OK, so full-contact skydiving was fake.
But we've got an airborne sport that's real and perhaps almost as crazy: wingsuit racing.
On Friday, Red Bull wrote on YouTube that it had staged a "first-ever wingsuit competition format," in which four wingsuit flyers race each other in a four-gate slalom course starting at 7,000 feet. The contestants flew as fast as 160 miles an hour and opened their parachutes at 3,000 feet, according to the description accompanying a video of the race.
A total of 52 people competed in a series of these races, which took place Thursday over Oakdale, California. Andy Farrington won the men's competition, and Katie Hansen finished first among the women. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/wingsuit-race-red-bull_n_5600371.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News
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