Red Bull Crashed Ice 2010 Munich - EVENTCLIP

Ice-Cold German Wins in Front of 50,000 Fans
Munichs Olympic Park was packed to the rafters on Saturday night as the first stop of the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship 2010 came to town. A total of sixty-four athletes representing 20 nations plunged down a 400-metre course dotted with jumps, rollers and
chicanes in full ice hockey gear. Germanys Martin Niefnecker (GER) secured a sensational victory in front of 50,000 fans despite temperatures well below freezing.
Munich (GER). Strength, balance and a healthy portion of adrenaline were the order of the day as Martin Niefnecker (1st/GER), Gabriel Andre (2nd/CAN) and Martin Müller (3rd/SUI) triumphed on the steepest artificial ice rink in the world and ran rings around the favourites from Scandinavia at the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship in Munich.
The citys Olympic Park, host of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, was transformed into a winter sports Mecca with the help of 390 m³ of artificial ice. A gradient of up to 30%, jumps, four rollers and speeds reaching 50 km/h guaranteed a spectacular night of thrills and
spills. Ive had more bruises in the last two days than in the course of my entire ice hockey career, laughed the victorious 19 year-old from Garmisch-Partenkirchen after securing victory in the Final of the four-man battle, adding: But it was worth it!
However, dozens of competitors saw their hopes of victory agonisingly slip away as they hurtled into the crash barriers lining the course.
Even Double Crashed Ice champion Arttu Pihlainen (FIN) had to settle for ninth place after being knocked out at the quarter-final stage.
Favourite ahead of the event Jasper Felder (SWE) was forced to withdraw due to an injury sustained in training.
The second of the two-leg World Championship will take place on 20 March 2010 in Quebec (CAN).
Over the course of the last nine years Red Bull Crashed Ice has provided spectacular action across the globe, in places ranging from Stockholm, Moscow and Prague to America and Switzerland. In 2009, 40,000 fans lined the course in Lausanne to see seven-time champion
Jasper Felder (SWE) take victory. The previous race in Quebec (CAN) attracted no fewer than 90,000 fans.

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[NICKY3940]

i'm from belgium and i hope i may enter just waiting on the qualifing test i tought why not i'm crazy as hell about this race so let's hope!

[hockygoalie3031]

this is awesome!...love to try it...altho id probably eat shit...im just a goalie in hockey. lol

[Blount33Productions]

I play and love Ice hockey and Snowboarding alot and I never knew about this it looks awesome!

[zucchini4067]

Go Bruins! 0:01

[flightoliver23]

Ich war da^^