The world's best ice cross downhill racers tuned up for the 2014 World Championship showdown in Quebec City this weekend with a high-spirited skating session on a training track next to the course where tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans are expected for Saturday's high-stakes action. Austria's Marco Dallago and American Cameron Naasz will be duelling for the World Championship title in the season finale on the challenging 480-metre-long ice track.
Other contenders in the hunt for a spot on the podium – Reed Whiting (USA), Tristan Dugerdil and Pacôme Schmitt (FRA) and Simon Gagnon (CAN) – got in some early training on the ice with a short session, including spectacular jumps, on the training track in Quebec City before the ice cross downhill athletes hit the race track for the first time on Thursday.
Quebec City and its enormous, enthusiastic ice cross downhill fanbase will be hosting a Red Bull Crashed Ice race for the ninth year on a new and breathtaking track – starting under the gaze of the Parliament building over the historic Fort Wall and moving through the Porte Kent towards the icy St. Lawrence River – Quebec City has proved to be a dramatic setting for the last five World Championship title fights. Dallago leads the World Championship with 2,800 points and two victories in three races, while red-hot Naasz has 1,960 points and a victory in the last race in Moscow.
Watch Red Bull Crashed Ice in Quebec!
Catch all the action from the 2014 final of Red Bull Crashed Ice in Canada:
Webcast: We will stream the entire competition live right here on redbullcrashedice.com/quebec-live, and on Red Bull TV, Apple TV and Xbox 360 from 7.30pm (ET) on Saturday, March 22 (that's 12.30am CET on Sunday morning for viewers in Europe). Please note that the live webcast is geo-blocked in the US.
TV: The event will be broadcast nationally for the first time in the US on Fox Sports 1 on Monday, March 31, at 6.30pm (ET) and thereafter be available as Video On Demand on redbullcrashedice.com. For TV stations that will be showing the race live, please check local listings.
Live Results: To get results and standings in real-time, hit redbullcrashedice.com/results.
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