Crashed Ice enters its second weekend, pitting top athletes against a challenging and dangerous downhill course, armed with just some skates and a heck of a lot of courage. This sport is fast, furious, changeable and exhilarating, and that's why we keep on coming back for more. From the chilly course in Saint Paul, we move to the freezing ice of Valkenburg, with defending champion Arttu Pihlainen sandwiched between the Croxall brothers in the Crashed Ice standings.
Crashed Ice live from Valkenburg
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Excellent video of the course: http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Video/Red-Bull-Crashed-Ice--Crash-course-in-the-021243158073234
Notable bits to my eyes - way steep first bit, excellent u-bend, and those bumps right at the end look knee-busting!
Here's that handy PDF of who faces who as well: http://www.redbull.com/cs/userfiles/file/AfterElimination.pdf
my favourite fact of the day, the image in this post was taken by a Sebastian Marko. what are the chances of someone with that combination of names working for Red Bull?
Noelinho found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16885853 Amazing seeing people that can't do it, shows you just how hard it is. The Croxalls of this world make it look easy!
Looks like the British guys didn't make it past the Elimination round - 2 3rds and a DNF but good on them for going http://www.redbull.com/cs/userfiles/file/AfterElimination.pdf
course looks awesome. the dutch mountains right after the massive 1st jump look like they could cause some problems. That said, it looks like all of it could cause problems!
Red Bull TV: http://www.redbull.tv/Live
No sign of the action yet though.
where is it then? odd.
Someone has a live stream here: http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/crashed-ice-valkenburg-livestream-10386
Weirdness!
It says 17:30 here http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Event/Red-Bull-Crashed-Ice-Netherlands-021243107214957, I guess local time
It's go go go, we're on heat three.
NIefy is in this one.
phew!
that fall was close!
Niefy gets through. Won't get too far, I'm sure! :)
Think we might have heard of Muller in this one. He's in red.
Ooh, did someone get pushed?
It's an odd little bump at the finish line. I guess they don't want people sliding across on their backs anymore!
Joutsenlahti this one. Red again.
good fix.
fast flippin course.
Jouts has a massive lead.
They seem to end up in a heap afterwards instead. Two bundled together! Looks a bit ouch.
like like one more than the last event. less slow, steep climbs. mental.
they almost take down the camera men!
*like this one...
R2 in his gold top.
Haven't heard of any of the others, he'll storm this round.
this is gonna be sooo easy...
Not a massive lead, having said that.
your knowledge of the participants is starting to worry me :)
what happened the the 4th place guy?
:)
Quick peek at Scotty watching on. Bless.
Red guy in the lead but wobbling his way round!
Proper fighting for the lead there. Doesn't happen that often.
I was going to say that the start seemed to be all what mattered and he started to wobble... :P
go sato!
if that's taku, i predict a crash!
Into the lead!
first!
Wowsers! Like that race.
your theory about the last bump, may not hold true!
after he finished, pfweee...
Photo finish. I hope it's the red guy because it looks like the yellow one held him up.
that's tight
Yay! Red wins.
they need faster cameras...
Doumooooolin!
the finish line is before the bump
Noooooooooo, I read it as 6:30PM CDT, not CET! What have I missed?
Just some of the early heats. No big names or big surprises yet.
*big names out
Oh, good. Thank you. That one letter in the time zone is a crucial 6-hour difference.
stormtrooper!
Massive tangle!
whoooops
Awesome fight at the back there.
So close!
WOWOWOW
Is it me, or is this a comparatively long track?
I hope that fourth guy is okay.
great effort from klasov
2nd place thought he had it. so dangerous.
It seems long but faster.
love, love, love the ending.
My theory is definitely wrong :)
:)
I'd like the finish line to be just after the bump tho rather than just before
Ah ha! Kolc. One I have heard of. Woot!
Only three in this one.
broken arm man missing?
Seems like a reasonable excuse.
Ace pirouette at the end!
would like to get an audience count. seems like people than in st. paul.
Love the steps at the end, what a great course
*less.
Scott!
Red and blue for this one.
Feed now working on red bull site http://live.redbull.tv/events/v1/redbull/crashedice-nl/
aha. ta.
Yay!
mader-man muffed it.
I like they are all huggy at the end, despite them being super disappointed.
St Paul was the most technical course in the history of Crashed Ice, whilst Valkenberg is the longest so far.
This is the guy who doesn't pull himself out the gate.
Got the position right at the end! Coool!
Nice finish, I'm supporting him!
Just had to do a lot of jiggery-pokery to get the football, rugby, crashed ice and live text all on my screens, but I'm sorted now :-)
That's proper multi-tasking.
I may just have a tweet a picture of it :-)
do it!
Here you go: https://twitter.com/#!/Noelinho/status/165851878943494145/photo/1
that is awesome :)
bloomin' heck it looks cold there.
30,000 people, they reckon.
80,000 in st paul.
Every time I hear that music, I want to know what it is... the one just before the break. Eurosport use it too. Any ideas? It;s so familiar...
looks like red bull tv never planned to show the round of 64? all working good now for the 32.
remember that for next time!
They might want to tell the people that man the website that.
missed it sorry. can you shazam it?
gopro!
:D
Never thought of that, I should try it sometime.
That was a fun onboard camera, if only F1 cameras were as good as that :-)
get brundle to do a lap before the start and commentate it live ;)
especially if he has to do it in rollerskates!
That would be brilliant!
:D
:) :)
Or get Trulli to do a lap on his racing bike :-)
close battle for 2nd!
That man's t-shirt lies. Follow him for third.
this tune?
Let's see if Niefy can stay on his skates this heat.
I'd say that counts as staying on your feet.
R2 goes again. Still not a massive lead.
nice pass!
Wow that was close.
call that then!
great!
the bumps at the end are awesome, they really throw a spanner in the works
love to be a cameraman at the finish. ace shots.
you wanna win, get a Finn!
sato's back.
Sorry, I didn't notice the music (so probably not that one!)
Think you need to be good a dodging people sliding towards you on their backside :)
googled and got this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mn35tZxB0
dead man on the steps :)
I think he tried moonwalking too!
Minis are cooooooool
is a convertible really needed?
yeah, it's hot and sunny ;)
Oh no, it's not that one. It's not a rocky thing.
Ouch, that looked painful
I've had a Cooper and 2xCooper S, so that ruins your theory!
How? Surely if they weren't cool, you wouldn't get three of them?
Ok, so the car's cool, I'm not! They were really good, newer ones less so
Faceplant!
Scotttt.
oh lord.
He has big strong legs, apparently. So the commentator man says.
oooooow. massive hit.
third one has a thing with hitting walls...
that looked painful
Definitely a painful heat!
more please :)
Yellow is the weird-starting one.
Not the best start, and he also fell down. Oh well.
good race. shame the 2 dutch are out tho
bikes!
woah, bikes! Cool
chaos coming up.
they seem to have more grip than the skaters...
amazing.
I looked away, came back, and there were bikes! Which was weird, since I'm reading an article about bikes.
those spiked tyres really did their job. would've ripped up the ice a bit for the skaters
did we lose the stream?
it seems
hmm, reload fixed it.
Oh, so it's not my Internet falling over itself?
nah, we gots nothing.
I can't get it back :(
the non-redbull streams died too
Oh well, sound up on the rugby while they fix that then :-/
back now, refresh
cricket highlights for me
got it back now
woah arttu didn't win!
Oh, I'm back too :-)
woot!
Fabien Mels. Better try and remember that name then! :)
Commentator calls him LPD. That's better than trying to spell Dumoulin.
Wow, Scott is fast!
woah, just looked outside, sooo much snow!
No snow on the south coast yet :(
anyone for skating?
I'm dusting off my snowboard!
no snow on the southern hemisphere yet ;)
No snow in Scotland...
well it is summer there! :)
and a lovely summer so far, I must say :)
I'm so jealous about that too!
Right, we're up to the semis, aren't we?
aye, that it be
R2 is last???
WHAT!?!
WOW!
nice race
Amazinig
My stream stopped just before the start :-(
AMAZINI!
I don't think I've ever seen R2 less than second.
Kyle gets it.
unheard of. go mels.
Argh, I'm so nervous.
where'd #4 go?
YES! Sad for LPD though.
can't see anyone beating scotty, he's seriously quick
klintrup deserved to go thru just for that jump!
he almost got out of the track
a nice wall ride
yay, bikes with motors :-)
hahaha! fail!
Ooops.
They gave him a ramp! Pfeiffer doesn't need a ramp!
stoppy was class :)
Aww, he wants his brother to do well too.
kyle seems less confident than scott!
ARGH!
here we go!
ooops
this is over...
where'd scott go??
DOWN!
blade broken
that went badddddly for scotty
oooh, broken blade is unfortunate :-(
the t-shirt inscription worked this time...
yeah, but he was already at the back
Good grief, I hate supporting people. I prefer F1 where I have no proper allegiance.
hehe,
can arttu beat kyle now? only 4 rounds.
or one supports heikki and it doesn't matter where he ends :)
Hmm, I have too many F1 allegiances...
until Petrov returns at least ;)
3 groups for me, those I like, those I dislike and those I don't care about. but it can change dramatically season to season :)
mine: good looking cars, other cars :)
That's a bit unbalanced this year :-/
you shallow man ;)
Thanks for the live commenting guys
always
cheers janna. cheers everyone. catch y'all soon.
but honest! :)
It's been a pleasure. Enjoy the weekend, see you!
Right, will perhaps be back for the Super Bowl, depending upon where I watch it :-)
That was fun.
Later sidepodpeople. Superbowl tomorrow, wohoo! :)