The Red Bull Rampage 2025 competitors are onsite in Southwest Utah, starting the final countdown to the events.
The first days onsite saw athletes scouting their potential lines. All 12 female athletes and 18 male athletes checked in for registration, marking the start of the competition.
Due to adverse weather, both events have been pushed back a day.
On Friday, October 17th the top 12 female riders will compete followed by the top 18 male athletes on Sunday, October 19th. Both broadcasts begin at 5.30pm UK and will be streamed right to this very page without the ads you may otherwise encounter on YouTube et al (scroll to the end of this article when it’s time)..
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2025 Red Bull Rampage Women’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Robin Goomes (NZL)
Georgia Astle (CAN)
Casey Brown (CAN)
Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
Wild Card Athletes
Camila Nogueira (ARG)
Chelsea Kimball (USA)
CJ Selig (USA)
Hannah Bergemann (USA)
Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS)
Janelle Soukup (USA)
Kirsten Van Horne (CAN)
Vinny Armstrong (NZL)
2025 Red Bull Rampage Men’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Szymon Godziek (POL)
Tom Van Steenbergen (CAN)
Thomas Genon (BEL)
Carson Storch (USA)
Adolf Silva (SPA)
Wildcard Athletes
Aiden Parish (USA)
Bienve Aguado Alba (SPA)
Cam Zink (USA)
Dylan Stark (USA)
Emil Johansson (SWE)
Finley Kirschenmann (USA)
Hayden Zablotny (CAN)
Jaxson Riddle (USA)
Luke Whitlock (USA)
Reed Boggs (USA)
Talus Turk (USA)
Tom Isted (GBR)
Tomas Lemoine (FRA)
Watch the Women’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Friday, October 17th at 5:30pm UK
Watch the Men’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Sunday, October 19th at 5.30pm UK
Anyone else think Godziak’s bike looks too cumbersome to be flipping it like he does?? Isted using 26″ wheels makes more sense.Â
Spoken like a true spectator, ikr
That Silva crash looks really bad, he was nowhere near landing that double flip… Couldn’t believe Godziek got up from his to be fair! It’s a hard watch sometimes
That Silva crash is a hard watch. Hope he’s ok.
I hope that’s not as bad as it looked 😔
Thankfully missed the Silva crash. Probably turning it off now… Hopefully some positive news will come through shortly.
Wish I hadn’t seen that, awful. Turned it off now.Â
Just said he’s awake and talking
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Now they just need to shut the stupid women up who keeps screaming 😱Â
They’very just said Silva is conscious and talking, it was definitely the worst crash I’ve seen at RampageÂ
That looked worse than Silva’s crash, hopefully he didn’t fall too far
That was someone scrambling to hold on for their life.
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It’s getting a bit stupid. 2 people in one event with near death crashes.
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No people really around either
When does a bike race become a snuff movie?
Hopefully not today, but this is an event that will almost certainly lead to life changing injuries.
I’d be quite glad if the two (?) still at the top decided they’d quite like to just go home and have a cup of tea and a biscuit now.Â
Yep I’d have more respect for Red Bull if they called it now
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A good 30k viewers have already switched off
That’s just some bizarre scoring over there, utterly bemusedÂ
Time to reassess the event.
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There’s extreme sport and there’s prurient, gonzo voyeurism. It is too close to the latter now.
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That’s not to say there is no way this kind of event can be done and it can still be a spectacle. But that level of attrition and risk is too high for me.
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Random example – rugby scrums. Back in the 70s and 80s it was all dark arts and nastiness on a one to one level. By the 90s and pseudo professionalism and full professionalism you’ve got front rows of a size and musculature previously unheard of basically running at each other pushed by five other man mountains just to engage a scrum. It became a test of sheer courage/recklessness much of the time. The answer was pretty obvious with the pre-engage so it can become something of a contest of technique and strength again.
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I’m not sure how this would apply to Rampage other than in the concept. But watching a guy scrambling with his fingertips not to die (or worse) is not sport.
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I hope that all the riders injured make full recoveries.
I can’t decide if it’s time to change or not.
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The only 2 sports I can think of that have similar risk or IoM TT and wing suiting.
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Neither of them are watched live on TV (could be wrong)
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However still to date Ramage has a zero death rate so that’s ok 🤷♂️
The IoM TT is interesting in the way the deaths and grief are handled on any coverage. They are usually acknowledged at the end of any programme with a caption and a photo or two, IME. It’s almost as though they are saying “this was our friend, our sorrow, it is not something to be made a spectacle of".
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In my post above, I said death or worse. I’ve no doubt that, for this level of athlete in particular, there are worse things than death. It doesn’t need me to spell out what they might be.
Has there been any news on either rider overnight?Â
Some of the riding yesterday was absolutely incredible. Unfortunately it felt a little overshadowed by the scale of things that went wrong. At least there were medics with Silva within seconds. What would have happened had Johansson been more seriously injured? There’s just no way to rush aid to any point on the mountain. Just have to hope for fast and full recoveries for those involved.
Are Red Bull still not covering competitors medical bills? Or have they got better at that?