Iconic arch that served as Iditarod finish line collapses in Alaska

FILE - In this March 16, 2015, volunteers help raise the Iditarod finishers banner at the burled arch finish line in Nome, Alaska . Nome Mayor John Handeland said the arch collapsed Saturday, April 27, 2024, likely from wood rot. FILE - Tourists pose under the famed burled arch, which serves as the finish line in the nearly thousand-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska , on Friday, March 7, 2014.

This year’s Iditarod was marred by the deaths of three sled dogs during the race and serious injuries to another. That led the race’s biggest critic, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, toWhen learning of the arch’s collapse Monday, the animal rights group posted on the social media platform X: “There’s nothing like the #Iditarod finish line’s arch rotting & collapsing to signal that the race is on its last leg.

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