内容摘要：Serhii Pozniak, a commander with a Ukrainian sniper unit who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, carries his rifle during training near Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Serhii Pozniak, a commander with a Ukrainian sniper unit who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, carries his rifle during training near Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87.The Minnesota native, who competed in the first two Iditarod races in 1973 and 1974, was out helping tend to his dogs shortly before he died last Thursday, his son Mitch Seavey said. Dan Seavey had been adamant in his later years about remaining at the south-central Alaska home in Seward he had moved his family to decades earlier, the younger Seavey said.

“It’s hard, and everybody will miss him. But he lived a great life and passed away in his own fashion,” Mitch Seavey said.The Iditarod race organization called Dan Seavey a “true pioneer and cherished figure” in the race’sand said he was instrumental in the establishment of the Iditarod Trail as a National Historic Trail in 1978. He also wrote a book, “The First Great Race,” which his son said drew on notes Seavey recorded during the first edition of the Iditarod.

Dan Seavey in total ran the Iditarod five times. His last, in 2012, was aimed at celebrating and drawing attention to the trail’s history.That year featured three generations of Seaveys, with Mitch’s son Dallas winning the first of his

. Mitch, a three-time Iditarod champ, that year finished seventh.

Dan Seavey moved with his family to Alaska in 1963 to teach in Seward, a community about 125 miles (201 kilometers) south of Anchorage. In an interview for Project Jukebox, a University of Alaska Fairbanks oral history project, he recalled being inspired as a kid by a radio program centered on a character who was with a Canadian mounted police force and his trusty sled dog, Yukon King, who took on bad guys during the Gold Rush era.“It helps you win the Indy 500,” he said of the quick pit stops. “Everything has to be perfect and this is a big part of it.”

Newgarden, whose team won $50,000, beat Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren in the semifinals in a rematch of last year’s head-to-head final. Power won his semifinal matchup with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, whose team won two years ago.“After the week we’ve had, all three cars are ready to go out there and take this win,” said Caitlyn Brown, one of the Team Penske crew members on Newgarden’s car, who two years ago became the first female over-the-wall crew member at the Indy 500.

“Winning this competition only powers us to go out there and take it,” she said. “Starting from the back doesn’t mean anything.”Newgarden’s team also had reason to celebrate after the final