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The fastest sport on skates. >> its a blur at times, youre going super fast and you dont even know what you just did when you get to the bottom of the track. >> going downhill straight bombing it and in order to be good you have to flirt with the line of whether youre going down or make it to the finish line. >> it was all created on a whim. the story goes a couple of guys were just at some bar in theal ps somewhere and came up one night and streets were frozen with ice and they were sliding dow...

Goat the bottom of the track. >> when you are straight bombing it, you have to flirt with the line of whether you are going to bomb or make noit the finish line. >> reporter: are it was all created on a whim. >> the story goes that a couple of guys had some bar in alps somewhere and they came out and the streets were frozewen ice and bumping with each other, and one said, what if we froze the streets and fut hockey player on it. >> reporter: an extreme sport was born and two decades later, it is...

On it. >> and the sport was born. >> and now you have a fun thing, but now guys are training on it all year. >> and the rules are u simple, four skaters are flying down a manmade track hitting speeds up to 50 miles per hour. first to the bottom, wins. >> the first jump, you have to clear about 35 feet to hit the landing. we have a crazy s-turn coming around which is chaos, and the guys aring to the to be crashing in there and running into each-theshgs and lane passing and tons of action. it is g...