Ice Cross Discussion Thread

[intoronto 5,639]

I am surprised Bach hasn't gotten an interest in it. Its urban after all

[Olympian1010 7,973]

21 minutes ago, intoronto said:

I am surprised Bach hasn't gotten an interest in it. Its urban after all

It’s so Urban it happens in towns like Igora and Perce . In all honesty I’d love to see it on the Winter Olympic program. I’d only need 48-64 quotas I think. 32 a gender would be fine. There’s just not enough countries yet, and the federation like only 3-5 years old. It’s also run by the some of the skaters, so I’m not sure if they know the first thing about getting IOC recognition 

[NearPup 3,045]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s so Urban it happens in towns like Igora and Perce . In all honesty I’d love to see it on the Winter Olympic program. I’d only need 48-64 quotas I think. 32 a gender would be fine. There’s just not enough countries yet, and the federation like only 3-5 years old. It’s also run by the some of the skaters, so I’m not sure if they know the first thing about getting IOC recognition 

I do think they are on their way to eventually getting IOC recognition, though. Nice to see it isn’t just a Red Bull made for TV sport anymore.

[NearPup 3,045]

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

I am surprised Bach hasn't gotten an interest in it. Its urban after all

I would not describe Percé as urban :P

[Olympian1010 7,973]

Just now, NearPup said:

I do think they are on their way to eventually getting IOC recognition, though. Nice to see it isn’t just a Red Bull made for TV sport anymore.

Yeah, it’s actually nice to see that Red Bull is starting to take a different route with their top tier events. They openly encourage athletes to make the competitions as legitimate as possible, which is very nice of course.

[Olympian1010 7,973]

Schedule for the new season, as well as, a link to the new website: https://www.icecross.com/en/races/

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First ATX 500 event of the season:

 

[heywoodu 15,139]

There are only two 1000-events?  

 

I feel like this too is just going downhill, no pun intended.

Edited January 15, 2020 by heywoodu

[Olympian1010 7,973]

36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There are only two 1000-events?  

 

I feel like this too is just going downhill, no pun intended.

There should be three 1000 events? They only mean for their to be 2/3 1000 events. They want more 500/250 events.

Edited January 15, 2020 by Olympian1010

[heywoodu 15,139]

5 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

There should be three 1000 events? They only mean for their to be 2/3 1000 events. They want more 500/250 events.

 

It feels like there used to be 4-5 big events and a couple of smaller events. This calendar just seems like a collection of small events