Day 3 of X Games 18 Los Angeles was vert-iginous! With 6 medals events and crazy bmx and sk8 vert finals! Pierre-Luc Gagnon got gold after battling out Bucky Lasek in a tiebreaker decision in the Skate Vert Finals. Competition was intense – Andy MacDonald took bronze after giving everything he got, including a new [...]
First day of X Games 18 in Los Angeles went out confirming this huge event as a perfect ground for freestyle sport’s record breaks. No matter they’re riding a skateboard, a bmx or even driving a car, you can be sure you’ll see something never done before! The main, Medal Event, for the 28 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 Shaun White wins second Vert gold eclipsing the three-time defending champ on his final run of the night. White landed 720, body varial frontside 540, heelflip body varial frontside 540, earning the 93 points that allowed him to beat Gagnon, 91.66 points. The bronze went to Bucky Lasek, 87.66 points. The sixteen-year-old Nyjah Huston [...]
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 The “Esplanada dos Ministerios“, in the heart of Brasilia, became a huge playground thanks to 7,300 cubic meters of dirt. The RedBull X-Fighters in Brasilia welcomed an enormous crowd of spectators, 100.000 to be precise. Due to the giant kickers and to the huge crowd, some of the bikers had problems with nerves. Andre [...]
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 [...]
