Its been a strange year for weather but, finally, we have a 6/6 event - 6 tasks in 6 days!
 
We have been amazingly lucky with the weather this week - we found out last night that it has been raining here in Buzet for the 30 days leading up to Friday and then the weather turned and we have had sunshine all week. You don't get luck like that too often so we are making the most of it.
 

It was always promising to be a tricky task. In the end we had 15 pilots reported in goal but, after the scoring was complete, only 8 of these pilots were confirmed to have made all the turnpoints and then the goal field.
 
The race was won in a time of 2 hours 41 minutes 8 seconds by Gasper Prevc (Slovenia / slo-paragliding.com).
 
First woman today was Marina Olexina (Russia / TEXHOPOC) with an overall distance of 49.26km.
 

The X-alps race is considered to be the hardest challenge in the paragliding world. Now this classic starts again – and with Vincent Sprüngli and Pal Takats two pilots rely on U-Turn gliders as their airline.
 
The event starts on July 19th in Salzburg. Flying or by foot, other options are excluded, the pilots have to get over the 818 km to Monaco. Sole requirement: They have to pass turnpoints. And these turnpoints are really demanding. Starting in Salzburg, the route leads to the Watzmann, Großglockner, Marmolada, Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and Mont Gros to Monaco.

Our Swing team pilots keep on getting better. Torsten Siegel was on the winners’ podium as third place-getter in the Swiss Championships, and Peter Neuenschwander notched up a win in the final task. Both pilots were flying new WRC prototypes, so that the performance of the wings could be tested against tough competition. And this went very well for the two pilots!

The task was running well, considering the conditions, but at around 16:!5 we received a call from the meet director informing us that the task had been cancelled.
At the time, it was raining around the final turnpoint and the decision was made to cancel the task on safety grounds.
Quite a number of pilots have made the goal field but, unfortunately, a stopped elapsed time task is not scored.