Megavalanche 2016 - Official Video

 What do you complain of: there are subtitels when they speak english ( :

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 "so that snowy section sucked pretty hard" pretty much sums it up

 @jyemen: When the snow is soft like that its almost impossible to ride. The fact that some of these guys even stayed upright is a miracle.

 @Oldgerald: Ouais je te ne pas de fense ne quois mes bais pour quois non je ne veux pas je suis une ananas

 It's body stickers... You see them s lot at world cups too.

 Here you go for the Interviews Translations :

Yoan BARELLI :
"Okay Freestyle,
Welcome everybody to the Megavalanche 2016, we are at the start !
it’s gonna be tricky the glacier’s gonna be a little bit .. ICY ! But it’s going to be fun !!"

George EDWARDS :
"Here we are on the plateform of the Qualification for the Mega 2016,
Great weather and terrain conditions, a race rebuild race course. We hope that these ideal condition will remain the same all week long."

Kilian BRON :
"Wouuu… it’s going to be nasty from the beginning, Hopefully will not crash in the first corner as last year and find better lines through the snow… "

Thomas LAPEYRIE : « IT’S GOING TO BE CRAZY !!!!!! »

Remy ABSALON :
« At first, I have thought that it was goind to be hard considering the amount of snow, and so to find the proper line. Indeed, in the end, it is easy because there is not the many choices so if there snow go for it, and if there is some rocky section go for them. And then its even faster than in the past… »

Cédric RAVANEL :
« Yes, everything went well. Just a little bit scared on the first turns … but we will see the final result… look, Damien OTON is coming !”

Cécile RAVANEL :
“ It was so dusty on the way down.. That is why I have decided to take rapidly the lead in order to be able to enjoy more the descent… Tomorrow, it is a different story with the start on the glacier. The race can be done within the fisrt couple turns, so plan is : NO CRASH.”

Vincent JULLIOT
“It may feels like there 3-4 races in one, considering the variety of terrain and the length of the track. Anyway, there is no other event where you spend as much time on the bike and where you swallow that much elevation drop.”
Pauline DIEFFENTHALER

“For the record, I have won here in 2007… nearly 10 years ago. Wanted to see if I could still be a challenger for the win.. never thought I would have won the race !”

Nicolas QUERE
“ Welcome to the Megavalnche !
15min to go ! Don’t know what will follow.. We will probably have to run at the bottom of the glacier… “

Remy ABSALON :
« Racing here is always Hazardeous with the glacier, I knew that François Bailly-Maître and Damien Oton were way stronger than me on the pedalling, and then though that my “glacier skills” would be the key. I choose to run a semi-slick tire in the back, in order to compete with those two … »

Damien OTON
“I saw Remy and Camille taking the lead, so I push hard to get back the 20 seconds I’ve lost… Succeed to pass back Remy just before the ‘pedal section’ but I had already given up too much energy to this point.”

François BAILLY-MAÎTRE
“No a bad start, but the other were better… On the snow, I didn’t succeed to stay on the surface so I needed to run. Anyway it still an amazing race, the 40 minute ride goes by pretty fast even though it is really physically demanding… And it is probably because of this that I have succeeded to grab the 3rd Spot.”

 Hey @sino428

The video covers the all event, that's to say the Qualies that took place on Friday, plus the races that took place on the Saturday and Sunday. (Same race course but with different categories ...).

Then, it is true that somehow it covers two races ;-)

Cheers,

 @UCCSportEvent: Got it, so the first portion of the video where the start took place on dirt was qualifying?

 @sino428: Yes, till the 5th minute of the video it is the qualies. That part of the race is the "proving ground", and starts a little less higher than the race itself.

Then comes THE Megavalanche that start right on top of the Pic Blanc glacier a 3300m high !

 Hey @jlawie,

registration for the Megavalanche 2017 opens on the first week of January !

 @UCCSportEvent: Thanks! Appreciate the reply

 I saw some dudes on fat bikes when I was there in 2013 - Short answer is yes!

 mostly, yes.

 Only American!!!