(27 Jan 2025)
CZECH REPUBLIC DOG SLEDDING
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Destne, Czech Republic – 24 January 2025
1. Aerial of dog sledding +MUTE+
2. Dog pulling skier through snow
3. Aerial of dog sledding up hill +MUTE+
4. Wide of dog sledding
5. Various of Samoyeds (dogs) resting
6. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Jan Dasek, musher:
"I’ve been a musher for four years and have been riding with Samoyeds. My wife and I have a breeding kennel for them, and it’s a matter close to our hearts."
7. Various of dogs before the race
8. Various of Samoyeds inside car
9. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Jan Dasek, musher:
"In the beginning, we train shorter distances, starting with the five kilometers, then as we work our way up, we ride 40 (kilometers) most of the time. Now and then, when there’s time, we’ll do a longer one – like 50 or 60 kilometers. However, we can’t train at the elevation as is here because we’re from Jihlava."
10. Various of dogs and owners before the race
11. Various of race through forest
12. Aerial of race through the forest +MUTE+
13. Wide of race through forest
14. Aerial of race through the forest +MUTE+
15. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Pavel Kucera, race organizer:
"In 1984, I got my first (Alaskan) Malamute. Within a year, I had three, and then the number of dogs grew a bit, so we started to do races in Šumava. However, they banned it later. And once, when we were riding in the Orlické Mountains, my friend suggested we could do races here. So, in 1996, we went to the mayor, and in February 1997, the first year it was held, we started organizing races here."
13. Various of the race
14. People getting hot drinks from organizers
15. Close of people drinking
16. Various of the race
17. Anja Auner, musher, with dogs
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Anja Auner, musher:
"We trained for the whole year. Preparation for this race is the whole season. So you cannot divide it into training for race and training for the dogs. So it’s continuing training during the year. You have to train bivouac (camp), you have to train the dogs to be calm, to rest enough, to drink enough. You have to control the poles. Of course, you have to do the kilometers on snow as well as in the training part – so (we were training) the whole year."
19. Musher resting with the dog
20. Musher hugging his dog
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Dogs and their mushers have been taking part in one of Europe’s most extreme dog sled races.
The Sedivackuv Long takes teams through hundreds of kilometres of the Czech Republic’s Orlicke Mountains.
STORYLINE:
The temperature is low and the race is long – but the dogs were made for these conditions.
They’re taking part in the Sedivackuv Long, one of the toughest dog sled races in Europe.
More than 100 mushers and 700 dogs from eight countries are competing in deep snow and freezing conditions in the Orlicke Mountains, a range in the northeastern Czech Republic near the Polish border.
These Samoyeds are getting some rest now before they start the next stage of the race.
Their musher, Jan Dasek, has been involved in this activity for four years.
He and his wife breed Samoyeds and spend a lot of time preparing for events like this.
"In the beginning, we train shorter distances, starting with the five kilometers, then as we work our way up, we ride 40 (kilometers) most of the time. Now and then, when there’s time, we’ll do a longer one – like 50 or 60 kilometers. However, we can’t train at the elevation as here because we’re from Jihlava," he explains.
The race always takes place in January.
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