The Dangerous Sports Club, a group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London, were active from the late 1970s for about ten years, during which they developed modern bungee jumping and experimented with a variety of other innovative sporting activities.
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“Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
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—Daniel Taradash (b. 1913)