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Cyril Despres represents the past, present and future of the Dakar Rally. His rally-raid story traverses desert dunes in Africa, South America and Saudi Arabia. Despres has won five times on a bike and parked a car on the podium. Now his hydrogen-powered vehicle represents the Frenchman’s most daring Dakar ambition to date. Find out what inspires Despres to keep going the extra mile.

Make sure you follow the 2022 Dakar Rally by tuning in to ‘Dakar Daily’ on Red Bull TV in January (redbull.com/dakar), or if you can’t wait until then, check out the latest Dakar series From Dawn Till Dust, also available on Red Bull TV, to learn everything you need to know about the event (https://win.gs/dawntilldust).

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Brush up on your Dakar Rally knowledge of orthodontic specialist and Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team driver Cristina Gutiérrez. A Dakar stage victory and FIA World Cup title were won during a packed year of rally-raid racing in 2021. That’s despite a broken back putting Gutiérrez off the road for a couple of months. Now the Spaniard is in a rush to make even more history in Saudi Arabia at Dakar 2022.

Make sure you follow the 2022 Dakar Rally by tuning in to ‘Dakar Daily’ on Red Bull TV in January (redbull.com/dakar), or if you can’t wait until then, check out the latest Dakar series From Dawn Till Dust, also available on Red Bull TV, to learn everything you need to know about the event (https://win.gs/dawntilldust).

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Thinking on your feet is something most people can do. But being so good at it that you can charm huge crowds and win competitions? That’s a rare skill – almost magical. Meet three performers whose art would be nothing without the ability to think on the spot. Hear from rapper Reverse, the reigning Red Bull Batalla USA champion; freestyle dancer Angyil, newly crowned Red Bull Dance Your Style USA champion; and anarchic stand-up comedian Russ Hicks, whose quick-fire retorts to hecklers are legendary. They share what inspires them, and how you can master the skill too. And if you want to know what goes on in the brain when artists are improvising, neuroscientist Dr Charles Limb explains.

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They’re surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery Mother Nature has to offer, but they don’t even notice as they freefall through the air in a descent that comes to an abrupt halt when they hit the water at 85kph… without any protective gear… their bones and muscles protected only by their skin and a swimsuit. Why do they do it, and what does it take to be a cliff diver?

Experts in the world of cliff diving share how to prepare the body, mind and emotions for a sport that pushes athletes to the limits, but one that they’re addicted to. Hear from cliff diver Orlando Duque, Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series competition director Hassan Mouti, diving expert Joey Zuber and competition judge Anke Piper.

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As a boy, Italian-Iranian Dario Costa dreamed of being an aviator performing daring and spectacular flights, just like his cartoon heroes. Today, Dario is a championship pilot for the Red Bull Air Race Team and a stuntman who’s performed in a Hollywood movie. In September 2021 he fulfilled a life-long ambition, and set five world records, when he flew his plane at 245kph through a 2.26km tunnel along Turkey's Northern Marmara Highway. Hear from Dario and his team to learn what it took to prepare for the flight – from the plane and the tunnel to Dario’s mindset.

Watch Dario fly through the tunnel on Red Bull TV now, and stay tuned for the documentary coming soon on Red Bull TV.

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From the moment he became the youngest driver ever to win in Formula One in 2016 at the age of 18, Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen has been the sport's brightest light. Now, in the 2021 F1 season, the champs have a genuine challenger snapping at their heels.

But who is Max Verstappen and how did he get to this moment? Find the answers here, courtesy of drivers, team-mates, journalists, fans and those closest to him – such as drivers Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Liam Lawson and F1 legend David Coultard, F1 commentator Jess McFadyen, BMX champ Twan van Gendt, and Max’s father, ex-F1 driver Jos Verstappen – as well as Max himself.

Learn about the Dutch driver's rise from karting prodigy to competing in his first F1 practice session in 2014 for Scuderia Toro Rosso – just a week after his 17th birthday – followed by podium finishes in the world championships in 2019 and 2020. Already, 2021 has been his most successful season to date and Max is primed for the grandest prize of all.

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Thousands of athletes worldwide were preparing for what should have been their career highlight. Competitions they had been training for not just weeks and months, but in some cases decades. Dreaming of the prospect of success, winning and gold. Then the pandemic hit and the world stood still – and sport with it. But that didn't mean all the hard work to achieve sporting dreams also had to stop.

Hear the inside story of what it’s like for athletes and coaches when training, as they knew it, had to be reinvented. Heptathlete Niamh Emerson tells her story, and York-Peter Klöppel, Head of Mental Performance at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center in Salzburg, Austria, shares insights on the psychological impact.

See more from Niamh, as well as the stories of five other world-class athletes, in the film One Extraordinary Year, available now on Red Bull TV. Go to www.redbull.com/extrayear.

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Season Three is available now! Meet the people pushing the boundaries of sport, adventure, gaming, culture and more. With new episodes each Tuesday, make sure you follow to be the first to hear the latest one. Discover more about Beyond the Ordinary and find every episode at redbull.com/beyondtheordinary.

B-Boys RoxRite, Lil Zoo and Neguin come from completely different parts of the world, but the three Red Bull BC One All Stars crew members all have the same thing in common: their lives have been changed forever by breaking.

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Have you ever wondered what it really takes to travel to the very limits of human endurance? To do things most mortals couldn’t even dream of? To become superhuman?

Ultrarunner Rob Pope and cross-country skier Veronika Mayerhofer, who is also a mental performance specialist at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center in Austria, talk about how athletes achieve the seemingly impossible – from overcoming immeasurable obstacles to triumphing over physical and mental demons. Hear from marathon swimmer Sarah Thomas, rock climber Emily Harrington and more as they share their experiences.

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Meet Belgian paraglider Tom de Dorlodot as he competes in the world’s toughest adventure race: Red Bull X-Alps. For 13 brutal days Tom battled weather, fatigue and demoralising setbacks as he sought to finish the 2021 competition.

We tracked him every step of the way as he hiked, ran, climbed and flew, placing microphones wherever we could without compromising his performance. Throughout his journey, he shares his experience of the physical and mental toll it takes to compete in Red Bull X-Alps.

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Some people just seem to see the world a bit differently. For a small but growing group of athletes, every city street becomes a potential playground, every sloping roof, every tree or park bench a jumping-off point for adventure.

What does it mean to freerun? What gives these athletes such a unique sense of adventure? And how did freerunning become a competitive sport?

This episode features professional freerunning athletes Jason Paul, Hazal Nehir and Didi Alaoui as well as freerunning event director Nico Wlcek.

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What do you do when faced with fear that makes you freeze? How can athletes manage and offset that fear? What’s muscle memory got to do with it?

We explore what it means for athletes to operate at extreme heights; managing their emotions and exercising control over their body and mind.

Hear cliff divers Gary Hunt, Aimee Harrison and Rhiannan Iffland, rock climber Emily Harris and sport and exercise psychology expert Dr Jamie Barker as they delve into the psychology of fear.

This episode was adapted from two articles on RedBull.com written by Josh Sampiero.

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After his pro surfing career stalled, Benn Richardson shifted his career focus. He took to diving for abalone, regularly spending four hours at a time in cold, shark-infested waters off the Tasmanian coast. This is his story.

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Red Bull X-Alps is an elite adventure race, a unique test of flying skills and physical endurance – and for most of the men and women taking part, a competition they don’t have a hope in hell of winning. For 12 days, this exceptional group of ultra-prepared athletes will hike up into the mountains for altitude, paraglide for hours in pursuit of distance and almost certainly find on landing they’ve lost more ground to a man nicknamed The Eagle who's been untouchable in the event for over a decade.

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Without a World Cup race under her belt, Austrian 19-year old Valentina "Vali" Höll is already being tipped to dominate downhill mountain biking. She comes from a family steeped in the sports’ history and grew up idolising Rachel Atherton – so we thought why not see what the young rider can learn from her hero?

The two of them joined a call ahead of Vali’s home race at Leogang as the pair discussed their determination to win and why preparing to be lonely is vital to achieve success; why you need to avoid blinking as long as possible as you come out the gates; and after a year of racing with no crowds how to deal with the noise and enthusiasm of the fans and their famous cowbells.

Make sure you watch the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup all season on Red Bull TV, starting this weekend in Austria, and see how Vali gets on in her debut elite season.

Meet the people pushing the boundaries of sport, adventure, gaming, culture and more. Hear from MTB rider Vali Höll, surfer Benn Richardson, cliff divers Rhiannan Iffland and Gary Hunt, freerunners Jason Paul, Hazal Nehir and Didi Alaoui, B-Boys RoxRite, Lil Zoo and Neguin, paraglider Tom de Dorlodot, and more. With new episodes each Tuesday, make sure you follow to be the first to hear the latest one.

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Jack Nowell breaks down some of the key lessons he's learnt in his career so far with Nick Bright as well as World Cup champion snowboarder Katie Ormerod. They discuss what it takes to overcome injury, how this affects athletes' mentally and whether Jack could ever follow in Katie's footsteps by becoming vegetarian...

You can listen and watch all episodes of Decoding Athletes with Jack and Nick, revisit Season One, and read more about all the athletes featured at http://redbull.com/decoding

Jack Nowell is joined by Exeter Chiefs and England team mates Henry Slade and Luke Cowan-Dickie to share tales of their childhood together, growing up through the Exeter Academy and how all this resulted in one of European rugby's most successful seasons ever.

You can listen and watch all episodes of Decoding Athletes with Jack and Nick Bright, revisit Series One, and read more about all the athletes featured at http://redbull.com/decoding

Starting Thursday, February 18 - Decoding Athletes returns with Jack Nowell who lifts the lid on what it's like to be an elite level rugby union player both on and off the field. Joined by Nick Bright, in this six-part series they dissect Jack's life from growing up as a son of a fisherman and how Cornwall shaped him; what he does in his spare time to relax and to set himself up for life after rugby to being part of one of English rugby's most successful teams - the Exeter Chiefs.

In each episode they're joined by very special guests - including childhood and now senior England team mates Luke Cowan-Dickie and Henry Slade; professional FIFA player Ryan Pessoa, big wave surfer Andrew Cotton; Britain's first World Cup snowboard champion Katie Ormerod and more including one of Jack's idols and some of his family.

Discover how these relationships, stories and challenges have all played a part in Jack's life and helped him become one of the most exciting rugby players on the planet with new episodes released every Thursday.

For more information, episodes and video versions head to http://redbull.com/decoding