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This is the single-news section of the
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UAE Desert Challenge: Big problems for Team Saluki Tuesday
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The Saluki-Team of the Dubai-based Britains Mark Powell and Tim Ansell started with their gold-black coloured Land Rover Defender off the day a place ahead of Mondays´s finishing place due to a fellow competitor having transmission problems on the start line. 72Km into the first 90Km section the call came in that the team fear to receive: The Codriver Tim Ansell is ill - he´s suffering from de-hydration.
The team make the sensible decision to request assistance using the emergency system installed in the vehicle. A medi-vac helicopter is soon on it's way directly to their exact location to airlift Tim to the local Moreeb hospital. Tim Ansell had been following all the guidelines for hydration and had even been attending the hydration clinic to provide blood tests to check for symptoms of de-hydration. Ansell, before getting airlifted out would like to apologise to everyone for what he feels is letting the team down. The team however feel that the lows as well as the highs are all part of the challenge.
Mark Powell completed the last 18Km to PC1 on his own and from there returned to the bivouac and finishing the day there.
2006/11/08 | 13:19 CET | Editor: UAE Live Team, Team Saluki
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