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by freesporttv
26 June 2015
The long process of learning a new cliff dive. In cliff diving, most elements are high: the number of somersaults and twists, the entry speed, as well as of course the take-off height. However, when starting to build a new dive, the professional athletes of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series go back to poolside and start with the ‘basic maths’ of their sport; breaking the dive into different parts, just to put it all together again when diving from 28m, and this includes various lead-ups...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 - How to "build" a dive - Copenhagen, Denmark
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by freesporttv
22 June 2015
A model of cliff diving consistency this year, the 31-year-old World Series record winner added another victory to his collection this weekend, his first one in Denmark. And just like in the season’s second stop in La Rochelle, France, the athletes from England made it a double, as former Olympian Blake Aldridge performed the sport’s hardest dive with a Degree of Difficulty of 6.3 for 8s and 8.5s from the judges to take second place. And it is the sport’s most experienced athlete and the winn...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Event Clip – Copenhagen, Denmark
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22 June 2015
Four-midable Gary Hunt takes the crown in Denmark
4th stop of the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series produce season’s second English-Colombian podium this Saturday.The Danish weather may change from hail to bright sunshine in the space of just five minutes, but there is nothing that can faze cliff diving’s reigning champion, Gary Hunt,as he won the fourth World Series stop in a row in Copenhagen. In front of 35,000 spectators, the Brit (511.60pts) finished ahead of compatriot Blake Aldr...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Action Clip – Copenhagen, Denmark
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by freesporttv
19 June 2015
Who'll Become Cliff Diving's King of Denmark?
Raise the curtain! When 14 of the world’s best cliff divers take possession of the Danish Opera House it’s time to fill the 28m gap between the platform on the rooftop and the chilly waters of Copenhagen harbour with diving complexity. After three consecutive wins for Gary Hunt, the reigning champion, could it be time for a changing of the guard this Saturday afternoon.
Copenhagen provides the athletes with a panoramic view of the royal palace,...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Teaser – Copenhagen, Denmark
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by freesporttv
5 June 2015
In the competition divers need to perform 4 dives each. Two easy dives called required dives and two difficult dives called optional dives. The easy dives are to show form and grace and the difficult dives are about doing as many somersaults and twists as possible. There are rules to follow about the types dives the athletes can perform and the direction of take off as well. How hey choose it? How they decide execute one dive and not a different one.
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Dive Groups – Texas, USA
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3 June 2015
Saturday evening, Innsbruck saw a veritable firework display of athletic performance at the kick-off of the Golden Fly Series. With its best start list since the creation of this well-loved in-city event, the show was as exciting as could be anticipated! In perfect conditions, the performances on the FlySwat were outstanding.
The Men’s Pole Vault competition was in the hands of Portugal’s Edi Maia who won with a jump of 5.50m having gone out of the competition when he failed to jump the Wo...
Best of Pole Vault at the International Golden Roof Challenge 2015 in the centre of Innsbruck
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by freesporttv
2 June 2015
Saturday evening, Innsbruck saw a veritable firework display of athletic performance at the kick-off of the Golden Fly Series. With its best start list since the creation of this well-loved in-city event, the show was as exciting as could be anticipated! In perfect conditions, the performances on the FlySwat were outstanding.
The highlight of the evening was the long jump competition. A radar coupled laser-line, developed by Armin Margreiter and Fa. Medialas made its world premiere. A lase...
Best of Long Jump at the International Golden Roof Challenge 2015 in the centre of Innsbruck
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1 June 2015
The hat-trick in wins went to the apparently unstoppable 30-year-old Gary Hunt, while Colombian legend Orlando Duque (478.70pts.) made it his third podium in three competitions and settled old scores with this location as he had finished bottom of the standings after a failed dive the previous year. Completing the podium was the third winner of a World Series, Russia’s Artem Silchenko (466.90pts.), who earlier beat American Andy Jones in his head-to-head by another very narrow margin, and lea...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Event Clip – Texas, USA
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1 June 2015
With two 10s from the judges and the highest-scoring three-second dive of the whole competition, Englishman Gary Hunt makes it three wins out of three with a new personal-best score of 533.90 points in Texas. The season’s third stop operated under a revised schedule due to the probability of severe weather conditions in the region and produced a World Series champions’ podium, as Orlando Duque, from Colombia, and Artem Silchenko, from Russia – the winners in 2009 and 2013 – completed the top-...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Action Clip – Texas, USA
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1 June 2015
The 2015 World Series, with two stops down, has been very much in English hands – two victories by Gary Hunt, a fourth and a second place for Blake Aldridge make it 670 points for the duo from the United Kingdom. When the cliff diving elite comes back to the 27m platform on Hell’s Gate at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on May 29, it is a return to the venue where in 2014 the competition turned into a high-scoring shootout. And it was ‘brilliant Brit’ Gary Hunt who made his mark with the highest...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Teaser – Texas, USA
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by freesporttv
29 May 2015
In less than three seconds, gravity propels the divers' bodies as they fall the equivalent of eight stories, reaching speeds in excess of 85kph. To be a cliff diver you need body control, self‐ confidence, concentration, mental control and courage. What the divers do with the fear?
How they overcome and cope with fear?
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – The Fear – La Rochelle, France
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29 May 2015
The season’s first stop on European soil was a return to the World Series’ all-time favourite location – La Rochelle. The town with the apt name of ‘little cliff’ was the lynchpin for the world’s cliff diving elite for the fifth time in the seven years of the series and it was Gary Hunt (516.00pts) who took an impressive win ahead of his nearest rivals. Second-placed Aldridge debuted a brand-new dive in World Series competition on Sunday - his reverse double somersault with five twists has no...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Event Clip – La Rochelle, France
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29 May 2015
Champion Gary Hunt wins and Blake Aldridge performs the world's most difficult dive at second stop of the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in France.
Hunt makes it back-to-back wins in the 2015 World Series with victory in La Rochelle. Fellow Brit Blake Aldridge performs a brand-new dive to come second, while Orlando Duque repeats his third-placed finish from Colombia. As of today these three athletes also lead the overall standings after two of eight stops. A record number of spect...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Action Clip – La Rochelle, France
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29 May 2015
During the season opener in Cartagena, the Divers showed they have spent their off-season perfecting their technique, learning new dives and adding more difficulty to the World Series. Now it is time for the second stop in the French La Rochelle. It was later the overall champion Artem Silchenko who took victory during the divers’ last appearance in 2013 in front of the biggest crowd ever for a World Series event of 70,000 spectators. Can he repeat this feat this year or will four-time champi...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – Teaser – La Rochelle, France
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22 May 2015
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Frame & Play: Tennis artist baffles pro players
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20 May 2015
Mammut Pro Team athlete Beni Hug and French ski mountaineer climbed all seven four-thousander peaks of the Aletsch area on touring skis in only 20 hours. With a total of 7000 altitude meters and a distance of approx. 65 km, Beni and Tony completed their personal records.
On midnight of May 10th, the endurance specialists set out for their speed ascent at the Jungfrau Saddle. The route took them first across the Mönch (4108m) and Jungfrau (4156m) via the Jungfrau Firn and on to Greater Grünho...
Extreme ski climbing – seven four-thousander peaks in less than 24 hours!
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by freesporttv
5 May 2015
What are the Basics of Cliff Diving?
It’s pure, it’s fast and it takes your breath away. Cliff divers leap aesthetically from almost three times the Olympic height and hit the water at speeds of 85kph, protected only by their concentration, skill and physical control.
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 – The basics of Cliff Diving – Cartagena, Colombia
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30 April 2015
Speed Record Matterhorn 2015
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27 April 2015
Colombia’s Cartagena hosted the season-opener of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 on April 25th. The world’s best cliff divers gathered at the Convention Center in Cartagena to leap aesthetically from the 27 meters platform. The beautiful seaside city, surrounded by 400-year-old city walls was a convenient venue for the kick-off event of this brand-new cliff diving season. 30.000 enthusiastic spectators witnessed cliff diving legend Orlando Duque (COL) and 13 of his most talented c...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 - Event Clip - Cartagena, Colombia
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27 April 2015
It was a season-start in style for four-time World Series champion Gary Hunt, who dominated the first competition of the 2015 season in Colombia’s Cartagena, making it his 20th victory in seven years of the World Series. The Brit's haul of 526.20 points is his second-highest score to date, and just 0.20 points short of his personal best. 30,000 vocal spectators cheered their local hero Orlando Duque (477.60pts) to a podium finish from the 27m-platform on the Centro de Convenciones and secured...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 - Action Clip - Cartagena, Colombia
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