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In this March 15, 2016 file photo, Aliy Zirkle drives her dog team
to the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome,
Alaska.
Associated Press
Frenchman Nicolas

Petit retakes lead

In this Feb. 3, 2019, file photo, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick walks the sideline during in Alaska’s Iditarod
the second half of the team’s NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against the Los Angeles Rams in
Atlanta.
Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Frenchman Nicolas Petit is
Patriots’ Super Bowl DVD a back in the lead in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Petit had earlier led the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race
and retook the top spot Thursday. He was first to leave
celebration of Belichick, dynasty the checkpoint at the ghost town of Iditarod, the halfway
point of this year’s race.
He left with all 14 of his dogs.
By JOE REEDY and tells a great story,” said him being wired. After the In second place is Aliy (AL’-ee) Zirkle. The three-time sec-
AP Sports Writer NFL Films senior producer Patriots scored to take ond-place finisher was in the lead earlier Thursday, when
NFL Films is no stranger to Todd Schmidt. “They start- a 10-3 lead in the fourth she was first to reach the Iditarod checkpoint.
producing films commem- ed 1-2 and everyone wrote quarter, Belichick told his For that feat, she picks up some swag. She can decide
orating a Super Bowl title them off, but then got mo- defense “we don’t have between $3,000 in gold nuggets or a top-end cellphone
for the New England Patri- mentum late in the season. much left here. We’ve got with free service for a year.
ots. When it came time to That type of story is a lot of to get them right. . They re- In third place is defending champion Joar Ulsom of
tell the story of the Patriots’ fun.” Schmidt said the main ally can’t beat us. We just Norway.q
sixth championship, they job for the producers who can’t screw up.” The Super
found that tying it into the work on these projects is Bowl takes up 17 minutes Olympic medalist Daniel
past five was the best route. how to use the games to of the video. Schmidt, like
The final product is a 75-min- tell the story of the season many others, said he was Rudisha, father of
ute DVD that shows how and the arc that the team concerned after the game
the Patriots’ road to their eventually reached. For how they were going to David, dies at 73
third title the past five years the Patriots there was the fill the time because there
had many of the trade- additional storyline of how was not much scoring. But
marks of past champion- does a dynasty respond to as they started to look at By MUTWIRI MUTUOTA tensive care unit. He was
ship New England squads. adversity? Senior producer the footage, those con- Associated Press speaking well and joking
The DVD was released to Rob Gill, a Massachusetts cerns abated. “You would NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — as usual while undergoing
the public by Cinedigm on native, was responsible for expect a lot more larger Daniel Rudisha, an Olym- his dialysis treatment but at
Tuesday. compiling the Patriots’ sea- shots, but what we did was pic silver-medalist runner in around 11 p.m. he suffered
The video starts with the fi- son highlights as the pro- focus on the speed and 1968 and the father of two- a sudden heart attack.
nal play of Super Bowl 52, duction process ramped sound of the game, which time Olympic 800-meter David Rudisha, a world re-
when the Patriots lost to the up after the AFC champi- was captivating. Instead of champion David Rudisha, cord-holder and two-time
Philadelphia Eagles, and onship game. Schmidt said slow footage, we have fast has died. He was 73. world champion in the 800,
ends with New England some of the best parts of footage,” Schmidt said. David Rudisha made the often referred to his father
celebrating in Super Bowl the video are getting to “The time passed quick announcement on Thurs- as his inspiration. He gave
53. “You are always looking hear coach Bill Belichick in- because we accentuat- day, saying his father had his dad his first gold med-
for what fuels a champion teract with his team. ed the sound and did not a heart attack on Wednes- al from the 2012 London
“Anytime you have Belich- slight the drama. People day while undergoing di- Olympics, when he set the
ick wired up and you can aren’t going to say it was a alysis treatment. The elder current world record. Da-
see inside the greatest dy- boring recap.” Rudisha had struggled with vid posted pictures of him-
nasty in NFL history, it is in- Besides the Patriots’ sea- diabetes for many years self and his father on Twit-
teresting story telling,” he son highlights, the DVD and had been in the inten- ter this week. The Kenyan
said. Schmidt said Belichick also includes features from sive care unit this week. track federation said Dan-
talking to the defense dur- Super Bowl opening night “Our beloved father sadly iel Rudisha was a “pioneer”
ing the fourth quarter of and post-game ceremo- left us last night,” David for Kenyan athletics.
the Super Bowl, and talking nies. There are also fea- Rudisha said. “He had re- “(He) set the foundation
plainly on what they need- tures recapping the sea- covered and was on his for the current crop of
ed to be successful, was son around the rest of the way to fine health hav- athletes,” Athletics Kenya
one of the best parts about NFL.q ing been taken off the in- said.q