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Several dogs from one of the top twenty finishing teams at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race failed a drug test:
It's not your ordinary sports doping scandal: some dogs who mushed this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have tested positive for the opioid pain reliever Tramadol, the event's governing board said Wednesday.
The Iditarod Trail Committee Board of Directors, which oversees the nearly 1,000-mile race, says that when dogs were tested six hours after finishing in Nome, Alaska, in March, several from one team came back positive for the drug. It is the first-ever positive result since Iditarod testing for prohibited substances began in 1994, officials said.
The Board announced last week that "a prohibited substance" had been found in some of the dogs. The latest information clarifies that it was Tramadol. The Associated Press reports that investigators estimate the drug could have been administered up to 15 hours before the test.
The rules will be changed to require mushers to prove that they did not intentionally administer drugs to their dogs in the case of a positive test. Currently, race officials are required to prove that the doping was intentional.
Also at The Guardian and DW.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by RedBear on Friday October 20 2017, @02:19AM (3 children)
Sounds like somebody desperately wants to get their name in some history book or on a plaque before there's no more Iditarod. I've lived in Alaska for a quarter century now, (amazing how time flies) and they keep having to move the race further north and postpone it due to weather issues. I'm afraid there will come a time relatively soon when a sled dog race in Alaska will no longer be practical, no matter what time of year it is, or how far north they move the route. Not enough snow accumulation to sled on. Kind of sad, really. But don't worry, it's just a "cycle". Things will be back to normal in a few thousand years. Maybe.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 20 2017, @02:36AM (2 children)
Read about it in my upcoming book, "The Last Idoperod".
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 20 2017, @02:47AM (1 child)
Idoperod? Sounds like something Nascar fans could get behind. Maybe we can market this?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 20 2017, @02:57AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiotarod [wikipedia.org]
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