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Photos of the Week: Mudflat Trot, Waterfall Jump, Pole Vault

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Szabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the 2026 IWWF World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships at Shunyi Olympic Cable Park on August 9, 2026, in Beijing, China.
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Washington Nationals’ Dylan Crews slides into home plate to score on a single by Daylen Lile during the sixth inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds on August 8, 2026, in Washington, D.C.
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Trotters compete at the first trotting race during the 90th Duhner Wattrennen horse race on the mudflats of the Elbe estuary during low tide in Cuxhaven-Duhnen, Germany, on August 9, 2026.
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Horses flee ahead of approaching flames as firefighters battle wildfires on Llangynidr Moor on August 9, 2026, in Ebbw Vale, Wales.
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A person observes a wildfire burning across a hill slope in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Probolinggo, East Java province, Indonesia, on August 9, 2026.
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A competitor takes part in the annual International Waterfall Jumping Competition held at Pliva Waterfall in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 8, 2026.
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People carry their belongings through an inundated village amid southwest monsoon rains in Bagong Silangan, Quezon City, Philippines, on August 10, 2026.
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A worker uses improvised floats while trying to clear a sea of garbage and debris brought by intense monsoon rains at the Redemptorist Water Channel in Parañaque city, Metro Manila, Philippines, on August 11, 2026.
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Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, on August 10, 2026. Rescue teams are still working to find more survivors, as time grows short. More than 270 deaths have been confirmed following Monday’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
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Tamy, a search-and-rescue dog, asks its handler, Colombian Naval Infantry Castro Moreno Efren, for affection during rescue operations following an earthquake in Cali, Colombia, on August 12, 2026.
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One of the towers of Manizales Cathedral sits at an angle, partially collapsed after an earthquake struck Manizales, Colombia, on August 10, 2026.
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Performers of Circa: Wolf, which is being staged at Underbelly Circus Hub on the Meadows, hold a photo-call on Calton Hill on August 10, 2026, in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The yellow towers in the background are wind-turbine foundations for a planned offshore wind farm.
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Tourists watch a concert held in a terraced field in Shexiang ancient town on August 7, 2026, in Bijie City, Guizhou province, China.
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An aerial photo shows a forest fire burning near Lake Garda in Tignale, Italy, on August 6, 2026.
Noah Berger / AP
Captured in a long exposure, the Bug Fire burns near Doyle in unincorporated Lassen County, California, on August 13, 2026.
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A couple shares a kiss during a partial solar eclipse in Berlin, Germany, on August 12, 2026.
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A total solar eclipse is pictured above sunflowers in Palencia, Spain, on August 12, 2026.
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Westlake’s Logan-Blackstock, a red Maine Coon cat, in a studio portrait during the GCCF Chester Championship Cat Show in Chester, England, on August 8, 2026
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Noel Jamet, a 10-time champion in the French pig-squealing championship, looks on during the 43rd edition of the Festival of the Pig in Trie-sur-Baïse, France, on August 9, 2026.
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Festivalgoers in costume walk across the grounds of the M’era Luna Festival in Hildesheim, Germany, on August 6, 2026.
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Count Binface is interviewed at a studio in London ahead of the Clacton by-election in London, England. Count Binface’s main opponent in the parliamentary by-election is Nigel Farage, current leader of the Reform U.K. Party.
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An artist decorates an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha in a workshop in Hyderabad on August 10, 2026, ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
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A lizard feeds on the bloom of a purple heart plant in San Antonio on August 8, 2026.
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This photograph shows white storks in their nests atop concrete pillars in an unfinished building on the outskirts of Novi Sad, Serbia, on August 8, 2026. The site is considered to be the largest urban colony of white storks in the Balkans and the second-largest white-stork colony in Europe, according to Serbia’s Bird Protection and Study Society.
Dan Bashakov / AP
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares a “Chaklun” strike drone used for deep-strike operations against Russian positions in Crimea, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on August 6, 2026.
Matthias Schrader / AP
France’s Makenson Gletty fails an attempt in the decathlon pole vault at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, on August 13, 2026.
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Participants run at the start of the annual City2Surf fun run in central Sydney, Australia, on August 9, 2026.
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Jack Robinson of Australia surfs in Heat 7 of Round Three at the Outerknown Tahiti Pro on August 12, 2026, at Teahupoʻo, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

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