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)..
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
Wish I hadn’t seen that, awful. Turned it off now.
Just said he’s awake and talking
Now they just need to shut the stupid women up who keeps screaming 😱
They’very just said Silva is conscious and talking, it was definitely the worst crash I’ve seen at Rampage
That looked worse than Silva’s crash, hopefully he didn’t fall too far
That was someone scrambling to hold on for their life.
It’s getting a bit stupid. 2 people in one event with near death crashes.
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.
Yep I’d have more respect for Red Bull if they called it now
A good 30k viewers have already switched off
That’s just some bizarre scoring over there, utterly bemused
Time to reassess the event.
There’s extreme sport and there’s prurient, gonzo voyeurism. It is too close to the latter now.
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.
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.
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.
I hope that all the riders injured make full recoveries.
I can’t decide if it’s time to change or not.
The only 2 sports I can think of that have similar risk or IoM TT and wing suiting.
Neither of them are watched live on TV (could be wrong)
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".
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?
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?
The video of Silva should be watched. Uncomfortabke viewing, but RedBull Rampage is a giant advert and dont want a bad look.
Personally I dont want to bother with anything RedBull pumps out anymore for a fizzy drinks company who dont give a shit about thier zero hour employees.
“Dy’in aint much of a living, boy"
The riders would do this event whether sponsored by RedBull or Toys’R’Us…. They want to ride this stuff and a couple of riders commented how they’ve been riding this terrain since they were small.
yikes, 10 years ago (after the rogatkin crash)
It feels increasingly irrelevant as it reaches its quarter century next year.It was an event that was created when ‘hucking’ was the cool thing to do and in the early days it genuinely felt like the riders were just out riding the hills and chosing their own lines … in a truly extreme manner.Whilst the extreme is definitely still a factor and the skill levels (and straight out madness) remain super high, to me it’s a style of riding that’s had its day in an event that’s over sanitised*. The trails are so prepared that it’s lost the feeling of spontaneous lines so is now just the top end of a slopestyle event … and who really cares about that these days?
I get that the danger is part of the spectacle but if you are regularly helicoptering competitors to hospital then maybe its gone too far. Maybe its two run format? It just encourages absolutely batshit moves in the second run. Apparently Silva hadn’t even attempted a double back flip in training?Not sure how you would make an event which is essentially “ride the most stupid line you can down a mountain, while flipping upside down" safer without destroying the spectacle.
I’m also not remotely qualified to comment. The little jump at the finish line would probably do me in.
It’s hard to argue though that the riding was absolutely next level… It was just utterly bonkers the chutes, the speeds, the jumps/drops and then to throw in the tricks too… Who wants it… Yeah, heck it’s a hell of a watch.
I’d prefer people not to get hurt of course, but the nature of the beast is that riders will push the next level, then the next, the next and finally it goes pop.
But the OOOOOHHHHs ARGGGHHHHs and WOAHs from the sofa last night shows just how epic a thing it is to watch.
The scoring system, well that’s a complete mystery.
It’s an extreme sport and all the riders know the risks. They’d be out there doing this stuff regardless of it being a sponsored event.
I do hope all the injured riders make a full recovery.
I stopped paying attention to the scoring years ago. The People’s Choice is usually a better indication.
Tomas Lemoine was the winner for me.
100%
Watched it last night and the two crashes were horrendous to watch. What I’m now struggling to grasp is that the commentators do have the habit of saying that a persons line is “high consequence”. It’s said quite a bit during the broadcast so does that mean it is a risk worth taking. Should they be getting excited about the significant risk element, when something as common as a mechanical/puncture could lead to those consequences?? As in, if they get this wrong, or get blown off line by wind, then it’s a bad situation. The two crashes are somewhat different in that the backflip crash was on a relatively innocuous feature. It’s the fact he attempted the double that led to disaster. Emil’s line was exposed, and he bounced off line. Catch nets could have reduced that risk. But would installing them reduce the “consequences” jeopardy and water down the event?
Worryingly, the updates on both of them are not forthcoming. I hope they both come out of this unscathed.
Just to add, I don’t think it’s sufficient to say that the riders would be doing this stuff regardless. They may have been, but that’s entirely their call. Surely RedBull have a duty of care to minimise the risk to participants in their promoted event?
I could use an air rifle unsafely at home, but I’d expected risk to be managed at an event using an air rifle..for example.