Everything you need to know about this weekend's Crashed Ice event

Have you noticed something unusual under construction on the North Saskatchewan River’s north bank near downtown?
It’s an obstacle-filled, 455-metre ice track that plunges 40 metres and, this weekend, adrenalin-craving athletes will skate down it, sailing off jumps and banking around hairpin turns.
The sport is called ice cross downhill, and the Edmonton competition is the world championship event of the season.
Like all major city festivities, this weekend’s Red Bull Crashed I