[Applause] long borders from all over the world have flocked to kelowna’s Knox Mountain for their downhill competition that will qualify some riders for the 2024 World skate games in Italy today Saturday we did our time qualifiers so we’ve been working throughout the day to get Riders
Up and down the hill to get their fastest time possible and we’ve got some people coming in really fast like you said the competition being so stiff we’re seeing times really close to each other so you can expect to see a lot of people racing very competitively tomorrow just one year after its
Inaugural race the Knox Mountain downhill has doubled its ridership to 120 people all of which will be looking to get down the hill at speeds as high as 100 kilometers an hour competition is is a lot stiffer we’ve got uh reigning world champion Dane Hannah also reigning Knox Mountain downhill Champion Dane
Hannah is back but he’s gonna have a hard time defending from some of the fast guys who’ve come up from California North Carolina France Australia uh he’s gonna he’s gonna have to you know work a little harder I think he’s got his work cut out
For him I’m I’m sure it’s going to be a good race Avid skater Alex Hannigan tells Castanet it takes a special someone to take on this extreme sport and the adrenaline rush is often what downhill skaters are striving for you gotta have a screw loose to do something
Like this you know so this sport sort of is a magnet for people like that so as soon as you thrust yourself into such a dangerous activity and put yourself in that sort of environment where the winds rushing by you the trees are rushing by you and it just your pupils dilate you
Know your sense is heightened you know all your senses go into overdrive so your reaction time shortens up and you’re in that moment it’s nice competitors of the Knox Mountain downhill are encouraging locals to check out the final day of action on Sunday as they look to draw New Riders to the
Sport while also attempting to qualify for the upcoming World skate games I’m Brad nursell in Kelowna for castanet foreign
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