Lindnord immediately decided to adopt Arthur - named after King Arthur - and bring him to Sweden.
The team placed 12th, but it gained a fifth member in the process. “It sounds crazy, but somewhere along the way I’d decided that he and I were going to stick together,” Lindnord told The Daily Telegraph. Lindnord, at first annoyed that Arthur was slowing down his team, realized that Arthur wouldn’t have traveled all this way unless he needed him. It can be impossibly hard for a human body to endure these harsh conditions, but for a dog named Arthur, giving up was not an option.Īfter Lindnord gave the adventure-racing stray dog a snack, he continued to follow the team for the last 180 kilometers of their journey, all while suffering from bad wounds on his back. "I was almost crying in front of the computer, when I got the news," Mikael Nordlind told Aftonbladet.Adventure racing, if you’ve never heard of it, is cross-country racing where teams of four run, kayak, or bike through rough jungles, mountains, or glaciers - all while remaining within five meters of each other.
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After 120 days in quarantine, he will be free to join his new master in Sweden. The Swedish Board of Agriculture said the dog was in too bad condition.īut, after visiting a vet in Quito, who gave him a health check, and ID chip and a vaccination against rabies, Arthur is now in the clear. During the 700km race, the swedish team meet a stray dog. Arthur was a stray dog who became a loyal team member of sweden’s extreme race team Team Peak Performance. Here's how it works Stray dog befriends extreme race team A stray dog followed an extreme race team and made such an impact that they asked him to be a permanent team member. Extreme marathon runner Dion Leonard noticed the small stray dog.
It was worth it," said Lindnord.Īt the end of the race, the team contacted the authorities in Sweden to see if they could bring Arthur with them home. Ecuador was the host of a extreme race this past month that caught a lot of attention for being the scenario of a very special story: The story of Arthur. 0:31, A stray dog won the heart of an extreme marathon runner, after tagging along while he raced across the Gobi desert in China. Stray Dog Follows Extreme Athletes 430 Miles To A Better Life, by Dina Fantegrossi, When all you’ve ever known is survival, the smallest act of kindness can change your entire world. "If we lost a few points because we brought a dog on a 70 kilometre kayak trip, then so be it. Then he got cold and I lent him my coat," said the team's captain Mikael Lindnord. Sometimes he jumped into the water to chase fish. "It was pretty difficult, technically, to paddle with a big dog in your lap. The tabloid Aftonbladet has been following the story, that started with a meatball chucked to a scruffy canine, and ended up with him following the team for several days as they were running through deep mud and almost impenetrable jungle, cycling and white-water rafting. The tale of Arthur begins months ago, deep in the Amazon jungles of Ecuador, where a team of Swedish athletes was preparing for another difficult leg of a.
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