Sentences with phrase «iditarod sled»

Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled 48 seconds into his run, near the end of the track.

His sled remained in the track, and it appeared his helmet visor skidded down the ice.

Earlier in the day, the gold - medal favorite, Armin Zoeggeler of Italy, crashed, losing control of his sled on Curve 11.

Zoeggeler came off his sled and held it with his left arm to keep it from smashing atop his body.

«Whether we rent or drive our own... we still haven't driven our sleds for this entire week and gotten used to the track,» said Elana Meyers Taylor, two - time Olympic medalist and bobsled world champion.

«We expect the sleds to be in Germany by Friday... if for some reason they do not arrive in time, we will rent sleds for this weekend's races.»

Romania lent sleds to the U.S. team for practice, and Japan and Germany both offered sleds to use in the qualifier.

«The trouble is, switching sleds isn't like just driving another car,» said Gibbs.

«We are trying everything to scramble to find sleds and gear,» said Lauren Gibbs, a member of the U.S. national team.

If the sleds don't arrive in Germany by Friday, the team will have to rent new gear, a spokesperson said.

Nothing quite says winter like a 1,851 - kilometre sled - dog race spanning the mountains, forests, frozen rivers, desolate tundra and windswept coastline of the U.S.'s northernmost state.

The games are showcasing nearly 700 Paralympians from 45 countries who are competing for 64 metals in six sports — alpine skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biathlon, curling and sled hockey.

Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dubbed the «Last Great Race on Earth,» kicks off in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 5 when thousands of people will line the streets to watch teams of 12 to 16 dogs embark on the 10 - to 17 - day adventure that will take them up to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.

In fact, 18 of the 80 Paralympians on TeamUSA in Sochi are veterans, including four members of the sled hockey team.

The electric sled would allow for cars to be transported at 125 mph through the tunnel, Musk has said.

A few years later, that success led to the formation of the Sled Island festival and then, in Vancouver, the Biltmore.

Several months later, Cahsens was stunned to discover, through contacts in Europe, that the same distributor had sent Great Circle's sleds to China, where manufacturers copied the product and produced it at a deeply discounted price.

It was during one of the first events Great Circle Works attended in Nuremberg, Germany, that a distributor approached Cahsens, voicing enthusiasm for Great Circle's popular line of mini sleds.

For a certain set, it's other things they're after: dog sled rides, solving puzzles, going to concert performances, racking up some serious hot tub time, and just parking one's self in front of the fire.

One thing to know: A two - time Olympic gold winner, Humphries has been the most dominant female driver, leading her sled to three World Cup wins and two second - place finishes this season.

Jazmine Fenlator - Victorian, who drove for the US in Sochi, will pilot the team while Carrie Russell, who ran in Jamaica's 4x100m relay in the 2013 world track and field championships, will be in the sled.

The growing pile of rock is what's leftover when the company's excavators form the tunnels that will eventually transport vehicles at 125 mph using underground sleds.

In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, which is trying to find a way for computers to interact directly with the human brain, and the Boring Company, which is building tunnels to transport people and cargo using another proposed new technology — electric sleds.

Like all the top EMBA programs, this is a tough sled.

He reassembled them on the Copper River, and used them, as well as horses and dog sleds, to bring in equipment and begin mining before the railroad was even finished.

I've had positions with plenty of gains, to only be SLed out after a massive price swing.

Before you watch this one, go out and buy a toboggan, an inner tube or some kind of sled; you'll want to be prepared for the rush of inspiration that follows.

All dogs have masters, but some must pull a sled tirelessly in the cold for a demanding master, and others spend their time curled up by the fire with their master tossing them treats.

Hungry for athletic «redemption,» she then switched to bobsledding, building her own training sled from scratch.

I suspected that Ramsey Clark felt that the five of us had to be pushed off the sled to feed General Hershey.

Why the reindeer sled seen by NASA an all that?

Yet if an adult still believed in a Santa who flies around in a sled pulled by reindeer we (including) most Mormons would think they were nuts...

I am new to New York, and so don't have any of the items that living and driving in New York require — like sand, salt, shovels, sleds, gloves, coats, hats, snowpants (for the kids), etc..

For three trangressions of Damascus and for four I will not turn back its punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sleds of iron; but I will send fire into the house of Hazael and it shall devour the palaces of Ben - Hadad [Amos 1:3 - 4].

I am new to New York, and so don't have any of the items that living and driving in New York require — like sand, salt, shovels, sleds, gloves, coats, -LSB-...]

Maybe his plane went down over the North Pole, possible collision with a flying sled...

If you really want to make a statement, then refute the logic of the SLED argument that I gave above.

If the headlights on our family car were not very effective in making our way through heavy fogs, what good would a glowing red nose be in a sled's global journey on a foggy Christmas Eve?

Poor George had to pull the sled with only a little help from Simon.

In the morning we took the little guy out on the sled because it had snowed — again.

Sled dogs fed a diet consisting of 35 % of energy from protein had higher plasma volume than dogs fed a diet with 18 % of energy from protein (63).

Just enough for the kids to sled down the hill at Grandma's house a few times before they'd run inside to warm up their fingers and toes.

He bought us a sled and put 90 pounds on it and got us to push it around the width of the field.

After a day spent tumbling down snowy hills in sleds, like we had yesterday, there is nothing better than nestling in at home.

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

My family loves tilapia, too, though I have to laugh — my spouse was reading some article that mentioned the fun thing about being a dad was «being able to eat fish sticks again», so guess what was in the oven when I returned from a weekend - long sled hockey tournament in Grand Rapids?

13,000 Liechtenstein supporters have set off on sleds for their away encounter in Moscow in March.

A sled dog can not be trained like a house dog, plied with food or cowed by physical punishment.

Next week Lance Mackey will choose 16 of his 120 huskies, tie them to his sled and try to become the first musher to win five straight Iditarods.