Where she lacks slightly is technical difficulty; her solo triple jump in the short program is a triple toe loop instead of a more challenging flip.

For his first large-scale solo jump, Knievel announced that he would jump the fountains in front of the Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev.

Five years ago, for his 75th birthday, he made a solo jump, but on Sunday the Army decided that the wind was too unpredictable and the cloud ceiling too low.

That is against the rules, which prohibit the repetition of a solo jump, and brings an automatic deduction of three-tenths of a point.

In the long program, he landed a quad salchow, a quad toe loop in combination, and a quad toe as a solo jump.

The next morning, the host presented the assignment to all four players, telling them that there was $5,000 to be won for each of them that would do a solo jump.

Once on the ground, Marc decided to go for the solo jump, but Alaina decided against it.

Parachute Jumping: Alaina backed out of the solo jump, even though she desperately wanted to go through with it, after having greatly enjoyed the tandem jump.

Under the ISU Judging System, jump sequences are worth 80% of what they would be worth if the same jumps were executed in combination, and in some cases carry less value than just doing the most difficult jump in the sequence as a solo jump.

After doing a couple of tandem sky-dives with the instructor, Brent decided it was time to try his first solo jump.