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Skydiving keeps 88-year-old Bosnian in the pink

Ibrahim Kalesic, 88-year-old parachuter, waits to jump from airplane during Para Challenge Cup in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Bosnian Ibrahim Kalesic is living proof that extreme sports are not always a young man's game - at the age of 88 he keeps fit by regularly jumping out of aeroplanes.

"It's an excellent feeling," Kalesic, who was introduced to the sport more than 70 years ago, said after completing his 1,487th jump during a parachuting competition in the western town of Bihac at the weekend.

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