Rick Wallenda who just broke the world highwire skywalk record at a distance of 2,000ft will be live on Good Morning America via satellite from Kings Island July 5th.

Rick Wallenda who just broke the world highwire skywalk record at a distance of 2,000ft will be live on Good Morning America via satellite from Kings Island July 5th.

Huh?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269761,00.html

Maybe in alternate worlds?

See also:

http://singaporenews.wordpress.com/2008/03...wire-challenge/

Congrats to Mr.Wallenda world record or not still an incredible feat

Indeed it is....

No doubt the walk will be promoted as world's record in some way...perhaps size of cable, lack of net, etc...but it is not a record for distance alone...

Indeed it is....

No doubt the walk will be promoted as world's record in some way...perhaps size of cable, lack of net, etc...but it is not a record for distance alone...

Congrats to Rick! The man is brave, you have to give him that. 112 feet up on a cable that's less than 1 inch thick, and the whole thing with no net! Now, I don't know how deep the fountain that he was walking over is, but I can guess that it'd still hurt quite a bit if he had fallen. Again, Congrats!

http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13659

Okay, so Rick's granddad DID break a world record with his Kings Island walk many years ago...and Rick was trying to break his grandfather's record. And he did. Nowhere does it say that Rick was setting a world's record, only that he was trying to break his granddad's world's record set at Kings Island in 1974. That makes sense.

Indeed it is....

No doubt the walk will be promoted as world's record in some way...perhaps size of cable, lack of net, etc...but it is not a record for distance alone...

Congrats to Rick! The man is brave, you have to give him that. 112 feet up on a cable that's less than 1 inch thick, and the whole thing with no net! Now, I don't know how deep the fountain that he was walking over is, but I can guess that it'd still hurt quite a bit if he had fallen. Again, Congrats!

It's about 3 or 4 feet deep.

You can walk in it with waders on. That's how they used to put the fireworks up around the fountain.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...40021/1055/NEWS

I can not believe there no youtube of this event yet.

There's video at the third link below!

WLW gets it right:

http://www.700wlw.com/cc-common/news/secti...article=3915745

As does the AP by way of WKYC:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/state/ohio/news_a...11&catid=23

While The Kentucky Post does NOT:

http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/s...b2-446e285895a6

BUT, note the Kentucky Post link includes raw video!

To sum up, Rick beat his granddad's world record walk, but he did not set a world record. This is not to diminish his incredible feat, but it is important to hype things correctly....which I bet the park has. I have, however, seen Rick quoted as saying he set a world record last night. That doesn't mean he said that either. The press is not always right.

The spot on GMA:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5313549

As The Interpreter said, it was probably a world-record in some way.

And I loved how he did the interview when standing on the wire! That just made my day!

I talked to a park official yesterday asking what record was broken, apparently it was the distance record. According to most accepted standards, 5/8" is the standard highwire diameter. The link that Interpreter posted was for a wire over an inch thick. I mean come on... they high has well have been walking on an I-Beam.

The 75 foot Eiffel Tower?

King's Amusement Park?

...Circus performer Nik Wallenda - the seventh generation of a family famed for its high wire acts - climbed the 75 foot 'Eiffel Tower' in the Kings' Amusement Park, Cincinnati. ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...safety-net.html