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Sonchaux Acro Show 2010: 20 – 22 August

The Sonchaux Acro show and festival takes place in Villeneuve on the Swiss Riviera next weekend, 20 - 22 August.
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Red Bull X-Alps: Blood, Sweat, and Fear

Forget blue skies and 4,000 m cloudbases, the Red Bull X-Alps is about bleeding feet, blisters, buckled knees and rain. Are you tough enough? Ed Ewing spoke to some of the athletes to find out what it takes to keep running…
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Josh Cohn and Joanna Di Grigoli PWC American Open champions

Josh Cohn (US) and Joanna Di Grigoli (VE) were first placed pilots in the Chelan round of the PWC, held from 18 - 24 July. This was the last American round, and they are also the American Open champions for 2010.
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Gerolf Heinrichs wins European Hang Gliding Championships 2010

Austrian Gerolf Heinrichs has won the 17th FAI European Hang Gliding Championships, held in Ager, Spain, which finished on 24 July 2010.
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The Parang Open: Romania’s National Paragliding championship

The FAI cat 2 Parang Open takes place in Petrosani, Romania, from 21 - 29 August 2010.
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Gravity never sleeps at the International Alpine Film Festival

Top paragliding film, Gravity Never Sleeps, has been shortlisted for an award at FIFAD (the International Alpine Film Festival) in Les Diablerets from 7 - 14 August 2010.
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XContest Xcamp 2010: a week left for reduced entry fee

Xcontest's XCamp takes place this year fom 30 August to 5 September in San Potito, central Italy.
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Acro Paragliding World Cup Switzerland

The second round of the 2010 Acro PWC takes place at Lake Lugano, Switzerland, from 13 - 15 August.
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Pal Takats wins Acrobatixx: the first acro paragliding world cup event of 2010

Hungarian Pal Takats won the first Acro Paragliding World Cup event of 2010, which took place in Zell Am See, Austria, from 15 - 18 July 2010.
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Icaro Paragliders’ 10th anniversary party

Icaro Paragliders are holding a summer party at the Austrian paragliding site of Kössen to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and everyone is invited.
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