Skateboarder Diego Poncelet breaks speed record in Quebec

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's eleven-forty, this is Finally, Some Good News, and a Spanish skateboarder named Diego Poncelet just hit one hundred fifty-one point eight three kilometres an hour in Quebec, about ninety-four miles an hour, standing up.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOn a closed stretch of Route des Éboulements, with a Guinness adjudicator watching.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe old record, one forty-six point seven three, was set on that same road in twenty seventeen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd he beat it on day one, at one forty-six point eight eight. Then he waited five days for the wind to calm down.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFive days?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe had the record already, Kenji.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe press office would call the next five days a scheduled period of premium stillness. He wanted a hundred fifty, and he said he was scared it wouldn't be doable.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe got ecstatic at one forty-nine point six seven, and I'm not crying, you're crying. Five-star record, calm winds.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe waited five days for a calm, and the only thing that ever beat him was a group chat. We're back same time tomorrow.