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King of the Whip 2024 – Official Highlights Video Is Live!

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King of the Whip 2024 – Official Highlights Video Is Live!:

6 December 2024: Presenting the official Highlights Video from King of the Whip 2024!

Relive the insane action from the Ultimate Best Whip Showdown and the Best Trick Contests at Montecasino, South Africa.

2024 and was bigger, better, and more exciting than ever. Over 20 of the best Freestyle Motocross and Motocross riders went head-to-head in front of a sold-out Montecasino crowd as they took to the ramps to show off a series of exhilarating manoeuvres in a bid to unseat reigning Best Whip champion and multiple X Games medalist, Julien Vanstippen.

While every single rider wowed the judges and the fans, ultimately, a winner had to be crowned. Belgium’s Vanstippen triumphed again to retain his King of the Whip title for a third year running, followed by Tom Parsons (USA) in 2nd and Genki “Wanky” Watanabe (Japan) in 3rd.

The Best Trick Right-Side-Up and Upside-Down were claimed by Australia’s Pat Bowden, who recovered from a broken ankle only a week before to win both categories.

King of the Whip presented by LW Mag in association with Ford, Monster Energy, Yamaha, Garmin, Motul, GoPro, playTSOGO and Estrella Cerveza.

 

KING OF THE WHIP 2024 FINAL RESULTS

 

Best Whip

1st Julien Vanstippen (Belgium)

2nd Tom Parsons (USA)

3rd Genki Watanabe (Japan)

4th Dalton Venter (South Africa)

5th Dallan Goldman (South Africa)

6th Ryan Adler (South Africa)

7th Andreu Lacondeguy (Spain)

8th Pat Bowden (Australia)

 

Best Trick Right-Side-Up

1st Pat Bowden (Australia)

2nd Genki Watanabe (Japan)

3rd Julien Vanstippen (Belgium)

 

Best Trick Upside-Down

1st Pat Bowden (Australia)

2nd Genki Watanabe (Japan)

3rd Dallan Goldman (South Africa)

 

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Top Star Drive-In: Destroyed by What Created it

However, the very thing that created the Top Star eventually destroyed it. Because the early miners had used crude methods, the Ferreira Dump—and dozens of others like it—still contained significant traces of gold. As the price of gold rose and new chemical extraction technologies (like the carbon-in-pulp process) made it profitable to “mine the waste,” the ground beneath the Top Star became more valuable than the cinema itself. In 2006, despite fierce opposition from heritage groups who argued that the dump and the drive-in were culturally significant landmarks, the projectors were turned off for the last time.

The reclamation of the dump was a staggering industrial feat. Starting in 2008, mining giant DRDGold used high-pressure water cannons to “monitor” the dump, turning 5 million tons of solid earth back into a liquid slurry. This slurry was then piped 40 kilometers across the province to a processing plant in Brakpan. By 2011, the “mountain” had completely vanished. The 50-meter-high plateau that had dominated the southern skyline for a century was reduced to a flat, dusty crater.

The disappearance of the Top Star is a poignant symbol of Johannesburg’s “extractive” nature. It is a city that consumes itself to stay alive; even its historical landmarks are subject to the fluctuating price of minerals on the London and New York stock exchanges. Today, if you drive along the M2, there is an empty space in the sky where the Top Star used to be. While the reclamation removed a source of toxic dust and “acid mine drainage,” it also erased a piece of the city’s collective memory. The land where the gold-flecked mountain once stood is now being rehabilitated for light industrial use, proving that in eGoli, even the horizon is for sale if there’s enough gold hidden inside it.