Video: India's first Urban Downhill Mountain Biking event

Urban Downhill as an event is an extremely challenging sport and which has been taken to a very good level by Red Bull by their association with the same

BHPian ABHI_1512 recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

It's a matter of pride that India's first Urban Downhill Mountain Biking event was recently concluded in the North Eastern City of Aizawl- the capital of Mizoram. But the strange part is, there was hardly any buzz regarding the event. The mainstream media has completely blanked out the event and there is no mention of it at all.

Urban Downhill as an event is an extremely challenging sport and which has been taken to a very good level by Red Bull by their association with the same. They have been associated with this sport from the very beginning and it is now a global sports followed by huge number of people.

It is in this context that the recent race at Aizawl was an extremely important one since it puts Aizawl on the global map. And yet, it was not given the coverage that it deserved. Nevertheless, global icon like Tomas Slavik has shared his experience and also uploaded a video of his riding the bike.

Here is the link of the same:

https://youtu.be/ImQEyoR1i7w?si=BoDFt0izywWVmxYJ

Tomas Slavik was one of the mentors of the race and the great part was that there were seventeen riders from India among the participants out of the twenty two in total. Hyundai was one of the sponsors of the event and it is surprising that even they have missed out on promoting the same.

I hope it becomes an annual event, even though it was a qualification race but it still managed to pique massive interest in Aizawl, which is anyways a city which takes every sport very seriously. I think, an event of this sort should have been promoted like anything. Such niche sports deserve all our attention, specially for a country obsessed with Cricket.

The only credible news about the event, which can be read here:

https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/...vent-in-aizawl

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