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Robbie Maddison Crazy motorcross star 27-year-old Australian has performed a no-handed back flip while jumping between a gap on the historic and famous London Tower Bridge.
The Robbie Maddison London Tower Bridge stunt was to promote the Red Bull X-fighters event set to take place in London in August.
The jump at London’s Tower Bridge was the first major motorcross stunt Robbie Maddison pulled off since a jump on a life-size replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve 2008.
Beside his amazing London Tower Bridge back flip motorcross stunt, Robbie Maddison is known for holding the record for the world’s longest ever motorbike jump (350.7ft – 106.9m).
Pictures: Robbie Maddison jumps London Tower Bridge, video below…
Paris, May 31 (IANS) India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black crashed out of the French Open tennis’ mixed doubles second round, losing 0-6, 6-1, 6-10 to Austrian Sybille Bammer and Lukasz Kubot of Poland.
The second-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair and the US Open champions made a strong comeback to make it set-all but could hit only 5 winners in the super-tiebreak to go down in little over an hour here Saturday.
The Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi had already bowed out. The Australian Open mixed doubles champions lost to French Nathalie Dechy and Israel’s Andy Ram 1-6, 5-7 in the first round.
World Junior Boxing | Sandeep wins silver in World Junior Boxing
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Indian boxer Sandeep bagged the silver medal in the World Junior Boxing Championship at Yerevan in Armenia Saturday. He lost to local hero Koryun Soghomonyan in the final of the 46 kilogram category.
According to information reaching here, Sandeep, who was the lone Indian to make it to any of the finals, lost 4-10 to the Armenian.
Sandeep’s silver was the fourth medal for India after Namit Bahadur, Vikas Khatri and Shiva Thapa ended their campaign Friday with bronze medals.
Bahadur, Khatri and Thapa lost their semi-final bouts.
In the 50 kg category, Bahadur lost 3-7 to Kazhakstan’s Talgat Bertleuov while in a low scoring match in the 54 kg group, Khatri went down 2-5 to Cuban Yunior Ernesto Valdes Boleri. Thapa lost his 52 kg group bout 4-8 to Kazahkh Yerbolat Seidalliyev.
May 25 (IANS) The 16-member Indian archery contingent bagged three gold and four silver medals at the second Asian Grand Prix meet at Tehran, according to information received here.
The men’s recurve team of Tarundeep Rai, Muni Ram Tirkey and Kapil took the gold medal beating Iran 217-211 in the final. Punya Prabha, V. Pranitha and Reena Kumari finished best in the women’s recurve team final defeating Iran 198-194 in the final.
Compound archer L. Haridas Singh earned India the third yellow metal in the individual event when he annihilated Hungary’s Robert Bojti in the tie breaker after the two tied 109-109 in the final. Singh shot a 10 as against Bojti’s 9 in the tie-breaker.
The men and women compound teams lost to Iran in the final. The men lost 220-227 and the women went down 207-208. Olympian Tarundeep Rai, perhaps the most experienced in the field, could get only a silver medal losing to Iran’s Milad Vaziri Teymoorlooei at 107-108 in the men’s recurve individual event final.
Compound women archer Sweety Kumari too failed in the final going down to Seyedeh Vida Halimian Avval of Iran 102-108 to settle for silver.
Tirkey and Sushma (both individual recurve) lost to Nadar M. and Zahara Nemati of Iran respectively in the bronze medal play-off. All other medals went to host Iran which emerged the best in the four-day tournament which saw 60 archers from six nations take part.
Tony Kornheiser | Tony Kornheiser leaves ESPN’s Monday Night | Monday Night Football | Tony Kornheiser on Monday Night Football | Tony Kornheiser replaced by Jon Gruden
After three seasons in ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” booth, Tony Kornheiser is out.
He will be replaced by Jon Gruden.
In a statement, ESPN said Kornheiser had “decided to step down.” Still, during last season there were rumblings throughout the television industry that ESPN brass was looking to replace Kornheiser, who teamed with Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski.
“Jon is one of the best football minds in the game,” said Norby Williamson, an ESPN executive VP. “(We) will create a must-watch Monday Night Football booth.”
Gruden spent 11 seasone as an NFL coach with Tampa and Oakland.
Kornheiser said it was his MNF travel schedule that led to his decision.
“I am totally grateful for the MNF opportunity,” he said. “My fear of planes is legendary and true…I kept looking at the schedule the past month and wanted to find a way to quietly extricate myself.”
