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After Years in the Cold, are Women’s Iditarod Fortunes Reviving?

  • March 11, 2012
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Even today, the T-shirt slogan faintly echos: “Where men are men and women win the Iditarod.”After Libby Riddles won the 1985 Iditarod and the late Susan Butcher followed up by dominating with four victories in the next five years, T-shirts proclaiming women’s stranglehold on Last Great Race were seen throughout Alaska and even in the Lower 48.Read more here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/after-years-cold-are-womens-iditarod-fortunes-reviving

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