新春趣闻：各地狗拉雪橇比赛火热进行中(英语多图)

01.我是哈士奇，是最棒的雪橇犬！

Dogsleds are in the news lately, as several races have recently taken place around the Northern Hemisphere, and as transportation choices for both a meeting of the G-7 and the start of the 2010 U.S. census. Mushers brought representatives to Iqaluit, a small village in Nunavut Territory, chosen to host a recent G-7 meeting, in part so Canada could assert sovereignty over its part of the Arctic. The 2010 U.S. Census, as per tradition, kicked off its count on January 25th in a rural part of Alaska in the small village of Noorvik, as census takers arrived by dogsled. And recent dogsled races include Le Grand Odyssee, the Sedivackuv Long, Pirena, the Aviemore Husky Sled Dog Rally and many more smaller regional competitions. Collected here are a handful of recent photos of sleds, dogs, and their humans.

Three-year-old J-Sun Inti howls to the tunes of his owner's harmonica. He is part of the Boston Snowdogs dog slead team out of Dorchester as they awaited to take part in the Myopia dog sled competition on Saturday January 16, 2010 in Hamilton, Massachusetts. J-Sun Inti was a rescue dog and was adopted in Peru, his name means "son of the sun" in the Tarahumara language. (Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)

02.应景

Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty rides in a dogsled across a frozen Frobisher Bay off Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, February 5, 2010 as Canada plays host to the G7 Finance Ministers in the northern community. Iqaluit residents beamed with pride Friday, eager to showcase Canada's far north to the world when G7 finance minister's meet here this weekend.
驾驶这辆雪橇的是加拿大的财政大臣！ (GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images)

03.明日之星

A man looks through the window with his dog at a kennel for breeding and training hunting and sled dogs outside Orsha, 240 km from the Belarus capital Minsk, on February 5, 2010. (ALEXEY GROMOV/AFP/Getty Images)

04.竞技精神

A musher competes with four Siberian huskies during the 18th dog sledding in Benneckenstein, central Germany on January 24, 2010. Some 54 mushers with over 200 sled dogs took part in the event.
这张照片摄于德国中部城市Benneckenstein，在这次狗拉雪橇比赛中， 总数多达200只狗的54辆雪橇车参与其中。
(JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)

05.哥俩好

A Siberian Husky licks its owner after finishing in a Sled Dog competition in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok, January 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev)

06.夜间休整

Sled dogs and their mushers prepare to bivouac at the Mount Cenis (Mont Cenis) polar base after the first leg of the "Grand Odyssee" sixth edition, from Lanslebourg to Haute Maurienne Vanoise, early on January 17, 2009. Twenty of the world best teams and 350 dogs compete along a 1,000 km course held over three days in French Alps. (JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP/Getty Images)

07.剪影

Karen Jones prepares for the 27th annual Aviemore Husky Sled Dog Rally beside Loch Morlich on January 21, 2010 Aviemore, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

08.帅哥美女大合照！

Husky dogs take part in the 27th Aviemore Sled Dog Rally near Aviemore in Scotland, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. (AP Photo / Danny Lawson)

09.狗拉滑雪板- -！

A man skis behind his dogs during the Sedivackuv Long dog sled race in Destne v Orlickych Horach, Czech Republic on January 27, 2010. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)

10.看我多上相哪！

A woman walks her husky in Yildiz park in the center of Istanbul, Turkey, during a snowy day on January 25, 2010. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)

11.别小看萨摩，咱也会拉雪橇！

Hartwig Rackwitz and his dogs race in a sled dog competition near the eastern German town of Hasselfelde on January 10, 2010. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)

12.看得见吃不着

A treat is dangled in front of a dog as it pulls a sled across the frozen Lake of Menteith, in Scotland, Saturday Jan. 9, 2010. (AP Photo / Andrew Milligan)

13.列队！开饭啦~~

Dogs eat before the start of the Sedivackuv Long dog sled race in the Czech Republic on January 27, 2010. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)

14.要走自己拉，反正我跑不动了~

Lisa Curtin and friend prepare for the 27th annual Aviemore Husky Sled Dog Rally beside Loch Morlich on January 21, 2010 in Aviemore, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)