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19 July 2012
Two stops, two different winners and a new face as overall leader – the fourth season of the world’s most prestigious series of cliff diving competitions has more than delivered. Taking the plunge into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean next weekend, the participants of the 2012 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series will face new territory in at least two respects: The third stop will be hosted on the Azores archipelago and two dives will be performed straight from the rocks. Who will make the mos...
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12 July 2012
Despite the literal meaning of Grimstad -- 'sour town' -- its roughly 20,000 permanent residents are widely known for their genuine happiness. Probably because of the region's good weather and the picturesque landscape surrounding the archipelago that stretches 500km from Oslo to the southern tip of Norway.
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10 July 2012
Cliff diving is a very spectacular and thrilling sport. The athletes perform multiple flips and twists in the air but the most critical part of each dive is the end. The barani and the water entry have to be perfect to bring a good dive to a perfect end. To get the high score of ten the divers need a rip entry with almost no splash. Even though this part of the dive looks simple, the athletes need years of practice to execute their entries perfectly. Before they can raise the degree of diffic...
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9 July 2012
Gary Hunt (UK) heads English-speaking podium at second stop of 2012 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series The winner of the World Series 2010 and 2011 was the lucky loser in the season opener two weeks ago and made it to the top podium position at the second stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series this Saturday afternoon. In foggy and rainy conditions Englishman Gary Hunt claimed victory in Grimstad, Norway, ahead of the American divers, Steven LoBue and Kent De Mond. Close to 400 boats c...
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5 July 2012
From the southern tip of the Mediterranean, in Corsica, to the southern tip of Scandinavia – the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series heads north to Grimstad this weekend. All fourteen athletes from eleven countries, including three wildcard divers, make themselves familiar with the chilly conditions at the Skagerrak Strait in the days before the second World Series competition. Those who were on the podium in France – Orlando Duque, Steven LoBue and Michal Navratil – are the most talked-about...
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29 June 2012
Welcome to Bonifacio. Perched on a limestone pedestal, Bonifacio is one of the most spectacular towns in the Mediterranean. The citadel walls and ancient houses appear to rise seamlessly out of sheer cliffs that have been hollowed and striated by the wind and waves. Beneath, an inlet about 100 metres wide forms a natural harbour, home to a busy port. Only 12 kilometres from Sardinia, the town is distinctly more Italian than French in atmosphere, and even has its own dialect based on Ligurian...
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27 June 2012
We explain the basics of cliff diving: why is 27Metres (and not 25 or 29) the standard height? What is the scuba divers' job? Why does it only take 5 metres of water depth? What make the athletes dive from almost three times the Olympic height -- the thrill and the challenge of this spectacular sport? And is it possible to dive head from this height? For your reference: the height is comparable to an eight-storey building, the divers fall
free for three seconds before they hit the water at 8...
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24 June 2012
It was his comeback competition and the Colombian began exactly where he ended last year: on top of
the podium receiving the winner's trophy. In a thrilling head-to-head battle from 27 metres, reigning
World Series champion Gary Hunt was the lucky loser and the last diver to go through to the final at the
season opener on the island of Corsica on Saturday evening. More than 1,200 people on boats saw
Steven LoBue, from the United States, take his first ever second place, with Czech diver M...
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22 June 2012
Starting Friday June 22th, Cliff divers from eight nations will compete in seven stops to crown this year’s Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champion, with the first competition in Corsica, France. Three years after its inception, the World Series is established as the pinnacle of high diving competition. The divers are in the shape of their lives, the dives are more difficult than ever, but the most important facts remain the same: The best high divers in the world versus gravity. Twisting...
