AFP通信のインスタグラム(afpphoto) - 2月2日 01時50分

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Only half of the 100 competitors who braved one of Europe's toughest sled dog races, the Czech Long Trail, finished the competition which ended on Saturday.
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"We had exactly 100 competitors, including 80 mushers and 20 skiers pulled by dogs and bikers," head organiser Pavel Kucera told AFP.
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He added 12 mushers and three bikers had taken part in the five-stage 348-kilometre (218-mile) race with total elevation topping 9,000 metres.
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The rest of the pack from 11 countries including Austria, Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands and Serbia competed on a 215-kilometre track with four stages and an elevation of 7,000 metres (23,000 feet).
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"We had an excellent start with frost, blue skies, lovely night rides. Now it's overcast and we've had some snowfall so we have experienced all kinds of conditions," Kucera said.
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After several warm winters which forced the organisers to shorten the race or even replace the sleds with four-wheel training carts, Kucera said this year had "the best conditions since 2004".
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The race is called "Sedivackuv long" in Czech, named after Kucera's dog Sedivak, who strayed just before the first race in 1997 and was shot dead by a local man.
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