It’s not a bellyflop competition, it’s called dødsing which kinda translates do “deathing”. The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I’m pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it’s about narrowly avoiding death.
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La Rochelle, France, the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, saw a huge crowd of 70,000 fans gather at the harbour as the world’s elite male divers battled it out from 27 metres in the Bay of Biscay. Watch the clip and relive the top dives from Jonathan Paredes, Kris Kolanus and the world’s most difficult dive from Gary Hunt: a front 3 somersaults with 4 ½ twists free.
In July 2016, I broke my longstanding (5.5 years!) record in the purest freediving discipline, Constant Weight No Fins, by swimming to 102 meters (334 feet) and back on a single breath of air, and with no propulsive assistance. The dive was televised to breakfast TV in NZ, and sponsored by Steinlager Pure.
Featured in the video are safety divers Jonathan Sunnex, Dean Chaouche and Sofia Gomez, announcer Shiv Madhu, medics Tom Ardavany and Jani Valdivia, and AIDA judges Carla-Sue Hanson and Rob King.
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Olympic thieves have robbed Denmark’s team of mobile phones, clothes and sheets, and even had the cheek to deprive Morten Rodtwitt, the country’s Olympic boss of his iPad.
“It’s extremely irritating,†Morten Rodtwitt, Denmark’s chef de mission in Rio, told Berlingske.
“In connection with the many extra workers, cleaners and housekeepers who have been squeezed into the Olympic village because of our requirements and requests, we have been subjected to a series of thefts,†he told TV2.
The thefts come on top of a string of problems with the athletes rooms which have forced the Danish delegation to complain of no fewer than 150 issues with their 36 apartments.
“The buildings here are simply not in order,†Ulrik Wilbek, the head of the Danish handball association, told TV2.â€The conditions are not in order. It is not clean here. It is unpleasant to go and wash in the bathing facilities.â€
One of the handball team, Casper Mortensen told TV2 that a sink had collapsed simply because he leaned on it.
However, Rodtwitt said he didn’t expect the many problems to affect his athletes chances in the games.
“The athletes have been good at abstracting from it. They have been super cool,†he told Berlingske.
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