Tuesday, June 1, 2010
  Highest jump on roller skates  - Taig Khris sets world record
  PARIS, France -- French extreme in-line skating champion Taig Khris (a.k.a the 'ramp warrior') launched himself off the first floor of the Eiffel Tower some 40 metres above ground onto a quarterpipe, with a freefall of 41 feet (12.5 metres) - setting the new world record for the Highest jump on roller skates .

 Photo: French roller-skater Taig Kris set a new world record for the longest jump with roller-skates on when he dropped off the Eiffel Tower. AP photo ( enlarge photo

   Thousands of people gathered to watch the French daredevil roller skater drop from the first level of the Eiffel Tower and onto a high skate ramp.

    After completing the World's Highest jump on roller skates , he said:"Two years non-stop, I didn't sleep for nights and nights for that small moment up there and now, as you can see, I made it so that's cool."

   "I've never had such a strong adrenaline rush," he told AFP after the vertiginous jump.

The previous Guinness world record for the Highest jump on roller skates was the 8.53-metre world record set by American Danny Way.

   Khris adds the accomplishment to countless wins in the world championships and X-Games.

Taig Khris said he made the jump "to give people the desire to reach beyond their limits, to follow their passions, their dreams."

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