tv Sports Life Deutsche Welle December 25, 2022 12:15am-12:31am CET
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andreas bart is living the dream. in his winter wonderland in sweden's lapland. he owns a husky farm with 50 dogs. ah, the sled dog handler. better known as a mosher. has lived here for 5 years. he's made lapland, his home, along with his partner, cursed in pillar. that love of dogs brought them here. and then the phone with him. shit and wounded. when you 1st get the sled dog bug, it's very hard to stop country i'm working with sled dogs is a bit more than just owning dogs on which one i tried, the dogs and me and the dog trusts me. you often harm you see this cooperation best in difficult situations and moment. all right. how's you? don't forget it. i'm orange feelings. adored susan's or moment when you've been in a snowstorm a few times or been pushed to the limit. it was,
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and your dogs bring you home now because they trust you and you give the responsibility to the dark side of a vision, upkeep. there isn't so much potentials and it is also fun. i learned that martha little as much bosses. ah, andreas and kirsten have been together since 1996. 2 years ago their relationship was put to the test. oh. in late summer 2017. they decided to take on an epic challenge. norway's beg of love at sled dog race. the northern most race in the world. it meant lots of work for the pair. who come from northern germany? travis, just when i used to do this for the children, repairing things, showings,
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now i do it for the dogs. i would have never dreamt of doing that before. ah . 10 weeks before the race. the 1st snow has fallen for andreas. that means the start of the tourist season. forge a month for her to be soon. you will feel a little weird at 1st. you think it's stable but it moves a bit, alice, but it's okay. you get used to it? i mean, oh this is andreas earns a living by offering tourists rides. that means training for the race is not always possible. bermonte ombudsman hudson far when you want to race, there is a clash between training for such a big event and offering tours goes on as we want to do both which and in we want
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our guests to be happy like well not to the author suggests it's a free book, sometimes he has to train in darkness while also doing tours. andreas wants to do 3500 kilometers of training before the race. every one counts. training is going well until 5 weeks before the race. when cast in decides she is too stressed and busy at home to take part young own gonzalez passion. we have a young couple who can help in state and for lesson we have a 1000 present faith and then every day. but the guy doesn't know if he's free to come. if the girl france he comes alone, then i think it is easier if she goes with andrea. i would love to but it's fine if it works out with trans see handicapped and some of them will still have a vet. so that's ok. look, i think it is something you would never got. ah,
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to mike austin is irreplaceable. acting as mister jackson, what can i say? ah! a few days before the race francy arrives alone. her partner couldn't come here you can cast him, wants to stay home to help the workers on the farm. francie will support andreas in the race or will make the best of it. and i think that francy is tough enough of going. okay. and it glow. i reckon she can keep her cool better than me. i'm always a bit too of a excited mercy when the time comes andreas and kirsten of train for over half a year and have sacrificed a lot. now andreea's will have to face the challenge without cast him. his wife
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hafun. ah. $45.00 participants from 5 countries or at the start of the burg, a beloved. andrea's face is a 350 kilometer trick. over the next few days the moisture and his dogs will head into norway's arctic circle for the 1st leg. ice cold winds and temperatures as low as 40 degrees below celsius will push them to that limits. ah regular breaks will be necessary. the physical strain is enormous and the dogs need to recover. okay,
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mental concentration is also crucial for both man and dog. after 5 and a half hours and joyous and his dogs reached the 1st checkpoint invite so they've managed around 70 kilometers. okay. for english and spanish. it was quite a relaxed 1st leg. the dogs found their rhythm after about 20 kilometers volatile. of course, it wasn't easy on the quick of a lie down now and have a rest, the quicker we can recover the last and then we'll see alma move. the brakes are just as important in the race as the long runs. too little sleep for the dogs and the marcia can have dramatic consequences. ah,
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while andrea sets off again after 4 hours rest over sled dog races, taking the 1st injured dogs out of the event. andrea says no such problems. and on the 2nd leg, he makes some real progress. piecing on chick point halls and on the dos, flew out of the checkpoint and pushed themselves more than before and gotten the we had 70 tough kilometers before. at the moment, things are clicking into place. but we're not even in the halfway point my time. ah, on the next leg, things continue to go smoothly. ah . the partnership with francy is working well. when he rests, she takes care of the dogs. but
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the race has left its mark on undress. it is now the 1st day, and he is only really slept for 3 hours in total. the journey through the darkness has become a real test to someone's because now we've got another 105 kilometers. when my friend would, we can go higher. if the house i the finish line is drawing ever nearer but they're stay at a checkpoint, is far longer than expected. mm . blue gene would often shouldn't happen. but it's one of those things a nucleus confused. i got a feeling that a nuke was just too tired, and i went to speak to the vets and they confirmed it,
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and the dog must be pulled out of the race. you have to give the dog to your specific handler. then only then can you leave the checkpoint check put asked for lesson that wound seashore in brooklyn law fantasy wrong. mm. because she had a phone off of what else? mm. and we've been standing around here for 6 hours. that is 6 hours in the darkness. andrea's had been trying to contact francy without success. the rule say only fancy can take the exhausted dog. lou says i shocked and i've made a big mistake and i'm paying for it and i was asleep and i put my phone on silent just out of habit. it was really bad. what happened was i had a missed due to the last time the torch batteries are running low,
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as well as the phone battery. after all those calls. carrying on now is not possible. 100 kilometers from the end and address his dream of completing the race . his over the face, the set, and i know he was extremely unhappy. he put so much work and money into it. i mean, we could have had tourists here for those 2 weeks. he's well aware of that himself, timothy said, but i know, and he knows that i will totally back him again in the future. i think it was clear the very next day that he wanted to try it again from 1st. i said, that's not my mom. 1 2 years later and andrea, his planning to race again with a new team. he is hopeful thanks to his to li dogs, and reyes has a special relationship with clara and in ari good and i told him good lead dogs are often very sensitive. sure, very intelligent. listen. they have to find the trail in all weathers and deal with
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the pressure and have solid endurance does. is your household internal? if there are $8.00 to $10.00 dogs behind her rushing too much, then it is mentally tiring for the dogs. i'm saying, but not every dog does that. dogs like anerio, clara, or a pleasure to work with a view, the in ari he ought to be. club auditors are shown in reason to saying we're going out to do of the dogs like clara, and in ari of the extended arm of the moisture and the most important animals on the team. we have given reasonable gum heard, so i had the experience in the past that the girls are really tough when they get in difficult situations and she'll harm a guy's work hard to buy. there is nothing to complain about hours, but when it comes to the real thing, then it's often these seemingly normal female dogs who put their heads down and go through a blizzard one. and you stand back and think, how is that possible? but they just do it on a part. get gary. so what i'll do, man. i andreea's his dream of completing
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