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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Tour Final
Pays Homage To The Gods
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Homage to The Gods | About Kaunolu | Dustin Webster | Event Summary
[Event Summary: Final Results]
Full Circle
On August 26, 2000, the best cliff divers in the world will gather atop the face of Kaunolu, Lana'i, Hawaii for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Tour Final, the first recognized world circuit of cliff diving. Using the same rock outcrop where warriors proved their courage and honor to their Gods thousands of years before, these modern-day warriors will bestow respect upon their forefathers as they leap, flip and twist down the sacred 82-foot cliffs of Lana'i, to the deep blue ocean below.
Qualifiers
The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Tour Final is the culmination of a three-country tour with stops in Dubrovnik, Croatia, "the pearl of the Adriatic Sea", May 22, followed by the "capital of extreme cliff diving", Brontallo, Switzerland, on July 22. At these two qualification events, each contestant performed two different dives with a maximum degree of difficulty of 4.0 on the first dive and no limit on the second.
Only The Best
Only the top eight divers from the first two events will be invited to compete in Lana'i. Those eight elite cliff divers will not only have the privilege of leaping from the hallowed cliffs, but the opportunity to capture the first Red Bull Cliff Diving World Tour Title and a piece of the $35,000 purse. Twenty-six year old Orlando Duque, of Columbia, South America, won the opening event in Dubrovnik, followed by Rogelito Lopez, of Brazil, and Vyachwslav Polyeshchuk, of the Ukraine.
Don't Try This At Home
Requiring great mental and physical toughness, cliff diving places immense stress on the athletes' mind and body. Accelerating to 60-mph in under 3 seconds, athletes enter the water feet first to avoid head and neck trauma. Their bodies must still remain rigid during the feet first entry in order to avoid serious, if not life threatening, injuries. An awkward fall from these heights would be comparable to a fall from a four-story building...onto the pavement...headfirst!
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