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WATCH: Amidst destruction, Gaza youths find expression in parkour

Footage from the Palestinian news agency Wafa shows Palestinian youths performing parkour among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Az-Zawayda, Gaza Strip.

10/07/2024

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Watch: Artist walks tightrope 50 metres above ground in eastern France

A French tightrope walker walked across a rope suspended 50 metres above the ground in front of 5,000 spectators.

08/06/2023

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WATCH: Finland crowns its reindeer racing champion

Dressed in skis, helmets and ski goggles and pulled by harnesses attached to the reindeer, Finland's top 14 competitors raced one kilometre around an oval track in the far northern town of Inari.

10/04/2023

World News

Time to paws: Puppy yoga craze sweeps UK

Puppy yoga aims to combine the spiritual and physical benefits of a typical yoga class with the added mental boost of playing with cute puppies.

01/01/2023

Eco-Innovation

How sailing is being reborn as a sustainable sport

Besides being the first major league sport to use sustainability as a competitive metric, SailGP has pledged that all its events will be powered by nature both on-water and on-shore by 2025

29/12/2022

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Watch: Thousand people see Paris from paddle boards

Some 1,000 people have competed in Paris’ ‘Nautic Paddle’, glimpsing the city from the Seine.

04/12/2022

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Diving from a helicopter: Iffland takes the plunge in Sydney Bay

The impressive dive marks the celebration of the Australian record champion’s return home for the 2022 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series final.

06/10/2022

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Thousands plunge into cold Magellan Strait waters

Thousands of people plunged into the frigid waters of the Magellan Strait in Chile on Saturday during the "Splash of the Strait", an event suspended for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

17/07/2022

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South Africa: 'Mermaiding' is becoming a fast growing sport

Mermaiding is the sport of using a monofin with a fabric tail, and learning how to 'move like a mermaid'.

03/06/2022

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Ready, Steady, Mow! British lawnmower racing season gets underway

The cream of the British lawnmower racing crop assembled in the Surrey village of Lingfield on Sunday for the start of a new season.

09/05/2022

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Watch: South Korea transforms closed mountain highway into luge track

The sledges can travel at speeds of up to 60kmph - and with the wind behind them, even faster.

13/08/2020

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UK: Muddy conditions add to the fun for dry-land dogsledders

Muddy conditions greeted 150 teams from 15 countries as they competed in the 2019 WSA (World Sleddog Association) Dryland World Championships

18/11/2019

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Briton Neil Campbell breaks speed world record, cycling at 174mph

A British cyclist claimed the motor-paced speed world record, after cycling a short distance at a staggering 174.34 miles (280.57 kilometres) per hour

18/08/2019

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Couples compete in wife-carrying championships

A Lithuanian man and his wife have won the world 'wife carrying' title, leaping over timber and wading through waist-high water to beat dozens of other couples for a second year running.

07/07/2019

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Red Bull 'flugtag' sees crowds flock to Lyon in middle of heatwave

Thousands defied a suffocating heatwave to witness the launch of home-made, often quirky aircraft over Lyon's rivers, as Redbull's flagship competition Flugtag took place in the French city on Sunday..

01/07/2019

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Muscovites welcome summer with annual colour run

Five-thousand people gathered in Moscow's Luzhniki park on Sunday (June 2) to greet summer with an annual colour run.

02/06/2019