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OCEANIA CHAMPIONSHIPS ROUND-UP

This year’s Oceania Championship not only decided which two climbers would head to the Olympics but took place in the era of COVID-19, which created its own dramas.

The competition had been scheduled for earlier in 2020 but ended up being pushed back right to

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