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  • This week, we are dedicated to the new challenge of Karine Joly and Greg Crozier, skydivers and freefly world champions in 2018 in Australia.

  • The Rhône-Alpes couple will attempt, from August 22 to 26 in Chicago, to achieve a giant daisy of 200 parachutists in the sky, which would constitute a new world record.

Lego Masters

enthusiasts

should have a great time studying the distribution of the ten planes that will take to the skies of Chicago from August 22 to 26.

On board, no less than 200 parachutists came from all over the world to try to beat a world record.

They have a specific place assigned to them from the diagram below.

Because yes, the elite of freefly intends to sign an unprecedented figure with all the athletes, who will throw themselves into the void, under oxygen, at an altitude of 6,000 m and with a speed of more than 250 km / h.

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The Lyonnaise Karine Joly and the Stéphanois Greg Crozier (41 years old) are part of this adventure which should lead to an extraordinary technical prowess.

The 2018 freefly world champions in Australia have been fond of such a collective challenge since their record in France, with 36 people gathered in 2009. For the Rhône-Alpes couple, it would be the ideal conclusion to a summer spent in the air in Rome, Avignon, then in Venezuela and Brazil.

A meticulous “assembly” of petals to be made

“We like to try to improve the cohesion of the group, says Greg Crozier.

We faced a lot of opponents during our career, all in a competitive state of mind that was not easy to manage.

So there, it's magic to share this project with Italians, Poles, Americans..." To optimize the chances of success of this aerial daisy for 200 freefly enthusiasts, the balance of the different sizes is essential, as is the precision of the "assembly" of the different petals, around a base of 20 American paratroopers.

Karine Joly and Greg Crozier keep an unforgettable memory of their participation in the current record of 2015, performed upside down by 164 skydivers, and validated by the judges on the 13th attempt.

"It's a bit like for ants: we guess in our field of vision when nothing much moves, details Greg Crozier.

Then it's surprising but we don't need the judges to know if the figure is successful.

We feel when all the hands are well attached to each other.

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"All it takes is one person who doesn't control a trajectory"

The happy international band will therefore be able to chain nearly 20 attempts from Monday, with an average of four jumps per day.

Four years ago, already in Chicago, this same floral and aerial 200 challenge had not succeeded.

“We are not approaching this in a revengeful way, but with full enthusiasm, announces Karine Joly.

We depend a lot on the weather, since we were only able to make 11 jumps in 2018 as it was very humid.

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“With each successful record, we still mark the history of this sport”, indicates Greg Crozier.

His enthusiasm is shared by his companion Karine Joly: “It would be a great moment to perform a totally crazy technical feat like that”.

All this without neglecting the risks taken by these many freeflyers, who are all experienced both as instructors and as competitors.

"All it takes is one person who doesn't control a trajectory to possibly endanger the lives of the 199 other parachutists," emphasizes Karine Joly.

So it puts a lot of adrenaline.

".

We readily believe her.

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