Rock climbing will be revealingly represented under the Winter Olympic games 2006 in the small Italian town Bardonecchia (50 miles from Turin, the capital of Winter Olympiad). UIAA high-ranking officials managed to convince the Olympic comrades of necessity of carrying out of the festival. 35 world top-climbers will take part in speed and bouldering starts.
It won't be competitions, but such starts will help the officials to visualize rock-climbing and, probably, in the future they will positively decide a question about inclusion of rock-climbing in the list of Olympic sports.