Cancer claims 4-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey

FILE - Four-time defending Iditarod Trail Sled Dog champion Lance Mackey talks to reporters in Willow, Alaska, on March 6, 2011. Mackey, a four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner and one of mushing’s most colorful and accomplished champions who also suffered from health and drug issues, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, his father and kennel announced on Facebook. He was 52. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)