VIDEO: Molly Thompson-Smith Outwits Routesetters
"Beta breaker," Molly Thompson-Smith writes on Instagram. "When they say jump, I say… no thanks?"
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“Beta breaker,” Molly Thompson-Smith writes on Instagram. “When they say jump, I say… no thanks?” When they said jump, she answered with … a pirouette? Just wow.
Thompson-Smith, a top British competitor, was featured in Rock and Ice, January 2021. See that short profile here (membership content).
She is currently quarantining in Italy for 10 days so that she can compete in the next two IFSC Lead World Cups, in Chamonix and Briançon, France, July 12-13 and 17-18.
