March 12, 2008
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King Is Through Safety
Jeff King passed through Safety Checkpoint an hour and eight minutes after Lance Mackey.
At 1:42 AM, the tracker was showing Lance about eight and a half miles out of Nome, seven miles ahead of Jeff King, moving 2 MPH faster than King. It might be safe now to predict that Lance will win.
The two teams are close enough together, that it might also be reasonable to speculate that Jeff could have won if he had dropped those two tired dogs sooner, to get more speed from his team.
The Nomecam shows that crowds are already gathering along the chute leading to the finish line. They have about an hour to wait. The winner should be decided by 3 AM, give or take a few minutes.
