// Dakar Rally has been CANCELLED!

[LunatiC]

Freakin' terrorists...

Terror threat leads to cancellation of Dakar Rally (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=99&id=3180745&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines)

[Ross]

Shame on the organizers for laying down for these *******s. Oh, they're French.

[pundit]

Fundamentalist religion strikes again!!

[Paul in NZ]

amazing event..esp the bikers.

[Qube]

Hmmm means there will be no video game after it this year?

[Sam-Son]

Thats ridiculous the cancellation the fear of terrorism all of it...stupid

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

I`me afraid that the route was not safe and the organisers could not insure against a smart-alec lawyer suing for negligence. You could argue that the litiiginous society or Al-Queda are equally responible. Having done it in the eighties I can attest that there is no harder test of man,machine and luck! I still have nightmares about the word "Barcan",getting a 6x6 MAN over an 80` one is a real trial! A lot of people will miss the ultimate test, sad.

[rob101]

its all very well to blame the lawyers
the truth is **** has and does happen on the dakar, a no. of the participants were hijacked a few years back. and they had to transport the whole rally to the other end of mauritania because of it. I suppose getting the military transport planes they used is cheap?

[repenttokyo]

you've done the rally barney? that's awesome, it's always been a dream of mine!