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Chrigel Maurer wins the X-Pyr 2022

Chrigel Maurer wins X-Pyr 2022

Chrigel Maurer has done it again, winning the X-Pyr 2022! The final day was close-fought, a battle between Chrigel, Maxime Pinot and Pierre Rémy
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Watch: Aaron Durogati flies a 300km triangle in the Karakoram

Aaron Durogati flew a 312km FAI triangle in the Karakoram on 26 June 2022 – a new Asian paragliding record.
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Safety notice: Gin Switch 2 product recall

Gin have recalled all Switch² harnesses produced before July 2022, because of a manufacturing problem affecting the airbag
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Robin Hamilton: HG speed record in Texas

Robin Hamilton set a new ‘Speed over a triangular course of 100km’ record on 26 June in Texas, on his Aeriane Swift Light
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Lenart Oblak wins X-Slovenia hike-and-fly Challenge

Lenart Oblak won the X-Slovenia 2022 hike-and-fly Challenge, completing the 144km task in a little under 23 and a half hours
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X-Pyr 2022: Chrigel Maurer – Interview with a Champion

'I'm 40 – and I'm getting better!' Ed Ewing talks in-depth to X-Pyr and Red Bull X-Alps champion Chrigel Maurer ahead of the X-Pyr 2022 – video
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X-Pyr 2022: UK pilot Keith Paterson on his road to the X-Pyr

British X-Pyr pilot Keith Paterson reveals how he got into hike-and-fly racing in the UK – all ahead of this year's X-Pyr 2022
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X-Pyr 2022: Team Italy’s Edoardo Colombo

Edoardo Colombo from Italy is a mountain guide and paraglider pilot. He is one of the 32 rookies in this year's X-Pyr.
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X-Pyr 2022: Nova Team Pilot Patrick Sieber’s ‘Unfinished business’

Patrick Sieber talks tactics, the new two-liner from Nova and why for him this race is "unfinished business" ahead of the X-Pyr 2022
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X-Pyr 2022: What’s in the bag? Maxime Pinot reveals all

French pilot Maxime Pinot shares what's in his bag ahead of the X-Pyr 2022 – For this race he's flying his Red Bull X-Alps 2021 glider
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