Janja Garnbret defended her gold medal in sports climbing on Saturday, becoming a double Olympic champion in the Boulder & Lead event.
Garnbret, 25, won the gold for her home country of Slovenia, her score topping Team USA’s now silver-medalist Brooke Raboutou and the other finalists. The two are close friends though, and after the competition was completed, they ran over to one another and embraced.
“We have an incredible friendship to where we both want each other to do our best, and that’s what happened today,” said Raboutou, according to the Washington Post. “And that feels really good to share that with somebody, and to represent the sport in a way that we know we’re doing it right and we’re doing it for ourselves.”
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