Extreme Sports

Extreme sports are only popular in the mountains in the UK.

• true
• false

People who enjoy fast and dangerous sports, like white-water rafting, are called thrill seekers or adrenalin junkies.

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• false

In white-water rafting you have to try to stay afloat in the river.

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• false

All you need is a special board with four tiny wheels attached to it, some equipment and lots of practice and you can be just as good as Tony Hawk.

• Inline skating 
• Skateboarding 
• Bodyboarding 
• Parkour

The idea of parkour is to jump and climb over things like steps, railings and trees.

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• false

You need special clothes and shoes to do parkour classes.

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• false

 Which of the following is not a real trick performed by bicycle stunt riders?

• Tailwhip
• Superman
• Face Plant

 In speed climbing, what structure are athletes pretending to race up?

• A ladder
• A tree
• A mountain / rock face

Which of the following is not an extreme sport?

• ultracross
• Aggressive inline skating
• Short-board wave-jumping

The first X-Games competition was held in what year?

• 1995
• 1998
• 1992
• 1990