12:22: We will finish the live web now. Thank you for all you who have been follow us during La Grande Odyssee 2011. Pease follow us with reports and result on LGO blog and web-site.
12:17: Combazard, Hoffmann, Gaspard,De Martin have finished, It`s just Heritier and Schumacher and Ulmann out in the trail. Times on this teams comes on the result site on the web site.
12.08: Teams arriving, under you got unofficial times.
Temps de l'étape 10 non officielle
Milos Gonda 3:36:18
Jp Pontier 3:42:25
Martin Bily 3:43:21
Jo Are Brennodden 3:49:09
Ketil Reitan 3:53:39
Daniel Juillaguet 3:57:20
Fabrizio Lovati 4:03:44
11:40: Bily arrive and be nr 2...Reitan...nr4 in general and Pontier who got the 3. place general...and now Brennodden 6. and in just this moment Juilaguet 5. on the general ranking
11:35: Gonda as the first ariving the Finnish and is the first in the race.
11.13: At the general ranking at the moment: Gonda, Bily, Pontier, Reitan, Juillaguet, Brennodden, and nothing seems to be change in the last few km of the race. Actic Alps Cup: Reitan, Juillaguet, Brennodden. Bily is arriving any moment in the finish.
11.04: Out of the valley Bily showed up 2 min before Gonda, then Pontier with Reitan abit back of him. 8 min.after Juillaguet and Brennodden. Not far to the finish now...
11.01: We have got a message form the racemanagement that Radek now have scratched.
10.52: This is dramatic, will Radek make the time against Pontier, Yesterday before the start he had 1.06,25 on him. We are waiting the teams out of this valley, and Radek is on his way in now...,, we got a message that Radek have stopped out in the trail for over 4 min.
10:43: Radek have choiched to go on in the race, he have put one dog in the sledge, an d going very slow at the moment. Will he make it against Pontier? What a dramatic!!!
10.18: Radek have scratch and Pontier is suddenly on third in the race.
10.14: Passing times up in Val Cenis when the mushers is going in a small valey up there:Juillaguet 10.05.28, Retan 10.05.30, Gonda 10.06.41, Pontier 10.07.31 Bily 10.00.33, Brennodden 10.09.54. Radek haven`t passed and is far back of those, it`s dramatic for him and the fight for second place.
09:58: It`s really importent for Radek to get his team moving at the moment. Bily is eating minutes, and if he manages to eat about 19 of them, he got the second place in the general rank.
09:44: Billy in front, Reitan and Juillaguet some distance back og him. Then a bit back Gonda, and Pontier not far back of him. Bily really try to go for the second place, while Radek is having a heavy trip down in the groups of mushers. Radek had 23.40 min on Bily before the start yesterday.
09:27: Bily is in front just befor Reitan/Juillaguet a bit back of them Gonda is comming. Abit back of him Brrennodden, and a bit back of him Pontier. Radek is in the backgroup now. Jean Phillipe Pontier is really going fast at the moment, this french musher who lives in Norway and is making his dogs to a longdistance team is doing well here at LGO.
09:09: It`s about 2 km between Juillaguet/Reitan in front and Schumacher in the back.
09:05: Pontier have passed Radek and left him.
09:02: It`s not so far between the first and last team in the group, at the moment we can see that Gonda control Radek, Bily control Pontier and Reitan have the control against Juillaguet and Brennodden in the Actic Alps Cup.
08:51: Gonda have passed Radek, he is really doing well at the moment.
08:44: Gonda moves up iin back of Radek and have the contol at the moment, Pontier is not far back of those two.
08:46: Bily is moving fast at the moment, and reitan is in the front of the teams at the moment.
08:32: We can see that the typcal longdistance teams need some time to get the team going, but still Reitan have started fast. Pontier og Gonda is together at the moment. It`s still far to go, Gonda is passing Pontier just now.
08:26: Brennodden, Radek and Bily is in a group. and go together at the moment.
08:20: Pontier try to get up on Bily from back, he keep the distance to Gonda. Radek passed Bily a while ago. They are passing Lanslevillard. We know that Pontiers dogs will really "kick" a bit later than Bily Team. But Pontier haven`t come up in Bily s Back yet.
08:09: Reitan have gone very fast the first 10 km downhill, very importent that he don`t let Juillaguet and Brennodden back of him in the Actic Alps Cup. Radek going together with Brennodden at the moment, but he have droped a dog at the polare base. Juillaguet is really trying to attack Reitan, but haven`t be able to short in yet.
ng the valley, it`s clouds outside, will we get snow-weather? Then some of the teams maybe get an heavy trip the about 64 km who is left.
=7.38: They will be followed every 2. min by: Combazard FRA, Hoffmann GER, De Martin ITA, Gaspard FRA, Reitan NOR, Juillaguet FRA, Lovatti ITA, Brennodden NOR, Bily CZE, Radek CZE, Pontier FRA, Gonda SLO.
07.35: The start is on, Heriter SUI, Ulmann SUI and Schumacher GER have started.
07.25: The teams start on Polar base after a night in tent, go down to the valley Val Cenis, go up the valley and make a loop as yesterday and come down to Lanslebourg for finishline. Milosh Gonda SLO have taken the lead in General ranking just before Radek Havrda CZE. The is the reverse order how they arrived the polar base yesterday. It`s - 10C at the start and - 2C in Lanslebourg.
07.10 We wait for the start at 07.30.
15:00 everybody is good arrived now, both last ones Jaco Alex Ulmann and Wolfram Schumacher. Thanks to all those who have still followed us very numerous on all stages of les Portes du s...
read more...20:40 Jaco Alex Ulmann and Wolfram Schumacher are arrived now, and this part of the Stage 4 (4b) is now finish...
read more...13:16 Here is time Intermediaries of this stage 4a, it is not the ranking of the stage this one will be made on two half-stages. Emil Inauen in 00.59.43, Radek Havrda in 1.00.59, Milos Gon...
read more...21:42 Mel Andrews just cross the finishline, the third stage is now finish....
read more...12:30 Arrival time for this second stage: Martin Bily et Radek Havrda in the same time of 1h30:15, Emil Inauen 1h30:58, Aki Holck 1h38:58, Milos Gonda 1h39:21, Ketil Reitan 1h41:27, Jean-...
read more...22:30 Meeting tomorrow morning at 9h30 fort the second Stage...
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Czech Republic [28 years old]Finisher : 2011
Sponsors :
Prize list :
LGO 2011 (2)
Biography :
Norway [36 years old]Finisher : 2011, 2010, 2009
Sponsors :
Prize list :
Arctic Alps Cup 2011 CHAMPION
LGO 2011 (6) - Friendliest Musher
Finnmarkslopet 1000 2011 (7)
LGO 2010 (5)
LGO 2009 (4) - Friendliest Musher
Finnmarkslopet 1000 2010 (10)
Finnmarkslopet 1000 2008 (14)
Finnmarkslopet 500 2005 (7)
Biography :
Jo Are is from a succesful mushing familly. His father Kjell is one of the best long-distance mushers in Norway. His brother Ola has won the Femundlopet 500 in 2008. Jo Are took a great 4th place in La Grande Odyssee Savoie Mont Blanc 2009. He received also the friendliest musher award.
Slovakia [34 years old]Finisher : 2011
Sponsors : Royal Canin
Prize list :
LGO 2011 CHAMPION
Pasvik Trail 2011 CHAMPION
Pasvik Trail 2007 (28)
Biography :
Milos has discovered the mushing in 2003. He know runs tours for tourist in Swedish Lapland. 2011 champion, he comes back to LGO to defend his title.
Czech Republic [38 years old]Finisher : 2010, 2009, 2008
Sponsors : HUMI OUTDOOR - EURO HUSKY - VETERINÁR S.R.O.
Prize list :
LGO 2011 (13) non finisher
LGO 2010 (2)
LGO 2009 CHAMPION
LGO 2008 (4)
Trophée Grande Odyssée 2007 CHAMPION
Biography :
La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc is Radek's main goal. He won the race in 2009 in front of Robert Sorlie. He is one of the main favorite's of the 2012 edition.
France [45 years old]Finisher : 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005
Sponsors : EUKANUBA - ENERGIZER - NUTRYLIS
Prize list :
LGO 2011 (5), LGO 2010 (11)
LGO 2009 (8), LGO 2008 (6),
LGO 2006 (6), LGO 2005 (11)
Trophée Haute Maurienne 2007 (7)
Finnmarkslopet 500 2003 (16)
Finnmarkslopet 500 2004 (27)
Femundlopet 2007 (26)
Femundlopet 2008 (28)
Biography :
A physiotherapist, Daniel is one of the best french long distance musher. He entered La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc since his first edition.
Italy [37 years old]Finisher : 2011
Sponsors : Vallée d'Aoste, Italie
Prize list :
LGO 2011 (7)
LGO 2005 (17)
Iditarod 2008 (48)
Iditarod 2006 (38)
Iditarod 2004 (28)
Biography :
Fabrizio began mushing in 1987, he is the most famous Italian long-distance musher. He ran La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc in 2005, the first edition and is back for LGO 2011.
Norway [51 years old]Finisher : 2011, 2009, 2008
Sponsors : UnoX, Royal Canin Norway, Roros Hotell, Rorosbanken, Canada Goose
Prize list :
Arctic Alps Cup 2011 CHAMPION
LGO 2008 (3), LGO 2009 (7), LGO 2011 (4)
Finnmarkslopet 1000 2011 (11)
Yukon Quest 1989
Iditarod 1991, 1992 (10), 1993, 1994
Hope Nadezhda 1991
Femundlopet 2008 (2e), 2009 (7e)
Finnmarkslopet 2006 (12e), 2007 (11e) 2010 (7)
Biography :
Ketil is the only one musher who has run the 4 greatest races in the world: the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest, the Finnmarkslopet and La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc.