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More than 11, 000 people participated in the 42nd anniversary of the Lake Balaton Cross Swimming in Hungary on Sunday. The race took place on Lake Balaton between Revfulop and Balatonboglar. The participants had to start the 5.2 km distance in Révfülöp, the destination of which was the Platán beach in Balatonboglár. The swimming corridor leading there was created with the help of 150 sailing ships. Those who got tired could hold on or even get out on the ships. The runners in the distance also received medals in Balatonboglár. More than 11,000 people registered for this year's event. Imre Bara...
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Sicilians have been waiting for a bridge between the island and the Italian mainland for years, sick of using ferries to cross the Strait. But, now, one man has found a novel new way of making the crossing: on foot. Yes, really. Estonian slackline athlete Jaan Roose made history on Wednesday (10 July) as the first person to walk across Italy’s Strait of Messina. The slackline he used for the daring feat was the longest ever constructed - measuring 3,646 metres, more than 3.5 kilometres. Roose managed to complete the treacherous journey in just under three hours, technically beating the existin...
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A British parkour group who have been banned from Venice have now been accused of damaging a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Italy. Team Phat is a nine-person parkour sports team from London that posts viral videos of its members leaping around public buildings and monuments. One of its members, 23-year-old Devon McIntosh, has been filmed jumping from a roof in Matera, breaking part of the building. Matera is an ancient city in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, which can trace its human history back 10,000 years. The cave-dwelling city has an urban core cut into the mountain ro...
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