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A Team of Olympic Champions Brings Up Back of Iditarod Race Pack

  • March 6, 2012
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Iditarod rookie Matt Failor has a message for the Flying Tomato. He wants the red-headed Olympic snowboarder Shaun White to know there’s a young dog driving deep into the Alaska wilderness named for him.Failor, 29, hoped to let White know about his elite canine, who’s racing in the so-called Super Bowl of sled-dog races, before gliding out of Willow and into his first-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a nearly 1,000-mile late winter race across Alaska. But Failor isn’t a part of the Twitter generation, a must, he discovered, if you’re trying to track down the wild-haired snowboarder.Read more here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/team-olympic-champions-brings-back-iditarod-race-pack

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