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As Olympic athletes were beginning their second official competition day in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, Korean humanoid robot skiers were still warming up at Welli Hill Park ski resort in Dunnae for a different competition - a slalom tournament. On the sidelines of the main human Olympics, the Korean government has organised Ski Robot Challenge, the world's first ever ski tournament for self-operational humanoid robots. The robots are to battle it out in the slalom discipline on Monday.
Most car enthusiasts have a ‘hero poster’ on their bedroom walls as they grow up. For ATP tennis star, Hubert (Hubi) Hurkacz, who heads to the US Open Championships this week, it was the iconic McLaren P1TM hypercar – specifically P1 OOV, which is still part of McLaren’s own heritage fleet – that took pride of place and drove his childhood dreams at home in Wroclaw, Poland.Teaming up with McLaren Beverly Hills and its O’Gara Motorsports division at The Thermal Club, a private, member’s only track in California, McLaren, The Americas managed to bring Hubi’s ‘bucket list’ wish to life by giving him a day of expert tuition behind the wheel of the McLaren 765LT Spider.Instead of hitting serves at over 150mph, the tennis ace was able to get behind the wheel of the pinnacle of ‘Longtail’ performance and experience similar speeds as he pushed the supercar to the limits around the desert track.
Skiers take the Roches Noires chairlift in the resort of La Rosière, Savoie, which leads to the start of the blue run on which French actor Gaspard Ulliel died aged 37. IMAGES
In Porté-Puymorens, in the French Pyrenees, a hundred people turn up for the opening of the first ski slope of the season, after a 20-month interruption due to the Covid crisis. IMAGES
Cape Town, Oct 16 (EFE/EPA).- The number of bookings from British tourists wanting to visit Cape Town surged after the United Kingdom took South Africa off the country's COVID-19 red list.South Africa was officially taken off the UK's red list on Oct. 11. (Camera: KIM LUDBROOK).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.
Vienna (Austria), Sep 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Christian Bruna) On Friday the first trial against Austria began at the Vienna Province Court for alleged negligence by the authorities that would have caused thousands of covid infections. March 19, 2020 in the Ischgl ski resort.FOOTAGE OF APPEAL FROM THE START OF THE FIRST TRIAL AGAINST AUSTRIA FOR AN ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE BY THE AUTHORITIES THAT WOULD HAVE CAUSED THOUSANDS OF COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN MARCH 2020 AT THE ISCHGL SKI STATION.
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