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Icelander in death-defying golfing stunt

Sigurdur Hauksson, an Icelandic golfer and skier, has posted a video of himself doing a trick golf shot while balanced on Kjeragbolten, a boulder wedged in a crevasse nearly 1,000m above a fjord in Norway.

Published: 8 October 2015 20:39 CEST
Icelander in death-defying golfing stunt
Sigurdur Hauksson proves even golf can look dangerous. Photo: Instagram/Screen Grab
The video, which has already been posted on news sites around the world, shows that the tragic death of Kristin Kafcaloudis, the Australian student who fell from Trolltunga, has done little to end the trend of shooting selfies and videos while balanced precariously on Norwegian mountain ledges. 
 
“To the 19th hole!” Hauksson wrote on Instagram. “Made my heart go a little bit wild, only 989m above the ocean.”
 
Gold magazine Golf Digest lightly mocked Hauksson’s shot, which involved him bouncing a ball on the face of his wedge iron, before tapping it into the air. 
 
“His swing at the end is rather feeble, with no weight shift,” the magazine points out. “It might have something to do with the 3,245-foot drop to the fjord below should he have made a single false step.” 
 
Kjeragbolten, half way up Norway’s Mount Kjerag, looks as if it could topple at any moment, but has in fact stood in place since 50,000BC. 
 
The popular tourist attraction was featured in Where the Hell is Matt? one of the first video series to get a popular following following the launch of YouTube in 2005. 
 
 
 

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Tennis courts and golf courses to reopen in Denmark

Danes will be able to take up their tennis rackets and golf clubs again after the country's two biggest sports associations announced that outdoor sports with no physical contact can resume again.

Published: 21 April 2020 11:05 CEST
Tennis courts and golf courses to reopen in Denmark
Tennis will be one of the first sports to restart. Photo: Søren Bidstrup/Ritzau Scanpix
The Sports Confederation of Denmark and the country's other sports association DGI announced that they had agreed new guidelines for restarting group sports with the Danish Health Authority, in a press release issued on Tuesday. 
 
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“This is the first sign of sport opening up, and we are really pleased that the health authorities have given us guidelines so that some activities can start up again,” Charlotte Bach Thomassen, chair of the Danish sports association DGI, said. 
 
“Of course, joining together in sports clubs must be safe from a  health point of view, so it is important to be aware that in many sports associations you will not be able to meet physically.” 
 
 
DIF chairman Niels Nygaard told Ritzau that the announcement did not mean any organisation would be required to restart activities they did not regard as safe. 
 
“These are voluntary associations where there are differences from association to association and sport to sport,” he said. “Our recommendations are not a requirement for associations to start activities. They can do it if it can be done under safe conditions, and if they have doubts about whether it can be done, then they shouldn't do it.”
 
According to the joint press release, group sports can now restart if: 
 
  • they take place outside 
  • participants can keep a distance of two meters from others
  • participants pay special attention to hand hygiene
  • rackets, clubs or other props are frequently cleaned
  • participants cough or sneeze into your elbow or a paper towel
  • participants stay home if they have a fever, cough or muscle soreness. 
  • shared facilities such as clubhouses and dressing and shower facilities are not used 
 
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