I then use the hole in the semi-final and get stopped for using a bolt hole in the last hold, which means I don't make the final. A couple of Swedes understood my question in the preview and remember me asking it, but of course the judges aren't having any of it. I don't really care as I've won the world cup, which is what I came here to do, and I can see the judges perspective if I twist my neck around a turn and a half and stand on my head. Max did say not to use the bolt holes, I did ask the route setter who didn't understand. Saturday night are the finals, and it's cold, windy and definitely arctic, but a good crowd still shows up.
Swedes are tough.
The women's finals are first, some dry tooling on one of the wooden fins then some technical climbing. Kim had stepped over the line and scored low in the semi-final, so Isabelle wins. Kim still wins the overall world cup. The men's final route starts with difficult drytooling up a fin, then up one tower before crossing the skybridge to the other. The drytooling and complicated lines low shut down everybody but Francois, Aljaz, Bubu and Dulac, who all make it onto the sky bridge.