Coronavirus Travel Restrictions Force Iditarod Champ to Skip Race: “I Can’t Get My dogs to Alaska’
2020 Iditarod mushing champion Thomas Waerner says he is being forced to skip the 2021 race because coronavirus travel restrictions.

2020 Iditarod mushing champion Thomas Waerner says he is being forced to skip the 2021 race because coronavirus travel restrictions.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Airlines confirmed Monday it will drop its sponsorship of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Alaska’s most famous sporting event.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The new head of Alaska’s Iditarod plans to meet with a leader of an animal welfare group that’s devoted to ending the world’s most famous sled dog race, which it sees as a cruel, deadly event for its canine participants.