Iditarod dog doping scandal puts future of sled race under scrutiny
The announcement that champion musher Dallas Seavey’s dogs had tested positive for a banned substance was seized on by animal welfare campaigners
Cycling. Baseball. Track. Horse racing. Now dogsledding has become the latest professional sport to be engulfed in a doping scandal, this one involving the huskies that dash across the frozen landscape in Alaska’s grueling, 1,000-mile Iditarod.
The governing board of the world’s most famous sled dog race disclosed on Monday that four dogs belonging to Dallas Seavey tested positive for a banned substance, the opioid painkiller Tramadol, after his second-place finish last March.
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