Davis-Palin Iron Dog Team Scratches
For those following the 2000 mile Iron Dog snowmachine race, it seems like the most famous pair of racers has scratched.
Iron Dog development director Heidi Griffin said the injury happened about 30 miles past the checkpoint Sunday night, and the racers were returning to the checkpoint.
She did not know the nature of Davis’ injury and expected further updates later Monday.
Davis, 50, is tied with John Faeo as the winningest driver in race history with seven victories. Partner Palin, 45, has four titles. But since their 2007 victory, the duo has had trouble. They finished sixth last year, the worst result in Davis’ 20 Iron Dog finishes.
The team has suffered injury before, most famously when Todd Palin finished the last 400 miles of the race with a broken arm. Davis has won seven previous Iron Dogs.
The injury occured near Puntilla Lake in The Alaska Range. The nature of Davis’ injuries are not known.
Details and updates can be found at the Anchorage Daily News.
Not been a good year for the Palins, it seems.
Karma, baby, karma.
Interesting timing.
Really
Quitting can be contagious.
Hmmm….
Bummer for them.
Interesting day on the blogs for us.
okay I’ll say it…
quit, yuppers
karma, ouch
come on now, the prize was 50 grand!
*shrugs* I’ll be generous and say that I’m sure they worked hard and are disappointed they couldn’t finish.
Breaking up is hard to do.
Agree with 9-LisaB, even if you’re not a fan, it still takes a big pair of cajones to race the irondog, and as a competitor, you never wish badluck on a fellow competitor. Nothing wrong with outracing them, but DNF due to injury just sucks.
Hope that Davis isn’t injured too badly.
Am sure it’s a disappointment.
best wishes to Mr. Davis. hope next year will be better,
While I hope it’s nothing serious and I truly do wish an easy recovery from any injury that may have incurred , the truth is we’ve all come to a place where we mistrust anything that has to do with the Palins. If Sarah twittered that she was enjoying a wonderful Tuesday, I’d go to my own calendar to see if it really is Tuesday.
Sure, maybe there was an injury but I’m going with the idea that :
They were running so far behind that they knew they wouldn’t even get close to placing. The unraveling grand illusion of the Perfect Palin Family couldn’t suffer another disaster so Todd convinced Davis to just pack it in. Perhaps the injury was slight but enough to use it as an excuse.
I agree the timing is interesting considering the blog news of the day but I’m wondering if $P could have even reached him by cell phone with a screeching, ” Get Home Now !”
If I could do that ” one raised eyebrow ” thing, I’d be doing it. I don’t trust anything coming from that crazy compound.
No sympathy here Davis. He cheated before he was caught, he cheated and was caught, betcha there is another scandle about to break so he suddenly found himself on the injured list.
OT: GOP lawmaker from VA thinks handicapped kids are punishment from God for previous abortions (cross-posted at Bree’s). What would Scarah say???
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/22/disabled-abortion/
Hehhem…(loud dramatic announcers voice)..
“The injury occurred when Mr. Davis’ left eye suddenly catapulted itself into Mr. Palin’s fist.”
I hear he has and ear injury
I am quite confident this is a genuine injury.
Really, these guys have a long record of guts and stamina in this race. Speculating that they would now be quitters is way out there, when there is not a shred of evidence that this is anything but an injury.
When I first read your headline I thought, what’s so unusual about a team of dogs scratching?
@JCos (giggle)
Hope Mr davis is alright
Hmmm.
No way could they have won.
Also $P needs Toad.
May need the services of Van Fleas again to deal with that pesky blogger.
I hope the injury is not serious.
aha
I hear he has and ear injury
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ROFL.
S’error must have needed his ear.
Interesting tid-bit…….Virginia GOP delegate Bob Marshall claims that “disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.”
Of course she won’t respond to this and even if she does, it will be a statement with tortured logic (and syntax). But how interesting that the whole righteous crusade she is conducting to protect any and all special needs children has resulted in this conundrum. Does she stand up for special needs groups and denounce this claim from Marshall? Does she stay silent and hope no-one notices? What does this say about her own special needs baby? Is this an indictment on Queen Sarah from the Almighty about a *gasp* previous secret abortion? Will the Palinbots make the connection, see the indirect smear against their Queen and spring into action?
It’s fun to speculate =) Once again, if only Palin WOULD sit down and shut up, she would save herself so many headaches!
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/22/paging-sarah-palin/
The only “dog” involved in The Irondog is…a pitbull. And I bet $he is scratching, also, too.
… a no good very bad day, I guess.
Snow machines, for the sake of excess and perks, and conquering Nature with ear splitting noise and exhaust fumes, irritate me.
@27 –“disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.”
Good God.
The GOP irritates me, also, too.
“Only dead fish go with the flow.”
Probably those van fleas that makes the dogs scratch.
I pray to God that her political whims are scratched as well…she really needs to get the message that she no longer needs to be a representative of anyone! b/c she does NOT represent anyone that has brain cells.
Moose Pucky @31…hahahahacaw Caw CAW!!!
Moose Pucky Says:
Probably those van fleas that makes the dogs scratch.
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Too dang funny !!
scratch, quit, withdraw, gone, my call is that sarah wasn’t at the start..cause these retards had planned this quit!..a planned event..they are now hillbilly elitists..boy todd has really crashed his sno-go..
S’error’s disclosure indicated they only got $ 3,500 is sponsorship funds (LOL). Well, I guess Davis went only so far as $ 3,500 would take him.
Any one know if the Palin’s are decked out in Arctic Cat clothing, this year?
I Hope Mr. Davis is okay. . . . .
dang~Bwahahahahaha…sorry a little giggle here…
Darn that climate change!
Hope Mr. Davis is OK, but it’s kind of a relief that we won’t have to hear how Todd and Sarah are doing at the finish.
I could not believe the idiocy coming out of Virginia today – gays can be disqualified for state jobs because they are gay and can be asked that question? I thought there were federal laws against that, but it’s only state by state? Argh. And the whole thing about special needs children being a punishment for having had an abortion. That man deserves to be run out of office. I hope the women in his state wake up and speak out and lead the vote against him. And the worst is that he says all that’s in the Bible. I don’t know what Bible he was reading but someone needs to send him a new one – his is defective.
For the guy who said the crap about special needs and abortion, here is my 2 cents. All of the pro-life men should be told that if they could get their way and abortion laws would change in their favor, then NEW laws would also be enacted stating that men could ONLY engage in sex to impregnante women, in order to avoid any unwanted pregnancies.
That should shut them up!
I hope Mr Davis is ok,as well as everyone else on the trail,but I have to qualify that with my feelings about the race.I feel the same about snow machines as I do about jet skis-they are a useful tool that has been taken over as a toy,and now they pollute the air ,our ears,and wildlife. Racing a snow machine takes stamina,strength,and craftiness,I am sure,but the Iditarod captivates me.The melding of man and his dogs,the care and training,the sheer strength of will.
I just dont care about the Iron Dog in the same way I dont care about Nascar.Its a machine.
But those sled dogs !!
That Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manasas is a moron is beyond dispute. I would like him to provide any data supporting his contention that “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically.” I am willing to bet that he pulled that one right out of his big fat manASSas.
If Marshall’s theory has any credibility, how does he explain Trig Palin? Palin had no abortions. Was this God’s “judgement” upon Palin’s bid for VPOTUS? Is God a liberal after all? Is Marshall claiming that all such births are God’s way of punishing mothers who have strayed? Is God’s aim really that bad? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate for God to “smite through the loins” (Deu. 33:11, KJV) any such offending woman? Would it be right for any human to punish a child with an immutable life sentence because of some indiscretion of their mother? If punishment of children for the sins of the parents is OK, can I give Marshall’s children a great big dope slap because he is an imbecile? What about dad? What kind of punishment do kids get because of dad’s screw-ups? Is anyone going to claim that Marshall IS NOT an A$$HAT?
Former Partial Governor Palin, do you have any thoughts on this man besmirching your honor?
As for Davis quitting so suddenly, could it have anything to do with Gryphen’s post today? It seems that team Palin is going to be furiously circling their wagons. Could Todd simply have had a family “emergency” to attend to? I still haven’t heard the nature of this injury. I definitely think that it is a ear injury, just not Davis’ ear.
mommom Amen to your post @42!!
Her latest tweet says they had “broken parts”, doesn’t mention anyone was injured. I don’t think she can tell a straight story about anything.
“Rough&tough trail,Team#22 made gallant effort;broken parts have ‘em now cheering on rest of IronDoggers still in race!Great job,great sports”
mommoms post..right on!
Mrs. Quitty Pants must be having another meltdown, so now Mr. Quitty Pants must come home.
They don’t fool anyone……geez
Don’t know if it was just a joke, but I read somewhere else, that Mr. Davis was supposed to speak on an Alaska radio show. The speculation was that if his injury was so bad, how could he hop over to a radio studio?
Barring that, I do feel bad for anyone who puts the time, money and energy into a race and it’s ruined like that. Same kind of feeling when the Olympic skaters do so well, then fall.
Just read the ADN article –
“Davis, 51, said a combination of problems put the duo out of contention and, eventually, out of the race. A crash broke the handlebars on Davis’ Arctic Cat snowmobile as well as some springs. His back, which was sore at the start, worsened steadily.
” ‘It was an accumulation of stuff,’ Davis said by phone. ‘It just wasn’t going our way. We probably could have slugged it out with the kids, but when you’re 140 miles behind and a couple of hours down, you wonder if it’s worth it.’ ”
So no, it wasn’t an accident injury that put them out of contention. In the quote above Davis admits he *could* have finished the race – if he really wanted to. But they were losing, so they quit.
Iquiterod!!! Ibrokeabar!! Ihurtaback!!
I’m sure ol’ Grand dad had some input, as well, too. Also.
When they got caught cheating that last time, I read that they replaced a broken part instead of repairing it. He probably had a brandy new handlebar, but couldn’t use it this time.
Quitters. Both. And that whole thing is an insult to the Dog race and the environment.
Oh and Buffalogal… I got that hairy eyebrow raised up high for ya!
Irondogs. Meh. Pitbulls with lipstick. We all know that breed:
Shove everyone under the bus as you plow through doors, do some fancy pageant walkin’ with assorted accessories, line your pockets, screech, twit, divide with a view to conquer, whine, compalin er comPLAIN.
But when it comes time to Work, they Quit.
I’m with mommom @42 . Real dogs have heart and are strong and brave loyal and don’t quit.
Mr. Marshall, if you cannot provide annotated sources to support your assertions, Please Mind your Own Business! You are wasting time and energy when we have Real Work to do in these United States.
R’ipley, Great Hairy Eyebrow! I’ll add “The Look” over the top of my glasses, spiked with residual migraine. Oooooooooooh. That’s Ugly.
Check out Palin’s Fixed Tweet on the race dropout: http://www.fixingpalin.com/2010/02/february-22nd-2010-754-pm.html