Posted on 12/31/2007 10:17:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Joe Tessitore and Mark Schlereth will host ESPN's New Year No Limits, Monday, Dec. 31, at 11:15 pm ET.)
More than 44 million people flew to Vegas this past year. Robbie Maddison plans on being the first to fly over Vegas this New Year. The motocross star is ready to jump the Rio football field.
You didn't know that the Rio Hotel Casino had a football field? It doesn't. But thanks to Robbie's guts and glory it will on New Year's Eve.
You didn't know somebody could jump end zone to end zone? Neither did anyone else.
"I want to do something no one has ever done," said the very likable 26-year-old Australian.
A 360-foot jump goes beyond the descriptive of something no one has ever done. It starts to head in the direction of can anyone even do it?
The current world record "Maddo" is targeting for a 500cc bike is 277½ feet. Breaking 300 feet is thought of as the magic number in long distance moto-jumping. Three hundred-sixty feet? Unheard of!
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
Well....He did it...I think he made 320 feet.....
He did it.
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