22 Sep
Veteran diver edges out Southampton’s bet in cliff platform diving tourney
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Veteran diver Orlando Duque won the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series which was held recently at Lake Vouliagmeni in Athens, Greece. The win was a close one since Duque had to work hard to ward off young diver Gary Hunt of Southampton who delivered one of the most stunning dives in final rounds of the tournament.
Hunt, currently 25 years of age, produced a triple quad stunt (three somersaults and four twists) which has a degree of difficult of 6.2. This has been determined as the most difficult dive in the world.
The young diver said that he was happy to have successfully executive the dive and to also finish well in the tournament despite not winning the title.
Duque said that having competed all these years made him realize that there’s still a great future ahead of this sport after seeing Hunt produce the difficult dive. He admitted later on that this was the title that he had to fight for the hardest.