Skateboard Inline Skate BMX – Boarders, Bikers to Face Off Saturday
Are you impressed by the teenagers on their skateboards and BMX bikes who fly around the statue of Karl Marx at Teatralnaya Ploshchad? If so, learn from the best this weekend when the Adrenaline Games come to Moscow.
Eight thousand people are expected to visit the two-day event, which starts Saturday at the speed-skating center in Krilatskoye.
The games will see hundreds of competitors from around the world compete in six different disciplines: street skateboarding, street BMX, flatland BMX, aggressive in-line skating, mountain-boarding and wake-boarding.
One of the most eagerly awaited competitors is…Â Details
Jeff Simon wasn’t like most teenagers when he was 14 years old. A serious athlete, he lived for speed. Took risks. Lived on the edge.
And on a day just two weeks shy of the start of high school, as he was waiting anxiously for his parents outside a speedskating clinic in Los Angeles, Simon prepared to broach with them a topic foreign to most teenagers: He would ask if he could leave home to train professionally.
Jeff Simon wasn’t like most teenagers when he was 14 years old. A serious athlete, he lived for speed. Took risks. Lived on the edge.