DOG DOPING SCANDAL

A FOUR TIME CHAMPION says,..........'not me'.......  and other mushers back him up. *In dog doping scandal, a cry for sabotage*.

Just when the sports world thought it had heard it all in doping  -someone spiked my toothpaste-

A masseur rubbed me with tainted ointment, those unexplained stem cells-  in my blood came, of course, from my unborn twin in utero along comes the Iditarod

A doping scandal has hit the world's most famous dog-sled race, 1,000 mile trek through Alaska that ends in Nome each March. Four dogs on a team run by Dallas Seavey, a four-time champion and the most dominant musher in the sport-

Tested positive last spring for high levels of Tramadol,..... an opioid pain reliever.

Seavey finished second at this year's iditarod behind his father, Mitch, who ended his son'r three-year winning streak. The younger Seavey identified as the doping dogs' musher last Monday, lifting the sport into headlines and punch lines.

There is no proof that Seavey was the one who gave the dogs the drug, and he sternly claimed his innocence in a nearly  18-minute soliloquy posted on YouTube on Monday.

He suggested a likely, if familiar, explanation  SABOTAGE.

''Sabotage is a likely case,'' Seavey said. ''If it wan not another musher   -and believe me, I hope it was not -there are other many people that could do the same thing.''

It was a familiar response in the sports world. When confronted with allegations of doping, deny.

When pressed raise a possible explanation, no matter how outlandish it sounds.