Athlete Lineup Announced for 2022 Red Bull Rampage
The top 10 athletes from the 2021 edition of Red Bull Rampage including Kurt Sorge are pre-qualified.
The 18 athletes selected to compete in the 2022 Red Bull Rampage on Friday, Oct. 21st for the 16th edition in the event’s history. For those looking to attend the event in person, tickets will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, August 30th at 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET.
 | Red Bull Rampage is the pinnacle of the freeride mountain biking scene, so it’s exciting to see who I will be competing alongside. After a groundbreaking event last year, myself and the other riders are ready to get back out there and push the sport further than ever. |
The top ten riders from the 2021 competition were automatically pre-qualified for this year’s event, while the other 8 wildcards and 5 alternates were selected by a committee of former Rampage competitors, pro athletes, judges, and industry experts based on competition results and video submissions. Six former winners and three event rookies are among those set to compete.
| Competing in Red Bull Rampage has always been a career goal of mine, so I’m stoked to receive this invitation to be on the biggest stage of freeride. To compete in the pinnacle of the sport alongside all the riders who push me to be better and further my craft is a huge honor. I’m ready to put together all my skills and years of training in the desert this year. |
Dylan Stark has received an invitation for the first time.
2022 Red Bull Rampage Invited Athletes
Pre-Qualified Athletes:
1. Brandon Semenuk (CAN)
2. Kurt Sorge (CAN)
3. Reed Boggs (USA)
4. Cam Zink (USA)
5. Tyler McCaul (USA)
6. Kyle Strait (USA)
7. Thomas Genon (BEL)
8. Ethan Nell (USA)
9. Jaxson Riddle (USA)
10. Szymon Godziek (POL)
Wildcard Invites:
Alex Volokhov (CAN)
Andreu Lacondeguy (SPA)
Brett Rheeder (CAN)
Carson Storch (USA)
DJ Brandt (USA)
Dylan Stark (USA)
Tom Van Steenbergen (CAN)
William Robert (FRA)
Alternates:
1. Vincent Tupin (FRA)
2. Bienvenido Aguado Alba (SPA)
3. Adolf Silva (SPA)
4. Johny Salido (MEX)
5. Ryan McNulty (USA)
This year, the event will be streamed live exclusively on ESPN+ in the U.S., and on Red Bull TV in all other countries. In addition, the complete event will be available on-demand on both ESPN+ and Red Bull TV following the competition. Then on October 30th, viewers can also tune-in to a condensed 2.5-hour replay that will air on ESPN.
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Unfortunately, Vestavik dislocated his shoulder and sustained multiple fractures to his humerus during practice for freeride mountain biking’s biggest invite-only competition.
Rampage; his last run was when he gave push ups to pay tribute for jordy
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Holy shit!
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Brendog too.
This event has turned into “big mountain slopestyle”, which is ok if that’s what you want to see, but for me I’d prefer proper freeride.
He's in first place with 3 races left. The last race of the season is the weekend before Rampage.
Points are close and unless he wins the next two races he'll need that 3rd race to clinch the overall. So he'll basically need to race that then go straight to Utah to start digging and practicing.
He's one rider that hands down can do it but if he can do that AND win rampage it'd be one of the most amazing things we've ever seen... unless the judges give him a huge score for riding a groomed trail down the mountain and doing bar tricks. Which they might.
My guess is he'll essentially do the same run he did last year but he'll add a flip-whip or something like that.
I'm more curious to see which version of Rheeder shows up and how the new guys ride.... and how freaking big T-Mac plans on going.
If so, a big fuk you to ESPN+ and those who made this decision. I hope the bowling crowd changes the channel and we get our sport back next year.
Sorge, Strait & T-Mac crush hard every single year and are still at the cutting edge of Rampage. Sorge and Straight are the second and third-most winningest riders in Rampage history and you want to exclude them? T-mac consistently delivers savage runs.
Did your idiot ass know that they change venues every two years, so as to provide a clean slate for competitors to build new lines? It's not one venue set in stone with the same lines year-after-year.
You sir, are hands down the dumbest person on pinkbike today.
I would 1000% rather watch Zink and Strait pioneer another steepest chute ever ridden or TMac pioneer another largest-ever drop—and get scored too low for it, by the way—than see who can keep up with the single crown trick arms race
I would rather watch sorge, strait, and t-mac than semenuk, rheeder, or riddle. Spinny dingleberry tricks aren't exciting. Maybe it's those riders who shouldn't be invited back to make way for fresh big mountain talent?
Opinions are like a*sholes...
Sorge is still winning. T-Mac has dedicated his life to it and is still capable of winning. Strait is Strait.
They are getting new lifeblood into it every year and leaving windows open for new guys to push in over the next few years.
It's really hard to phase dudes out that are still doing full runs, still progressing and still finishing in the top 10.
Think about it this way.
Boggs, Nell, DJ, Riddle. All pretty young. All established. All fought their win in over the last few years as other guys have phased out.
Agassiz. Bizet. Ferry. Binghelli. Conor. R-Dogg. Berrencloth. Norbs. Remy. Etc. Plenty of amazing riders aren't on the list anymore and/or just aren't wanting to do it anymore.
And now we have the next few young bloods fighting their way on as a handful of other guys are starting to phase out.
Brage, Dylan, Alex, William and McNutty. Those guys are all getting their chances and/or at least getting the chance to build to their chances. And there's a few more out there working their way up. Some INSANE youngsters following the ways of Riddle.
Guys will continue to come and go but you can't look at guys like Strait, T-Mac and Sorge and tell me they haven't earned as many years as they want. Those are top 10 riders every year with top 3 within reach every year.
He should get scored way higher for it than riders doing all the flippy spin 1080's off the same drop too hopefully.
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C’mon guys.
Damn
#brendoggotdropped
The other alternates are all great, but Adolf can keep up on the tricks
Tom is still on the road to recovery after his big crash so I doubt he will be dropping in this year (I kinda hope he takes this year off and gets healthy)
As for Brage, I am just as confused as everyone else on that one.
It's all pretty straight forward really. None of them were in the top 10 last year.
Rheeder and TVS have plenty of history to warrant the invite if they choose to ride.
Bonus points for dropping in on a mk 1 v10 with a super monster.
I got robbed.
Got to remember, he's been in the game longer than most. It's only a matter of time that all of these guys see some form of injury. They're sending 100 foot gaps in some cases. 40 foot plus drops upside down or sideways or both. T-Mac is as calculated as it gets and even he had to deal with a foot/ankle injury that was insane. The fact that we can watch an entire Rampage event with no injuries blows my mind and I hope we get to watch another one like that.