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Alex wins again! Red Bull X-Alps sees UP in 1st. and 2nd!Hi All, The Red Bull X-Alps 2007 is all but over - and it has turned into the stuff of dreams for us here at UP! In first place the reigning Champion from 2005, longtime UP star and former World Champion Alex Hofer. Alex has flown a magnificent competition, taken bold routes that took him further off the course line than any other participant and in fact penalising him with something like 150km more to travel than any of his competitors, but in the end his superior flying put him on top of the podium all the same! Alex has managed very close to a 50/50 flying to walking ratio along the course, testimony to his otherworldly skills in the paragliding department. In second place is a name that has gone from relative obscurity to total (paragliding) stardom in 13 days, Toma Coconea from Romania. Toma has used his superior will power and endurance to negotiate the course mainly on foot, always in a trot, always looking determined like no other person I have ever seen, and winning the admiration and sympathy of SCORES of followers from all over the world in the process. Toma has run 80km/day on average for the last thirteen days, covering the equivalent of, say, Copenhagen to Paris on foot, and putting in 327km of flying in between. This is a magnificent achievement and his podium place is so deserved! I spoke to Toma's supporter Razvan this morning to congratulate them both, and to hear if Toma had anything to say to his wing - here's what he said: "...he is always raging about it, he loves that wing so much - the speed, never any collapses, the handling...the best wing he has ever flown..." We're going to celebrate our two stars in several different ways in the time ahead. One thing is the Housewarming/Red Bull X-Alps party we're having at our new premises on September 14th, where we hope to see our two champions and their supporters plus friends, dealers, distributors, team pilots, partners etc. and the other is our introduction of the UP Light Line Alex Hofer signature gear for 2008, paragliding equipment endorsed by the Champion himself. More about that later, for now we're just ecstatic to have two athletes of Alex' and Tomas' caliber on our team - congratulations to all four (Alex Hofer/Sandro Schnegg and Toma Coconea/Razvan Levarda). Also congratulations to the last UP team in the event, Raul Penso/Eduardo Fuhrmeister, who managed to travel almost 800km through unfamiliar terrain before the slash took them out of the race. Well done all of you!
