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
When I was younger I would quite happily throw myself off cliffs or go down couloirs with exposure that would kill you if it went wrong. I wouldn’t do it now but loved it then
It’s a difficult one. Back in the day you didn’t get any sponsorship , you did it because you loved it
I have no doubt these guys and girls love it, but pushing your limits in your own time compared to someone else’s agenda is very different
That is, of course, the counter view and of the riders can say no, or rein it in. Devils advocate here, the position at the other end of the extreme is if a rider is badly injured, you simply say, “suck it up, you knew the risks”. Should there be a middle ground, I thinks so. I don’t think it would take too much effort, or too much away from the spectacle, certainly for those exposed areas such as where Emil fell, you know that going to be a line so install catch nets so he only falls 50ft, and not to his death. How you’d control the double backfilp incident, I’m not sure.
Suggestion for the next magazine article per the Crowdcube thread! 😀
Serioulsy though, it’s a great idea for an article. Maybe some homegrown talent could be interviewed and see what the entry contract is for Hardline, any disclaimers etc.
Well there we go. Adolf has no sensation from the waist down. I guess it’s what we all expected. Feels like some sort of freak show now.
I don’t even know what to think now, other than I hope he recovers as much as is humanly possible.
Bloody awful ?
I know there have been major injuries and near misses in the past, but this feels like a turning point.
A combination of the format of the event, the judging, the pressure to perform, the pressure to show ‘amplitude’.
It all feels so cynical. Less MTB competition, more hunger games…
Adolf lands the double flip. Probably wins the event (although with the judging…who knows!). Is lauded. Probably gets a nice new helmet.
Doesn’t land the flip, is paralysed. Has to go to the public to find his recovery.
I hope he gets all the support he needs.. the fact that it needs to be crowdfunded though. Red Bull could cover it without it even being a 10th of a percent of their profits…
And if that’s the case that his rehab/future is going to have to be privately funded then it is disgusting
Red Bull put the event on to make themselves money.
To not even give the athletes and insurance policy in place that would pay out is disgraceful
Im just I’ve watched Matt Jones in the past say that RedBull have always looked after him and paid for his rehab
Ahh Jesus * Christ…..as someone who was completely paralysed from the chest down for months (before 30+hrs of spinal surgery and 4months of daily rehab sorta fixed me) I feel sick, this should be on red bull and their insurance to fund his rehab/recovery fully, to think it needs a crowdfunding campaign is utterly * sick……..
Genuinely feel sick/ill.…….
Matt is a RB rider, whereas Adolf is sponsored by Monster.Apparently Yeti have donated $10k but as someone on Pinkbike pointed out, that doesn’t even cover the cost of one of their bikes.
Mad that red bull aren’t covering it. I really didn’t enjoy watching it this year. Hoping Adolf gets the support he needs.
The TT isn’t a judged event. Taking risks on the TT course directly impacts your performance. The stopwatch doesn’t lie.
Silva could have landed that double flip and won, or come 8th…the judging is absolutely random.
However, the main point is that the format of the event, the drive for ‘amplitude’, the judging…it all works to make a high risk event even more risky…and there is absolutely no need as most of it doesn’t really benefit anyone.
Aaaah, shite. Good luck to the injured lad – I’m still expecting/hoping RB to pay up handsomely but then I’m not a hard-nosed exec. I wonder what a well-organised pressure campaign would look like
Another rider with life changing injuries. No feeling from the chest down. A donation site is already looking for funding which sadly infers that neither the event organisers, sponsors or his own sponsors are stepping up and covering his medical bills. Shame on them all
My guess is that Red Bull will probably help out grudgingly if/when enough bad press starts to hit.
But this is horrendous, if not unexpected news. I really hope he makes the best possible recovery.