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It reminded me of an exchange I overheard in the Arctic Circle, between a Swedish sled driver and a travel journalist from the Daily Telegraph.
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The term derives from marche, a command that early Québécois sled drivers used to instruct their dogs to commence pulling.
I had twenty-seven toouspend"donlarseven sleddriversven sled drivers, whose "salaries" were calibrated such that you couldn't just stock up on favorites and former champions.
Both Hackl and Prock were excellent sled drivers, but Prock, an exceptionally gifted athlete, used powerful starts (vital in luge competition) to collect 10 World Cup titles between 1987 and 2002, as well as two world championships.
There are also quite a few "dog sled drivers".
For a two-person sled (one driver and one passenger) you are equipped with a six-dog engine.
"These things" -- the microbus, the dog sled (its driver "graduated CalArts 89") -- are "what these people are all about".
Ten days before the Olympic trials, and considering her own team's recent struggles, Racine exercised her right as the sled's driver to select a new brakewoman.
The prospect unnerved me until I remembered something a dog-sled driver in Sweden had told me years ago: Winter is not the enemy.
The people who ask that are not fellow-mushers — dog-sled drivers — but, rather, the kind of people (including us) who came to the Plaza Hotel last week to see Susan receive the Women's Sports Foundation's Professional Sportswoman of the Year Award, and who find the circumstances of Susan's life nearly unimaginable: the dozens of dogs, the rigors of sled racing, the near-isolation.
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