With the "Vertigo Cliff Diving", Trieste is getting ready to admire the feats of champions from all over the world, ready to offer the public an exciting show that will bring to the city the best specialists in diving from great heights. For the occasion, a 27-meter-high platform will be set up at the San Giusto Basin, with Piazza Unità d'Italia providing the backdrop for the competing athletes' performances. There will be 24 divers competing, all linked to the mother circuit "Red Bull Cliff Diving", including two absolute champions such as Costantin Popovici and Rhiannan Iffland. Popovici, formerly of the Romanian national diving team, lived through the 2008 Beijing Olympics before devoting himself ten years later to the "great heights" formula. Iffland is the first woman in the specialty, with no fewer than four world titles on her record.
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