Have you been wondering what on earth is happening at the eastern end of Summit next to the Cathedral? It's not church construction, or light rail, or Winter Carnival prep — it's the first-of-its-kind Red Bull Crashed Ice event!
Red Bull provides this description:
The extreme sport of ice cross downhill heads into a new season in 2012. The world championship battle will take place this year, as in 2010 for the first time, in both Europe and North America.
Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship 2012 calendar:
Saint Paul (USA) –January 12-14
Valkenburg (NED) – February 2-4
Are (SWE) – February 16-18
Quebec City (CAN) – March 15-17
The combination of speedskating, boardercross and downhill skiing has only been around for 10 years but ice cross downhill has already overtaken many other established sports.
There are participants from 30 nations – 15,000 athletes packed into the pre-qualifying in Canada alone last year – and venues around the world that are bursting at the seams with spectators.
The rules are simple: four athletes line up at the start and the first across the finish line wins. Speed, agility, perserverance, toughness and courage at speeds of up to 60kph are the ingredients needed for success.
But I think we all know it will be even wilder and crazier than that!
The City of Saint Paul has a new website just for the event:
www.stpaul.gov/crashedice
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