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Iditarod Dogs Test Positive for Opioids

FIDO-PING: Four-time winner Dallas Seavey had four dogs test positive for painkillers.
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The Iditarod dog sled race has a new controversy to deal with and it's a weird one: doped up dogs. The race first instituted dog drug testing in 1994 and the Trail Committee announced last week that they had received their first positive test. Four dogs on the same team tested positive for the painkiller tramadol.

Initially they did not release the name of the musher who's team tested positive, but after increasing pressure from other participants and a signed statement by 83 members of the Iditarod Official Finishers Club calling for the name to be made public, the committee announced the dogs belonged to Dallas Seavey, who has won the race in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and came in second this year.

Seavey flatly denies the charges and claims that someone may have sabotaged his dogs' food, and released a terse (but long!) 17-minute video excoriating the Iditarod for this decision, claiming there is a serious security issue during the race protecting musher's belongings at checkpoints.

Seavey is not going to be punished, and he will get to keep his finish and winnings from this year because the committee said there was no way they could prove intent.