After two intense athletic competitions, the judges of the dog-sledding event selected ten competing dogs from the remaining twenty to advance to the finals.
Due to a minor incident during the first short race, the dogs with the strongest contendership for the championship and runner-up spots were unexpectedly eliminated, making the best score of this competition more than ten seconds slower than the previous record.
Furthermore, in the subsequent finals, because the interval between the two races was limited, the competing dogs had expended some of their stamina, resulting in a final score twenty seconds off the previous record.
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