2026年3月18日 / 美国东部时间上午6:36 / CBS/美联社
前真人秀明星杰西·霍尔姆斯（Jessie Holmes）在阿拉斯加约1000英里的艾迪塔罗德狗拉雪橇赛中轻松卫冕成功。
霍尔姆斯于周二晚上在白令海沿岸的古老淘金小镇诺姆（Nome）带领他的犬队冲过终点线。
比赛于3月8日从柳树镇（Willow）出发，前一天在安克雷奇（Anchorage）举行了仪式性起跑。赛程要求犬队及其车手穿越两个山脉，沿冰冻的育空河行进，并跨越变幻莫测的白令海冰面。
据《安克雷奇每日新闻》报道，霍尔姆斯在赢得比赛后给狗狗们分发了大块肋眼牛排。
“能来到这里是一种福气。我充满感激，感谢所有社区的欢迎，也感谢能在这片美丽的土地上与我见过的最棒的犬队一同驰骋，”他在接受该报采访时表示。
![图片说明：2026年3月17日星期二，在阿拉斯加诺姆，杰西·霍尔姆斯（Jessie Holmes）在赢得连续第二届艾迪塔罗德狗拉雪橇赛冠军后，与领头犬宙斯（左）和极地（Polar）合影。照片来源：Marc Lester/《安克雷奇每日新闻》 via AP]
霍尔姆斯曾是国家地理真人秀节目《零度以下的生活》（”Life Below Zero”）的嘉宾，在这项已有54年历史的艾迪塔罗德狗拉雪橇赛中，他是继苏珊·布彻（Susan Butcher，1986-1987）和兰斯·麦基（Lance Mackey，2007-2008）之后第三位首次夺冠后连续卫冕的选手。这两位选手后来均四次夺冠。
霍尔姆斯在艾迪塔罗德赛前接受美联社采访时表示，今年的比赛是他职业生涯中最重要的一场。“给自己施加这样的压力很难，因为你每天都要背负着这种压力，”他说，“如果我没能成功，那对我来说绝对是毁灭性的打击。”
他今年的奖金约为8万美元，较去年的5.7万多美元有所提升。今年的奖金池因挪威亿万富翁凯尔·洛克（Kjell Rokke）的资金支持而增加。洛克参与了新设立的非竞争性业余组比赛。根据规则，洛克可以获得前艾迪塔罗德冠军的外部支持，拥有灵活的休息时间，并可替换犬只，他已于周一抵达诺姆。
霍尔姆斯的首次艾迪塔罗德参赛是在2018年，当时他获得第七名，荣获年度新秀称号。他至今已参加九届艾迪塔罗德比赛，七次进入前十名，近五届均进入前五名。
他曾连续八年出演国家地理真人秀《零度以下的生活》，该节目记录了阿拉斯加乡村居民的艰辛生活。
霍尔姆斯用节目收入购买了更好的犬只和装备，还在德纳里国家公园和保护区附近购置了一块荒地。作为木匠，他在荒野中打造了自己的家园，最近的邻居也有30英里之遥。
![图片说明：2026年3月17日星期二，在阿拉斯加诺姆，杰西·霍尔姆斯（Jessie Holmes）在赢得连续第二届艾迪塔罗德狗拉雪橇赛冠军后，与领头犬宙斯（左）和极地（Polar）合影。照片来源：Marc Lester/《安克雷奇每日新闻》 via AP]
现居瑞士的洛克提供了10万美元额外奖金，并向作为检查点的阿拉斯加原住民村庄捐赠了17万美元。非竞争性“探险组”的另一位车手、加拿大企业家史蒂夫·柯蒂斯（Steve Curtis）承诺捐赠5万美元，用于支持村庄的青年体育项目。柯蒂斯并未完成比赛。
该赛事最激烈的批评者——善待动物组织（PETA）声称，在艾迪塔罗德历史上已有超过150只狗死亡。该组织敦促洛克将资金用于救助狗狗，而非让它们经历“危险和痛苦”。
艾迪塔罗德组委会从未公布过比赛中死亡犬只的数量。
组委会在周二的声明中表示，今年比赛中已有一只狗死亡，是4岁的母犬查莉（Charly），其主人是车手米莱·波西尔德（Mille Porsild），将进行尸检。
共有34名竞技车手参赛，与1973年首届比赛持平，创下历史第二低参赛人数。近年来，由于许多资深车手退役以及狗粮等物资成本高昂，参赛规模一直较小。
霍尔姆斯出生并成长于阿拉巴马州，18岁离开家乡，在蒙大拿州当了三年木匠。2004年他来到阿拉斯加，在育空河偏远地区发现了狗狗赛跑的冒险乐趣。据《安克雷奇每日新闻》报道，他曾在尼纳纳镇（Nenana）生活多年，并与拥有数十年雪橇犬经验的长者结为朋友。
在2024年WIAT电视台（CBS附属台）的人物特写中，霍尔姆斯谈到自己是如何在遇到一位参与这项运动的邻居后，首次爱上狗拉雪橇运动的。
“我只是爱上了这种生活方式，”霍尔姆斯当时表示，“我爱上了荒野中的狗狗们。”
Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes wins Iditarod sled dog race again, rewards canine team with large steaks
March 18, 2026 / 6:36 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes cruised to a repeat victory in the Iditarod, the roughly 1,000-mile sled dog race in Alaska.
Holmes guided his dog team across the finish line Tuesday night in the old Gold Rush town of Nome, a Bering Sea coastal community.
The race started March 8 in Willow, a day after the ceremonial start was held in Anchorage. The course took dog teams and their mushers over two mountain ranges, along the frozen Yukon River and across the unpredictable Bering Sea ice.
Holmes passed out large ribeye steaks to his dogs after winning the race, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
“It’s a blessing to be out here. I was just so full of gratitude and gratefulness being welcomed into all these communities, and being out in all this beautiful country with the most amazing dog team I’ve ever seen,” he said, according to the newspaper.
Jessie Holmes poses with his lead dogs Zeus, left, and Polar, after claiming his second straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race championship, in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday March 17, 2026. Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP
Holmes, a former cast member on the National Geographic reality show “Life Below Zero,” is the third competitor in the 54-year history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to repeat the year after winning for the first time. The others were Susan Butcher in 1986-1987 and Lance Mackey in 2007-2008. Both went on to win four titles.
Holmes told The Associated Press before the Iditarod that this year’s race was the most important of his career. “That’s hard to put that on yourself because you got to live with that pressure every day,” Holmes said. “And if I do not make it, it is going to absolutely crush me.”
He will pocket about $80,000 for this year’s win, up from the $57,000-plus he took home last year. This year’s purse was boosted by financial support from Norwegian billionaire Kjell Rokke, who participated in a newly created, noncompetitive amateur category. Rokke reached Nome on Monday, under rules that allowed him to have outside support from a former Iditarod champ, flexible rest periods and to swap out dogs.
Holmes’ first Iditarod was in 2018. His seventh place finish earned him rookie of the year honors. He has now raced in the Iditarod nine times, earning seven top 10 finishes. He’s been in the top five the last five races.
He appeared for eight years on the National Geographic reality show “Life Below Zero,” which chronicled the hardships of people living in rural Alaska.
Holmes used the money he earned from the show to buy better dogs and equipment, and also was able to purchase raw land near Denali National Park and Preserve. A carpenter by trade, he’s carved his homestead in the wilderness, where his closest neighbor is about 30 miles away.
Jessie Holmes poses with his lead dogs Zeus, left, and Polar, after claiming his second straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race championship, in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday March 17, 2026. Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP
Rokke, who now lives in Switzerland, provided $100,000 in additional prize money and $170,000 to Alaska Native villages that serve as checkpoints. Another musher in the noncompetitive “expedition” class, Canadian entrepreneur Steve Curtis, pledged $50,000 to help youth sports programs in the villages. Curtis did not finish the race.
The race’s biggest critic, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has claimed that more than 150 dogs have died in the history of the Iditarod. It urged Rokke to spend his money to help dogs rather than put them through “hazards and misery.”
The Iditarod has never provided its count of dogs who have died on the race.
One dog has died in this year’s race, a 4-year-old female named Charly on musher Mille Porsild’s team, the Iditarod said in a statement Tuesday. A necropsy will be conducted.
Thirty-four competitive mushers started, matching the inaugural 1973 race for the second fewest in race history. The retirements of many longtime mushers and the high cost of supplies, such as dog food, have kept the fields small this decade.
Born and raised in Alabama, Holmes left at age 18 and worked as a carpenter in Montana for three years. He arrived in Alaska in 2004 and found adventure running dogs on a remote location of the Yukon River. He lived for many years in the town of Nenana and made friends with elders who had decades of mushing experience, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
In a 2024 profile published by CBS affiliate WIAT, Holmes talked about how he first fell in love with dog sled racing after meeting a neighbor who was involved in the sport.
“I just fell in love with the lifestyle,” Holmes said at the time. “I fell in love with the dogs out in the wilderness.”