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Go watch this video on youtube. Try not to get TOTALLY PUMPED. What you just saw was Red Bull's Crashed Ice , a four-person, downhill ice-skating race through a specially designed obstacle course in the middle of a city. Downhill racing and ice hockey. Seriously, it's like peanut butter and chocolate: I cannot believe that no one thought of this sooner. Previously, it has been held in Québec, Helsinki, Davos, and Duluth (?). This weekend, the 2009 season finished in Lausanne. The course started at Place du Château (near where I used to live), came down Avenue de l'Universitie (right by an apartment that I was denied), and finished up at Place de la Riponne (next to another apartment denied to me). At Place de la Riponne, there was a huge, packed crowd of idiots pressed together watching a giant TV screen and cheering on the competitors at the finish. Jens (German), Jen's girlfriend, Ana (also German), and I were some of those idiots. Fig. 1: There is not law aga...