Friday, 11th December

Back home on the Palm DZ today!   Accuracy Landings will continue at the Beach DZ today, whilst CF continues landing at the Horse Race DZ.  The organisation to move all the judging equipment from the Horse Race DZ happened overnight, so wheels off at 8.00 and the competition continues.   The wind is a little concerning though. 

Today all Formation Skydiving Events are scheduled whilst Artisitc Events, Freestyle continue today and Freefly is stood down until tomorrow.  Canopy Formations 2-Way is stood down until the 12th, whilst 4-Way Rotations will jump today, landing at the Horse Race DZ.  Speed will continue here at the Palm.

9.30

USA,Air Speed Formation Skydiving 4-Way Open have just jumped their round 6 - they scored 19 points with three busts.  Everyone is waiting to see how Belgium's Hyabusa does - this could be the crunch round of the meet.  Belgium scored 23 points although even they got 1 bust - the pressure is beginning to tell.  We now have Belgium 4 points ahead of USA in the 4-Way Open event.  The Video of these two jumps are now loaded on the IPC YouTube channel - follow the link above to watch the drama.

Unfortunately the winds are above limits for Accuracy and they are currently on Standby.

10.45

The Female 4-Way have just jumped their 7th round and the gap is widening between the USA Golden Knights - they scored 29 points clear, whereas the French girls scored 20 points only (3 busts) - now the USA are leading on 164 points and the French are on 159.  Still three rounds to go.

11.15

It is going fast now for the Formation Skydiving.  Round 7 has been judged - the USA, Airspeed scored 29 points with 2 busts and we are waiting for Belgium's result - but whilst concentrating on the top two places we have missed the excitement for the Bronze medal, currently France and Canada are tied - the Belgium result is out - 31 points with 2 busts they are now in the lead by 6 points. 

12.30

Both USA and Belgium (4-Way Open) turned 25 points, but the Belgians were bust on one, so the USA has clawed one point back.  Two more rounds to go.

16.00

The winds put everyone on Stand by for most of the early afternoon - then the Accuracy competitors were told it was Stand Down for the rest of today - but Formation Skydiving 8-Way, VFS and Artistic's Freestyle all jumped.  Now 4-Way both Female and Open have been called for their Semi-Final Round.  

Speed have jumped their last round.with the Gold Medal going to Marco Wiederkehr, Switzerland, Silver to Christian Labhart, Switzerland and Michael Lovemore, Great Britain collecting the Bronze.  Congratulations to all the Medal winners and the competitors.

A Speed Competitor on his way - FAST

Freestyle has completed and is currently being judged - VFS round 7 is finished with Canada well in front, followed by France and Belgium : Formation Skydiving 8-Way has also completed their 7th round with USA so far ahead with Russia in second and France third. - 4-Way Open and Female Semi-Final rounds are being judged now.