Since he won in 2009, Radek has been each time close to win again. He was runner-up in 2010 and was leading the race in 2011, before he failed in the final stage. Finally in 2012, he becomes the first double winner of La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc after a race he controlled from the first day, winning 5 of the 9 stages. It's a huge happiness for the Czech who never stopped thinking about last year.

"It's only when I crossed the finish line that I was really sure to win the race. I didn't want to believe it before. I can't realise that I have won the race two times." he declared on the finish line.

The running champion Milos Gonda from Slovakia took the second place. He hasen't managed to be at the level he was last year. Despite a very steady race and one stage victory."

Jean-Philippe Pontier is the stronger musher on this end of the race of La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc 2012. He has never won any stage in La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc since his first entry in 2006 and this year he has won the last two stages. He has been 15 minutes faster than Gonda today, but had 30 minutes to get back to pass the Slovak. After he was third in 2011, he confirms his team potential and has shown strategic qualities and a real professionnal hability to stay calm and believe in his plan. He has clearly jumped a step up this season. He takes the third place for the second year in a row. He has prooved today that you can be very competitve on La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc with a team of real long distance alaskan huskies.