Vouliagmeni Lake Cliff Diving

With the event in Vou­liag­meni the tra­di­tional sport of cliff div­ing is com­plet­ing its most chal­leng­ing and pro­gres­sive sea­son ever. After seven stops the cra­dle of com­pet­i­tive sports hosts the Red Bull Cliff Div­ing World Series’ grande finale on Sep­tem­ber 20th at Lake Vou­liag­meni – just out­side Athens (GRE).
The Colom­bian Orlando Duque is just a step away from the over­all title, but it’s still too soon to say that it’s over.

Lake Vou­liag­meni

Math­e­mat­i­cally, the scor­ing is appar­ently deci­sive for the title. Even if run­ner up Gary hunt wins the deci­sive stop, Orlando Duque needs only a 4 place to claim the over­all title. The Colom­bian arrives in Greece with an advan­tage of nine points; but as he explains by him­self, it is still too soon to cel­e­brate: “The ques­tion of the title can­not just be summed up with num­bers, and as we have seen in the last legs any­thing can hap­pen and there are no fore­gone win­ners.
Gary Hunt is clearly on the up-and-up and a wrong move, an injury or a less inspired moment could throw it all away”.

At the last two stops in Ham­burg and Sisikon Duque became only 4th and 3rd – the vic­to­ries went to Eng­lish­man Hunt and Artem Silchenko (RUS). Those two are def­i­nitely the most promi­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tives of a new gen­er­a­tion of ath­letes push­ing the vet­er­ans and the sport. 25 year-old Hunt, who was on the podium at
each sin­gle stop, gives hint that he may again have a trick up his sleeve for Vou­liag­meni; “I have a new dive in my head and I am going to train inten­sively to be able to do it in the final.”

The high div­ing action will be cen­tered in the amaz­ing loca­tion around Lake Vou­liag­meni, only a header away from the city. A fresh water lake famous for its heal­ing prop­er­ties and asso­ci­ated with many leg­ends and mys­tic sto­ries about vora­cious crea­tures, dan­ger­ous whirlpools and hid­den trea­sures. To the ath­letes’ joy, the aver­age annual tem­per­a­ture in the water is a pleas­ant 24°C.

In a final which is expected to be hot in all senses, the com­pe­ti­tion will be held in late after­noon, a fact which will clearly be an addi­tional chal­lenge for those who have been invited to per­form a farewell sequence of dives from a board mounted 26 meters high on the rocky sides of the lake.

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