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Published: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 @ 3:54 PMUpdated: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 @ 3:53 PMBy: Associated Press
["532"]ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For the aboriginal time in the history of the world's best acclaimed sled dog race, several of the high-performance animals accept activated absolute for a banned drug. But chase admiral accept banned to name the musher involved.
Several dogs activated absolute for the opioid affliction analgesic Tramadol, the administering lath of the about 1,000-mile Iditarod Aisle Sled Dog Chase said in a statement. The aggregation was activated six hours afterwards finishing the about 1,000-mile chase in Nome in March, admiral said. They appraisal the biologic could accept been administered amid 15 hours afore the analysis and appropriate afore it.
Iditarod agent Chas St. George said in an email that the musher's name is not actuality appear based on an attorney's advice. He said the musher additionally has not been called because of the unlikelihood that chase organizers could prove the musher carefully administered the drug.
St. George said the musher will be accustomed to participate in abutting year's chase and will not face any antidotal actions.
["600"]Iditarod lath affiliate and musher Aaron Burmeister said Wednesday he doesn't apperceive the musher's identity. However, alone the aboriginal 20 teams to ability Nome are tested, he noted.
Everyone seems accusable as continued as the afflicted aggregation charcoal unknown, said Burmeister, an Iditarod adversary who sat out the accomplished two races.
"It's not a acceptable situation," he said Wednesday. "I'm acquisitive that we can about-face a absolute ablaze on it and the musher accomplish forward."
The Iditarod began testing sled dogs for banned substances in 1994. Dogs on all teams are accountable to accidental testing amid pre-race examinations and forth the chase trail. Testing in Nome for top finishing teams, however, is not accidental but expected.
["413"]As a aftereffect of the absolute analysis findings, the chase aphorism ambidextrous with basset biologic use was revised beforehand this ages to authority mushers accountable for any absolute tests in approaching contest unless they can prove the after-effects occurred alfresco their control. Previously, the aphorism could be interpreted to crave that chase admiral accommodate affidavit that a musher advised to administrate the banned substance.
The doping is a hot affair amid adolescent mushers, Burmeister said. As to why a musher would accord dogs banned drugs back testing is accepted in Nome, there has been belief that conceivably a adversary could accept administered the drug. Mushers fly their team's dog aliment to checkpoints forth the aisle up to two weeks in advance, and it sits there until mushers access at the checkpoint and use it.
But Burmeister isn't affairs that theory. "As a musher, why would addition musher accord their adversary a performance-enhancing drug?" he said.
Burmeister said several times in a buzz account that no added dogs accept anytime activated absolute in the race.
["650"]"I aloof achievement that bodies attending at the big account and apprehend that mushers out there are not doping their dogs," he said. "This is an abandoned incident."
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