Rachel Atherton wins BT Sport's Action Woman of the Year

 oh okay... www.pinkbike.com/video/290065

 lol my bad, I thought you meant North American football.

 Ahh, no that is a real sport

 only takes one ball, to play football...

 Or to cheat in the tour de france

 HAHAHA!! That was some funny stuff thank you hughsey321

 YES nfl football is a real sport, soccer is a pussy sport, bunch of whiney ass shirt lifters

 Biking requires 2 real balls, while football/soccer requires 1 inflatable ball

 Still thing rugby players are the hardest bastards.

 I don't know about any of you football advocates, but no man can hit nearly as hard, or scare me nearly as much as Rampage, X-Games or Crankworx. I don't care what form of football you advocate, I don't care how big or full of 'roids the players are. Action sports athletes that ride bikes are the gnarliest & rowdiest f*ckers out there, maybe along with base jumpers if you're just comparing ball size. I don't give a shit if Nathan Jones or Brock Lesnar wants the ball I'm holding, I would not feel the fear or be risking the consequences that the highest level slopestyle, DJ, trials & Rampage riders do. It's just not possible. Accidents can happen getting out of bed in the morning, but the risks here, are almost unmatched. No form of football can even come close. There's a reason why it's considered to be perfectly fine to run away from sweaty dudes with a ball in your hand while not wearing protection, even in an organized & official setting. It just ain't THAT dangerous. Note: DH doesn't scare me, not at all, it doesn't really fall into the same category, sorry ladies.

 Well, on average there's only 11 minutes of play in an NFL game...so not exactly a lot of action or sport going on either. It's mostly commercials and players standing around. I still watch it though. Not really sure why, lol.

 MTB is an Extreme sport. Football isn`t. They are both great sports in their own way like other extreme and non extreme sports.

 @freeride-forever I was totally agreeing with your post until your last comment about DH. At least tell us where you have DH? That would probably be the reason for your opinion.

 I play soccer(football) and ride MTB. Yes soccer isn't really actiony, but it is very physically demanding like most other action sports. Both are dangerous in they're own way. But, soccer is really demanding in the sense of you have to have a real good endurance when it comes to running. Bikes have to have a little more mental endurance than physical endurance, but you still have to be able to pedal for a while. That's why there are more people that are a little over weight in MTB than soccer. Plus it's fun watching people getting nailed in the nuts every once in a while. Soccer is a great training aid for MTB and MTB is a great training aid soccer. Just don't watch the pro soccer players, they're worse than kids when it comes to injuries. They are decent actors though.

 Sorry guys but, just because you like a sport you dont have to be an ass. What is wrong with football? Liking one sport does´nt mean that all other sports are for pussies! I won´t call it an "action sport", but i does requires some skills and brain that MTB does´nt! Yeah, some of the pro footballers are pussies, but that does´nt mean everybody always are like that! Until a year ago i played youth football on the highest level. It´s my absolute favourite sport in this world, and would still be training like a mad all week both technical, physical and mentally. It requires some skills that MTB does´nt require. The only reason i´m Riding MTB instead playing football is because of a srious knee injury i got over a year ago. My physical said i probably would´nt be able to play football for a while (a looooong while ) but he said i could ride a bike with no problems at all, and thats why i got into MTB. It does´nt mean football now is a "pussy sport". Why can´t we just love our own sport an respect other sports instead of bitching over different people and different things we do?

 @NoINPO, The only reason you are riding MTB over playing football is because of a knee injury? Hahahahahaha. I understand people do things other than MTB. But playing football is straight up p*ssy. Hahaha, jokes on you. But again, you are riding bikes because of a knee injury. Hahahaha. What if you straight up and die riding your MTB. All the football faking in the world won't fake that result. But you are "really" bitching because you seem to be pretending that football is something close to the level of MTB in terms of danger. MTB rules and football players eat a D*ck.

 Sorry @NoINPO, that last comment I made was not cool. I did not mean to laugh at you as I understand that football is very hard on the knee and ankle joints. And you are right about needing to respect all sports. I realized MTB does not always have to be so extreme either, hence it can be safe for your knee. Which I hope you a full and speedy recovery. But if a knee injury is the "only" reason you got into MTB, you may have got a blessing in disguise. Give your MTB more time, and it becomes harder and harder to appreciate other sports IMO.

 Maybe, but it's more likely that you just don't live in the UK as is explained underneath the video.

 If you're using Chrome there's an add-on called ZenMate that can change the perceived location of your computer to any country.

 Living in Narnia would be pretty bad ass.

 Aslan is coming

 Spot on. Roading is training for commuting.

 not quite spot on, it's not hard to ride a granfondo or buy a 15 grand replica team sky pinarello and wear pretentious Assos clothing but to be a decent road racer you have to be very skilled, not all roadies look like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKajY5GlyI (although way too many do), none of my downhill friends can corner anywhere near as fast as me and some of them can't even ride within 3 feet of me let alone bumping shoulders mid corner, I'm still a very good downhiller on the tech side of things and while I can say the skills involved aren't equal they definitely aren't far from each other... I can't really find a good Vincenzo Nibali video so this dudes vid might sum it up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoffxOXjG0I although it doesn't really do it justice... as for the crashes I'd like to see a single one of you stay upright when a guy goes into your front wheel at 60km/h

 To be at the elite of any sport requires skill and commitment. I would like to see some of these people ride their road bike onto the roof rack of their car like Peter Sagan .

 Ok how about you come ride fort William amd if you nail it in under 5:30mins I will agree but until the what you are talking about is not only a totally different discipline but way harder than road or TT I ride slope, dh and tt and whilst my tt riding helps with fitness it doesn't help in any way when it comes to clearing 30ftor more. Rachel deserved it out right and why can't you just be happy that a different style of riding is getting more airtime and the win was by one of the best female riders of the last decade

 I remember him doing that

 @finnrambo....youre an arrogant fathead.

 slight misunderstanding there, sorry about that, I'm incredibly happy for Rachel Atherton, I make it no secret that the Athertons are by far my favourite racers and I'm happy for downhill but I find it annoying how people can be ignorant dismissing road as something easy or something anyone can do, I doubt a downhiller can outdo Nibali or another good descender, they're simply very different skills, heading out on your road bike without racing or anything and calling it easy is like heading out on lower easy does it on whistler and saying downhill is easy, both disciplines deserve a lot of respect plain and simple, as for arrogant then you don't know me very well I may come across as arrogant at first but trust me I'm just another guy that has fun on all types of bikes, as for Sagan... oh man, I wish I had the video but watching him take the last corner at a canadian race (either alberta or quebec) and edge out another rider was amazing... he's the perfect role model for the sport, showing the fun of it all that is sometimes unseen

 Finnrambo nicely redeemed I ride all sorts but I used to race tt at a high level and whilst you may be right on the black top on the sharp and muddy stuff I challenge any roadie to rail it faster its totally different. Yeah I can sprint harder and faster for longer because of tt but it didnt teach me squat about gaps and drops. But as long as you don't claim cx is the best of both worlds all is cools lol andthe race was quebec I think

 Yeah man ! bag on there jackgolfgti rugby toughest sport surely ! those guys are animal's and hard as fu#k !!!

 tracey mosely?

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKajY5GlyI tri makes for some funny shit

 This video however, is not made by Canadians.

 she said gob smacked not god smacked haha means taken back didn't expect it etc etc Slang mate.

 Got it, I miss read it. I figured out what it meant either way but still, I've never heard that term before.

 Never heard of it ! Well quite frankly I'm gobsmacked !!