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Archive for March 6th, 2006

Few surprises at the beginning of the race

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2006

Rainy Pass is still pretty early to be developing race leaders, but the top 10 right now looks pretty believable. Ramey Smyth checked out at 2:46pm, that’s 3.5 hours ahead of Jessica Hendricks and Lance Mackey. Bjornar Andersen is going to start his race for the lead over the next few checkpoints, he technically is [...]

Forget Torino, focus on Nome AK

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2006

The Winter Games Have Only Just Begun
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
The Torino Olympics may be history, but the excitement of winter sports competition is not limited to the Italian Alps. This month marks the 34th running of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in [...]

Skwentna….

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2006

“Cancer Survivor Lance, leads international race…coverage on OLN”…sound familiar? 
Iditarod 2006 is definitely underway. Right now the race leader is Lance Mackey who is the only musher so far to pull into the “Finger Lake” checkpoint, he did so at 6:19am this morning. Right behind Lance is Rookie Bryan Bearss who left Skwentna last night. [...]