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Mostar bridge-jumpers stage 451st Annual Tournament (PHOTOS)

An old tradition that has survived through the hardships of time

Newsroom August 1 10:59

Watched by thousands of locals and tourists, the 451st annual bridge-jumping competition saw 41 people taking the 28-metre leap from the arch of Mostar’s Old Bridge into the Neretva River on Sunday in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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