Red Bull XRow 2011 - The world’s hardest rowing challenge!

18 kilometres of rowing, and seven kilometres of running while shouldering a 100-kilogram boat! These are the figures that make Red Bull XRow what it is - the world’s hardest and craziest rowing challenge! The rest is pain, teamwork, and fun. The fastest team on the race course from Zug to Lucerne was the “Swiss Selection” with Mario Gyr and André Vonarburg, followed by the Frankfurter RG Germania and Seeclub Zurich.

TUNNEL VISION The importance of reference points when diving from 27 metres Ever looked from bright sunshine into a cave? Or walked into one from clear daylight? Darkness. That is all you see. A black hole, nothing else. The human eye takes several minutes to adjust to the change in light. Without any points of reference you would need to a rope to find your way. However, what if you are travelling at 85kph and only have three seconds to make it through this dark tunnel safely? And, if you...

A MEXICAN DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CLIFF DIVER The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series gets into the rhythm for the second stop in Mexico Coming to Mexico means a change of pace. The day begins relaxed and the Latin American spirit and love for life builds up hourly before it peaks as the air cools down again late in the evening. This rhythm applies perfectly to the high diving elite who have come to the Yucatán Peninsula for the second competition of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series this...

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 continues at the birthplace of modern competitive sports, Athens, Greece, on Sunday, May 22 in an event you can see live on Red Bull TV. Just a stone’s throw away from Athens’ city centre where the Olympic spirit remains omnipresent, Gary Hunt, Artem Silchenko and Slava Polyeshchuk will be among those fighting it out for victory during the third stop of competition at Lake Vouliagmeni. Fittingly, it is also the occasion at which two-time Olympic g...

Twelve men, eight challenging competitions and 26 metres between take-off and dive. Physical mastery, pure aesthetics, deathly silence and crackling tension - that's the formula the new Red Bull Cliff Diving Series 2010 is made of. Between May and September 2010, the world's best divers will level up the sport and compete in eight different countries at impressive locations for the overall title. At the venues spread all over Europe, tens of thousands of spectators will cheer for them - and a...

Mat Rebeaud is the reigning overall champion of the X-Fighters and the best FMX rider in the world. Rebeaud is famous for his versatility and consistency. In addition to his successes in numerous international contests, the 27-year-old Swiss is also the world record holder in Highest Air. With his FMX machine he flew higher than any man ever beforehand: 11 metres - as high as three storeys! By the way, he commutes between home and airport exclusively on four wheels: "Privately I only drive a...

GARY HUNT: OUT OF THIS WORLD 2nd victory for the Briton in Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2010 in Yucatán His personal perception of cliff diving is "out of this world" and Gary Hunt's performance these days can also be described as not of this world: the 25-year-old's innovative style and creativity culminated in the second consecutive win at Sunday's competition of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2010 in Yucatán, Mexico. The exotic surrounding of Cenote Ik Kil was the perfect ven...