Dede Anders, 49, says she has been left abandoned in Mongolia after she became violently ill just days before she was set to compete in the nine-day-long 2024 Mongol Derby.
Dede Anders, 49, was excited to compete in the nine-day-long Mongol Derby. She claims she was brushed off by event organizers when she felt sickAn extreme distance jockey has been left abandoned in Mongolia after falling violently ill just days before she was set to compete in the world's toughest horse race.
When she again argued that she was not feeling well enough to ride a 'semi-feral' Mongolian horse for days on end, event organizers booked her a cab back to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar - but did not get her a hotel room or book a flight back to the United States, leaving it up to her to find her way home.
So when she learned of the Mongol Derby - a notoriously treacherous race founded in 2009 - she thought it was a dream come true.'I had been looking at horse endurance races, so I threw my hat in.' For several months, she said she did not hear anything back from the group - and started to lose hope. Anders arrived in Mongolia's capitol city of Ulaanbaatar on August 1, but started to feel sick on Monday
'I had to use Expedia from base camp to book a hotel, had the driver stop in the city and get my passport so I could finally check into a hotel.''I was too ill to get on a horse for 620 miles. But I was also too ill to get in a car for eight hours and be dumped off into a city without a passport or a flight home.
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