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Cancer claims 4-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey

FILE - Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey is shown before the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 7, 2020. Mackey, one of mushing's most colorful and accomplished champions who also suffered from health and drug issues, has died. The four-time Iditarod winner died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, from cancer, his father and kennel announced on Facebook. He was 52. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

FILE - Lance Mackey sits with his lead dogs Larry, right, and Maple after crossing the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 18, 2009, in Nome, Alaska, to win his third Iditarod in a row. 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/Al Grillo, File)

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)

Cancer claims 4-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey