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We often get asked if we provide Extreme sports Travel Insurance. Well, the short answer to that is ehm… probably. But there's no such thing…

The problem is that the expression 'extreme sports' was more-or-less coined by the media and has grown into an ad-hoc category of sports and activities that are perceived as carrying progressively higher levels of risk, danger and suicide potential. You can tell by the media vocabulary: words like 'adrenalin rush', 'adrenaline junkie' and 'radical' pepper any article or programme dealing with 'Extreme Sports' so that we're more or less going expecting to see somebody get mangled. Hmm…

Well, you can imagine how appealing that sort of thing is to an insurance underwriter; the guy that carries the risk: a broad spectrum product like 'Extreme Sports Travel Insurance' would entitle the customer to expect that he or she is covered to do anything that's daft, risky or downright dangerous. Happily, we don't provide a product or cover level called Extreme Sports Travel Insurance. Phew!

So what do DOGTAG do about Extreme Sports'? Well the directors of DOGTAG 100% Proof Travel Insurance started the company because as skiers, mountaineers, mountainbikers, windsurfers, they couldn't satisfy themselves that the travel insurance products then on the market would cover them for the things they wanted to do. In fact, the whole DOGTAG 100% Proof Travel Insurance philosophy came about when one of us couldn't provide proof of insurance to French medics after a serious off-piste accident and consequently couldn't get treatment.

In real terms, there's no such thing as an exact category of 'extreme sports'. However, at Dogtag, with the help of our underwriters, we've created a Sports List a massive list of sports and activities which we cover. I you click here you'll be taken back to the Sports page where you'll see three columns of sports, the majority (even some so-called 'extreme' sports) fall into our Sport-level of cover. Others are categorised Sport+ and others are Extreme. You need to have a carefull look at this list to make sure that you chose the right level of cover. Sport+ andExtreme cover you for all of the sports in that section plus the

So, aside from being able to prove to other people (like a clinic in France) that you're insured and also provide vital personal and medical information, importantly, even before you buy DOGTAG you'll be able to prove to yourself that you're covered for whatever sports it is you expect to undertake when you're abroad.

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