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The metronomic consistency riders made no effort to forget how fast (up to about 95 km / h or just over 60 miles per hour) and far (the same one and one and a half the length of a football or soccer line), they actually go.
There were forums, but most fans was responsible, in bundles, linking them with interest - by the Austrians, Poles there, the Japanese between the two. Other accessories without nationalist covered with a blanket on the snow. They ate, drank and watched their children nap in the sun. It was like a concert in the green.
"Hey, guys, this is not a golf tournament, a hinged on the public-address system said in a pacifier.
So this is what extreme sports to the Winter Olympics used to be like before snowboarding and skiing and angry skeleton and speed skating short track submerged games with their own types of fury and novelty. You know you can not reach a massive audience when people say that the annoyed neighbor country races are more exciting.
Source: New York Times (blog)