A ground-breaking season, which started with the first ever competition in Colombia, home of the sport’s grand seigneur, Orlando Duque, and has broken point records more than once and seen the highest diving complexity in seven years of the World Series, will reach fever pitch in the season’s final showdown next Saturday. Bilbao’s La Salve Bridge will not only be the take-off strip for the year’s last aesthetic free falls and the place for the handing over of the 2015 champion’s trophy, but it will also be the venue for the 50th competition in Red Bull Cliff Diving with the Guggenheim Museum as the breathtaking backdrop for this huge milestone. While England’s Gary Hunt has already clinched his 5th title in seven years, one question remains to be answered: Which athletes will complete the 6 automatic qualification places behind the 5-time champion?
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He’s racing royalty. Literally.
And to Beverly Hills residents, obnoxiously.
The owner of a yellow Ferrari valued in the seven-figures captured on video speeding through stop signs and blazing past pedestrians in the wealthy city is Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al Thani of Qatar’s ruling family.
Al Thani has been dubbed the “patron sheikh” of drag racing by the press.
But over the weekend, the twenty-something was just a guy driving a very fancy car very fast, police said. Al Thani denied to officers who investigated the incident that anyone was driving recklessly. He also said he had diplomatic immunity, Beverly Hills police said.
After discussing the matter with the U.S. State Department and the Qatar consulate, authorities concluded the sheikh did not have such immunity … More
Original Article: “‘F___k America’ – Driver claims diplomatic immunity after luxury car drag race in Beverly Hills”
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This year has been particularly harsh for shark attacks.
North Carolina shores were terrorized by an unprecedented spate of shark attacks early in the summer. Surf hotbed Réunion Island has continued its alarmingly high rate of shark attacks, and an increase in attacks on surfers on Australia’s Gold Coast have locals calling for a shark cull. Top all that off with Mick Fanning having fight off a great white at the 2015 J-Bay Open in South Africa.
Experts say that the real reason shark attacks have been on the rise is an increase in beachgoers and ocean temperatures. Luckily, one Australian inventor has taken measures to preventing further attacks on surfers … More
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