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Defending champion Mitch Seavey said his team is...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThe Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, facing perhaps its most challenging year, kicked off with the fan-friendly ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday. \u003cbr/\u003e              Defending champion Mitch Seavey said his team is super ready and he's ready to hit the nearly thousand-mile trail for Nome. \u003cbr/\u003e              His toughest challenger isn't in the race, however. His son Dallas, a four-time champion, is sitting out this year's race in protest after race officials said four of his dogs tested positive last year for a banned substance. He denies he gave his dogs the opioid painkiller tramadol. \u003cbr/\u003e              Race organizers said they couldn't prove Seavey did it and didn't sanction him. More pressure came from the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which for the first time protested the race in person in Alaska. \u003cbr/\u003e              PETA also has done much to target sponsors, and Wells Fargo dropped race sponsorship in the last year. \u003cbr/\u003e              The race will have its official start Sunday about 75 miles north of Anchorage, and the winner is expected in the Bering Sea coastal community of Nome in about nine days. \u003cbr/\u003e              It's the last trail ride for one popular musher. DeeDee Jonrowe, who is 64, is running her 36th and final race. The fan favorite ran her first Iditarod in 1980.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Anchorage, Alaska - 3 March 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of street scenes showing the banner, an Alaska Native drum and dance group performing before the start of the race\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitch Seavey, defending champion:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go win.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Seavey's barking dogs\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitch Seavey, defending champion: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I feel really good about it. My team is super strong so I don't feel like any of it's overwhelming. I'll rely on the dog team. You can hear them behind me. They're getting excited to go already.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of handlers putting Mitch Seavey's dogs into harness\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitch Seavey, defending champion: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"No, I think we're just ready to get on the trail. You know, it's all about the dogs now. Dogs are what we focus on, I think that's why everybody showed up down here on the streets today is because we love the dogs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Medium shot of a sled dog team running down Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Melinda O'Leary, visiting from Birmingham, Alabama:\u003cbr/\u003e              O'Leary: \"I don't know. I've been sending back pictures already and the race hasn't even started.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Reporter: \"And what are they saying?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              O'Leary: \"They're excited. In Alabama we know about this race, so I mean people just can't believe we got this opportunity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Mid, sled dog team being driven down Fourth Avenues in downtown Anchorage\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Karen Bailey-Chapman, visiting from West Virginia:\u003cbr/\u003e              (asked what brought her here today) \"To see the Iditarod and to visit Alaska, it's my 50th state to visit.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Mid, sled dog team being driven down Fourth Avenues in downtown Anchorage\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Karen Bailey-Chapman, visiting from West Virginia:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And so, I really like winter travel, and so when I was kind of figuring out what to do, I realized the Iditarod was running and so I  planned my trip actually completely around this race.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various of dog running down the street, other pre-race scenes\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) DeeDee Jonrowe, 64-year-old musher, running in her 36th and final Iditarod:\u003cbr/\u003e              (asked it is was a bittersweet moment) \"You know, not really bittersweet. More like a kid feels at graduation when they've like just completed their PhD. I'm real excited, I'm looking forward to all sorts of other ideas. And this could be great. A great time to say thank you, but it's also going to be a great time to graduate on to a lot of other things.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Various of markers on Jonrowe's sled noting her last race\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) DeeDee Jonrowe, 64-year-old musher, running in her 36th and final Iditarod:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is my 36th.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Mid of Jonrowe with fans\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Various of PETA protest\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tricia Lebkuecher (LEB'-ketcher), PETA spokeswoman: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. We are absolutely making a difference here. Many people have been shocked and horrified to learn that five dogs, Groovey, Flash, Deacon, Shilling and Smoke, tragically lost their lives all in the span of one week in last year's Iditarod. You know, people are misled about what goes into this race and they're not aware of the cruelty behind it often.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Mid of protestors' signs\u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE (English) Tricia Lebkuecher (LEB'-ketcher), PETA spokeswoman: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"A hundred and 50 dogs have died since the Iditarod's inception but those are only the reported numbers. They don't include dogs who died immediately after the race, dogs who died during training or the thousands of dogs who are commercially bred every year for the sled dog racing industry.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Various of PETA signs\u003cbr/\u003e              23. SOUNDBITE (English) Fern Levitt, director of the documentary \"Sled Dogs,\" an expose on the treatment of huskies: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The two years that I was filming I saw a lot of dogs being brutalized and I had to come, I had to stand for them. I had to let the people know, the public know , what really goes on behind sled dog operations.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              24. Mid, a man in a fur handing out fliers in front of the PETA protesters\u003cbr/\u003e              25. SOUNDBITE (English) Fern Levitt, director of the documentary \"Sled Dogs,\" an expose on the treatment of huskies: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"People only see the beginning and the end of the Iditarod. They don't see what goes on in between. They don't see what our film portrays, of sick dogs bleeding from their anus, so tired they can't eat and drink, and so exhausted that they're limping and yet are still forced to race. This isn't what the Iditarod was supposed to be, it wasn't what it was supposed to commemorate.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              26. 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