Leaving the Races Behind

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you travel down to Ushuaia, Argentina, you might just find a bus plastered with a massive photograph of Sam Evans-Brown. In that photo, he's sprinting, shoulder to shoulder, with Olympic cross-country ski-racer Martin Bianchi in the final stretch of the 2008 national ski championship of Argentina. Today, Sam brings us the backstory to that photograph--a story about a split-second act of kindness that altered the course of Martin's life, and about figuring out when it's time to leave the races behind. Sam hosts the podcast 'Outside In', a show from New Hampshire Public Radio about the natural world and how we use it. A version of this story originally aired on 'Outside In'. You can find "Don't Cheer for Me Argentina" here.

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1:01.8	Okay Jen, I'm gonna ask you some questions. Okay, so you gotta wait till I give you
1:07.8	you can't say anything to lie. Give you the microphone. I'm in charge here
1:12.4	Jen. Okay, Jen. What do you think? What do you think about competitive sports?
1:16.3	Makes them so powerful. Like why does it leave a mark on people because I
1:21.8	think that I've never really cared that much about competitive sports proper.
1:26.2	I mean, I've cared a lot about being athletic and stuff like that but I just
1:29.3	I don't know. I just never really been into them and I notice it in people is
1:33.0	that they people will bond. They can be 20 years in age different and they'll bond
1:37.0	over you know their training program from when they were 17 and I'm curious
1:42.6	from your perspective why are competitive sports so powerful? I mean I think a
1:47.0	lot of us start competitive sports when we're at a pretty formative age and I
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