualified for paris feels feels absolutely incredible. what's your top tips? if you were a beginner. using your body to get off it and not just pulling as hard as you can, so like trying to turn your body into the wall to use, like, less strength and more of technique to get up. close by is dad and coach christian who tells us what the l

this year, teenager toby roberts is set to become the first british male climber to compete at the gamesonths�* time, this 18—year—old will be the first british male climber to compete at the olympic games. how did you get into climbing? at an after—school club. i was just eight years old and my science teacher sort of egged me on to give it a go and i went there, i absolutely loved it, i found it so addicting, and i was just hooked from that point. i started, my parents weren�*t climbers, i had no idea about climbing, ijust kept going to the climbing wall, kept enjoying it and then slowly started progressing to find myself here, having just qualified for paris, it feels incredibly incredible. what are your top tips as a beginner? using your body to get up and notjust pulling as hard as you can, so trying to turn your body into the wall, to use less strength and more technique to get up. close by is dad and coach, tristian, who tells us what the last ten years have ben lake. what the last ten years have been like. it's easy now because he is at this level but things that you don't necess

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most decorated climber, shauna cox—see, took part in the women�*s event and this year teenager toby robertsow did you get into climbing? i got into climbing at an after—school club. i was just eight years old, and my science teacher egged me on to give it a go and then i went there, i absolutely loved it, i found it so addicting and i was just hooked from that point. i started, my parents were not climbers, i had nothing, no idea about climbing. ijust kept going to the climbing wall, i kept enjoying it and then it slowly started progressing. to find myself here nowjust having qualified for paris feels absolutely incredible. what are your top tips, if you are a beginner? using your body to get up it and not just pulling as hard as you can. so, like, turn your body into the wall to use less strength and more technique to get up. close by is dad and coach tristan, who tells us what the last ten years have been like. it's easy now because he's at this level. but things that you don't necessarily realise, like doing homework in between sets of pull—ups, dinner on the way to the climbing centre,