Testing the waters in Beirut

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Spain’s Celia Fernandez takes a first plunge replacing injured Lysanne Richard from Canada

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Wildcard Alain Kohl (LUX) taking flight with the Beirut skyline in the back

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Sports director Greg Louganis enjoyed the steep climb to the athletes area on top of the famous Pigeon Rocks

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Catalin Preda, the wildcard who replaces inured fellow Romanian Constantin Popovici, has time for a joke while lining up for his next dive

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The youngest diver to ever podium in the World Series, Maria Paula Quintero (COL) put down some great training dives into Lebanese waters

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Iris Schmidbauer, podium aspirant from Germany, debuts her new difficult dive - back 3 somersaults with 2 twists

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A huge rock, an approaching plane and a diver - this is the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series premiere in Beirut, Lebanon

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Record champion Gary Hunt from England between rocks

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