{"id":189148,"date":"2022-04-29T05:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=189148"},"modified":"2022-04-29T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:32:58","slug":"tomas-slavik-about-the-red-bull-valparaiso-cerro-abajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/04\/29\/tomas-slavik-about-the-red-bull-valparaiso-cerro-abajo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Slavik About The Red Bull Valpara\u00edso Cerro Abajo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Fourcross World Champion and legendary Valpara\u00edso downhill double winner Tomas Slavik came back to Chile to give it another try. Eager to win one more time, he spent the whole winter preparing for the longest and most fabulous of urban downhills.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even though Tomas eventually did not succeed this year, he missed the gold medal just by four-hundredths of a second. Winner Pedro Ferreira was the only one who reached the finish line faster than the thirty-four-year-old rider from the Czech republic.<\/p>\n

“That was a pretty hard day at work. It was an amazing race, and I was only 0.04 seconds off the pace at the end. I enjoyed every metre, though,” the Czech biker nicknamed Datel (“The Woodpecker”) commented on his second place.<\/p>\n

Slavik won in Valparaiso back in 2017 and 2018 but a year later in 2019, he suffered a nasty crash during the ride after which he was left unconscious for five minutes. A GoPro camera broke off of his helmet after the crash and flew over a big wall.<\/p>\n

“The front wheel slid in a tight turn and an invisible force catapulted me head-first towards a set of steep stairs,” Tomas says.<\/p>\n

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