"While we can't confirm what our friends Rudolph, Blitzen and the rest of the team get up to in the offseason when they aren't helping Santa deliver presents around the world (its all very hush hush) there are humors they sometimes attend Sami Week in Norway to compete in the annual Norwegian Reindeer Racing Championships, which draws thousands of spectators to the city center of Tromsø to watch the country's fastest reindeer compete for the national title."
"The races are conducted on Tromsø's main street which is closed off and covered with snow for the event. The skiers and reindeer compete in head to head heats over a sprint distance measuring just over 650 feet until one team is declared the champion. Speeds often exceed 30mph and its considered a win just cross the finish line. The world record time is 14.936 seconds set by Anders Nils Eira back in 2005."
Sami Week in Tromsø hosts the annual Norwegian Reindeer Racing Championships, attracting thousands of spectators to the city center. Races run on Tromsø's main street, which is closed and covered with snow for the event. Skiers and reindeer compete head-to-head in sprint heats of just over 650 feet until a winner emerges. Teams can exceed 30 mph and finishing the race is often considered a victory. The world record stands at 14.936 seconds, set by Anders Nils Eira in 2005. Harnessing reindeer for ski travel has been practiced for hundreds of years across northern Scandinavia and Russia, known in Norwegian as snörekjøring.
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