Daredevils On Rollerskis

Nok en strålende dag på Alpen Village Hotel Livigno🌞Bli med Andreas og Øyvind ned Forcola di Livigno på rulleski. Hvis du i tillegg gjetter riktig størrelse på Andreas sin tights og tagger to venner i kommentarfeltet kan du vinne en SWIX Team Santander t-skjorte.

Posted by Team Ragde Charge on Saturday, July 8, 2017

Over 8 thousand views and dozens of comments: Team Santader has published a video where two of the team’s top skiers, Andreas Nygaard and Øyvind Moen Fjeld are seen descending from 2,315m high Livigno Pass ( also known as Forcola) into the valley, located at approx. 1,800m – a vertical drop of some 500 meters. All of that on classic rollerskis – needless to say, with no breaks of any kind are present.

Unlike most of Alpine skis, known for its hairpin turns, Forcola is a rather straightforward affair – it is, however, busy with car traffic this time of the year. And the speeds – on a 14 kilometer descent even on classic rollerskis still reaches 60 km/h+

Please, don’t try it at home, kids!

For your visual enjoyment, however, we combed through social media looking for similar daring escapades by pro-skiers:


Here are some Norwegian daredevils ( sadly, we were not able to determine who, exactly – feel free to add) doing 80 km/h on Spanish roads at Guadalest, near Alicante

On a bien profité du soleil en cette fin de semaine au Le Grand-Bornand pour entamer notre préparation automnale !#downhill / #rollerski / #teamhsnpowerTeam HSN / SwixNordic / Salomon Nordic

Posted by TNE Coste – Fromageries Marcel Petite on Sunday, September 7, 2014

Not to be outdone, Haute-Savoie Nordic Team had posted its own “skiers living dangerously” type video showing how French skiers deal with downhills at Col de La Colombiere.

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And, of course, there is an infamous video of the Martin Fourcade & gang in 2011 – for which they got a a lot of criticism. Unlike their compatriots from the Haute-Savoie Team, the world’s leading biathlete was filmed doing his “65 km/h” at the specialised rollerskiing circuit in Ruhpolding – but not wearing a helmet ( nor any other protection, for that matter) . Fortunately, a lot has changed since then and Fourcade, a father of two now, takes his role-model function rather more seriously and appears to wear helmet at all times.