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- ↑ Vania Da Rui, "The Wind Games 2014" (video, 4 minutes 54 seconds), Skydive, 24 January 2014.
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- ↑ "Wind Games 2017", Windoor, retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ↑ "Kyra Poh: The 14-year-old girl who's the 'fastest flyer'", BBC, 7 February 2017.
- ↑ "Die 14-jährige Kyra holt zweimal Gold und 'alles für Opa'", Stern , 6 February 2017 (in German).
- ↑ "Indoor skydiving: Singaporean teen Kyra Poh wins two golds at Wind Games in Spain", The Straits Times , 5 February 2017.
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- ↑ Andrew Liszewski, "We Should Definitely Replace the Olympics With These Badass Indoor Skydiving Wind Games", Sploid, Gizmodo , 7 February 2017 (video).
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