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The world’s toughest adventure paragliding race has announced two late additions to its athlete list: Austria's Paul Guschlbauer and Britain's Jon Chambers.

It's not yet four months since Hungarian paragliding acro experts Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi performed the world's first infinite tumble on a tandem paraglider. Now Pál is offering passengers the benefit of his expertise and specially reinforced wing, to take a tandem infinite tumble ride.

Ewa Wisnierska and 'mad' Mike Kung launched their tandem paraglider from a hot air balloon over Bavaria earlier this month.

Great racing conditions, good organisation, fantastic Greek food, folk music and dances and breathtaking scenery made for an ideal week in West Greece at the end of August for the pre- world cup.

CIVL, the body that looks after hang gliding and paragliding records and competitions, met at the end of October.

APCO have brought out their first ever competition pod paragliding harness – the Blade.

Italy's Nicole Fedele has claimed a new women's paragliding world record for 'Distance using up to three turn points'.

SIV guru and paragliding filmmaker Jocky Sanderson is hosting Free Flight night at the Kendal Mountain Festival in England's Lake District on Thursday 18 November 2010.

Planning for the 2011 Flight Festival, which will take place at Germany's Tegelberg from 1 - 3 October 2011, is already underway.

UP have announced two new members will be joining their team: Red Bull X-Alps athlete Stefan 'Boxi' Bocks and aeronautical engineer Bernhard Lechner will be starting with them in 2011.