End of the trail, the Iditarod finish line in Nome/NPS photo The doping manual for the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now out. Gone is the “strict liability” rule that […]
Peace on drugs
A troubled trail
After more than a year of turmoil for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the long-time executive director is out. In a carefully worded, six-paragraph statement on Thursday, Mike Mills, the president […]
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
Idit-a-war
With Dallas Seavey of Willow, the four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, now pushing to overthrow the board of the non-profit organization that runs Alaska’s Last Great Race, one […]
Iditarod turmoil
Blowback from a doping accusation against four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Dallas Seavey is today rattling the world’s premier long-distance sled dog race to its very core. All of a […]
Iditarod down
In the wake of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly revealed doping case, the International Federation of Sleddog Sports has moved to distance itself from the globe’s premier sled-dog […]
Last Great Mess
When the guilty go unnamed, everyone becomes guilty, and so it is the mushers in Alaska’s biggest sporting event have become a bunch of dopers. Thank the Iditarod Trail Committee, which this […]
