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by freesporttv
19 August 2011
Sports-mad Boston welcomes the 6th stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 on August 20th
The Boston Celtics, the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Bruins and the New England Patriots – this city has it all. America’s major sports are all represented by four highly successful teams. This weekend a new sport will touch down in the capital of Massachusetts. The world’s most prestigious series of cliff diving competitions comes to town as the athletes of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World S...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Boston - Airtime for the Sports Hub
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by freesporttv
11 August 2011
From August 2011 - August 2012 Swiss mountaineering specialist MAMMUT celebrates its historic 150th anniversary with the Biggest Peak Project in history. Within a year 150 teams will set out to conquer 150 peaks all around the world!
On August 3rd 2011, exactly 200 years after the first ascent of the Jungfrau (4,158 m), numerous VIPs from politic, business and sport teamed up with top international mountaineers to officially kick off the Biggest Peak Project. See you on the next peak!
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MAMMUT Anniversary Basecamp - Kicking Off The Biggest Peak Project in history! NEW EDITED VERSION
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by freesporttv
11 August 2011
200 years ago, on August 3rd 1811, the brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer from Aargau, Switzerland, climbed the first four-thousand-metre peak in Switzerland, the Jungfrau mountain. 200 years of exciting mountaineering history followed.
Celebrating its 150th anniversary itself, Swiss mountaineering specialist MAMMUT commemorates these extraordinary jubilees by organizing the Anniversary Basecamp and kicking off the Biggest Peak Project in history on August 3rd 2011, exactly 200 yea...
MAMMUT Anniversary Basecamp - The Historic Ascent! NEW EDITED VERSION
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by freesporttv
5 August 2011
From August 2011 - August 2012 Swiss mountaineering specialist MAMMUT celebrates its historic 150th anniversary with the Biggest Peak Project in history. Within a year 150 teams will set out to conquer 150 peaks all around the world!
On August 3rd 2011, exactly 200 years after the first ascent of the Jungfrau (4,158 m), numerous VIPs from politic, business and sport teamed up with top international mountaineers to officially kick off the Biggest Peak Project. See you on the next peak!
Mo...
MAMMUT Anniversary Basecamp - Kicking Off The Biggest Peak Project in history!
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by freesporttv
5 August 2011
200 years ago, on August 3rd 1811, the brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer from Aargau, Switzerland, climbed the first four-thousand-metre peak in Switzerland, the Jungfrau mountain. 200 years of exciting mountaineering history followed.
Celebrating its 150th anniversary itself, Swiss mountaineering specialist MAMMUT commemorates these extraordinary jubilees by organizing the Anniversary Basecamp and kicking off the Biggest Peak Project in history on August 3rd 2011, exactly 200 yea...
MAMMUT Anniversary Basecamp - The Historic Ascent
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by freesporttv
25 July 2011
CLOSE COMPETITION AND CLOSED ROADS
Hunt collects Italian victory in Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011
It was an armada of motorboats and surfboards, and spectators on the surrounding beach that saw the closest battle this season. Reigning champion Gary Hunt had the honour of being awarded winner of this Sunday’s competition round of the 2011 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Italy, ahead of Russia’s Artem Silchenko and Czech diver Michal Navratil. The Scaliger Castle in Malcesine...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Malcesine - Event Highlights
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by freesporttv
24 July 2011
How fit is a cliff diver? How important is physical fitness for dives from 27 metres? What’s the best recipe to become and stay high diving fit? Are the divers’ work outs useful for ordinary people as well?
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Malcesine - How fit is a Cliff Diver?
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by freesporttv
23 July 2011
It is a place for active people and a beautiful place: Lake Garda offers a wide variety of sports in the water and on the surrounding mountains. Cliff diving will add one more sportive attraction to the region. After the chilly stop in the north of France, the almost Mediterranean climate welcomes the world’s best divers.
How will they start into the second half of the World Series’ third season? So far we saw dominant victories, new faces on the podium and rookies and wildcard divers in th...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Malcesine - A Mecca of Sports
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by freesporttv
19 July 2011
Pasta, pizza, mama mia, espresso - next stop Malcesine, Italy! The divers and the Italian way of life.
Last season’s competition in Italy saw Artem Silchenko on the top podium and Series’ dominator Gary Hunt crashed after he world premiered his running take off and still misses an Italian victory in his collection.
Maybe the new location at Lake Garda will fill this gap…
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Malcesine - Countdown to Italy!
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by freesporttv
11 July 2011
THERE'S NO BETTER WAY TO RIDE
Without Bruno Rixen, Wakeboarding wouldn't be what it is today: After others had failed in their attempts, Bruno Rixen invented and developed the first successful water ski cableway ever. Today more than 150 of such installations have been made around the world, some operating for as long as 40 years, bringing the pleasures of water skiing and wake boarding to a much wider public. One of these wakeboard facilities is the Rixen Cableway in Aschheim near Munich, w...
The 50th Anniversary of Rixen Cableways - International Wakeboard Championship
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by freesporttv
28 June 2011
With the "Golden Blades of St Petersburg" Sprint Competition, the classic sport realizes its new strategy to bring rowing to major cities where the racing will be fast, exciting and much closer to the public. The 250m course on the Fontaka river, a branch of the famous river Neva, running through the heart of the 5-million-metropolis, has drawn some of the world's best athletes to Russia. Olympic Gold medallists Luka Spik (SLO) and Ekaterina Karsten (BLR), World- Cup and Championships veteran...
The Golden Blades of St. Petersburg 2011
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by freesporttv
19 June 2011
‘Brilliant Brit’ takes second consecutive win in France
70,000 spectators, winds up to 60kph and 12 athletes competitive to the core – La Rochelle added a few more superlatives to its collection during the 4th stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, while Gary Hunt (GBR) lead the dozen of high divers who defied the harsh conditions in the early evening hours on Saturday, June 18. Friday prevented take-off from the 27.5m platform and thus the competition was decided in three rounds....
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - La Rochelle - Event Highlights
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by freesporttv
19 June 2011
With every dive from 27 metres the athletes have to overcome their fears anew. How do they cope with this vital feeling? Crashes and bad landings don’t keep the high divers from pushing their sport’s limits. Where does this urge to leave an eight-storey building without any protection come from?
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - La Rochelle - The Fear Factor
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by freesporttv
17 June 2011
The ‘Grande Nation’ is eagerly waiting for its high diving hero’s first podium finish: Cyrille Oumedjkane has proven his claim for the top 3 this season. Will his countrymen’s support help him to step on the podium?
It will be a special stop for the Frenchman but likewise for his competitors as well as the set-up crew: The venue provides the World Series’ highest take-off point and the water-tide offers a limited time frame for the competition. Additionally, the platform construction must n...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - La Rochelle - Diving For Glory
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by freesporttv
13 June 2011
Crackling tension, personal expectations, and probably a new leader board - the halfway stop of the 2011 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series will reveal all that soon and invites you to watch it live on TV and web!
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - La Rochelle - Countdown to France!
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Surfing
by freesporttv
5 June 2011
16-year old Sarah Mason from Gisbourne, NZL wins the ASP 2-Star SWATCH GIRLS PRO Junior France over Dimity Stoyle (AUS) in a close final in tricky 3ft (1m) waves at Les Bourdaines. The quietly spoken goofy-footer was a standout performer in the ASP 6-Star SWATCH GIRLS PRO France and backed it up with a commanding performance against her fellow Pro Junior members.
Europe’s finest under-21 athletes faced some of the world’s best up-and-comers in the SWATCH GIRLS PRO Junior France in their atte...
SWATCH GIRLS PRO France 2011 - Highlights of the Juniors Finals
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by freesporttv
5 June 2011
Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) defeats Sage Erickson (USA) on an epic final day of competition to win the SWATCH GIRLS PRO France at Seignosse in Hossegor.
Both Fitzgibbons and Erickson surfed at their limit on the final day of competition in front of the packed holiday crowd who flocked to the beach to support some of the world’s finest women’s surfers, but it was Fitzgibbons who found the scores needed to take the SWATCH GIRLS PRO victory over the American surfer.
Fitzgibbons, who is currently r...
SWATCH GIRLS PRO France 2011 - Highlights of the Finals
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by freesporttv
3 June 2011
The ASP 6-Star SWATCH GIRLS PRO France held a marathon day running through three rounds of competition to decide the final remaining 12 athletes in the chase for the 2011 SWATCH GIRLS PRO France title. Many excellent displays of surfing from both Top Seeds and young challengers were witnessed as performance levels rose in solid 4ft waves at the main event site at Les Bourdaines.
A slight overnight decrease in swell size greeted event officials and surfers early this morning with the green li...
SWATCH GIRLS PRO France 2011 - Highlights of Day 2
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by freesporttv
2 June 2011
The SWATCH GIRLS PRO France 2011 event was officially launched this Wednesday morning. 72 surfers met at the beach break of Les Bourdaines for an exciting and promising event.
The first heats were in the water as early as 7.30am this morning to benefit from the best wave conditions forecast today. The surfers were greeted with 4ft swell and strong currents, tough conditions for the start of Round 1, which translated in rather low scores all through the heats.
Initially scheduled at 12.30pm...
SWATCH GIRLS PRO France 2011 - Highlights of Day 1
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by freesporttv
23 May 2011
Gary Hunt repeats his Greece victory of 2009
It was Englishman Gary Hunt who left his personal mark on Greek soil by winning the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 in Athens on Sunday afternoon. Lake Vouliagmeni was the venue where the 26-year-old took his first season victory and repeated his win in the 2009 final. With a whiff of the Olympic spirit omnipresent, Czech Michal Navratil made the extra step to the podium and finished third in front of more than 9,000 enth...
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 - Athens - Event Highlights
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