Lesser Known Winter Sports Athlete: Bretina
Sport of Choice: Shovel Racing
Bio: Bretina is a husband and wife team who are best known for their mischievous antics on the shovel sledding course. Their cunning tricks usually end up making their competitors use their shovels for cleaning up messes left by horses.
Shovel Racing
Shovel Racing is a sport practiced in some parts of the United States. It consists of riders racing down a snowy hill riding on a shovel. It has been practiced on both typical snow shovels and modified shovel based sleds. It was once an event in the winter X Games, but was removed due to safety concerns. Those safety concerns were brought about after an incident of Bretina loosening the handle of a competitor and causing them to spin out uncontrollably into a pile of manure from the horses used for sleigh rides. Other safety concerns are hypothermia caused by athletes racing in lingerie or Hawaiian shirts and Daisy Duke shorts. The Bretina team vows that they have never raced in such ridiculous attire but have been know to wear Batman or Thomas the Tank Engine costumes
The theme for the 2017 Cold Cache Series is LITTLE KNOWN WINTER SPORT ATHLETES, both Olympic and maybe not so much. These caches will only be available from January 1st through March 31st. Get 'em while they're ho--err--COLD!