Thousands of fans gathered in Paris to watch champion roller skater Taig Khris attempt a world record - the highest roller skate jump in history.From the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, the showman , the showman whipped the crowds into a frenzy before he took the plunge. Leaping off the tower, Khris jumped ten metres onto a thirty metre ramp - (pause) - before a failed landing on his first attempt. Undaunted he immediately returned to the jump site to try again.  His second jump was flawless, setting a new world record.

 

Taïg Khris (born July 27, 1975 in Alger) is a French professional inline skater. He started skating when he was six years old. He learned in-line skating as a teenager and began competing, eventually winning gold medals in X Games competitions. In 2001, Taïg Khris wins the Inline Vert event, with the first double backflip in X Games history. In 2002, Taïg appears in a video game, Aggressive Inline, which is available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. In 2010, Taïg dropps from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower (131 feet high) onto a massive vert ramp below as he breaks the world record for the highest roller skate jump