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Perth Now
24-07-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
'Summit fever': Tszyu intent on climbing to top again
A climbing expert claims Tim Tszyu has fallen victim to a classic case of "summit fever" following the Australian's latest world-title defeat in the US. Tszyu is vowing to punch on in "pursuit of greatness", despite calls for the former WBO super-welterweight world champion to put away the gloves for the sake of his welfare. After being dropped only twice in his first 24 professional fights, Tszyu has been knocked down five times and heavily concussed in two bloody losses to Sebastian Fundora either side of a brutal beat-down from Bakhram Murtazaliev in the past 16 months. "When I first started this sport, what I said was that I wanted to get to the very, very top and I didn't mind crashing and burning on the way up," a battered and blue Tszyu told fans in a social media post. "Sitting here now, we did crash and burn. "But we still move forward. Some things go your way, some things don't. "What happened last weekend, it didn't go my way, but we still move forward." But Ben Donnan, who has been studying climbing all his life after his uncle lost his to "summit fever" trying to scale Papua New Guinea's highest mountain 54 years years ago, says Tszyu's obsession to "move forward" so hastily is behind his dramatic fall from grace. "In the mountain climbing industry, the aim is to climb to a series of camps to get to the top and come back down alive," Donnan told AAP. "You've got to go to base camp and then you've got camp three, camp two, camp one and then you've got summit camp - the most important camp. "It is the harshest climbing you could possibly do and it usually means you've got to be up before everyone else because everyone else wants to climb too. "Everything needs to be right too, making sure that the window's right, so the weather window, making sure your team's right, everyone's healthy and ready to climb. "You've got all your packing, your oxygen, food, medical equipment and all the checks are right, meaning you're ready to go to the very top, plant the flag and and then get the hell back down without dying. "And most importantly, if you encounter a storm on the mountain - and a storm can also mean an injury, a broken leg, whatever - you need to retreat immediately, even if it means going all the way back to base camp and aborting the entire operation." Donnan maintains Tszyu's "storm" was walking into Fundora's elbow in their first fight in March, 2024, and suffering an horrific head gash that his corner could not stop bleeding. "An injury for a climber can be devastating - fatal - and Tim copping an accidental elbow should have meant his whole team descending," he said. "He hit a storm, massive turbulence. He should have ended his season last year instead of rushing back to ascend again to plant his flag at the summit. "All he needed to do was go back down, deacclimatise and then go back through the process of climbing to the top of the mountain." Donnan believes Tszyu has all the skills to reach the top again, but hopes the 30-year-old takes his time. Tszyu insists he will continue trying to climb the ranks again, but his No Limit Boxing promoter George Rose also says the fighter's health must come first. "Then get back on the bike and decide what route he wants to take," Rose said.
Bloomberg
05-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The ‘Toxic' Uncertainty Around Trump's Tariff Threats
Subscribe to Trumponomics on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to Trumponomics on Spotify On this week's episode of Trumponomics, we ask what it is exactly US President Donald Trump may be trying to accomplish with his tariff threats and trade wars. Host Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's head of government and economics, is joined by Anna Wong, chief US economist at Bloomberg Economics, and Bloomberg reporter Shawn Donnan, who covers economics and trade policy, to discuss. On Feb. 3, North America came within hours of a multibillion-dollar trade war thanks to Trump. Now delayed by a month, it's a conflict that would swing a wrecking ball through the economies of Mexico and Canada, and in the process, raise questions about a regional compact that sits at the foundation of America's global competitiveness. Trump put off his repeatedly threatened 25% tariffs against America's neighbors, but the 78-year-old Republican's 10% tariffs on China did take effect. The Chinese government instantly retaliated with tariffs on natural gas, coal and other products—and the threat of an anti-monopoly investigation against Google. As Donnan explains, there's 'huge uncertainty around Trump's trade policy,' which itself is probably 'the most toxic thing for the economy. Businesses stop making investments, they stop hiring and you start to get a slowdown not just in Canada and Mexico, which would get hit hard by tariffs, but in the US economy.' Donnan and Wong, who worked at the Federal Reserve and in the first Trump administration, unpack what if anything is driving Trump's strategy, how that could play out with other trading partners and how damaging his policies could be for global growth.
