Iditarod race officials said that they are working on several different mitigation plans for the 49th running of the race, depending on how the pandemic has progressed.
Following his win and several months stuck in Alaska, Iditarod Champion and Norwegian Thomas Waerner is finally on his way home with no fewer than 24 of the race's four-legged athletes.
The 2020 Iditarod Rookie of the Year said that she's suffered from symptoms of the virus - including a fever - for almost two months, but has since shaken off the illness.
The Iditarod confirmed late Thursday morning by phone that veteran musher and four-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey's 21st place finish will be vacated due to a positive drug test of methamphetamine.
The Iditarod Official Finisher’s Club voted to award the village of Shaktoolik the Golden Clipboard Award for its work to move the Shaktoolik checkpoint to prevent the potential exposure of COVID-19 to residents.
Veteran Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle has been awarded the Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award for this year’s Iditarod. The Seppala Award goes to the musher who demonstrates outstanding care of their race team while remaining competitive.
Whereas hundreds of fans lined Front Street to see the first Yupik musher win the Last Great Race in 2019, only few dozen fans and volunteers cheered him down the chute Wednesday.
The veteran musher arrived at the famed Burled Arch in Nome 9 days, 10 hours, 37 minutes and 47 seconds after starting the race, to become the third Norwegian ever to win the Last Great Race on Earth.
Tomas Waerner is your champion but their's more racing still to be done.DeeDee Jonrowe knows just how big a deal it can be to finish second at the Iditarod and she took a deeper look at the budding race for that spot.
After a break down in 2016, Eureka musher Brent Sass is closing in on his fourth Iditarod finish with a new mantra tattooed on his forearm: "Run your own race."
Norwegian Thomas Waerner cruised to the Iditarod crown early Wednesday after opening a gap between his team and the rest of the pack earlier in the week.
As the teams near White Mountain in this final stretch of the last great race the excitement is building, in this DeeDee dispatch, she breaks down just what it's like the run to the famed checkpoint.
Veteran musher Jeremy Keller arrived safe and sound to his home in Knik Monday after scratching from the 48th running of the Iditarod and announcing late last week that he would mush his team home.
For locals in the coastal Alaskan village of Unalakleet, this year's Iditarod feels different. It's the first race since Middy Johnson, a community leader whose vision was to make the town more hospitable and fun during the Last Great Race died unexpectedly in December.
DeeDee shares her thoughts on the effort by the community of Shaktoolik to prepare a cabin for mushers two miles outside of the community, despite earlier this week making the decision to bypass the original checkpoint over concerns of coronavirus.
At the Unalakleet checkpoint, Channel 2 special correspondent DeeDee JonroAt the Unalakleet checkpoint, Channel 2 special correspondent DeeDee Jonrowe got a good look at Thomas Waerner's team. we got a good look at Thomas Waerner's team.
The coastal of community of Shaktoolik has prepared a cabin for mushers two miles outside of the community, despite earlier this week making the decision to bypass the original checkpoint over concerns of Coronavirus.
Between snow, terrain, and mandatory rests that still have to take place among the leaders, plenty of challenges lie ahead on the trail between the Yukon and the coast.
