Italiano Freestyle.ch 2011 was cheered by over 32.000 visitors and a bright sun. The MegaRamp, for the very first time on European soil, was surely the highlight of this edition. Snowboarder Halldor Helgason (ISL), freeskier Elias Ambühl (SUI), FMXer Dany Torres (ESP), and skateboarder Pierre-Luc Gagnon (CAN) are the big winners of this weekend of [...]
Italiano Dany Torres (ESP) was crowned the overall champion of the 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Sydney (Australia), the world’s most prestigious FMX tour. Local hero Josh Sheehan won the event on his home soil on Cockatoo Island in front of a sell-out crowd of 11,000. Sydney will go down in the 11-year-history [...]
Italiano Nate Adams was invincible in the City Stadium in Poznan (POL), and took the victory in front of 35,000 spectators. Adams didn’t give his title rival, Dany Torres, any chance in the final. Eigo Sato of Japan got third place. A total of 440 truckloads of dirt was used to turn the stadium into [...]
Italiano Bob Burnquist wins Skateboard Big Air, while Adam Taylor claimed silver and Edgard Pereira won bronze. The 14-year-old Mitchie Brusco, instead, ended fifth out of seven. Brusco is one of just six skaters in history to land a 900, but unfortunaltey he fell on all four subsequent attempts over the gap and never got [...]
Italiano Dany Torres took a brilliant home victory at the RedBull X-Fighters stop in Madrid. He literally grabbed the bull by the horns forcing his rival Blake Williams (AUS) to his knees in the bullring in front of 25,000 delighted Spanish fans. Torres got the highest vote from the delighted jury and made the crowd [...]
Italiano Photocredit: (c) Jörg Mitter, (c) Daniel Grund, (c) Andreas Schaad, (c) Sebastian Marko/Global Newsroom/Red Bull Content Pool The best 12 freestyle motocross athletes met in the modern Circus Maximus of the Rome’s Stadio Olimpico on Friday. 45,000 spectators cheered all the riders, but is Nate Adams (USA) who did the best performance to earn [...]
Italiano Australia’s Motocross stuntman and FMX rider Robbie Maddison was jumping in Borrego Springs, California, over sculptures made by local artist Ricardo Breceda. The session took place on his wedding day and was dedicated to his wife Amy and his family. There are a total of 77 sculptures in the area depicting pre-historic animals that [...]
Italiano On October 2, 2010, Rome hosted the final stop of the Red Bull X-Fighters 2010 Series. More than 20,000 enthusiastic fans pushed the riders to their limit in the final battle for the title between Norwegian Andrè Villa and American Nate Adams. [Photocredit: (c)Jörg Mitter/Red Bull Photofiles, Athlete: Mathieu Rebeaud] Victory went to Spaniard [...]
