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World Champion, Then And Now

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January 23, 2012 by John Prusak 

Van Strydonk On Kitty Cat

Here's this year's World Champion -- 11 years ago.

So I was sitting here in my office today, working on a story for another magazine our company produces in another market, but I couldn’t get a singular thought out of my head related to the yesterday’s new World Champion, as crowned at the 49th annual Eagle River World Championship Snowmobile Derby. Somehow, I just knew that I had taken a photo of winner Nick Van Strydonk when he was a little kid, and printed it in Snow Week. But, we mainly took color slide and black-and-white film images back then, so finding it, I thought, would be next to impossible. Or at least I thought.
Then I had another thought: “Wait a second, I remember taking that shot — I was laying on the ice with that new handheld digital camera we had just got at the time — not the big honking SLR.” Within 2 minutes, I had the image up on my computer screen.
. So here it is — 10-year-old Nick Van Strydonk at the 38th annual Eagle River World Championship, leading the pack in a Kitty Cat race Sunday afternoon on the front stretch.

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