Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

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Re: Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

Postby Di* » Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:55 pm

Dogs...What they lack in manners, they make up for in Sincerity!
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Re: Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

Postby dashdel » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:51 am

I hate to say it again but the end is near I fear..... https://craigmedred.news/
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Re: Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

Postby Di* » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:18 am

Another perspective from Outside Online

https://www.outsideonline.com/2255276/i ... nsiteshare

Thx to Gatekeeper for original posting in FB iditabuds group!
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Re: Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

Postby adella » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:49 am

Been so long since I posted I forgot my password.
Having worked in the medical profession for 46 years as a lab tech I have done many drug tests and dealt with chain of custody. I don’t think Dallas is that stupid to give his dogs drugs close to finish knowing there will be testing. But here is the question about the samples. Were they tested immediately or set aside to test later? If that is case many things and mixups could happen. I am sure there was no “chain of custody”. This is time consuming and they probably had a lot of dogs to test. There are a lot of people (who are zealots) against the race. So in not knowing how the testing was done all the finger pointing is a moot point in my opinion. Lesson to be learned—really be strict about testing. Hey I will volunteer to go to Nome to do testing. I really do not think Dallas is guilty—just my opinion
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Re: Craig Medred Iditarod doping commentary

Postby JeanieB » Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:14 am

Di* wrote:Another perspective from Outside Online

https://www.outsideonline.com/2255276/i ... nsiteshare

Thx to Gatekeeper for original posting in FB iditabuds group!


This is a very good article, I think. Much of the national recognition this story has gotten doesn't come close to portraying the local and community spirit around the running of the race. This article describes it briefly, but well, with some helpful quotes from Jeff King.

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