FILE - Volunteers help raise the Iditarod finishers banner at the burled arch finish line in Nome, Alaska, March 16, 2015. After an emergency meeting Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, the Iditarod Trail Committee announced that Eddie Burke Jr. has been disqualified from this year’s race, just days before the March 2 ceremonial start in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Eddie Burke Jr. is photographed at the 2023 Iditarod musher banquet in Anchorage, Alaska. After an emergency meeting Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, the Iditarod Trail Committee announced that Burke Jr. has been disqualified from this year’s race, just days before the March 2 ceremonial start in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)