(30 Jul 2017) Over 10,000 people gathered in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar on Sunday to watch men jump from the historic Old Bridge as part of the 451st edition of an annual diving competition there.
The competitors leaped from the 27-meter-high bridge into the cold, fast-flowing Neretva River to the excited cheers of spectators.
Diving and jumping from the bridge, originally built by the Ottomans in 1566, has been a rite of passage for generations of Mostar's youngsters..
The Old Bridge had been destroyed during Bosnia's 1992-95 inter-ethnic war, but was rebuilt after the conflict as an exact replica of the original structure.
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