Sam Deltour, a 25-year-old medical student from Belgium, ran a charmed race during his rookie Iditarod run in 2008. No big crashes. No dropped dogs."I had all the luck in the world," he said.
This year? Not so easy.
Deltour started the race down a dog when one of his favorites wouldn't pull. Other dogs favored sore wrists or shoulders and Deltour busted the brake on his sled on an infamous stump between Finger Lake and Rainy Pass.
But mostly in the 2010 Iditarod, he keeps coming across other people's problems.
It started about 50 miles into the race, when Deltour rushed to tie off a dog team that charged off while another musher, who was still packing her gear, was sent tumbling upside down on her sled. He helped patch another musher's sled at 20 to 30 below. He found a rookie knocked bloody and unconscious.
Read the rest here. It's nice to know that sportsmanship is alive and well.
1 comment:
Good thing for Moon that the first person to come across him lying in the snow was a med student!
Deltour's presence has been a blessing for several mushers this year.
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