“Authorities in Alaska were investigating after a female competitor in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race said two men on snowmobiles groped her as her mushing team passed by.
Alaska State Troopers were looking into the March 13 incident as harassment for now, James Lester said Monday. The 27-year-old rookie musher reported the groping at the checkpoint in the village of Nulato, almost 350 miles from the Nome finish line….The woman went on to complete the 1,000-mile race,”
Unreal. What the hell. I’m so sorry this happened to her. How upsetting.
As an aside (because I was like, why isn’t this assault?), in Alaska, groping falls under “Harassment in the First and Second Degree” and it comes with up to a $10,000 fine.
